Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-03

The public schools OF Salt Lake we're
thronged With teachers from county
schools this morning, each one OF whom
was following some course OF study
through the grades from the beginning
20 the graduating day.
The pupils and teachers were on hand
and regular lessons were gone through
with while the visiting teachers formed
an audience for the work. Many ques-
tons were asked and replies given by
teachers in explaining the methods
used. From comment among the WISH
tors II Is evident that many innova-
tions will go to the remote towns OF
the state as the result OF the visits to
The public schools
CONVENTION OPENS.
The convention OF state teachers got
under way this morning after social
session at the University Of Utah last
night, At 10 o'clock the department
meetings were called at tho University
Of Utah buildings, and addresses were
made by teachers. TO those directly In
terested IN the department discussed.
HIGH SCHOOL SECTION.
Principal Geo. Eaton presided over
the high school section, and a paper
was read on the "Civic Importance OF
the High School by G.. A. Blotcher Of
Park City. 1t was followed by another
on Methods OF Instruction In Second
AIRY Schools by Mosiah Hall OF the
l.. ID. :. university. A business sew
sion concluded the meeting.
PARENTS SECTION.
The parents section met In the gem
eral assembly room and was addressed
by Milton Bennion Of the University OF
know about school children. DR.. b. q.
Gowen also spoke on the physical and
physiological side of education.
Following these two meetings the
teachers separated to visit the schools
Of the city
This work took up this afternoon, and
this evening the first genera. assembly
viii be held, Ia listen TO an address by
DR.. Hall, who spent today as guest
Of the University club.
A LARGE ATTENDANCE.
AZ was predicted by Principal Van
Colt and others In touch with the sit
uation, the attendance at the present
sessior OF the association Ii a record
breaker. Out OF 1880 teachers In the
state over l.i00 are present in Salt Lake
at the convention. and over 1000 at
tended the opening session last night.
MRS. COOLEY HERE.
Mrs. Alice w. Cooley, president Of the
department OF Elementary education Of
the National Educational association.
and an author of note on topics con-
hected with the teaching OF English In
the grades, arrived In Salt Lake this
morning. She was met by President
Cummings and other officers OF the
state association, and escorted 10 the
Knutsford where she will remain dur
ing her visit.
you know she said TO the News"
this morning. that It has been a COM
mon belief that the teaching OF litera-
ture begins properly in college. and It
is my idea that II begins properly on
the first day a child enters school. I
favor beginning the work IN literature
at the bottom Of the grade schools. and
rs great as the university field Is, I
sometimes think that after all the pri-
mary grades are where the child re-
ceives his most lasting impressions. and
where the beginnings ought to be on
the subjects he meets later in life"
A CULTURED WOMAN.
Mrs. Cooley Is from Minneapolis al
though recently she has been a MEM
Der OF the faculty of the North Da-
kota university
She began her work IN the schools I'm
Minneapolis where she taught first In
the grade schools, then was principal
OF a grade school, and In 1900 left this
work to become member Of the faculty
OF North Dakota university, Her spe.
cialty In this work has been to prepare
teachers for work IN literature and Ian.
guage. She is the author OF Language
Lessons from Literature and loin,
author with w. +. Webster OF Min.
neapolls, of n language series OF text
books extending from the fourth grade
through the high school. Mre. Cooley !
FIRST lecture IL scheduled for the As
sembly hall tsnorrow afternoon.
ANNUAL ADDEss.
The big assembly room OF the Uni-
yerslty was SO crowded last night tina,
II was with difficulty that President
Cummings made himself heard
IN his annual address, and. when he
later introduced President Han he had
10 wait until the teachers who sudden
ly found themselves nelghbors
10 friends they had not seen for years,
had finished their greetings.
President Cummings said IN part:
I'VE greet ourselves again among our
own mountains and realize that II Il
better TO be closely identified with our
own state
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lists; Cd To enable the teachers to gain