The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-09
GREATEST ON EARTH.
Prominent Educators Tribute
to James j. Hill.

Minneapolis, Mimi, July 9.-This was
a day of department meetings for the WIS.,
fting teachers of the National Education
al association. The morning was given
over to meetings of the following depart
ments: Kindergarten. secondary educa-
ton, normal school, manual training,
music and Indian education.
In the afternoon were held the following
meetings: Higher education, art, bust
ness education, child study. physical edu-
cation. science instruction, special educa-
ton.
The feature of the normal school meet
ing 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 the
concentration and cooperation of the
work on the teaching of the actual in
stead of the theoretic conditions.
4 striking paper was read in the kinder
garten section by Mary c. May, director
of the kindergarten department, state nor
NAL school,. Salt Lake, on defects in the
teaching of English. The greatest de-
ficiencies in the department system,
she defined as poor power of expression
especially orally, poor spelling, punctua-
ton and composition, inability to grasp
vital facts and lack of appreciation of
ated, were training in clear. definite, brief
power of statement, greater simplicity of
expression for teacher and pupil greater
power of Illustration and marked extern
sion of oral combined with written work.
James Remsen Bishop, of Cincinnati,
aroused the enthusiasm of the secondary
education department by his demand for
a closer system of supervision of schools
by the state. He pointed out that the ac-
tivity in educational matters had given
rise to confusion and lack of Coordination.
Present state bureaus, he declared. do
not supervise thoroughly and well be-
cause too small and underpaid.
In the department of business education
the president, 1. o. Grissy, Of the re-
gents office, Albany, N. Y, said that a
committee of nine had spent the year
formulating a general course of procedure
and detailed course for study for business
education in the high schools. The de-
mand for four year courses was so strong
and showed decided trend toward
practical business instruction that the
committees work was most important
A. E. Winship, editor of the Journal of
Education, Boston, read a strong and sug-
gestive paper the disciplinary value OF
commercial studies as opposed to the old
idea that higher mathematics was best for
said:
~. J. Hill is the greatest railroad man
on earth because he first carried bushel
of wheat 100 miles for cent and a hail.
and a ton of coal 100 miles for 25 cents.
It is the plain multiplication table that
made Jim Hill the best disciplined man
west of Chicago"
w. H. Norton, professor of geology at
Cornell college. Iowa, in his address as
president of the science section, con-
tended that there should be enough
science from primary school to uni
versity so that there should be no year
in which scientific aptitudes may not
find means of development.
said, in referring to Christian Science
(which can render immune to such vag-
aries.''
In the departm ent Of higher education
George N Carlan, director of the Lewis
Institute, Chicago, made the second an
nual report for the commission on &C
credited schools, whose object it Is to
establish closer relations between the
colleges and secondary schools of the
north central states. The commission
consists of 40 members, equally divided
between colleges and secondary schools,
and it's purpose is to effect reasonable
uniformity in requirements for admis-
sion to colleges. If its plan is put into
operation any graduate of any school
on the accredited list may enter any
college in the association without ex-
animation. Its work is held to be a
long step toward desirable national
uniformity among leading schools and