Arizona republican., 1903-12-22
TEACHERS OF THE COUNTY :
The Opening Of the Seventeenth An
nual Institute.

The seventeenth annual institute of
the teachers of Maricopa county was
begun yesterday morning at the Cen
trail school building. 1t was opened un =
der the most favorable circumstances.
and it was the general impression that
it would be even more successful than
any of its predecessors. When the in
stitute was called to order there were
1872 teachers present. There was an in
vacation by Rev. DR.. Lewis Halsey.
and in the absence from the city of
Mayor Bennett, who had been assign
cd to the duty of welcoming the teach
ers DR.. Halsey delivered a brief ad-
dress on general educational work IN
which he offered many valuable sug-
gestions
After this there was a brief recess
for the enrolment of the members of
the institute After the recess Super
intendent McDonnOld, of the high
school. delivered a very instructive ad-
dress on the subject of language. He
Legan il by outlining the remarks he
intended to make. 1t was a very COM
prehensiVe address ana showed not
only great familiarity with the subject,
but great care in the presentation of
it.
In the afternoon the institute vas
divided into classes for tn discussion
of the primary and gramn al school
work The subject of history occupied
the grammar section The discussion of
United States history below the sew
enth grade was led by Professor Ben
iamin II Scudder, of the Tempe nor
NAL, in Il paper that the teachers pro-
nounced masterly. The discussion was
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Mrs \ X. Blount and Lewis Hedge
path.
In the subject of Seventh grade his
tory the discussion was led by Miss
Fannie Coltrin and was joined in by
W. H. Williams. Mrs. Emma WilcoS
and Miss Catherine NJ. Reed.
The leader OF the discussion of his
, tory above the seventh grade was Miss
Marian Culver. The participants were
Miss Nellie Newly. p. {. Cullen and
Miss Annie NJ. Perley. It was shown
by the remarks of the teachers that
they had given the matters under dis
cussion a great deal of thought.
An interesting paper of this section
was one by Homer Davis on the rela-
ton of teacher to pupil Mr.. Davis is
quite a young man, but his paper in
dicated that he has a firm grasp Of
the duties Of the teacher.
The music was furnished by Miss
Jesse Dunbar and Miss Sewer. The
exercises of this \section were closed
by Phoenix Central school chorus.
While on the subject of music it
should be mentioned that one of the
opening numbers was the anvil chorus
of The high school. the pupils having
been trained by Professor Todd.
The exercises of the primary section
consisted of paper by Miss Flora
Cohn on the class in first grade read
ing and a paper by Miss HaXhurst on
decentralization as part of first grade
reading. Miss Mary MNulty. OF the
Tempe normal, read paper on Incl
dental reading. This was followed by
the question box and discussion. led
by Professor r. II. II. Blome. of the
Tempe normal school.
This morning the teachers will visit
the Phoenix schools. which viii be in
session for half a day. and i'm the af-
ternoon the teachers will meet in
three separate sections for a discussion
% the ideas suggested by the observa-
tons OF the morning. The first section
viii include all teachers who have
visited the first and second grades
Tie second section those who have
visited the thirG and fourth grades and