St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-09

The VlS1tOrS tnaG 1OrGy-Jnre6 years dSO
there was not an English school in all
this country, and concluded:
The appropriations granted to the four
state schools for the training of teachers is
greater in proportion to the number of pupils
enrolled than in any other state in the Union.
The percentage of normal trained
teachers in the common schools OF
our state is greater than in New
York, the same as in Pennsylvania, with
its many normal schools, and exceeded
only in the states of Massachusetts and Cali.
fornia. While we speak with pride OF the
state whom you have honored the second q
time with your presence, we remember that
every state in the Union has contributed OF
its best life its best blood, Its best thought to
the enriching of our social, material and
educational prosperity. and we therefore
welcome you.
Breezy and Smart.
The State Teachers association well
coined their fellow workers from other
states through their president, Prof. l..
G. Lord. The welcome he extended
was an exceedingly hearty one. He
facetiously remarked that he had pre-
pared speech about the Minnesota air,
its wheat fields, granarieS, workshops,
factories and lakes, but the speakers
before him had already used them up,
and he was left stranded with nothing
to welcome them to. Before sitting
down Prof. Lord got in the following
smart. hit:
The heartiest welcome given you here to-
day ought to be seconded by ''all sorts and
conditions of men. But if any members Of
certain learned professions seem inclined to
give you the cold shoulder it is not because
of any lack of respect but because of pos
sible eXaggerstion of the teachers power
and influence. The doctors of medicine
q uc m nj
the ills of children and youth. and have IN
sisted that the child had body as well as
mind. Their talk has begun to tell, and be-
cause we are beginning to be alive to the i'm
ical training these M. DIS fear that If
we do our work as they have insisted
we shall, aches and pains will cease and
the doctors services be dispensed with.
schools shall instill the principles Of mine
and thine, that patience and forbearance
shall be taught and practfced. We are TAX,
ing their advice, and sooner or later good
teaching will do away with mortgage fore
closures, writs of attachment and lawsuits.
The doctors of theology have vigorously and
justly insisted that a boy is neither all head
nor all body, but that he has soul to be
made spotless and pure. to be trained not
only for time, but for eternity. We know
to meet the demands of the clergy,
and when the work of formation is
complete there is no need of ref
ormation, because there is no reformation:
Then the teacher has usurped the place OF
preacher. Therefore il any carping. unkind
criticism upon the deliberations of this great
body is heard from the doctors, lawyers or
clergy, it is because they fear that our work
will be so well done as to remove those
causes which make their callings necessary
or possible.
The manly bearing Of Prof. Lord and
his breezy speech must have given out
siders good impression of the high
standing of the Minnesota State Teach
ers' association, and the teachers of the
state cannot too highly estimate the ex-
cellentqualities of their president. He
is a credit to the local association, and
through it the state at large.
Side Issues.
There had now been nearly an hours
ohthe programme. One was by Rev.
DR.. Strong, president of Carleton col
lege. He represented educational in
terests not properly under state control.
The reverend doctor is tall, patri-
ever he undertakes and profound
sch olar. He remarked that private
schools were not anJagOniStic to any
mental culture afforded by the state,
but they aimed at what was beyond the
province of public education, what the
state could never consistently give-a
moral and religious training, essential
both to complete education and SYM
metrical development of character.
The reverend doctor declared:
We must provide an education which does
not divorce the heart from the head, but rec
ognizes the moral and the spiritual as well
as the Intellectual.
D. D. Merrill came up In the rear of
the welcoming speeches. Recognizing
the fact that there had been already too
much talk on this point, and not wish
ing to 60 over the same ground; know
ing also that there were an almost in
terminable number of 'sthree-minute''
responses to follow, Mr.. Merrill cut his
speech down, informing his hearers that
they would find it sin full in the morn
ing papers," Mr.. Merrilfs speech was
largely historical, and dwelt at length
upon the first school established by
Miss Harriet E. Bishop in 1s47. Miss
Bishop was the first school teacher
north of Iowa and west of Wisconsin.
Mr.. Merrill wound up by presenting the
gavel he had held to President Garfield.
of the Educational association, but be-
fore the latter was called upon to re-
Spond several national airs were pIayed
by the band. The Southern visitors APP
pIauded slightly when the band struck
up sDixie." The interlude was heartily
appreciated; but, Notwithstanding the
avalanche of talk, few people were no
ticed to leave the park. The visitors
were undoubtedly interested in the pro-
ceedingS.
Canfield Speaks.
President Garfield was cordially re-
ceived on rising to make the first re-
sponse. He is short, fleshy man, has
a dark, flashing eye, with voice that
could be heard in ev cry corner of the
park. His opening words were very
happy. He said:
1.-THE National Educational association is
the most favored association in the world
1t talways meets in the grandest city, amid
the most enlightened and progressive people,
under the bluest Skies with the finest atros-
phere and the most perfect weather, no mat
ter where 1t goes, whether it shines or rains
President Garfield paid a merited
tribute to citizens who had for months
worked to complete arrangements which
would insure the success of that meet
ing. He proceeded:
We are here to-day representing every por-
ton of the country, every state and every
territory, if there is one left in the Union.
We are here because country that is worth
dying for is worth living for, aud living in
telligently. We are here because we believe
that only an intelligent citizenship can main
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