The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-29
MANY TEACHERS
IN CONVENTION
Great Gathering in the Worlds
Fair City.
HALL OF MEETING CROWDED
SIGNIFICANT REMARKS BY
PRESIDENT COOK.

ST. Louis. June 2S.-The annual con-
vention of the National Educational
association formally convened today Ia
Festival han at the Worlds fair
grounds. Later the sessions OF the dif-
fereut educational departments were
convened in various nails throughout
tte grounds, the whole constituting the
general convention OF the associate
The following departments VIII hold
separate sessions during the week.
Kindergarten and elementary educa-
tiOp. secondary education, higher edu=
cation, normal schools, manual train-
ing. music education, art education,
business education, child study. sci
enCe instruction, physical education.
school administration, library. special
education, Indian education, the Ma
tional Society for the Scientific study
Of Education and the Educational
Press association.
Thirty Thousand Present.
1t is estimated that close 20 $4,000
persons have come to st. Louis to at
tend this convention. Several thousand
more educators are expected to swell
the attendance before the middle of the
week, and it is expected that the rec
ord held by Boston for the largest at
tendance when the convention met
there last year viii he eClipsed. Fes-
tITal hail has a seating capacity Of
about $500 but had the hall been five
times as large it would not have aC-
commodated today's crowd. Educators
from every portion of the United states
and many from abroad constituted the
vast thr0ng that endeaVOred TO enter
the hall.
The convention was called to order
by President John Cook There were
a half-dozen welcoming addresses, one
by President Francis Of the World s
fair, who was given a ChauJauqua sa-
Lutte and three cheers when he COnclud-
ed his remarks.
Many Big Guns.
University rally day was observed
E the Missouri building, and alumni
students and members of university
faculties from all over the country
were present. Addresses were made by
President ]. X. Angel of Michigan
State university, Congressman John
Sharp Williams Of Mississippi, Presi-
dem George Fellows Of the University
of Maine, Chancellor Robert Fulton of
( the University Of Mississippi. Hon. w.
. i, Harris commissioner Of education
of the United States, Washington, y.
c., and Charles D. McIVeT. president
of the State Normal and Industrial
college, Greensboro, \. c..
AAls tAGlNEI odlQ IL MOulG DC q UOOI
to the country If every pupil We're TO
be sent TO st. Louis By the school
board. with all expenses paid while the
exposition was being inspected.
Better Than Summer School.
Il would rather that my children
should spend a few days visiting this
exposition than to spend the heated
months in a summer school,
President Cook in his annual address
on New IndividUalism," said:
What has become of our dear indi-
vidualism? 1t returns to it's old haunts
occasionally 10 turn the rascals out,
but it is in less serious business the
greater part of the time. The desecra-
tlon Of the Puritan Sabbath is about
completed II has been transformed
into a holiday out of which has been
filtered the last poor remnants of i'm
tTinsic SaCTedness. If the man of the
future is to be religious il win be be-
cause OF the people of authority that
he recognizes and gladly obeys i'm every
science that he investigates. Tie child
must learn the saCTedness of The law,
and the manliness Of obedience"