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Show 1ST 111 - i Noted Speakers at Teachers' . Conyention Plead-for Indi- . r viduality for Pupils. ; INTERESTING MEETINGS : if HELD DURING AFTERNOON 1 1 Wholesale Charges of Prol'cs- H jj sionalism in School Ath- I letics Arc Made.- I ij r Asoembly Hall, 2 p. no. y H ' ' -I- Music Rlgoletto Quartet.. Verdi H I! 'r Salt Lake Concert Quartet. y Hj jj ! SupL J. H. Acljerman, Oregon- y HI H'i ; - Music "I Love You".....Eobeskl y ' -r Mrc. Bessie Browning. y mk 1 ' ! ' Election of Officers. y Bull i- -r Adjournment. 4 Hm j Tho second day of tbe Utah teach- BB ers convention closed Tuesday nigbfc BH !, in a round of merriment, for at the HB k conclusion of the evening's programme- Wat 1 ; iu the tabernacle, the teachers gath- Mm ; ered at Odeon hall and danced away BH . the late hours of the night to enchant- H9 i ing music by the Odeon orchestra. HH !: Several hundred teacherB crowded into Hj the pretty- hall, and the occasion' was Hflj one not soon to be forgotten by them- HS One of the features of the afternoon In ,, was the wholesale charges of profes HH sionalism in school athletics made by Hn I? j made by Renwick S. McNieco in hi? HH ,i paper on "The' Ethics of High School mm ) Athletics." Tho speaker is connected HH1' with tho locfl high school, but his-re- mml marks were not directed toward ath flS! ; letics as conducted here so much as ai BH . : the schools of the state in general and (R of other states, where he declared, that. HS professionalism is countenanced not WSm I only by the public themselves, but by Hffl ' the teachers as woll. Professionalism, hf HM 1 said, is ono of the very worst things HS . which could enter into" school atheltics. In and he hoped that the day was not far In ' distant when all school principals B9 1 ieachers, school boards and oven the Bit ' students themselves", would frown upon B ' professionalism and insist upon strict B 3 ; f amateur sports, ot elso none. Bra' ' The" evening exercises were held, in B m" the tabernacle and were attended by Hla I upwards of 3500. After prayer, Fred IB' ) C. Graham, sang a-s-eloclion from nCar 9 n men" and then Dr. Thomas introduced B (1 ' i the first speaker of the evening,. Super- B if ' : intendent of the Schools, of Oregon J. 'Bis ' i H. A"ckorman. Tho' speaker chose for- BB his subject: "Functions aud Non-fnuc- BB ; tions of Public Schools." He sub-di- BB ' vided his subject, firft speaking of the B B ' priman functions. One of. these. h BH 1 said, was to produce the finest specimen BmM ' of manhood and womanhood possible HB and to give them power to accomplish fmVm ! results. This was brought about, h? -IB'! ! said, in the early school training of IB 1 the child. "The extent of democratic SB 1 education can stop nowhere short of fln - embracing tho entire people without BB i distinction of race, color, sex, of cr.eed. ' '- BB he declared. One of the foremost thin?? Hi' to do, he said, is to inculcate, in all H If ' classes prudence, thrift, frugality, and 1 1 economy, without holding up the al ' . H I ; mighty dollar a? the supreme end of Bit existence Further than .this he be- . I , J lieved it to be necessary, to meet the J ' demand of tho ccntun that will soon ' HS i i dawn and to At tho .vouth of Ame'ricB . IS for tho practical duties of life, the H fl! 1 same as the conscious aim of society. H i Secondary functions, he declared. Bj I : wero to do tho greatest good . to" the . H I greatest number; that tho school train- HI ; inff should be a positive factor in th- la i culture of tho community: to be dis 1 1 j tiucfly American; to develop manhood HI', rather thau training for citizenship: HI j to the recognition of the fact that. all Ul! i people cannot economically do all thincs , MBii, i well and to look to tho needs of the WML real children, rather than those of the- mW ' imaginary child of the public school ' 8b High Schools. Wm Sjieaking of the functions which BfBJf should not exist, the speaker said that I HB the school room was not the place where BB . children should bo amused. They were Sffl sent to school to learn, and still the. SB ; teacher who could not appreciate a humorous situation, a funny story, or mm ' the childish answer of a child, to his. IB-' way of thinkiug. was not fitted to pre I B Jf side in any school room. The work of IB the school room should not be turned OB' 'into pluy. Tho attempt should uever H be made to replace tho apprenticeship BB' in the trades