Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-09
TEAcHERs az pAY RrpeE.
Opening OF the Annual Meeting Of the
State Teachers Association.

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State Teachers Association.
The annual meeting OF the State Teach
ers' Association Of Maryland began yes
terday Of Bay Ridge, and win continue
till tomorrow evening. About one hun
dred and ffty teachers from ell The coun-
tea In the State were present. and many
will remain az the hotel for the remain
Ing days. Among those who were at
tending the sessions are Prof H. A. Wise,
superintendent of the public schools;
Prof. vi. A. Newell, Thos. Fell. Ph. d.,
LII. D., Prof. S. j Fort, II. D.. superin-
tendent OF Fort Hill Institute. Ellicost
City; Rev j. w Reese A. M., Pm. d.. OF
the Western Maryland College Among
those present from this city were Mrs.
Dorsey. principal of the Girls Public
School, Miss Redmond. Miss Pindell,
Mis- Rlardon, Miss Brady. Miss Carter,
Miss Medley and Miss Baldwin.
The meeting opened at half after ten.
with about one hupd ed teachers present.
Pr sident w. III Dashieli. of Princes Anne,
was 10 the chair Mr.. ]. q. BaDnon.
school examiner OF Anne Arundel county.
who was to deliver the address Of wei
come, was absent, owing TO the recent
death of his father. His address. which
was most hearty one, was read By Dir.
j. A. Diffenbaugh. school examiner OF
Carroll county. Prof. M. A. Newell made
happpy response. In his reply, Prof.
Newell spoke OF the growth OF the public
schools ever since he has been connected
with IT, He spoke of how much the state
expended on the schools when he first
was connected with them. aud that APP
preparation had increased till IL was now
q very large sum. This showed how i'm
portant the state considered the schools.
President Dashiell then delivered bis
inaugural address. He spoke off-hand
He told how often he had been TO these
meetings This was the sixth, and be
urged all to attend them, as they were I'm
portant and help TO ell teachers. The
president then spoke of the excellent pro-
gram that had been prepared for this
| meeting. Mr.. Dashiell then talked about
the tendency that exists everywhere to
adopt new things and new methods Of
teaching, and urged that before these no
velties were tried, the teachers should de-
termine several things frat, OF what
character are the methodist second. are
they goodi and. third. are they adaptable
to the average SCHOOL, These methods
should be read carefully and studied care
fully, and each teacher should test bis
own ability to put In operation these meth
DDS.
The principal event OF the day was q
paper by Prof. ii. A. Wise. on "Elemen-
tary Science Teaching In the Public
Schools" The paper was an excellent.
thoughtful and well prepared one, and
was listened to with great deal OF inter
est, though II was quite lengthy. The
program for the day was not finished
when the meeting adjourned. but 1t was
taken up and finished this morning.
The exercises were opened this morn
Ing with paper on the Study Of English
in our Public Schools by Prof Thomas
@Fell. of 81. Johns College. followed
by q paper on the Seven Gifts OF
Froebel . by Prof. j. Fort. NJ. M, su-
perinsendent of Fort Hill Institute, ELL
colt City. Tbs paper on Manual Fear
| ing In the Public Schools" by Prof. j.
ID. Ford. was postponed on account Of the
absence of the speaker. At the evening
session, the paper on The Small Atten-
dance In our Public Schools-Whose tho
Fault" was read by F. NJ. Perry of New
burg. and discussed by the members"