The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-17
HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS
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mended that votes of thanks be ten dered to the president and officers of the association for their kind entertain ment of the visiting teachers to the United church. First M. D. church and Harmonic hall trustees for the use of the buildings at a merely nominal sum, to the Consolidated road for allowing half fare to teachers attending the meeting.
 It was voted that a committee of five be appointed by the president to con- sider the matter of changing the sys- tenn of association meetings and be ready to report at the next meeting of the council of education. Such an ac- tion was deemed advisable, as the as- sociation has grown to such large membership that the meetings as now held, lasting only one day, are un- wieldy, and the teachers do not get the benefit from the meetings that they should. Some considerable change will probably be made in the arrangement of meetings hereafter.
 Principal Mather of the Boardman school, this city, reported that two members of the association had died during the year. The deceased mem- bers are: John N. Bartlett, superinten- dent of the New Britain schools, who died December "A, 1895, and Principal Joseph Hall, emeritus principal of the Hartford high school, who died June 10, last.
 The matter of sending a petition to congress asking that the metric system of weights and measures be adopted was discussed. and motion directing that such a petition be drawn up and sent to congress was offered, but was laid upon the table.
 THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS
 Was then held, and resulted as fol- lows: President, w. B. Ferguson, of Middletown; corresponding secretary, S. F. Williams, of Colchester; recording secretary, Miss Rachel Webster of New Haven; treasurer, George B. Hurd, Of New Haven; vice presidents, M w. Griffin of Middlesex county Mrs R. M. Lathrop of Fairfield county, Colin S. Buell. of New London county, F. E. Burnett of Windham county, I. H. Caf- frey of New Haven county, G. A. Stan ard of Hartford county, E. H. Forbes of Colchester, Samuel A. Jacobs of Tol- land county.
 , 4 Al ONl1ED SIltAI
 A paper was read at o'clock before the high school section by Samuel Thurber, Ph. D., of the Girls High school, Boston. The subject of MT
 Thurbers paper was Reforms Urgent ly Needed in Secondary English" MT.
 Thurber insisted that the English lan-
 guage should be taught historically,
 and not from the grammar. He said
 that old English should be taught in
 the grammar schools. MT. Thurber ex-
 pressed the opinion that the teaching
 of English by special teachers in the
 schools should be discontinued on the
 ground that the language sense must be
 cultivated rather than the pupils mind
 with grammar rules.
 At the close of the paper discussion
 was led by MT. Forbes of Torrington.
 At 2 o'clock paper on Literature in
 the Kindergarten was read by Miss Amelia Hofer of Chicago, and at 3 o'clock Dr. E w Scripture of the Yale
 psychological laboratory gave an inter
 esting talk on Toys in the Kindergar- ten" Illustrating his talk by showing articles which might be used in the kin dergarten school to impress upon the minds of children an idea of shape and form of objects which they cannot ob- tain from pictures
 MANUAL TRAINING AND ART SECTION.
 The manual training and art section of the convention met in the Boardman school building and was largely attend ed by the teachers throughout the day \ MT J. F. Williams, principal of the South Side school, Boston, presided at the meeting.
 At 10 o'clock state exhibit of art and 2 manual work was given on the upper a floor of the building. The exhibit was 2 a large and extremely interesting one, and was inspected by crowds of teach < CTS.
 There was splendid exhibition of work done by the members of the \ Boardman school, including artistic and useful articles made in the car- penter and blacksmith shops. There were also exhibits of drawing and modelling by the pupils of the school. The girls exhibit included samples of fine sewing and embroidery. The ex- hibit from the New Haven public and the Hillhouse high schools included drawings in pencil and in colors. Several other towns sent large and meritorious collections of the work of N their school children. That of Stam- ford comprised specimens of designing k and decorating, clay modelling and art ! illustration, all of a very high order. The work of the Bristol school children was large and interesting, and among the rest were constructive and illustra- | tive drawing, also scroll work and carv- ing and articles from the carpenter S | bench.
 The WilIimantic schools sent up large collection of drawings and de- signs. making one of the best exhibits in the building, It included perspective and free-hand perspective drawings
 and nature studies, some of the latter done in colors being very fine At Il o'clock MT Gustab Larson of Boston read an interesting paper on "Sloyd."
 From 2 to 3 o'clock an exhibition of class work in the blacksmith and car
 penter shops was given. At o'clock
 Miss Emeline A. Dunn of Wilimantic
 read a paper on Drawing from a
 Child's Standpoint" In the paper she
 dwelt on the need of cultivating the art
 from both an analytical and artistic
 c+ondpoint TTr1esS the child is in-