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Show I. C. T. A. Interesting and Instructive Session Ses-sion Hell To-dsy. Prof. C. H. Brimhall's Char-n Char-n acteristic Lecture on "American Literature." The Teachers Invited to Attend At-tend the Convention to be Held in Salt Lake City. Punctuality is one of the leading factors of education, so, as usual, when the hour hand was at 11 and the minute hand at 12, the large tap bell, under the massive corpals of the county superintendent, rang time at to-day's session of the Utah County Teachers' Institute. The opening exercises consisted of prayer and singing, after which the minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted. Roll call showed a good attendance, considering the unfavorable un-favorable state of the weather. Prof. Brimhall, with characteristic character-istic clearness and thoroughness, presented pre-sented the instructive subject of "American Literature" as follow?: General: 1. Divisions: a, Description; Descrip-tion; b, oratory, c; poetro. 2; Au thors: Franklin, Emerson, Mitchell, Dana, Bryant, Longfellow, Cooper, Irving, Holmes, Webster, Clay, Henry, Whittier, Carlton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bellamy, Lew Wallace, Henry Ward Beecher, Bancroft. 3. Special: Here the gentleman read various specimens spec-imens showing the distinct literature of medicine, law. base ball, (of which the speaker was once an adept) race course, street, travel, local, etc. After dwelling upon the diagram, the lecturer warmly advocated the continuous practice of classical literature litera-ture and advised the teachers to be careful, not alone in their own lan guage, but in pupils' conversations, explanations, compositions, etc., to the schools. .. "How to teach history" was presented pre-sented by D. II. Robinson, Hannah Friel. Jos. A. Rees and G. II. Brim-hall. Brim-hall. Several methods were presented and all seemed to draw their inspiration inspira-tion from a comprehensive acquaintance acquain-tance with the philosophy of his story-Mrs. story-Mrs. Gile3 gladdened the hearts with singing one of her many popular airs. On motion of Geo. II. Brimhall it was resolved that it be the sense of the Utah County Teacher's Association Associa-tion in convention assembled, that a Territorial Teacher's Association should be organized, and the president presi-dent was authorized to so represent this body at the coming meeting to be called for the purpose of effecting such an organization. Miss Friel suggested that a conise of supplementary work for the schools should be adopted, and she moyed that a committee from each district be anDointed to select the works to be adopted for such supplementary work. A committee was thereupon appointed. ap-pointed. Mr. W'hitecotton was expected to deliver a lecture on"School DicipliDe," but on account of the gentleman having hav-ing urgent legal business to attend at the time, the matter wa9 necessarily postponed until a future session. A calisthenic drill, under Professor Walton, relaxed the rigid muse'es of the ttachers into pantominic consistency, consis-tency, and after the closing exercises and some hand shaking, the teac! ers hied them homeward "a-smiling." |