The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-11
AN ARRAY OF
GOOD SPEAKERS
Will Address the Annual WisCOn-
sin Teachers Association
THE MEN EMINENT IN EDUCATION
Convention Will Meet the Last Week
In December
1T WILL Re THE JUBILEE MEETING
Splendid Programme has been Prepared
II is of Especial Interest TO
s;anitowoc County
WILL Re THE JUBILEE MEETING

The Wisconsin Teachers association
will hold its jubilee meeting at Milwau-
kee, December Goth to 31st, 1902 Uni
versity college and normal school pro-
fessors, city superip tendents, county
superintendents and high school princi-
pals, high school, graded school and
even common school teachers, from all
parts of the state, will spend part of
their holiday vacations in Milwaukee in
attendance upon the exercises of this
semicentennial Unusal interest is
being manifested in the coming meeting
and it promises to be the greatest
in the history of the association,
A glance at the programme shows
that there are fewer sections this year
than usual, few topics but all of them
of vital interest and an unprecedented
number of speakers from other states of
national reputation. Among them are
DIR. John Bascom formerly president of
the University of Wisconsin, who will
deliver an address entitled The Sour
ces of Authority in Teaching; DR.
Winship, of the New England Journal
OF Education, who will speak on "Edu-
cational Standards in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries" Reuben Post
Halleck, author and principal of the
male high school, Louisville, Kentucky,
whose subject is Adolescence; Henry
Turner Bailey, who is in the employ of
the Massachusetts State Board Of Edu-
cation, who is an artist, author and
lecturer unsurpassed on the educational
platform and who will give talk on
Beauty in School Work.; Professor
Wilbur Fiske Gordy, the eminent his
torian, who will give his experience on
THE Teaching of History in the Ee-
mentary Schools; Professor Francis G.
Blair, whose articles have created such
interest among school men and whose
subject Method in Teaching" will be
of great interest to the normal school
and city graded school section; Dean
Wilbur s. Jackman of the school of
education, University of Chicago,
whose subject is The Course of Study
for Elementary Schools; Mrs. Ida
| Hood clark, vice president of the East
ern Manual Training association and
supervisor of manual training, Nash
vile, Tennessee, and Mrs. Marguerite
| Warren Springer of the Workshop,
Chicago, whose themes will be respec-
lively 'Handicraft as Elementary Man
uni Training" and The New Indust-
rialism"; and Mrs. Alice II. Putnam,
president of the National kindergarten
Union, who will speak to the kinder
garten section on What has the School
Right to Expect from the Kindergar-
ten ?"
On Monday evening Henry Turner
Bailey will deliver his lecture "A More
Beautiful America" which will be illu-
strated at the blackboard and with
stereopticon slides. On Tuesday eve
ming the members of the association will
attend the annual festival performance
of the Messiah in body, half rate
having been made to the visiting teach
ers by the management of the Arion
Musical club.
The railroads will make rate of
fare and third for the round trip from
all points in Wisconsin and northern
Michigan and all the leading hotels in
Milwaukee are Offering great reduc-
ton from their usual rates to guests.
A pleasant and profitable time is as
sured all visiting teachers