New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-05
4 CONVENTION OF TEACHERS.
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS COMING
MEETING.

arble the Superintendent OF the public schools Of this
city, Is the president this year of the National Educa
tional Association which will hold Its annual meet
ing in Nashville. Tenn. July 10, II, is, and 10
Like all of these summer meetings. this gathering OF
teachers of the country win have distinct Objects
pleasure and profit Careful attention has been paid to
both features of the plan, and each teacher can oD
tain both at reduced All through the Western
States the railroads have followed their practice
of years, and have given half rates to all men,
bers Of the association 1t is Mr.. Marbles expec'@
ton that 5000 teachers from the Northern States Will
attend the meeting, and many from the South
Letters have been received by him from Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and other places,
indicating good representation from every state In
the South with the exception of Arkansas.
Tho pleasure In the programme is to be found In
the going and returning by different routes, and In
the excursions from Nashville a centre. For the
New England States one of the routes may be made
BY water to Norfolk and thence by rail- with the return
BY land by way of New-York City or the method
may be reversed. Natural scenery and other atraQ
tons are offered to the schoolworn teachers as freely
as possible and every effort will be made TO enable
them 10 return to their work abundantly refreshed
by their long outing. The Luray Cavern, the Nam
moth Cave, tho Shenandoah Valley the Natural Bridge
in Virginia, Old Point Comfort, Richmond. the battle
field Of Antietam, Hagerstown, the Land OF the
sky in Western North Carolina, the White sulphur
Springs and other sights and places arc to be
In some Of the itineraries. Then the Nsioh Iu
the vicinity of Nashville is full of historic associations
and Lookout Mountain Chattanooga, knoxvhle ana
many other and fields of the Civil War VIII De
visited by special excursions 10 be made up at Nash
vile. Nashville itself is the educational centre OF
the South. for its Institutions of learning Include FISK
University, Vanderbilt University, Peabody Normal
College, Nashville College for young ladies, Roger
Williams University, Central Tennessee Cohese
Montgomery Bell Academy and several other msn'u
tons for young women and for boys.
Nashville people have beer extremely coftiai
In their welcome to the association The CITY "aS
Slected Professionally at the meeting OF the ASSOCIATION
in San Francisco last July, and when MI Marble "e'
10 Nashville last November lie was met at Cincinnati
by a committee sent for that purpose. In nashville
he received most cordial greeting nom the citizens and
nom educational men from Alabama and Mississippi
who attended the public meeting for the purpose "l
putting the matter before the people hauahOosa,
Memphis and other cities were also represented All
of these Southern people enthusiastic about the
meeting, and there was no hesitation Ill maMhe Vno
final decision TO hold It there
1t has been feared that trouble would arise from the
prejudice regarding colorcd people, The Northern men
have stated their position TO the Nashville managers
of the meeting especially in behalf OF such coioreo
teachers as may 60 from the North who accustomed
to Northern treatment, and it IS understood that
special care will be taken have everything pass of
smoothly One of the local committees Is On Colored
People" and the whole responsibility for anicaDlc ar
ranQements has been put upon them. Without doubt,
many colored teachers from the South Will attend ana
the number has been estimated as high as 1000
Several ideas will be made prominent at this com
g meeting and it is hoped that permanent good will
come from the things said and done. In the first
place. will be the patriotic idea 1t is hoped that the
meeting will increase the frendness of the North ana
South, and that the patriotism of each section VIII DO
reinforced by that of the other In order that the
Impression fom this feature may be the lasting,
I'm wi "
evening" July 10, the very last meeting of the as
ISOLATION Colonel A. 5. Coyar, Nashville journalist
will speak on Education and the Republic" X W.
Webb, of Belbucke, Tenn will address the associa-
ton on The Teaching of Patriotism in the Public
Schools and Everywhere" and General H. b. Caring
ton OF Hyde Park Mass will take mp the subject OF
History a Patriotic Force in SCHOOL,
Another subject which will be made prominent VIII
be tho growth of the South in education within inc
last twenty-five years. A coored teacher, John IL.
Burrus, of Rodney, Miss, will speak on The hduca-
tdonal Progress Of the Colored People in the South"
George r. Winston of Chapel Hill n. c., will have
q paper on The Higher Education of the Negro' and
the Row. Dr. A. G. Haygood, Of Decatur Ala, who
Is the agent for the distribution Of the John f.
Slater fund in the South, viii speak of what has been
accomplished Nnder his Administrations Messrs-
Burrlis and Winston will speak on Wednesday evening"
July II, and Or. Haygood Thursday evening.
Manual training will be another of the prominent
topics before the assembled educators. 1t Will come
on the evening of Tuesday, July 10, the first day Of
the session, and The subjects and speakers Will DO
as follows The Results in the ST. Louis school,
BY Professor c. NJ woodward, who has had great sue
cess at the head Of that school, d" The Intellectual
Value of Tool Work. by Professor William T. Harris,
of Concord Mass; Its Value Related TO the Active
Pursuits in which Pupils may subsequently Engage"
by s. II. Peabody, Of Campa gn, ILL., Its Eject upon
the Usefulness of the schools" by the Hon. f. h.
White late superintendent of the public schools OF
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be at this Time introduced into Public schoos?' by
Henry A. Wise, of Baltimore, and Aaron Cove. OF
Denver, Col
A fourth leading subject at the meeting will be what
IS called here the parochial school ISSUE though the
real significance of the subject is often yelled by the
nse of the word private" instead of parochal" In
this case the speakers professional educators,
as they are In all the other Bishop keane,
of the new Catholic University at Washington and
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Will speak upon the
question relating denomnational schools, should
Americans educate their children In them?' The
side of the Protestants Will be supported BY Edwin
D. Mead, of Boston, and John jay, OF New-Norl-
whose arguments will be in answer 10 the question,
pHas the Denominationa School Proper Place in
America These speakers will "Wednesday
The session of Thursday forenoon will be taken up
with the Story of education, Professor b. A. Hlnsdae
". IA. Payne. Of Nashville. on It's Value in Educa
tional Leg .laton and Administration and g. ;;
NewHsven, Conn, on 1t Value 10 Teachers AZ
the same session " II. VenaOle OF Cincinnati Will
give brief summary OF the educationa his tory OF the
Ohio Valley and George Rowland. sgpernle ndent OF
schools in Chicago, VIII speak The Recitation
school Literature VIII be the subject for THURSDAY
evening Mss Mary r. BWt, OF Chicago. teacher
h. the Cook County Normal School, has for her theme
= Iiteraure for Children TO the 'front.' ard Miss
Minnie c. Clsrh Kansas City, Will speak on Lter
fure FOR High schools. Professor Edward t. Sheib, OF
Columbia : g viii present the Educ ational value
on the Fable and the Fairy Tale and William n
Nowry. OF Boston Will address The teachers on ." A
National University" Two Of tie solid papers OF
a S. Draper OF Albany. " Y, whom Dir. Marble
eharseterzes a. Of The best schoomen in the
counrry a for his subject The Icga Status Of the
Pubic school, and President g.. Stanley Hall, OF the
new Clark University IN Worcester, VIII speak on
The Relations Detween the state and EdEeauon5