The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-12-28
INSTITUTE NOTES
FROM ALBANY

Thursday, December 2T. The first
paper was by Prof. Henry d. sheldon,
prof OF pedagogy atthe State University,
on Child Study, in the service Of the
teacher. Prof. sheldon gave an epitome
Of the subject. Charles Darwin began
on his own son. Later Professor Pruier
made an attempt to find the contents Of
the childs mind at school age
The Columbian Exposition gave an
impulse which resulted IN the formation
Of societies in twenty states for study OF
children
The FIRST opposition came from certain
psychologists.
Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, OF Harvard,
succeeded in stemming the tide and men
like Tichener of Cornell, Jastrow OF
University Of Wisconsin, Bryan OF In
diana, came to the rescue and cleared up
vast territory Of useful knowledge in
the interest and from the standpoint OF
the child
The subject Of parallclism between the
development Of the child mind and OF
the race presented by Woods Hutchison,
of Buffalo, n. v, evoked great amount
} of discussion pro and con. lie said in
part: The child is combination and
epitome of the race. The mind OF the
child is the best record Of the past. 1t
= seems to be clearly proven that we have
- had articulate speech one'iourth OF a
million years and a physical develop
n, ment at least ten times as long.
y The department Of Secondary and Col
lepiate education discussed principally
=, high school work led, by President
40 Frank Strong, Of the University OF Ore
;. gon. who says we must have high school
:. legislation. All other states have them
m and by the logic Of events, we must; W.
. have nearly 100 schools doing some kin1
of High School work now. The hIsh
School should articulate with the Uni
yersity. We have the sth grade an'
then gap with no way OF filling II
Tie College and the University must b
fed from the High School whicl
must have course OF study coverin
four wears Of time and along each OF tn
1t, four greatdepartments ofstudy, English
or History, Mathematics and Science. v
n there may be other courses GOVERN
ie, Latin and modern languages and
N; certain localities business education
j. The sentiment seems very emphatlcall
Tor in favor Of high schools and in mo-
places where they have been tried u
ge, sentiment OF the people demands TN
Ds' they stay.
ior The lecture in the evening by Pre'
er Hawley of the willamette Universe
ay, was held in the NJ. +. church and was
'ior a very able and eloquent handling OF q
X. "Declaration OF Independence. Pref
ne, Hawley can hold an audience spellbou
by his mastery presentations oil ia'
and when he marshals them in array IN
seem like living beings parading oel'
Nh the audience. II he ever gets to wrill
historical books, which we hope he mi
| predict a wide and brilliant career
"a the author OF the same.
nich This teachers association 10 grow
Duse in numbers and interest every d
been There lie no drag All the subjects
'ugh live themes and great good Will come
irst, discussing some OF them
made Il begings to look "a il progress II
ner. the air. We can't afford to lie left
cred hind and the word is onward. see
Ients as have never seen il in al Ore
The Teachers Association before.
dney SALEM TrAcr