The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-14
EDUCATORS CONVENTION
Officers for the National Association We're
Elected for Ensuing Year.
MANY EDUCATIONAL TOPICS DISCUSSED
~,,r,eston. g. c.. VIII Probably DC
selected MS the Place Tor the
Next Annual Meeting.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 80. I Cor
| son of Columbus, Ohio, was today elected
nresident of the National Educational as
ISOLATION by unanimous vote b. oFam
Lyle of Pennsylvania was elected frst wee
president.
The following are among the other vice
presidents elected: w. II. Bartholomew
Kentucky: w. S. Layton. Georgia; l.. W.
Bucholz, Florida; C. G. Pearce OF Omaha
was elected treasurer.
Directors of the North and South AT
lantic, South Central, North Central and
Western divisions we're elected.
After the preliminary exercises Bishop
George Montgomery Of California delivered
one of the most interesting addresses oil
the entire session. His subject was Ihs
Religious Element in the Formation OF
Character"
braska, next read a paper on The De-
yelopment of Moral Character in Wnlcn
he Endorsed in part the Aristotluan adage
that 1.-The State should begin the education
of the children before the marriage of
their parents"
The next paper was on Evolution and
Ethics, and was read by Prof. S. ]. Skid
more, normal school, Philadelphia.
The School and the State, was the
title of the address delivered by Prof r.
H. Webster, city superintendent OF schools
OF san Francisco.
Prof. r. B. Fulton, president of the
University of Mississippi, read paper
on the Growth of Confidence Between
High Schools and Colleges" Mrs. e. j.
Herman OF Kansas City, one on he The
Spirit of the Classics and Prof j. F.
Barnard, Seattle, Wash, one on the "Clas-
sification of Pupils
Louis Sedan, superintendent of schools,
St. Louis, addressed the convention on the
subject of Progress in Public Educa-
ton"
DR.. N. Murray Butler, Columbia uni
vcrsity New York followed with an in
teresting report on The Outlook in Edu-
cation" and the session was closed by
G.. R. Glinn, State superintendent of pub
lie instruction, Georgia. taking as his text,
Some Phases of Public Education in the
South.
In the department of music. Mrs 5.
r. Smith, Jacksonville, ILL.,, and Miss
Kestone Alameda, CAL; G. C. Young.
Salt Lake, and I. o. Crissey, University
of New York were the contributors.
In the department of child study, Miss
Isabel Lawrence. st. Cloud, Mimi, and
L. G. Lancaster, Colorado Springs, Colo,
read interesting papers.
Tho department of higher education held
its meeting today in conjunction with the
department OF secondary education. The
committee appointed at Denver in 1895 to
prepare report on college entrance re-
quirements. presented through DR.. A. F..
Nightingale. superintendent of high
schools, Chicago, its report.
AT the closing session of the depart
ment of art papers were read covering the
entire field of art instruction in its ap-
plication TO education.
At a meeting of directors to decide en- a
place for holding the meeting in 1901
Charleston was strongly in the lead.
Charleston will be recommended by the
executive COMMITTEES as the next place for
the annual meeting and that body will
reach a decision this fall.
Among the directors were nominated
for the ensuing year: Mississippi R. R.
Fulton Alabama, Warren Easton; Texas,
Hogg; Oklahoma, D. B. Boyd;
Arkansas. j. r. Rightsell; Indian Terri
tory. G. w. Goodman