New-York tribune., 1905-07-06
HOLD TWENTY MEETINGS.
EDUCATORS KEPT BUSY.
FiUe Cities Bid for National AssO-
ciation's CenUention.

auspices on the several departments, but only
the most strenuous were able to attend more
than one-third OF them Delegates continue 10
arrive. The railroad officials have validated ten
thousand tickets thus far. and say the number
win be nearly doubled before the time limit
July 10. expires
New officers Of the association will pe elected
at noon Tomorrow a meeting OF the active
members, TO be held in the First Methodist
Episcopal Church. Irwin Shepard. the secre-
tary. and James W. Crabtree. the treasurer. viii
be reelected, and it is the consensus of opinion
that Charles d. McIver. president of the state
Normal and Industrial College. Greensboro
n c., viii be chosen to succeed President Max
Well
san Francisco, Portland. Seattle. Salt Lake
city and ST Louis are making bids fos the next
convention. The association net in san Fran
cisco in 1888 and in Los Angeles in 1899 The
delegates who attended the California conven
tions remember with pleasure their treatment
and the eight delegates present from that State
say they have received assurances that return
visit will be made next year William H Lang
CON- OF San Francisco City Superintendent of
Schools win present the claims Of his city To
the board Of directors at its meeting to-rnor-
row afternoon. Salt Lake City has twenty
three delegates from Utah the ground urging
its claims to the convention. The delegates
Nebraska
the Mormon city. Mathonihah Thomas a mem
Der OF the Salt Lake City School Board. is keep
ing his first name in the background while he
extols the beauty of his city and its advantages
as convention town. He is being ably as
sisted by A. c. Nelson. State Superintendent of
instruction. and d. H Christensen. superin-
tendent of the Salt Lake City schools.
While the directors have the power to desig-
nate the place for holding the next convention.
the subject doubt viii be referred, as has
been the custom for years to the executive
committee. Should DIR. McIver be chosen presi-
dent. however, some Southern city-either St
Louis or AtIanta-win doubtless be selected
The Indian band from the Carlisle School
has made a hit with the delegates The or
ganization is directed by Captain c. NJ staurer,
of the United States Interior Department The
band gives daily concerts on the beach and at
the leading hotels. Tomorrow afternoon a
baseball team from the same school will have
II out with a local team Fifteen Indian girls
accompany the delegation from Indian Territory
They are quartered at the Edgemere Inn and ap-
pear in public dressed in native costume.
A SHOW ON THE BOARDWALK.
This afternoon in the arcade on the board
walk several graduates and students Of the
junior and senior classes OF the New-Haven
Normal School Of Gymnastics illustrated
gymnastic lesson taught at that institution
The exhibition consisted Of a run free gym
nastics. jumping and exercise on apparatus
The exhibition attracted a large number of
spectators.
William r. Harper. president of the University
of Chicago, was one of the visitors to-day He
attended meeting OF the cornrnitte on investi-
| cations and appropriations, OF which he is
member.
The Indian workers resumed their meetings In
the Asbury Park Auditorium this morning In
structors from the Indian schools in Montana
Arizona, South Dakota. Indian Territory. Col
Orado. Nebraska, North Dakota Oklahoma and
Carlisle, several OF them full blOoded Indians
descEibed the methods employed in teaching In
dian children to speak English. Miss Natalie
Curtis sang religious. ceremonial and cradle
songs. John D. Benedict superintendent of
schools in Indian Territory said the greatest
need OF Indian education to-day is a corps of
teachers trained to understand Indian life and
environment and of a missionary and sympa-
thetic spirit.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT To SPEAK
Arrangements have been made to have Presi-
dent Roosevelt speak twice in Ocean Grove on
Friday afternoon. 1t will be impossible for all
the teachers here to get inside the auditorium
the Chief Executive will say a few words TO
those the outside of the building before going
home The second speech will doubtless be de-
livered from his carriage at Ocean Pathway and
Ocean-ave.
A majority Of the delegates especially those
from the East. do not indorse the decided stand
taken yesterday by Mayor Mcclellan for the re-
turn TO the teaching of "the three RS" in the
public schools and the abandonment OF the So
called "fads and frilIs." President Maxwell. II
is well known favors the innovation as do most
of the educators from the cities. The Mayors
speech ticked the old timers, and they are sing
ing his praises to-day.
PAPER BY JOHN BRIsBEN WALKER.
The Essentials of a Proper Education for the
Average Business Man" was the topic of paper
presented to-day before the department of bust
ness education by John Brisben walker Editor
of The Cosmopolitan Magazine" Mr. Walker
said in part:
While our great schools are organized in the most
complete way Tor instruction and administration.
have found. by personal examination covering
ny tfeIa s aI1eh ne hoard 9 or ~ Ins
men whose auty Il is to determine what education
should be. II therefore becomes essential
range with the utmost precision the order for the
period of time available But before this can be
student must determine: What do hope TO OBJ
If the youth starts out in fog of deception his
every effort must De hampered. II ne comprehends
to deceive himself and TO deceive Others. Therefore
in the ACQUISITION Of knowiedgs comes hrst and
AS = preliminary and an accompaniment 70 busi-
ness training there should be brfef studies OF the
known facts, first concerning the universe itself
and. second, OF our own globe. II one starts In
ignorance of things which concern all lie there viii
knowledge of ones own language Is an important
and rhetoric of synOnymes and OF the best litera-
brir sTfe Is convection to the hearerto that concise
style 50 necessary in modern correspondence-to