The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-02

and hope and courage, three loHeu chord, without which the song of life IS but dirge. The great mass of healthy humanity, will have some form Of re- creation. The calling of the teacher demands it. Another line of hopeful touch with the public school system for this association is to try to influence public sentiment to carry out the neces- sary arrangement for the physical needs and health of the pupils. Untll there are more rooms and larger yarus each large building must do without the extremely important element or fair sized assembly hall, and Of yard room for at least ten minutes or tree spontaneous play in the open air, near the middle of each school session.
 But I believe the time is coming when New Haven will have the halls like many other cities. and never en- certain the idea of guiding a large school house without an adequate pay ground Attention to physical cul ure is now given in our schools, is the hap py substitute for outside play, but only a substitute I believe for the SD ty of free activity in the open air. This association can be on the alert to use
 
 buildings, to gain the desired ends as far as it is practicable. In many towns and cities of the West. it is consider ed important that at least one acre of ground should be used for the site of a large school and its playground.
 "The subject of free text books IS probably settled as fact to continue by the will of the people, but there are questions concerning it's modification that will recur from time to time and this association can doubtless be CT great service in helping to susta the definite plans for this modification that may be made by school officials Wholesale free text books is not un- equivocally good for the receiver and if any modification of the present plan comes there will be opportunity for free discussion, in which your asso2la- tion must bear its part to some extent. Lastly the effect upon health and real efficiency, produced by the number of subjects of daily consideration. that seem to be demanded if we keep abreast of other cities, is a vital one, and thls association cannot help considering it in some degree, sooser or later. Not as being officially responsible for it, or desirous in any manner to usurp the right or power of superintendent or school officials, but as an ever present question of how it can be best miditled without real loss of privilege to the pu- pills, and to their gain in health- and metal power. Less pupils for each teacher, more optional work in higher grades, less subjects in each term, if all the present subjects must be taught, and less detail in subjects are the four most prominent remedies now being discussed among educators. Discussed and acted upon experimentally.
 This pressure is not the fault of one man, one city, or one state. It is but the problem that has arisen in free pub lie education. and must be carefully handled as such"
 Tt can never be settled to the satis- faction of the radical infectenist who would teach everything possible to be placed in a curriculum, nor to suit the extreme conservative who would have but the very simplest foundations taught.
 Ever along the years to come will the happy mean between the posi- tions, be the aim of superintendents and school officials. This intermediate position will be determined by the conditions of each system, the schools, listening to local sentiment acting as the servant of the public, but like really valuable servant endeavoring to do the best thing for the served, and to save from disaster that might fol- low by going to either extreme.
 ici fo orc tor of yuprly when conditions seem to demand 1t, dropping from too great multiplicity, when that seems to be evident. On this eve of the last day of the year, I again you on what you have &C., complished, and wish you Godspeed in the years to come as you put forth your thought and prayer and intelli- gent work for the cause In which I have spent the best years of my life to this date"