The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
DAY GIVEN OVER
TO DEPARTMENTS
N. s. A, Spends Time With Sec
ton Meetings in Los
Angeles.
GREAT EVENING MEETING
PROMINENT EDUCATORS ADJ
DRESS LARGE AUDIENCE.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 9.-The mem
bers Of the National Educational assO-
citation in attendance upon its fiftieth
annual convention spent the entire day
in the sessions of the seventeen differ
ent departments which composed the
parent body Scores of papers were
read upon a multitude of subjects, all
Of importance in the educa tional world.
Discussion of the topics followed
Aside, however, from the work of the
different departments, there was little
or nothing done in the general work Of
the convention. Tonight all is expect
ancy as to the outcome of tomorrow
session, which is the most important of
the week. a new president and board
of directors will be nominated and
elected, a new constitution and by
laws adopted or rejected, and the place
of the next annual convention selected,
and, in fact, almost all of the executive
work of fine convention Will be trans
acted
important Work Today.
Unless something Unforeseen occurs,
the convention will elect SupeTintend-
ent E G. Cooley president for the en-
suing year, accept the incorporation
provided by act of congress with its
constitution and bylaws and select
Cleveland as the place for the next as
HDtlollbil iGiEGtluE a movement Is Oh
foot tonight to vote an increase in the
number of members of the national
council, the chief advisory body of the
association, from sixty members to 100
or more. This question will be brought
up tomorrow possibly by Superintend-
ent c. @. Pearse of the Milwaukee city
schools, and is likely to receive favor
able action. 1t is claimed that many of
the ahleSt men in the association are
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tional council because of its limited
size.
The third general session of the con-
VentiOn was held tonight and was en-
tirely taken up in the addresses and
musical numbers.
DIR. L. Y. Francisco, the representa-
tive of the Mexican department of edu-
cation, spoke upon the subject Greet
ings From a Sister Republic" Right
Rev. Thomas ]. COnaty, bishop of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Los Ange-
les addressed the convention upon the
subject of THE Personality of the
Teacher"
W. o. Thompson, president of the
Ohio state university, Columbus, O..
concluded the session with an address
upon The Economic Relations of Edu-
cation
The national council spent its second
days session in the reading and dis
CussiOn of four papers, entitled as fol-
lows:
% Provision for exceptional children
in the public school system; (2) report
Of the committee on library admins
tration in normal schools; 49, report Of
progress of the committee on Industrial
education in schools for rural commu-
mites; (D shortage Of teachers; %
moral education.
The paper which produced the most
discussion and the largest interest was
one upon the shortage of teachers. The
cOnCensus of opinion among the
educators on this subject was the fact
that the requirements are too high and
the remuneration too low: the lack Of
a future and the combining nature of
the work.
One teacher urged the stupidity of
many sets of examination questions as
a constant deterrent to teachers
The discussion Of moral education
brought out strenuous protest against
unrestricted foreign immigration.
The session Of the department of In
dian education was one of the most in
teresting of the day, The fifty Indian
children from Sherman Institute were
put through various exercises under
the guidance of their instructors for
the entertainment of a large audience
at the state normal school The chill
dren also gave demonstrations in cook
ing and IL cutting and sewing.
Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United
States commissioner of education, de-
liVered fifteen minute address.
The joint session of the departments of
higher education, normal schools and sec
ondary education was largely attended
The papers read were largely Of a techni-
cal nature. dealing principally with the
preparation Of high school teachers The
department Of child study held its first
session during the forenoon and papers
were read upon subjects relating to the
department. The department of business
education at its initial session, listened
TO the address of the president. II. NJ
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Papers were read by II. B. Brown. presi-
dent of the Valparaiso university, Val
paraiso. Ind. and others.
In the afternoon, sessions of the follow