The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-01
OVATION TO SATOLLL
The Cardinal Attends National Educa-
tional Association Convention.

St. Louis, Mo-. July 1.-The National
Educational association ended it's con-
Yention today. The final general seS-
sion was opened with prayer by Rabbi
Ieonharrison, of st. Louis. Cardinal
Satolli soon after entered the hall and
the audience rose en- masse when he
was introduced and he was given an
ovation. Cardinal Satolli made a brief
speech in which he expressed his
pleasure at being present. The cardinal
remained with the convention only a
few minutes.
| George A Gates. president of Pomona
college, Claremont, Gala, made an adj
dress the subject, 1.-The Place of the
Small College" President Gates spoke
in part as follows:
I'm these present years a counterac-
ton is setting In in the minds OF
American educators toward the small
college. There is reason for it. The
great universities will grow more and
more. The detached college is not be-
ing outgrown or being supplanted. On
the contrary the best of these are grow
ing at rapider rate. The distinguish
ing features of a college as contraSted
with the university are too valuable to
lose from American life. The college at
it's best is far less exposed to the ten
dency to foster a narrowly specialized
efficiency at the expense of broad and
lliberalizing culture. American educa-
subtlyi fatal temptation. 1t is just at
this point that the American college
has found and will retain its own
great place.
THE simple, small college must
not be so small and poor as to be
mean. 1t must be large enough for
the college spirit and small enough
that that spirit be not impossible
through the fact that the men can not
know each other. The touch between
institution and student of intimate
personal relation is a never to be for
gotten chief factor. Personality is
the ultimate fact of education, as of
all philosophy and life. Some sort of
initiative and leadership, escapable
amid larger numbers, is forced upon
most students in college. These actfV-
tiles are an invaluable training for the
wider world. The statistics abundant
ly show a far larger proportion of
graduates of smaller colleges doing
Well than of larger institutions. A
Harvard man has recently shown that
this is strikingly true of his own col
lege, comparing Harvard the small
college before 1860. with Harvard
university since that time.
I'm the chief city of the Pacific
coast effort has several times been
made to organize the considerable
eastern university into an alumni as
ISOLATION. The effort has as often
failed Loyalty and college spirit is
wanting The men never knew each
other or of each other"
The concluding address was deliv-
cred by Aaron Cove, superintendent
of schools of Denver, on the subject,
The Limitation of the Superintend-
ent's Authority and of the Teachers
Independence" Supt. Cove said in
part:
I'm school administration a definite
partition, positive and evident, must
lie between the functions of the leg
islative and executive departments |
While the superintendent of schools is
permitted and it is his duty to par
ticipate in the counsels of the legisla- |
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in the execution of the plans which |
have been made by others as well as
That part of the executive |
department of the school system
vested primarily in the superintend- |
emit; the responsibility is his, theo-
the knowledge of the best |
method lies in him.
1.-The independence of a teacher is |
confined to that part of his official
life that depends upon ethical rela-
lions. There can be no independence |
with regard to the performance of an |
assigned duty.
"A democracy of teachers for the
purpose of controlling authoritatively |
the many hundred lines of activity
connected with the administration of |
as that the patrolmen of the police de-
partment of a great city shall or
ganize and give orders according to
their own will in the department in
Concerning their administrative
nor educational policies can the teach
ing body be intrusted with final deci-
sion.
Can it be possible that there are
in the ranks of our profession-four
hundred thousand of US today-men
and women-whO are willing to be
bound by rules and regulations and
promises whereby they shall officially
determine upon the merits one of the
other; that no teacher can be en-
ployed except that he belongs to the
that he shall have just
the wages that organization directs;
and when necessary he shall stop the
of public education in re-
turn for some real or fancied griev-
ance?
''An organization of teachers for
legislative purposes or for directive
purposes is comparable to an organ
zation on the line of the younger part
Of a large family for the control of the
parents efforts"
The convention then took a recess
until later in the day, when the final .
session, designated as the vesper meet
ng, concluded the forty-third annual I
assembly.