Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-15
A GREAT TEACHERS MEETING.
President Stetson Of American Institute Of
instruction Furnishes Data About II.


can Institute of Instruction, which viii
hold a grand convention in Portland
July to II, was in Augusta, Tuesday, in
connection with his duties as State su.
perintendent of schools and in response tc
journal mans question about this i'm.
portant gathering, handed the press rem.
resentative the following circular contain.
ing full data:
The next meeting of the American Tn.
stitute of Instruction will be held in Port.
land, July Sill. 1895. The principal SEES.
sions Of the association will be held in
City hall. The last session will be held
In connection with banquet.
Ire meeting to be held in Portland will
be the sixty-flfth session of the institute
thus making it the oldest educational
association In the country. 1t concludes
IN Its membership the leading educators of
New England. 1t has long been noted for
the rare quality of the addresses given
and papers read. There is probably no
association that has done so much, or ex-
erted so great an influence in the educa-
tional field, as the institute It's work
broad scholarship, progressive aims, and
the commanding attention it's utterances
have received The names of most of the
educators OF note in this country have ap-
peared upon its programmes. The next
meeting promises to be one of the most
famous ever held by the society.
The following subjects have been Sc
lected for discussion: The public school
as an instrumentality for social advance
ment. The relation of manual training
to mental defects. The relation of fati-
que to educational and social progress
Library methods of study in schools.
Intellectual training as moral force
What moro can the American college do
to help American life. Desirable modifi-
cations of elementary school programmes
What grammar school graduate should
know and be able to do. The limitations
of secondary school programmes. Depart
mental instruction. The response of the
public schools to the dem snds of the pub
lie. Child study-methods and results.
(Stereopticon.) What the community
owes the school What the teacher owes
the school, What the school owes the
community.
At the banquet it is proposed to give
the patriarchs and the younger members
of the fraternity chance to express them
selves upon the following topics: "What
we think of those boys who are trying
to keep school" "How far have We
come?'' (Which way are we going:"
The speakers already secured are Presi
dent Andrews of Brown, President Gates
of Amherst, Chancellor Day OF Syracuse
University, Prof. Scripture of Yale. Prof.
Hart of Harvard, President Chase of
Bates, Supt Seaver of Boston, Miss Hcw-
ms of Hartford, President Thwing of
Cleveland, President Walker of Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology. DR..
Baker of St. Paul, Supt. W. p Beckwith,
Adams, Mass, Prin. L. S. Hastings,
Nashua. N. H., Prin. William T. Beck
Providence, r. l., DR.. Samuel Thurbcr of
Boston.
DR.. Hager of Salem, DR.. Conant of Yer
mont, DIR. Tweed of Cambridge, Prin. W.
J. Corthell of Gorham. Prin. James A.
Page of Boston, DR.. Chapman of Tufts,
DR.. Dunton of Boston, and other well
known educators have been engaged for
five minute speeches at the banquet.
There was probably never presented be-
fore the institute series of topics of
cluded in the above programme. The
speakers are from the first rank OF the
leaders in matters educational in the
United States. No teacher in Maine can
afford to miss this meeting. No teacher
can attend it's sessions without being in
structed, inspired, and made stronger and
better.
In addition to all these attractions the
-A-A r. -
famous body of singers in the United
States, will enliven all the sessions with
their choicest selections. The quartet
will give what will be equivalent to a
series of concerts which will well be worth
the expense incurred in attending the
meetings.
The people of Portland are noted for
their hospitality, and will provide for the
entertainment of those in attendance in
their usual handsome way, and at prices
that make 1t possible for all to attend.
The railroad rates given in the detailed
programme which is enclosed, are the
lowest that have ever been secured in
Maine.
There are many places in and about
Portland which are of special interest to
teachers and all of which are easily &C.
cessible by steam or electric cars or by
boat Arrangements have also been made
for excursions to all parts of the State at
phenomcnally low rates. These trips III
clude all the attractive points along the
coast and at tho lakes and mountains,
from the Rangaleys to Calais, and from
York Beach to Mt. Katahdin.
Maine teachers should consider this as
distinctiyely the Maine meeting of the in
stitute At least eighteen hundred of our
teachers and school officers should be In
attendance We owe it to ourselves and
TO the institute to give the association the
greatest welcome it has ever received.
The value of the service that this meet
ing is prepared to render the schools OF the
State can not be estimated. If the teachers
will avail themselves Of this opportunity
to broaden their vision and gain truer
ideas of educational thought and progress,
the date of the meeting will mark the be-
ginning Of great advance in the methods
used and the results produced by the
schools of Maine.
For further Information in regard to