Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — INSTITUTE PROVED ONE OF BEST HELD [ARTICLE]

INSTITUTE PROVED ONE OF BEST HELD

Teachers Profited By Instractikm By Dr. Bryan of Colgate University and Others. The Jasper County Teachers’ Institute was unusually good this year. <Supt. Damson had been so fortunate as to secure some of the oourftry’s fflaat noted talent to present the work to the teachers. The one of most interest in general as wel laa to teachers, probably was Dr. E. B. Bryan. Dr. Bryan is a man of wide experience in the educational field, having held very important; positions in various parts of the country, having at -dizerent times been connected with the schools of the Philippine Islands and also with our own state university. He is at present president of Colgate University of Hamilton, N. Y. Dr. Bryan had a real message for the tea Cher-s of out county and sent his message to the mark with such emphasis that good results must surely come as the result of his work. At one session he spoke on the "Educational Value of Play.” The speaker said in part that “all normally born animals play, including the human animal.” He pointed out that play is necessary to the proper development of the child. In his talk on “The Value of Youth,” he said: “Yoiith is the time of the m'oWt important work of the whole life.” It was pointed -out that these three questions were usually settled by the time a person has reached the age of 25: “What Mrall I do?” “Whom dhall I serve?” and “With .whom shall I mate?” The speaker held that the answers to these questions was the most important work of one’s life and that alt other decisions of a lifetime were simply accessories to these. The other instructor, Hiss Robinson, of Peoria, 111., created much interest in primary work by her work with her class of primary children and third graders. In her work Mies Robinson showed how it was possible to keep the children natural in their work by mean# of number games of various kinds. She gave some very useful instruction in -teaching numbers to smtll folks. Also her work with the Mooteseori system, t» develop speed, accuracy and memory in all Work, waa very interesting. Every teacher and parent felt that they were materially benefitted by her splendid work. Other speakers of the week were the advance manager of the chautauqua, Mr. Lewis, of Texas, who gave an illustrated lecture on* how insects are an aid to plants; and Mr. Stump, of the state university, who spoke for a short time on the extension and correspondence department of the university.