Show 1 TEACHERS READ PAPERS Yesterdays Association Meeting Meet-ing Full of Interest LECTURE IN THE EVENING JIcs Jessie Goddard Presented l Stirring Paper Upon Instruction In English and Prof UriggS of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Discussed Grammar in an Entnrtnining Manner Papers Wore Discussed at Length rAth letic Sports Favored Divided as t ComniencenientsV The Toadies association which Le ran Its seventh ainuml meeting at Assembly As-sembly hal Wednesday held three ses bjons yesterday and had 3 profitable mId pleasing time The day was largely large-ly given to the presentation and discussion discus-sion of papers by the educators and in the evening an Instructive lecture oy J l > rot William O Krohn of Chicago on Practical Child Study and Its Ke eults was listened to At the openlng of the nprning SOS Ion a chorus frdm the Fremont school under Prof Young director of music inV in-V ihe schools gave a pleasing vocal selection selec-tion S V V lou118S Jessie Goddard of the Salt Lake City high school was then Introduced V and presented n huggcstlvc and practical practi-cal paper on To What Extent is In Ettuction in English In the Common Schools Defective She dwelt first upon the protest made lit olece pro V V i 8 onioc the country against the English En-glish of applicants for admission to the Institutions The blame for this was laid at the door of thu high school V touchers who In turn sought to shift the responsibility upon VtIIC shoulders of eighthgrade I teachers they in turn upon the seventhgrade teachers and soon so-on down the lino All this JIlsj God dard thought was unjust and unprofessional unprofes-sional and she said It showed A lark I of unity In effort to correct the t ovlst J Jng wrong and added I would advice nonS vis C harmonious uniting ua the part of all instructors to correctly remedy 1 Lh present conditions In this lespccu V Vnen once we have learned to work as one body each teacher doing her I phre in making the transit Ion from grade to grade it would be but another step to correct another defect viz 1 t that of making English the vocal study Upon the childs ability 10 read i interpret I Inter-pret compose write and HPCMIC English 1 depends his ability to Minuter other 1 stbjects j Mies Goddard then told of the greatest i great-est Cifilculty with which teachers in I the high school have to contend that i IP poor spelling Thls < he said was partly due to the experiment tried of V teaching pupils to read by what Is j known as the word and sentence method I meth-od and the nonsyllable spelling intro I duced a few years ago In closing Miss Goddard asked her fellowteachers to work unit dly for V the correction of the various defects mentioned seeking to avoid the defect I J 4 which would naturally creep Into their 1 teaching which would prevent spon taneousncss of originality that should i indicate n childs interest In the subject I sub-ject upon which he Is writing1 Much of the lack of originality in composition lace tion work oC today said Miss God ard was due to the fact that pupils are called upon to write V of fand discuss subjects beyond their capacity or experience ex-perience V DISCUSSION OF PAPER V The discussion of Miss Goddards paper pa-per was le by Prof N L Nelson of the B Y academy at Provo Prof Nelson thought that the English teacher teach-er should Jot be held responsible for the English of the children any more V than It I should bu expected that one pure rivulet would prify a great Impure Im-pure rlvor Tie Insisted that pupils at Wiled their English from their environment r c environ-ment and that the environment of the C r West Jn this respect in very poor that tlin Miiiill ilnon tint hiin nrrpft T nllh lilt IUll 1 IIUU > JIUL n t I nt home nor in the schoolroom from the teachers that the teachers of llie West are at best an Improved product 0 f r ofl environment and they have nol r overcome that environment as far as their English is concerned A method 11 propohod by Prof Nelson to improve the Engllth of students was to sum 5 round them with good literature and Vi t V encourage thorn to read Another sug r V ccstlon put out V to cause children to C x correct their bad English was that they be jnadQ conscious of their errors and te conscous watch their verbs as carefully an they 5 c look afUr their toilets V ProC E J MacEwan of Logan was I unable to be present so his discussion St t I on this subject was read by Miss Maud JIarrold Prof MoEwan had the greatest great-est fault to find with thc reading of pupils I r pu-pils and said they seemed to have ac qulrcd the habit of using words with no adequate knowledge of their meaning mean-ing lie also complained of the poor I enunciation modulation and pronun i elation of Tlodulplon which showed that the pupils had not received tho Ih t proper training In the lower grades GRAMMA AT HOME I 1 Technical Grammar in Its Relation to Language was the subject of C p paper read by Prof Howard R Drlggn of Pleasant Grove Prof Drlggss Ideal wore out of the beaten path and he had j I t It n most refreshing way of stating them First ho dellncd grammar UI the science of language e and said that tech rcIVi nlcal grammar Is commonly thought of I UP as that science In all its niceties dls IIIr cusslon of grammatical principles apart 11 from their application But technical rJlC V grammar he said was certainly not le1 practical grammar The child must of necessity have his early lessons In 0 hnyC u l1ece5sl fe grammar taught emphatically as he Is unable to comprehend the whys and p t1 M j wherefores 1 43f Dllggs maintained that formal y f tr before ro V grammar was begun too soon that fore l student was ready for a tochnl titL cal study of his mother tongue he must have a great deal of language material V and language power on hand But the I V great need of the child In thlH line la 1 that he be supplied with literature supplied V I sup-plied with I until he could see I hear It and feel It lie advocated too