The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-08
Laughlin. Cora Jenkins. Mamie Healy,


Avoid" The objects are! First, TO
begin the days work right; second. to
instruct and teach incidentally GAP
punctuality, OBJ attention, le) eleanli-
ness and other virtues. What to avoid
| in the opening exercises: First, being
/ tiresome; second, nonsense, dialect Sc
| lections and incorrect language; third,
| inattention: fourth, the suggestion of
| the reigning fads.
In the course OF the lessons Mr.. Hen
| bricks paid his respects to the fads. He
said the schools are for the serious
work of teaching the rudiments. All
the elementary science and nature
study of practical use to the child can
| be and should be taught incidentally.
/ The greatest care should be given to
the preparation for the opening exer-
| cises. The power of words and their
effect was illustrated by a quotation
from one of win Cartoons poems:
/ Boys flying kites, haul in their white
winged birds;
You can't do that way when you're fly
/ ing words.
Words unexpressed may sometimes fall
back dead,
/ But God Himself can't kill them when
they're said"
In the absence of Professor Stapleton
Mr. Hendricks presented the following
to be used in the grammar grades:
This course for second semester
| The following will be required (a) BIZ
ographical sketches. (b1 analysis of Sc
| lections tc) memorize ana write selec-
4 tions from
Six American Poets-Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, James Greenleaf
Whittier, William Cullen Bryant,
James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Bayard Taylor
Three American MISREPRESENTATION
Kicking Prescott George Bancroft,
John Lothrop Motley.
ton. h tor,
Irving. Benjamin Franklin. James
Fenmore Cooper, John Howard Payne
| Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo
| Emerson, Harriet Beecher stowe, Jo-
siah Gilbert Holland, Elizabeth Stuart
| Phelps, George w. Gable.
Statesmen orators-George Wash
ington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Hen
~, Henry Clay. Daniel Webster. Ed
ward Everett, Rufus Choate, James G.
1 Blaine, Andrew jackson, John c. Cal
houn.
The following topics were discussed
by d. L. Sanders, president of the State
Normal school: Numbers, Primary
Science. Geography and Psychology
The work in Numbers for the lower
] grades was presented. The topics in
this subject involved the first steps
| with objects as a basis: the drill on
exercises to secure rapidity and aecu
raey in handling simple forms of whole
numbers and fractions; exercises in
factors and multiples; proportion for
| percentage.
Primary Science was presented for
| the First grade. The object materials
and method were subjects for discus
| sion. The Importance OF primary
science for proper training of the
senses was made a special feature.
Geography for Fifth and Sixth grades
embraced the comparative work of
! North America, and especially the
| United States.
One topic in Psychology was made
the basis for work in all grades. This
was perception-sense training. At
tention was called to the possibilities of
the child, the necessity for that train
ing which will enable the child to come
into possession of his powers the rela-
ton of the work to the various subjects
of study.
In the drawing classes Miss Brannan
gave the primary teachers exercises in
! elementary form study, with many
! suggestive methods of teaching. The
upper grade teachers studied and drew
simple models and groups of models.
Each teacher made several drawings
at each recitation, it being the purpose
! of the instructor to give the teachers
actual lessons in drawing as we'll as
methods of teaching. 1t is hoped that
at the end of the week the majority
| of the teachers will realize their ability
to draw simple objects and to illus
/
school work.
The subjects considered by the Ian
/ guage classes from the first to the
fourth grade We're as follows: How
to increase the childs vocabulary"
How to secure the childs interest .
How to secure correct language in
| conversation and in writing; and how
to enable him to reason more logically"
From the fifth to the eighth grade
! the subjects considered We're. Con
traction and expansion in composition.
the participle, its derivation and Of
fees" Much emphasis was given To
| methods of arousing the pupils inter-
! est in the most important study. Pro-
fessor Weaver of Chicago officiated as
| instructor.
Miss Finn. the instructor in music,
presented the following: First-Drill
on breathing abdomnally. under which
comes phrasing. using songs to illus
trate. Second-Vowel sound. placing,
tones in the mouth, etc, using words
and phrases to illustrate. Notes, staff,
bars, measures. Beating time. and drill
along that line, using names and songs
| illustrating each time.
The Evening Session.
The evening was devoted to the rem
| dering Of musical and literary pro-
good sized audience gathered. The
feature of the evening was an address
by President Sanders of the state nor
NAL school on the subject of Read
ing as a means of growth" The pro-
| gramme was as follows:
Acme quartette, r. c. Logan, direc-
tor. recitation, Experience of a
Genius" Miss Anna (. Langston: solo.
selected. Mrs. Dierks; solo, selected
Mrs. J. S. Butler; lecture, Reading
! as Means of Growth" President SAN
ders; Mrs. Hill. accompanist.
President Sanders lecture was lis
fanaI u with laefn int