The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1907-10-25

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Mrs. Avery encourages the copying
Of perfect models by beginners in writ
ten work She discourages writing at
random and suggests outline work in
stead.
The teachers showed their apprecia-
tion OF suggestions given by dressing up
the black ckboards in true October Friday
afternoon style, with illustrations, let
ters, aud colored drawings, aud acting
out geography lesson by tab eaux.
Miss Hastings interrupted our imag-
mary trips and gave us real person
ally conducted trip down the 200.foot
shaft of tile Potosi mine. When we
were all costumed, that we might see
ourselves as Others .saw US, Mrs Con-
nors snapped the kodak on us.
Mr.. Hensley's paper on "How to con
duct Recitation was good, but who
would think him humorist? His part
on the program showed him to lie All
entertainer as we'll as teacher.
Miss Keenan,, the amiable and prac-
tical instructor of drawing, makes her
subject SO fascinating, that the teachers
regard her session as one of the most
pleasant and profitable periods of the
Institute. She has the qualifications of
true teacher, and inspires her pupils
to do, by doing.
After very interesting lesson on
drawing and painting, Thursday NOR
ming, she sketched profile OF Mr.. Shat
tuck, which, although it flattered him,
served to illustrate what can be done
and what is expected in the public
schools.
On Wednesday evening H. s. Sim
mons gave lecture on astronomy. AT
ter setting forth the basic laws of ma
tural philosophy involved, he proceeded
to explain the origin of the solar sys-
TEN, showing that the sun once had a
diameter of nearly six billion miles and
by gradual condensation it had assumed
itc nracant 1iuanciono
Next he made clear to all present the
means and methods by which the sun,
planets and other heavenly bodies are
measured; how their distance is COM
puted how their volume or size is cal
culated, and how their eight is ascer-
In this connection he presented table
in which he had calculated and record
ed, the amount man could lift, how
high he could jump, how old he would
be, and how much be would weigh on
each of the several planets.
The lecture brought out the fact that
our sun, which to us seems SO large, is
very small in comparison to many OF
the other SINUS. The suns are the
twinkling stars which we see in the fir
mament. 1t was clearly demonstrated
that it takes light, which travels at the
rate of 1876, 900 miles per second, thou-
sands of years to travel the distance be-
tween them and the earth.
1t was pointed out that the motion,
composition and conditions of the sew
era heavenly bodies were similar, which
suggests that the planets of the solar
system and of the universe are inhabit-
ed by creatures similar to the life on
earth. 1t was shown to be highly prob
able that new worlds are continually
being evolved out of nebulous matter
and that old systems are being reduced
to the nebulous state.
On Thursday evening Rev. Father
Dreyer gave us most interesting and
profitable talk on "rhe Worth of the
Child" This seemed like benedictior
upon our weeks work.
Much credit is due our worthy super
intendent who has done what she coulo
toward making this institute a success
Perhaps the most enjoyable feature
of the week was the kindly spirit showr
among the teachers and the respec