The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-14
GARLAND COUNTY
 TEACHERS INSTITUTE
LAST SESSION OF BUSY WEEK IS BEING HELD TODAY AT
 HIGH SCHOOL.

The Garland County Teachers h. stitute will hold it's last session in the high school building today, after most enjoyable and edifying meet ing of five days. The teachers will be addressed today by Rev. French Thompson. Visitors are welcome and large attendance is expected. The program will last from o'clock in the morning until noon.
 A very rare treat was given the teachers yesterday when Rev Percy Cross delivered one of the finest ad- dresses ever made before them. He took for his subject The Evolution of Education" and paid very high tribute to the part played by the He brews in giving the world it's highest system of education, which he con sidered superior to that of the Greeks and Romans. He showed that the Bible is the best basis of all educa. tion and strongly urged that it should be read in the public schools because he claimed it contains the best of all literature, is the greatest and
 
 ucation is complete without it and that it is the source of morality and ethics.
 He hopes to see the day when the public schools, especially the high schools, temples of learning for par ents as we'll as children, and be kept open at night for the instruction of the former by lectures of parent and community interest along the lines of sexology, eugenics, euthenics, manual training, domestic science, literature and cultural subjects.
 He paid great tribute to the ad- yancement women are making in ed- ucational lines, calling attention 10 the small proportion of boys graduat- ed from our high schools compared to the girls.
 He paid high tribute to the Chica- go schools and said they owed much of the efficiency and progressiveness to the fact that they have a woman at their head.
 This reference to Mrs. Ella Flagg Young was one which was appreciat- ed by all who know that the school board of Chicago have elected and re- elected this woman to the position of superintendent of the Chicago city schools because of her fitness and that they rest easier than ever be- fore in the belief that all will be well with the schools. It is one of the ways i'll which schools are sassSss sscGae- times taken out of politics.
 MT Cross received quite an ovation at the close of masterly address and the appreciation displayed was most gratifying to him.
 MT. Samuel L. Sampson, manager of the Magnolia State Agricultural College, gave an invaluable illustrated lecture on agriculture, a study of which is being pursued in all southern states, as that is our leading indus try. Arkansas rural schools have this branch of learning in their cur riculum.
 MT. J. l.. Mcconnell contributed largely to the success of the lesson on agriculture by practical talk. The program was opened by Bible reading and prayer, conducted by Prof. O. A. Schotts. This was fol- lowed by Theory and Practice of Teaching" also conducted by MT. iSchotts, assisted by Misses Cora Boy ton, Bush, Pearl Hawley and Nancy H. Connolly.
 Miss Boyton conducted Reading assisted by Misses Bush, and Fannie Connolly.
 One of the best Grammar" papers read in the institute was by Miss Frances Smith
 A rousing meeting is expected to- day.