Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25
NORMAL INSTITUTE
1901 Session Opens Next Monday
r atAdams School.
THE ENROLMENT BEGINS FRIDAY
The School Teachers Of WapeIIo coun.
ty VIII Be Instructed in the Art of
Teaching by Educators of Much
Ability and Experience.

ty VIII ne INSTRUCTED III tne NIt OF |
Teaching by Educators of Much
Ability and Experience.
[From Wednesdays Daiiy.1
The annual session of the Wapello
county teachers institute will open
next Monday in the Adams building,
corner of East Second and College
street, with what at present gives
promise of being one of the most sue
cessful and largely attended meetings
ever conducted in the county. Open
ing ON Monday, July 29,i the sessions
will continue for three weeks, ending
Friday, August 16.
Enrolment Opens Friday.
County Superintendent Beni"h Dim
mitt this morning announced that en-
rollment for the session will commence
Friday morning at 8 o'clock continuing
during the day and over Saturday. He
will be pleased to have as many of the
teachers and those expecting to at
tend, be prompt in enrolling as in the
past much valuable time has been
wasted and confusion made by enroll
ing on the opening day.
The instructors.
The institute this year has been NH,
usually fortunate in securing the ser
vices of prominent and we'll known ed
ucators as instructors. Those obtain
ed stand high in their special work,
and their presence among those at
tending will arouse their efforts to
creditable and profitable study. The
instructors and the branches taught
are:
William Radebaugh, A. B., A. NJ,
Chicago; didactics, history AMI eco.
Monies.
G. w. Lamson, NJ. s., Cedar Falls;
history of pedagogy, didactics, gram
mar and American literature.
R. Anna Morris, Cleveland, Ohio;
reading, physical training and physiol-
ogy, orthodoxy and nature study.
G. w. Newton, A. NJ, Cedar Falls,
geography, physiology. physics.
r. S. Nichols A. B., Monroe City,
Mo-, arithmetic, algebra, civics and
grammar,
Miss Lillian Bridgeford, Des Moines;
primary methods in numbers and Ian
guage, nature studies.
Study of Music.
AS required by the new law taking
effect on July 4, special instructor
in music will be required in the normal
institutes in Iowa this summer. Mrs.
Harriet Carton of Des Mones will
have personal supervision of this de-
partment here, the teachers being re-
lquested to obtain book No. l entitled,
| "A shorter course in music" for sale
at all book stores. State Superintend-
ent Barrett will visit the institute on
the afternoon of Thursday, August 1
and in the evening he will lecture be.
fore the teachers. His subject and
the place where his lecture will be
given will be annuonced later.
Disasrees With Barrett.
County Superintendent Dimmitt does
not fully agree with State Superin-
tendent Barrett. regarding the post
ponement of Institutes on account OF
the warm weather and believes that
the teachers take sufficient interest in
the work to fully repay for the wilt
ing down of collars and losing of the
; curls.
Barrett's Opinion.
"If were county superintendent
said Mr.. Barrett, "and was obliged tt
conduct teachers institute l should
certainly dismiss at noon. have lit
tie sympathy with keeping forty or flf
ty teachers together all day long in {
, room where the sun is probably beat
ing down on all sides. II the summer
|, institute is to exist at all we should cu
, out the afternoon sessions. If | wa.
county superintendent ! would tel
the teachers at noon to find the coolies
and shadiest spot they could and sta,
in ut during the afternoon. Teacher!
, who work all the year long should no
be compelled to listen to lectures o.
! anything else on such afternoons al
, we have been having in the last tw'
? weeks. 1t does them a great dea
, more harm than good"
Good Work Being Done.
u In spite Of the unprecedented no
weather the county Institutes hav'
:, been holding their sessions as usus
, this year and doing the usual amour
T of work. 1t is reported from man,
! places in the state that the teacher
are suffering from the heavy demand
, made upon them and idea of abolish
ing the summer teachers meetings |
meeting with favor. Mr.. Barrett e>
presses himself strongly in favor of tn
Pennsylvania system of dealing wit
!. the question. In that state the count
institute is held during the school yea
a and Is part of the teachers regula
> work. The teachers are in session
!. week or two weeks as the superintent
:, cit DEGREES and during that time schoc
= Is dismissed. The teacher receive
!. the same pay for attending the inst
- tute that she does for conducting tn
. school and 1t is in every sense merel
> a part of the years work.
e No Money In It.
> Not so in Iowa. Here the teacher
I attend school during the year and du
o ing the hottest period they are sun
D. moned to the county seat to attend til
n teachers institute. Here they speu
y two or three weeks and receive no pa
IS 1t interferes with the teachers sur
mer vacation and with the summer
. rest.
Summers Too Hot.
II IF Iowa intends to keep UP the kir
DO ,f oh no, haap uiu ,