The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-28
OeDEN
~ DEPHRTMENT
Ogden, Dec %.
TEACHERS In SESSION.
LESS TIME LOST IN USELESS DIS.
CUSTOM YESTERDAY.
Many Able Papers Rend-Last Nights
Lecture and Reception.

The teachers association got down to
| business yesterday and accomplished a
great deal during the day. There was
not much on hands of a legislative
character. consequently the gentleman
from Utah county did not have so
much trouble to regulate the proceed
IngS. The convention regulated him,
however, and everything run along
| quite smoothly.
| Hhe proceedings yesterday partook
more of the school order, which prob
| ably accounts for the good order pre-
served. Most of the teachers came to
learn and they had a splendid oppor
tunity to gather useful knowledge from
the opening at $3.50 a. M, until une close
OF the lecture at $50 p. m. All of the
papers were of the very best order,
prepared with that care and fore
thought which the experienced teacher
employs when he is DESTROYS of i'm
parting useful information in the most
effective manner.
President Talmage was not present,
SO president Allison continued in
the chair. There were fully 500 teach
ers present when the presiding officer
called the meeting to order, about 200
arriving from Salt Lake and other
southern points ON the early morning
trains. Miss Lucy Van Colt was at
| the secretary's desk and received many
hearty congratulations from friends on
her election to the important position
Squire Coop presided at the piano
and Miss Conroy, Mrs. Andrews and
Mrs. Anderson each sung some beaun-
full songs, which put everybody in
! splendid humor. ;,
/ DR.. Talmage was down for the first
paper of the day, but in his absence
Prof. J. T. Kingsbury read paper on
THE Function of the University"
which was very able and handled in
of higher education by the state a good
shaking up.
Evolution in Education" was dis
-cussed by Prof. William E. Stewart.
which injected considerable spirit into
/ the convention and made things lively
and interesting for some time.
Professors Nelson and Whitney, OF
the B. Y. academy, and Prof: PAU. OF
the Agricultural college, all took hand
in the discussion.
In the afternoon Prof. Malone, OF
Salt Lake City, read a very interesting
paper on 1.-The Function Of the High
| School" which was we'll received. He
argued in favor of the maintenance OF
of the high school, of course, but
his argument was sound in logic ana
reasonable in thought. The next pa
per was a discussion of the paper pre-
pared by Professor Malone which was
prepared by Judge E. A. Wilson OF
Provo, and read by Professor Nelson.
1t was in no way antagonlSuc to the
first paper but was a hearty second to
the arguments advanced by professor
Malone in favor of the High school.
Miss NJ. J. Vawter followed with a
] IL 1o0 L in
dergarten, which was one Of the ablest
arguments in favor of early education
or the training of the embryo mind so
that the boy or girl will be better fitted
for the tasks of real school life than
has been proposed by any of the ad-
vanced thinkers on educational meth
DDS that have discussed the subject
recently.
signs and Symbols in Mathematics"
were exempli6ed by Professor W. J.
Kerr, of the Logan B. Y. Academy in
a most exhaustive manner. He waded
out into the deep water of mathematics
so far that more than one teacher lost
his or her footing and was barely able
to swim out and gasp for breath with
out being able to remember what the
professor had said. It was an able
exposition and while many present were
doubtless chagrined to find how little
they really knew about the subject
under discussion, it served a good pur-
pose because it will stimulate them to
gain a more thorough knowledge of
this all important subject. What the
professor had to say was to the point
and he was able to demonstrate the
correctness Of each proposition adj
vanced and at the same time prove
that some of the mathematical text
books were not correct in theory and
practice.
Science Below the High School, by
Professor George A Easton, of the
Ogden High school, was an able paper;
in fact all Of the papers and discus
sions were very able and all who were
so fortunate as to be present, were
able TO learn many useful lessons
During the afternoon the revised
constitution was read and adopted as
follows:
Utah State Teachers Association.
Article l, Name.-The name of this
association shall be the Utah State