Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03
BUSY TIMES FOR TEACHERS.

Programme for State Meeting at Besvsl
| Falls-Heavy Speakers Expected-What
Pittsburg Schools VIII Do There-aos'
sip of the Closing Season.
big gathering, for there are many attrac'
tions, will be at the State Teachers Assocfa
tion at Beaver Falls next Tuesday
Wednesday aud Thursday. All therail-
roads have reduced the fare from Pitts
burg and return to IS cents. Althoug Pitts
burgers will be down every day Wednesday
will be Pittsburg's great day, for Miss e. IL.
Fundenberg, of the Osceola School, has a
class drill. In the East a few years ago a
competitive examination in composition was
started and the product of the test reached
such low standard that the papers
editorially commented that composition
did not receive enough attention in the pub
lie schools. When 6-year-old Pittsburgers
can write composition on almost any SUBJ
ject as will be shown next Wednesday, the
aspersicn of not-enough composition cannot
be ascribed to our schools.
The thirty-eighth annual meeting will con-
yene at the Sixth Avenue schoolhouse in
sss ns tRe the
association are: President. DR.. L. o. Lyte, Of
Millersville; Vice President, Mrs. Anna
Moore Altoona: superintendent. Addison
Coskey. Lancaster; Treasurer, Prof D. s.
Keck KutZtOwn.
The Tuesday programme is: Opening exer-
cises, Rev. M. J.. Sicily, Beaver Falls; well
sponses, Prof e. E. Miller Allegheny, and
others; report of Wickersham Memorial
Committee; inaugural address. DR.. e. o.
Lyte, Millersville; legislation report. Prof.
M. G. Brambaugh, Huntingdon; "He1p for
Schools in Poor Districts," Rev. DR.. W. c.
Schaeffer, Kutztown: movement drill, Miss
Mary r. Kennedy; class from North Brad
dock schools; "a london Talk" John r.
Clark, Buffalo
The Wednesday programme is: "Art
Study in Public Schools, I" Prof b. T. Bailey,
Public Schools" Miss Mathilda E. Cofnn,
Beaver Falls; Educational Progress" Prof
Z. j. Chapman, Ptttsburg: what First Year
Pupils Can Do" Glass by Miss Elizabeth H.
burg; selecting place of meeting and nomf-
mating officers; systematic Music Instruc-
tfon," Superintendent Addison Jones, West
Presidents Standpoint" Dr.. George E. Reed,
President of Dickinson Collie e, Carlisle;
"The College from the High School Princi-
pals Standpoint" Prof. j. Y. Shearer, York;
eomplishing Its 0bject?" Miss tAlice G.
Myers Huntingdon: music; address by Gov
ernor Robert E. PattisOn; readings and reci-
tations. by Prot. 8. T. Ford, New York.
The Thursday programme is: What
Should Be the Proportion of Male and Fe-
emale Teachers in the Public Schools, Miss
Anna Buckbee, Harrisburg; Superintendent
Ella heTrich, IuporiuIn' oupeLinteHuoHb
Hockenberry, Chambersburg, and Superin-
tendent p. a. Shanor, McKeesport; address,
Public Instruction; "The Ultimate End OF
Education DR.. EtheIbert ID. warfield, Pres
ident of Lafayette College; "Teaching En-
glish," Assistant Superintendent Edgar A.
Singer, Philadelphia; 'The Pennsylvania
Schools at the Columbian Exposition" Su-
perintendent Fl. v. Hotchkiss, Meadville;
general discussion and a social reception.
The music of the association will be under
the direction of Prof. T.. c. Case, of Cleye-
land, o. The exercises will be made more
entertaining by popular solos by frst-class
will be present and render some of her pop
uar recitations. In addition to the speak
ers on the programme, Rev. DR.. James Mof-
fat, President OF Washington and Jefferson
College, will be present, and an effort is be-
ing made to induce Postmaster General
Wanamaker to be present and address the
Much interest is felt in the report to be
made by the Committee on Legislation, In
asmuch as the recommendations Of the COM
mittee are regarded as having much inhu-
ence in shaping legislation bearing upon
interests. The claim is broadly
made that the association has brought about |
all the important legislative enactments in
this field since it's organization. 1t was the |
association which recommended the in
crease in the school appropriation from
81, 900 900 to S500O.0 900, made by the last Legts
laJure, and it is credited with bringing |
about the increase in the length of the |
school term. 1t is regarded as probable
that the committee will present report on
ton in regard to enabling boroughs and
cities to receive their proportionate shares
Of the appropriation made by the State for
the payment of superintendents.