or to replace the school in B the home kitchen. The school should BB never take the placo of the "church. BBi' Recoutlv. the speaker- said, he heard BB" his pastor make the statement that (B B r morality was not being lauglit in the flBV i public "schools, aud it made his bloori n I t boil. "There was never a year," he , m ! declared. whcn more or belter morals fl fl , I were being taught in the pubbc schools K ft I than have beon during tho .year -of 190$. B Bi' The coming vear will be just as marked 9 in this respect as the present one. I B I tell vou. the public schools are doing B I ! their'duty. and I care not what any man I j avs in contradiction to this statement. IS.) T know from my daily contact with BJ i 'v thoni." Ho also believed that veligiou fl should be taught to an extent in the Bah public schools, but that it should not R take tho place of tho regular studio? B li 1 to the end that their effectiveness, he' ffl fly in anv wnv lessened. Teachers, he "said, K should endeavor to mold public opinion. sftiJD3fc but should never endeavor to go beyond B jjjlj U School and Home. Hwl? One other non-function, bo said. waf 8h? thut the school .should not take the Btwi place of tho homo, or tho hom'o'-(h'o BD place of tho school. Ho spoke of trou- Mfw -r ble experienced with boys, and oven iq jl' with girls, aa to the matter of bebnv- w w ior. Ife stated that when n girl was j( S causing trouble, sho could doublc- dis- If W ? count a boy every day in tho -week. He B tr did nor. propose, he said, to.go to the homes of these unruly children lo have If fa t the trouble straightened out. but in- BlIKt Ptoad tho parents must coino to his of- IB t Ml I ( lice aud lot. tho matter be sotllciMrt;" i M B I " biisinesjllke ninuncr. When te:t(Mie:s t If HI I ' i-o to' tha pupils' homes to have troubl-ons troubl-ons matters rectified, they wero always t: -dated to by tho parents, he said, and t.int was soniettainsr ho would not. stand Dr. He wauled to sea tho homo and the school brought into a closer relationship, rela-tionship, that both miqht become- better acquainted with each other, and there ore be of a tremendous assistance one to the other. , When the church takes a step tor-ward tor-ward the. school should follow, ho declared, de-clared, and when the school advances then tho church and society must. What he wanted was to see the school eo ! ahead constantly and slay there. He . j related the story of tho color-bearer oi a reciniont, who, during the civil war. carried the tlap: well ahead of the troops and established it there. His commanding command-ing officer told him to bring it bach, but the lad replied that it was where, it belonged, and if ho wanted it neamr. 1o bring his troops forward. This action ac-tion of the boy was likened to tho schools thov must go ahead take their stand and 'keep their position, the aim of all teachers, ho said in closing, should bo to "beat thoir own record, to teach each day better than thev did t h3 da' bofore. Mrs. JVJiinor Speaks. Tho "iris' chorus of the local schools Tendere'd two selections under the direction direc-tion of -Professor Wetzell. after which Mrs. Florence Milncr oi tho Detroit university schools, wns introduced for lier final address to the teachers. Sho t-,poke at' considerable 'length on tho .subject of ''School Waste." and stated that something liko 240 years ago tho iirsfc public school was established in Boston and- that- -ev-e-r-since- that time education has never been lost sight of. School Gvstems, she said, were a sort of machine. The pupjd bpgan in the. primary- school, went from there into the grammer. then to tho high school and finally into college. It was nil done with" machine like action. She d?eh?red the system insisted upon by the college? in the training of children in the public schools to- bo a great mistake mis-take It was wrong, she said, to forco and drive children to study just those things which the colleges sa- are necessary neces-sary 'in order that thov may outer that ull.cge -when tho time' arrives. The gTeat majority of colleges insist that an applicant for admission pass a rigid examination before, they can be enrolled en-rolled as students of that rollege, while . a i'ew are willing to accept, students upon their diploma from Iho high or preparatory schools, believing that the teachers in those schools have fitted the Tjrospectivo pupil for the course of tudv the college offers, in accordance with their instrucHons. Some schools, ; -hc