The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-29
TEACHERS ENJOY
THREE DAY MEET
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY ENROLL
AT COUNTY INSTITUTE
LAST WEEK
HELPFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE
session Closed Saturday With Sight
Seeing Trip Through State
College Buildings.

The Bookings County Institute held
in the administration building at the
college on Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of last week, had an enrolment
OF one hundred and seventy. A keen
interest was shown by all who attended
and every number on the program was
enjoyed by the teachers.
DR.. a. Il. Winship gave two splendid
lectures, telling of the progress that
is being made in education everywhere.
He stated that one of the biggest fac
tors is the compulsory attendance laws
and that forty-ive out of the forty-eight
sttaes now have such laws. He also
likened the teacher who wasn't seek
ing new methods and improved ways
to the wooden clock in front of the
jewelry store always at Sis. He said
improvement in education everywhere
had come through just such Institutes
as this one, where teachers met to-
gether and learned what others were
doing.
Miss Mary Walden gave two very
inspirational talks, one on Joan de
Arc and the other on Japan. She had
been in France during the war and her
account Of Joan Of Arc seemed very
real and personal.
Professor S. Lincoln Smith gave two
splendid lectures on art and the value
of studying and knowing good pic
lures. He had a large collection with
him which were on exhibition all day.
DR.. Hacker, who is a member Of
the state board of health, spoke at
two different times on the Importance
of health in school work and felt that
the modern health crusade work
should be encouraged by teachers and
parents.
X DR.. Herbert Martin who was a lee
turer at the institute last year also
gave two splendid addresses, n on
the duty of a teacher In which he
emphasized that a teacher should
make it his business to see that a pupil
really appreciates something in life
that he had not cared for or known
before.
On Saturday morning State Super
intendent F. L. Shaw was present and
gave two helpful and instructive talks
to the teachers. He brought out in
a very forceful way hat there are
many duties thrust upon the teacher,
aside from just teaching, that it is his
or her duty to Americanize this coun-
try If it is to be done. He also gave
a talk on the compulsory attendance
laws of this state, telling each teacher
that it is his duty to report all chill
dren not in school either to the coun-
ty superintendent or to the presidents
of the school boards in Independent
districts.
President w. f. Johnson gave an in
spring address on new opportunities
for teachers. He gave the teachers
something to consider and to try to
work for.
There were conferences in music,
language, reading, geography, commu-
nifty civics and writing each day.
There was no time wasted by the
teachers, and many Of them expressed
themselves as feeling better prepared
to go back to their respective schools
to teach the children OF Brookings
county.
On Saturday afternoon Supt. 5. w.
Johnson, who also acted as nducto
for the whole institute, conducted a
large number of the teachers on a
trip about the campus. The heads
Of various departments were present
and explained the work being done.
1t was enjoyed by all who were In
the party, and 1t was a rare oppor-
tunity for some Of the teachers 10
have the work explained to hem.
--W.S 8. S.