The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-02
PRINCIPAL HURD'S ADDRESS
PAPER READ BEFORE WOITlN'S
 SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.


 Need of Ofvacation schoOIs-Varm Praise
 for the Work of the AssociatioM-Be-
 Iteyes That the Teachers of the City
 Should Keep In Touch with Its rur-
 poses.
 Principal George B. Hurd of the Win
 chester School addressed the Woman
 School Association last Saturday after noon on Some Relation of the Womdn's
 School Association to the Public Schools From Teachers Standpoint" He said:
 Mot knowing what topics have been discussed at these meetings by other teachers and educators, I beg your in dulgence if I consider some matters which they may have presented. I rec ognize the value of this association in its proper relation to the public schools.
 q understand that it's aim is to do what it can for the welfare of the sys- tenn and of it's teachers and pupils.
 q realize your thoughtful earnest devotion. With you I understand that it is a great unsolved problem that you have before you. Rather a series of problems You have performed some operations already and verified their results. The more you work and &C., complsh in some degree, the more you desire to accomplish grows upon you. Recognizing these facts, l consider it great privilege to be permitted to take a half hour of your time to look at your work as it appears from the earnest teachers standpoint.
 We appreciate the two lines of defi- mite comprehensive plans which you have carried out that appear plainly to the observer. I mean the pictures you have loaned to the schools, and the va cation schools. Both are excellent in their conception and value.
 Like all ethical values their units of measurement are indeterminate. The atmosphere of every truly artistic pie ture is not registered in any easily read indicator, as it is breathed by the be- holder, but it becomes nevertheless a subtle purifier of thought and action. l believe this is true of the carefully se- lected pictures which your association sends through our schools I hope you maye be able some time to leave suit able set permanently in every school building in town. The financial limits, and the many changes of teachers in system like ours, make it impossible to depend on teachers to furnish suita- ble pictures of the grade which you have loaned us, so that each room shall have really artistic pictures upon its walls I know that some teachers who desire such pictures find themselves unable to buy them. Others differently situated are able to supply their rooms. A visit to any large grammar school where frequent changes of teachers has been made will show your commit tee these facts Your vacation schools and play grounds touch a vital part of child need during the season when the more fortunate ones are enjoying the freedom and comfort of country and shore You are in the front rank of the procession in that line Your means are limited, your beginning small, but of you I trust will live to see the vacation schools and play grounds a part of every large city school system, as normal to it as the kindergarten. for every child to have the privilege to attent intermittently, but as a right of little children who are compelled to stay in the hot dusty streets of the city during July and August.
 Always limited to enroll only those really eligible to such a school. It is the privilege of this association l be- lieve to finally accomplish this end in New Haven.
 "These two problems of vacation schools and artistic culture through ob- servation of the pictures of standard art, you have we'll in hand. l believe that with the latter should be joined love for the beautiful through pie tures By this I mean evident beauties of landscape, of sea and forest and pas toral scenes which art has pictured for their beauty, pictures in which not sim ply the one or two great ideas of some phase of life or incident stand out by the artists skill but rather the com plexity of ideas that nature shows as we look out upon some beautiful view of Autumn scene or morning glory pf forest, lake, or mountain.
 Faces of nature such as many city children never see, until too old to hear the myriad voices, with which she speaks. This I plead to supplement the strictly ethical or typical production of 1 art. This I hope may follow what you 1 are. already trying to do.
 '"There are other problems. open for ! solution by this invitation and other | deas which you may develop for the welfare of the school. Not now to you, ! put I refer to them to show you how | teacher thinks with you.
 First to get in touch with the great [ body of teachers, so that all your work ;halI count for it's greatest value. Dhis . s case where neither condescending patronage or incesiv fault finding will | rive the decided result The teachers worthy of her vocation feels it her [ .ight to be met as one who knows what she is trying to do, and IT. that ,ense at least the equal to those not n active school work. She also likes a be met always with the idea that her motive is right though her work may lot be perfect.
 "When the teacher understands fully,
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