The Lamar register., 1907-01-02
TEACHERS MEET
COLORADO STATE TEACHERS, AS.
ISOLATION.
VERY NEAR TWO THOUSAND

NoNHSiit9 OF teachers EVeT
Known in the state-Welcomed by
Governor and Governor-Elect -
Notable Address by Chicago Pro-
fessor.
Denver.-The thirty-second annual
session of the Colorado Teachers Asso-
citation opened auspiciously Wednes-
day in the East Denver high school
with by far the largest enrolment shat
organization has ever known. Nearly
every town in the state was repre-
scented. At noon the register showed
LOU names and by evening the mum,
Der was raised to nearly 1000.
In the afternoon the great assem-
bly, hall was packed, with standing
room hard to find. During the general
association meeting and at its close,
after the lecture by Prof. George E.
Vincent, the school teachers flocked
into the corridors where an informal
reception that resembled bedlam was
held. AT one table teachers were reg
istering, at another friends of teach
ers were asking for them.
AT another table teachers were sub
scribing for school journals. At third
the programs and free literature con-
corning things educational, were being
doled out, and at still another tickets
for the lectures were selling like hot
cakes.
East Denver high school was buster
than public market on Saturday
morning; CHEEKY and lively as hop"
at college.
Things began at a. m. when meet
ing of the Educational council was
held, as is the custom, behind closed
doors.
At Up. m. the doors Of the assembly
room swung wide to admit l 400 teach
ers and interested laymen to the after
noon proceedings, which were opened
by an invocation by Annie B. Hyde.
Music, directed by Wilberforce ].
Whiteman, supervisor of music in this
city, followed the invocation, and in
turn came the address of welcome by
Gov. Jesse F. Mcdonald. Governor
elect. Henry A. Buchtel of the Univer-
sity of Denver. Mayor Robert r. speer
and A. ]. Spengel. president of the
chamber of Commerce. They were
brief addresses that made the big audi
ence at home at once. and in response
Miss Katherin Craig, as state superin
tendent of public instruction. gave
short talk Committees on neurology
and resolutions we're appointed and
twenty-five nominators were elected,
after which the afternoon session
closed with brilliant lecture on "Edu-
cation and Efficiency" by George E.
Vincent of Chicago University.
Professor Vincent spoke at the rate
of 800 words a minute without stops.
pace that no living stenographer
could follow with a pencil and few
could follow with the mind.
A few remarks caught on the fiy in
dictated that Professor Vincent consid-
cred three qualities as essential to the
success of a teacher: Knowledge, wis
dom and enthusiasm. The balance OF
all was the thing to attain.
Energy alone become fanaticism.
Wisdom without energy is useless"
etc. He characterized the lifeless man
as bit of human jeiiy with a back
bone of wet spaghetti.
"Dou you feel your life bounding
with enthusiasm? If SO, then your
work is not job. It's profession"
said the professor.
To illustrate the folly of worry over
petty details, he told of the man who
tried to commit suicide and who. upon
being revived, was asked why he tried
to destroy his life.
"Oh," said the man YEARLY, Il got
to thinking how much buttoning ana
unbuttoning I'd nave to do the rest OF
my life, and decided that life was not
worth living"
A few epigrams of the professors
follow:
"A man who can wear necktie that
womankind cannot prevent has aesthe
tic power"
You're safe If you never ;aKe
things out of two pigeonholes at the
same time"
you see on the street man bowling
to a woman. He smiles with a grace
almost human and you say this is old
time courtesy. But not SO; he is purely
automatic.
1.-The lady has pressed the button in
his organism and the result Is an ap
proprate and prompt reaction"
1.-THE most vigorous and responsih
audiences l have ever addressed
made up of inmates of the penitentia
and school teachers"
Speaking against the mechanical il
teaching, he said:
Don't be an automaton. mar
once addressed the prisoners in peni
Tertiary, opening with I'm glad to Sc
SO many of you here" 1t was a hall
hour before he could proceed.
Automatic education is only valu
able when routine situations occur. A
prese mt the multiplication table mus
be taught mechanically, but the time
coming when multiplication will be fig
ured by an automatic calculator, like a
watch"