Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-31
BOUND TpIVOTE ON OFFICERS
Members Of tho State Teachers Association
Stand on Principle,
STARTS WITH A WARM D;BATE
Proposition to Take the Election OF
Officers out Of the Hands of
the Association is
Defeated.

first formal meeting this morning at the
Lansing theater. This fourteenth annual
session was opened by President Sphinx Of
Grand Island with appropriate remarks on
motion Of Superintendent Pearse OF Omaha
the president was authorized to appoint the
usual committees. Superintendent Miller of
Columbus sprung a plan to take the cleo
! tion of officers out OF the hands of the asso-
| citation. Following a rather heated discus
sion the plan was rejected. When Chancel-
| lor MacLean from the committee appointed
| to revise the constitution reached the clause
which provided for the election of officers
another debate sprung up and it lasted for
over an hour. Finally it was decided to
have a committee of three from each con
gressonal district to be selected from the
teachers of that district. This joint commit
tee of eighteen will select the officers Of the
association and report at the close of the
session. In the afternoon the college sec
| tion assembled at room 4, library building,
| the county superintendent'S section in room
| %, the high school section in the law room
| Of the main building, the grammar school
| section in Delan hall and the primary sec
| tion in the chapel.
The total registration of attendants upon
| the association meeting up to today was
| 600; this means $3.50 in addition to the SlOOO
| now in the treasury. But the registration
| by no means indicates the number present,
| as a great many did not register at all.
COMMITTEE TO CHOOSE OFFICERS.
| The committee of eighteen, three from
each congressional district, selected by the
| teachers to name officers of the association,
will meet tomorrow morning at $3.50 in the
| library building of the University. The
names of the committee are:
First DStrict-W. II. Skinner of Nebraska
I McJJuuh of plattsmOuth and /
s. Baer of Lincoln.
Second District-C. G. Pearse of Omaha
e. j. Bodwei and w. X. Fowler of Blair.
Third District-R. G.. Mossman of Madison
Il. J. Beckett and ]. A. Collins.
Fourth District-A. A. Reed of Crete, w.
II. Wagner of Hebron, II. r. Corbett OF
York.
Fifth District--E A. Stevens of Holdrege,
L. NJ. Brown of Hastings, G.. w. Samson.
Sixth District--Willam Ebright of North
Platte, C. l.. Anderson OF Alliance, Miss
Anna Gray of Clarks
The Lansing thehter was fairly well filled
this evening. In the absence of Chancellor
MacLean, Prot J. A. Beattie of Peru offered
the invocation. President Maynard Smith
of Grand Island introduced DR.. w. o. Krohn
of the University of Illinois, who delivered
lecture on "Child study; Its Relation to the
Home and School,r
KRoHN ON CHILD STUDY.
DR.. Krohn showed great familiarity with
his subject. and his ideas were original and
illustrations striking. He said that the OBJ,
ject of education was as he understood 1t,
to produce the best type of cit
izenship possible. He did not
think that educational methods
in general gained much profit from discus
sion, but that discussion, to be profitable.
should be confined 20 specific methods. Child
study was one of them, an important one,
and one that had been lost sight of. What
would be. thought of manufacturer who
knew all about the working machinery OF
his mills, and the quality and fibre OF the
goods he turned out. but nothing at all of
the raw material? Man did not grow in a
mass, but by degrees, and growth always TO-
cussed upon one member at a time. Natu-
rally the child had a good memory, which
could be improved The child was for
large action and full arm sweeps which
should be encouraged. But the comm on
method was TO cramp the natural instincts
OF the child and dwarf and handicap its
faculties. Therefore, the student came to
the university, deficient in observation i'm
agination and memory, all Of which fatul-
ties should have bean Droadene1 and de-
veloped in youth insteaI of stranglei. ETun
lying in children, instead of being a
downright vice, he thought, was more
in the nature of incipient research and
experiment. The entire lecture was on new
lines of thought regarding the culture of the
minds Of childhood.
The program for tomorrow, as prepared
by the executive committee, is as follows:
9,OO-Music; THE Benefits and Dangers
of Child Study" w. o. Krohn, Illinois
State university.
lO:SO-"Compuisory Attendance; How to
Improve the Law" A W. Field, Lincoln:
Dan Miller, Fremont; A. A. Monroe, South |
Omaha,
As usual the association will break up |
into sections in the afternoon tomorrow.
College Secton-2:0O-Any discussion left |
over from Wednesday afternoons program |
will be taken up at this time. /
Branches of Study in a College Currcu- |
lum - Prof G. w. a. Lucky, State uni !
4:O0SGeneraI discussion; election of Of
hccrs; miscellaneous business.
County Superintendents Section-Room |
vantage of the Reading Circle" E. j. Bod
well; discussion, j. a. Collins.
3:G0-"Needed School Legislation" ID. d. !
Martindale; discussion, ID. NJ. Ball, f. S.
Miscellaneous business; election of
High School section-2:OO-"The City Su-
perintendent as a High School Teacher"
Robert J Barr. Grand Island; discussion,
Mouton NJ aStaRs York SuSh Mcngb ii1dS PSy 10
3:3O-"uniting Glasses in the High School
ASnati9g of stgdSs" r. dj5r IL Bradbury
Joseph Sparks, Fairmont.
4:l5-Election of officers; miscellaneous
business.
Teacher as a Factor in Character Build
ing" Miss Fidella Schaffnit. Hastings dis
cussion, Gertrude Fleming, Fremont.
3:OO-"Science Teaching in Grammar
discussion, L. D., .Schul, Beatrice.
iA5-Electionl eff officers; miscellaneous
Primary Sehoop' section-Chapel, main
buiding-2O)+otWlIa Habits and Incentives
in the the TrimEryih haradesS How" ". '7 H.
skinner, Nebraska City; questions asked;
ulSgnsS.G" SgoaH s1ndys chudror,s rntarost, ;,
Ida Hanna, Omaha.
4:3O-"rhe Nhlue1of the Story In Primary
Work" Minnie G, Lund, Blair; Clara Mus
Fairield, "a
All of these meetings are open to the gen
eral public. Henry Watterson will give his
lecture on Abraham Lincoln tomorrow night.
TALK TO SOUTH DAKOTA TEACHERS.
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Six Hundred People Listen To Many
AddresEa4 nt VermilIion.
VERMILLION, S. d., Dec 30.-(Speclal.)-
Last evening al 1.-The chapel 600 people lis
tened to the many, addresses OF welcome and
responses delNered' by representative speak
ers from the city university, city schools and
the county schools and the association.
After invocation by Rev. r. N. Van Doren OF
nan Mi az oh nf pIt A