The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-30

MISS ALLEN IRIUAPHs.
Successfully Leads the OPP
position at State Teach
ers' Convention.
PRESIDENT HAzON IS oVERRuLED
After a Long Wrangle the
Women Defeat the Men
On the Constitution.
PRESIDENT MAXON IS OVERRULED
Especial to aFhe Jersey CITY News.v1

grdlnne mapped out Tor Yesterday morn-
ing's session of the State Teachers Asso-
citation of New Jersey was interfered with
by a lively constitutional wrangle, which
arose early in the day and was partfci-
pated in by many of the educators. A
similar discussion arose at the last meet
ing, when a committee was appointed to
revise the constitution, and this was Wig
orously renewed when the report was
submitted in the morning.
The changes proposed BY the majority
0 fthe committee were.-The election to
the association of ..any active friend of
edueation;s nominating committee to con-
sist of sixteen instead Of eight, divided
between male and female members; addi-
tional Offices of a second vice-president
and a railroad secretary. the executive
committee to be elected instead of APP
pointed, and several miner changes.
Two of the seven members Of the COM
mittee made a minority report permitting
any one eligible to be elected an officer,
to be nominated and voted for even if
not nominated by the Committee on Nsrn-
nations. The report also recommended
that the association elect two trustees
to the teachers retirement fund. The
minority also objected to ..any friend Of
~edueation' being made a member.
Miss Elizabeth Allen. of Hoboken,
moved the substitution of the minority
repc G end President Maxson promptly
ruled the motion out of order.
Miss Allen retorted that the association
is without a constitution. and one should
have been adopted at the opening of the
session. and appealed from the chairs de-
cision.
NJ, Duvar ae Harrison seconded the
mot: . and the chair was not sustained
by 2 vote Of 1871 to 102.
Thesreports We're finally laid over until
the afternoon, Miss Allen told the teach
ers that the main difference between the
majority and minority reports was that
one provided for a representative body
and an enlarged committee, and the other
for the opposite. Then a gentleman in
the rear Of the auditorium said, in a loud
voice, that the whole thing was a quar-
rel among a few having personal axes TO
grind.
When the discussion at last subsidized,
Horace S. Tarbel, Of Providence. gave a
italk on some New Methods in the Study
| Of Geography He was followed by Miss
Maud Summers. Of Chicago, who spoke
on the Speer idea in teaching members,
urging the training Of all the senses and
| their employment in teaching arithmetic,
wilbur F. Gordy, principal Of the Sec
ond North School of Hartford. Gonn-,s
read a paper onu Ethical Values in the
Teaching Of History
The afternoon session opened with an
! other constitutional discussion. resulting
in the unanimous adoption Of q coEstitn-
| ton. The report agreed upon extends
| membership without voting power TO All
friends of education; increases the Nomi-
mating Committee from eight to sixteen,
one-half of whom are to be women, The
Nominating Committee is to he elected
from Congressional districts, two from
each district, to be chosen by teachers in
said districts. The Executive Committee
is made elective instead Of appointive;
After the adoption of the constitution
the question of tile election Of Officers,
which had been fixed as the special order
of business for the afternoon, came Up.
II was discovered that by the constitu-
ton Just adopted officers could not be
elected until the last day Of the session.
Then one faction accused the other Ct
bad faith in sehen1ing to put oil the cleo
ton. and a hopeless wrangle ensued on
| the subject.
Motion after motion was made Sonse
being sustained and others lost, white
Others were ruled out Of order Appeals
were taken from the chairs rulings, and
isoon the chaos was complete, the whole
fight Ringing on whether officers shall pc
elected yesterday or today.
Charles b. Gilbert, City Superintendent
of schools of Newark, spoke on the An
Of Discipline He said in part
..Edueafion is wise, righteous and efec-
tive living, and its progress Is endless.
XII life is discipline. School is life, renee
the aim Of school discipline is the same SIS
life discipline. Education and the aim OF
school education is wise, righteous ard
effective living in school primarily btt
| also out of school. School life Is a rnlf,
| and keeping order there is but one phase.
When separated from teaching, discipline
may be an evil. # the immediate end
| overrlles the ultimate end harm may re-
| suit. Good order may be undesirable IN
| that It may weaken will power and create
~antagonism to good government. me
| end Of discipline In American pubic
| schools is benedcent self-government. not
| obedience to the VIII of another, but true
self-goyernment."
II remainder of the afternoon was tax
| en- up by addresses on dlffereft PHASES =
the teachers work delivered by various
well known educators
AT the evening session. the Arion Glee
Club of this city made a hit by singing
several selections.
Miss Lille A. Williams. Of the state
Schools made the report Of the .Som-
mittee on Child Study. She gave q
sketch Of the history Of the study, which
is now recognized throughout the world.
and In which New Jersey leads The
Normal School of Trenton has furnished
most Of the data for the study Of the
subject at the Clark University. She gave
statistics to show considerable interest
In the state on the subject. The time for
organization had come, and she suggested
that d meeting be called by the President
Of the association for the Organization OF
4 society in the interest of child study.
At the close of the exercises preliminary