Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-10-22
ELABORATE PLANS
FOR TEACHERS
INSTITUTE
P r 0 G r A M FOR MEX
WEEKS EVENT SAID TO
BE BEST EVER OFFERED
BY A COUNTY

success. teachers and school Off
cials throughout the country are
waiting the opening OF the County
Teachers institute on Tuesday. o.
tober %. 4 splendid, forceful and
elaborate program for the three
days OF the institute has been pre-
pared and. according TO all aniici-
patton the event will be as greatly
beneficial from an educational view
point as the creation OF Il better
fraterusl feeling among the ranks
of the county's schools and teach
ers.
County Superintendent OF Schools
W. Curtis Miller expressed himself
as keeniy satisfied with the strength
OF the program he has arranged ana
even states that in his opinion. 1t
i, the strongest program ever OF
fered by any county institute in the
State.
There will be daily and evening
lectures by a number OF lecturers
who have national regulations
There will also be several addresses
by educational authorities from this
State. essays. musical features and
fluctuations among the co-workers
upon whom mainly depend the merit
OF the success attained in after
lie by the student
There will be no school next
week. The eighty or more teachers
from throughout the county will
start their journeys toward Prescott
on Monday and arrive here in time
40 attend the opening session on
Tuesday The institute will continue
until the evening OF Thursday and
the instructors will then return ;oI
their posts.
Each teacher must report at the
institute except when excused byI
Superintendent Miller. Full pay io-
the week will be accorded the IN
structorS Each teacher must bring
a notebook. receive credit in GER
tilted manner for attendance and
keep an account OF all transporta-
ton.
As special instructors. Superin-
tendent Miller has secured d..
Charles Shaver. formerly of the
State of New York. where he served
for twelve years as state con-
ductor OF teachers Institutes. Be
sides taking charge OF 400 institutes
in that time. he accomplished con-
siderable work OF like nature in adj
joining States During the past two
weeks he has been doing institute
work in the west and will come
here direct and fresh from a similar
task in Idaho Several OF the local
teachers who have heard DIR. Shaver
speak with the highest praise for the
learned educator
Commenting upon the prize At
traction" secured. Superintendent
Miller said: Prescott and Yavapai
county are to be congratulated in
being able to procure for the lat
two days OF the institute no less
an educational light than DR.. A. E
Wmship. figure OF international
fame DR. Wmship has for many
years occupied the position As cdi-
tor OF the School Journal. a week.
Iy that is perhaps the most widely
read journal dealing with cduca,ion'l
topics in the country" @
\ teacher remarked to the super
that if such man a. Dr..
could be procured the in
stitute would remain an inspira
ton in the memories of those who
attended for the remainder OF the
year. When informed that Dr. Win
ship had been secured she remarked
citing one lecture -
the northwest where she had heard
him deliver his talk. The gentle
man had received $500 for one tall.
Not very long ago" declared
Miller. Or WinShip
visited the West Coast and there
after appeared in the School Journal
many articles which were classics
pertaining to the West Coast and it,
school system"
There is every probability that
DR.. Winship will feel inclined %
treat Prescott in a similar strain
Such widely read publication
would afford unlimited opportunity
as an advertising medium. not for
getting. OF course. the probable toae
IT DR. Winship were he to become
with Yavapai county's
school system.
So far as is known this is Dr.
first visit to Arizona Th1t1