Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-17
Friday, October ", 1890.
TEACHERS IN CONVENTION.
State Teachers, Association-Forty- Fourth Annual Meeting opened at uuR-u~ Srv,1nu

State Teachers, Association-Forty-
 Fourth Annual Meeting Opened at
 High School Hall.
 The forty-fourth annual meeting of the State Teachers association opened at high school hall last night with an illustrated lecture by Rector George L. Fox of Hop kins grammar school upon "The Great Public Schools of England" The hall was filled with teachers from all parts of the state. Some excellent stereopticon views of the famous English schools were given under the direction of Morris F. Tyler
 The English public schools are chiefly to fit students for the universities, said he. They are mostly boarding schools, and also church schools. All the great schools are older than King James version of the Bible or have been established during the reign of Victoria. Between these points seems to be a dark period. Clifton college at Bristol and Marlborough college are the only large schools of recent times. Yet, during the brief life of Clifton, there has been more progress than in the whole ished 500 years before. Harrow was founded by John Lyon, yeoman, for poor boys. Now it is the great aristocratic school of England. Thomas Arnold's Rugby, now drawing students from the whole world, was at first local institu- tion of Warwickshire. A feature of the great colleges is their social standard. Some gentlemen are so anxious to get their sons in that they enter them but few hours after birth. Eton has about 1000 students, Clifton . A grave defect of the English schools, in the opinion of Rector Fox, is the marking sys- tenn. Another is the custom of Tagging" which consists in the recognized right of students in the upper six forms to require certain menial duties from the boys in the lower forms. The school of Shrewsbury is the only one which does not contenance this.
 To-day will be busy one with the visit ors. Meetings will begin at 9:30 o'clock. The high school section meets at room 10, high school, in charge of Dwight Holbrook of Clinton. The speakers are Rev. w. w. McLane of College street church, Professor E. L. Richards of Yale, George Eliot of Clinton and Professor Brainerd Kellogg of Brookline. In the afternoon addresses will be made by H. F. Roberts of Norwich, George F. Jewett of Putnam, Professor A. M. Wheeler of Yale and Professor w. H. Brewer of Yale.
 The grammar school grade meets at the Church of the Redeemer in charge of H. D. Simonds of Bridgeport. Addresses will be made in the morning by Mrs. s H. Fahey of West StamforG Eugene Bouton of Bridgeport, Wilfred M Peck of Stratford, Superintendent V. G. Curtis of the New Haven schools, and in the afternoon by Edwin Shepard of Newark, NJ, JIG. Wit C,,l T Ball rl of Jamaica, NY.
 George B. Hurd of this city will have charge of the primary grade at high school hall. In the morning there will be ad- dresses by Miss Elizabeth Allen, Mrs. NJ. L. Breen, Miss Carrie G. Veil and Mrs. B. E. Howes all of this city; c. F. Carroll of New Britain and Miss Jennie Banks of the same town; in the afternoon, byMiss Olive S. Day, Miss M. R. Webster, Miss S. E. Briggs of this city; and MT. L. P. Shotluck of Bridgeport.
 Hon. Charles D. Hine, secretary of the state board of education, will have charge of the general section at United church chapel. Those to speak in the morning are Miss Clara W. Mingins and Charles A. Kunon of New Britain, Miss E. E. Carlisle of Norwich and Professor w. J. Anderson of Brooklyn, N. Y. In the afternoon Su- perintendent s. T. Dutton of the Brook line, Mass, schools, A. B. Morrill, of Will limantic, G. I. Aldrich of Quincy, Mass, T. M Ballet of Springfield and Hon. ED. Robbins of Wethersfield will speak. Sena- tor O. H. Platt will also make an address upon this occasion.
 At the United church this evening music and addresses by Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth and Hon. Thomas B. Stockwell, commis- sioner of the Rhode Island schools, will form the program. There will be 400 teach CTS in town to-day.
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