| Show association As per adjournment the tenc liers met at the central april 1883 after the usual opening exercises of singing and prayer tile rep reports orts of the several schools were presented the fbI following lowin is is an tin exhibit of the enrollment ani and attendance during the past week fj AA re PL academic depart department ent arof 1 L F monch M 9 department J jonm J 76 0 85 intermediate department marian Tre fredr eder dr 76 6 71 91 01 PRIMARY first ward hattle critchlow 1 0 67 63 62 92 2 se c 0 nd Nvard brown ia vt ar third iturea 74 7 71 99 fourth ward emily yew man of 0 91 music s ain department ROMI iloa pearce 13 11 prof monch next the teachers on various topics am among ong which was the duties of ami assistant stant teachers in the primary departments who were he said under under tiou tion of the teacher in in charge and therefore it was the duty of the principal teachers to lay out the school work for the theland mand give them such instruction as its would enhance the progress of the pupils who were under the care and management of the assistants and for which they would bo be held responsible the principal teachers should do this in a spirit of kindness and with a view to secure barmon harmony and good feeling between teachers all and pupils it 11 H he e waa was followed by trustee stanford who was pleased with the remarkable enrollment of pupils at this season of the year in arranging the different departments the trustees had consulted with the principal of the school and with hia his advice made mad such disposition of the teachers and assistants as would best secure the ends to be ac complis bed with respect to school government it should be the teacher e rs object to keep the students constantly employed without which it would bean be an impossibility to secure good order this could only be done through the unremitting itt vigilance of the teacher and to secure these ends it had ever been their object to employ the best talent fur for tho the school and of the graduates of our own school if pots possible sible the he had bad had too many to instruct no teacher could 0 justice to more than sixty the extra amount of labor resulting from a jar larger er attendance than the above auml number er could be obviated by employing the monitorial system he lie realized however that parents rents were adverse to this but thought if they understood it properly they would offer no objection objections trustee pingree was the nest sneaker speaker eaker it was his delight to sec see st c children ildren and young men and young ladies pursuing the various branches of T reaming arnitia arni tig and thus preparing themselves for the intellectual vo voa of life he advised the teachers in order to be successful to take a d deep e interest in their school work an and always to carry a good influence with them which would result in gaining the afleck eions of their pupils aud and without which teaching would become an irksome task trustee R ric had bad listened with a great deal of interest to the remarks of the various speakers and thought much useful instruction had bad been given he knew there had been a marked improvement pro in the school discipline during the past few years fears he lie earnestly advocated writing whitin and thou thought it n too much time cout could not be devoted devoted to this very verv useful branchin which figures should form a prominent object with the teacher orthography he thought was the next most important branch which could only be acquired through indefatigable de fatigable application prof monch made a few closing remarks stating that he be had wor worked zealously to establish the monitorial system but he had found that both pupils and parents were strenuously opposed to it still through constant perseverance lie had bad partially succeeded and by its means had prepared pupils for the office of teacher BO so that nearly all of those now engaged were the fruits of those thos e efforts he realized that we bere were yet far behind older countries in in intellectual attainments but this was attributable to a lack of continued attendance by attended generally only about ono one or two terras dur during ilig the year from which as a result the people expected first class teachers where he be was taught parents were compelled to keep their children constantly in school until 14 years of age after which if they designed to teach th they were compelled to attend a bi high 9 school for at least two or three years longer after the clos closing ilif exercises exercises the meeting adjourned tor for one week MARIAN I 1 scereta secretary ry |
