Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-26
VERMONT TEACHERS
Continuation OF the Proceedings
of the Annual Meetina.

Inc second day of the Vermont State |
Teachers association was attended by
about 700 teachers.
President Abbott called the meeting to
order promptly at nine Mr.. Abbott in
PRODUCED the Hon. w. w. Stetson. State
superintendent of education of Maine.
Mr.. Stetson said in part that we must
enrich the common course of study in
order to eliminate the pain and suffering
that the lack OK education brings. Mr..
Stetson strongly advocated child study
as "A necessity to all teachers. No great
er or better way to teach than to interest
the youth in the great study of nature.
Another branch of education strongly
brought out by Mr. Stetson was that of
manual training. There are two classes
which should not be found in public
schools namely, the mentally incapable
and morally vicious. Teachers should
search out what child wants and to
which he is naturally inclined MANY
failures of children to learn are due to
the teachers failure to understand the
child
The convention then broke up into con-
| ferences
First-'S School Discipline" at college
chapel under direction Of Mason S. Stone
OF Montpelier as chairmpn. Discipline
III general was handled by Principal
Clark T. Rowland of st. Johnsbury
Academy. Physical Discipline"
means, Principal Wesley H. Douglass,
Jacksonville; ends, Principal Chauncey
W. Hood, North Troy. mental Disci-
pllne," means, Mrs. Mary NJ. Deyette,
Shelburne; ends, Principal Edgar B.
Smith, Bratteboro. "Moral Discipline"
means, Principal j. Richmond Childs,
Thetford; ends, Principal Joseph l. Dan.
forth, Hardwick.
"A conference on "School Hygiene"
was held in Warner Science hall at the
college. Principal p R. Leavenworth
OF Castleton was chairman. The speak
ers were DIR. Chas. S. Caverly, Rutland,
president State board of health; Supt
ID. b. Locke, Rutland; Supt. B. E. Mer-
RAM, Bellows Falls; Prin. Anna F. Bell,
Plttsford; Miss Leah A. Demerritt. Bur-
lington.
Supt. Albert w. Varney, Bennington,
was chairman of the conference on smell.
ing, The speakers were Supt B. E.
Merriam. Bellows Falls; Prof. G.. B.
Wright, Middlebury; Miss K. P. Miller,
Burlington.
The afternoon session opened at $3.50
in the Science ball the programme being
decidedly interesting one and dealing
with Secondary School Department"
Principal Isaac Thomas of Burlington,
chairman. The subject was subdivided
as follows: General theme, 1.-The
Classics THE Classics and Modern
Life, Prof. Thomas D. Seymour, Yale
University; THE Twentieth Century
Point of View in Teaching Classics.
Prof Samuel E. Bassett, University of
Vermont; First Year Latin" Principal
Allison E. futile, Bellows Falls school.
In the department of special subjects
the following was the programme:
mature Study" Prof. L. r. Jones, Uni
versity of Vermont, chairman. Open
ing address by President Ezra Brainerd.
Middlebury College; Mature Study and
Elementary Agriculture in Rural
Schools" Dick j. Crosby, United States
department of agriculture, Washington,
d. Z. The discussion was led by Prnci-
pal John L. Alger, Vermont Academy,
Saxtons river and Miss Della |. Griffin.
Curator Fairbanks Museum, st Johns
bury.
The closing session of the meeting was
held Saturday morning The following
list of officers, reported by the nomina-
ting committee, was unanimously elect
ed.
President, c. H. Demsey of ST Johns
bury; vice-president, f. N. Roscoe,
Springfield; secretary, E. G. Ham of
Randolph; treasurer, Principal A. A.
Kempton of Bakersfield; executive COM
mittee, Principal P. r. Leavenworth of
Castleton, Principal Isaac Thomas of
Burlington, Superintendent B. f. Mer-
RAM of Bellows Falls
Among the resolutions adopted were
the following:
Resolved, That the association most
heartily endorses and petitions for the
passage of House bill No. AZ, providing
for the better supervision of Vermont
schools.
Resolved, That it is the sincere belief
of the association that the deficiency of
the teaching force of Vermont would be
greater augmented and the dignity of
our educational system ma@nified by the
passage of bill providing f. reasonable
minimum salaries that may legally be
paid teachers holding first and second
grade State certificates; and
Resolved, That we most respectfully
=" ommend to the Legislature the pas