Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-08
TIE TEACHERS BUSY DAY |
President Harris Spoke a Good
 Word for Sports

1 says college Athletics Make Better
 Men of Students-President Tucker l Says the American College Stands
 for Social Advancement as We'll as Discipline.
 Boston, July s.--A busy day was ill ! prospect for the National Teachers as-
 sociation members to-day. From 9:30
 q. III. to Il D. m. each hour had it's
 definite schedule, and beginning at 2 l D. Ill. there were many events crowded l into each sixty minutes
 l Not only were meetings scheduled | for all departments, but there were
 exhibitions, lectures, open meetings,
 luncheons and no less than fourteen re- captions between o'clock and Il p. m. The kindergarten department, music
 education, physical training, library,
 school administration and special edu-
 cation departments held their opening
 meetings to-day; the others had met
 previously. The Kindergarten teachers discussed 'sThe Extension of the Kin ! dergarten Idea into Other Fields of Ed ucation. Y
 The music department considered subjects mainly technical, as did also 1 the physical training, library, school l administration and special education departments Presidents George Har- l ris of Amherst, William J. Tucker of
 Dartmouth W. F. Slocum of Colorado college and Rev Thomas F. Gailor, bishop of Tennessee, were the speakers in the department of higher education
 The general topic was Shall the Uni-> versity Concern Itself More Directly With the Morals and Manners of the Studensw
 | President Harris said: "The college should concern itself with the morals and manners of students, but not, I think, directly by specific methods and
 devices. The college must make re quflements as to studies and, for the most, must trust to influence. Work itself Is the- best moral power. Ath- letics promote morals. Should football, base ball, field athletics cease, the moral tone.of the college would be low cred. Sports come more and more
 upon a moral basis. There is more genuine religion in the college to-day than in any period of our history. Cant and pretense are not tolerated. Ira tionaI doctrine is discarded. But faith,
 hope, love. character, are exalted. The
 college should encourage sane, healthy, trustful, God-loving and man-serving
 religion
 President Tucker said in part: 1.-The American college or university stands for social advancement, as we'll as for intellectual discipline The uni l versfty is that gateway through which l democracy passes to the refinement of | its strenEt Eth.a ssScholarship is not the first end of college, or even of the university. The | connmon product of each is not the ] scholar by distinction but the man who | is fitted for the largest uses of society l and the state. Tn view of these con | alterations it becomes a matter of 'di- rect concern for the college and uni I versity to take account of morals and | mannerS.sas3
 .In carrying out this obligation con stant stress must be laid upon the nor l ality of work. We do not wish to produce any type of manhood in which l honest work has no substantiate place.
 I should urge with great emphasis the
 prfnciple that nothing more can be ex-
 pected from students either in morals
 or manners, burt especially in manners,
 than is done for them or with them. If l the college mana cement is unbusiness- l like, if the college buildings are with i out taste, if the whole social life is | lacking in vigor or attractiveness,
 nothing more ought to be expedited
 from students tlran. careless and indtf-
 ferent behavior"
 Bishop GaiIor said:
 s7The universities of the country are
 the truest and surest nurseries of citi-
 zenship and citizenship in its largest
 sense is rounded manhood. A univer- l sity which does not concern itself di- ] rectly and systematically with the
 morals and manners of it's students l fails to appreciate or discharge it's du- l ,ty to the,country.
 l .'When we come to consider specif- | ca1Iy what that moral development in- ! cludes, I should say that the three vir- l tues of honesty, purity and reverence l are the virtues that need most to be l cultivated, because they are founda- l tions of character and because they are not altogether encouraged by We] l conditions of modern life"