The San Francisco call., 1897-10-27
Professor RoWison Says the
Present School System
Is Wrong.
Scholastic Beauty and Fashion
Make Their Annual
Appearance
For Four Days the Guests Will Be
Given Receptions and Regaled
With Addresses.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL,
Rrn a n.n,. A..t -.

9tS Bro ,dway, Oct. -:
The annual UNITY school for teachers
opened this afternoon. For the next four
days the teachers VIII receive daily inst-uc-
tion from leaders in the educational world
and the scholars in the public schools are
enjoying weeks holiday.
These annual gatherings of teachers are
looked forward to by the interior mem bers
Of the County Institute with great deal
/ OF pleasure, for, with the exception OF a
I few papers and essays to Which they listen
with or ut interest, IL means a week OF
pleasure in the county METROPOLIS. 1t is
highly fashionable Gathering. and when
the institute was organized at the First
Congrega Church this afternoon
such an array of handsome dresses and
pretty beadgear had never been seen in
that church.
About 80 per cent OF Alan eda County
teachers are ladies, and all the various
styles from Milpitas, Tassajara, Berkeley
and Bay Farm Island are fully re presented.
1t Is safe to say that if the rule that now
applies TO theaters in this C ty re gard ng
the removal of floral gardens and aviaries
from feminine heads was to be enforced
the insti ute the disappointment would
be overw hHlming.
County Superin tendent of Schools and
President (eX-officio) J. p Garlick called
The meeting o order and announced the
following officers for the session: Vice
presideut>-J w. McCivmonds w. J.
COnneI. NJ. {. James GndW. II. Langdon !;
secretary Miss c. P Leet; assistant secre.
tary, Miss a. +. Phillips.
The audience joined in singing Amer
ica," after which F. E. Perham oocup o ed
half an hour on Teachers Reading"
Professor George IL. Howison of the
University OF California spoke upon the
true distinction between prima V, sec
OndaTy and higher education. lie said:
The lack Of a recognition of this distinc-
ton IN the present system of teaching
turns out crooks and criminals. Now
don say that say that the wnoie school
system is making criminals he said,
''for DO not. 1t is The lack OF true dis
tlnction between the primary and sec
ondary education
The skilled fOrger ana EN- bezzler got
his knowledge In the school, and didn' T.
get something else he should have had
The effect OF the pub ic school system Is
TO make criminals. The teachers are not
to blame"
Tonight the Teachers Mutual Benefit
Association rendered the teachers re-
ception in Reeds Hall in the Ebell build
ing. Ice cream was served IN abundance
while a trst-cla$s orChe- ira furnished mu-
sic. 1t was entirely of an informal char
acter and every one was made TO feel at
home.
Tomorrow morning at 30 o'clock they
viii gather in sections in the High School
building, when the teachers will be
groopeu according to localities and
grades. This order Will be followed every
morning. In the afternoons the sessions
will be held in the First Congregational
Church.
To-morrow's programme will include
Ia dt- ssfo Of he IS
committee OF the California Council of
Education on the course of study for ele-
mentary schools. Committee having dis
cusslon IN charge: s. D. Waterman
(chairman). Mr.. e. A Wison, Miss Hat
tie +. Corliss, Mss J. II. Lumbard, D. J.
Suillv n, John Gam bic, H. Z. Petray h.
w. Lynch, W. NJ. Greenwell A w Scot l.
J. w. Young and J. F. Chandler. Also
report OF The committee appointed at the
last institute 10 prepare series of lessons
Tor Friday afternoons on the subject
Patriotism in All It's Aspects; L. O.
Crawford (cha1rman), D. J. Sullivan, John
bic, ?. a. Garin, w. j. ConnelI and
James Malioch.
The lecturers and instructors who will
be heard during the week are: Professor
George h. Howison, Dr.. Joseph Baldwin,
Professor f. B. Dire star, DR.. John Gam
Bile, Professor T. P. Bailey, J. B. Nc
Chesney. Professor c. NJ. BLACKWELL, ]. h.
Aug burg. Superintendent f. L. Pernam,
Professor Washington Wilson, Miss sl
b. Lee, T. l.. Heaton, Mrs. Florence D.
Jackson, Char es l.. Bieden bach, Miss NJ.
w. Tyrreil, W. T. Hal, H Benson
piano accompanies, NJ Margaret Cam
eron; music programme by B. Frank
Howard.
There will be no evening sessions and
the institute will C ose on Friday after
neon.