The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-10-18
Large, Enthusiasm Unlirnit
ed, Instructors Capable and Popular
and ALI in Attendance Are United
I'm Pronouncing it The Most
Enjoyable Institute Ever
Held I'm Northern
Montana.

Thc joint institute of the teachers
OF Chouteau and Valley counties held
in 1]svre this week has gone into hiG
tory and with it's going leaves many
foEd lecollections in the memories CT
all those attending:
1'he institute was in charge OF Mi IS
e. Faye Otis OF Valley county, and
Miss Agnes H. Atkinson Of Chouteau
county, the superintendcnts Of the
two counties, with Miss Violet Lepper
as secretary.
The instructors were:
Prof. w. e. Harmon, state saperi1-
tendant of public instruction, ..
Prof. Robert Clark, Of the Montana
State Norml college.
Prof. J. NJ. Hamilton, president Ct
the Montana Agricultural college
Miss Maud Summers, of Boston.
Massachuetts.
The Herald regrets exceedingly the
inability to reproduce in detail the
proceedings, which were Of the mcst !
teresting and helpful character throug
out. Each of the four days session
was filled to overflowing.
The second days feature was the
lecture given by Prof. Hamilton Of the
State Agricultural college, who took
History for his subject, and among
other things said: Tho mind being
made up of different impetus, needs
different material to feed upon
Arithmetic satisfies the cold steel bus
ines-like portion Of the mind ant
history satisfies the emotional nature
which should never be neglected. The
teacher should always be a searcher
and student with spirit of enthus-
iasm, and the teacher who can arouse
(: spirit OF research and interest, even
though there are but few facts learn
ed, is success. The purpose c.
citizenship as Patrick Henry said
I have but one light by which my fee
arc guided and that is experience ant
it is with this in mind that the minds
of the coming generations should be
trained, so that they will be able tt
go out to useful citizenship, and OBJ
tain the right kind of experience. anc
that which will be of most use te
them in grapplign with the problems
of the day. The great industrial in
sututions are taking more of our at
tention today than any other socia
or political duties The great questions
industrial, political and ethical a.,
the things which the children vii
have to struggle with as citizens, ane
history is the subject which will pre-
pare them, not arithmetic. The grea
questions which have kept Jerome
Gov. Hughes of New York, Gov. John
son Of Minnesota, LaFollette of Wis
consin, W. J. Bryan aud Presiden
Roosevelt before the public are th'
questions which the children must Eool
handle for themselves.
There have ben two great noticeable
features in our own history. There
are the frontier lines which have al
ways been advancing westward and 'he
experimental form Of our government
This fighting or frontier line making
the victory of men over nations, hal
slowly moved westward. From tht
Atlantic to the Mississippi the pro
gress was rapid and there a pause un-
til the great Louisiana purchase was
made when the line moved forward to
the foothills and finally to the Pacif-
ic until now we recognize no frontier
line, but are one vast union, composed
Of the many states all in harmony and
accord with one another. II der
that the history of the country be
thoroughly understood, the S udy
should be begun with the state and
there ts no state in the union that hos
moro picturesque and roman ic his
tory than Montana. I-ews and Cla X
in 1903 entered Montana and travelled
entirely across the state. and later
John Anderbon in company with a
noted artist found much Of interest
here and have furnished q, many
beautiful word and pen pictures Of the
interesting scenes which they found
along hontana's rivers and mountains.
The second great question and one
which has to do with cur eSperiuaen