The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-08
STER AND NELL SCHOOL
UNION
LED BYA PAPER BY MRS. BOND
HOW THE HOME TRAINING GAN AID
THE TRAINING IN
SCHOOLS.
LAwLER ELECTED president
Will Hold Five Meetings Each
Year.

The members of the Neill school
union joined with those of the Web
ster union at the latter school, last
night, in a well attended meeting called
for the election of officers and the dis
cussion Of school matters in general
A number of representative people
were present, and after q little prelim-
mary business was attended to, D.
w. Lawler was chosen president, John
c. Swenson, vice president; S. c. Ohm
sted secretary, and Edward Hopper
and Mrs. D. A. Mckinley were named
for the executive committee. 1t was
decided to hold five meetings each year.
A very interesting paper by Mrs. j.
d. Bond was read on How Can the
Home Discipline Aid the Discipline
Of the Schools?" Mrs. Bond opened
with exact definitions of the word dis
cipline, and thought it should train
the child to right habits, form his char
acter. regulate his daily life by ac-
knowledged laws of right living, act
ing and thinking
To accomplish the best results home
discipline must coincide with discipline
of the school, and Mrs. Bond expressed
the tendency to allow teachers to un-
dertake the entire disciplining Of school
children.
The subject was thrown open for
discussion and the balance of the even
ing was taken UP with an expression Of
the views of those present Mr. Corey
spoke of the different courses of study
and argued that a closer acquaintance
with them by the parents would serve
to reinforce the efforts Of the teacher
and would make fathers and mothers
sympathiZers instead of critics.
Mr.. SWenson wanted the beginning
of discipline to be made at home. The
matter was quite problem to solve,
but he felt that these union meetings
helped to bring teachers and parents
into closer harmony. The mother. as a
rule, exerted the most influence for the
good, the father usually being too
busy to give his children much of his
time. The children of nowadays Show
ed a woeful lack Of veneration, and
this, he thought, should and could be
corrected.
c. N. Woodward thought that chill
dren should be shown that, after their
parents, teachers were the best friends
in the world The teachers spent their
lives in an effort to bring the children
up in an educational way, and their
lot was not always cast in happy
places.
Rev. w. r. Lord summed UP the
whole matter, he explained, in single
word. That word was reverence, and
! the lack of it. as displayed bys ATneri-
can children, was very marked. He
spoke from the standpoint of a teacher,
and meant reverence in the broadest
sense as applying to the whole of crea-
tion. This reverence was the key
stone to the character, and children
did not, he believed, inherit it, but must
have it inculcated.
Walter Chaplin pointed out that chill
dren assumed an attitude to the school
that they found at home, and that for
many reasons parents were wont to
. criticise school methods with which
/ they were not very familiar. Parents
should investigate the methods in
vogue, not criticise them, and then
encourage their children to get the most
good possible out Of them.
Edward Ingham spoke of some of his
experiences in school days some years
ago, and generally commended the
present system.
j. w. L. Corning, who presided until
Mr. Lawler was named president, spoke
briefly and expressed the view that
the subject was a knotty one, and was
entitled to the most careful consid-
GRAFTON of all parents.
Miss Miller, principal of the Webster,
thanked the parents for the hearty in
terest they had shown in the work
and said that the teachers would start
in the new term with renewed Vigor
and steadfastneSS.