permitting per-mitting juipllH to exprcBs themselves both by tongue and pen for youth IH tho time to teaqh a child to unloose the tongut and pen He advocated spelling exercises oral reading In fact every V good exercise which wbuld make the study of grarnnw a prtretlcnl one V V MUSIC BY QUARTETTE Following the presentation of Prof DriRgtis paper Icanra Ensign Pyper V AVhltncy and Spencer favored the S teachers with thrcft very pleasing inimical inimi-cal selection The first Beauty Ii J3yc8 was bcautltully rendered and 11 the audience insisted on an encore In l roaponHe Iho quartette sang The I I or V Tack which tio pleased the pcilagoguca i fdct that they Insisted on hearing thorn Ct V again and for the second encore the I I auartotte the old but ever beautl I d1 ot i quartotc sanS ever bcaut 1 is 5 fill JJen Bolt 1 I wcr Ncitlicr THS Dukes of the Salt Lake urIP V high school nor Prof John H Evans bOd11 of the Latterday Saints college both I ot of whom were to have discussed Prof est t Drlggss paper was present and so or I l the question was opened for general Li1S511j dISCUSSIOn Thin was quite spirited l Ol andjvas cue of the interesting features et lIt it i of the morning session The opinions t SY S exrjVenscd were widely I at variance andO V and-O r V eeVcral excellent suggestions as to the V practical training sUlleslonN In the I V acquiring of English were advanced by lilt those vlio tool part These Included LakIG4tl V Prof N L Nclaon 9C Provo 1 Prof W VV V 1 Slewart Prof George M Marshall Prof W M Glllllan and Prof J H Paul of Sale Lake Prof Howard It Wrlggs of Pltasunt Grove and Mlsa VAl V-Al Ice Jieynolrls of Provo Before adjournment President Van Colt announced that the meeting this evening at the Assembly hall will convene con-vene at 7in oclock In order that the teachers may be permitted 1 to attend Mr Brlshams lecture on the Grand CunyoM of Arizona to be given at the Salt Lake Theater at SI50 oclock AFTERNOON WORK Mrs LllJIam H Cannon of the B Y academy at Provo waa the leader of the ineotlng held In tho afternoon to con1 i fildor matters pertaining to the primary department The Training of the Motor Mo-tor Activity of Children and What Constitutes Profitable Scat Employment V Employ-ment V were the topics for discussion Mrs Cannon Prof Willluin M L Stewart ot > the University Mrs TOlllott of Salt Lake and Miss May of the University kindergarten department as well as a I number of other teachers made re marks on the subject Mrs Cannon had copies of all Millets pictures and employed thorn in discussing the best I use to which pictures could he put InV in-V the schoolroom showing what Impressions V Impres-sions a child would be most likely to gather from looking at one of the pictures I pic-tures shown FAVOR ATHLETIC SPORTS t PrJnclpnl George A Eaton of the Salt Lake high school led the secondary department V de-partment meeting The subjects discussed dis-cussed were the Use and Abuse of Athletics and Should the High School Commenremont be Abollshcd 7 Mr Eaton opened the former by saying athletics gave wholesome exercise especially es-pecially in the absence of a gymnasium engendered a school spirit furnished a medium of advertisement and a common com-mon plane of Interest Prof Byron Cummings of the University thought athletics gave opportunity to work off superfluous energy and natural animal ani-mal combativeness and should be roe ognlzcd as an educational means Remarks Re-marks along th < i same line were also made by G II Brlmhall of Provo Superintendent Su-perintendent F H Cooper of the Salt Lake schools L M GJJlllan of the high school President J T Kingshury of the University Dr W 0 Krohn of L L nicago > MISS Jessie I uoauaru lUlU JL > r J F Bugle of the Agricultural college Prof Cummings I then Introduced the following resolution which was unanimously unani-mously adopted Resolved That it be the sentiment of this department that a representative representa-tive of each secondary and higher institution in-stitution in the State be invited to me tat t-at the State University In conference to settle upon some general plan for the I encouragement and regulation of athletic ath-letic l sports I DIVIDED ON COMMENCEMENTS Mr Eaton then Introduced the question I ques-tion of high school commencements saying that as a rule they ought to be 1 abandoned A E Wilson principal of the Ogden high school took the opposite oppo-site side of the question Miss Moftat of the Ogden high school said a pupil could not prepare a sufficiently good paper alone to present at a commencement commence-ment and she did not believe in teaching teach-ing a pupil the evils of plagiarism for four years and then helping them to commit that very crime Remarks on the matter were also made by Prof I Tloylance of the University Mr G1I111 I lan Prof Englc Superintendent J L I Brown of Utah county who thought reformation and not abolition was In order Prof G M Marshall Oscar Van Cott and others No formal action was taken In the matterPAPER PAPER BY MISS SMITH The grammar department was conducted con-ducted by Mrs J M Bishop of Ogden Alms and Methods of History Teaching Teach-ing and To What Extent Is the Speer Idea of Arithmetic Applicable to Grammar Gram-mar Schools being considered The discussion on the first matter WitS opened by a tenminute paper given by Miss Smith of Ogden and a debate on whether textbooks uhould be used followed fol-lowed Prof Engle of Logan favored their use while Prof Roylance opposed Ill I Miss Qualtrough of Salt Lake and Mrs Bishop also took prominent parts In V tho discussion The discussion of Speer was opened by Principal Wallace of the Union school of Salt Jaltc Others Oth-ers who spoke on t he nubject were DIf D-If Adams of Ogden Prof Stewart Prof Martin of the high school Principal Prin-cipal Halh tlc and Mrs T W Bliss of the Union school The kindergarten department meeting meet-ing was omitted owing to the absence of Mrs Ida Smoot Duscnberry who I was to have Jed the discussion |