Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-28
Morning Session.

Morning Session.
The State Teachers association met yes
terday morning il the auditorium eff the
High School building. The proceedings
opened at 10 o'clock with prayer by Rev.
DR.. Campbell, pastor of the Park avenue
church, who prayed for divine aid to direct
the deliberations of the assemblage and
implored that the public school system of
education may receive a blessing from
Almighty God.
The address of welcome was then de-
livered by B. F. Kness, principal of the
Minneapolis high school, and president of
the association. Here follows the address
in fully:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Fellow teachers and friends of educa-
tion-In accordance with custom as the
presiding officer of this association, I
welcome yea to Minneapolis. I Welcome
you also as a citizen of no mean city to
enjoy its privilege. In coming to this
hall, you have doubtless observed On every
hand unfinished buildings sad torn up
streets, tokens of the future greatness of
this city by the falls. For, however mar
| velous may have been our progress hither
| to, we have still greater hopes for the fu-
ture, when ws remember that cities grow
most rapidly after they have attained
| their first hundred thousand
population. Considering our youth
and immatarity, you will,
therefore, pardon as if We are not 30 neat
and clean IS cities that have attained full
growth and are, perhaps, at stand, or in
their dscadencs. We promise you better
paved streets and sidewalks, and faer &C.
commodations generally when you come
| again.
As yon have probably heard the lumber
and flour mills have thus far been
DUB CHIEF INTERESTS.
! The former, at this season of the year
ara enchanted by the ice, but the latter are,
in continual operation and we hope ere
the close of the meeting, to give all, 80
disposed, al opportunity of looking
through the largest fsur mill in the
world. and of examining tho modus oper-
andi. But while We have been developingour
natural resources, we have not neglected
the higher interests. The Numerous spires
pointing heavenward, and the sum ptuously
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which our evening services are held, prove
that
WE ARE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.
| The Art Loan association exhibition, now
open for your inspection, festifes to our
aesthetic taste. Within the last six years.
the number of teachers employed in our
public schools has increased from seventy
five to $50 and the number of school
buildings from 10 to &c, IN which over
| 10000 children are daily instructed.
1t is the interest Of these children, and
of all in this commonwealth, that we have
como together; to us has been entrusted
the education of the youth upon whom will
depend the veal and woe of this great
land. We have met to deliberate upon
/ THE WAYS AND MEANS
to improve tbs character and scope of that
education. SIN the multitude of coun-
sellers there is wisdom,' says holy writ.
We desire to profit by each others expert
ence, and this programme is being ar
ranged to call it forth. 1t has been the
aim of the executive committee to
print such topics for discussion
as will be of the most interest and practi-
cal value to all. Whether they have sue
ceeded or not remains for you to decide.
THIS Is THE AGE OF REVERENCE.
| In the homes parental authority il
| questioned and often subverted. In re-
ligion We no longer pin our faith to the
| ipse dixit of the church. In education also
| theories and methods are no longer as-
cepted merely because they sre heavy with
sge, but We demand the reasons for their
existence. Indeed, the apparent novelty
of method in our day is often its great
est recommendation. say apparent,
| for in education We can
| almost exclaim with Solomon 1.-THE thing
| tnat hath been, it is that which shall be,
| and that which is done is that which shall
be done and there is no new thing under
the sun. Is there anything whereof 1t
may be said, see this is new, it hath been
already of old times which was before u.s.
The American common school system
| it Is said was created to save Us from the
! threatening danger of
UNIVERSAL IGNORANCE.
That calamity having been to large
degree averted, at least in the north, the
system must now be modified, to
save IS 1-om universal Incidence.
On account 81 he decay of apprentice
ships we are ed to teach the
TRADES IN THE SCHOOLS.
So many mothers are unfaithful, that we
have kindergartens, sewing schools, schools
of cookery. To stem the tide of intern
perance, immortality and crime, We are
expected to lecture our pupils on manners
and morals, in fact almost to supsrcede
/ the duties of parents as far az they can be
superseded. The advocates of parochiaI
schools are .dissatisfed because we do not
also instruct in thsoIooy
or religion. Science is struggling to free
itself from the bonds under which it has
been held and is even now contestinR i.s
supremacy with the
GREEK AND ROMAN GLASSES
that have so long borne sway. Many new
sciences have sprung into existence and
the boundaries of all greatly enlarged;
while the work is increasing the ten
dency is to decrease of time in which to
do it. The demands of business in the
stirring west are making sad inroa6s into
the ranks of the older pupils. To compress
everything in our schools has
necessitated new machinery which
groans aud creaks fearfully from the load.
and ls IN danger of breaking down en-