The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-09
BIC ATTENDANCE At
MEETING OF TEACHERS
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY WERE
ENROLLED AT COUNTY
INSTITUTE,
Resolutions Adoped Endorsing Adj
ministration OF County Super
intendent gGrafton-Last
Day OF Session.

noon. There We're ESQ teachers en-
rolled, and each individual teacher
got great deal out of the weeks
work. In the primary department
Miss Cantrell, the art teacher in Qpr
city schools, talked on art in the
primary grade.
Miss May Smith gave a fine talk
on aim of music in the public
schools She spoke on the power of
music to quell mobs or arrest STAN
pedes She told of a dramatic exper-
fence in her own life when she was
teaching at Hereford in West Texas,
and one cold winter day, the big
stove filled with live Goals, burst
open, and the big boys Immediately
began to stampede There were
scores of little ones in her charge.
and she said she did not know she
could sing note, but God put the
power of song ON her lips, and she
began to sing a march, and all of
those little ones marched out in per-
feet system and safety Mrs. George
T. Wilson, the former director of
music in the public schools, said:
THE object of all education is char
acter formation and it is conceded
music excels on the side of dis
cipline rather than on the side of in
formation and in answer TO that
which some think unanswerable ar
gument a boy can't use singing In
the business world. | would remind
you that singing is training the ply
steal, intellectual and emotional ma
ture at the same time has a varied
value know of no study more fire.
duently used after the school life is
over, for whether the occasion be
mirth or sadness, music IS the most
universal language of expression"
The afternoon session was given
over to resolutions, superintendent
VIM and Coghlan and Miss Annie
Brown of Midlothian as the commit
tee:
1 Resolved That we, the Teach
ers' Institute of Ellis county, res
pectfully request the new text book
| board to adopt an arithmetic other
| than Myers textbook Submitted ::
4 John F. Olsen. w NJ. Kelly, w. II
| Harrison This resolution was tabled
2 Resolved, That We select AlleI
Civic and Health and Briggs
Coffman Reading in the publ
schools That f. w Rely be selecte,
| as manager of the Ellis County Read
| ing Circle.
| g. Resolved That we record with
| pleasure our appreciation of the
courtesy of the Waxahachie High
school board of trustees in granting
the use of the high school building
which affords the advantage of its
commodious and magnificent equip
ment.
A. Resolved, That We, the Teach
ers' Institute of Ellis County, do
hereby express our thanks to the
Daily Light of Waxahachie. Texas.
for their comprehensive and gener-
Gus reports Of our daily meetings
5. Resolved, That we endorse the
able administration of Mr.. p. 6.
Grafton in his work for the better
ment of the condition of our schools.
G TO the State Superintendent;
We, the teachers of Ellis county, as
sembled do ask you TO use your in
fluence 10 have the legislature rein
state the law extending certificates,
believing that in extending these GER
tificates, the teachers are benefited
and the future citizens of our state
are placed on higher plane
T. Whereas, we realize that we
have had very profitable week Of
institute work and that this is due
| largely to the presence and assist
! ance of the Waxahachie and Ennis
1 teao hers and the division of each
| days work into sections therefore
! be it resolved that we invite these
! teachers to meet with us in our next
county institute, that the county su-
perintendent be requested to section
| ize a part Of both day sessions, and
| in order that these two features of
| the work be made possible, that the
! institute be held again the first week
in September
Mr.. Green of Milford then arose
and made a suggestion that the su-
perintendent develop the social fea-
ture by the next annual meeting.
! Mr.. Grafton said he realized this de-
| ficiency in the institute and that
next year he would be better ac-
quainted with both citizens and
/ teachers, and he hoped to pull off
social stunt" that would meet with
Mr.. Green's highest ambitions, and
make the leaders of the COMPRESSION
al set green with envy.
The closing feature was very In
I spring, singing God Be With You
! TIL We Meet Again
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