The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-10
EDUCATORS GATHER.
aoTELS ARE CROWDED By
AZ THEM IN CHARLESTON.
PRIVATE HOMES ARE OPEN.
CITIES ALREADY TRYING FOR
THE NEXT CONVENTION.

"A
H Read Before the Educational
q rciI-GreenNvOod on High
Statisticx-HinsdaIe on Ed
II .tonaI Progress Convention
81 I'D 70 order This Afternoon.
.rleston. S. c., July 9.-Although the
u - eonyention of the National Edu-
e'.,.r,i Association viii not be called to
y r,,u tomorrow afternoon, large
II ssrs al delegates have already arrived
~ the hotels are crowded, and to-day .
II brought in many delegations from
II .,ors parts of the country. The dele
and their friends are being well
.s fer. as Charleston, with the hospi-
II .n.,. for which the city is noted, has
q .onr omen many OF her private homes
;. scoornr nodate the visitors.
II rbe delegates spent the day in visiting
~ -. many points of interest in the city,
ID ! rsvAlling in a temperature which IS
81 ,uhi,, invigorating. The national council
81 .d,,eation the department of Indian
n ,.,.ton and the National Conference Of
Il p.ne1ous Education held brief sessions.
urof Nicholas Murray Butler called the
81 arional Council together, and in the
q .hss-,s of President Sedan and Vice
"a prssi3srf Brown, c. M. Jordan, superin-
& tendent Of the Minneapolis schools, pre-
#.ide5 superintendent of Schools Aaron
Il ,.o,s NJ Denver opened the discussion with
Il he reading of a paper on Education IN
&0ur New Possessions.
n He favored the creation of a commission
& Ii practical men to further the work of
#snresding education among the inhabi-
ants of our new possessions to work in
IL ton with the war department.
IT. believed the war department was the
#ony executive force which could carry
In this branch of educational work.
n Some High School Statistics" was dis
N ,nsse5 by superintendent j. NJ. Green
&xood Of Kansas City. He said, in part:
Greenwood on High Schools.
81 THE methods of collecting and tabulat-
~ high school statistics are imperfect,
unreliable, unsystematic and contradictory
&rhere is nothing to show the various
#tnovements in the school by masses or
Masses in specific branches, or in depart
#nents of study out of which reliable in
Formation can be obtained. A widespread
sfellef exists that many first-year pupils
ECuit high school during the first year be-
&cause they have to study algebra and
Il attn This is assumption is too narrow.
Il Replies received TO high school cir
4fular sent to sixty large cities show some
Aksrv curious facts as to the enrolment
~ classes, ages of pupils, failure in
#lasses and quitting school. Statistics
from city reports and from state reports
Ia ford interesting but unsatisfactory read
#ng Some very positive information OBJ
haned from the Kansas City high schools,
zancluding enrolment by years and by ages,
5faiures in class standing or Withdrawals
FROM school and reasons therefore, to-
#sether with reports from Cleveland, De-
stroit. ss Louis, Philadelphia, New Bed
ford Toledo, and Cambridge, leads to the
following conclusions:
81 l. That young children who com
fete the work in the grammar school and
enter the high schools show the least
per cent of failures in class standing or
#Eithdr awals from school.
. That the older pupils who enter high
school are most likely to fail or quit dur
Ang the first year.
81 8. That failures in class standing are
&freatest in mathematics, second in Eng
Dish third in the ancient and modern Ian
26uages fourth in the natural sciences, and
18th in history The work of the pupils
afan be more sharply measured in two of
fhese departments-ma and Ian
kuases, while the others afford fine OPP
4pomunitY to talk about the subjects rain
"a than 10 talk into them.
81 4! That in a seven-years' course of
ftudy from one-third to one-half more
xPupils will enter high school than when
fhe course of study below the high school
u eight or nine years, and that the pupils
Pc Just as well prepared If the entrance
sRge to the ward schools is not under six
q ess
81 5 That if the pupil remains in high
81 chool through the first and second years,
&c chances are slightly in favor of his
II completing the course.
6 That a committee should be appoint
p for the purpose of preparing and sub
"a lifting to the Council at its next meet
"a a uniform system of blanks for the
- Of the high schools of the United
Bate"
81 paper on Educational Progress Dur
10 the Year" was read at the night ses-
fon by President Hinsdale of the Uni
81 ertity of Michigan
I'll EducatiOn's Progress.
n In part Mr.. HinsdaIe said: In some
~ the principal states of Germany, where
he Impulse that the reformation gave 10
ducation had never been wholly lost, the
8erge outlines of state systems of in
#uucuou could be distinctly discerned in
#sN In these states elementary schools
III xisted, although they were far too few
- teach the children. of all the people,
III no were generally of an inferior charac-
- Compulsory attendance upon such
II 'hools, which had been recommended by
II luther. had been early adopted by some
~ the smaller states had now been
leHhtiyely enacted by Frederic the Great
- his kingdom of Prussia. Teachers
eemineries, which date back to 1904, had
Is" been taken under the patronage of the
same enlightened monarch The gysnnasia
H"ere still moving on the traditional lines,
~ F'rancke the pietist and his disciples
IL sd successfully introduced the Reanein
81 MO schools before the middle of the pre-
ous century, thus paving the way for
II development of the type of instruction
4a mental discipline that is furnished IN
5erfnanN by the Real School, the Real
gymnasium and the Technical High
XSchooJ
III moreover. this movement also led, In
nne to important notifications IN the
.enentary schools and in the gymnasia
p 70 the admission TO the universities
- s,udents with a preparation almost
prey modern. The universities them
lVes delivered form the bondage of the
uuncN led by the University of Halle
au nnally won the libertas philosophan
With all the rest the Prussian gov.
nment had promulgated the Al,gemeint
unarecht. which declared: Schools anc
Hvefsities are state institutions charged
'h the instruction of youth in usefu
LoImQtion and scientifc knowledge