The San Francisco call., 1908-12-30
ATTRACTIONS FOR
VISITING TEACHERS
Meetings and Lunche0ns Enter
tain Delegates to Educators
Convention in San Jose
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


SAN JOSE, Dec. 2s.-The 1000 dele
gates to the forty-second annual con-
vention of the California state teach
ers' association were entertained today
with o number of attractions There
were six meetings in the different
/, branches of the associations work, all
of which We're held at $50 o'clock this
morning and continued in session until
the noon hour.
The California high school teachers
association, branch of the general
association, met in the assembly hall
| OF the state normal training school
and was well attended. The meeting
of the Pacific Short Story club, which
was held at the Auditorium also drew
| large crowds.
TOPIC OF DISCUSSION
DIR. r. d. Hunt, formerly principal
of the San Jose high school. now of
Pasadena, presided over the high
school section, and j. c. Templeton of
Palo Alto was secretary. DR.. Hunt de-
livered an address descriptive of the
years work of the association. The
general topic for discussion was: The
Most Efficient Grouping of the Grades
| From the Beginning of the Primary
School to the University Proper and
the Professional School, Prof. W.
Scott Thomas and Alexis f. Lange of
the University of California. President
David Starr Jordan of Stanford uni
versity and President G. Stanley Hall
| Of Clark university addressed the
gathering.
| An audience of about 1000 attended
the annual meeting of the Pacific Short
Story club at $3.50 o'clock this morning.
The meeting was presided over by Prof.
Henry Meade Bland of the local state
normal school. The prize for the best
short story in the annual contest, do
mated by Lawrence 3. Chenoweth OF
Sacramento, was awarded to Mrs. Elva
S. Cureton of San Jose. whose
story, "The Real Woman" was read at
the meeting. The address of the day
was made by Joaquin Miller, whose
topic was Lessons Not in Books. At
noon about 200 members of the club
4 banqueted at the La Molle house, Her.
bert Bashford of San Jose acting as
toastmaster.
ELEMENTARY SECTION
The elementary school section met at
the high school, with A. c. Barker Of
Oakland presiding. D. r. Jones of the
San Francisco state normal school and
Leroy e. Armstrong of the Mastick
school of Alameda spoke.
! The domestic science section met at
/ the Horace Mann school, with Miss
Ellen NJ. Bartlett of San Francisco pre-
siding. Nine little girls Of the local
school gave a demonstration Of cooking
and sewing before about 200 teachers.
The manual training and drawing
sections met under the leadership of
Miss Ca1thea Vivian of the San Jose
state normal school Addresses were
made by DIR. A. B. Clark of Stanford.
Goddard Gale of Oakland, Robert Leon
ard OF Berkeley and W. A. Tenney and
f. B. Cauch Of Oakland.
! The county board section was at
tended by the members of the boards
of several counties and all OF the coun-
ty superintendent. J. w. Lenscott of
Santa Cruz, NJ. r. Trace of San Jose
and j. d. Sweeny of Red Bluff spoke.
AT this afternoons general session
George L. Leslie of Los Angeles spoke
on Health and Development Work in
Los Angeles Schools" DIR. Benjamin
Ide Wheeler spoke on "The Value of
Schools" and DR.. G. Stanley Hall of
Clark University spoke on "The Prob
/ lem of Moral Education"
This evening Frederick W. Prince
| has a travel talk on Alaska at the high
school assembly hall The High School
Mems club banqueted at 6 o'clock, the
Normal Mems club at s o'clock and the
Woman's club at 8 o'clock. meeting
of the music section and the farmers
institute section was held this even
ing.
Miss Agnes Howe of the San Jose
state normal school was this after
noon nominated to the presidency of
! the association, but, declined in favor
of E. F. Cox. The election will be held
tomorrow.