The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-04

The welghty matter of next years meet
ing place being now gotten out OF the way,
the quartet again made its appearance
amid much applause, and sang fine ar
rangemeht OF 'Sally in Our Alley" The
words, to be sure, seemed hardly the thing
for sedate gathering of educators, but
the graceful blending of voices was surely
worthy OF any concert stage. MIR. Cages
ringing high barytone carried the air in
some OF the lines with a precision and
ability which earned him a volley of we'll
deserved applause. As an encore, the
quartet gave what might be called a
vocal extravaganza, or song burlesque.
The words were wonderful to relate,
Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fid-
die; but the treatment was artistic in the
extreme. The old nursery rhyme was
Enthusiastically arranged with startling reel
tatlons and some intricate fugue move
ments, concluding with an elaborate finale
in counterpart, in which Mr.. MacBaine' s
magnificent basso profundo made itself
heard TO splendid advantage
Professor Elmer Brown of the State Uni
verslty then made brief address, welcom-
ing the assembled educators to Oakland,
and giving them all a cordial invitation to
the university buildings at Berkeley. He
dwelt at some length on the nobility of
the teachers vocation, and expressed q
desire to meet and confer with any of those
present regarding the efficient methods to
be followed in the building up of the young
intellect Once more offering toe hospi-
tality of the university to the association,
he gave place to T. J. Kirk of Fresno, who
read most interesting essay. taking as
his topic Some Thoughts on School Su-
pervision."
The paper was a scholarly one, entering
deeply into the matter under considera-
ton. It recommended a supervision which
should be rather help to the teachers
than check upon them.
The next paper, on 1.-The Ethics of the
Public School," by p. w. Search of Los
Angeles, and the last one, by Thomas P.
Bailey Jr of Berkeley, on The Education
OF the Human Animal," were profound
studies in the domain of higher mental
training. Both writers displayed much
ingenuity and depth OF thought in their
essays and were cordially applauded.
After brief informal discussion an ad-
journment was taken until this evening.
The First Congregational Church was
crowded with teachers last night, who
were entertained with short programme,
and also a talk by Professor LIE Conte
After an organ voluntary by w. B. King
Mrs. Blake-Alverson sang, "Let Me Love
Thee, and, as usual, was encored. Miss
Nellie Shipley's cornet solo, blue Bells OF
Scotland, :" was remarkably clear and full.
| annie Laurie was rendered charmingly
by the California quartet, and Miss Eva
Shorey, who made her debut few months
ago, added to her reputation by vocal
solo,
After some humorous selections by the
California quartet Professor LIE Conte
was introduced to the audience. The vet
eran scholar was received with hearty ap-
plause, and spoke for about forty minute.
on the effect of the theory of evolution on
education. The speakers theory is that
the principle of evolution is the only hope
held out by which humanity can ulti-
mately reach ideal manhood. Dr. LIE
Conte read the same lecture a few weeks
ago before the Institute of Applied Chris
tianity in Oakland.