Show fOR GIRLS IS UK ED J Denver Jul July 5 National education for girls as well as for boys formed the thread of the discussion of Pros dent den L D Harvey of the National Educational association tonight be before before fore the first session of the assod association Mr Harvey Harey said that outside of limited fields of education little had been dono in tills this country countr amid aUlI the demand for manual training is all the snore marc Imperative when vIewed from the thc standpoint of EdwIn G Cooley or of Boston who said the afternoon that the public schools have havo been maintained more as a school of preparation on for the resty denty rather than a course of train trainIng training Ing for the breadwinner The address addre s of welcome was de hy by Governor lohn Jehn J F Shaft roth and amid the response by br Edgar H Marl Mark superintendent of schools ot of K Iy Miss Laura Drake Gill president of the association of collegiate alumni Washington spoke of the service of women to the public schools A preparatory courso to the pm presIdency esl dency Is not the object or of the pub puh lie school system of the UnIted States or rather It should not he be In the opinion Ion of the national loaders leaders of oC the tho council of education who spent tor to In discussion of the questions which must rule the twentieth cen century tury y rile Tho final session preliminary to the sessions of the lile National Edit Edu Educational I session the first of which was held tonight in the auditorIum look place thIs afternoon and twentieth century conditions received much attention Edwin G Cooley former superintendent of the Chicago public schools led ed the discussion of what the thc American bo boy needs In the way of education While It Is the privilege of Amer can born boll ho boy to president of the United States said Mr Cooley Cooler it does not follow that it becomes the business of the public school System ten tem to fit him for fOI that position Some Somo of this bo boy is going to bo be a laborer laborera a mechanIc an something beside president and right now ho he is being educated James A MacLean president ot of the University of Idaho agreed with fir 11 Cooley that In the future boys bos bosI I 1 must be for time position the Macy will he be called upon to lo hold In various social or political groups The question of school administration tion with respect to the scope which should lie be given state school exec executives occupied most of the tho noon session of the council Homer Homar H IL Seerley presIdent of the tho Iowa State Slate Normal school advanced the proposition that unIformity should eX eXIst exist among the states In the thc govern government ment of the schools and that much better progress will be made mado In the future If the of edu education education cation he given wider powers This view was furthered b by Edwin T l Fairchild of f public Instruction of Kansas who sail said I that In the United States there arc rc now teachers managed by officers This state of affairs ho he said could best lIest be regulated hy by the commission plan Illan which ho Is comIng to be tine plan of centralized government One I other othel of Mr FaIrchild proposed the thc appointment of the I state slate superintendent b by the hoard of I t education with the power by byI bytho bythe the tho of removal of time the su ThIs he believed would obviate the tho possibility of an I I incompetent official holding office This view also was accepted b by Na than Luau S Schaeffer slate l superintend jl out ont of Pennsylvania In the mornIng Dr DI Nicholas M president of Colum Columbia la I sty New York made a few fow remarks lauding the work of the IndIans particularly those at al althe atthe the institute nt at lawrence Kansas H P superintend superintendent ent of the school also spoke Late this afternoon the hoard board of directors mot met and time tho mex hers bels of the nominating which on Wednesday will meet to lo tomake make nominations fo for officers of the association The Tho political side of the teachers gathering has been felt but little thus far except that nn altum attempt lit has been beon I Made malle to throw politics out of the tho u I association The leaders can ho I brought about hy by taking tho rho office to tho man instead of malting tho raco a free for all allio io 10 tills this end It ft is proposed to nomInate nom nale Elmer E Brown commIssioner of ef cd education who It Is said Is not nOl nOlan an active candidate Tins far fUl It seems as If M Mr I Drown Brown would receive the nomination It in 13 not d dt t ro will be e any opposition to lo Irwin 51 Shepherd of WInona nona Inn Minn for sec I w t lr t II tl |