Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-19

PRODUCTION of English teaching into our
colleges. Formerly our college boys had
Latin for breakfast, Greek for dinner and
mixture of both with little Hebrew for
supper. knowledge less than 1900 years
old was looked upon with suspicion, but
now English teaching obtains in all
schools and colleges.
At the conclusion of the address the
audience sang America" led by Prof.
Foshay.
The tables in front of the platform
were covered with specimens of wood
carving, carpenters work and drawings,
which had attracted much attention
| from all the teachers present. At this
point James G Kennedy, principal OF
the Cogswell school of San Francisco,
delivered an address on Industrial Ed
ucation," explaining the methods in the
school of which he is principal. The
plan ia briefly as follows: Two hours
and three quarters are devoted to the
ordinary studies of the high school, two
hours and half are devoted to the man.
ual training. The course OF normal train
| ing is three years in length. For girls,
the first year is devoted to free-hand
drawing from natural leaves, etc., then
the students are occupied in reducing
these drawings to practical decorative
designs. This is followed with in.
structions in clay modelling. The second
year they are taught wood carving and
work FROM their own designs. The third
year is devoted to metal work. A girl
having passed through this course is
qualified to design the decorative wood
work of house, and to execute the same
with the proper TOOLS For the boys the
first years course comprises lessons in
the use of tools; first the saw, plane and
chisel, then in constructing vsrious things
from working drawings made by himself.
Incidentally he is taught mechanical
drawing to make HIM accurate, but the
working dra wings are made without the
use of any other aids than pencil and a
two-foot rule. Wooo-turning and pattern
making come next The second year is
devoted to iron work. The boy makes
chains, bolts, wrenches, and finally q
complete set of tools for use ia the ma
chine shops the following year.
The third year he spends in the
machine shop and foundry. While
talking Mr.. Kennedy exhibited
a number of quite difficult
pieces made by boys in the second year.
all made without the use of machinery
and nicely hard-fnished and polished.
The time devoted to ordinary studies,
he stated, was about all that could be de-
voted successfully to study, even if the
manual training were omitted, as the
children would be inclined to forget what
ever they learned if they spent so much
time in merely uemorzing. The man
,ol mi do lxy nd Lax
him out of all sorts of mischief common
to other schoclboys.
M. G. Twining, of Riverside, spoke of
the spelling book in use in the
schools, stating that other text
changes, but spelling books, like the
seemed destined to endure without
change. He suggested that it, too,
needed to be improved.
At the close of this address someone
moved that the place for the next asso-
citation meeting be decided upon at once.
After some discussion of parliamentary
points and several spirited speeches, it
was decided to give Southern California
another association meeting while it had
| q voting maj ,ritv and could do so. On
l
| the association returned thanks to Stock
ton and decided to G, to San Diego, after
which, as Prof. More remarked, they
would he ready to go to Stockton.
H. E. Cox, vice-principal of Santa
Cruz high school, read an excellent paper
on "The Spirit of the Teacher" wherein
he alluded to the advantages enjoyed by
teachers of today, counseled psrsever
ance, patience, kindness and justice on
the part of all teachers in their inter
course with their classes, and instanced
| common errors teachers were liable to
fall into. Constant study, both of books
and human nature, WAS urged as neces-
| sity for the successful teacher, ,and be con.
cluded with the statement: ga teacher
| is the friend and helper of the weak
that is his work"
G. M. Drake, of Ventura, delivered the
closing address of the session on "Orna-
Grounds" 1t was an excellent effort to
chow the usefulness of practical botany
as taught, by having q certain portion of
children. The cost was shown to be
small; the practical uses of the knowl
edge obtained to be many, and
Iuduy ului6 given DIS W Iuo uctuOue VI
| work, plants, seeds or roots to be
| planted and other materials to be used.
At the close of the meeting it was an
nounced that an excursion would be run
to Coronado over the Santa Fe for the
teachers at s. the round trip. The sec
retary reported 598 members credited as
in attendance, and the following dis
patch was read:
"W. w. SEAMAN: Success to the ae-
socistion. Wish | was there. Hearty
regards to Hoitt, More, Monroe, Mere
di,h, Fisher, Murphy, Burns, Crane,
Wilson, Husky, Pierce and other friends
ga E. WINsHP.
"Boston, March 1S, 1890"
| At the close of the session a number
of the teachers inspected the Los An
geles drawing exhibit, which is in one of
the rooms near the platform. A guam
tity of excellent work was found, and
the visiting teachers expressed surprise
that the Los Angeles children could
turn out such creditable work.
The Reception.
| At o'clock last night the visiting
teachers were rendered reception by
4 q L. Ell