The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-01-04
THE EDUCATORS ADJOURN
CLOSING SESSION OF THE EDUCA-
TIONAL CONVENTION.
Proceedings of the Last Day of the
Successful Mecting---J. A McIntosll
of Washington County Elected
President.


Minneapolis, Dec. 30.-The final ses-
E;on OF the State Teachers association
opened In Central hall ut , o'clorK yes
rerdaF with the paper of Prof. Man r.
Alletzhaueusser of st. Paul, en- my
seal Culture" The professor inprovis"i
Q class of gentlemel from the associa'
tion, and placing them on the stage, put
hem through some of the exercises which
no uses Ihe exercises wers greatly en-
sjoyed by all. The plpc" expected from
Prof, Jordan on 'I're2aratipn Of Te;tth-
Eers," was not presented, for the rcaEon
that the professor was called away from
the city. President Lord, of he Moor
4 head normal, read :he paper Of Prof.
! Parr on "How to Better Enforce the
J sCompulsory Law" which, owing to the
absence of Prof. Parr, had gone over
from the last previous meeting. The
paper closed with recommendations iii
the form Of resolutions, which were re-
ferred to the committee on resolutions.
Officers were elected as follows. Presi-
dent, ]. Q. Mcintosh, county superintend-
ent of Washington county; vice president,
Miss Gertrude G. Ellis, Austin; cor
responding secretary, s. A. Farnsworth,
st. Paul; secretary, Miss Emma T. Allen,
Rochester; treasurer, z. Vaughn, Anoka
The association directed the appointment
of a committee Of three on the state
publication of proceedings of the associa-
ton, as declared for in the resolutions.
Retiring President Denfeld appointed
the various committees, as follows: On
state publication Of proceedings, Messrs.
Farnsworth, Buell. and Hubbard; natural
work, Messrs. Galbraith and Ashea, Miss
Arnold and Messrs Ccott and Hayne;
compulsory legislation, Messrs. Parr,
Gilbert. Jordan, Weld and State Super
intendent Pendergast
The various sections of the association,
in separate sessions, finished their work
yesterday, before the final meeting of the
general association.
The department of high schools elected
the following officers: President, W. j.
Schmidt, superintendent of schools at AL
bert Lea; vice president, Supt. H. G.
Hess, of the Sleepy Eye schools; secre-
tary, Miss Dora Wells, principal of the
st. Cloud high school. The remaining
numbers of the programme were intro
duced by Prof. S. A. Farnsworth of St.
as preparatory school for fitting for
active practical life, and in the discus
sion which followed Professors Selleck of
Austin and Lohr of Duluth participated.
A resolution was adopted to propose to
the county superintendent to hold a
joint portion of the next session of the
association to be devoted to the question
of how best to advance the common
schools in relation to the high. Prof. A.
j. Vandyke of Wabasha led in the pre-
sentation of this subject. The round
tshle conference was the concluding sub
ject Of the session, Professors Edward s.
Adams of Rochester aud F. V. Hub
bard, bearing the leading parts.
The department Of elementary educa.
ton resumed It's work with a paper by
Miss Mary Gilman of Minneapolis or
20 'SsIs;;53doe ta.s the Basis of Primary Read
ings,a which was followed by Miss Lizzie
TAFT of Sauk Center on Literature d.
the Basis of Primary Reading Dis
cussion followed both papers, that ol
the former taking wide range. Follow,
ing this Prof. Maria L. Stanford of Min
! neapolis discussed the Mechanical Par
| of Reading in the intermediate Grades,
sented very attrat tive subject ir
"Class in the Eighth Grade" The Of
ficers for the ensuing year were elected
at the close of the session as follows
President, Miss Brooks, st. Paul; vice
president, Miss Keyes, Winona; secre
tary, Miss Watkins, St. Cloud.
The work of the department of music
opered with the subject of Music in the
kindergarten" presented by Antoinettt
Choate of st. Paul, and the next mum
Der was "Plea for Music" by Georg,
E. krinbill of Red Wing. May Usher
Griffin of Mankato discussed "Music fo;
Primary Grades" The concluding mum
Der was discussion of the question
NVhat Part Shall the Artistic Play il
Public School Music!' Each If thcst
subjects brought out long and interesting
discussion. There was also a branchin.
ont into several ether topics connected
with the general subject.