Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-01-04
TIE EDUCATORS ADJOURN
CLOSING SESSION OF HI EDUCA-
ZION III CONx ENTION.
Proceedings of the Last Day of the
successful Meeting---J. A Mcintosh
of Washington County Elected
Presid snt.

Minneapolis. Dec. @.-The final ses-
| SION of the State Teachers association
opened In Central hail 1T , o,rlo"S res
rerday with the paper, of Prof. Man y.
Alletzhaueusser of ST. Paul, On Thy
| s:cal Culture" The professor improvis''i
q class of gentlemen from the associa'
ticn, and placing them on The stage, PM
them through some of the exercises winch
nc uses. lac exercises warH greatly en-
ioyed by all. The plpc" expected from
Prof. Jordan on Preparation o. Team
ers," was not presented. for the rrason
that the professor was Cailel away from
the city. President LORD, Of he Moor
head normal, read he paper Of Prof.
Parr on How 10 Better Enforce the
Compulsory law" which, owing To the
absence of Prof. Parr, had gone over
from the last previous meeting. lie
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, u. 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 Denfield 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. FL. 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.
Paul, oil the function of the high school
hS PltIhl ulbly sNlVvt " hILihH 1OI
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 couaty 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
tribe conference was the concluding sub
ject of the session, Professors Edward s.
Adams of Rochester and f. v. Hub
bfrd. bearing the leading parts.
HE department Of elementary educa-
ton resumed ITS work with a paper by
Miss Mary Gilman of Minneapolis on
Science as the Basis of Primary Read
ings, which was followed by Miss Lizzie
Ialt OF Sank Center on Literature AZ
the Basis of Primary Reading" Dis
cussion followed both papers, that OF
the former taking n wide range. Follow
ing this Prof. Maria l.. Stanford of Min
neapolis discussed the Mechanical Part
OF Reading in the intermediate Grades"
and Miss Bertha Gould of Rochester pre~
scented a very attractive subiect in
Glass in the Eighth Grade" The Of
tcers for the ensuing year were elected
at the close of the session az follows:
President, Miss Brooks, st. Paul; vice
p1 osident. Miss Keyes, winona; secre-
tary, Miss Watkins, st. Cloud.
The work of the department of music
opered with the subject of Music in the
nlhterearten,' presented by Antoinette
Choate of st. Paul, and the next mum
Der was a plea for Music" by George
n. hrinbiH of Red Wing. May Usher
1i:hn or Mankato discussed "Musie for
Primary Grades The conc,,airy nm
per was discus sion of the question
what Part Shall the Artistic PLAY in
i'nhiic School Music!' Each If rbe.o
subjects brought out long and ipterest;nc
discussion. There was also 4 branching
o!. TITO several other topics connected
with the general subject.
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