Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
TEACHERS READY
FOR INSTITUTE
PROGRAM FOR NEXT WEEK IS
PLANNED
Many Prominent Educators VIII APP
pear Before the conventlon-As-
sembly to Be Divided Into
Numerous Sections

The teachers institute which is to
meet here next Monday has announced
the questions on which it intends to
deliberate, and to the lay mind they
seem to cover every phase of human
activity from the proper way to find
the root of q Greek verb to the only
right path to pursue in teaching the
young kindergarten pupil the difference
between an apple and a lemon.
Beginning with an address by City
superintendent e. G. Moore before the
general meeting of the Los Angeles
teachers at $3.50 Monday morning at
Polytechnic high school, the institute
will sit in session till Saturday morn
ing, when DIR. Cook will address the
convention on Modern Tendencies in
Education" A business meeting and
the election of officers will follow the
last address.
The institute will cover a great field.
For the first three days the city and
county teachers institute will be in
session, numbering among it's member
ship between 1900 and 1900 pedagogues
Wednesday night the Southern Califor-
mia Teachers association will convene,
and teachers from seven of the south
ern counties will attend. A large at
tend the institute means that the Of
fender will lose his pay for that time.
Convention Divided
At the same time, while DIR. Moore
and Superintendent Hyatt of River
side are addressing the teachers of Los
Angeles at Polytechnic high school,
superintendent Mark Keppel and DR..
Richard G.. Boone of New York will be
L, 1. ,tryf IL,
ers at Simpson auditorium. The next
morning Professor Elwood D. Cubberly
of Stanford and President Jesse F.
Millspaugh will address the county
teachers. while their city fellows are
listening to SuperintendentS Frank f.
Bunker and H. A. Adrien.
In the meanwhile the high school
teachers of both the city and the coun-
ty will meet apart from the ward school
teachers in the auditorium of Los An
geles high school to discuss the ques-
tion, "How Can Efficiency in High
Schools Be Increased?" The program,
one Of the best of the institute, in
cludes such names as ]. H. Francis of
the Polytechnic high school, Professor
Clapp of Berkeley, Professor Rolfe of
Stanford and Professor e. e. Taylor.
Later in the day matters relating to
the profession will be discussed.
Seventeen Sections
Wednesday will be taken up by many
of the teachers in attending one of the
section meetings" of which seven
teen separate ones will be held. Each
of these meetings will take up some
particular department, such as his
tory, geography, Greek and other lines,
and the teachers will attend those in
which they are most concerned.
Wednesday night, December 10, the
Southern California Teachers associa-
tion will open its session, DR.. Moore
delivering the address Of welcome,
which will be responded to by Superin-
tendent Nichols of Orange county. The
feature will be an illustrated lecture by
Vice President Branner of Stanford on
the subject, 1.-THE Great Quake"
Thursday morning, among other sub
jects of interest. will be talks on "How
Schools May Be Kept Free from Politi-
cal Influence" James Foshay leading;
then Free Textbooks" will be discussed
followed by Supervision of Rural
Schools Future of Nature Study
"Child Study" and Humane Educa-
tion."
Thursday afternoon Mark Keppel will
address a general session of all the
teachers on "Our Creed; Miss Will
limina Armstrong on Ancient and
Modern Education in India" and Cap
tain E. Miller on Agriculture in the
Public Schools will complete the pro-
gram for the day.
Friday a large number of section
classes will be held and a general ses-
sion will be addressed by DR.. j. w.
Cook of Illinois, this meeting being held
in Simpson auditorium.
Social Affairs Planned
The hard work and close application
incidental to the proper employment
of an institute will be varied by little
social functions which different di-
visions are planning. The Southern
California Schoolmasters' club will hold
it's annual business meeting and BAN
quet some time toward the close Of the
week, and the California Physical
Geography club will combine with the
geography division Friday to take a
brief excursion to some interesting
spot. The day before the normal
alumni will have had their annual
alumni spread at the Hill Crest inn
promptly at noon. The members have
been granted permission by Superin-
tendent Keppel to come to the insti-
tute half an hour later than usual.
With the Southern California Teach
ers' association and the city and county
pedagogues it is expected that between
$500 and 1000 teachers and educators
will attend the sessions of the insti-