The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-28

attendance of others who could be
benefited by them. Teachers
should also go among the people of
the country districts, and revive
their enthusiasm and encourage the
building up and support of the
schools. The institutes, too, would
help largely in this, and would
prove, when properly established,
the very best help to the progress of
education in the state.
Hon. Oscar II, Cooper was intro.
duced by President Putnam as the
man who, in bis Judgment, had
better idea of the needs of the
schools of Texas than any other
man in the state.
DIR. Cooper objected to the intro.
duction, in that he feared uthe
portico was too large for the house"
and then dashed right in to prove
tlat his fears were not we'll ground.
ed. His subject was "The Progress
of Education in Texas During the
Last Ten Years" and lie said he
would preface his address with the
suggestion that a committee be APP
pointed to report to each succeeding
meeting of the association the pro.
gress of education during the pre-
ceding year.
His paper was q very carefully
prepared and elaborate essay upon
the advancement of education, not
only in Texas, but throughout the
country and the world. During
the last ten years France and Ger
many had made wonderful strides
in elementary education for the
masses. Spain had begun to awake
to its necessity. Even England,
slowest of all, had begun TO bestir
herself, and to encourage her lower
classes to educate themselves for a
better understanding and a higher
appreciation OF life. No where had
the advance been as rapid, how.
ever, as in the United States,
where the increase in educational
facilities had largely outstripped the
increase in population. Not only
was this advance marked in the
lower grades of education; the col.
leges and universities, too, had
shown wonderful increase. Har-
ward and Yale, with their centuries
of age and the r long accrued con.
servatism, had reused themselves to
the demands of the times and had
adopted innovations in accord with
the spirit of the age. These had
produced the effect of bringing 8
wonderful increase in attendance
the growth being something like
eleven per cent per annum. Other
leading educational institutions
throughout the country have put
themselves in line with these i'm
provements, and the promise is
bright for a rapid advance in the
diffusion of higher education.
At the conclusion of DR.. Uooper's
address the association adjourned
for dinner.
Upon reassembling at o'clock
the programme was again taken III
and crrried out as follows:
The child's powers and schoo
3 exercises G.. harris, Houston
The right of assistant teachers
r j. l.. Long, Dallas.
Few boys graduate-H. M
Brown, Luling.
0 General business.
t Adjournment.
DIR. wAGGoNER's ADDRESS.
! The address of Dr.. Waggoner
:. on Oxford and Cambridge, deliver
+, ed yesterday afternoon, was gen
4 Of thought and expression, an,
u was thoroughly enjoyed by al
y those who heard it. 1t was pie
> for higher education, pointing GU
. of the joys and benefits to be dc
- - rived from the pursuit of know
h edge along the higher ways OF 1t
= progress, based upon the splendl
work done for England by the tw
= great universities which were mad
= The subject of his discourse. l
:, this connection he made a plea 10