The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-13
Concluding Session of the Conyen'
ton Devoted to an Announce
ment of Principles.
BIG BUILDING FOR THE FAIR.
Committee Decides That the Edu.
cational Building at the st.
Louis Exposition Should
BE a Very Large One.

Detroit. July 1.-THE National Educational
Association tonight. at the last session of
Its fortieth annual convention. adopted
declaration OF principles declaring that the
problem OF elementary education Is the
most important one with which the State
must deal. The work of the Bureau of Ed
ucation, under Commissioner William T.
Harris. was Endorsed, and the association
declared that its powers should be extended
SO that It should have Jurisdiction over edu-
cational matters in all of our new possess
SONS. Compulsory educational laws and the
consolidation OF rural schools were Endorsed,
ard State support OF institutions for the
training of teachers is recommended.
Educational Building at st. Louis.
The committee appointed to consider the
details and organization of an educational
morning decided to recommend to the Board
OF Managers the construction OF separate
building for the educational exhibit The
building should have Is per cent more floor
space than the educational building at The
Columbian Exposition. the committee will
recommend. h. J. Rogers of Albany. N Y.
was Endorsed by the committee for d.
rector OF the educational exhibit at the ex-
position.
The last session was devoted to music.
one S Of Music tx
Life" Miss Anna Often of New York and
F: L. Abel of Detroit, assisted Mr.. Surrette
with Illustrations on the violin and cello. re-
spectively.
Agriculture in Elementary schools.
Before the department Of science instruc-
ton. Joseph Carter. Superintendent of
Schools Of Champaign, Ill.,, read paper on
Agriculture as a Science for the Elemen-
tary Schools" He said. in part:
Agriculture Is a science. whose study takes
In our schools to adopt the sedentary life OF
the literary man. Too much are leading the
desk Of literary ees %anS h
dren there whose school training is mainly an
in the mind Of the author oi the
ses ,bs ,a w work tx
thee. Oh. De Quincy Instead of leading them
SSas, :hsS ,oy sSe. o think thy
The average child comes TO school all saturat-
and eager for il. Wonderful and delishsfui story
| instead OF teaching him along the lines Of his
multiplying ali the apperceptive capital he has
literary matter in toto. but we do object to its
being the total Of his training and We think the
plenent to It.
Departmental Elections.
The following departmental elections were
held to-day:
Normal schools-President. J. E. Mills
paugh, Winona. Mimi: vice president. MY.
| ron ]. Scudder, New Paltz. n. Y; secretary
Il
Science-President, Franklin NJ. Barrows
l Buffalo; vice president, w. H. Norton, Cor
| nell College, Mount Vernon. Ia: secretary
w. 8. Blatchley. State Geologist of Indiana
l Indianapolis.
Elementary Observation-Disclosures. R. A
Ogg. KokomO. Ind: vice president. ]. J
Doyne. Little Rock. Ark: secretary. Mis-
AIDA p. Wertz, Carbonate. Ill.
Business Educatton-President. I. o. Girls
BY, Albany. n. Y; vice president, ]. H
Francis. Los Angeles. CAL; secretary. Tenn
pleton P. Twiggs. Detroit
Library Department-Presfdent, ]. H
tCanfield, Columbia University. New York
vice president r. P. Halleck. Louisville
secretary, Miss Mary E. Ahern. Chicago.
Department of Higher Education-Presi
dent, w. H. P. Faunce, president of Brown
University, Providence. r. l.; vice presi
dent, c. w. Dabney. president University o
Tennessee Knoxville: secretary, professor
John W. Perrin, Cleveland.
National Council of Observation-Disclosures
J. w. Phillips. Alabama: vice president
Miss Lucy Stickney, Indianapolis: secretary
J. F. Millspaugh. Winona, MINI.