Show correspondence EDUCATION IN COUNTY summer slimmer institute closed editor deseret news the doors of the summer institute are closed lor for this season with the probability that they will open next summer in colder regions among the pines aides of the wasatch the closing work of the last week of school has been fruitful with excellent work not alone in class work but also in the three daya days examination of applicant teachers the time has been when examinations tended to test the memory and to show the smartness of we exa examiner nimer by living giving puzzles catches catcher and ambiguous and useless propositions now however the common sense teacher has discarded those instruments st of torture corrected the abuses of the past in a measure and today to day they test mental power and the mastery E ct principles following ditollo wing is the class work of the week as presented in diagrammatic FORM and otherwise including these valuable rules given in theory and practice by prof maeser 1 have only one main subject for each recitation 2 have your plan laid out for each recitation a 3 be conseco consecutive tive within one paragraph 4 4 flagg no more than two or three subordinate questions consecutively 0 5 never repeat answers or correct yourself nor hesitate in your quel questions 4 nor u use se expletives 6 ask no direct questions except for disciplinary purposes 1 7 lout lay the interrogative at the end of your question 8 every question must be a complete sentence likewise the answer I 1 9 avoid bad grammar and bad pronunciation nuncia bation tion yourself and corret correct t it at once in 5 3 our pupils 10 use only plain Ian language guage in words and style ii 11 no question must contain more than one proposition 12 11 questions should require more r reflective active than answers is 13 always be yourself 1 14 A do not place yourself at the mercy of f your class Und erthe HEAD OP OF the professor continued his course on composition under tile the heads of notes advertisements private correspondence and business correspond correspondence once giving instruction in regard to forms forwe style and methods of tea teaching ebing compositions and closing up with his lecture the reports which were divided under the heads beads of minutes public correspondence and official reports each of which received us its full share ot of consideration the lecturer closed with criticisms of clia diagrams ams on the subject schools 11 handed in by members of the class professor talmage illustrated the phenomena of SOU SOUND SOUD ND LIGHT AND AM electricity with great minuteness and exactness and in order to more moie forcibly prove his hia doctrine of electricity lie he so arranged arrange 1 his class as to rive give each meniver a farewell rewell la shock une class was ful fully I 1 y convinced the subject of sound was presented ted thus I 1 medium 2 transmission a direct 0 o 3 velocity 4 kinds a noise noibe b music 5 lu in bt ht light was treated of in the following order 1 Theo theolier rier a emanation b undulation 2 elects of dealing a luminous b opaque c transparent a tran translucent accent 3 transmissions Transmission a media b manner 4 a color b diffract bious c polarization d ia braze e the diagrammatic form of electricity wat was I 1 definition 2 1 history 3 a magnetic M f frictional prod production action communication effects its effects were to be mechanical thermal luminous magnetic physia physiological logical c galvanic aal vanic ardue we e d thermal miscellaneous in physiology and hygiene the last named educator closed his bis course of lecture with the subject of circulation and sensation which were explained in the fullest and add most comprehensive manner a synopsis only of the di diagram agrain is here iven 1 I circulation I 1 blood a mei I 1 nature kinds b organs heart vessels 2 lymphatic a medium nature uses b organs vessels glands 11 II sensation 1 process a bodily change b mental change 2 kinds a gene general ral 0 special hp ecial the arithmetic class under their able tutor considered mercantile transactions and discounts from list prices difference between 20 per cent off and 10 per cent x 10 per cent off for practical exercises the class was taken into some mercantile house and there took inventories of goods calculations were made and additional instruction given in the class in the geometry class intersection and bisection were made a specialty thus end ended d clefts work for the term the Bok bookkeeping keeping department took a general review of accounts and completed feted dows new result book special drill daulin fin j journalizing 0 zing order draft and acceptance entries closed tae thorough proceedings of the superintendents ten dents class isaials Isaia hs drawings and his instructions in ID the art of drawing will long be remembered and practically app applied led much could be written concerning the borkus ot of the summer institute of the zeal promptness and efficiency of us its members mem berb of the anxiety uniform kindness kind kinda ess and impartiality ot the tutors of the regularity of attendance and pendulum precision in the execution of all its details of the absence of ofa I 1 friction of its big high gh moral ione tone and christian Chi istian sentiment and of its apparent and contemplated results it is safe to say that a happier group rarely meets belle harris the memorable heroine remarked there are two places on earth which I 1 shall always be proud of in thought one is the penitentiary where I 1 spent four months a victim of the hate narrow mindedness and religious bigotry of a christian Christi all judge and the crucifying demand of lawless a adventurers the other is the summer institute where friendship honor and progress mark every feature why should you be proud of the former was asked because Beca uhe said she it helped to prove to the world that atut a utah woman it if she is a true mormon is the most independent in thought reliable and fearless in action and the most devoted to the principle of ele va vatina d ing in manhood and womanhood of all creatures before closing please allow mention of the B YA boarding boardinghouse house in provo where the teachers of the institute ate an and d slept this establishment is certainly a credit to provo embodying as it does a neat heat design substantial suo features splendid accommodations strict regulations and the best bast of treat treatment merit brother keeler keel er the steward receives the toll with a pleasing smile and for it he furnishes fresh healthy and palatable digestible food in sufficient quantities to satisfy even a gurmand frequently he lowers the temperature of the boarder with ice cream and inci eases creases their maxillary secretions with r red ed checked cheeked strawberries good bye fellow teachers teachers and instructors tors in may a y we next meet ansome in some shady kady grove I 1 in the mountains near the hu haunts t of tle the speckled trout and fat deer and above the reach of the inhuman mosquito very respectfully J JAB A R spanish fork july 13 1886 |