The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-25
MANY TALENTED
SPEAKERS COMING
State superintendent of Illinois
Schools Among the List of In
structors Together With Prof. H.
B. Brown of Valparaiso and Prof.
Busch of Illinois Normal.
Especial to THE TrMEsl

Especial to THE TIMEs1
Crown Point, Ind, Aug. 25.-The Lake
County Teachers institute will begin
sessions will be held at Central Music
hall.
Many notable instructors, the best
that could be procured, have been en-
gagged for the occasion and men of the
caliber and reputation of Prof. H. B.
Brown of Valparaiso university; Prof
l. H. Burch, State Normal school, Ma
comb, ILL.,, and DR.. Nathaniel Butler of
the University of Chicago, insure the
teachers and general public an inter
esting session every minute of the time
Want All Present.
Every teacher who attends every day.
will have two per cent added to his
general average for the purpose of de-
termining his per diem. Prof Heigh-
way requests every teach in the county
to be present for this week of instruc-
tion and entertainment as he will en-
deavor to make the 1908 Teachers in
stitute the most successful ever held.
Lake County's educational advance is
keeping pace with its repid growth in
its commercial and business life and
every year sees a new corps of teach
ers added to its already large enroll
ment Last year about 2S5 teachers
supplied the educational needs of the
county, this year it Will take 325 or
over to fill the various schools with
Gary people and its envirous taking
large share Of the % extra teachers.
Program Complete.
The following is the full announce
ment of the proceedings and program
for next week:
Lectures begin at 10 a. m Monday,
and at a. m. each day thereafter.
Instructors.
Hon. Francis G. Blair, state super
intendent, Springfield, I'll. = Method
reading.
DR.. Nathaniel Butler, University of
Chicago-Literature.
Prof. L. H. Burch, State Normal
school, Macomb, Ill.-ManuaI arts.
Pres. H. B. Brown, Valparaiso uni
versity-Brief outline of work subject
to change.
State supt. Blair-Reading and lit
erature:
difficulties of the printed page.
2-Silent reading.
3-Oral reading.
4-Seiections for the grades
5-The point of view.
Teaching:
Factors of the recitation
2-The teacher
3-The method.
4-The pupil
5-The result.
extraordinarily evening. Subject
to be selected.
DR.. Butler-Morning lectures:
Education and social efficiency.
2-Some popular errors regarding
education.
3-Important aspects of the school.
4-Moral and religious training in the
high school
5-On sending boys and girls to col
lege.
Afternoon lectures:
1-On the uses of lierature, part l.
2-On the uses of literature, part 2
3-Longfellow in the school
4-Holmes in the school
5-The leading forms of poetry.
Lecture-Tuesday evening. The Re-
ligious Element in Literature" Prof.
L. H. Burch.
Blackboard drawing; study of form
paper cutting or tearing:
primative industrial rocesses-braid-
ing, weaving. sewing; clay modelling:
simple processes in woodwork adapted
to smaller schools. Country schools).
Lecture-Wednesday evening. MAN
ual Arts in the Grades and Note"
Teachers taking manual arts should
come supplied with a darning needle.
ruler scissors and pencil as we desira
to work with materials. Learn to do
by doing"