Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-07-10
Teachers Convention at Minneapolis
in Full Blast and Holds Depart
ment Meetings.
Members of the Various Sections Hear
Matters Discussed by Educational
@ Leaders.
Demand Made for a Closer Supervis
ion of Schools by the State Bureau
and Better Pay.

day Of department meetings for the
visiting teachers of the National Edu
cational association and each attended
the section in which he or she was
most interested. The morning was
given over to meetings of the following
departments: ~ Fs,e 8st #
Kindergarten, secondary education
normal schools, manual training
music and Indian education.
In the afternoon the following held
meetings. -3ss
ts Higher education, art, business edu.
cation, child study, physical education,
science instruction, special education.
The feature of the normal school
meeting was the address of DR.. David
Felmley, president of the Illinois State
Normal School university, on the need
of more practical work in normal
schools and concentration and co-or.
dination of the work on the teaching
OF the actual instead OF the theoretical
child as the ultimate purpose of normal
education. ,fgl s2.
A striking paper was read in the
kindergarten section by Mary c. May.
director of the kindergarten depart.
ment, state normal school, Salt Lake
City, Utah, on defects in the teaching
OF English. ,#.
James Remsen Bishop of Cincinnati
aroused the enthusiasm of the second.
ary education department by his de.
mand for a closer system of supervi.
sion Of schools by the state. He point.
ed out that the extraordinary activity
in educational matters had given rise
to confusion and lack of coordination
Present state bureaus, he declared, dc
not supervise thoroughly and we'll be
cause too small and underpaid.
In the department of business edu
cation, the president, l.. o. Crissy, OF
the regents Office Albany, N. Y, said
that committee Of nine had spent the
year formulating a general course o1
procedure and detailed courses ot
study for business education in public
high schools. The demand for fou,
year courses was so strong and showed
SO decided trend toward practical
business instruction that the commit
tees work was most important.
Value of Commercial Studies.
"A. E. Winship, editor of the Journs
ing and suggestive paper on the dis
ciplinary value of commercial studies
as opposed to the only idea that high
ing the mind In illustration he said
a. ]. Hill is the greatest railroad
man on earth because he first carried
a bushel Of wheat 1,1O0 miles for 8
cent and half and ton of coal 1,10(
L 11c JrYoS hn a in
multiplication
| w. HI. Norton, professor of geology
| at Cornell college, Iowa, in his address
section, contended that there should
| to university SO that there should bt
no year in which scientific aptitude
may not find means of development
"It'is physical science alone,'' he said
in referring to Christian Science
garies.'
| In the department of higher educa
| tion George N. Carman, director of tht
ond annual report for the commission
on accredited schools, whose object i
/ is to establish closer relations betweel
/ the college and secondary schools o
i the North Central states. The commits
sion consists Of forty members, equal.
\ divided between colleges and second
any schools, and its purpose is to et
4 feet reasonable uniformity in require
4 ments for admission to colleges. /
its plan is put into operation any grad
. uate Of any school on the accredite
i list may enter any college in the assc
II ~ s1ryif1 ion
The movement for the election 0
\ President Charles w. Eliot of Harvar
i as president of the association has al
i tanned such headway that he is likel
4 to be named without opposition. a
i other names being with drawn.