St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-08


His Excellency William +. Merriam, gov
ernor, for Minnesota.
Hon. D. L. Kiehle, superintendent of pub
lie instruction, for Minnesota.
Hon. Robert A. Smith, mayor. for ST. Paul.
President Cyrus Northrop, University of
Minnesota.
President Irwin Shepard. state normal
school, Winona.
Prof. L. c. Lord, president state teachers
President j. W. Strong. Carlton college. for
the educational interests of Minnesota.
D. D. Merrill, chairman st. Paul executive
committee.
Music-Second Regiment Band.
Three Minute Responses
The president, secretary and treasurer for
the association.
The commissioner of education for the
Union.
State Superintendent e. B. McElroy. of
Oregon, for the Pacific coast
President Homer B. Sprague, state univer-
sity, North Dakota. for the Northwest.
President T. Louis Soldan, st. Louis Nor
valleys.
Rev A. E. winship, Boston, for New Eng
land.
c. W. Bardeen. Esq, Syracuse, N. Y. for
the North Atlantic states.
Prof. w. R. Thigpen, Savannah, Ca, for
the South Atlantic states.
Prof. j. w. johnson, University Missis-
sippi. for the Gulf states.
State Superintendent Frank M. Smith, Ten
nessee, for the Central Southern states.
Hon. John Hancock, Ohio, for the Central
Northern states.
Music-Nalional hymn.
The National Council of Education
did not exactly crown itself with glory
yesterday. There was lack of spirit
in the debates, and feeling of ennui
pervaded the assembly The partici-
pants in the discussions could be counted
on your fingers, which gave a decided
tameneSs to the entire proceedings.
Some new biood-a stirring OF the dry
bones would not
Hurt the Council.
On the other hand, it would give it
that vigor which flourishing and ma
tional assembly must possess. Two pa
| pers were discussed yesterday. That at
tiesmorning session was of especial i'm
portance to educators. Perhaps the
most interesting thing in the discussion
was the speech by Prof, Richards, who
| startled his auditors by remarking that,
beside, the physical trainingof the arms,
| legs and other parts of the body, the
| mouth-the tongue-required early at
| tention. But for this fact, and here the
| professor became personal, there would
| not be so many mumblerS-mouthers
| he also described them-in that
and other assemblies. There was only
one member who dared to tackle Prof.
Richards on this point, and that was
Prof. Soldau, of St. Louis. Prof. Soldau
| is jovial, good-natured looking man,
| fleshy and about forty years of age. He
thought the tongue had too much train
| ing in these days, and could not for the
life of him understand why Prof.
| Richards should want more. But Prof.
| oh tIo TO To \, ~
| He did not want more talking; he sim
| ply wanted the muscles of the tongue
SIS trained that the children, when they
enunciated any sound, would do so cor
rectly and lntelligibly. The broad
question OF physical training is evi.
| IDENTIFY a veXed one among educators.
| So good and able all educationist as DIR.
| Harris, u. S. commissioner of educa-
| ton, was not at one with Prof. Calkins' re-
| port. He did not go into enthusiasm over
! these fanciful movements of the arms
which classes of children were often
times put through. He was a staunch
supporter of spontaneous exercise. Let
| the BOY or girl go into the open air and
| freely enjoy the old-timed recess. That
was far ahead of the physical training
by Prof. Frank Fitzpatrick, of Leaven-
worth, Kan, one of the smartest
young men in the council. His
remarks are worthy the at
tention of every one, particularly
if, as he intimated, the teachers who
are called upon to carry out the physi-
cal training idea are oftentimes desti-
tute of the first principles of physiology.
The professor claimed, and under the
circumstances he must undoubtedly be
speaking within the mark, that more
harm than good was done by this physi-
cal training. Prof. Greenwood, the
superintendent of schools at Kansas
City, is a we'll made. finely proper
toned, and not all displeasing looking
man. His reference to the scrooked
pedagogues" in the city was, to say the
least. somewhat out of place. No class
of men care the have their infrmities
paraded before the public, and had
Prof. Greenwood been Informed he,
perhaps, would not have been SO keen
in thrusting the spectacle before the
| gaze of a .-sH
Cruel and Jeering
world. Aside from this break, Prof.
Greenwood conclusively exposed the
idle and foolish stories current respect.
ing American children-that they were
becoming nervous and weighed below
the average. The professor has had
weighed the children of Kansas City,
and finds in weight that they averaged
above the children of other civilized
! countries of the same age. While