The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-29
Is Heart Of Talk on Physical
Training in School to Nc
Cracker Teachers.
Subject Discussed in All Its
Phases By Instructor.
COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE

Physical training as an essential
part of education was emphasized
in the third days sessions OF the
McCracken County Teachers insti-
tute at the county court house, Pro-
fessor T. J. Coates, the instructor.
asserting that schools must be salts
fled with nothing less than a sound
mind in sound body. Five minute
talks on the subject of physiology
were given In the morning session
as follows:
Mems sana in corpore sano,"
Superintendent Ellington and Pro
fessor Coates; "The value OF good
health" Miss Artie Chambers; "How
to preserve good health" l.. B. Alex
ander; what physical defects abe
school may cure" X. B. Kirkpaf-
rick; Physical culture in school,"
Miss Lille Knott; school habits to
avoid" Miss Maggie Harrison; Cor
rect habits to form in school," Miss
Bessie Billington; Heating and
ventilation" Rudolph Naylor; Care
of the home" Miss Ladye Nichol-
son.
Promptnes is one of the leading
virtues of school teachers, Professor
Coates said, In his opening address
this morning at $3.50 o'clock. fol.
lowing with lecture on the prin-
cihles of teaching. Inertia, he
thought was commonly the cause OF
failures among teachers to get the
best results and he advised them
along many other practical lines.
Professor NJ. F. Staten, of Bowl
ing Green. was a visitor In the insti-
tute today and addressed the teach.
ers instructiyely. Miss Dora King,
of Ragland. registered this morn
ing as the forty-fifth member OF the
institute. Night sessions scheduled
on the program have been abandoned
as the day sessions are long and the
instructor and Superintendent BIZ
lington believe they would be too
exacting. Miss Dora Draffen was
the efficient secretary OF the insti-
tute today.
This Afternoon.
This program to be given this az.
ternoon will give an idea of the drift
of thought in the institute: Professor
Coates will lecture on "How to
teach the fourth reader; at 1870
O'Clock English composition will be-
taken up and discussed in detail as
follows: kinds Of composition"
Emmerson Jet; Essentials OF de-
scription," Miss Pearl Miller; "Es-
sentials of narration" Miss Grace
Ellington; Exposition and argu.
ment," Edward Finley; Criticism
of form and content" l.. w. Feezor:
Arithmetic-Professor Coates
Primary history-The institute.
Outing of ten primary facts" Mrs.
T. l.. Houck: "The sense phase OF
history" George Orr; Educational
values of history" Terrence VIII
liams; ''The use OF biography
Charles Ferguson; Primary outline
of the Revolution" Miss Thacls
IWurth; 'Washington's administra-
tion." Miss Ada Long; "outline OF
five facts related In time and asso.
ciated in place. Professor Coates.
Superintendent s. j. Ellington
sent out the ballot boxes today to
the forty-three precincts for the truss
tee election next Saturday afternoon.
The institute will close Friday.
At the Woman's Club.
The County Teachers Institute
will hold their Thursday afternoon
session at the Woman's club build
ing on Kentucky avenue instead OF
the court house, on invitation of the
Educational Department of the wo-
mans club. The public is invited to
|attend the meeting.