Duchesne Record | 1910-07-22 | Page 2 | Educators Close Convention

EDUCATORS CLOSE CONVENTION Women Chosen as President and Speakers Give Expression to Radical Ideas Boston The The forty eighth annual convention of or the National Educational Educational Edu cati mal asso association ended here on Not ot only was was' the con convention revolutionary In its methods of electIng electing elect- elect Ing ng Mrs Ella Flagg Young of Chiago chi chi- chigo Sago ago go president but some of of the speakers at the department me meetings luring the week gave expression to radical ideas President David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university made an denunciation of football as asi i college sport William WiIliam McAndrew principal of the Washington Irving high school New York City vigorously vigor vigor- protested against the present high ligh school curriculum Pleas were made nade by oth other r speakers for th the of more practical courses in and secondary schools and one if f the speakers declared that toe agricultural colleges were so theoretical theo that Lucy luey did not teach the service of the tLe farm larm