Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-24
.NORDlCA SINGS
FOR TEACHERS
IMMENSE CROWD ATTENDS
AUDITORIUM CONCERT
CHINESE EDUCATOR DESCRIBES
METHODS IN ORIENT
Schoolmasters' Club Observes Ladies
Night with Banquet at LeVy's.
Sessions of Institute
Close Today

Yesterday afternoon was the red let
ter session of the teachers institute.
In the program 1t was scheduled as a
general session at Temple auditorium,
the program to be given by Madame
Lillian Nordica and her company.
This is the first time so famous an
artist has appeared formally before the
teachers, and the large number that
enjoyed the concert given yesterday
argues we'll for similar events in COM
ing sessions.
Madame Nordica gave full program
and was not chary of her eneores
Frederick Hastings, baritone; Miss
Showers, pianist, and Andre Benoist
accompanist, assisted the star.
Our language is second to none
while our spelling is the worst of all.
excepting that Of the Chinese" said
DR.. Alexis F. LANCE, head of the de-
partment of education of the University
of California, before the primary de-
partment of the Teachers institute In
the Polytechnic auditorium yesterday
morning.
Our pronunciation is up-to-date,'
continued DR.. LANCE, but our spelling
is 300 years behind the times. 1t was
easier for a boy to learn and spell In
King Alfred's time than it is today.
my idea is that any changes in spell
ing should be made gradually, a word
seem like the idea of a tender-hearted
man who thought 1t would not hurt his
dog so much IL its tail was cut off by
degrees. At all events the arguments
are mainly sentimental. One is that we
do not want a change of spelling, on
account Of ancient and hallowed asso-
Citations.
No Co-Eds in China
Ng Poon Chew, a prominent educator
4rrlo has hnaF
prominent figure In the local sessions,
addressed the teachers at this session
on "Signs of China's Awakening" He
said:
I'm place of the school that has pro-
duced the educated fool and the pol
ished idiot, we are introducing the new
system, and henceforth China will lead
the strenuous life.
I'm former years we never sent the
girls to school, but that was not be-
cause we thought less Of the girls-it
was because we thought more of the
boys.
Nov we are sending both to school,
but not to the same building like you
do here. We separate them, and If ii
is necessary to send them to the same
school we build a wall down the center
of the room.
THE girls are placed on one side and
the boys on the other. The teacher
keeps one eye on the girls and the
other on the boys, and this way we
keep them from making those horrid
goo goo eyes.
1.-THE day is coming when our coun-
try will not only defend but defy, any
nation or combination Of nations.
above all, America is the only ma
| ton that has treated us on the basis
Of justice and righteousness.
"China is not too old to learn and
America is not too young to teach
We can learn from you and China also
can teach you a few things"
I'VE are slow in getting down to good
citizenship and in the work of civics,
said DIR. r. G. Boone. lecturer of New
York, at the session held yesterday aft
ernoon in the Normal school auditorium
for the teachers who did not attend the
Nordica concert.
I'VE must work out something to be
fixed in the mind of the child that
bears on his life" continued DR.. Boone.