Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
SANTA MONICA
s1s Oregon ave. Homo phone 1876.
OCEAN PARK
1AA Pier ave. Home 4015; Sunset 1891.
SISTERS INSTITUTE
DRAWS BIG CROWDS
DR.. HOMER SPRAGUE WILL
DELIVER LECTURES
Many Are Registered and Interesting
Program is GiVen-Bishop Conaty
Opens decentralization
Theme

Special to The Herald.
SANTA MONICA, July THE Sis
ters' institute in Columbia hall is
drawing a large attendance. One hun
bred and ten sisters now are regis
tered and many priests and others are
present.
DR.. Homer B. Sprague. who is one of
the lecturers of the Venice Chautau-
qua course, is to give several lectures,
which will be particularly interesting.
Today's program will be as follows:
10 a. m.-Miss Osden, Reading
Methods"
II a. m.-Dr. Cotter, "Growth of the
Child Mind
2 p. m.-Miss Sullivan, "Civics."
p. m.-Dr. Sprague, Shakespeare
Greatest Character a Woman"
Yesterdays morning session was
opened at 10 o'clock by Bishop Conaty,
who introduced Rev. R. ]. Cotter.
DR.. Cotter spoke on the History of
Education" and said among other
things:
1.-The history of education is the his
tory of intellectual movements. 1t is
the best study of methods. The orien-
tai system used by the Jews, Chinese
and Japanese led them to learn the
traditions of their people, and hence
trained the memory and made them
imitators and automatons. 1t preserved
| what came down from ancestors and
made knowledge as immutable as re-
| ligion.
1.-The Grecian system has two domi-
nant tupes. First, Sparta with its SOL
der idea made valor to be its idea of
virtue. This gave the child to the
state. Secondly, Athens. which stood
for culture. Man is the measure OF
everything. Grecian education would
be perfect If it had Christianity. Greece
produced a race of thinkers. Education
is power was one of the results in
J principle.
1.-THE Roman system was practical
because Rome sought to rule the world
1t held great men before the children
Greek influence came to Rome and
helped first to bring power and then
weakness.
"Our Catholic system has the best
in all. The dominant note was reli
gion. The monastic system was DOM
mated by religious obedience. The
scholastic was a lawyer and was
more or less opposed to the monastit
idea. He discussed every question to
an extent unparalleled. Scholasticisn
brought back to the church what mon
asticism had cast out, Greek philoso-
ply. 1t has been said that it was a
marriage of Aristotle and Christian
ity."
Miss Sullivan Lectures
The second lecture at IL o'clock was
| given by Miss Elizabeth Sullivan OF
Los Angeles normal school, who spoke
on "School Gardening"
Miss Sullivan set forth the purpose
of the work and indicated the method
of introducing it into the schools. The
history of the past fifty years shows
that the population of the cities is in
creasing, while that of the villages is
decreasing. It is this state of affairs
that has brought the agricultural col
lege into existence and points to the
need of instruction in agriculture in the
elementary and high schools.
AS evidence of the national interest
in this movement Miss Sullivan quoted
from President Roosevelt's message t.
congress for December, 1907: INC
growth of cities, no growth of wealth
can make up for any loss in either the
number or character of the farmins