The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-01
The wheeling Teachers Institute
Closes Friday Afternoon, After II
Five Days Of
.GENEPAL.PROFI7 ANDEUPLIF1.
Instructors Bryan and McMurray
Give Their Closing Talks to
Appreciative Audiences.

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struction Impaired was SO much better
but the teachers have been enjoying
such treat during the entire week
that the thought Of this being the last
day had much to do with their paying
better. attention than they otherwise
would have done. This is an Institute
long to be remembered from the fact
that the teachers all feel that they are
ceiving an uplift in many. ways, They
receiving instruction that cannot fall to
be OF great benefit to them In their work
and they are being made to feel as
they never did before the dignity Of
their calling. Messrs. McMurray and
Bryan leave with the well wishes of
all who have heard them, and 1t is
hoped that this will not be the last time
they may be heard in Wheeling.
The Institute opened with singing.
Coronation" Prof. F. B. Trotter. OF
the Conference Seminary, led in. pray.
er. The roll was called and absentees
marked. Superintendent Anderson be-
fore Introducing the speaker. said that
while he did not wish to introduce the
exercises each day with speech he
hoped he would be pardoned for what
he said was very little compared with
what he thought but did not say. He
spoke faellnslyz concerning the work of
the institute thus far. and he hoped
this, the last day. would be the best
day. ~.
Prof. McMurray, in beginning his
talk, said he wished to bundle UP some,
points in literature which he had used
in other talks. Some OF these were as
follows: First, the great masters are
suggestive teachers. Second. study the
literature that suits the children. Third,
social training in literature. This train
ing Is particularly valuable to the
teacher. The narrowness and pedanty
OF the teacher is broken up by the
study OF literature. Fourth.4its expan-
sive influence. Literature can take the
stiffness out OF the mental joints Of the
teacher Teachers need recreation and
reading good literature Is mental rec
reation. Never read book unless you
enjoy it, says Emerson. Fifth, litera-
ture IS recreative. Sixth. literature Is
the greatest OF the fine arts. It is ar
tistic. 1t contains ideals. The Ideals Of
the world are wrapped up in the liter
ature OF the world. These ideals are
the most potential forces in the world
elevation: they are the most elevatlng
things that enter into our lives
Mr.. NIcMurray then took up science
studies. Nature study Is IN. a very un-
satisfactory state in our schools to-day.
Many look on 1t as though 1t were a
study Of wonders Books written on
the subject seem to look on It In this
light a study OF the useful. 1t is
more; It is to train the observing pow
ers. While this is a higher view the
first two points; still there are more i'm
portant reasons. To classify. The
great object Is to teach them, to love
nature-its beauties. etc. In this way
| children get an insight to what exists
all around them. y
Mr.. McMurray closed his talk by
giving an interesting lesson, using a
stalk OF corn for the basis Of the les
son. IN
After recess Miss Callle ". Curtis by
| request, recited "a Boys View, OF the
Judgment Day" to the great delight Of
all.
From the Social Standpoint.
Professor Bryan spoke on 'The
School From a Social Standpoint
First, the development OF economic
life from the standpoint Of production
noticing first the hunting stage and sec
'ondly the fishing stage, the latter being
slightly In advance OF the former. The
nomadic stage followed these stages, in
which the GOOD was produced in the
ilocks and herds. This stage was far In
advance OF the other two. In this
stage they drove their flocks from place
to place, as the pasture gave out.
| There came atine when this kind OF
life could not exist and 1t was followed
by the agricultural stage. whlchis far
in advance OF the nomadic. This Is The
beginning OF intensive living. Man here
J begins to tell the ground and produces
his living. In one place much more
| corn is produced than are consumed.
and from this began the exchange OF
articles this Is trade commerce. etc.
In the same way the means OF living.
the way Of living. the houses, the dress.
ETC., and hence arose the necessity for
the Industries. The stages then are:
First the hunting stage. Second. the
fishing stage. Third. the nomadic stage.
Fourth, the agricultural stage. Fifth,
the Industrial. :
The standpoint OF transference Of
goods. The stage OF barter. In this 1t
would be Impossible to make the pro-
gress that Is being made to-day Mo-
ney exchange stage. The credit stage.
We are living In all these stages. E II 4.
The standpoint OF the division OF la
Dor. Labor Is. becoming more divided.
In our large manufacturing establish
ments we find that each workman
does but one thing. In the manufac-
ture OF n plano nearly Ave hundred
persons are engaged in It, each doing
but one thing, Our large stores are
selling but one thing. perhaps; II more.
they are divided into departments. Our
educational life Is becoming Just as
much us are our manufacturing and
mercantile establishments. In many