The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-11-07
Teachers Institute
Concludes Its Session
Fallon Instructors Take Active Part
In Program; Number of Resolutions
Adopted by Body

The teachers institute at Whine
mucca concluded one 0f the most in
teresting and well attended institute
ever held in the state. The part taker
| by the Churchill county teachers re
fleets well as to the outside opinion
of the talent employed The follow
ing communication from Winnemue
ca covers the fourth day of the In
stitute:
The principal speaker in both the
afternoon and morning main sessions
was DR.. Tully Knowles of the Col
lege of the Pacific. In the morning
DR.. Knowles spoke on the subject
THE Ultimate Basis of Peace In
the afternoon he gave a splendid ad
dress on the ultimate Test of De
mocraey " Before beginning his ad
dress he complimented the Nevada
teachers upon their remarkable spir-
1t. He also said that he had spent a
most pleasant time while in Nevada
DR.. Knowles showed how in order
to have peace we must destroy arti-
ficial trade barriers and how we mus.
educate ourselves to the point of less
race prejudice. The ultimate basis
of peace, therefore, is to become
more human in our international
dealings, to destroy artificial trade
barriers, and to discontinue our race
prejudiees. He said that the ulti
mate test of any democracy is to
maintain universal franchise and
that those maintaining the franchise
are intelligently and publicly edu-
Gated. A further test is the ability
to maintain a tyne of government
which can shift from one party 10
another without too much diseon-
tent and friction. We must also pro-
vide intelligent citizens If a democ-
racy is to exist and improve. We are
also obligated in a large measure to
train citizens in right morals. And
the ultimate test of democracy is an
intelligent moral citizenship with a
universal franchise.
In the high school session in the
morning, only one paper was pre-
sented. This was given by Miss Hazel
Spencer of Battle Mountain. and
dealt with the subject Methods of
Teaching the Novel. Miss Spencer
said that the novel is to be preferred
to biography. essays. etc. In the
teaching of literature because II
holds the interest of the student.
She said that 1t should not be studied
in too great detail, but that an effort
should be made to read from twenty
to thirty good books in a year, thus
developing In the student a taste for
good literature. The round table dis
eussion which followed this paper
was spirited and interesting. and
dealt with many phases of the teach
ing of English.
The high school session in the af-
ternoon was very brief. A paper was
given by Earl Wooster of Fallon on
the relation which should exist be-
tween the teaching of arithmetic and
bookkeeping, in which he said that
students should be required to be.
come proficient in arithmetic before
being permitted to register for book
keeping. This paper was followed
by one on Office Practice by Jessie
M. Purtell of Winnemucca. This was
necessarily very brief and the dis
eussion following was cut very short
by the brevity of the time remainins
for the session.
In the intermediate section project
methods on many subjects were dis
eussed. Esther Oar Of Fallon spoke
on History Project Methods. sht
showed how each student might
write a diary on a history subject
making themselves the principal II
the story. Such a project. she said
might be divided into preparation
for the expedition, If an expedition
be the project. Statements concern
ing the journey and also settlement
which would follow in the wake o
the expedition She said the diar
should be written in the book forr
and that such would develop the stu