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Show CLOSING DAY OF TEACHERS' KEETINC . SAN FKAHC1SCO, July 14. Th closing day of tha National Edduee-tioaal Edduee-tioaal kssooiatios 'a coareation bare developed de-veloped a program ia many respecta lb mni Important of the session, from aa educational point nf view. Activity ia tba aniul eoctioa wh especially marked, ths afternoon being devoted to a recital bv California composers. Much attention alo waa given to the tudv of the "backward child problem.'1' prob-lem.'1' Dr. Maxmiliaa P. E. Groismaa of Plainneld. N. J., aaid that the country coun-try contsios between four and five million mil-lion children of thin type, and that ef .' these at feast 800,000 are distinctly ai-- ai-- aonnal. No adequate data as to the legal atatua of the ehildrea and their upbringing ia obtainable. . A tendency to use most stringent measures to discourage the prorogation proroga-tion of inevitably backward ehildrea was showa in other papers and in discussions. dis-cussions. Robert J. Aley, president of the Lai-versity Lai-versity of Maine, commended medieal inspection of school children. Cbarlea D. Lowry, district superintendent superin-tendent of schools of Chicago, discussing discuss-ing the teaching of deaf children, said that generally they were aot found to respond fully to tests along other mental men-tal aad physical lines, and that thair emotional life was cramped. Miss May Oearhart, auperiateadent of draw ing in tba Los Ant-else schools, admitted admit-ted that public buildings, streets aad lsssrt feWGWw -Iwlw'aMai stsaVBaar ard of taste. She urged the develop meat of imagination ia children. |