The daily sentinel., 1912-04-17
IHt,
SCHOOLS Of
THE CITY
Good Crowd Attends Field Meet
School Visitor Here.-Faculty
Meets. = Other Interesting
Happenings of the Week
in Student Circles.

Considering the fact that the
events of field day were postponed
till Monday afternoon, on account of
the inclemency of the weather on
last Friday. a good crowd was pres
ent and took deep interest in the
different features of field and track.
Prof. Mooney Here.
The schools of the city and county
are having a pleasant visit this week
from Prof William B. Mooney of
the State Teachers college at Gree
ley. Professor Mooney is school Wis
itor and professor of school admins
tration. He is a man of ability and
Is at the same time a genial man
whom his friends are always glad to
see. He has many friends in our
city,
Faculty Meets.
The high school faculty met Tues
day afternoon with the high school
principal and the superintendent.
The time of almost the entire meet
ing was devoted to pedagogy as
brought out ip methods of teaching
history.
Miss Decker was the first speak
er, She inspires her pupils with the
idea of using some other books be-
sides their own text books. She
broadens them in this way. She has
individual reports on special topics;
for example, The Crusades. Ivan
hoe, The French Revolution" and
so on. She makes strong point
of the results of the different inva-
sions, showing the effects of the diff
ferent races and so on. She believes
in the map book work because it
gives a clear idea of geographical re-
lations. fixing things wildly in the
students minds.
Mr. w. G. Hirons continued the
discussion. He follows a good plan
in preparing the lessons. He sug-
gests to the students to read over
the lesson once or twice, then to
try to answer questions without look
ing at the text: also, If they have,
time, to read the lesson over againj
before coming to class. He does
not give much attention to dates ex-
cept to the important ones and then
he emphasizes the event rather. than
the date. He dwells on the good
qualities of great leaders. At the,
close of a recitation he frequently
gives rapid fire review. He en-
courages outside investigation and
individual research as far as possi-
BILE.
Mr.. Homer Dodds, the head of the
department in history, closed the dis
cussion. When his classes begin the
subject he states to them the object
of studying history. which is not
only to acquire a knowledge of his
tory. but to build character. The
history of a nation is practically a
history of individuals. He teaches
them to discern the qualities of char
acters in history which will assist
them in moulding their own charac-
ters. Mr.. Dodds finds that he can
obtain better results by making
questions of his own. instead of us
ing those in the text book. He oc-
varies his program by hav-
ing class debates on leading histor-
Ical questions. This is an excellent
practice for the students.
Sometimes Mr.. Dodds sends his pu-
pills to the black board to draw maps
quickly to show the principal politi-
,al divisions, such as seas. mount
aims, countries and cities, and also
showing the principal features of
the marches. the camping
places and the battle grounds. Some
times the student is assigned written
work on different topics and some
times outlines are made out by the
covering an entire histor-
cal period. These outlines are pre-
sented in class for correction and
The methods presented by Mr..
Dodds, Mr.. Hirons and Miss Decker
show that these teachers are in
close touch with the best education
al thoughts of today. Strong results
come from their skilled use of these
methods.
See Phone Plant.
Professor Tope, the high school
principal. took his physic class We'd
nesday morning to visit the telephone
plant. The pupils will take notes and
give report.
w. o. Rawlings is here today from