Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-10
EDUCATORS END
NATIONAL MEET
TEACHERS ARE GIVEN EXCEL
LENT ADVICE
DENVER CONVENTION EXPLOITS
cHILDREN's NEEDS
Speaker Calls Attention to Necessity
of Keeping Scholars Within the
Bounds of Hygiene and
Good Health
fRv Assoclated Press.l


If denartment meetings. round-taole
s,a+bar,nes. directors conferences
tonped off with monster mass Iilee '.So1
ing in the Auditorium, the Na'nis,. Na'ioiie',
E,dncational association came to coIse
tonight. ,,.,.a.,, r,rasi-
7a,t of the Chicago Municipal voters
league. was the principal speaker 10
nigbt His subject, SHOULD the fuo-
lie school Be the Bulwark OF Puollc
Health ?" was of great interest because
of the attention given school hyslene
during the convention. He SAID IN pale' pI..
physical health is the basis OF nl1.i, men,
tai and moral integrity. Puphc heai'1 he1
is the most vital question CONN 1,t,t
with social and moral progress 1hts
involves, however, an intelligent broad
ening of school activities to the point
of correlating through the school the
social activities of it's contingent COM
"The relation of the school to the
child during the formative period or ltS
life puts beyond question the opllga-
ton to establish this IDEAL
This was the argument made by Dr.
Favill in his contention that the school
is the guardian of the health of the
child.
Frank Chapman Sharp. professor OF
philosophy, University of Wisconsin,
gave an illustration from A Wisconsin
school of a successful experiment IN
moral education.
study at home was discussed at the
round-table conference by Miss Mary
A. Cunningham of the Grade Teachers
association of st. Paul. This she urged
the women present to make all possi-
BILE use of home study for the child as
we'll as for themselves. She outlined 4
course of study which might be tried
az an experiment.
The session closed with the election
of officers.
The question of a meeting place for
next year occasioned some further dis
cusslon during the afternoon, but 1t
was the general opinion among those
in authority that the executive COM
mittee would not decide finally upon i
city until the next meeting, in October.
Athletic Sports Receive JOLT
Football, Marathon running and such
sports as tend to disable the American
youth received a rough jolt in the de-
partment of physical education today.
The place of physical education in
the field of hygiene was the subject
of William f. Slocum, president of Col
orado college of Colorado Springs.
Ira Fee, deputy superintendent of
schools of Wyoming. made the princi-
pal attack on what he termed the
trough" sports. He admitted that
there is an element of virtue in foot
ball, but in the end it is far too
rough.
William s. Sutton of the University
of Texas led the discussion, and he
started the ball rolling by urging that
what he termed the "evil sports" be
placed under the ban of the associa-
ton. In the discussion that followed
it became evident that the trend is for
a form of athletics which will enable
the weaker boys TO participate in eXer-
cises which are now dominated by
their more muscular brothers.
San Francisco Selected
During the morning the executive
committee took up the matter of the
rext meeting place for the association.
The board of directors last night by
an advisory vote indicated San Fran
cisco as their preference by an over
whelming majority. Now, however, the
Milwaukee boosters" insist the fight
is not over and that they will continue
to pull for Milwaukee. The fight over
this is headed by Carroll G. Pearse,
superintendent of the Milwaukee
schools, who says the matters will not
be determined finally before next jan
uary.
Final meetings were held in nine de-
partments today. Among them was /
renewed session of the normal depart
ment, which heard extended reports of
work in normal schools.
The department of manual training
held its last session, and this time the
influence of industrial arts and sci
ences upon the rural home was taken
Of
dent of the College of Industrial Arts,
was the principal speaker.
Mrs. Ellen II. Richards of Boston
spoke on domestic science.
Defends Normal Schools
Another defense of the normal school
as a preparatory school for teachers,
as against the claims of university
educators that the normal is INSULT
cient, was made this morning in the
department of normal schools of the
National Educational association.
The closing day of the association 5
meeting in Denver opened with meet
ings in the departments of art, child
study, normal education, rural and
agricultural and physical training.
Notable in the department of physi-
cal training was the consensus of
opinion among teachers against foot
ball as an athletic sport and the gen
eral feeling that sturdy boys are given
the preference in physical work to the
detriment of the weaker.
This evening at the general session
of the association, which was the clos
ing meeting of the gathering, DR..
Henry B. Favill, NJ. D., of Chicago, dis
cussed the question of whether the
school should be the bulwark of pub
lie health. DR.. Favill was to have
spoken last night, but was stalled in
Kansas by a railroad wreck.
Denounces Football
Football in the secondary schools Is
played by boys from 10 to 10 years OF
age-boys who have not yet attained
full age and development. The game,
in itself, is exciting and abounds in
opportunities for good team work. In
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