said, tried to leach every child everything under the sun. and instead of assisting to develop the mind, hurt it The old method, she said, wns Jo ; instruct tho children as a clast, while Ihr.nejv unit -was to instruct the pupils as individuals. ; I Teachers Artificial. Mr,s. Milncr declared that much of the practice of the kindergarten of today to-day is wrong, because of some of flic teachers who eo into tho work not being be-ing qualified for it. They arc unable, or tit least fail. -to discriminate between the will of the child and the naturo of the child. Too many teachers, hIio said, arc artificial, arc of'lhc Movoy-dovey " A.iriety, and give lit. In the whims and kicks of the "child, to its whining voice, when they, in order to bo successful and properly train the mind of that child,- should be the opposite. "Let all those." the speaker said, "who have dealings with children listen " to the nature of the Child "and not to their whims or complaints." ' Mrs. Milncr declared herself, as opposed op-posed to a col I ego education for individuals. indi-viduals. It was all right for some, but a harm for others. Interest in Studies. .She said that it had been found upon investigation . that the great niajority of children attending the grammar fchool dropped out when they reached the sixth or eighth grades. This she accounted for in several wtys, one being that the children could not be-i-omo interested in their studies. She believed that manual training schools would gather in a large number of lliesc. and commercial high schools would be tho mecca of main'. There should be schools, she said, for children who quit bo earl-, and she was of the opinion that the way was being cleared at. the present time whereby the child Would gladly remain in school rather Lhan drop out. to take up life's battle at such a tender age. All teachers, sho .said, should give tho children a chance fo think; grvo them crodit for original ' thought and should dictate less to them. She pleaded that, tho old-time traditions tradi-tions not be followed, , but that the . teacher? study the children in their charge, adopt, a course which would appeal ap-peal to them all and thus open the way for other teachers in other states to come here and learn the way. The meeting closed with three, musical numbers by tho Orpheus club, after which adjournment was taken to Odcon hall for tho dance, ft-, was anuounced during tho day that J. B. Welch of this city had become be-come a. candidate for prosido'nt. of the Teachers' association. I PRESIDENT SGHUEMAN TALKS TO TEACHERS Th? third .session of tho Teachers' Institute In-stitute was held Tuesday morning in Assembly hall, and was one of the most enjoyable and instructive meetings hold thus far. The feature was the address bv President .la cob G. Schunnau of 1 'ornell university, who spoke upon the -ubject, "Some Educational Changes 5'nd Progress. "' The meeting was opened with a selection se-lection entitled "Violets." which was delightfully Tendered bv Mrs. Wetzell 's ladies' quartette. Following this, tho first, address of the morning was delivered de-livered by Mrs. Florence Milncr of the Detroit university school, who spoke upon the theme of the teacher and her problem of controlling young pupils. In part, Mrs. Milner spoke as follows: In thi various timc-n that J may stand before you. in these meetings, you will find me. constantly laying stress upon tlio personal relations between teacher and pupils, .for,. In my Judgment, no matter what the system of education may be, no, matter what the thorleK, let them 'both ne good or both be ill. In tho right relation, between tho two high contracting .parties rests the flnal success of all education. edu-cation. The greatest wisdom Is shown on the part of the teacher when these relationn are nearest right. Under the present organization of Kf-noolF, there, still remain? tremendoun opportunity to do violence to young people. peo-ple. And yet after all ha been said, the final solution of Hie whole matter, rests, as It does In national diplomacy, upon 'he personality of tho Individual. What Teachers Need. What this Is lies beyond the power of description. From experience all appreciate ap-preciate what It means, all recognize Its force wh"n coming In contact with It. Thft teacher possessed of the right kind of personality must have more than Intellectual In-tellectual attainments, mora than an Interest In-terest in teaching history or some jptber Hiibjeci; must