Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-04-30
WORKERS I'm EDUC ALTON.
Preparations Under Way for an Inn
pcrtant Convention al Canton

pcrtant Convention at Canton
Prof. George w. Nash, state super
intendent of public instruction. spent
several days In Canton recently max
Ing preliminary arrangements for hold
Ing one OF the most important public
gatherings that has ever been held In
the state. It will be a convention OF
educational workers to be held in that
city on the 14th, 18th and 10th OF May.
The convention will be composed of
county school superintendent, high
school, college and university profess
sors and leading school officers from
different parts of the state.
The object of this convention is to
make a concertive study and discus
sion of state school law and progress
sive scSool methods, In the hope of in
Producing greater uniformity into the
public school system of the state and
thereby producing more practical,
more intelligent and more harmonious
methods of administering school law
and of executing school work in all de-
partments than has heretofore been
done. There are hundreds of mex
cusable incongruities, misunderstand-
lngs and neutrality-suspicious. connected
with the public school laws of every
state, and scores of impractical meth
DDS of doing work that Prof. Nash be-
lieves ought to be Strengthened out,
and he thinks he can conserve the pub
lie welfare by taking steps to brush
some of the wrinkles, as 1t were, out
of the educational fabric of this state,
because by reason OF these obstacles
there is annually a vast amount OF
time lost and useful effort. wasted in
every educational institution.
Prof. Nash does not expect to sue
coed In removing all the existing diff
culties at this one meeting, but it is
thought that great good will be done
If only few of the most radical him
ORANGES can be put out of the way.
One of the features of the conven-
ton will be the gathering on the after
noon of the 18th of the high school
men in the high school council" the
purpose of which is to establish q
uniform course of study for the high
schools Of the state, a project which
has been the dream of leading educa-
tors in the state for many years, and
| which if accomplished will meet the
| hearty approval of everybody engaged
in educational work. A conference of
college, university and normal profess
xfrf11 nIg f~ly VN11 h.
ond day of the convention, and in this
conference it is hoped to agree upon
! some needed changes in the certilca-
| ton laws.
The convention will be the first of
| the kind ever held in the state so far
! as known, and will be a thoroughly
representative gathering, being at
tended by the leading educational
workers from all parts of the state
! Every county superintendent in the
state Is expected to attend, and every
| college, normal, high school and uni
versity professor who can possibly
leave his work, besides many school
! officers of more or less state and
| local prominence. The attendance
| will probably be over 200.
It is the intention of the state super
intendent to make the meeting one Of
the most important and most useful
educational meetings ever held in
South Dakota. A regular program of
exercises is now in progress of prepa-
ration and will be given to the public
| In a few days.
Great preparations will be made by
Canton people to entertain the distin-
guished visitors from all parts OF the
| commonwealth.