The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-29
City News
ENGLISH COURSE
SOON TO Be READY
MINNESOTA TEACHERS IN AID.
VANCE OF OTHERS.
Committee Of Educational Association
Hopes Soon to Publish in Pamphlet
Form Comprehensive Four-Year
Course Of Reading for Use Of Peda-
gogs-Mrs. Lake Pleads for Chill
dren.

Course Of Reading for Use Of Peda,
gogs-Mrs. Lake Pleads for Chill.
dren.
the Mankato normal school. will be the
head of the Minnesota Educational as
sOciati0n for the next year. On the
primary ballot held Thursday, he Sc
cured clear majority, thus obviatine
the necessity for a final vote, and .whei
the report of the nomination was made
late yesterday at the general session in
Plymouth church, the association voteG
to make the election formal.
Others who will serve as the asso
ciation's officers next year and who
were elected in the same way, are
Recording secretary, Miss Nellie Cash
man of Benson, superintendent of Swift
county; treasurer, Superintendent F. J
Sperry Of Anoka; member Of the finance
committee, Superintendent H. G. Hess
w. F. Kunze will continue to act az
corresponding secretary.
The association took an important
step in reappointing the committee on
English, which has been steadily at
work since the last session, but which
has not yet concluded it's task r. Wat
son Cooper of Hamline university made
the committee 8 report of the work al
ready done and explained the views
which the association has in mind fol
future work. The committee advised an
abridgement Of grammar work in sew
enth and eighth grades, already out
lined In L h e Q urnal, and this re
port was accepted The committee has
made list of readings for the use oil
grade and high school teachers Wher
| 1c foG hn
to publish it and place copy in the
hands of every teacher. The work
which it will now undertake is the
planning of an ideal school course in
literature, in which all this materia:
will be correlated and Incorporated il
definite and useful form. The commit
tee also intends to make out an idea
course in composition covering the fou1
years of high school work. -,
Task Is Great.
the Minnesota Educational association
will have accomplished more than any
other associati lion in the country. The
New York association, said Mr.. Cooper
has worked along this line, but the
work has not been so exhaustive mol
yet as practical as that planned here
Another feature adding to it's value i.
the intention to have the report pub
lished, if possible, in pamphlet form, 81
every teacher may easily secure copy
The books included in the readings
t for the first two years may properly, be
ing the course, while those included il
the lists for the last two years shoul6
not be introduced before. The list il
as follows: RI x
First Year-The Sketch Book; The Life
of Goldsmith; The Vision of Sir Launfal
The Courtship of Miles Standish; Poe's
Poems; Sohrab and Rustum; Garet and
Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and the
Passing of Arthur; The Ancient Mariner;
The Lady Of the Lake; Mazeppa; The
Prisoner Of .chillon; Lays Of Ancient
Rome; "A y Tale 4of Two Cities; Lorna
Doone;s julius Caesar, Twelfth Nigth
! The Merchant of Venice. a ..s.,~' :. +
Second Year-Essay on Addison; Essay
on Johnson; The Pilgrims Progress;
Franklin's Autobiography; The Deserted
Village; Palgrave's Golden : Treasury
Books Two and Three; Joan Of Arc The
English Mail Coach; Sesame and Lilies;
! Washington's Farewell Address; Web
sters First Bunker Hill Grafton
- Third Year-Ivantoe. Quentin Dur
ward; Crawford; Silas Warner; The Vicar
Of Wakefield; Sir Roger de Coverley Pa
pers; Macaulay's Life of Johnson; Car
1yle's Essay on Burns; Sesame. and Lilies;
Speech on Cancellation with America
Macbeth; Henry ", Twelfth Night, AS
You Like It; selected Browning poem.
Fourth Year-Milton's minor poems;
Bacon's essays; Emerson's essays; The
Faerie Queene; The Rape Of the Lock;
The House of Seven. Gables; Henry
Esmond; Essays of Ella; Heroes and
Hero Worship; Essay on Burns; Chau-
| ho
! Better Environment.
Mrs. Leonora M. Lake of ST.. Louis
in speaking of the civil environment o1
the child, forcibly condemned that O:
today and urged speedy awakenine
Of the conscience which permits such
an environment to exist, Because tn,
environment, of today will form part 0.
the heredity Of tomorrow, Mrs. LAX,
pleaded for early reform. .>...,
"nTo the student of the school con
ditions,' she began, cit must be per
fectly evident that if the home is tht
cradle. of the race, the community j.
the playground, and the civil environ
ment for the best development Of tht
child must accord with the home in
fuence where the child has met no con
tagion. The mother: teaches ideals, tn,
teacher is mass of wrecked nerve
force trying to carry. them out Will,
greed, avarice, debauchery, corruptions
crime, drunkenness are in the very ali
the child .breathes, working for his con
tamination. [ respect, and reverence tn,
teacher and in view of the remarkable
per cent of imperfect children, conside,
their work miraculous
/ Mrs Lake went on vigorously attack
ing the rule which puts "keep off ,
signs on the grass Of parks, of the Law
which permits saloons on the city
streets. The speaker deplored, too, the
state of affairs which made the chill
unwelcome to his parents as well as tc
| the members Of the community.
sFavors Clubs.
Mrs. Lake believes that much good
could be. accomplished by the forma
tion Of fathers and mothers clubs in
every school district, where the teacher
could acquaint them with the needs
OF the child and the cause for his fail.
ure. Teachers have to care for too
many pupils, she thinks. elf women
realized the fuss they make over one,
they must sYmpathize with the woman
who cares for thirty, !" she asserted.
But amelloratlon is not possible while
men like land better than human beings
and give stock and flowers more care
than their Children
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlyle Scott and Carlo
Fischer played trio and Miss Jennie
Lewis, accompanied by CARLYLE Scott.
sang a group Of Scotch songs.
z.l GETTYSBURG PICTURE CONES.
r: p Zogbaum Of New York city has arrived
IN st. Paul with his painting showing the First