New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-02
Undergraduates MEET
A Thousand Educators of the Young
en- annual Session.

Hamilton Wright Mabie made the principal adj
dress at the International Kindergarten Union at
Carnegie Hall last night. He spoke on THE Con-
trbUtion of the kindergarten to American Educa-
ton" The Rev. Dr. James NJ. Taylor, president
of vassar College. spoke on THE Ministry of Edu-
cation to Life"
Mr. Mabie said in part:
All the disorder in this country is due TO the lack
discipline and the lack of self-sacrihce. That is
why we have the vast number OF hoT ie sui
Education inevitably responds TO the demands Oh
dean of one of our colleges recently said TO
me In ten years philosophy an nst aTt % unless
either has bearing on the practical IN business
Of ed 3ns The 81 great need Of America poetry
Poetry is the flag which flies oyer the palace %
the Of the child so that he ne Mil S5 not become
slave or thing but mas master fp OF ba ftre of this
country If only can preserve the Soui OF tns s
it's children.
DR. TAYLOR regretted the ''looseness of our social
restraints and the formation of labor Unions ny
women teachers who try to influence IeslsIStiV"
by Hobbies" He said that the teaching OF the
laws of righteousness to children is hoI PrOpei4S
done. Then he said:
Like the former speaker. l would ike 70 say
little on the anarchy cf our soCiaI nls' uI ~
merely mean the homicide. suicides ana penaI on
lenses generally but also refer 10 the looseness
in our Social restraints ana to the lacR 1i are
due to our enormous rapid expansion to the ga5t
increase of wealth among US, Win 10 eertS a,1t
surplus luxuries and TO the enormously RAPID Tal +
prafion 10 America While number OF our pest
citizens S Ca6 from a SEeT element
this feeling OF unrest is also partly que 10 ''-9
Abo1t one thousand delegates TO the conventlo"
met I'm their first session in the Horace Mann AS
sernbly Hall of the Teachers College yesterday
morning DR. James f. Russell, dean OF TeacherS
College made an address of welcome in which ne
said that the time was coming when IT would De
necessary 10 rate the preparatory schools Tor KIN
dergarteners ''You must put these schools IN thelr
proper places You must rate them as they stand
if ever you expect kindergarten teachers 10 rank
every whit as high teachers in other depart
ments" he said.
Mrs Ada Nlarean Hughes OF Toronto. canada
president of the international union responded
Miss Stella L. Woods, of Minneapolis correspond
ing secretary and treasurer. reported that there
was a balance of s421 hand. Five societies mad
withdrawn in the year, she said and eleven new
branches had become animated 1heTe are HO"
10, 585 members In the union she reported -
A nominating committee announced the IoiIoWlI4S
ticket officers for the coming year, 10 De EOtSu
for on FRIDAY: For president. Miss Fannie Belle
Curtis of Brooklyn; first vCepresident, Miss Patty
president, Miss Alice O'Grady, Chicago Norman
School. Chicago; recording secretary, MISS ADA
Van Stone Harris hochesters Corresponding seG[s
Miss Anna Williams of Philadelphia
The programme during the afternoon included TWO
Witt Clinton High School. AT the first Arthur w
Dow Teachers College, spoke or -PrlnclpleSS, anu
Methods in Art Teaching" At ths De Witt Chnton
Relation 10 Subsequent Educators; Mrs MARIA
Kraus- Bottle. kindergarten Principles viewed IN
the Light OF Froebe' and Miss Lucy Wheeloek'
The Use of The Education OF Man IN the Tram
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