The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-11
THE WORK BEGINS TODAY
YESTERDAY WAS SPENT IN
PLEASURE SEEKING.
Branch of Association, the Council of
Education, Held Session Yester-
day, at Which Dr. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler Read Paper on ''Educa-
tional Progress of the Year."

| row at the opening session of the Ma
tlonal Educational association conyen-
ton this number will be reinforced bv
large delegations from the far east and
one or two of the middle states. In
deed, not until Wednesday morning
| VIII the special flyer from Chicago ar
| I'VE win the Illinois contingent. As
me New York guests have teleeranbad
ahead that eighty rooms he reserved
Lor them, it is confidently asserted that
Wnen registration is completed there
wiz De the names of over 10000 teach
eIs on the rolls as being in attendance
| on the convention.
AND the preparations for their recep-
.ton are all completed. At s o'clock
TINS evening, at one instantaneous
| flash, over 10000 incandescent and 5ao
arc nights twinkled welcome to the
nuitltudes that lined the nrincinaI
StIeels' 1hese were in addition To the
oIulHary city lights and the efforts of
me me merchants, who have in very MANY
Instances III up their premises with
IisHts IN Ndriegated colors. The park
upon winch the pavilion faces and
wherein the general sessions of The
convention viii be held is made as
iI!I as day and a band is entertain
iiis the throng that fills every avenue.
Work Begins Today.
When the work of the convention be-
sIiis tomorrow it viii be carried on in
SPecIalzed form, each department
having its own meeting place and an
opportunity being thus afforded for the
teachefS to attend to the department
work IN which they have special in
eeIeSt and also participate in various
4oIIils or recreation provided. The city
eeelCners nave kept open house at head
10
.Oclous fruits with fruit punch and
lemonade to the visiting teachers. To-
morrow will be set apart as Los An
SdeS DAY, and the local teachers will
again receive their incoming guests.
rms afternoon between 200 and 200
Oh the visitors went on a special ex-
curslon 10 Mount Lowe, and after dark
with towns and in the distance the Pa
cIlc ocean, in the light of the immense
searchliSht at the observatory. The
deScent was made and the party re-
turned by 10 o'clock
. But while sightseeing has monopo-
lzed the attention of some, the attend |
4hce at the opening session of the In |
dian school service institute was quite 1
large, there being nearly 1000 teachers |
present Major r. Pratt of the Car /
isle school was among those present /
ana made strong plea for the educa-
-lon OF Indian children. Several of the
Boys from the Indian school at PERKS
laVe recently been selected to form
part of the band the government pur-
poses sending to the Paris exposition.
When the second session of the Ma
lonal Council of Education was called
o order IN the morning by President !
ayIor, principal of the normal school /
It Emporia. Kan, there was a large
lttendance of the delegates. An inter
sting report on school hygiene was
cad by the Hon. w. T. Harris. United
states commissioner of education.
Washington, D. C.
A lengthy and comprehensive paper
vas read by Professor Charles Keyes,
of the high school at Holyoise,
lass, on the differentiation of the :
american school.
The report of the committee on state {
ornal schools, presented by Professor
|. Y. Snyder. president of the State ;
formal school at Greeley, Colo, dealt {
nth the function of the normal school /
1 relation to the faculty; those pre-
airing to teach; the child: the social
lind or society, and the subjects TO be
tudied.
President L. D. Harvey, state super
ltendent OF public instruction. Madi-
IN, Wis. read a paper on the subject, II
Do We Need a University Trust?"
At the evening session DR.. L. c.
ewitt, Bloomington, Ills, read an in
resting paper on Psychology for The
eacher," basing his remarks on re-
INT articles in the Atlantic Monthly !
I'd tie Educational Review by Profess
n Hugo Munsterberg of Cambridge.
DR.. Buffers Address.
The piece de resistance of the ses-
on Was the paper read by DR.. Mich
as Murray Butler, Columbia univer-
ty, New York, on The Educational T
-Ogress Of the Year" DR.. Butler said: =,
I would point out that it is not Gc- II
dental by any means, that in the 6
eat cities OF this country there is n
ep interest in questions of school or -
nizalon and administration. This =
terest. so marked during the past -
ar, is result in part of the newly ~
used municipal conscience which is "
preaching US for inefficient. disorder -.
administration of a city's business. g
d in part OF the growing Importance, -
ancial as well as other, of education O.
Il public interest. The taxpayers
riosity as TO how his money is spent u
-enfo7ces the school reformer's de- 81
md that it be spent solely for the =, ~
sest training of the citys children. Id
SO ii happens that New York. Chi III
go. Philadelphia, Boston, St Louis, ID
ldmore, Buffalo, San Francisco, Mil
ullee, Detroit and Toledo-to men, al
n only the most conspicuous in Gu
nceS-have all made or are making Sc
tory on this subject. 1t is import ny
not to overlook the one point in
ich they are all in agreement. for it IN
not unusual TO attempt TO minimize pl
movement for city school reform 81
calling attention to the wide varia- M
rs OF the detailed plans proposed Isl
city school organization That one
Mt of agreement is the demand for pa
cheney. When a democracy earnest To-
demands efficiency in its servants, it sn
; outgrown the swaddling clothes Of ST
DRY and is coming to years of dis fe'
ton. su
During the year the storm center of we
5 disturbance has been over the city pu
Chicago. There the history of the FOL
" York movement is being repeated to
Wholly admirable plan of reform has SCI
n outlined and formally proposed, va
it has met with defeat at the hands we
those who have most to gain from un
adoption 1t will be brought for on
I'd again, and perhaps be again de- ere
ted. II viii be brought forward a
I'd time. and then the fight win be as
a. When the modern, scientifically cal
cred system is in operation, those Inc
D are now resisting it so stoutly will est
rvel at the strength of the Illusion elg
ch Influenced them in so doing In a
judgment, the report of the educa- !
lal commission of the city of Chi the
o is the most exhaustive and the I O
st authoritative contribution thar ers
been made to the literature of city pa!
DOL administration, and is the one sur
te indisputable book of reference on Sun
subject. l regard its conclusions Drc
recommendations as almost unas- prc
able, whether viewed from the 1a1
ldpoint of theory or from that of
cuee- 1t is model of painstaking
iy and of scientific method That il c