Arizona republican., 1900-12-20

l vated and a balance of the cultivation of the senses is maintained.
 Manual training is mental train 1 ing" Kindergarten training has also
 a healthy moral influence on the child | Habits of order, obedience, self-control, | patience. subordnation of self and re- gard for the rights of others. are in | crlcated and form the foundation of good character.
 MT Matthews continued to give the | effects of kindergarten training and it's ultimate good to self and society. 1 The audience clearly saw the great importance of Kindergarten schools. w. A. O'Conner said that his princi- pal objection to the paper just read
 was that it made no special mention of Nogales, his home.
 Prof. Stewart gave his views and explained how manual training would
 be Q great aid to society and mankind.
 He said that many men, well educated
 in the best institutions of the land were
 walking the streets of cities hunting
 employment, when, if they had been i trained in manual work they could now | be materially aided.
 1 F. Yale Adams spoke of his eXper- fences in this work at the university. l Miss Katherine Adams gave a few l pointed views in favor, but wished to 1 know just how it would be possible to establish such schools, and what rela- tion it bore to the law in this regard. Prof. Matthews and MT. Fulton said that the territorial laws provided for pay for Kindergarten teachers from the county tax, and MT. Fulton said that Kindergarten school could be es- tablished when ready MT. Matthews remarked that Maricopa county was ready.
 A N. Taylor and W. A. O'Conner each gave valuable suggestions as to how the start in Kindergarten school could be made.
 The discussion on this subject culmi- mated in a strong feeling for the great value of kindergarten schools every where.
 Superintendent Fulton then closed the session of the morning, remarking that the present institute was the most successful and beneficial he had ever attended and that much good work had been done during the past two and one-half days, but the rest of the week promised to be even much better.
 After lunch the session was called to order promptly at 1:3O o'clock. Several songs were sung by the members of the institute led by Miss Campbell and with Miss Cohn at the piano.
 Rev. NJ B. Bird next favored the teachers with a cornet solo, Mrs. z. w. Miller as accompanist on the piano. He was heartily applauded and the teachers expressed the hope of hearing him again before the close of the week.
 Mrs. Jackson next rendered a vocal solo in a delightful manner.
 THE INSTITUTE DIVIDED
 The teachers then divided themselves into advanced and primary sections. the advanced section was under the leadership of F. C. Bunch.
 The first discussion w2s on "Heredity vs. Will and Environment" by II. c. Griswold and B. B. Foster.
 The first paper was read by MT. Griswald. He said that character is the result of three forces: heredity, en- vfronment and will. Of these three the greatest influence is probably exected by environment. But since environ ment is only indirectly connected with the question, there may be said of it that where it does bear on the ques- tion, it bears principally on the side of heredity, since a persons surroundings depend largely on the locality of his birth MT. Griswold showed how the mental powers, the tastes, the habits, the desires which were predominant in our ancestors, also manifest themselves in US. as compared with the strong will power. While heredity shows mark ed influence in extreme cases, it never the-less is shown to be in a greater de- gree in the great body of common people. A race uninfluenced by hered- ity would be as a mind without mem ory nothing would be retained for rising generation to build upon.
 An entirely independent character in a single generation can not be obtained, for to certain extent one will be like what he inherits. MT. GIiswold ended by saying that the greater part of mans character comes from the motive produced by inherited tendencies, which are beyond the control of the will. Mir. Griswold brought out many facts and his paper was indeed logical and full of sense, and it won the admi- ration of the audience.
 MT. B. B. Foster of Glendale next read very interesting paper, eliciting many favorable comments. MT. Eos ter brought out the following promi- nent points on environment:
 Every individual mind is in the cen- ter of an environment, which comprises the objects upon which its faculties act. Our environment embraces the things and events, that permanently surround us and come within the range of our personal observations. It in cludes all the products of nature and art within our reach. Our environments compose all the forces that act upon us and arouse our faculties to action and finally incite them to their fullest development. If we continue the in dividual study of the mind by means of history, we shall find it constantly changing in many ways. The saffron colored Chinaman, the intellectual Athenian and the superstitious knight | of the middle ages are so many differ ent forms into which our common hu- |