be Intensely human; must keep ever tho spirit of youth, though locks bt gray; must have quick sympathy ' both with Joy and sorrow, and above all l must believe In young people. That does , not mean a blind. maudlin, sentimental faith nothing could. be worse but a faith that sees both sood arid bad, tells Hie truth about It, and is able while being as sovere as need be, U show back of all a genuine human love. That teacher muni bo master of himself, of the situation, situa-tion, of ife Individual; must be patient, alert, quick of Judgment, Just, interested, honest, happy and untiring' In service. Tho demands am heavy, but the reward Is i;reat. One who has been long In the work Is frequently startled at tho wrockngo strewn along the way. The fault lies between be-tween the home and the school. Home and School. Wo cannot escape tho cohvletlon -that the home Is gradually shifting responsibility responsibil-ity onto the schools.-Oiiro" It. naked of us only the Intellectual training, but now it has left In our hands not only the-orlg-Inal lines of the three- Its and kindred subjects, but It expects- ub to direct the outside reading, to crcato a love for literature liter-ature which once developed naturally under un-der tho Influence of. the home and the books that found their way there. Jt expects ex-pects uk to take the responsibility of the physical training of tho child, not only Ui rough athletics, but we are aupposcd to discover tho physical defects which parents overlook, to know about eyesight nnd hearing of the children. Wo aro to rover tho entire range of human knowledge, knowl-edge, look after tho morals and In many cases liirnieh all the apiritual uplift which should conic, a part of It nt lca;t, from the home. Wc are to teach them the uso of plan", .saw, hammer, needle, broom and mixing bowl. In other words, wo aro to give thorn not only "clean hands and a pure heart," but educated clean hands and scientifically scientific-ally trained pure hearts. President Schurmau Talks. A well-rendered violin solo by Morris j Andrews followed Mrs. Milner 's address, after which President Schnrman was introduced to a Utah andienco for tho third time. Tn opening his address, the noted educator sain that modern American universities, in their haste to break away from tho narrow and restricted re-stricted education of their forefathers, have seriously overlooked soma of the fundamental aims of education, lie further fur-ther declared that all that has been accomplished by modern education in tho production of liberally cultured men, was accomplished in "Greece for qencrations. nnd that from the Greek system grow up achievement in poetry, in tho line arts, and in a cultured manner man-ner of life. that, has not been excelled by airy modern attainment. 'Continuing, Dr. . ftchurman said: "Apart from the biological science, everything to which we attach importance impor-tance in our school curriculum was practiced prac-ticed by the Greeks, and today our aim in education is still to produce liberally cultured men such as walked through the streets of Athens 2o00 ;-cars ago. I think that today one of the" things we neglect is proper training of tho memory. mem-ory. In the olden days, the Greek boy was taught to commit to momori sections of good poems, especially those of Homer. Today, this is not. required of our boys and -girls. It is true that, this" did not develop reasoning powers, but it did develop tho memory. Old Greek System. ' "In the Greek educational system) there was no placo for merely Useful subjects. Athens had a small population popula-tion of free men and a large population of slaves, and these slaves did all the manual labor, whivh wc today honor with a. place in our course of study.' Slavery" is gone. Then the'ro was serfdom, serf-dom, rind that has gone. Now the aim of modern democracy is to give every citizen an equal chance to develop tho best possibilities that arc in him. Our aim is to give back to society from our schools men and women fitted for the highest efficiency of sorvice in any line they may choose to follow. This, it might bo said, is the glory of American institutions. "The problem before us differs from that of the people of a generation ago. "First there was a general classical course, inherited from the middle ages. It had a place for Latin, Greek, mathematics, mathe-matics, natural philosophy, logic, nnd ethics, and it produced some of the older men in this audience. "The perpetuation of