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which the institute instructor shall impart the lesson. This is vital. 

 I have said to all the leading institute lecturers: We will equip you 

 with a blackboard; we will equip you with such maps and illustra- 

 tions as vou vourself will devise, and of such kind as vou desire to 

 use in your individual work and manner of imparting instructions. 

 I say that now; if any of those lecturers who are in the field the 

 entire time, and a number of them are thus engaged, are planning 

 a kind of chart, which they want to use in illustrating, in their 

 own manner, their lectures, these charts we will have prepared after 

 they have the outline, and will put them into their hands. That 

 ought to be the implement which they could use the most effectively. 

 Thus far we intend to go. I believe, my friends, that no institute 

 in Pennsylvania is complete unless sometime during the session 

 some lecturer will give an object lesson upon a chart or blackboard, 

 impressing not onl}- through the mental function, but through the 

 eye, object lessons. I believe that, because I am a kind of a student 

 myself and have studied a great many things, and I have learned 

 that the lessons which are the most knotty and the most difficult 

 for the mind to grasp come much more easily when I can see them 

 before me. 



I want to say a word to these lecturers. These lessons are not al- 

 ways impressed by the real fine design of the artist, but is one of -the 

 lessons which these figures convey. It may be an awkward one, 

 but if true will leave a lasting impression. 1 am in favor of the ob- 

 ject lessons as far as they can be imparted, but every individual 

 knows his strength and his effort and the means by which he may 

 become the greatest power in imparting instructions. This is the 

 kind of influence he should use and we want to equip these insti- 

 tute lecturers with just such implements, blackboards and charts 

 of their own device, that which thej^ can use to their own advantage, 

 and I trust these lecturers will prepare these outlines and we will 

 equip them for such use during the coming season. 



MR. GEORGE CAMPBELL, of Bradford county, favored the use of 

 the blackboard and said that much depended on the man behind the 

 chalk. It should be used skilfully and accurately. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next topic, if we are through with the dis- 

 cussion of this one, and probably the last topic on the program is: 



''What is the Best Way to Quiet a Speaker who is Using the Time 

 Unprofitably?" 



This discussion was to have been opened by Mr. W. H. H. Riddle, 

 of Butler, Pa., but as he has gone home we will be glad to have it 

 opened by any other gentleman. 



MR. HALL: This is one of the (luestions that stand right at the 



