Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-09
.B[ARDSH[AR IS SICK
President OF the National Educa.
tional Association in a Min.
neapolis Hospital
Unable to Preside at the Con.
vention Troubled With
Nervous Exhaustion.
Fifteen Thousand Delegates to
Attend Association Meeting
The Program.

Special to Times Republican.
Minneapolis. July 9.--President w. NJ.
Beardshear, of the National Education
al Association, who arrived in Mime
apolis On Saturday ill with nervous ex-
haustion and has been kept in his sick
room ever since, was removed to ST
Barnabas hospital, yesteday by the adj
vice of the attending physician, Dr. FL
L. Staples. The move to the hospital is
no indication of any change for the
worse. The patients condition is
neither dangerous nor serious, and is
rather in the nature of a general break
down than an acute attack.
The present illness dates back some
time and President Beardshear delayed
coming to Minneapolis several days,
hoping to recover fully in that time.
He will make no further attempt To get
out or to participate in the convention,
as he and his friends fully agree with
the doctors decision that it would be
unwise, if not positively dangerous.
AT the meeting of the board of direc-
tors yesterday the first item of business
of resolution of sympathy with the
president offered by DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler
Fifteen thousand delegates to the Ma
tional Educational Associations con-
vention have arrived in the flour city.
Today the real work of the convention
began. The speakers of the convention
are men of reputation. including politi-
clans, inventors, publishers, churchmen
and EDUCATORS.
Yesterday afternoon was given over
entirely to the general session at the
exposition building.
Wallace G. Nye, of Minneapolis, in
troduced w C. Martindale, of Detroit,
Mich, as chairman of the meeting.
Governor S. r. Van SAINT welcomed
the association to the state of which he
is the official head.
j. W. Olson, state superintendent Of
public instruction. delivered an address
of welcome in behalf of the educational
department OF the state.
Acting Mayor D. p. Jones welcomed
the delegates to Minneapolis and ex-
tended the freedom of the city.
Superintendent of the Minneapolis
public schools, Charles NJ. Jordan,
spoke of the system of public education
which is being offered by the state and
city.
DR.. Cyrus Northup. president of the
University of Minnesota, also spoke
words of welcome.
Superintendent James A. Foshay, of
the city schools of Los Angeles, Cal;
DIR. Theo. b. Moss, principal OF the
state normal schools of California, and
President Joseph Swain, of the Indiana
university. responding to the welcom-
ing addresses for their respective ses-
lions of the country.
Gossip is already rife as to the next
president of the association. But two
names are yet mentioned, those of
President Charles w. Eliot, of Har-
ward, and Superintendent James A.
Foshay, Of Los Angeles.
President Eliot is talked of because
of the probability that the next coEven-
ton will go to Boston, while DR.. Foshay
is the candidate of the active workers
who admire him for his energy and de-
votion to the interests of the associa-
ton.
The cities in the race for the next
convention so far are Boston, Portland,
Maine, the north Pacific coast cities,
which are working together, and Mia
CARA Falls, N. Y.
"Quarreling among the religious sects
and the churches about Interpretation
has stricken the Bible from the reading
OF the American people. Sectarianism
has brought about such serious con-
dition in this nation that the English
Bible Is no longer known as literature,
and consequently the people can not
understand the basic elements of our
civilization"
This is what DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Univer-
s:ty, told 5000 persons last night at the
general session of the National Educa-
tional Association. He made an i'm
passioned appeal for the restoration of
tie English Bible in the schools, not
from IL religious standpoint. but from
that of a book which had been the