Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1903-11-20
A APROFlTABLE MEETING
The Black Hills Educational Association
Met and Discussed school Mat
ters-GOod AttentlaMce.

the meetings of the Association was
furnished by some of the teachers who
were in attendance:
The thirteenth meeting of the b. III.
Il. a. was held in the High School
building ON Friday, Nov. l3 At 10
o'clock q. M, the audience was called
to order by the president, l.. Z. Mccain.
After the minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved, the president
gave short talk ON the past work of
the association.
Mrs. Emma Dudley being absent, the
piano solo was omitted and a paper,
1.-The Book and the Teacher" by Miss
Townsley. of keystone, was read and
discussed. Miss Townsley brought out
many valuable suggestions; some of
which are the following: Many teachers
coni;ne themselves too closely to the
text books; road too many excellent
books without taking time to absorb
the most important thoughts and sug
gestions, thus gaining bat little; too
much time .spent on journals of meth
DDS and devices, and not enough on
works of standard literature; not care
enough taken i'm the selection of books
for children
AS j. Il. Flemming, of Speartish, WAS
not present, his paper, "Blackboard
Use in the Schooroom," was read by
4k,o T fNbie,
was not only pithy. but full OF prac
tical suggestions. Going back to the
time when Pliny made characters in
the sand. he followed the different
stages of illustrating on up to the pres
ent time, proving beyond doubt its
value in the school room. La the dis
cussion which followed this remark
was made, 'lf school boards would put
more money into good blackboards and
buy fewer SO charts, it would improve
the schools"
The talk of MIR. NJ. p. Marshall, of
Rapid City, on "Worl1iMg Ideas was
very instructing. He made it plain
that the teacher should have some ideal,
some definite aim to attain, just as
much as a man of business. The teach
er must know at the beginning OF the
week and at the beginning of the month
Just how much is to be- accomplished
10y his classes and every effort must be
directed in such way to reach that
point tudiciously. Working without
an ideal is barren of results. His quo
tation, 1.-The world will stand aside to
let The man pass by who knows where
he is going" very forciby expressed the
need of having working ideal.
The morning session was closed by 6
we'll rendered piano duet by the Misses
Thorpe and Wood
Before the adjournment for dinner
G. S. Cobb extended an invitation Oh
behalf of the teachers of Hot SPRING
to the visiting teachers to take swim
in the Evans Plunge. This was GER
tainly treat as no where in the Hills
can teachers or anyone else enjoy sucl
swim as in Hot Springs. This trea
was much enjoyed and will be long re
membered by those who took advantag
of the invitation.
At . o'clock the meeting was callet
to order 10y the president. Miss Grim
shaw began the program of the after
noon with a song, which was much ap
preciated by the teachers and visitors
Before continuing the program it wa
decided to select the next place o
meeting. Representatives from Spear
fish, Rapid City. Lead, Deadwood ant
Custer extended invitations to tn
Black Hills Teachers Association
Deadwood was unanimously selecte'
for next years meeting. The time t.
hold the meeting was left in the hand
of the executive committee.
Miss F'lavia NJ. Jones, of Lead, read
thoughtful, we'll prepared paper o.
s'The Value of Latin in Our Publ
Schools" She gave many poten
reasons for the study of Latin. AS
mental training to achieve higher aim
it is invaluable. 1t improves the pow
ers of observation, recording, inferenc
and expression, this was clearly dem
onstrated by the method pursued il
translating Latin sentence into Eng
lish. Not only are the above power
strengthened but better use of Eng
lish is attained In reading 5the biog
raphies of men who have achieved tru
greatness we shall find that, with fe,
exceptions, they we're scholars of Lati1
Jefferson, the author of the Declaratio
of Independence, one of the mos
famous productions of literature, wa
Latin scholar; all but ten signers g
that document we're likewise Lati
scholars.
Mr.. E. NJ. Stephens, Of Rapid Cit.
read paper on "Limitations of th
Reasoning Powers of the Child" Hi
paper contained many good points fo