The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
TEACHERS OF INDIANA
WILL COME THIS WEEK
First Session Of the General Asso-
citation VIII Be Held To-
Morrow Evening.
THE VARIOUS SECTIONS

THE VARIOUS SECTIONS
This week I'm Indianapolis will be given
over TO the school teachers of Indiana, who
will be here in force. This is the week Of
the annual meeting of the Teachers As
ISOLATION and Mr. Milo II. Stuart, chair
man of the executive committee. who was
at the Claypool last night, looks for the
biggest attendance in the history of the
association. There are 5000 teachers in
the State and il is expected that this great
body of instructors will be substantially
Represented.
To those who present delegate certificates
to railroad agents a half-rate TO the con-
vention and return will be granted. The
arrangement is TO sell tickets on the 18th
and 18th only. The admission 10 all the
meetings, general and sectional, will be
by card. Admission cards without delegate
certificates may be had in the lobby OF
the Claypool Hotel during the session,
but teachers who have enrolled in advance
must bring their cards. About 500 have
already enrolled The executive committee
has distributed $3.50 programmes and there
are calls for more. 1t has been the plan
that has five teachers.
The general sessions of the Teachers
Association will be held in the assembly
room of the Claypool, the first session con-
vening tomorrow evening at o'clock
The music for the evening will be furnished
by the Manual Training High School
orchestra, and the first number will be a
selection from the comic opera. When
Yrt.
Joshua Stansfield will deliver the invoca-
ton. There will be two addresses, one by
the retiring president superintendent c. A.
OF H@% AaSIy anG bV sn
perintendent c. A. Van Matre, OF Della
ware county. At this session committees
will be appointed and miscellaneous pusl-
ness will be transacted
ACTIVE WORK.
Wednesday morning the teachers will get
down to active work and the meetings OF
the general association will continue until
Thursday. In addition TO the work of the
general association the different sections
will hold meetings as follows:
Mathematical section, Assembly hall,
Claypool Hotel Tuesday at $3.50 a. m.
English section, palm room, Claypool Ho-
tel, Tuesday at $3.50 a. m.
Classical section, ladies' cafe, Claypool
Hotel. Tuesday at $3.50 a m.
County institute instructors section Su-
preme Court room, Statehouse, Tuesday at
p. m.
Elocution and reading section, Room 20,
Statehouse, Tuesday at p. m.
Grammar school section, palm room,
Claypool Hotel, Tuesday at p. m.
Primary section, ladies' cafe, Claypool
Hotel, Tuesday at p. m.
High school section, Assembly hall, Clay
pool Hotel, Tuesday at p. m.
To-day and tomorrow the County Super
intendents' Association will meet in the
Supreme Court room at the Statehouse.
The first session will be held at o'clock
this afternoon. Following is the pro-
gramme:
Opening exercises. Prof. Frank V. Irish.
Chicago.
Characterised" Edgar Mendenhall, Decatur
county.
Discussion, (a) Levi A Mcknight, Benton
county; OBJ John Clerkin, Jennings county;
(c) Arthur r. Huyette, Wells county.
Topic Waste in the Rural School,"
George H. Tapy, Whitley county.
Topic, Institutes Conducted the De-
partmental Plan, william F. Byrkett,
Henry county.
Tuesday, a. M
Topic, Some Things That May Be Done
in Supervision in the Rural School" Homer
L. Cook, Marion county:
Topic, County and Township Institutes
as Educational Factors" August j. Reifel,
Franklin county.
Discussion. (a) Harry o. Buzzaird. Mon
roe county; (b) Earl w. Barnes, Mont
gomery county.
Topic. 1.-The improvement of the County
Institute" Jesse c. Webb, Johnson county.
Discussion. (a) Elijah Mcfarland, Martin
comfy (b) Willis y. Fox, Noble county.
Claude Rankin, president, Orleans; John
w. Lewis secretary. Wabash; Edison B.
Sarber, treasurer, Warsaw.
MUSIC SECTION.
An important feature OF the Teachers
Association meeting will be the session of
the music section to be held at Masonic
Hall on Wednesday at 2 p. M, to be fol-
lowed at Ais p m. with a grand concert as
| follows:
Observation-Disclosures" .............. Cherubini
Richmond High School Orchestra fourteen
instruments). under the direction of Mr..
Will Earhart, supervisor.
| Selections by a chorus from the third and
| fourth grades of the Terre Haute public
schools under the direction of Mr.. c. l..
| Fidlar, supervisor.
Violin solo selected
Mr. John Jackson (second year high schooD.
Anderson public schools.
Richmond High School Ladies' Chorus
6orty-four voices) Mr. Earhart. director.
(a) Which Is the Properest Way to
%, The water Nymphs'' Henry Smart
| (c) The Stars Beyond the Clouds
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Berthold Tours
Chorus of seventy voices from the seventh
and eighth grades of the Counersvilie
public schools, under the direction of Mr..
Z. NJ. Lippitt. supervisor
| Soprano solo-"Slave Song" del Riego
| Miss Laura Bryant, supervisor music in
the Brazil public schools.
| Waves of the Danube" Naturalization
Richmond High School Chorus and Orches-
ira, Mr.. Earhart director.
The Indiana Academy of Science, in which
| educators are interested. will meet to-day
| and tomorrow at the Statehouse in Room
r. w. S. Blatchley is president of the as
ISOLATION and John S. Wright, of this city,