The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-30
C0LLEGIANs AND TEACHERS.
The Leading Associations of State Edu-
Gators Meet in Annual Session.
MANY Papers Of Unusual Interest and lmpor-
lance Presented for Consideration-0ff
GERS Selected for Both Organizations.
THE COLLEGE ASSOCIATION.

THE COLLEGE ASSOCIATION.
A Number of Interesting Papers Read, and
Officers for the Year Elected.
There was a large attendance of the educators
Of the State at the morning session Of the Col
lege Association, in the Denison House parlors.
yesterday. The first paper read was on the sub
ject Of Medicine and Agriculture as Learned
Professions" by DR.. Charles r. Dryer. of the
Fort Wayne College of Medicine. ''The State OF
Indiana," DR.. Dryer said "does not believe in
learned professions. She guarantees to every
man the right to be his own priest lawyer and
physician. Physicians not being officers OF any
department of the government. the State did
not see fit to recognize the existence of medi-
cal profession at all. not even to exclude from it
women, paupers criminals and children. Until
the last session of the Legislature the practice
of medicine was absolutely opon to all. without
limit or restraint Under such circumstances
the business Of doctoring has become
much overdone. Medicine u.s. for the
most part, harmless stuff else would the Ameri-
can people be already threatened with extermi-
nation. The Legislature has at last concluded
that medicine ought to be learned profession.
There is no longer any excuse for the practition-
er's Ignorance, as there are four regular medical
schools in the State and ITO schools in the
United States. Before another generation can
grow up, medicine will become. beyond all ques-
tion, learned profession. Except farming,
there is no occupation which requires 80 wide
range of knowledge as the practice OF
medicine. In farming use can be
1pade of nearly the whole range of scientific
knowledge. Between scientific medicine and
scientific agriculture there is striking analogy.
Every proprietor and manager of a farm needs
technical training. Here is contrast: On the
one hand medical profession, already crowded,
consisting of 100000 practitioners, with ITO
schools and 1000 students; on the other
hand, an agricultural profession consisting of
1000. 900 farmers, not one in a hundred of whom
has received any scientific training whatever,
and in the schools 5000 students, of whom posi-
bly 500 year are graduated
'The Tendencies of Scientific Investigation"
was the subject OF naper read by Prof. ID. A.
knowledge, he said, has made such rapid ad-
aTances within the last century as that of the sci
,ences. 1t is equally true that none has had as
great opposition. It was but yesterday, III the
historical past that the earth was considered
the center of the universe and that all animate
and inanimate nature were created by the hat of
God, just in the manner and place in
which we find them, and especially for
mans happiness. Many arc the discoveries
that seem to have been within the reach of the
ancients, and vet they could not sec them.
Hugh Miller, Calico, Watt, and Sir Isaac New
ton, the speaker said, had learned the first prn
ciples of scientific investigation through the
habit of taking close, analytical observation of
every particle and phenomenon Of nature.
A paper on 1.-THE Methods of Teaching Ian
pEuages" was read by Prof J. B. Garrett of
Hanover College. He favored the method
(which would early introduce the pupil to good
working vocabulary and just enough grammar
ITO enable him to arrange sentences.
A paper that elected much favorable comment
was the one read at the afternoon session by
Prof. Allen B. Philputt, of the University of In
diana, on "Some Methods and Tendencies of
College Education" in which he reviewed the
subject in its very phases in highly entertain
'The Uses of the Language Taught in Teach
ing Foreign Languages" was the subject dis
&C. G.. Won Jagemann of Earlham College. He
advocated the exclusion of English from the
classroom, in the teaching of German and
sFrench especially. so that the student would be
put as nearly as possible in the same condition
las in a foreign country.
The election of officers for the next year re.
suited as follows
President-D. S. Jordan, president of the
State University.
Vice president. B. Garrett of Hanover Col
1ege.
Secretary-Robert B. warder. of Purdue
University.
Treasurer-J P. D. John, of De Paw Uni
eyersity
{ These officers also constitute the executive
committee.
A memorial on the death of c. O. Thompson.
the late president of Rose Polytechnic Institute.
at Terre Haute, was adopted. A report was pre-
sented by the committee on postgraduate
course, stating that owing to the lack of requisite
support and encouragement, they had found it
inexexpedient to attempt to carry out
Ahe proposed plan of work during
the last year, but recommended
the continuance of the committee with view to
accomplishing the purpose of the movement, if
the necessary CO. cooperation on the part of the ed
.ucationa institutions and those interested could
DE secured
r The association adjourned at $3.50 o'clock in
the afternoon, to meet during Christmas week in
1886