The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-07-11
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Examination Began Today and Will
Continue Through Thursday.

Continue Through Tnurso>y.
How rapidly time flies! The ''leafy
month of June" has dispensed her full
quota Of blessings in sunshine and
shower upon the growing harvests and
fruit laden trees, and the three weeks
of the State Teachers Institute, given
70 study and review preparatory to ex-
animation for State certificates, have
already dropped away into the great
gulf of the past.
The Institute has been a success in
every sense of the word-excellent work
having been done by both faculty and
pupils. Prof. Lawson surprises all,
who hear him, with the cogency of his
reasoning, the breadth of his views, the
facility with which he delivers himself,
as well as his simplicity of manners and
the modesty with which he bears him
self. Prof Sheriff. masters every SUBJ
ject he takes in hand with the ease OF
healthful heartbeat. His lecture
periods have been full of interest from
the very start. His lecture on Wednes-
day and Thursday of this week, on the
! brain, and psychology of the soul-ln
which he made clear the workings OF
"hypnotism"-w very entertaining,
showing to great advantage his scholar
ship and the rare ability of his mind.
! Prof Scobey teaches History little
different from any one we have ever
heard upon the subject, and the
teachers like it. His deep research,
earnestness and eloquence, have
charmed his hearers, who say they have
gathered more from his lectures on GER
tain lines of History than from all the
books they have read, Or lectures they
have heard before upon this topic.
We have missed the cheerfulness, wit,
md splendid lectures of Prof. Mynders
the conductor of the Institute-who
has been in Chattanooga for several
DAYS, in attendance upon the Southern
Teachers Association. He returned
today. Mr.. Mynders' lectures have
been very helpful to the teachers.
His sentences are beautifully con-
structed and uttered with a distinct
ness of enunciation, his logic is convinc-
ing, while his facility in happy illustra
tions combined with fine descriptive
powers, invests his talks with irresistl-
BILE influence.
We have had good times during the
Institute. Music and recitals have
helped to enlven the days. We have
had recitations by Misses Annie England
and Mable Wilkes of Cuileoka; lectures
| bv J. Fl. Dining and Prof. James A.
Bostick; and music, vocal and instru-
mental, by Prof. Hutsell, Misses Lula
and Lizzie Wallace, Sarah Cochran, and
Miss Coleman, of Mt. Pleasant.
The examinations began Mnoday, and
continued through Thursday of this
week. Certificates will be issued before
the faculty leave for their respective
homes. The examinations will be hardN
but just and kind. Light and darkness
are blending for the teachers who con.
slider next week Judgment Day
Hope and dependency, in quick sue
cession, like sunshine and shadow on an
| A pril day, pass on their countenances-
now radiant with smiles, now tlnged
with the faintest trace OF seriousness
| from melancholy doubt or apprenen-
sion. We trust that all worthy OF Ger
tiffcates will pass through the ordeal IN
safety, and that before the summer has
filled it's cycle of moons, and the mar,
vests are reaped and grained, they VIII
be happily training the ''young idea TO
shoot" Nearly two hundred teachers
| have been in attendance upon the IN
stitute. Some will try only for the
county certificate, but the majority are
! struggling for one issued by the state
Great interest has been shown all along,
and if Columbia is so fortunate as to
procure the State Institute again next
year, we trust Mr.. Fitzpatrick, or the
"Powers That Be-" will send us the
same faculty as this year. We think
such plan will be mutually pleasant, for
the faculty seem to be as well pleased
with Columbia and Columbians, as Co
lumbia and Columbians are with them.