The Jersey City news., 1901-02-27
READY TO TEACH
Twenty-Five Young Ladies'
Finished the Training
School Course.
GRADUATED LAST NIGHT
Sent Forth With Eloquent
Words OF Advice About
Solitaires and Other
Things.


! ladies were last night. presented to the
city az full fiedged teachers, ready for the
2oO-hour substitution course after two
years of preparation in the Training
School. These twenty-five young ladies
composed the Class of 1901, the first class
TO graduate under the heightened course
With wise words of advice, congratula-
tions and promises of success, they went
forth radiant to await positions.
The programme opened with an invoca-
tion by the Rev. Arney s. Biddle, after
| which the class was presented by Super
intendent of Schools. Henry Snyder, who
spoke of the duties of the Board of Edu-
cation to further the interests of pupils
"But above ALL said he, 1.-The board
realizes that the key is the teacher, and
feels none of its duties as important as
that of making teachers. You may have
noticed some changes in the training
school, (Mr. Snyder evidently referred to
the heightened term from one to two
years., but every change has been for
the better
Then, after reviewing the work done in
rne training school, land the teacher is
carefully impressed with the notion that
the schools are for the children who must
be educated even at a sacrifice to herself
L call these, young ladies exhibits of the
skiil of our training teachers don't
know to just whom l am to present this
class. Surely not to you, who are its
friends. and surely not to the school, be-
cause in that case 1 might say l wae a
part OF the school and keep it myself So
1 take it that l am to present it to the
city. The public don't know these young
ladies who probably in short time will
teach the pablic's children
Here the programme was varied by
! the first musical selection, a chorus,
Song of the Vikings" by the training
school. and Miss Minnie Deutschberger
gave the salutatory address with a:
Joyous welcome after two arduous but
not unpleasant years, aided by teachers
who We're to us what the trusty staff is
to the mountaineer''
She gave a very pretty welcome to par
ents, graceful welcome to the Board of
Education Speaking of the qualification
its presence afforded the greatest well
come to Superintendent Snyder, and con-
cluded by thanking the teachers for their
kindness and patience
Here again the programme was broken
with music, Miss Lulu Brown McGown
rendering a piano solo, lie Reveil d.
Amour" tMoszkowski), and Miss Helen B.
Valleau gave very interesting essay on
Influence of Mythology in Education"
The mind of a child, she said, was like
that of primitive man and needed some
]: thing to appeal to the imagination
Neurological stories appealed to him and
at the same time gave his mind an ethlc
aesthetic and mental influence
"A boy. said she. always tries to imi-
tate what he thinks big and manly. II
he smokes il is because some bigger boy
whom he adnires or the hero of his dime
novel smokes. He gets tired of stories of
good little boys who went to Sunday
school and won all the prizes AS he is
to be a man among men give him stories
of men. Awaken love OF nature in him
There is a new beauty to the child in the
sunfiower when he knows why it turns to
the sun. AS muscle grows by exercise, so
mind gains strength by activity. Give the
children the key to literature that their
later reading may be intelligent
After another musical interruption,
'Eventide," by the graduates, Professor
W. B. Owen of Lafayette College, for
merly of this city, gave the address of the
evening on What the School Does for
U.s." He first drew the comparison be-
tween tie teacher of the old school and
the teacher of the new school, the firs-
as hard and unnatural, the second as
sympathetic. kind, full of life and free
from ordinary human frailties
THE teacher of today said he, SHOULD
come right up to a problem and see right
! through it.. If a person she should see
right through him. Most people do not do
this. They look right over. but with a
teacher this is very essential trick be-
cause she must seen through her pupils.
In the old school there was only one ac-
cepted necessity, knowledge. It was get
your knowledge pumps ready and pump
| it in, but now we have learned that
knowledge is the least necessity Ii is
not question OF knowledge but to work
out that knowledge we have through
| IDEALS
Professor Owen then spoke of the con-
! stant change going on in all branches of
study from physical geography to SPELL
/ ing.
"Our Engliah spelling said he 'is sucn
an abominable institution. Why our spell
| ing is so bad that to be a poor speller is
| a sign of intelligence"
He then told a story of a young lady
who claimed 70 have finished spelling be
cause she had passed the New York Re-
gents examination. and in the letter,
four sEtets. of notepaper conveying the In
| formation were nine misspelled words
But" continued he, could have done
better or could you? I answer no. The
difference is perhaps that you or / would
turn to our dictionaries. When 1 want to
write deferred in a letter and don't know
whether 1t is spelled with two 'rs' or one
put postponed But even iiere you
must be careful or you will do as the man
did who sent for the doctor for his sick
wife. Come quick he wrote, my wife
has smallpox The doctor hurried over
in great anxiety to find the patient suffer
ing from rheumatism. OF course ex-
planned the husband I knew what the
trouble was but there was not a soul in
the house who could spell rheumatism. ,,
1 School, he said. should teach the child
readiness of common thought
Il meet John,' said he, "and say in
passing, pleasant day, Johnn 1 would
so on, but John buttonholes me to tell me
it is pleasant today, but he thinks it viii
be stormy tomorrow, and II John is not
careful in the future I will address my OBJ