Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-09
EDUCATORS IN MINNEAPOLIS
Fifteen Thousand Already There and Many
More Are Yet to 0oms.
DAY CONFINED TO NATIONAL COUNCIL
First General Session is Devoted to
Address of lwsIcOme by Governor
Van SAINT and superintendent
Olsen Made Reply,

or more delegates to the National Educa-
tional associations convention are in Min
neapolis tonight, and It is predicted that by
tomorrow noon the number will reach 20,-
900. The meetings yesterday and today
were confined to the national council, the
Indian department and the general session.
Tomorrow the real work in detail will COM
mence. The rank and nle Of the visitors
were later In arriving than was expected.
due in a large measure to the fact that
many stopped on the way to visit points
Of interest along the route.
The first general session of the associs-
tion was held this afternoon at the Ex-
position building. the feature being the ad-
dresses Of welcome and the responses.
Wallace @. Nye OF Minneapolis acted as
temporary chairman and introduced w. G.
Martindale Of Detroit as the chairman Of
the meeting in the absence of President
Beardshear, who was confined to his room
by illness.
Governor Van SAINT in a few words well
coined the association to the state; ]. W.
Olsen, state superintendent Of public in
struction, voiced the welcome Of the teach
ers Of Minnesota; Acting Mayor d. p.
Jones spoke for the city and Charles NJ.
Jordan, superintendent OF the Minneapolis
public schools. welcomed the delegates on
behalf Of the Minneapolis teachers.
Address of DR.. Northup.
But by far the greatest address Of the
day was that delivered by DR.. Cyrus North
rup, president OF the State university,
whose witty and eloquent speech capti-
waited his audience Of 5000 educators.
Superintendent James A. Foshay OF the
city schools of Los Angeles, CAL; DR..
Theodore b. Moss. principal of the state
normal school at California, Pa, and Pres
ident Joseph Swain OF Indiana university
responded to the welcoming addresses for
their respective sections of the country
President Beardshear has been taken to
the hopital. suffering from an attack Of
nervous prostration, and was unable to de-
liver the presidential address this evening
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, president Of
Columbia university. spoke Of Some Press
ing Problems" and for nearly an hour ad.
dressed the 1000 people. His speech
sounded the keynote OF the purposes and
aims Of the convention and Of the pro.
fession Of teaching in general and wal
really the address that marked the regular
opening Of the convention proper.
DR.. e. A. Alderman, president of TUT,
lane university. New Orleans, also spoke a
length.
Hard Work Comes Today.
Tomorrow will be one of hard work 70
everybody. Besides the session at the expo
sition there will be fourteen other meeting
of the various deartments.
The national council finished its work thi
n orning and the Indian department will
hold Its closing session tomorrow.
The national council devoted it's sessio,
to a consideration Of the social aspects Q
education. Papers were read by D. z. Nj
Clure of Lansing. Mich; John Dewey, pro
lessor Of philosophy and education at tn
University Of Chicago, and Miss Anna Tol
man Smith, United States bureau Of edu
cation at Washington. Ossian H. Long, ed
itor of tho School Journal, New York, opene
the discussion.
The Indian education section held an in
teresting session with addresses by Unite
States Commissioner OF Education W. 7
Harris, DR.. Nicholas Murphy Butler, presi
dent OF Columbia university. New York
State Superintendent Alfred Bayliss OF I'LL
Kansas, and c. ". Grouse, Indian agent a
Sacaton. Ariz.
President Beardshear Ill.
The directors Of the national association
met this morning with an attendance Q
Fifty. The directorate includes one fror
each OF the states, thirty life directors an
the association officers. II was announce
that President w. M. Beardshear Of Ames
Ia, though In the city, was Ill with nervou
prostration and would not be able to pre-
side. w. c. Martindale Of Detroit, one @
the vice presidents, presided. The repor
Of Charles H. Reyes showed receipts Q
s32, 266 and disbursements Of $29. 979. which
with last years balance, leaves $s,174 o
hand.
The disbursements include $40, 900 trans
ferred to the permanent fund for invest
n ent.~The trustees reported sos. 900 In thi
fund. of which sS4. 900 is invested in mort
cages and municipal and, school bonds. TIL
American Society of Religious Edueatio
presented a petition asking to be taken int
afiliation, but It was laid on the table.
On motion OF Alexander Graham Bell, tn
name of the section devoted to the educa
tion Of detectives was changed to the sec
ton Of special education. Gossip is al
ready rife as to the next president OF tn
association. But two names are yet men
toned, that Of President Charles Eliot {
Harvard and Superintendent James A. Eos
hay OF Los Angeles. The cities in the rae
for the next convention are so far: Boston
Portland. Me-, the North Pacific eoas
cities. which are working together, an
Niagara Falls.
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