The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
INTERESTING TALKS AT The
INSTITUTE SESSIONS
Tuesday Afternoon, Wednesday
Morning and Afternoon, Professor
Warren and DR.. G. II. McFarlane
Gave Instructions to Wayne
TeaChers-Announc
Made.
Tuesday Morning Continued. :

tuesday Morning Continued.
DR.. Warren chose for his subject
"A Tap at the Window" As an in
PRODUCTION he used the following
story: A mother was accustomed to
bundle up her child and send it out
to play in the snow. When she
wanted the little one to come into
the house she tapped on the window
and the child obeyed. But one day
the mother forgot to tap on the win
dow and sometime later she discov-
cred that her little girl was gone. A
diligent search revealed the where
abouts of the lost one who said to
her mother, "If you had tapped at
the window l wouldn't have been
losted."
l have heard taps at the window
which have kept me from wandering
too far. An institute, If it stands
for anything, is tap at the window
for anyone who may be wandering
in the pedagogical field. A certain
farmer raised only 80 bushels of
corn to the acre while his son ap-
piled the scientific principles he had
learned at school and produced SO
bushels to the acre. The speaker
then applied this illustration to
school work and gave several ex-
amples of how the most benefit can
be obtained by using certain meth
DDS in teaching. In speaking of
arithmetic he said: When a child
needs his brain for adding, sub
tracing, multiplying and dividing he
cannot use his brain for thinking.
Teach these fundamentals in the
lower grades so that they will be
performed by the habit portion of
the brain.
Intermission, singing, roll call.
Supt. Koehler then introduced an
instructor who was here three or
four years ago-Dr. C. r. McFar-
lane, of Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York City. DR.. Nc
Farlane was warmly greeted. Geo
graphy" was his theme. He spoke of
| his subject as being very common
place and ordinary with nothing
humorous about it but, neverthe-
less, deadly serious. In his discus
sion the speaker used the continent
as land unit. If a sheet of paper
the thickness of ordinary foolscap
were placed upon an 1S-inch globe
! representing the earth the elevation
in relation to the globe would be
| greater than that of the highest
mountain systems of the earth. TIL.
great round earth may be spoken of
| as being blocked off in a series OF
upraised tilted blocks with an enorm-
Gus depression at either pole known
as an ocean. The great body OF wa
ter surrounding the south pole has
three arms, the Atlantic, Pacific and
Indian oceans. In the eastern United
States there is a mountain system,
east OF which is a coastal plain eX-
tending to the ocean and for some
distance underneath. The waters OF
the ocean lap up over the edge OF
this sandy plain. This fact is OF
great significance for that intermit-
tent tapping has made it possible for
Greater New York to exist. Our
large eastern river cut down deep
valleys so that their mouths are al
most at sea level. The Hudson river
once entered the ocean over a water
fall more magnificent than any we
have today. These coastal plains
vary in width. They reach their
greatest width off the coast of New
foundland. That gives a great ex-
tent OF shallow water at that point
Because of the southern drift of the
Polar current, enormous icebergs are
carried south and melt in this water
water, somewhat freshened by the
melting icebergs, is the home OF
large quantities of fish which are a
great source of revenue. There Is
much good about the banks of New.
foundland and also much that Is
bad, for a warm current of air com.
ing into contact with the cold at.
mosphere at the spot causes dense
fogs. So, on account of the danger,
Gus floating icebergs hidden by the
fogs we know that only great pre-
caution will avert serious disasters
The Rocky mountains, rising as
they do from vast rolling plain ap
parently out of nothingness, are 6
sight OF grandeur, with their rocky
jagged, barren peaks far above the
snow line. In crossing them on
journey over the continent you climt
and climb and the air clears anC
sun drops behind. And yet they are
as nothing when compared with the
earth itself.
Announcements; adjournment.
Tuesday Afternoon.
Singing.
Prof. Warren spoke on the sub
ject First Steps in Reading" HI
first concluded his subject OF thu
morning. The purpose OF a drill i!
the establishing of habit Why dC
, we want to establish a habit? 81
that certain things can be done with
out thinking. There are some things
in school which must be drilled up
on and drilled with a will. Amonl
all the subjects in the world, read
ing is the most important.
J The assignment phase is the i'm
, portant phase of the subject. How
! shall ! assign a lesson? dom
J know, 1t depends upon the circum
: stances. If you assign a lesson fol
} the next day what kind of work shall
1t be? We must first take care o
= the vocabulary. In teaching thu
} children new words, do not let then
waste time in guessing at them. /
; one should learn five new words
7 day he would have a greater vocabu
larry than Shakespeare had. II yoI