Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-12
The Teachers' Association.

Addresses Of Professors MONTY and
 a NOrthr0p-Electtom of Officers.
 The, regular monthly meeting of the New Haven Teachers Association was held in the High School building on Saturday afternoon. Mr.. J. D. Whitmore introduced Professor James A. Mowry, of Providence, who deliv- cred lecture on the Louisiana Purchase" He said the thirtieth day of April, 1903, was the supremest moment of American history. On that day was signed in Paris the treaty which ceded that large portion of our country known then as the Province of Louisiana, extending from Canada on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, the Rocky Mountains on the west to the Mississippi on the east. The sale of the same by the French was made neces- sitous owing to the trouble then arising be- tween that Government and England. War was imminent money must be raised. Ma poleon after holding council with his minis ters decided that they must cede Louisiana to the United States. The speaker referred in brief to the French and English war up to the declaration of peace in 17S3. The advanta- geous terms of the treaty to the United States was owing to the sagacity and statesmanship of Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, and was signed before the Government of France was aware of it's contents. President Jefferson signed the treaty, called Congress together, and 1t was ratified, putting this large and val uable tract of land where it belonged. The future of this country from that day was as through, little realized how valuable the tract would be to us, for President Jefferson then said: srNow we can have civilization this sids of the Mississippi while the Indians can live on the other" The speaker referred to the history generally up to and including the annexation of Texas and Oregon. At the close of the lecture @ unanimous vote Of thanks was extended to the professor.
 Professor B. G. Northrop followed with an interesting address on "The concentration Of the memory The principal points advanced were that memories differ; those of children ten or twelve years of age and younger are circumstantial. Older minds can grasp com- prehensive and philosophical truths. Concen- tration and will are the only things that diff ferentiate men. Teachers need have no fear of ipjuring their scholars by urging this. There is much talk about the murder of the innocents'' in the school room, but late hours and improper hygiene arc to blame. Napo- Icons power of concentration was mentioned together with the fact that it was what man could do, not how many books he had read, which was essential. The following officers were chosen for the ensuing six months:
 President-Mark Pitman, principal oi Woolsey school.
 Vice president-Joseph A. Graves, prlnc! | pal of Skinner school.
 | Secretary-Mrs. Breep, of the Cedar Street Training school.
 | Treasurer-Miss Hallie Judson, of the l Dwight school.
 President Pitman announced the complete | executive committee and the following sub l jects for the next meeting: paper on Re
 form in Spelling" by Principal Graves, ane
 one by Mrs. Cady on ''The Kindergarten, | with illustrations.
 l Webster Merrifield of the class of 1877 bai
 been appointed Freshman tutor of Greek a | Yale.
 The father-in-law of Engineer Sanger o
 steamer ?, an aged gentleman named Cum l ings, died Saturday of apoplexy. l John Talmadgs hes purchased the DemiuE | place, and Jerome Shelly 6 Sons the Ward
 farm, of MT. Gardner Morse, all in Durham
 Moses Bulley, who will be buried to-day
 was brother of I. T. Bulley, the grocer o, Congress avenue. The deceased was at on,
 time with Washburn's minstrelsy show.
 Alvan Clarke, of Cambridge, Mass, ii
 making 29 inch refectiug glass for the new
 Yale College telescope. This will be th'
 largest in the country, beating the Washing
 ton glass by three inches.
 Recent orders from the War departmen
 relieve Lieut.. Col. L. l.. Langdon, at New | London, from duty in the East, and he ii
 ordered to report at Washington for assign
 ment to astation in the department of Texas J. ". OBrien, editor of the New Yorl
 Weekly Temperance Union, and MT. Andrew
 Smith secretary of the Connecticut Catholi'
 Temperance Union, were announced to ad
 dress Catholic temperance rally at St
 Johns Hall, Bridgeport, last evening.
 Hon. E. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, N Y., an intimate friend of the late Secretar,
 Seward and Yale graduate many years ago
 also the author of the genealogy of th'
 Leavenworth family of the United States
 was in the city Saturday stopping at the New Haven House. He is related to Waterbur, and New Haven families.