this conrso became be-came impossible in American universities, universi-ties, because there was an influx of new subjects demanding attention, such na the modern sciences, the living languages, lan-guages, French, German and English. And there- were also the utilitarian subjects, sub-jects, and subjects which I, for one. highly esteem histor-, economics and politics. The consequenco has been that these new subjects arc now co-ordinated withthc old in importance, and that our universities in tendency aro becoming be-coming intensely democratic. What Is Now Demanded. "We now demand that, attention he given to agriculture, domestic science, lo technical courses not merely designed to produce an engineer, for instance, but a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, en-gineer, a power station engineer, a mining min-ing engineer. J have becomo convinced that, for a docado wc have gone loo far in this direction, and you younger Cornelt graduates will find that sifico you left tho campus wo have lopped off Borne of our technical post-graduate- courses. Wc need fundamental culture for every specialist. Thereforo, wg have decided that a man is better educated edu-cated for. a technical position through having secured a broad underlying culture, cul-ture, than because of any technical training carried to an extreme. We want our engineers to go to the school of the arts Jor two years, and then wc will begin to shape them for specialties, special-ties, and will do this on broad, not on restricted, lines. "Tho Association of Amorican "Universities, "Uni-versities, composed of eighteen of the strongest universities t in America, agrees with my viewpoint on this mutter, mut-ter, and now all are working toward this end of less specialization and more general culture.' ' ' Chautauqua Salute Givon. Dr. George Thomas, at the conclusion of President Schnrman 's address, thanked him for his attendance at t.h,e convention, and for the splendid and able addresses he had delivered. As the head of Cornell loft the hall .he was given the Chautauqua salute, and departed amid the cheers and applause of an audience which again completely taxed the capacity of the hall. Tho programme was closed with another an-other selection by Mrs. Wetzell 's ladies' quartette. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon a long scries of meetings wore held on departmental depart-mental subjects in different rooms in the high school building. The one at which kindergarten subjects were discussed dis-cussed was held with Miss Rose Jones, the president, presiding. Three addresses ad-dresses were delivered. The topic, "Brief ovicw of Kindergarten Work," was handled by Miss Fllis Day of Fphraim. while Miss Mary B. Fox of this city gave a highly interesting interest-ing and instructive talk on the "l?cla-ton "l?cla-ton of tho Kindergarten to the Primary School." Miss Fox showed in her address ad-dress a thorough knowledge of tho subject, sub-ject, and her paper was greeted with hearty applause. Mrs. Ida Smoot. Dusenberry of Provo spoko upon the "Stale Kindergarten Law." " Desirabilit- of High School Supervision Super-vision by the State University," was the "subject of Prof. J. 0. Cross, principal princi-pal of the -Ogdeu high- school. kat tho meeting which considered college and high school questions. The discussion discus-sion of this subject 'was lod bv Prof. F. W. .Reynolds of the University of' Utah, and developed somo interesting matters of import to the subject. "The Ethics of High School Athletics" was excellently handled by Ronwick S. Mc-Nieco Mc-Nieco of the local high school, and the discussion on this topic was -led' by W. W. "Ray of this city. The "subject of "Arts" was discussed in another part of the building, where a lecture on "Works of the Old Masters" was given by Donald Beauregard Beaure-gard of this city. It was fully illustrated. illus-trated. A paper on "Present Condition Condi-tion of Art in the Public Schools and How to Improve It," was read bv A. B. Wright of the B. Y. C. J. L. Fairbanks Fair-banks of this city and V. S. Stephens of tho state normal school bundled the discussion, of tho topic which followed. MuBifc la Considered. Ia the gymnasium assembly a meeting meet-ing was held at the same hour, whore the subject for consideration was "Music." The meeting was opened with a song by the pupils of the Granite school district, and this was followod by 2sr. K. Nielsen, who spoko on. "How Can More Effective. Relations