The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
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 FITTING ONE. Close of the California State Teachers Con-
 ventiOn. It Was Marked by Excellent Music and Some Able
 Addresses.
The Concluding Grafton Considered One of the Best During the
 Conv entiOn.
The last session of the Teachers

The last session of the Teachers Convention in Metropolitan Temple yesterday morning was a fitting close for such successful gathering as this has been. It was opened with a chorus of fifty San Francisco Normal School girls, under the direction of Miss E. Carpenter, who sang Freedom, Sweet Freedom" They were accompanied on the organ by John c. Howe.
 The report of the committee appoint ed to investigate the charges made against Superintendent Greenwood was then read. It completely exonerated him from all blame.
 R. H. Webster made an interesting address on "The Proposed Celebration of Lincoln's Natal Day by the Public Schools of California After giving short history of the life of Lincoln he said:
 "The Lincoln Monument League, of which w. w. Stone, principal of the Burnett School of this city and county, is promoter and president, intends to perpetuate Lineoln's memory by the erection of monuments in the cities of the country and by commemorating the anniversary of his natal day, February 12, with appropriate exercises in the schools of this city and State and other States of theUnion, until sLincoln's, like Washington's. birthday, becomes fixed in our calendar as national holi day. The Board of Education of this city and county has declared it a holi day and provides for its proper cele- bration.
 Tt is now earnestly hoped that every teacher, every board of school trustees and every city and county board of ed ucation will unite and cooperate to make this celebration universal" An address on Humane Education" was to have been delivered by Miss E. M. Gay, State Superintendent of hu- mane work but as she was unable to be present the address was read by Miss Eliza D. Keith. She spoke strong ly on the necessity of teaching chill dren by practical methods to be kind to the dumb animals, and that to tor ture a dumb animal Is the crime of coward and that he who does it is capable of almost any crime not re- quiring courage.
 "Tyranny," she said, lis the crime of i the strong against the weak, and all cruelty, when not the result of ignor- ance, is the wicked expression of con- | scious power, always demoralizing to those who exercise it. Humane educa- 1 tion includes sympathy and helpfui- ness. The humane child will become | the benevolent, publtc-spirited man, | equally averse to cruelty to animals, l child labor, human sweatShopS, injus- | tfce to women, oppression in any form | Since the public school is the nursery | of American citizenship, humane edu- cation must find place in its curricu- lum.
 Do not let our children know that the buffalo in the humane paddocks in i Golden Gate Park are the last of their
 race, a race all but exterminated in 1 sheer wantonness, shot down for a mo-
 ments sport, as the Grand Duke
 Alexis, the guest of the nation. shot them from the platform of an overland car, leaving the carcasses to rot where they fell. Oh, never let our children
 know that American men were guilty of such cowardly brutality"
 An original poem on Educational | Progress, It's Pebbles and Its Pads"
 was read by Professor Charles H. Allen
 and Mrs. Eva Tenny and Mrs. Emile l Parent sang a duet entitled "The Gyp- i sies," and for an encore "The Nightin- 1 gale and the Robin"
 Professor E. c. Griggs of Stanford | University delivered the closing ad-
 dress, which was considered one of the best of the whole convention. His sub | ject was Education for the Art Life ,' and, although lengthy. held the atten- | tion of the audience till the close. He said that life was divided into two great chapters-business and personal relations. Men should work persistently | through all discouragements. Only the | educated can appreciate the beautiful | He believed in equalizing the school | system and picking teachers who knew | life in all its phases.