The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-31
TEACHERS WILL
MEET THIS WEEK
A NATIONAL COMMERCIAL
GATHERING WILL BE
ADDED.
State Teachers Questions of Import
ance to Be Discussed-Notable
Educators on the Program.

| mosphere around Indianapolis this
week is going to be decidedly murky
with intellectually just as soon as
their Christmas dinners settle the
commercial college teachers from all
parts of the country will begin NOV
ing on Indianapolis, and, beginning
Monday, Indiana school teachers OF
all stripes are heading for that city.
The commercial teachers open
their thirteenth annual national con-
vention in Shortr5dge high school be
ginning Monday morning. On Tues
day the Indiana teachers open their
fifty-fiftb state convention, and will
meet in Tomlinson hall, Caleb Mills
hall, St. Pauls church, the Claypooi
lotel assembly room and in different
rooms at the state house.
The commercial teachers in their
| national convention expect 1900 to
1000 uf their kind Some are count
ing on as many as 1000, but it may
iall short of that
A Spencer and Pitman.
All of the latest frills and furbe
lows in shaping up the knots on the
head and building up the cavities vii
receive attention. Many noted educa
eors in both the common school and
the commercial college world will be
there This week One of them will DE
Robert c. Spencer, who is a son OF
the writer that most Americans try
to imitate-his father being the or
| iginator OF the Spencerian system OF
| penmanship.
Federation of Many Associations.
This national convention is pecul
ar. 1t is rather federation of many
associations and eaol or these viii!
| also hold its national convention in
Indianapolis In the list are National
Business Teachers National Private
Commercial School Managers, Nationa,
Commercial High School Teachers
National Penmanship Teachers, and
National Shorthand Teachers Asso-
Citations. The program of the meet
ings would fill two columns OF space;
a list of the speakers over half a
| column. TINS is the thirteenth annual
coming together of these forces that
in America take pupils when they
leave The ordinary schools and equip
them for commercial and business ca
reers. The range OF subjects to be
typewriting, bookkeeping and "sys-
:em" to common sense letter writing
MS last subject will be dealt
on Wednesday morning at the join;
meeting of the high school and short
hand associations
Merger of Indiana Bodies.
The Indiana school teachers will
have a matter of considerable interes,
before them The southern Indiana
teachers at their last meeting held at
Indianapolis last spring proposed
that the southern and northern Indi-
ana teachers association be merge
and their present separate spring
meetings be discontinued. The pro-
posal brought forward was that al,
energy be concentrated in one big
state teachers meeting every year
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Wednesday. The proposal involves
TO a greater or less extent the presen:
state meetings. Some leaders in both
the northern and southern Indiana
association sessions favored merging
the two associations and doing away
with the annual holiday state meet
ing.
Many teachers, including leaders,
expressed the belief that there are too
many teachers meetings in Indiana
every year. Many objected to being
| drawn from their homes in Indian
apolis every year when they should
be at home enjoying-tike the chill
dren-a happy holiday week with
their friends. There was a com
| plant also at the expense of multi
tude meetings.
The principal session OF the state
this week will be in Tomlinson and
Caleb Mills halls. Among the chief
speakers on the program of the In
diana teachers are Booker r. Wash
ington, Bishop William F. Mcdowell,
of Chicago; President Elmer F.
Bryan, of Franklin college; President
w. l.. Bryan, of the State university;
l.. d. Harvey. of 'Menominee, Wis,
who is the president-elect OF The
National Educational association;
Robert ]. Alley, newly elected super
intendent of public instruction of
Indiana; Fasset A Cotton, the retir-
ing superintendent, and President ].
L. Lardner, of the Indiana State Nor
NAL school
AT the opening session in Caleb
Mills hall on Tuesday George W.
Benton, the president-elect of the as
ISOLATION. will take Office and deliver
his inaugural address Dr. Elmer F.
Bryan and L. D. Harvey will also adj
I dress that session, the latter on ed
ucation of Girls for the Home" The
program for the week is very long
F., and is complicated by many "divis-
ions holding separate meetings.
The Indiana county superinten-
dents will also hold their annual
meeting in connection with the teach
sers' association convention and other
minor associations may also hold
meetings or reunions
| 1t is announced in advance of the
| Indiana teachers state meeting this
year that there will be little agitation