New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-12
EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION ENDS
FINAL SESSIONS AT MINNEAPOLIS OF Ma
TIONAI. ASSOCIATION.

Minneapolis. July 11-This was the last day of
the National Educational Association meeting here
and the morning devoted a general session
in the Exposition Auditorium. Superintendent H. s
Tarbeu, Of Providence, r. l.. in the chair The
hrst speaker was William T. Harris United States
Commissioner Of Education whose topic How
the School Stretches the individuality of the Pu-
Pill II was a mistake. he said. to suppose that
the school tended to develop type of character
Ike one of the common results of machinery.
Neither did il tend 10 develop individuality in
thought and action The cultivated man thinks in
the printed word, which develops fine shades of
thought. Without means of this sort the child has
little more opportunity of gaining knowledge than
the gorilla of Central Africa.
Charles Payson Gurley Scott. of Philadelphia,
spoke on The Simplihcation of English Spelling a
Present Duty
Thomas Clarkson Trueblood professor of oratory
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor spoke on The
Educational Value of Training in Spoken English
The National Federation of Teachers was organ
lied this morning the following officers being
chosen: President, Margaret Haley. Chicago; first
vice-president, Miss X. Maud Clum, St Paul; sec
ond vce-president. Miss Mary MCGOWAN Clucin-
natl; secretary. Miss Annette RoSenthal, Milwau-
kee, and treasurer, Miss Emma McCabe. New-York.
The afternoon devoted to the meetings of the
various departments of the association, most of
which wound up their sessions by eecting officers
In the elementary education department W. A.
Mills superintendent Charlottesville Ind point
ed out The Use and Danger of Method"
John H Hinemon superintendent at Pine Bluff
Ark, read a paper on Age as Related to Char
acter Building"
In the department of higher education Professor
]. Irving Manatt discussed the future of Greek in
American schools and William Bayard Craig
chancellor of Drake University. Des Moines, Iowa,
read paper Education in the Appreciation of
Art"
In the business education department B. H
Meyer, professor of Institutes of commerce. Uni
versity of Wisconsin discussed the preparation OF
commercial teachers for public school work
Requirements of Actual Business was the topic
discussed by George a. Booth. of New-Haven, and
J. NJ. Anderson. Minneapolis.
E E Gaylord, of Beverly, Mass, outlined a prac-
A. Moran, Ann Arbor Mich and Mrs, NJ L. Veen-
hct, Alpena, Mich, discussed the education Of an
amanuenSs.
There We're two papers in the library department,
one on What May the School Properly Demand
OF the Library?', by J. NJ. Greenwood, supern-
tendent Kansas City. and one on School Libraries
IN Rural Districts. by Agnes Robertson. superin-
In the child study department Dr. r 0. Beard
MINNEAPOLIS, discussed the physiology of the
vous system as applied to education, and the topic
How Far. Does the Modern High School Fit the
Nature and Needs of Adolescents?''
papers on the training OF detectives by William b
Wait, superintendent NewYork Institution for the
Blind; L Il. Allen, superintendent Pennsylvania
Institution for the Blind, Overlook J. J. Dow.
superintendent Minnesota School for the Blind
Faribaut; DR.. Alexander Graham Bell Washing
ton. and Helen NJ Hefferan, president Illinois
Mothers Congress
Forty-fve meetings Of the departments and six
general sessions We're held in ali Some OF the best
known speakers in the United States delivered adj
dresses. Most OF the delegates will depart az once
to their homes. but thousand or more will stay
in Minnesota and vicinity for some time, TO visit
various places of interest.
meeting place for next year viii be Boston. the
election OF President Eliot OF Harvard Uni
anCe to mean that there will be no further COM
petition by other would-be aspirants for the honor