St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-21
GOV. RUSKS RECEPTION.
Fourth and Last Day of the Educa-
tiOnal Convention.
The Crowd Diminishing, but the Interest
Unabated.

allotted to the national association for its annual
meeting is surely exceptional in the month of
july. But Providence has smiled broadly and
Denefcently on the association during its entire
session, and Lowells lines must be changed so
as to read:
WI hat is SO rare as week in July
| linen, II ever, come perfect days
| Although many of the teachers have packed
their comb, brush and tooth brush in thin, little
grip sacks, and reluctantly departed from the
''gem city of the northwest yet enough remain
to maintain the interest and to fill the halls and
churches where the closing meetings are being
held.
WoMAN's EVENING.
| Two immense meetings were held last evening
devoted exclusively to womans work in educa-
tion and addressed ~ women only. The assem-
bly, hall was packed to its utmost capacity with d
brilliant and cultured audience to hear Miss
Francis Willard and Mrs. May Wright Sewell
1t was magnificent gathering and did honor to
the occasion of the woman's evening Many
| were turned away unable to gain an entrance or
to get near the door. President Bicknell intro
duced the ladies with few happy remarks con-
corning their interest and aid in educational work
and the fitness of devoting one evening of the
| association to the eminent women who now occu-
pied the platform.
Miss Dora E Doyle, of Rhode Island, acknowl-
edged the courtesy of the president in very
brief address and introduced Miss May Wright,
of Indiana synopsis of whose address is given
below:
| 1. The first visible effect of woman, s entrance
into the profession of teacher, was to ameliorate
the discipline of the school.
| 2. This ameloration of discipline was itself
the result in part of woman's inferior physical
strength, which compelled the teacher to replace
former physical agencies by spiritual
| j. Spirit klndles spirit. By bringing to bear
upon the pupil her own moral nature, the teacher
| discovered the moral powers of childhood.
4. The discovery of these moral powers was
made by almost unconscious means. The dis
covery was followed by their conscious and
| studied development. 1t has been woman g
work in education to thus transform methods of
! discipline and discover the teachers moral rela-
! lions to the child.
| 5. Women have worked out in detail unknown
to the exclusively masculine system Of pedagogics
which preceded their entrance into the field the ap
| plication of general principles. They have done
this practically in their methods of instruction.
Miss Louise Hopkins, of Mass, was the next
speaker and her address related to the part which
woman, as an educator, hold. to education. She
held woman to be the conserving eleme mt of hui
manty, in her are stored up the results of knowl-
| edge and habit. She may not produce in the
realm of science and art so much as man; but she
transmits knowledge into instinct, which is its
| transmissible and unconscious form. Truth in
| her becomes organic, her moral and mental intu-
| itions are surer than mans. He most etfectual
! force, therefore, is an influence on atmosphere
| and her educational province is nurture.
Nm tOra Ind hor tlar diun,p no
whole being ;woman's work therefore is harmony,
to develop unconsciously, to supply an atmos-
phere of culture and sympathy in which the hu-
man being shall grow as the lilies grow, sym
metrically, beautifully, completely. This is a
work for which her certainty of intuition, her
instructive forms of mental and moral activity
peculiarly fit her; it begins with life itself, and
is SO clear and heaven inspired as to be the pat
tern of education, to lead to unconscious and
fertile bloom the young generation of man.
Such work demands complete womanly cul-
ture; it requires the highest development of in
tellectual and moral power.
Miss Francis Willard, the well known temper
| ance advocate, was then introduced and en-
tranced her audience with an eloquent address.
! The large audience room and galleries of the
| Congregational church were also crowded to
| ISUen TO MISS EVA hcllOpS. Ol DOStOD, anu MISS
Clara Conway, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Il Miss Kellogg spoke on ''Needs IN American
| Education
She opened the subject by considering wholly
the character side of educational needs; the
training of individual character, as a representa-
| tive American citizen. AS a nation we are par
ticularly sensitive to criticism from other peoples
The defects of national character were viewed
| II l.
lean pupil in docility, teachableness and rever-
ence, the locomotive speed of American living
and its results upon the character and the ten
/ dency to national conceit.
One cure for the national conceit is found in
teaching the child the exact grounds on which
the American pride should rest, and in crediting
| to every other nation their greatest achieve
ments.
Pupils should be made to feel that it is no de-
| traction from the greatness of America that we
are in our infancy in literature and
the arts that the fame of old masters could no
more be expected from US, than the richness of
age from the immaturty of youth.
Children must be fought that they have some
thing else before them than ofiee-seeking or
Office holding, if America is ever to show to the
world consistent republic that need fear no
| criticism.
The speaker disclaimed any attempt at com
| parison between the shadow and sunny side of
our beloved country. There was no comparison
to be made between them. Americas position
among the nations of the earth is too proud to
have that greatness marred by any national faults
that it IL in the power of her people to correct.
Miss Conway's topic was'The needs of South
ern Women She said that woman needs a full
|
can be given her physically, mentally and spirit
ually. She should be placed beyond the reach
of want or a dishonorabe marriage In the
south the great need of woman is university.
She appealed to the north for help in this direc-
ton. Miss Conway made favorable impression
on her audience and was frequently interrupted by
| applause.
THE GOVERNORS RECEPTION.
The elegant reception given by the governor of
! the state to the National Teachers association,
at his residence last night, was one Of the most
| brilliant and magnificent affairs of the kind ever
! known in the state, If not in the entire north
west. 1t was fitting elimination Of this
! grand educational convocation and a notable eli
max of the courtesy and hospitality which the
governor and the citizens have manifested to-
ward the teachers all through the convention.
| Elaborate and thorough preparations had been
made for the reception, both at the executive
| mansion and throughout the neighborhood The
park and capitol again brilliantly illuminat-
! ed In fact the whole city blaze of light,
through the generous public spirit and hospitable
nature of a large number Of private citizens, and
a beautiful vista of swaying colored lanterns
lined the streets round the park aud those lead
ing to the governors residence,
| the ample lawn OF which was sbril-
liantly illuminated by means of locomotive
headlights and lanterns ingenionsly arranged.
He received his guests in the parlor, assist
ed by Mrs. Rnsk, Misses Ida and Mary Rusk and
General John Eaton, United States commissioner
OF education, of Washington, d. G. The crowd.
! of course WAS immense From O'Clock till