, 1874-08-06
He Advocates System Of Ma
tional Universities.
Reply TO the Objections Of President Eliot,
Of Harvard, and DR.. McCost,
of Princeton.
Second Annual Session Of the Gorman-
American National Teachers
Association.
Oberlin Collcge Graduates TwentJ-Seyen
Alumni..-C0mmenccnlent Ex-
ercises.

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NATIONAL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
THE sEcoSn DAYS sEss1oS.
n,.nras's ,t;a 'se'. ~ 3"r t".va9' ,.n t''o1"e'
"''a.' aug. u.@Ioe IT, aecono oays
sossfoh OF the National Teaclors' Association
callcd out Nh attendance TINT comfortably filled
tho main floor of TIM 0pern tIonaa Affair
nravcr hv TIM INV nr rdsy H. fo,,o,.,,. .su. Nv,
tlemen woro appointed q Committee oo Eo1nina-
linn, for Tho Nn-rrar ,oot;or. prota 49, 1".a.as 1,s
" s,. ~. s',o A'o''''N, .sss''A aAoan' oo*nnott
M'aaoarl tn'nani, Mlcn'ean ounton, Ma''a~
'parr.,Iro,,. '~9"Ao'
Fennsylvapl"' ",
narts Of n nancr rrtton ,v proaaant pc.tor r'@ ~
Ya1o, CONCERNING schools ~ preparstorT TS'' to
colleges. uo said that it WAS an unauebtiouablo
faot Tint t1,aro roz m ahnn1anc. ~ nood 10y
1ogos, but great lack OF good preparatory
echonls- A s},atch of fba ,row,b -, u,rvor,
wau elvon, and also a history Of aomo Of thu
best acadenlioB in Now England, which seek ia
ut students Tor eo'lesea. Some Of these schools
are excellent. but tho preparatory schools or tho
'country are, as rule yp,y defective In tic
r,tu ,n1yrnra -. ~ ~, ~ ~ ~ ~, ,.,..
u7,o ,aiaoos ia oohradEa a.a EahaIs To- nAnE
, -uo eo,4p6an aio, Pcin noH4o"Ah1 W u!atHs
tor th1s but sho fhttlt OF tho preparatory schools
is groator. The latter, also. are oIton not thor
Hpecia! bra,cAeH to the neglect or tic rcui1iro
nlopts Of q broad culture. prouidont Porter also
coaam.ea co.,, .1 tia taspos!t!o.n to crowd young p'>
F' WV 1pEt ~ ,tGnH
tNE5lDENI H. WHITES Address.
road tue following papcr upon ''publio Pro-
vision Tor University Educati0n:"
.nor III u|ss, AID o;n, Tn s,;n ffAres
eminent for filth Ia puDito EDUCATION nnl sn"roy n
ps9oyfs9ms y 1Ssd f0FM: n,mo FRET ~, .u., a,.,on
s of Srcnt canmitrs mil ri.is an 1nn. vaar. ~ ~ ~
hard work, mid ultler administrator oconomIca to
century las been tho u,raon Of ts wos1 IL for rn a
inellectial trtumphs a,,d wel in hs bait ten ye,rs
has aroused tic worias wonder by its noc.i n az
Next. , inu1ua the unttoa statc. xsrc in st.s. or
abote a sne eHnyts ~ isaaoea gn ~ H. n usSn ~ @
| Hei.atc-hotlae and In tuu prcss ~~'N' -'@ 'A~
.,6. hs SsS " nsoa: bare adopted H.
1a,io ab,naut provision for primary and secoudarY
cdaeation II p,oc schools, aad 5oti have found il
With hava psee en Il tbo M rs sna
but In liz oticr hat of the xystcr In nrov,aon ,o
advanced Education, in he, scicntac md iniuss @
coraes IiroctIy opose anI s ont, nnfG onnos
| results. 'pl0'''' "AA "-''' o4s'''ts oppoa"s
Gnany aas ssFred oat @ Sr fanamsnt nd tpnept
nS Of a a6od royo for iha enon tnia .ao ~ Pr H.
lattou, 1t hss stopped ut no insBluary uu; It has
provided for tho education Of the wlola peono: {oI
thu yonng in primary and secondary schools: for
those more advanced III technical schoo1a and unvar.
TIM rcsult Ia now hcfore the world. ThouRh roma
81 tho Gesn"u universities arc on very Old founia-
aud arc ii reality new tho Urcatcst Of iii tha itnt.
vursty Of Berlin youngvr than The great ii
There stan tlosS uuyersitiss oaci cautrn of igbt
aud strength to Germany aid to Tho world far nSys
any other In oxlstonce foremost in tho umbur Of
tiir professors OF their stueuts in tia oxtent md
perfection of tAes ottuipneus tu their whoio fo and
YIgor 6tutleut1 ock to them from Mi p.rta Of liz
earth At Tho University Of Berlin ,n,y n II L. horn
aH 1t WAX amid terrblu calam1t1es upnntafned .yho
| pruYsa Tpy dsmcmbored BY Nanoeon or Jesuerateiv
struggling agailst hin, 100 professors and a,66o