The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-02-24
MORE TEACHERS.
Fifty-five Pupils Celebrated
Completion Of Training
Course Last Night.
JUDGE COLLINS'S ADDRESS
Tells Graduates It Is Better
to Deserve More Than
They Receive Than
Vice Versa.
JUDGE COLLINS'S ADDRESS

| Fifty-five teachers having completed
| the four hundred dollar per annum re-
| quirements were graduated from the
| Training School last evening with hon
| ors, words of advice and commentators
| They were the class of June, 1899, and
| the class of January, 1900. The exercises
| were held in the auditorium of Public
School No. g. Brunswick, Wayne and Mer-
| Ger streets.
| The Rev. Arney S. Biddle opened the
programme with an invocation, and then
| Superintendent of Schools Henry Snyder
presented the graduates with a brief ad-
| dress, in which he emphasized the impor-
| tance of the Training School, which, he
| said, was maintained on the principle
| that to be a good teacher one must see
| good teaching as we'll as being taught
| the methods of teaching. No. Training
| School furnished both these elements. but
there was still another, and that was
practical work This was not obtained
in one, but in thirteen different schools,
the pupils spending half the course in 60
| ing about from school to school teaching.
! Here the graduates sang, Merry
| Gypsies," and Miss Irene Rogan gave
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welcome to all.
The next number was an essay, I'M
conscious Influence by Miss Elizabeth
r. Cannon, who spoke of the strong in
fuences in childhood of which the child
itself was unconscious until later in life,
making plea for greater musical edu-
cation in the schools on this ground, IN
| speaking of which she said:-
n MI general 6du-
cation in music can be found than in the
ignorance which prevails in the musical
art among otherwise well informed peo-
ple.''
"A striking example of the nonsense
people write about music is furnished by
| the Associated Press account of the late
Dewey celebration in New York. One of
the finest descriptive writers in New York
| City was given the assignment, and here
is what he said of portion of it: As
the Olympia came abreast of the Chicago
the guard presented arms, the drums gave
four ruffles, the trumpets four fiourishes
! and the band played Home. Sweet Home,
dwelling with swelling eadenza upon the.
minor bars.
Now, from musical standpoint, this
is ridiculous. In the first place, Home,
and there are no minor bars There is
no cadenza in Home, Sweet Home, and
if there were it would be played by itself
and not as an accompaniment to the
minor bars The writer wanted to say
something pretty, whether it made sense
or not. He might just as well have said
that Admiral Dewey stood gracefully on
his left head with intelligent fire beaming
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| the latter as nonsense, but about music.
it seems as though anything can be said.
Now, had this gentleman had the ad-
vantages of studying music in his boyhood
| in the public schools of his city, as it is
taught there today, he would never have
fallen into such error"
At the conclusion of this essay the
graduates sang Bridal Chorus from
1.-The Rose Maiden" and Miss Mary B.
| Ranken gave an essay on "Art in the
School,, in which she spoke of the bright
| influence good pictures had upon the
youthful mind. and how they often con-
veyed to the childs mind picture of
its own character. Aesthetic relations
| said she, sappeal to children and find
warm reception. Children will often rec
ognize their friends in pictures. Our
| schools should create an art atmosphere
about the children"
Hon. Gilbert Collins gave the Address
| to Graduates
1.-THE duty of the old to instruct the
young, this feeling of the debt one owes
| his successor. Even in the Middle Ages,
| if we have nothing else for which to
thank the church, we should thank it for
| preserving knowledge. But when men
! first began to see 1t was their duty to
instruct the young, they failed to see how.
| The school master was usually a imam
! who had failed as a preacher or in some
/ thing else. How different 1T all is today,
when we teach teachers how to teach,
/ and this training is most thorough. With
this preparation, young ladies, you ought
| to accomplish something worth while, and
| I think you will :"
| Mr. Collins concluded with words of
| advice in which he told the graduates it
I was better to deserve what they received
| than to receive more than they deserved
/ Here the chorus was heard from in
| .sLulled by the Silence and Mr.. Thomas
Keegan, the only young man graduate
since 'sS, now teaching in School No. 1,
| New York, gave an excellent valedictory
! in which he emphasized the Importance
| Of the Training School, praised No. g.
| thanked Mayor Hoos for the "seven beau
| tiful school buildings, the product of his
administration and the Board of Educa-
| tion for their kindness
Friends, said he, 'sthere stands before
oyu tonight class that has entered
yonder door and / can say positively they
| have worked. Now kind members of the
Board of Education it rests with you to
help them to prove that they are going
| to a success. Give them the opportunity
and 1 am sure they will verify what I
have said"
Following this came the presentation of
diplomas by President Mulvaney, who
! congratulated the graduates. not because
they had finished the work but because
| of what that work meant to them. He
| spoke hopefully of higher salaries in the
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