The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-07-13

there be no singing Of cheap and catchy
songs or worse yet. OF excessively emot-
.onal melodies. Let there be no straininR
after elaborate grace OF 7ssture or undue
expressivenes la reading. Let there be no
honeyed sweetness in the Intercourse OF
the teacher. IL arr Is to have any place
az all IN our scheme o. education, let &c
have opportunity Of teaching us owner
proper lessons-lessons of quletness and
/ confidence of harmony of proportion .of
clear grained truthfulness.
Humor. undoubtedly has a very inn
porlant place ln purely artistic culture
and also ia uhe more general culture to
watch huo art s minister The schools
WIN pro0t greatly from their association
with the artists 81 they may hereby hoio
| ihc children to better appreciation 81
| what IS truly humorous and what Is truly
! pathetic. Tho laugh has a large place 10
| society of an grades particularly among
tao less educated. there Is grcat craving
for the things thar arc iaU~hab.o. Humor
/ a tne great ostnat.y - q, Won Of me
multitude.
May we not say that ~ end Of an
aesthetic culture IS 90 attain ~ true
| appreciation OF the beauty Of h5iinessr
some one remarked of Archbishop Lund
]
holiness ne meant uo more than dscogum
IA public worship. the beauty OK Wen
ordered church. and of proper lnt0nation
ana genuAeNiou It may be that In dlder-
emit ways our own conceptions are os
superficial and inadequate But the moral
J lists and The artists are little by little
j leading as TO a more perfect understand
ug.
| And 81. Us to ue hoped that the scien-
usts and philosophers are leading us hy
slow degrees to "a fairer view OF the reiiee
Iou of rulh to tAe other ends of the
highest human endeavor. Ihe nearer We
ssl t1 the ul innate heart OF things. the
more intimate union do W. ana among
the good, the true and The beautiful il
is only by drawing near unto che hearts
OF ,hngs that we can gain tae persuasive
! kind of culture whoh goes forA with the
man into every hold of activity which De
may enter because Dc b only In this way
| chat we can transform she man himself,
rather than some mere patch on province
! of his being Essential goodness and as
geutisI truth belong TO the heart ot
th.ues and iu them we nnd eiementf 5t
such universal culture Bul easent ai
beauty has "a charm ai It's own--a pecul-
| lar freedom ANA vitality which we cannot
do Without The hower in she crann
wall leads out into aa the mysteries 81
tbe being 5f God ana man. but it does s9
otly for ono who has learned 10 see the
strange deep beauty OF the hower
By Frank Rlgler. Portland. ore, on ''ihe
average scholarship OF the average peph
Inv h. W Parker Chicago, ON "fhe edu
Ieauon of the citizen and By c ID. Gil
Inert Newark. NJ j., On THE manifest
ldestiny OF popular education.
Tho department OF child study was en-
lllvoned by a comprehensive address py
President W. $. Monroe, Westheid, Mass
on tho topic status OF child study ia
surope. Miss MIG Edmund, principal
of tho training scnooi az Lowell Mass.
also contributing paper on enid sluos
In normal and training schools In whlch
she contended that physcology, biology
lphyslologlcal. Psychology and chAd study
lhnve contributed more new truths bearing
lon education during the last p years.
than we're discovered during the p re-
coding 300.
Mrs Marie Kraus- Boelte. New York
York CITY. presided IN the kindergarten
land Or Murray Butler presented pap
er which attracted special attention. He
lappIlcd himself 10 an examination OF
Few failing OF kindergarten methods
pointing out some OF tho weakness OF the
methods and Offering suggestions Tor rem
loI} us tnc dfcta.
Mrs Reuf Hofor Chicagt read "A paper
Ion the Educational uses OF music for
chudron o. udcr lhe aEe of seven years
anI acharacter study u tho kindergarten
was presented by Prot q. 4. Bailey. one
ot the faculty of tne university OF Calf
foruiu,
A suggestive paper on the subject DO
our high schools prepare for coilese and
Tor ne ia accordance wth the require
mcuts of nothT was read by e. W. Nor
rison. principal o ttho Manual Training
lhigh school. Kansas city IA rhe depart
, ment ot secondary education. The
speaker thought schools should be
suongthonod by using a few books and
lpractco OF portraying daily experiences
= 10y drawing and Ggares.
Prof H. 4. Cubberiy, strantord UNI
versity, led tho discussion that followed
tho reading of the paper ana r. ). Crab
tree. Inspector OF accredited schools Tor
tho university OF NebraslSa, delt with the
subject should arithmetic. English,
grammar history and geography be re-
viewed ln the high school755
a discussion took place in the depart
meut of norI3al schools basen on re-
lpoft of the committee ON normal schools
but which was confined largely TO that
, part dealing with the training school,
Dr. Herman Il. Lukors. head training
of the normal school az California, Pen
sylyania and Dr. j. W Han. Greedy, Colo
-ado. contributed at some length on tho
points of interest brought out
Mrs. H. T.. O. wilson head OF the depart
b. muut of bolosy .n the Philadelphia nor
mu school spoke on the Relation Of th'
4 lpracuce school 20 the other department.
9t tbe normal school"
a valuable paper on "Pecullariies o
/. the western de OF the Rockies" wa
i read Dy Dr 10 W. Hlgard. university o
/. California. a the department OF h.gl
ID leducatiou.
a President Charles w Dabney. OF the an
D. vera ty of Tennessee, fol owed with an ad
b. dress on '"rhe practloabnity OF an nationa
90 university"
i President Davis Starr Jordan. OF s,an
10 ford university, opened the debate. He .
.u au advocate OF national school OF learn
n ing ana DO pointed out the advantage
a OF such an educational estabnshmen'
.n DR. Nicholas Murray Butler. and oths
ul noted educators also spoke.
m j w. Mcneil. today resigned aB trsa.
%. urer % the n E A. having hell me po