Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-22

Education will hold another session
some time within the next few weeks,
with a view to giving the teachers who
failed TO secure better than number
three certificates an opportunity to re-
deem themselves. Some of them need
it badly, in their occupation of teach
ing the young idea how to shoot"
AS a matter of course, this refers 10
exceptional cases, for as a rule the ex-
aiming papers Of the teachers reflect
great credit upon them. The examin-
ing board, consisting Of Supt. w. H.
Anderson, Col. ]. A. Miller and Mr..
Maxwell, was very lenient with the
teachers and not disposed to take a
technical advantage of them; that is
to say, in cases in which the answers
indicated a proper knowledge, the
teachers lost nothing through any fault
In expression.
OF The $50 or 16U who took the ex-
animation, abot> two-thirds were given
number II certificates. There were
seven who received number three GET
tifcates, but of this number one was a
substitute, and another an applicant
An average grade of So per cent or
better secured a No. l certificate; 70 to
So per cent, a No. 2 certificate; under 70
2 No. 3 crtidcate. Nearly all who were
examined received a grade of 100 per
rent. in reading and writing, and this
was a material assistance to some who
would otherwise have failed to secure
an average grade emitting them to Nc.
| certificates.
Several interesting facts were de.
veloped through the examination, one
being the lamentable lack of proficiency
IN mathematics, which some persons
believe to be characteristic of the sex.
Some of the ladies who are now teach
ing secured q grade in arithmetic ex-
pressed by a cipher, and they generally
fell lower in this branch than in any
other. AS a general rule, the teachers
who were proficient in one branch were
proficient in all, and vice versa, this
demonstrating the fac. that there are
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teachers in the Wheeling public
schools.
One teacher was virtually perfect,
and there were ten or more who fell
Off less than fifty points in the aggre-
gate in all the branches in which they
were examined. The papers demon
strated the fact that many who were
uncertain about correct answers, in
dulged in guessing in the hope that
they might W a few points. Some
OF the guesses were wild, and some OF
the answers very amusing.
Particularly was this true of defni-
tons. There were twenty words on
the list submitted by the examiners.
and very few were graded perfect.
Some Of the answer were as much
c~aloulsted to tickle the disabilities as
the answers of two pupils in recent ex-
sminatiens in the schools, one of whom
described ~'ragout' as "a slang express
sion used in the late Spanish-American
war" and the Other, when asked to
lceate the liver. evidently consulted a
chart on the wall, and wrote the liver
lies northwest of the stomach"
Gaseous" was a word which puzzled
the teachers, and q majority of them
went wrong on it. Most of them con-
fused it with ossify. A great many de-
fined perennial as yearly; one
thought it means -four times a year"
others, ''once in SO many years."
every four years. every hundred
years" and Spring" Other definitions
were 'the perennial dawn" ever
green "a plant blooming every four
years" pertaining to parents" etc.
"Derelict" was variously defined as
mot clear" worthless" language"
ito speak in language" and one teacher
got as far wrong as the relict of a
widow"
Accelerate" was another brain twist
er. Some answers were 'to make bet
ter =" to mass together cheerful"
aroused"
One teacher defined "stalactite" as
'having a pendant" another thought
1t was a musical term, and several de-
ained}itaas 'icicles.'
Those who defined "Epidermis" as
"a disease of the skin" "a medical
term" and pertaining to physiology"
did not get anything for coming close.
The same might be said of those who
thought Judiciary" to be "a law" and
'a form of government"
Other almost inexcusable plumbers