The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
TEACHERS HEAR KENDALL
POSSIBILITIES OF COMING YEAR SET
FORTH by SUPERINTENDENT.
Special stress Placed on Manual
Training, Health of Children
and English study.

Indianapolis teachers met yesterday morn
Ing IN the Harrison school to hear the open
ing address of c. ~. Kendall superintendent
or the city schools Mr.. Kendall said:
"The new school year will begin with
many encouraging auspices BY vote last
winter OF the General Assembly the Board
Of School Commissioners is entitled to
cure more money for the schools. This en-
actment OF the Legislature apparently reg
istsred the public opinion Of the city:
titled 70 do several things. 1t can build
sufficient school buildings, high school as
well as common school. to take care of the
increased demands of city growing rap
idly. You and know more clearly than
the public at large that good schooihouses
adequate buildings make possible a more
Reasonable number Of children to the
teacher S1 All OF gu, our buildings cannot be
what We would like, and the number OF
pupils with each teacher Is still too large.
MANUAL TRAINING.
We are enabled TO extend manual train
Ing into all OF the elementary schools.
though not fully so this year. This de-
sirable result will be brought about it is
hoped, within the next two years. 1 am
sure that the altitude OF the public toward
this work Is due partly to the sympathetic
reception accorded the movement by teach
ers.
mo child should go home from school
Friday night, whether II be from the
grammar school. from the English classes
or the high school, or from the primary
school, without having read during that
week, and perhaps abundantly. literature
that VIII not live merely one year OK five
years, but a hundred or thousand years. J
The supplementary list contains such ma
terial, or should contain It. By using Ii with
children you are furnishing them nourish-
nlent Of a spiritual and intellectual kind
which Will be so much capital all the days
OF their lives.
Looking toward the future and taking
you into confidence. If will permit
me, i hope may be able to give in
creased attention to the health of children.
allow me TO repeat now, We are beginning
20 realize the Increased worth OF the indi-
IS red, whose sleep is sound, whose consti-
tuition Is iron, whose muscles are hard,
whose temper is sunny, and whose brain
Is clear. We have not been, 1t is true, with
out recognition of the truth Of this In our
practice.
1.-The recess. the excellent work done by
your cooperation. the school games. the
rest period, the Influence OF the gymna-
stun. at school No. 40, are all in evidence
OF this. Without putting any additional
burden upon the teacher, more attention
may still be given to the many-sided physi-
cal activity necessary to complete health
HEALTH OF CHILDREN.
ct may mention only few of the points
of contact between the school life of the
child and his health and efficiency. Album
dant play grounds outside and. the GYM
nasiun inside, games and free play and
gymnastics, natural exercise, healthy sport,
the rest period, the recess, the ventila-
ton, the lighting, the heating the tenn
perature, the color of the walls, the shades,
the alienation OF studies. medical inspec-
.tion. a consideration OF home study-as a
parenthesis. no violation of the rule of
home study-a realization Of the change
and variety which young child must
have. To some of these Ii is possible for
each Of us 10 give attention. but to all of
them II Is necessary that somebody should
General physical training, the health
OF the child and the conditions under
tion OF teachers and superintendent as
10 the best methods of hygienic instruc-
tion-an this Is work for the well-trained
specialist. II may be of interest to know
that the Teachers College in New York
Is now erecting a 100000 building for the
training OF such specialists.
II know Of a college where each student
Is compelled to learn TO swim. provided
he is teachable. 1 wish that the alumni
associations or each Of the two high schools
would raise funds for the installment OF
swimming pool In each high school. so that
every pupil in these schools would not
only know the art. but might have, also,
the self-reliance which goes with it, 1 be-
heve that the equipment once installed
might be In use all the months of the year
without any expense TO taxpayers.
STUDY OF ENGLISH.
"a monograph on the study OF English
viii soon be placed In your hands. which
II IL hoped will be helpful in teaching one
OF the most elusive subjects in the curricu-
lum. In the meantime. no teacher will
waste her time In insisting upon the use
Of the ordinary correct forms of English
at all times In her presence. / mean those
forms which are liable to be incorrectly
used Is there enough real insistence in
the high schools and in the elementary
schools upon these correct forms of Eng
ish?
AT the memorial services held last win
ter, in Cambridge, in happy memory Of
Alice Freeman Palmer, whose untimely
death Is an frreparable loss to education
and to society, whose career, as President
Eliot said, was perhaps unmatched among
American women, president OF Wellesley
College at twenty-six, one Of her old stu
dents said: Her influence among her stu
dents was boundless She knew them all as
individuals. BY word and example she
nodded character. The deeper side of her
nature. rarely revealed gave fullness and
sweetness TO that charming play of fancy,
that wholesome. kindly humor, which en-
deared her TO all who came in contact with
her. For she was founded upon a rock,
and her courage and her loyalty and
bravery bore witness to that foundation
I'm closing, let me express the wish that
some pupil of each of US, in near or far
future, may in words not like these but
OF similar meaning, speak OF how we like
wise have touched life at its best"