Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-07-15
TEACHERS FINISH.
National Educational Association Con-
vention ut Los Angeles Adjourned
Yesterday.

National Educational AsSociatiOn Con-
vention ut Los Angeles Adjourned
Yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, CAL, July 1.-THE N.
E. A. convention is numbered with the
events that are passed, but will live ii
the memory as one Of the most notable
events held, and the one most numerously
attended, there having been over 1900 Wis
tting teachers registered here. At the gen.
eral session here to-day in the pavilion was
crowded to excess, and while the papers
read in the morning were devoted almost
exclusively to the educational press those
read at the evening session were sufficient
ly varied as to hold the attention of the
vast audience uninterruptedly. There was
a paper, however, read at the morning ses-
sion by Superintendent Aaron Cove, OF
Denver. on the "Usurpation OF the Home
by School," that was of vast Importance
The growth of paternalism, the speaker
urged, reaches over to the schools, and
much of the training formerly done at
home Is now relegated to the school. The
severe religious and effective discipline OF
the early American home is disappearing,
and the remedy advocated was more time
with the teacher.
THE Usefulness of the University"
served as text in the evening for Presi-
dent David Starr Jordan, of Stanford uni
versity, to deliver an address upon the
work being done in American universities
in turning out manly and cultured men,
and that in the fullest sense of those terms.
Nathan Schaefer. state superintendent of
public instruction, Pennsylvania, delivered
an address on 1.-The School in Its Relation
to a Higher Life
Alfred E. Winship, of Boston, made a
short address on "A Professional Spirit
as Influence" and then DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, as chairman of the committee
on resolutions, made report. o. I. Cor
son, of Columbus, o., the president-elect,
was presented to the immense gathering
and after he had salad a few words to the
audience and joined in singing America,
the convention was at an end.
The department of normal schools mad a
very interesting closing session this after,
noon. when several papers were read ana am
leans, spoke on Lesson Plans and Miss
G.. Edmund, Lowell. Mass, and Professor
c. E. Van Liew. Los Angeles, led In the
as a Factor in Training School Work
A paper that appealed strongly to parents
as we'll as to teachers was read In the ele-
W. Dinsmore. Beatrice, Neb., on the sub
ject of Vices of Childhood and Youth" )"
Continuous University Sessions" was the
theme selected by President ]. n. Ray
mond, University of Virginia, for paper
which afforded ample opportunity for dis
cuSsion in the department OF higher educa,
ton. Some of the arguments advanced
were combatted in the controversy that
followed, in which President ]. II: Baker,
University of Colorado; Dr.. J; w Saqn-
ders. Las Cruces. n. NJ: President G. W.
White. University of Southern California,
and Professor w. C. Jones. University
of California, participated. DR.. El-
mer Brown University d5yy.b,e Of nsna, S
on "The Study of Education in the Uni;
yersity," the discussion that followed
being ably conducted by B. A. Hinsdale
University of Michigan, and Chancellor w
H. Payne, University of Tennessee.
Professor w. c. Stevenson, of the Kansas
state normal school, voiced the sentiment
which he contended is in revolt against
ly with view of admission to the classical
courses of the college or university, in a
paper read in the business department on
1.-THE Advent of Commercial High School, u
The question was treated also in other pa
pers, after which it was thoroughly dis
cussed by the educators present.
In the final session of the department OF
lem which must have confronted the mind
of many a teacher was thoughtfully con-
sidered and lucidly set forth by President
S. E. Scovel. University of Wooster. o.
He canvassed the subject, I'm Funda.
mental Ethics, What Ought We to Teach
as the American Doctrine of Religion and
the State?" and the wide scope affected by
| led by President ]. H. Baker, University
| of Colorado.
"The Ethical Influence of the Study OF
| Economics was the subject dealt with by
B. C. Matthews, Newark. N. j., and with
| the reading Of that paper the session