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Show PRES. JENSEN RETURNS FROM 1 EASTERN TRIP Heartily Received by Students Upon Entering Chapel. Attended Sup- eiinlendcnts' Convention Tho faculty and tho students of tho llrlglium Young College wco as delighted as surprised to suo President Presi-dent Jensen homo again nnd a hear ty applause greeted him ns ho walked walk-ed In to l)eotloual at chapel hour, )ostcrdny. President Jenson enmo homo Wednesday ovcnlng after spending three weeks in tho cast, attending tho Superintendent's Department De-partment of tho National Education Association and visiting sorao of tho best Normal and High Schools ot that section. At the Cincinnati Convention top leg of vital Interest to tho wclfaro of tho school s) stem both ot tho Standard Normal typo as tho Urlg-ham Urlg-ham Young College Is, and ot tho secondary typo for such as tho Drlg-ham Drlg-ham Young Collego Is furnishing es pecially iiunlllled teachers. Thoso topics wero discussed by some of the keenest Intellects of thu nation. Among the topics ot especial in tercst and uhlch aro to mean much to tho luture school system, "Tho Reorganization Re-organization of tho Secondary and tho Elementary Schools," waB given great prominence Tho couscubus ot opinion following tho voto put by Commissioner Claxen showed that thd leading educators favor tho six plan and a strenuous effort was made to recommend tho adoption of tho system Six years, elementary system; and six years high school. Other topics discussed wero "Tho Minimum Essential In Subject, Particularly Par-ticularly In tho Elementary School" and "Should Our Educational Sytem Iiiilude Work Whose Special Purpose is Preparation for War?" Tho weight of tho argument nnd tho opinion of tho majority on tho latter topic was with tho negative. Hut tho topic of most Interest to President Jenson ns head ot tho B. Y. C. Standard Normal School was tho discussion of tho Normal work. Particular emphasis was placed on tho content of tho curriculum aud its placo in tho grade system of edu catlou. Tho educators wero agreed that tho chief function of tho schools of Education and tho Normal Schools Is tho preparation ot efficient teachers. teach-ers. Tho gonoral sontlmcnt Is In favor ot holding up tho standard of entrance to tho teaching profession, so that tho public schools may bo manned with oluclent and especially trained teachers. All In all tho convention, con-vention, probably, surpassed In Importance, Im-portance, any convention of like nature yet held. Before returning homo, l'rcsiuom Jenson visited tho Woodword and the Hughes High Schools at Clncln-natl, Clncln-natl, Tho Stivers High School at Dayton whoro he mado a study of tho movement botween "Dayton Public Pub-lic Schools and tho National Cash Register." Dosldes thoso ho visited a numbor of tho Elomontary schools, ot High schools, alBo tho Collego ot Education Educa-tion and tho University ot Chicago; and ho found, as ho told tho U. Y. C. studonts that in grade work, efficiency ef-ficiency and scholarship ot teachers, equipment and grade of Btudents, U. Y. C. compared favorably with any of the Normal or High schools, |