The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-20

teachers.
Mr.. White of Ohio, moved the appointment of
committee of five experts to confer with the
National Bureau on that subject. The committee
was constituted as follows:-Messrs, Henkle,
Wickersham, and Johnson Estate superintend-
ents), Kickoff and Creery (City superintendent,
and Mr. Sears paper was referred to it.
On motion of Superintendent Wickersham,
the following were adopted by unanimous
rising vote:-
Resoloed, That in the death of Hon. Charles r.
Cobun, late Superintendent of Schools in Penn
sylvana, and one of the originators of this
association, the cause of popular education has
lost an earnest advocate, and society useful
and worthy member.
ReSOlUed That the members of this assoca-
tion hereby express their sincere sympathy with
the family of the deceased in the loss they have
sustained, and hereby direct the secretary to
forward to them copy of these resolutions.
Adjourned to 8 A. NJ, Friday.
The American Normal School Association held
special session from to 9 o'clock this morn
ing, which was opened with prayer by Rev. Il. r.
Diossy, of Louisiana. Professor Phelps, of the
Business Committee, reported seres of resolu-
tions, which were adopted, follows:-
ReSOLced That a committee of three be ap-
pointed to report upon the conditions of admis-
sion and course OF training best adapted to the
purposes of the Normal School work; that this
committee prepare and submit series of ques
members of this association on the points re-
ported; and that, hereafter this association will
hold its meetings Mt some convenient central
| point, apart from those of all other bodies; and
| that the said meeting shall be held the week
| previous to the time fixed upon for holding the
/ annual session of the National Teachers Con-
| Vention, and at the same place.
Committee ppointed-Professors Phelps, of
| Minnesota: Hagar, of Massachusetts, and Regal,
| of Ohio. Adjourned to Friday morning.
Teachers Morning Session.
| The National Teachers Association was opened
at 8 A. VI. by prayer by Rev. Joseph Atwood, of
| Trenton
The Committee on Publication reported in
| favor of publishing the proceedings of the con-
| vention in book FORM After discussion, the sub
| ject was referred to the Board of Managers, with
! power to so act if the convention be not respon-
! sible for the cost
Superintendent Kickoff presented the resolu-
tions previously passed by the National Super
| intendents' Association, concerning the National
| Bureau of Education which were unanimously
| adopted.
Mrs. Randall, N. Y. spoke briefly and forci-
| bly, on Natural Reading" advocating that Dame
| Nature be taken as the best schoolmistress.
| Observation imitation, memory, artistic skill,
| and common sense were the essentials of good
| reading.
| Hon. j. d. Philbrick, Superintendent of the
| Public Schools of Boston, spoke upon THE
| School and the Workshop" He claimed that
| the great educational need of this country
Il complete system of technical schools adapted,
as in the Kingdom of Wirtemburg, to each indi-
vidual art or science, and constituting as Il
whole comprehensive. exhaustive university.
Each State should possess at least one such
university, containing separate colleges for
chitecture, agriculture in all its phases, etc.
Truly, that nation which has the best schools is
the first nation; if it is not so to-day it will be
tomorrow.
Professor James McClintock, of Philadelphia,
was complimented with the allowance of ninety
minutes time of the association. His subject
was physiology Part of Common-School
Education" and his remarks were illustrated by
a complete series of anatomical models. The
phases of common diseases were explained, the
! quackery of nostrums denounced, and the hope
expressed that if people must be medicated and
will die they will do it secunduno artem, on
scientific principles.
The convention adjourned on singing the
| "Star-Spanglcd Banner"
Afternoon Session.
Taylors Hall was again filled this afternoon.
| The teachers in attendance on the convention
would alone constitute large audience, as over
| one thousand teachers have already registered
their names The opening exercise was the
singing of an adapted hymn, THE teachers are
| gathering from near and from far"
Professor Woodman, Dartmouth College, n.
| H., spoke upon the topic "Drawing as a Branch
of Elementary Education" The Importance of
the subject, the great deficiency of its know
| ledge among us, and the remedy that is to be
applied were ably treated by the speaker
| Drawing is not a mere fancIful and effeminate
branch, for it is physical embodiment of art.
| And art is a representation activity by which
something internal or spiritual is revealed to
sense The practical training in drawing in the
| elementary schools was illustrated by examples
on the blackboard, and urged as one of the
most necessary requisites for American scholars
Professor f. f. White, editor of the ohio
| Educational MOnttly, read a cultured paper
upon the "Crterion of Education" The eX-
treme partisans of classical and scientific studies
| have repelled each other to the opposite poles
| each believing his own segment of truth to be
! the whole sphere-the full-orbed truth. Both of
these must be developed and made to harmOnize
with each other. The true inquiry is, what is
mans chief aim in the pursuits of life? The
ultimate answer is, the soul is the supreme
human fact, and the perfection of that soul is
mans supreme personal duty. And the two
comprehensive criterions to determine the value
of each school study are-1. What is its value as
a means of mental discipline-of soul culture a?
q What is the value of its knowledge for guild
ance in lifes work
paper by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, of the Ame-
rican Association for the Advancement of
Science, was read by Professor Phelps of Min
nesota. Subject; Popular Science" The study
| of hotany was dWelt upon and urged for its