The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-15
STATE TEACHERS MEETING
LARGEST AND MOST SUC0ESSFUL
 YET HELD.

Unanimous Vote Favoring Granting of
 Certificates to Teach by Central Rather
 Than by Local Boards Officers Elected
 Sessions of Various Depnrtments-
 Rev. pr. McKenzie's Address Sessions
 This Morning.
 The city was overrun by "school ma'ams" yesterday Some were young some were pretty some were otherwise They came from all parts of the state, rural sections, villages and cities to their annual convention which in this state takes in great measure the place of the teachers institute held in other states. The object of holding the con- vention is to enable the teachers to dis and the results of those held in previ- ous years have proven most beneficial to the schools of the states. The ses- sions began at 10 o'clock and all the morning before that time incoming trains brought in hundreds of conven- ton visitors. owing to the fact that the members of the association are en- gagged in various branches and grades of school work meetings were held in | different halls the wo,k of some partic- ular grade being the topic of scussion at each meeting place.
 FI ,E'(nrTON JCEPG-1MpORT- ANT RESOLUTIONS. The following officers were elected at the 4 o'clock session. President, J. A.. Graves; vice president for New Haven county, Miss Alice Reynolds of New Haven; treasurer, George B. Hurd of New Haven: recording secretary, F. H. Paters) )n of Bristol; spending secretary, S. P. Willard of Colchester. | It was voted to hold the next annual meeting on the F'riday and Saturday nearest the middle of october. 1899. 1 The exact date and place to be deter mined by the executive committee.
 A resolution was introduced and 1 unanimously adopted favorlng leg .sla- | tion where the giving of certificates | to teachers shall ba in the future given 1 by one central state board rather than 1 by local boards, as at present, the pro- posed change, however, not to effect 1 those having had previous experience in teaching in this state or elsewhere. A copy of the resolutions will be for warded to the chairman of the iegs- l lative committees en education.
 Votes ot thanks were rendered to the various organizations for the use of their buildings for the holding of the meeting and to those who had contrib uted to the success of the meeting in other ways.
 The necrologfst,s John q. Lewis of New Haven reported several deaths. 1 The receipts this year from member ship dues were $500, double that of last year. Admission to the various meetings this year was for the first 1 time strictly limited to those holding membership tickets.
 THE HIGH SCHOOL SECTION
 The high SC hool sec on eld it's morn | ing session in Warner hal. and Ed ward G. Coy, principal of the Hotchk ss school, Lakevile presided. After brief ! devotional exercises Miss Hopkins of Norwich presented the argument for a l Teachers Guild the idea of which is l to form a. fund from whieh annuities can be paid to teachers unable to work by reason of age or illness.
 | Chauncey W. Wells, instructor in 1 English at Yale university, next spoke i on the subject, English in Prepara- l tory schools from a College Stand l point" MT Wells expressed the opin- ion that English composition is of more l importance in the preparatory schools than the study of English literature and that teachers should lay the main i stress on this study
 Thomas R. Lounsbury, professor of English at Yale, gave an address or Shake speare's Reputation During His | Lifetime This concluded the morn l ing session.
 The afternoon session of this section was held in Boardman High school | George E, Eliot, ir,, English master at the Morgan school, Clinton, spoke or l the topic Two Corners in London l MT. Eliot brought into this subject g great amount of valuable literary his' | tory The "corners'' spoken of were | old Chop House off Fleet street, the | Cheshire Cheese and The Charter House It was at the Chop House and the l Cheshire Cheese that Dr. Johnson anc Goldsmith met and formed their asso- citations which had influence upon then
 work Addison and Stee.e, whose worf | in the Spectator was dwelt upon, also Thackary, were noted as authors who had visited The Charter House, ane it is in this hospital and school that the | scenes of The Newcombs' were laic
 by Thackary.
 Written Tests or Examinations
 Their Importance and Their Fresuen- | cy." was the subject discussed ny 2 | number of the teachers under the al
 ership of Myron T. Scudder, principa l of Hillhouse high school
 Judson s. Butcher of Tafts schools
 Watertown, led the section which dis
 cussed Mathematics The most m portant questions discussed were:
 Does the study of Algebra as pre- l sented in the recent text books afford I as good discipline for the average stu dent as it did twenty-five years ago.?
 Why do so many candidates fail 1T
 the college examination on problems 1T | Geometry"
 F. P. Moulton, Latin master, of the l Hartford high school led the discus