The Idaho Republican., 1913-05-16
THE SENIOR ORATIONS

stride in the direction of manual
training or adapting school work to
the practical work by which mortals
make living,
The old time orations were alter
mated with addresses which explained
things in chemistry, dairying and
cooking. Superintendent w. D. Vim
cent has the name among educators,
of being able to adapt the work in
this very way, and all teachers and
school officers know something of
the difficulties of doing this very
thing 1t has been theorized and
talked over in teachers Institutes
from year to year with notable fail
ures in adaptation. The teachers
themselves do not know, and it be-
came necessary to begin at the nor
NAL schools and teach the future
teachers and send them out to try out
the theories and have them get re-
suits with the COW and the harrow
and the cook stove. Teachers who
have tried, know that it is easy
enough to give one or two lessons in
something manual and have some
demonstrations, but to lay out = a
course and follow it Systematically
every week and every month, and
make such showing for the use of
materials purchased with the public
money that a progressive school
board made up of hard headed busi-
ness men will approve and go on al
lowing the bills is quite another
thing. Professor Vincent and his
teachers are working out that parti-
cular problem in way that has
brought forth comment from promin-
ent educators who visited this school,
and when the audience witnessed the
new kind of orations Wednesday eve
ming and saw the chemical and dairy
apparatus and noted the absence of
class yelling nd noisy demonstrations
that have marked the graduating ex !
ercises as appropriate expressions for
lot of savages, it came with SEN
Sc of relief and hopefulness to think
ing people. ,..e. -.
The Sophomore Quartette opened
the program with music and were
greeted with a round of applause that
brought them back" Then followed
a recitation by Miss Ora Rich, The
Soul of Violin, that brought out
the fine feeling of a vioIinist for his
instrument
~ Hazel Hackman gave derlonstra-'
tion of some of the uses of phos-
phorus, and made matches and fire.
works and, other things out of the
elements which she put together from
the bottles and called from the at
mosphere. Superintendent. Vincent
waited on her and supplied materials
to save time and permit. her to .het-
ter adapt her explanations to the pro-
cesses. ..
Miss Elsie Gibson's subject was
Granite at the bottom. lilly-work at
the top, and was fine tribute to good
education, religious training and the
things that make for race better
ment
Valine Cutting gave an oration
and recital, "Old Masterpieces" with
much credit to herself. At one point
she sang a stanza of "My Country
'Tis of Thee" and at the first words
the audience rose as if they had
heard signal they could not, dis
regard. , .s:.,. -:
James Adamson's subject was
milk" and with his table of dairy
ing materials he conducted tests of
the quality of milk, detecting the
adulterat'ons or chemical preserva-
tives put into it to keep 1t from sour
ing, and showed how to eliminate the
improbable COW and the dishonest
vender of dairy products. He was
assisted by Fred Holbrook who turn
ed the crank of the Babcock test and
in various ways kept the materials
raadv for tho sneaker
Jake Quillin presented "Sparticus
to the Gladiators," and rendered that
difficult part well.
Ruth Bales spoke on Food Adul-
terations," and demonstrated from
the table full of tubes and bottles, |
showing how to test food products
for purity as they come from the can
or package, bringing the work right
into the kitchen and showing how to
keep down the family expense bill and
yet have the department of nourish-
ment kept up to the best.
The closing number was piano
solo by Marie Millick, nicely render
ed, and the audience filing out of the
building were pleased with the inno-
vations of the evening, with the alb
sence of rough neck performances |