The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-29
EDUCATORS MEET
4sRD ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE
N0TIoNAL ASSOCIATION.


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Fair Welcome Visitors
to 81 Louis.
St Louis, June 2s.-The forty-third
annual convention OF the National Ed
ucational Association formally began
To-Day at the Worlds Fair grounds when
tne nrst of the general sessions was
called TO order in Festival Hall. Later
IN the day the sessions OF the different
departments were convened In various
nails throughout the grounds. the
whole constituting the general session
OF the association, which will adjourn
sine die on Friday
The following departments will hold
sessions during the week: Kindergar-
ten and elementary education, secon-
dary education, higher education, nor
NAL schools. manual training. music
education. art education, business edu-
cation school administration, library.
special education. physical education.
indian education, the national society
Tor scientific education. and the Edu-
cational Press Association. The gen.
eral sessions will convene at $3.50
o'clock each morning and the depart
mental sessions will convene at $3.50
O'Clock each afternoon.
1t Is estimated that close to 10000
persons have come to st. Louis for the
tfonal convention.
Festival Hall has a seating capacity
OF about $500, but had the hall been
fve times as large II would not have
accommodated the crowds Educators
from every portion of the United
States and many from abroad consti-
tuted the vast throng that endeavored
to fnd accommodation in the hall, and
the musical program that was arrang-
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vention to order was continued for
some time after the hour set for the
convention to begin in order to permit
the delegates to arrange themselves
comfortably.
The convention was called to order
by President J. w. Cook of DeKaib,
Ill!
Several of the dignataries of the ex-
position, civic and State. were to have
made addresses Of welcome. but were
not present, and after reading letter
from Governor Dockery expressing re-
greet that he was unable to be present.
President Cook introduced the first
speaker. Hon. W. T. Darlington. super
intendent Of public inspection of Mis-
souri,. Superintendent Darlington well
coined the educators to St. Louis and
to the exposition. A second address of
welcome was made by C. M. Wood
ward. President of the st. Louis Board
of Education, who said:
II welcome you to a city over which
three nags fioated in twenty-four
hours The first was the flag of Spain.
which was replaced by the dag of
France and the tri-color came down
and the stars and stripes went up and
have remained up ever since"
The next speaker was L. Louis SOL
dan. Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion of st. Louis. While he was speak
ing Mayor Rolla Wells and Exposition
President D. r. Francis entered the
hall. Mayor Wells was introduced and
welcomed the educators to st. Louis.
President Francis gave the delegates
welcome to the Exposition and urged
that as a weeks time is too short
period in which to thoroughly inspect
the Exposition, they remain longer
time. after the convention has ended.
or speedily return.
Howard J. Rogers of the Department
of Education of the Worlds Fair fol-
lowed with a brief address of well
come.
Responding addresses were delivered
by Hon. w. T. Harris. Commissioner of
Education of the United States, WASH
ington, D. c.. and Charles D. McIver.
President of the State Normal and In
dustrial College. Greensboro, N c.
President John w. Cook then deliv-
cred his annual address on New Indi-
vidualism." He said in part:
What has become of our dear indl-
vidualism? 1t returns to its old haunts
occasionally to turn the rascals out,
but 1t is less serious business the
greater part of the time. The desecra-
ton of the Puritan Sabbath is about
completed. II has been transformed
into an ordinary holiday, out of which
has been filtered the last poor rem
nants of intrinsic sacredness. If the
man of the future is to be religious, 1t
will be because of the principles of au-
thority that he recognizes and gladly
obeys in every science that he investi-
gates. The child must learn the sa-
credness of the law and the manliness
of obedience
After the appointment of a Commit
tee on Resolutions. the sessions ad-
1ourned until tomorrow. ~,
The session OF the department Of
physical education convened in the hall
of physical culture, with president f.
H Arnold of New Haven, Conn. in the
chair. The subject of the presidents
address which opened the first session
was The Importance of walking in
physical training"
The department OF secondary educa-
ton convened in Library Hall. of the
hall of congresses, with Reuben Post
Halleck. the president. in the chair. r.
H. Mark OF Louisville, KY, read a paper
on What secondary schools may learn
from the st Louis exhibit"
The joint session of the kindergar-
ten and elementary department was
held in the main hall of congresses
Miss Ada Van Stone Harris, of Roches-
ter N, Y. presided.
The topic. The relation of the kin
dergarten and the elementary school
as shown in these exhibits was dis
cussed by Miss Patty s. Hill of Louis
willie, Ky, and Charles B. Gilbert of
New York City. This was followed by
a discussion led by Prof A. Caswell
Ellis, of Austin, Texas. The kinder
garten in the Southern States, in Mex
leo and South America" was the sub
Ject of paper read by Miss Evelyn
Waldo of New Orleans. After the APP
pointment of a number of committees.
the convention adjourned until Thurs
day afternoon. The department of sci
ence instruction met in the transporta
tion building. President w. A Fiske. of
Indiana, presiding.
All members of the Association were
te0derad at ut