Rela-tions be Established Between tho Touchers of Music in the Public Schools and the Teaching of Music in tho 'Studio?" The discussion of this important im-portant topic was led bv Messrs. Dono, Payson and E. Kimball. Mark Robinson Robin-son spoke at length on "How to Securo Sentiment and Feeling in Children's Singing," after which Lottie Owon led tho discussion. Another musical selection se-lection followed, after which Prof W. A. Wetzell delivered a highly entertaining entertain-ing and interesting address on. "Lecture "Lec-ture and Class Demonstration." At another meeting science and nature na-ture study was ably considered, and the following were the subjects and speakers: "Shall Science Teaching In Preparatory Prepara-tory Schools Aim to Impart Information Infor-mation or to Give Training- In Observation Ob-servation and Deduction?" ..Dr. W. C. Ebaugh, University of Utah Out-of-Door Work In Eclcnco Training Train-ing la) Subject Matter, (b) .Method: Field Excursion versus ver-sus Method A. O. Garrett, .Salt Lake. High School "High School Physics and Us Relation Rela-tion to tho work of a College Course." , Div L. W. I-Iarlmnn. University of Utah "Agriculture In the Public Schools; Aim and Method". Dr. J, A. Wldtsoe. President A. C. U. Biological Teaching In High fc'choola (a) Subject Matter. (b) Method Supt. It, S. Baker, Kureka "An "Bfflcient Method of Teaching Physiology In Secondary Schools" Dr. John Sundwall, University of Utah "A Rational Method in Naturo Study for the Grades" . ..Prof. J. II. Pauls University of Utah "Iel((tIon of Bacteriology to DomeBlle "Science" Dr. K. V. Chamberlain, B. V. U., Provo "What the University Expects from Science Training in Accredited High Schools" . . ...Dr. J. F. Merrill, University of Utah Elocution" and physical 'education was considered at another meeting, where J. T. Kingsbury, president, of the University Uni-versity of Utah, spoko on "Physical Education and Its Relation to the University." Uni-versity." Fred Bennion of B. Y. U. spoke on "Education and Athletics in Secondniy Schools," Professor N. Alvin Pederson of U. A. C. spoke on "Elocution and Public Speaking as Seen by an English Teacher" and Miss Elsie Ward of the local high school on "Elocution and Reading in Grades and High Schools." Officers Elected. At the conclusion of the meetings officers of-ficers for the ensuing year wero elected as follows in tho different sections: Kindergarten Ida Smoot Duscn- I ll.HI ' ', -Ll1UHi berry, Provo, president: Carolino Scoles, Logan, secretary. College and High School .T. 0. Cross, Ogden, president; E. Jorgensen, Jordan High school, secretary. Art. A. B. Wright, Logan, president; B. W. Ashton, Salt Lake, secretary. Music M. E. Chrlstophorson. Salt Lake, president; J. C. Schmidt, Sandy, secretary. Science and Nature Study C. C. Spooner, Salt Lake, president; Clarence Stuart, Nephi, secretary. Elocntion and Physical Education N. Alvm Pederson, Logan, president; Miss Anna Ncbckcr, Salt Lake, secretary. secre-tary. Primary Grace E. Frost, Salt Lake, president; Francis Woods, Lewiston, I Cache county, secrotary. Today officers will be elected in tho other branches. Primary School Matters. At 3:30 in gymnasium assembly primary pri-mary school matters wore considered. There was music by tho Lafayette school orchestra, a snort business session, ses-sion, music by tho Eisteddfod prize, chorus and an address by Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Milner of Detroit. Tho meeting closed with tho singing of the "Star Spangled Banner." Departmental meetings will.be held today at .0:30 in the high school building, build-ing, when tho following suhjects will be discussed: "Grammar," "Superintendents" "Super-intendents" and "Crafts." At room 50 of the Union building at tho same hour "Business Schools-' will be considered, con-sidered, whilo the "School of Commerce" Com-merce" will ha-ve a meeting at room 15 of tho same building at the same hour. This meeting will bo addressed hy C. ,7. McNitt, auditor of tho Oregon. Snort Line, who will speak upon the subject; of "What; tho Business Man Expects from tho Commercial Schools." The public is cordially invited to attend at-tend this meeting. At the same hour in tho high school building tho subject of tho "School Board" and the "Juvenile "Juve-nile Court" will also bo considered. In the afternoon at. 2 o'clock in Assembly As-sembly hall will occur the annual clec--tioh of ollicers and the programmo noted at the beginning. |