The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-20

per was Iull OF interest
Charles S. Chaplin of Westtield, Mass.
spoke on "Shall the High School Teach
er Study Pedagogy" He said: -
shall make no attack on the present
day curriculum which in It's main lines
is entirely defensible and in most re-
spects admirable / believe that the
day will come when every state will
maintain normal school where college
graduates shall spend at least one
year in special professional training fol
their work The high school teacher
owes it to himself to study the peda-
gogy Of adolescence in its literature
and better yet in the individual lives
entrusted in his charge. 1t is your
man Of action rather than your scholar
who makes the world what it is, l must
confess my sympathy with the recently
quoted remark of a university profess
sor that Rockefeller and Pullman and
other American business men are equal
in creative power to Shakespeare. How
ever we may initiate the German
school. Granted the American boy en-
ters college with less Latin and Greek
than his German cousin, he Is the bet
ter man in social intelligence, in quick
ness of apprehension in adaptability, in
word, he Is better equipper for life"
The point of the paper was COM
parison between the high school and
the academy. Each is essential to the
state, he said. He showed what the
old academy was. 1t was state
school chartered and generally founded
/ by the state of Connecticut as an an
| mex to the college. 1t main object
was to fit boys for the college. Most
of them did not go. Its strength lay
in three directions. 1t was governed
by gentlemen, he said, not ambitious
men or by politicians. They were cler-
gymen. They chose masters and let
them run the school themselves.
Secondly they were democratic in
spirit but believed in the aristocracy of
| education and believed in the survival
Of the fittest The courses of study
were always in reference to college A
large portion of the attendance was
made up of poor boys and girls of
earnest families.
The third source of strength was
the unity of aim of the pupils. All
were bound for college, even if they
never reached it. The result was a
very high esprit de corps. The high
school has, Professor Warren said, sup
planted these academies in all CEN
ters of population and is doing excel
lent work. There is no call for acade-
mics in our cities and towns. There
is a demand for academies in the rural
districts. The high schools are very
inefficient in the rural districts and in
a great many sections there are none
These academies wherever there are
academies should be revived by
grants from the state. Free scholar
ships open to competition but limited
in number, should be furnished to
towns according to population, and the
state should be represented on the
board of trustees. If academies do
not exist the state should establish
them for groups of towns furnishing
a high grade OF instruction in limited
subjects under the same conditions.
The grammar school section met at
the United church. The presiding off
Ger was Charles H. Keyes, supervisor
of schools, south district Hartford
Papers read were Desirable Rela-
lions Between High and Grammar
Schools" Superintendent G. A. Stuart,
New Britain; manual Training for
Grammar Schools Harris w. Moore
supervisor manual training, Hartford.
The church was well filled in the af-
ternoon. DR. Nicholas Murray Butler
of Columbia university New York,
spoke upon Some Evidences of an
Education" His remarks We're very
and We're listened to with
much interest. He summed up his adj
dress by saying that the essentials to
a good education was good speaking:
good breeding; reflection; efficiency,
and power of growth.
At o'clock Dr. Thomas Ballet, SUI
perintendent of schools of Springfield,
poets of Present Education" His re-
marks attracted good sized audience.
The music section held it's session at
Baptist church, and in the af-
ternoon there was an exhibition of
class singing at Hillhouse high school. /
The election of officers was held late in |
the afternoon.
The art section held it's session at /
Boardman school Addresses were |
made by Frank A. Parsons of Maiden, |
Mass, on "Vita Correlation of School |
Work" and Harriet d. Condor Of
South Manchester, on artistic Meth
DDS In the afternoon Walter S. Perry |
If Brooklyn spoke on art as Condi-
.iored by Modern Life"
The annual business meeting was
eld in the United church at 4:15 o'clock
n the afternoon.
At the Hillhouse high school the fol-
owing was the order of the day.
Morning.
Presiding officer - Superintendent
Frank II. Beede, New Haven.
Devotional exercises.
10-The High School or Academy;
P. Warren, principal AL
AMY, N Y, Academy
Discussion.
11-Shall the High School Teacher
study Pedagogy? S. Chaplin,
Westfield, Mass, high school.
Discussion.
Afternoon.
2-F'lexibility in High School Courses
Room 10, third floor Rillhouse high
J. Shearer superin-
endent schools, Elizabeth, N. ].
Discussion.
2-ETnplieh. Teaching a NOVel-ROOm |