The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-28
Thirty Thousand Persons At
tend N. E. A. Convention.
Try to Enter a Building With
Capacity of $500.
MORE EXPECTED.
All Previous Attendance Rec
Ords VIII Be Broken.
Main Body COnVenes and Separ-
ates Into Departments.

St Louis. June 2s.=The annual
convention of the National Education
al association formally convened to-
day in Festival hall at the worlds
fair grounds Later the sessions OF
the different educational departments
were convened in various halls
throughout the grounds. the whole
constituting the general convention OF
the association. The following de-
partments viii hold separate sessions
during the week:
Kindergarten and elementary edu-
cation. secondary education. higher
education, normal schools. manual
training, music education. art educa-
ton. business education. child study
science, physical education, school
administration. library special sduca-
ton, Indian education, the national
society for the scientific study of edu-
cation and the educational press as
sociation.
1t is estimated that close to 10000
persons have come to St Louis to at
tend the convention Several thousand
more educators are expected to swell
the attendance before the middle OF
the week and it is expected that the
record held by Boston for the largest
attendance when the convention met
there last year, will be eclipsed. Fes-
tival hall has a seating capacity Of
about 2,5OO, but had the hall been fve
times as large it would not have ac-
commodated today's crowd. Educa-
tors from every portion of the United
States and many from abroad con-
stituted the vast throng that endeav-
ored to enter the hall.
The convention was called to order
by PRESIDENT John w Cook There
were half dozen welcoming ad-
dresses, one by President Francis OF
the Worlds fair. who was given a
chautauqua salute and three cheers
when he concluded his remarks
University rally day, vas observ-
/ ed at the missouri building and
alumni. students and rnembeVs of uni
versity faculties from all over the
/ country were present. Addresses
/ were by PRECEDENT j. p. AngelI %
/ Michigan State university. Congress-
/ man John Sharp Williams OF Missis-
/ sippi, President George Fellows of the
/ University of Maine. Chancellor Rob
/ ert Fulton Of the University of Missis-
/ sippi, w T. Harris commissioner OF
/ education Of the United States Wash
/ ington, and Charles d. McIvers presi-
/ dent of the State Normal and Indus
/ trial college, Greensboro, n. C. Mr..
! AIcIver said it would be a boom to the
/ country If every pupil were to be sent
/ to St Louis by the school board, with
/ all expenses paid while the exposition
! was being inspected.
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 sIndfvidualism" said. "Wnat has
become Of our dear individualism2 II
returns to it's old haunts occasionally
to turn the rascals out but It is In
less serious business the greater part
Of the time. The desecration Of the
| Puritan Sabbath is about completed. II
has been transformed into an ordinary
holiday out of which has been filtered
I the last poor remnants OF intrinsic
sacredness. If the man of the future is
to be religious it will be because Of the
principle of authority that he recog-
nizes and gladly obeys in every science
that ne investigates. The child must
learn the sacredness of the law and the
rnauliness Of obedience"