New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
FOR SOCIAL EDUCATION.
CONGRESS- At BOSTON.
Coz. Guild. Mayor Fitzgerald and
Drs. Eliot and Jordan Speak.

Boston. Nov. so-A congress to discuss Social
Education" a forward step declared to be de-
manded by the Complexities OF modern life,
was opened in this city to-day with large at
tendance. The congress- in which library asso-
Citations. superintendents' and teachers organi-
cations. mothers and women's clubs. educationai
and Industrial bodies and other similar associa-
tions of New England were represented. met IN
the forenoon In four department sections and IN
the afternoon at mass meeting. at when
James P. Munroe. chairman OF the executive
committee of the congress; Governor Curtis
Guild. jr., of Massachusetts; Mayor John F.
Fitzgerald of Boston and President Charles w
Eliot Of Harvard University gave addresses Of
welcome and President David stan Jordan OF
Leland Stanford Junior University, and George
H Martin. secretary Of the Massachusetts, State
Board OF Education, were speakers.
The department sessions included those IN the
sections OF social training. infancy and early
childhood: Of commercial education. OF health
education. and of the Massachusetts State
Teachers Association The keynote OF all the
meetings was the aim TO draw wider attenti>h
to the demand that the youth OF to-day receive
systematic training for their duties IN those
civic and social groups in which they are to do
their vvorl, in life 10 hear the views OF prorni-
nent socialists regarding this new need and 10
bring together all the various forces Of the COM
rnuntty-the home, the church. the school, oust-
ness and industry-in order TO effect more
general realization OF the imperative Importance
Of definite social service in early steps OF eou-
cation
Among the speakers heard in the department
meetings to-day were Miss Marie Shediock, OF
London and Mrs. Frederic Schor OF Philadelphla
president of the National Congress OF Mothers
in the social training department; Professor
T-,{r- eft nF
vania, in the commercial department; DR. Helen
c. Putnam, of the American Academy Of Medi-
cine. Providence, r I, IN the health depart
ment. and DR. Martin G. Braumbaugh, superin-
tendent of schools. Philadelphia; DIR. James 2
Haney director Of art and manual training
New York City, and Magnus W. Alexander. OF
the General Electric Company. before the State
Teachers Association
In the afternoon meeting in fremont
Temple Mr. Munroe presided. In his address he
discussed the need of meeting Immediately the
pressing. insistent life and death problems OF
making every boy and girl physically. mentally,
| industrially, socially and morally into the pest
man and woman possible.
THE ideal citizenship, the ideal common
wealth" said Governor Guild, cannot be built
by educational laws alone. The millennium OF
! American citizenship Will only come when an
| aroused public conscience has educated the edu-
| Gated"
| President Eliot declared that he knew OF no
| training which was purely intellectual but that
| In every course, even that Of bodily training.
there was g. moral element Vocational training.
he said was in a high degree moral. and all
kinds OF education worthy OF the name worked
| together as q means OF social education
| OF the other afternoon speakers, Mr. Martin
discussed What City Owes to Its Boys" and
President Jordan The Young Man Of the Twen-
| tieth Century"
| At the mass meeting in fremont Temple to-
| night the principal speaker was Walter NJ, Wood
| manager Of institutional work at the Chicago
| Young Mems Christian Association His sub
tect was "The Social Contribution of Supple
| mental Education"
| President ". o. Thompson. Of Ohio State
| University spoke on "Self-GOvernnent by
| Students IN School and College" and Wilbur
| Jackman, principal OF the Chicago University
! Elementary School, read a paper Relation
of School Organization 10 Instruction DR.
Cecil Reddie principal Of Abbotsholme School
in England, spoke briefly. The last speaker o.
the evening was Professor Samuel McCunt
| Lindsay OF the University OF Pennsylvania, WHIT
| discussed New Duties and Opportunities fo
| the Public Schools