The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-01
Opened With Lecture and Reception
Friday Night at the High School.
SCHOOL BOYS IN EVIDENCE.
They Make the Hail Ring With Their Class
Yeils and Add Enthusiasm to The Pro.
ceedings-Reguiar Technical Dis
cussions Taken UL Saturday
Morning.

ment but Canton has never Detore seen
such an institute as the Bi-County
Teachers institute now assembled in
the High school building. Wayne
responded heartily to the call
and sent a magnificent delegation of
her best teachers to the meeting. Stark
was out in full force and when the
first session opened Friday night, there
were more teachers present than have
ever been gotten together for a similar
occasion in this section.
At just $3.50 o'clock Friday evening
the blue and gold banner of the High
school juniors was carried to the ros-
trum of the big auditorium in the High
school building. The class rallied around
it and Superintendent Jones of the Mas
sillon schools stepped upon the platform
and formally opened the institute. The
juniors lifted up their voices in song |
and the audience applauded heartily. |
DR.. A. B. Riker of Mt Union, in
voked Divine guidance and blessing up |
on the occasion and the juniors favored |
the audience with another chorus in
which the patriotic airs of the country |
were blended in medley. AS the last
strains of America died away over
the room, the defiant gold and blue
Of the Junior banner was flung over the
heads Of the lusty lads upon the stage
and like the burst of a thunder clap
their voices rang out,
"Rickerty, rickerty rickerty, ruff,
Blinkerty, blankerty, we're hot stuff.
Gewillick, gewallick, ge-fiipperty fun,
What's the matter with nineteen one?"
Then there was a roar and a crash
from the extreme end Of the hall in the
| rear. The seniors had evidently got
| ten wind of the fact that the enemy
was plotting to achieve honor during
| the evening and the words, Nineteen
one" had hardly gotten from the junior
| throats when the senior yell was hurled
back at them as though q thousand
cannons were belching it out as follows:
with a ve-vo, with a vi-vo,
| With ve-vo vi-vo yum.
Johnny get rat trap,
Bigger than a cat trap,
Boom-sis, oom-ba, sis-boom-ba,
Nineteen hundred, rah, rah, rah!"
The juniors responded as they We're
leaving the platform and the seniors
got back at them and ended up with
a cry, Whats the matter with 1902"
to which an answer came floating out
from the clouds, mo good"
This ended the controversy with the
juniors still defiant but the seniors did
not forget and when the speaker of the
evening, Dr. Thompson. president of
the Ohio State University, was intro
duced they got even by saluting him
with the o. S. U. yell, which was grace
fully acknowledged by the jolly presi-
u dent.
After the classes had their sport, all
; of which was duly appreciated by
everybody present, the eighth grade OF
the Dueber avenue school was marched
upon the stage for dumb bell drill
This was one Of the finest things OF
the kind that has ever been seen In
, the city. The movements were absolu-
; tely perfect and there was not hitch
in the entire program.
DIR. THOMPSON SPEAKS.
DIR. Thompson in his address spoke
for an hour and gave some very soliC
material for thought along the line o.
educational work. He said it was th'
e duty of the teachers to do the bes
y that they possibly can for the rising
; generation and he had found the,
J, were. All the great advances II
l. methods that were so valuable to th'
y country at large he said had been de
e yelop by the teachers at their owl
; expense without asking the public TO
I a dollar.
He spoke of the question of permit
n ting the pupils to select their course
y of study in the higher grades and show
II ed how it increased the responsibilit.
!. of the teacher. He wanted better teach
" ling still. He wanted more college
d bred teachers in the high schools.
n At the State University the bes
l. teacher is put over the freshman elias
II and the high school teacher should b
: the best possible. More persona
supervision of the pupils is needed. TIL
J. boy must be taught how to employ hi
IS power. We are spending $lS,OOO,OOo
n year for education but it is not enoutyf
L. We will need more for the countr
= must have the advantages of the hig
IS school and the state will have to hel
"a the rural schools
Dr. Thompson said more solid wor
was needed for the pupil. He shoul
be taught more of some one thing
he would know something about some
Ig thing, at least rather than scatter hi
lie over everything till he did not kno
s. anything about anything,
~ ~ TEACHERS RECEPTION.
ly At the close of the address q
r teachers and eX-teachers with scho
ed officials were invited down stairs to u
Ill second floor corridors where the pla'
had been decorated till it looked Ill
a summer bower and where the Cai
=, ton teachers had arranged to give r.
:" ception complimentary TO their visitor