The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-13
THE NATION SHOULD
HAVE A UNIVERSITY
The Educators Again Declare
For One.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
Views of G.. s. Hall On the Teaching
of Children.
PROBLEMS or EDUCATION IN ENGLAND
A Number Of Addresses by Eminent Educators.
Great Throngs Attended Sessions Yes
terday. There Were Between H.
600 and 49, 900 Present.
(By the Associated Press.


Detroit, Mich, July 1.-THE National
Educational Association today re-affirmed
it's declaration in favor of a National
University at Washington to be main
tanned by the National Government. At
ter taking this action the association
elected as its president for the ensuing
year President w. M. Beardshor, OF the
University of Iowa. The election was
unanimous as was that of G. M. Reyes,
of Hartford, Conn, for treasurer This
afternoon thirteen departmental meetings
were held and in several of them officers
were elected for the coming year. In
teresting papers on the teaching Of
economics in the schools were read at the
morning session by Prof. George E. Vim
cent, of Chicago University; President
George Gunton, of the Institute of Social
Economics, New York; Prof. F. w. Spiers,
of Philadelphia, and r. P. Halleck, of
Louisville, KY
At the general session of the associa-
ton tonight, 1.-THE Problems of Educa-
ton in England" were treated in pa
per by Cloudesley S. H. Brereton, of Mel
ton Cornwall, England. He said:
Many reforms, social and economic.
are now necessary in England and above
all some reform in national education in
the sense of unifying educational effort
at the center and in the locality. At
tempts at unity have often been made.
They have always failed because Eng
land is divided into two schools, one
LAYING stress on ethical and the other on
intellectual education, each of these be-
ing hampcred on the one hand by those
who believe in educating the working
classes, and on the other hand by those
who distrusted intervention of the
State"
President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark Uni
versity, Worcester, Mass. presented his
views of '"Thc Ideal University before
the National Council of Education in Y.
NJ. c. A. hall this afternoon. He advoca-
ted deferring the teaching of reading and
writing until the child was or years
of age, and substituting nature study in
the meantime. From the eighth to the
twelfth years when the child was most
teachable the slogan should be drill and
the teaching of good habits. He con-
demned the subordnating of the high
schools to the universities. After the
ages of twelve or thirteen he advocated
the bifurcating of the studies of the
sexes "The girls" he said, 'should take
the fine arts and the humanities unless
they intend to specialize, leaving the
sciences, Greek, ETC., to the boys
In the Department of Art Education
Frederick w. Coburn. of New York, read
the paper of the afternoon on The
Economic Value of Art Education.
An address was made by President
N. A. Harvey. of Chicago. to the Depart
ment of Science Instruction
The following departments elected Of
fcers this afternoon: School admins
tration-President, T. H. Pcres, Memphis,
Tenn; secretary, w. G. Bruce, Milwaukee.
Manual Training Department-Presi-
dent, C. c. Richards, New York; Secre-
tary. J. ii. Trybom. Detroit.
kindergarten and Child Study-President
Miss Geraldine Gray, New York; secre-
tary, Miss Mary May, Salt Lake City
Physical Observation-Disclosures, DR.. w.
O. Kohn, Chicago; vicepresident, DR..
Topel, Atlanta: secretary, Miss Mabel
l.. Pray. Toledo.
Three general sessions Of the associa-
ton and number of departmental meet
ings tomorrow will end one of the most
successful conventions the association has
ever held. The attendance today was es-
timated at between $4,000 and 10000