The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-05
PROVO At BEST
IN ROLE Of HOST
Garden Clty's Hospltahle En-
tertalnment Causes Pleas
ing Comment.
LESSONS OF GATHERING
SUMMARY OF DR.. suzzALo's ADJ
DRESS ON LITERATURE.

The fourteenth annual gathering OF
the teachers OF the state was conclud-
ed on Friday last in Provo. and the
bands Of educators returned to their
homes. The gathering was the largest
ever held in the Garden City. and the
Provo people may well be proud of the
manner Ia which they handled the
throng Every effort had been made
TO make the affair memorable in every
way, and the newspaper reports, hur-
ried as they were, gave no time for
comment on the scale and quality of
the entertainment furnished. The mu-
sic was of a high order, and il was ar
ranged entirely by the local commit
tees. The homes of Provo were thrown
open, and the business men Wed with
one another in their efforts TO make
things agreeable for the visitors
And the effort was not without com
pensation. The gathering numbered
between 1,400 and 1900. and a number
of them We're spenders. This was evil
denced by the fact that the postmas-
ter sold S125 worth of 1-cent postage
stamps and a prOpOrtionate number of
postal cards, ali of them showing the
best of Provo from a picturesque view,
were sold in the various shops.
Some Needed Lessons.
The convention taught some needed
lessons 10 the members, and the hope
was expressed that some steps would
be taken TO change the order Of hold
ing the conventions. Not only is it
considered a serious infringement of
the holiday given at Christmas time
10 expect teachers To put in two days
or more of Il in serious study, but ii
is manifestly unfair that a portion of
the teaching force of the state should
receive a salary for so doing while
others are expected 10 go and stand
the additional expense without com
pensa ton. There would seem TO be no
reason why the convention should not
be a part of the school work of each
year, and, if So. it should be held dur
ing the school term.
When prominent educators are
brought to the state from afar it is TO
be presumed that they have something
Of help and of inspiration to offer TO
all the teachers, and il is hardly fair
either, TO them or 10 the teachers TO
expect that other sessions should be in
progress while their lectures are being
delivered. An, example of the folly Of
this was shown at tn recent cOnven-
ton when, while DR.. SuzZallo was
speaking in praise of the kindergarten
methods and giving inspiration to all
interested, mere handful of these
teachers in another room held a chilly
little gathering to determine the his
tory of kindergarten work in Utah.
An Inspiring Force.
The great moving and inspiring force
of the fourteenth convention will long
be remembered as DR.. Henry SuZZalO
a young man whose energy and grasp.
Of things educational in the brOadest
and deepest sense is bound to place
him high among the educators of the
country. DR.. SuzzallO in on his way
TO Columbia college, and will take the
place of Dr. McMurTay for the next
few years. while the professor is en-
gagged in literary work Stanford uni
versity has finally been made TO feel
the worth of the young assistant pro-
lessor, and their stand is that they
have but loaned him to Columbia TO
reflect StanfOrd's guory
One of the most inspiring talks of
the convention, and one of which no
report has been made. Was his paper
on THE Influence of Literature on
Language and Character" Stripped
of its wonderful imagery and robbed of
the forceful and convincing perSOnali-
ty of the speaker. it VAS as follows:
The tendency of the modern school 10
become an institution designed to give
more than an appre citation and under
standing Of knowledge is clearly mani
tested by the growth of the expressive
subjects, in recent school curricula.
Within the past decade or two the ex=
preSsiVe subjects have come to occupy a
larger place in instruction. Drawing, mu-
sic, manual training and composition
have been given larger attention OF late