New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-13
KINDERGARTENS DISCUSSED.
THE NETWORK ASSOCIATIONS ANNUAL
REVIEW OF WORK
ADDRESSES BY MRS. CHARLES " CHADWICK.
HAMILTON ". MABIE AND RICHARD
WATSON GLIDER
WATSON GLIDER

The annual meeting OF tho New-YorlS Kinder
garten Association was held yesterday afternoon
in Assembly Hall OF the United Charities Building
No ln East Twenty-second-st. The president
Hamilton W. Mabe. presided and called the meet
!ag 20 order $50 O'Clock Representative people,
teachers and those interested in the kindergarten
present.
Mr Mabe introduced Mrs. Charles y. Chadwick
as the first speaker. and an address. listened TO
with profound attention and interrupted by re-
peated applause. was given by that enthusiastic
apostle OF the great Froebe movement.
Mrs. Chadwick declared that the good citizenship
o. New-York City would in the future be directly
dependent upon the work done in the cultivation
Of child nature. Us physical and mental develop
Eent
Physical recutude." she said. has direct in
fuence moral recttude. and the health Of the
body must therefore be assured. The cultivation
OF tho Imagination cannot be too much insisted
upon for Imagination has rightly been called the
power 20 see the truth. Thus we would lead the
child TO see truly and estimate Justly Then can
the young be made 70 balance and proportion
IN all things and are able TO acquire the power TO
sacrifice the non-essental for the essential
Richard Watson Glider prefaced his remarks by
ailusions 10 education in general. and then said:
~ don't know when there has been time In the
history Of the world when education has been so
essential as It is now. We have just seen a great
nation conquer a savage In the Dark Cont
ing TO the education OF that race.
"A friend whom have just seen has recently
been visiting Rudyard Kipiing who has sent word
20 America that education is the greatest factor
in our own as In England's advancement; there
fore Educate. Educate. Educate" he urges
Our Africa IS right here in New-York. and the
education through the kindergarten IS our special
" When was asked 70 speak at this meeting I
threw out my hands in a sort of protest that I
could find nothing 70 say appropriate 10 the oc-
casion and In doing 7 struck manuscript
which at once drew my attention" Mr. Glider
then said ne would read some paragraphs from
the paper and allow the audience to guess who
the author ~ these words commenting the
knQergarten system. The PASSAGES selected were
70 the erect mat early education Is most necessary
IN forming not only GOOD but natural characters
The audience could not guess the author, ana Was
writing thus in 1885, spoke of the beauty Of tram
Dickens said Mr. Glider. was the great Eng
lsh student Of Froebe and he did more 70 ease
the lives Of children than any other Englishman
wien he dealt with the fourteen tyres Of coercion
tthat were used In ne manageinent OF youth In
nor school and work lie.
MI Mao.e made only short address. lie said
In part
great Undergraduates and now | sure Of H.
Mrs Chadwick shows US how this is so The i'm
agination cultivated leads 10 croativeness. and the
time is coming when the will have twenty
times the creat!veness il has to-day. Aldrch says
air and may be seized upon when rightly per-
ceved We have TWO things 70 comfort ourselves
teaching child: YOU cannot impoverish q child
by !nstruct,ng MIN. The other is you cannot
sociey We w Se' ae az Work Win little c9dren
know that with sum Of 5000 we cannot pay
past except by making mat past reach forward to
added 20 tho Board OF Managers: Mrs. William j.
scheNeln. Mrs Lea Luquer Mrs q RockefelleeTT
Ludins,on. IT. Dr J.. Emmett Holt. DR. Clarence
c. Rice and Mrs F. o. Barton.