The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-14
ON PHYSICAL CULTURE
Miss Clara Corbin Discourses
Ably on This Subject.
HENDRICKS ON DIDACTICS
Personality of the Teachers Should Pro-
duce a Valuable Harvest in the
School Room-Drill by the
Training Glass.

Al ~Ae'i sc VI the physical culture diViS-
ION. AS usual the exercises were held
in the auditorium of the High school
building, and consisted of the regular
orlil with dumb bells by the normal
framing class composed of Misses
Maude Beebe, Lizzie Brett. CAROLYN
bowman, Winifred Bretherton, Lulu
Evans Deddie Gibbons, Debbie Glib
nons' Alberta Hammer, Agnes Hanley,
margaret Holland, Isabelle Kelley,
| agnes Rosenstein Mary Stackpole
Jennie Woodbury. and Minnie whitty
The drill lasted 20 minutes and was
thoroughly enjoyed by the teachers and
visitors present. The work in the de-
partment under the direction of Miss
Corbln has certainly been productive of
much good to those in the normal class
anu throughout the schools of the city,
! IN the regular work of the day Pres
! ldent Sanders talked on numbers,
speaklng particularly of the necessity
Oh the proper development of sight and
| nearing among young pupils. Correct
images should be drawn and a strong
point made of rapidity and correctness.
Ilesiueht sanders also discussed Ian
Suage before E division
Professor Foote in continuing his
work in the different divisions. discuss
eu the better methods of arriving at
easy forms of expression in spoken and
written language.
Miss Ruth Gould in drawing, took up
shadlnS, tonlng, etc, and work was
done in all the divisions in sketching
from objects of nature.
Mrs. Flavin in music distributed her
time among the divisions in the singing
" songs from the music readers. Re
Views were also given on the scale, ma
Jof, minor, the flats and sharps
City Superintendent J. P. Hendricks,
on the subject of Didactics, said in
part:
THE schools of Butte should yield
their most needed harvest through the
personality of the teachers. I cannot,
therefore. indorse the doctrine of some
Who would have the system absorb the
individuality of its teachers | can
| lead myself to believe that any one in
diVidual can devise the best ways and
means for $50 educated and experienced
| teachers by which they must reach the
minds of those Immediately in their
care. I believe in methods. and have.
| on the other hand, unbCunded faith in
the ability of the experienced teacher
| to do most for the child, when allowed
| to do it naturally. The results of a
good school must be uniform. but the
methods of such a school are as varied
| as the individual teachers are allowed
! to be Independent thinkers.
1T might be a source of great pride
| to some, but it would not be to me. to
have such a unity of opinion. in a city
or state, as to make actual the scene
in Hamlet when he says to Polonius:
Do you see that cloud that is al
most in shape like a camel?
Polonius-By the mass. and It's like
| a camel. indeed.
| Misunderstanding it is like a wea-
sci.
Polonus-It is backed like a wea-
sci.
'Hamlet-Or like whale.
Polonius-Very like a whale
rs it not too often true that Ham
let the educator, is doing all the think
ing for Poionius, the teacher? Hamlet
surely, white is black. Hamlet says
this is new education. Pclonius says
it must be new education. Is unity
purchased at this price desrable?"
The subject of physical Culture
was discussed by Miss Clara Corbin in
part as follows:
I'm advocating the physical training
of boys and girls in the public schools
it cannot matter much to a branch of
education, except it is of an aesthetic
turn of mind. whether the girl gradu-
ates are rosy-cheeked and bright eyed,
or whether the boy orators, who once
a year make valiant efforts to Ievolu-
and strong of muscle: but regarded as
future citizens, as rulers and workers,
as lawmakers and home-nakers. the
physical condition of our public school
children becomes a matter of national
importance. In many of the public
schools, the physical training of the
children for a certain period every day
is obligatory. And almost without ex-
ception, the directors of the physical
development are women The ideas of
these directors is to better the physical
condition of the children as a means of
lettering the moral condition of the
nation.
Twelve years ago there was no es-
tablished system of school physical
training in any city of the United
States. 1t is indeed scarcely 10 years
since Miss r. Anna Morris began her
work of physical training in the public
schools of the Northwest. 1t is the
Norris manual of physical culture that
is taught in the Butte schools.
Body culture is being enthusiastic
ally studied and the results are of
happy nature in the last three days of
the institute. The wrist is the soul of
the hand, and the soul should be cult
waited. There is a wonderful power
in strong, graceful motion. Devitaliz-
izing exercises We're first used in the
institute to take the energy from each
person, for grace is impossible where
the muscles are strained and tense.
Nature, the beautiful. illustrates this.
In garden of flowers, those are most
beautiful which bend and sway in each
passing breeze. Strength and energy
need grace to form the trinity of phys
ical beauty, and assuming that faithful
practice forms the fact, the teachers
work with will in this department to
be able to impart this knowledge in a
uniform manner to the school children.
One special movement in the wand
drill is to obtain correct position of the
shoulders and neck.
Few understand how much elastic
ity of figure is unconsciously acquired
if the body is given periodic rest during
work. For this reason the teachers spend
but one period a day in the gymnas-
ium."
Among those present were: Mrs. Rus
sci, Mrs. Groeneveld. Mr.. Davies. Mrs.
Curtis, Miss Pettibone. Mrs. Grant,
Mrs. II. II. Carder. Miss Baldwin. Mrs.
Corbin Mrs. Flood. Mrs. Morsehead,
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