New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-05-03
DECORATION OF SCHOOLS.
SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION AT EASTERN
PUBLIC EDUCATION CONFER
ENCE IN BALTIMORE
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

Baltimore, May "A notable feature of the East
ern Public Education Association conference at the
Arundel Club address by Mrs. Schuyler
Van Rensselaer,, president of the New-York Public
School Association on School Decoration" The
themes of discussion in the conference nearly all
tend to the identifying of American schooIhouses
and the combining OF the artistic with the prac-
cal in education. The Improvement Of the schools
from healthfu sanitary standpoint moral and
physical training. well mental development
are the chief factors in the splendid work In which
the women Of TIE association are engaged The
New-York and Boston representatives, had the floor
to-day. and their criticisms of existing evils and
suggestions for reforms in school systems
valuable.
George Sawyer kellogg. curator of the educa-
tionaI museum of Teachers College. Columbia Uni
'versity. talked upon The Development Of Ideal
Collection of Illustrations for Use IN Schools. De-
rived from All Sources" G. b. J. Snyder. superin-
tendent of school buildings. Department of Edu-
cation, New-York spoke on school Architecture
and exhibited pictures and drawings of number
of the better school buildings of New-York City.
paper that received the warm Endorsement Of
Superint eudent James H. Van Sickle of the Balti-
schools and in all the delegates, that
of Mrs. Ellen II. Richards. of Boston, On school
Sanitation" She said:
More fresh air is needed in the schools So long
as Boston spends $.")5 a year FOR feather busters
are built to be an ornament TO the city PERHAPS
and deathrap for the heiPSSs ShdTen or the
contractor bungles the fairly good plans.
In almost every L Is the children who
sacrificed, who dragged by the truant officers
from the sunlight and fresh air OF the streets into
dens Of stagnant, dusty. i'll smelling air. which
respectable board of charity would allow In
almshouse. Nv experience would prove that this
is exaggeration LunChrooms. with all facili-
ties for food both hot and cold must be included
in the twentieth century schOolhouse. l believe
the day is far off when the lower schools, with
two sessions, will provide a noon luncheon with
sending the small children through what
often wet. muddy streets to a home from which
the mother may be absent. 10 pick up they may
such food they find.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, president OF the
New-York Public Education Associa tion, chose
School Decoration 1t evident from the start
that the speaker at heart artist, and her
address was a clever in every particular. She
limited gracefully just those forms Of decoration
which would appeal TO cultivated tastes. and
warned against the OF cheap chromos, which
have the dangerous quality of being to obtain
but have often such demoralizng effect upon
the ignorant pupils they are intended to teach
The reception at nc Arundel tonight in honor Of
the members of the association attended by
nearly all the leading literary people and educators
in the city. The receiving party included the d.
rectors of the club. the wives Of number of the
faculty of Johns Hopkins University and a
Der of the teachers In the private schools