Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-12

that question with mighty affirmative.
What matter though 5000 were unable 70
gain admittance, into the charmed hall?
What though a thousand hung expect
antly around the foyers till the last
speaker had finished, vainly awaiting an
opportunity to make a rush for the en-
frances when necessity compelled the ush-
ers to open the doors for brief moment?
What though thousands left disappointed
in their hopes of gaining admittance?
The session last night effectually
clinched Los Angeles claim to having
held the biggest and best convention re-
corded in the annals of American educa-
ton.
At tne preceding sessions there was
seating room long after the opening
prayer, and many did not come till SO
Last night, twenty minutes before the
time scheduled for opening, the house was
well filed, and the ushers We're compelled
to admit only active members. By s
o'clock crowd of almost 5000 was JAM
ming the lobby and crowding the doors,
trying to break through the line of po-
lice and ushers. The house was filled to
overlooking and dull hoarse murmur
of thousands of voices grew almost deaf
ening.
Great Organst Is Cheered
Professor Bruce Gordon Kingsley APP
peared, and the audience broke into APP
plause. With the opening notes of
''Oberon'' the. vast audience became
conclusion a storm of applause followed
"Poet and Peasant followed. 1T is
worth the trip from New Orleans to hear
him play exclaimed one enthusiastic
listener. The encore was received like
it's predecessor, and still the audience de-
manded more. Professor Kingsley dis
appeared. and President Schaeffer raped
Rev. Horace Day led in the opening
prayer.
Then came the star Of the evening,
Ellen Beach Yaw "Ah fors lui,' from
La Traviata," was her first number.
But why attempt to describe it? 1t was
the singer the audience had come to hear
the program and let her sing all night"
besought the pit But President Schaef-
fer was obdurate. The program had to
be delivered.
c. q. Pearse. superintendent of city
schools, Milwaukee, Wis, made plea for
Schools for Detectives in Connection
with the Public Schools" He expressed
which segregated the detectives from
their fellows and reared them in a circle
OF children like to themselves.
Should Care for AbnormaIs
Mr.. Pearse said: 'In the earlier and
cruder stages of industry a great deal
of the by product was wasted. So, In our
of their development, we took care of
the evident and neglected the by
product"
ment Of defective children, from the early
days when they were exposed to die,
down to the present day of institutions
for the deaf, dumb and blind
'"Ihe sentiment now is to educate them
during their early life in day schools con-
nected with the public schools where they
may grow up as part OF the community lI
to so educate these unfortunates that they
can live with their normal associates
without feeling too keenly their misfor-
"The public schools should stand to
increase the scope of its usefulness. We
should so order our system that we care
not Only for the normal but for the abb
]. w olsen. state superintendent of
public instruction. st. Paul. Mimi, spoke
eloquently on ''The School and the Lii
brary.'
Mr.. Olsen spoke in part as follows
ITO be true teacher one must be able
to see education in its finished entirety
must recognize the value of not only that
education which comes from the study of
books, but of that which comes from the
study of things; from communion with
nature, contact with men, Time was
when the public school concerned itself
chiefly with teaching how to read; today
the problemis more one of teaching what
to read; how to get that out of books
which will help the individual to make a
'"The work of the school should project
itself into that of the library. The need
of a fuller understanding between teach
ers and library workers is becoming more
and more obvious. Librarians should un-
derstand the school and the needs of the
children; general knowledge of the
library and its methods should be one of
the requirements for receiving a teachers
certificate. Every school should have a
library containing some of the best stand
ard authors, besides reference books for
the pupils studies in the class room,
laboratory and workshop
Library University
1.-THE library should be truly a univer-
sity of the people, and should have the
same fostering care of the state as the
public school. State support and control
of the library does not repress local initi-
alive and interest. AS in it's aiding of the
public school, the policy of the state with
regard to the public library would be to
help those communities that help them
selves The free school book system and
the travelling library are power allies in
the library movement.
"There should be central authority
exercising such control in the purchase of
books as would mean the getting of only
the best and the frustrating of the man
! ipulation of mere book agents. All libra
! rians, educators and philanthropists
,.should cooperate.
y "A campaign for the broader culture
remotest district. This is a time saving
age. How will all the time saved advan-
Eage us If we are ignorant of it's value
md unable to spend it proftably? The
icchool must teach how to save time in
getting the gist of the newspaper. AL
Though valuable, newspapers cannot take
the place OF the more purposeful and larg-
err literature.
"It is ours by use Of present opportuni-
ty to open highways to fullness of life
in the future"
Miss Yaw sang "Thou Brilliant Bird"
Miss Helen Mead playing the violin obli-
cato. 1t was simply repetition of her
triumph earlier in the evening, except
that Miss Mead shared considerably in
the honors.
Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, high school Wis
itor Of ten state agricultural college, Den
YER Colo, spoke on 1.-The Influence of
Women"s Organizations upon Public Edu-
cation"
Following is synopsis of Mrs. Gren-
felIs speech:
fEducation is evolution. There are
fixed laws which must be sought out and
applied in any rational system of educa-
ton. The compass of psychology points
IN as many directions for the north pole
Of education as did the compass of Column
bus.
s"rhe philosophy of education is faulty
and it is questicnal whether by pure phi
iosophy 1t can be perfected. Education is
first Individual and afterward social. The
eeclusion of education in early ages I'M
fitted the scholar for life.
s'rrhe early idea of education did NOT
include women. Popular education dawned
with Luther. and the beginning of female