Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-14
PACIFIC COAST.
The Educators Getting Down
to Work.
GREAT INFLUX OF PEDAGOGUEs.
Shortage in the Worlds Sugar
PrOduct-HOw the Market
Is Manipulated.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
SAN Francisco, July 13.-The Nationa
Council of the National Educational AS
sociation met to-day in the Odd Fellows
Building, President j. L. Pickard, O
Iowa City, presiding. Professor Pea
body, of Illinois, Chairman Of the Com
mittee on Higher Education, presented
the committees report on "The Elective
System in Colleges" in which it was
argued that the student is not pre-.
pared to judge of his real condition OF
the specific improvements to be taught
in making choice of studies.
In the discussion which followed the
reading Of the report, President Cove
said that he thought where the student
was advised by other opinions than his
own in making choice, the elective
system could not be considered mis-
chievous.
Prof. Peabody explained that the
Committees idea was that the courses
which had been laid out, but not separate
studies should be elective.
DR.. Harris, of Concord, Massachusetts,
favored the Committees views and said
the student of to-day was often better
enabled to judge the course he should
choose than the parents.
DR.. Hemett, OF Illinois, Prof. Sheldon,
of Boston, and Prof. Schaeffer, Of
Pennsylvania, also joined in the dis
cussion. DR.. Harris provoked an ami
mated debate by asserting that the
report was aimed, though perhaps unin-
tentionally against Harvard College.
Prof. Peabody denied this and said the
elective system was not original with
Harvard but with the University of
Virginia long before.
Prof. Garfield, of Kansas, thought the
whole question was really local issue,
and that it was difficult to lay down
general rule for its decision. The ques-
ton of the students age must also be
considered in connection Herewith.
Prof. Sheldon, of Boston, said it was
the view of one of the committee which
he represented that the question OF the
amount of training required of the stu
dent before granting him a diploma
should be determined, and the report
was referred back to the Committee on
Higher Education for reconsideration
and amendment.
Messrs. Harris and Garfield were ap-
pointed to advise the committee in re.
gard to the sentiments expressed in the
discussion of the reports. Messrs.
Baker, of Colorado; Sheldon, of Massa-
chusetts, and Greenwood, of Missouri,
were appointed Nominating Commit
tee.
INFLUX OF TEACHERS
A party of fifty Massachusetts, and
Ohio visitors and twenty-five teachers
from New Mexico, Tennessee and South
ern points, arrived to-day. Parties from
Arizona, Illinois and Kansas are due to-
morrow. The Kansas delegation will
fill several cars. The registration books
at noon to-day showed that over 800
teachers had registered. Secretary Can
field estimated that over 600 teachers
were in the city.
Among those who arrived to-day are
William G. Hammond, of the Washing
ton University of st. Louis, Mo-. Homer
B. Sprague, formerly President of Mills
College, now located at Grand Forks,
Dakota; Miss Annie L. Blake, teacher of
drawing in the Boston public schools;
W. Hale, of Boston, who is connected
with the New England Academy Of Mu-
sic; Frank E. Morse, of Boston. of the
New England Conservatory of Music and
of the Wellesley School Of Music Pro-
fessor H. G. Bartlett, of Boston, Presi-
dent Of the Art Department Of the Ma
tional Educational Association.