The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-06
Transfer Feature Is One Of the
Trials Of a County Su-
perintendent.
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
President Hornbeak Of Trinity Uni
versity Criticises Special Session
Of the LegislaIure-BeaII
Invited TO Speak.

oponed the Tuesday morning session,
and is chairman of the institute. He
makes dignified, impartial chair
man, and accepts all the jokes on the
fed-headed school boy with grace,
as he always has S. e. Green of the
Milford schools to share honors with
him. From 9 to 10 the time was
spent in discussing the school law.
led by Mr.. Grafton He said one of
the greatest trials of the county sup
erintendent is the transfer feature.
and urged the teachers not to nflu-
ence patrons to transfer children to
the stronger districts and thus Grip
pie the weak districts, and make
trouble for him He said he had made
more enemies by this when he was
not at fault, and begged the teachers
to bear this in mind
The morning sessions of the insti-
tute are divided into three depart
ments, viz Primary led by Mrs Ma
bel Craven; intermediate. led by S
E. Green of Milford; high school, led
by ?. ], Herndon of our high school
The reporter spent most of the
time iii the primary department.
Miss Geneva Jones of Milford had a
splendid paper on relation of Ian
guage to other subjects Mrs Craven
then gave an Illustration of how she
appealed to the child's Imagination,
and secure their original express
sions. She had a paper square and
held it up to the children What do
this. remind you of? Answer: A book
of course What book do you like
best? Then they respond with the ia
vorite fairy tales of their kindergar-
ten days Then she made window
with four panes, and asked her class
of grown children what they could
| tell as experiences, looking out their
| window Then the chairman told il
| beautiful words what came to he
memory as she reviewed the literar
characters of her summer day read
| ing Evangeline. looking out the win
| dow for her lover; Jean Van Jeai
as he coveted the loaf of bread IN
the window; Enoch Arden as he sa "
his happy family through the win
dow etc. Then she made picture
frame and asked for the picture or
the most beloved face to flash before
their minds This was an inspiration
to the "grown-ups'
Miss Annie Brooks of Ennis had
a fine illustration OF written work IN
teaching language Her illustrated
Thanksgiving story was superb. Miss
Kelly's paper was also very fine on
technical teaching terms.
In the intermediate department,
Mr. Green as chairman the discus
sion was grammar Although a spec
ial Latin teacher, Mr. Green has a
great reputation as grammarian,
Miss Mabel GriZzard's paper on the
parts of speech was fine also She is
one Of our best eachers, and her pa
per showed thorough preparation.
l.. S. Sawyer, the teacher at Lone
Elm for the next school year, made
a talk on diagram and oral analysis
Mr.. Sawyer expressed regrets that
he should have had this subject, as
he thought it was impractical
Ben Herring, teaching at Palmer
made talk on conjunctions; con
junctive adyerbs There was very
interested session in this depart
ment. and fine attendance.
With apologies to the high school
department we could not get TO
them till their session was about
through Mr. Coghlan was substituted
al
Spelling and Poor Reading Mr..
Coghlan, superintendent at Ennis, Is
a fine educator, and is always ready
with something beneficial to say on
school work
How ! Interest My Pupils IN
| Composition Work was led by A. l..
Roberts and Ed Munden. Mr. MN
den is our new English teacher and
these young men handled their sub
ieet well Miss Rhoda Permenter
discussed as a special subject Writ
ten Work; It's Sc and Abuse.
The afternoon session opened with
a few resolutions and committee
work A motion was made TO have
/ Congressman Beall address the IN
stitute MI W. w. Powell was first
/ on the program with a paper, the
new course OF study He spent The
summer at Austin at the school OF
/ methods, and consequently mad
many new and useful ideas The
/ Most Difficult Problems Of the mex
perienced Teacher" was discussed
by w. r Wallace Of Red Oak lie
said y was only the experience
teacher who had the problems to
solve, as the inexperienced teacher
could not
Mr. Coke Odom Of Auburn discuss
ed Things TO Keep In Mind. Tue