The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-28
THE EVENING SESSION

lnE LHENlMu OEOOlUN
Ellsworth Shafto, acting president of
the association, was chairman of the ses-
sion last evening The programme was
opened with musical selections by Miss
Stella Eccles and Mrs Caroline Barber
Biddle. Mrs. Biddle sang MY Loves
an Arbutus," /" and Miss Eccles played
1.-Two Larks"
The chairman announced these mem
bers of the nominating committee: First
congressional district, William II. Ed
ridge, Miss NJ. 7. Magee: Second dis
trict, N. c. Holdbridge, Miss Arthur;
district, r. A. Case, Miss Martin; Fifth
district, Miss Sophie NJ Brann, J. J.
Savitz; Sixth district, r. D. Blake A.
r. Chadwick, Miss A. E. Detser; Sew
enth district, R. D. Blake Miss Gepr-
gia Crater; Eight district, Edwin Shep-
trict, Miss e. A. Allen, E. ]. Tomlin-
son.
Chairman Of the committee on educa-
tional progress, Aaron W. Hand, super
fntendent Of schools of Cape May coun-
ty, presented the report of this commit
tee. He stated he best was none too
good for our schools, and referred to the
fact that New Jersey was in the front
at the ST. Louis Exposition in the matter
of school exhibits.
The reports of the supervising princi-
pals, he said, showed appreciation of
the schools by the public, there was re-
newed interest in the establishing OF new
schools throughout the county, and
larger percentage of teachers on advance
salaries than ever before. The speaker
said there was urgent necessity of legis-
lation for minimum salary for teach
ers and also to keep politics out. of the
schools, particularly in the matter of APP
pointing teachers.
Mrs Mary R. Earle Davis, instructor
and supervisor in the city normal school
of Bridgeport, Conn.,, delivered an inter-
esting address on "Some Facts About
the Nervous System and Their Relation
to Education Mrs. Davis spoke for
40 minutes, and presented many facts
She said in part:
"This is a complex age of marvellous
development in many and widely differ
ent directions. There are numberless
and ever increasing activities in scientific
discovery, rapid industry, rapid com
munication and transportation. The
world is full Of activities of which our
ancestors never even dreamed.
Eve of the present day need to pos
sess quickness Of perception, thought
and action which they did not possess
or need We need these not only that
we may avoid the dangers which the
complexities Of life impose, but that we
may control them and make them of SER
vice to us. The individual needs to
know how to adapt himself to the hustle
and hustle of modern American life that
he may bring order out of confusion
and chaos without injury to his nervous
system. That he is not yet able to do
this is shown by the great number of
Dreakdowns and deaths reported every
year among those in the very prime of
life
"The child should be taught and made
to dress, himself-to wait upon himself
to do something worth while from ea-'li-
est childhood. 1t follows that the best
developed individual. the one abe %
meet and master complex conditions of
fullest amount of mental, spiritual and
physical or motor activity And no mat
ter what his station in life the boy
should be taught to handle tools intel-
ligently in constructing various objects.
The girl too should be trained to sew
and to look after certain household af-
fairs. Not to train the boys and girls
is to rob them of that splendid courage
and confidence in ones self or ones abiI--
ity :
Mrs. Davis concluded her address
with technical description of the work
Of the brain cells and the nerves Of the
body
DR.. Charles Gray Shaw professor of
philosophy in New York university de-
livered lengthy address on The Mod
ern Man He compared the men Of
today with the men Of the days Of Plato,
Socrates and Angelo.