Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-07-20
MOST IMPORTANT
WORK FOR STATES
National Educational Associatisn
Declares It Is Elementary
Education.
CLOSE OF THE CONVENTION
National Commissioner Harris Reads an
Interesting Paper on the Growth OF
Higher Education In tho
Country-Other Papers

Detroit, Mich, July 15.-The Natlonai
Educational association last night at
the last session of it's fortieth annual
convention adopted a 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 Oh
education under Commissioners VIM. l.
Harris was Endorsed, and the associ-
alton declared that its powers shoulu
be extended so that it would nave
Jurisdiction over educational matters
in all Of our new possessions.
Compulsory education laws and the
consolidation of rural schools were IN
dorsed, and state support of institu-
tions for the training or teachers Ia
recommended.
The last session was devoted to mu-
sic, Thomas Whitney Surrette, of New
York, reading a paper on The Rela-
ton OF Music to Life Miss Anna OF
ten. of New York, and F. l.. Abel, or
Detroit, assisted Mr.. Surrette with IL
Illustrations on the violin and cello re-
spectively.
Higher Education" was the topic
in the morning, papers being read ny
President Charles f. Thwing, of West
ern Reserve university, Cleveland
Robert g.. Fulton, president of the n
versity of Mississippi, and Hon. w. l.
Harris. national commissioner of edu-
cation.
Professor Harris said: ITO under
stand the real growth for the past ten
----lAn,. Afnha. n1nnl1lOn
one must consider the number in each
million Of population. There were SIN
ty- three grounps Of LOCO, 600 each IN
1890 and seventy-six similar groups IN
1900.
private high schools and academies
furnished in each group Of million IN
h%abitants 1916 pupils in 1890, but IN
1900 only LAB pupils, the same oelng Il
| slight falling off. This is more thah
made up by the increase in pupils IN
high schools, for the latter furnished
2. 241 in each group of 1000, 900 inhab-
itants in 1890, but $3.50 in each group In
1900. 49,,
Looking at it together, the total
number Of persons in each l,OOO,O 900 IN
habitants in the United States study
ing secondary studies increased from
4,757 in 1890 to 8.275 in 1900.
This shows tnat the people on the
| country are DGIll OH BlNlI6 ~ SH'
dren a higher education and are IN
creasing rapidly in their ability to do
so. With this growth in secondary
schools there has gone on an Increase
in the numbers who resort TO colleges
and universities, while in 1890 each
group Of 1000, 900 showed $50 students
In colleges and universities; ten years
later each group showed 1,2S4 students.
In professional and technical schools
A. --u.a Ana hnnn nXnN moro QIIT-
prising. Counting these in with the
colleges and universities so as to get
the grand total Of students in higher
education, the entire enrolment In the
United States in higher education,
which for practical purposes may be
said to include one-fourth in a period
OF -four years In the course of study.
namely, work from the thirteenth year
TO the sixteenth year inclusive, the stu
dents being from 10 10 % years of age.
counting these together, there were
1875, 242 students in the United States In
1890 and 1885, 75 in 1900"
The most notable Of the department
al meetings yesterday afternoon was
that of the department Of higher edu-
cation In the high school, before which
papers were read by President Faunce,
of Brown university, and VIM. e.
Chancellor, of Bloomington, III.
President Faunce in his address on
the Moral Elements in Education ad-
vocated properly conducted athletic
contests In colleges and schools.
The national council Of education at
a SHINY attended session adopted a
resolution indorsing the Capitalization
of rural schools n the ~transporta-
ton of pupils to them.
The following departmental elections
were held yesterday:
Normal Schols-President, j. f. Mills
paugh, Winona, Mimi; secretary, j. X.
Kirk, Kirksville, Me.
Science-President, Franklin Nj. Bar
rodws, Buffalo; vice president, w. II.
Norton, Cornell college, Mt. Vernon,
Ia; secretary, w. S. Blatchley, state
%geologist, Indianapolis, Ind.
Elementary Observation-Disclosures, X.
A. Ogg. Kokomo, Ind; secretary, Miss
AIDA p. kertZ, Carbonate, Ill.
Business Education-President /. o.
Crissy. Albany, n. Y; secretary, Tenn
pleton, 2. Twiggs, Detroit, Niche.
Library Observation-Disclosures, j. ID.
Garfield, Columbia university, New
York: secretary, Miss Mary f. "A. Hern,
Chicago.
Department OF Higher Education
President, w. II. =. Faunce, president
Of Brown university, Providence, r. l.;
secretary, Prof. John w. Perrin, Cleve-
land.
National Council Of Education-Presi-
den., w. j. Phillips. Alabama; secre-
tary, ]. u. Millspaugh, Winona, Mimi