The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-27

1t was not enough
Continuing, the speaker adverted to
grade teaching and said that its curse
was the grade itself 1t was hard for the
grade teachers to realize that in their
c1rcumscribed limits, they were cont1ib-
uting to great scheme. They saw so
little OF the circle, that they could hardly
understand that there was one at all.
Miss Brooks was followed by Prof.
Weir, of the university of New York,
He paid a warm tribute of praise to
Prof. Kiehle's address and stated that
the university of Minnesota was moving
IN the right direction in esta blishing q
department in pedagogy.
PRESIDENT J.. F. AiILsPAUGH.
j. T. Milspaugh, president of the state
normal school at Winona, was the next
to take up the subject; he handled it from
the standpoint of the normal schools and
in an address of nearly an hours duration
exhaustively reviewed the essential ele-
ments of successful educa ton, which he
said, was not merely the acquisition Of
knowledge, but rather the realization OF
NE The successful teacher should be
leader and his power should not be
propulsion but. attra elton. He referred
at length to new methods of imparting
instruction, and commended the Undue
tive systems which have superseded the
older deductive methods
There should be no place in the teach
ing profession" exclaimed Prof. Nils
paugh for man or woman who does
not believe that an education is the birth
right of every boy and girl, and who will
not exert every means to help them get
it."
HON. w F. HAMMOND.
Hon. w. F. Hammond, of St. James,
was on the programme to open the dis
cuSSiOn m thic h11t
self, and instead delivered a short, but
logical and convincing address on the
needs of the educational methods of the
present day. He defined the relation that
should subsist between teacher and pupil,
and urged his hearers to proceed by
drawing out the latent faculties of the
pupils, rather than merely attempting
to I'LL them with knowledge drawn from
the teachers store of information.
This address concluded the after
noon programme, Superintendent Lewis
ton being unfortunately unable to read
his paper, sickness combining him to his
house.
An agreeable relaxation was furnish
ed during the afternoon by the School
Masters club which rendered unac-
companied a pretty negro song, entitled
''Doan Ye Cry, Ma Honey" The diff
ferent parts were well taken, and es-
the musical pedagogues acquit them
selves creditably.
PROF. T. C. WINCHESTER.
Prof. c. T. Winchester, of WESLEYAN
university, Middleton, Conn.,, lectured
last evening before the Minnesota Fdu
catonal association at the Central Pres
byterian church on IAN Old Castle
large audience listened to the brilliant
and scholarly address, which was prac.
tically a history of that ancient old Eng
lfsh pile, Ludlow castle
Perhaps" said the lecturer, ''there is
no historical spot in England that has
so much of stirring romance and of ad-
venture connected with it as this an
Gent castle. It has witnessed much of
the brilliant pageantry of court life, espe-
c1ally that period of court life when
Queen Elizabeth was on the throne and
England was making history"
Brief but vivid sketches were given
of all those famous people that helped
to make that. capriciOuS queens reign sc,
brilliant. Prof. Winchester told the story
of that gentle knight, Sir Philip Sidney,
poet, philosopher and soldier, and of that
sadder life linked for a while so closely,
with his own, the life of Penelope Dew
ereaux, the famous sElizabetnan- beauty
who later became the notorious lady
Rich. Interesting pictures We're given
VI 0c1IAi VI - tlJktl group OIL dQNenCQ1erS
to whom England owes so much of her
present renown, and to whom she was
so ungrateful. The story of Sir Walter
Raleigh, of I5raley HErobisherY John Da-
Wis, was told in picturesque phraseology
''If 1t were not for Raleighs deter
mination That North America should be-
long to England we might said Prof
Winchester, ''be in the condition that
South America is. today" The literary
side of the Elizabethian age was also
pictured William Shakespeare was
sketched for the+bene!it of the audience
While he watched the presentation of one
OF his own plays in London theater,
Ben Johnson, Spencer and all those
minor poets and prose writers who lent
the glory of their names to make the
glcry of Ludlow castle were made in
:teresting parts of last nights lecture
The address closed with a description
of the production of Millions "Comus''
at the castle.
Prof. Winchester was warmly applaud
ed for his excellent address.
Last night was Minneapolis night Of
the association. Tonight will be st.
Paul night.
WINONA ALUMNI REUNION
The one hundred or more members of
| the Winona state normal school alumni,
! who are in attendance at the thirty
eighth session of the Minnesota Educa-
| tiona1 association aheld an informal re-
union yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock
in the corridor on the second floor of
| the Windsor hotel. There was no pro-
gramme and nosreception committee, but
old associations were renewed and old
| times talked over in delightfully."- in
| formal way. j. F. Millspaugh, presi-
! dent of the school, acted as general
host, introducing strangers and looking
| after the comfort of those present The
| Markato normal sencol alumni also held
! an informal reunion. This afternoon at
O'Clock the St Cloud normal school
and the Moorhead' normal school alumni
will hold reunions This evening the
| Carleton college reunion and banquet will
! be held at $3.50 p. m DIT the Commercial
| club rooms.
PROGRAMME FOR TODAY.