El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-28
TEACHING OF
GREEK AND LATIN
Warmly Discussed at Yester-
days Session of the
State Teachers
Association.
OFFICERS WERE ELECTED
And Many Papers of Interest We're
Read and Discussed By Well
Known Teachers.

Yesterday afternoon the college and
high school sections of the Teachers
court house. The crowd that was
present at the morning session was
not in evidence although the room
was comfortably filed.
The college section was called to
order bv its president DR.. T. r. Ssmr-
con, of Sherman. The first thing on
the program was an address OF Prof.
Geo. c. Butte, of Sulphur Springs,
and on account of his absence Prof.
Albert Buxton made talk on "Col-
lego Professors Profit" VIII ch was
generally con ceded to be the mos
eloquent talk of the day.
The next four things. on the prog
ram were: MAN vs. Method" by
Prof D. S. Esgleton of Austin college;
"The Vital SOUL" DR.. John D. Allen,
Georgetown Uni versity;. "Spanish in
the University and Colleges of Texas;
What is It's Peculiar aud Significance
there todsy?" Prof. Lila N. CASTS,
University of Texas: paper by Prof. ..
L. Hornbesk (subject to be selected).
Those who were to have read the fore
going papers being absent, D. S.
Bodenhoemer of Tuhucana read an
interesting paper on higher mathem-
atics As taught ia the schools OF the
state.
"A resolution was offered by Prof.
Buxton to the effect that the legtslst-
yure be asked to enact a law compelling
merchants and others to refuse credit
to scholars unless they have the con-
sent of parents or teachers to contract
such debts. He spoke for some min
utes On the subject, saying that when
boys were away at school they contract
ed debts that their parents were COM
PEELED topay and that the merchants
did all in their power to induce the
boys to spend the money foolishly. The
resolution WAS carried and referred to
the committee on legislation.
The election of officers for the en-
suing year was next taken up but
there seemed to be not much interest as
to who's was elected. The president
was compelled to ask for nomip ations
several times. There were no two
nominations to the same position,
aud those elected were: president,
Prof. S. Palmer Brooks, Adrian
college, Waco; Woe president, 81. P.
Eastman, of Sulphur Springs; secre-
tary, Prof. J. A. MCLAUGHLIN, of Aus
tin college, Sherman.
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section adjourned and gave place to
tie high school section.
HIGH SCHOOL SECTION
The high school section was called to
order by President w D Williams of
the Fit Worth high school. The first
paper to be read was by Prof Joseph
Morgan, of Dallas, on the "Transition
from the Grammar School to the High
School, His paper was quite interes-
ting as we'll as Instructive and received
close attention. Prof G w Roach, after
he had concluded, discussed the subject
Informally, bringing out many points
OF interest.
Prof. Frederick Fleming, OF Den.-
con. read a paper the subjectof which
was "Should Latin and Greek be IL
Guided 10 High School Course? He
was heartily in favor of it and his
paper was listened to with interest.
Miss B. Thomas, of Laredo, discussed
the paper, agreeing with Prof. Flem-
ing In every detail and producing new
arguments in.favor of it.
Prof. Gay, OF Gainesville, argued
agains. the teaching of the dead Ian
guages, saying that they were not
essential to modern education and that
pupils could better spend thei- time
in the study of other things.
Prof. Rogers replied to this, strongly
arguing against Prof. Gays ideas and
saying that in case the dead Ian
gusges were left out the ssudy of many
of the sciences might as we'll be dis
continued as they were much older and
of not as much use as the languages
mentioned.
The hour being late the other dis
cussions On the program were omitted
and the election of officers taken up.
The folio wing officers were elected by
ecclamation: President, Prof. J. E..
GLASGOW: vice president, Prof. v. M.
FULTON; secretary, ]. w. P. Massey.
There being no further business the
high school section adjourned.
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