Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-23
SISTERS AT
INSTITUTE
BISHOP CONATY PRESIDES AT
SESSION OPENING
MUSIC, GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
ARE FEATURES
Lecturer Does Not Believe That War
Study lnstiIs Patriotism of the
Right Sort but Is
Harmful

cese of Monterey and Los Angeles opened
yesterday morning in COLUMBIA hail. Santa
Monica. 1t will continue with two ses-
sions daily until Friday night.
Bishop Conaty, who has the institute II
charge, presides at the sessions, and yes
terday made helpful remarks on the Varl'
GUS addresses made
prof James f. Chamberlain of the Los
Angeles normal school opened the instl-
tute yesterday morning with an address
on "Geography in Its Relation to Other
Studies"
The speaker dwelt on geography as
taught in former years and as taught al
present, making his talk very interesting
with applications to be given the children.
This series on geography will be continued
by Prof. Chamberlain daily through the
session.
At the afternoon session Miss M. Teresa
Finn, supervisor of music, st. Louis, Mo-
spoke on Music from the Chllds STAND
point" She said in part:
"I have had seven years experience
with $4,000 pupils year and have yet to
find the child that does not like music. 1t
may take time but it will come.
"The first year it may take to learn to
get on the right key. Give them songs
that are a part of their lives And give
them gestures in the first year. The boys
love to march, and the girls love to Sing
the dolly songs.
Not Answer Expected
Most children know the Mother Goose
rhymes and you can make use of these IN
little songs
zone afternoon in the school down in
the Anheuser-Busch brewery district in
st. Louis 1 was teaching class.
= 20 In I'M n
the old do, ce, la, and l. trying to i'm
press the tie on their minds, asked them
what their mother had in the afternoon
about o'clock and a chorus answered,
beer You cannot always depend on the
answers of the children.
"The tone should always be kept soft.
The volume should be sacrificed for the
softness.
81 remember one class of the homeless,
really bad children in an institution in st.
louis The older boys had decided to put
out.
of Tela first day 1 went there they simply
tive of They openly made fun of me at
a dozen times, but L didn't pay
10 49, nat,,. 1ton. But after that l never had
Los Aneelttentive class than those boys.
the music
native of Masnaty supplemented this adj
ten, aged 20 n few humorous remarks on
7I TTTt 1P0 ~ I Experiences with New Eng
tive of Ohio, teacher. He then introduced
tive of Ohio. Keyes, superintendent of
Hartford, Conn. Prof. Keyes took
aged 26,Infpic. place and Purpose of His
d don ~ IL School Curriculum" He said in
\ a great pleasure for me to ad
.eachers whose devotion is unques-
- . Usually in an institute there are
the devoted ones and those simply the
passengers.
Livelihood Not All
MANY people send their children to
school simply to learn to read and write
and to cipher. Simply to win their bread
and butter. 1t is not simply to earn the
livelihood
1T is to equip oneself to be honest, to
be worth while. In every civilized land
both church and state pour forth money
into the schools. The church and the
state would not be justified in spending
this money were it simply to equip bread
winners. The great command is repeat
and improve yourselves
1.-The schools endeavor to make men and
women of character. If the pupils forget
all they may learn, if they bear the stamp
of manhood and womanhood then their
education has not been in vain.
1.-The purpose of history is to give to
youth ideals of life. 1t is the wisely
chosen experience of the wisely chosen
men that gives the ideals of manhood.
History is the story of the experiences of
individuals and of nations.
Server Important Factor
DO not try to teach of equal value all
the events of any one mans life. 1t is not
the soldier or the ruler that is the i'm
portant factor. Nay, the server. The true
leader will be the true server.
II once heard a congressman say that
he was the hired man and that he had
done his chores as he thought he should.
The great ruler is the great server.
I'm the higher position the server is
simply made servant to a larger number
of people.
THANK God he has given us a forget
terry as well as a memory. I protest on
our boys and girls being fed so largely on
the stories of wars and of great rulers.
Some say that the stories of our wars
teach patriotism. Perhaps it is some
thing like the patriotism that instead of
saying 1T is grand thing to say we are
Americans says Thank God 1 am not an
Englishman or an Irishman,' etc. 1t is
like saying that we love our own family