The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
corntv BOARD Of Education.

County Board of Education.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Board of Education was held a
Riverside. on Saturday, and the attend
ance was the largest that has ever beer
recorded. The interest in this gathering
has steadily grown each year, result
that is quite pleasing to those in charge
The meeting was called to order by
President Stroud, who introduced George
Lambert, president of the Riverside Board
of Education. He said he was glad tc
welcome to the town the members of the
various Boards and hoped they would like
their reception so well that they would
come again. He felt that these meetings
must be beneficial, not only to those who
participated in them, but to the schools
which they had charge of. He hoped
that matters pertaining to the training Of
children would be thoroughly discussed,
and he also hoped that there would be
more attention paid to practical education
than to the frills and unnecessary ideas
that some are seeking to introduce.
Following the addresses of welcome the
business session was opened and nomina.
tions for officers for the ensuing year were
called for. Dr. F. G. Stroud. of Moores-
town, was elected president without OPP
position, but there were contests on nearly
every other Office, and after the nomina-
tions were made the election was deferred
until the afternoon session.
Mr.. Howard Story rendered a baritone
solo in manner that elected rounds OF
applause and the young man was CON-
PEELED to respond with an encore.
DR.. Charles s. Gilbert, of Englewood,
was then introduced as the first speaker of
the day. His subject was Democracy in
Education" He began by saying that
there was not any politics in his subject,
the Democracy referred to was not that of
Bryan or Tillman or any of that kind. He
paid high tribute to the public schools
and said they were the institutions which
were giving US the great men and women
of the future. He thought there were too
mang bugbears put forth and that those
in charge of schools worried over things
imaginry rather than real. immigration
was one Of these. He recalled many
instances where those coming from other
countries had taken interest in education
and had become good citizens. A notable
instance of this was the career of the
present Governor of Minnesota, son of a
Swede, who had worked his way up in a
public school and was the first Democrat
to be elected and reelected Governor of
that state.
Discipline was another matter that re-
ceived more attention than 1t actually was
entitled to. While absolutely necessary
to have good order there was no need of
being unduly strict to secure that end.
Gentleness accompanied with firmness had
accomplished much on that line. He de-
precated the frequent references to capital
and labor, which often resulted In strife
and clashing, and he would have some
means whereby that subject would be a
forbidden topic.
Following this address there was piano
solo by Miss Lenore Altorfer, of Riverside.
Rev. William A. Morgan, of Newark,
took for his subject "a Yankee In Ire
land" and gave an address that was
listened to with great interest
At the close of Mr.. Morgan's talk the
president announced that lunch was ready
and the members went to the banquet hall
on the first floor of the hall, where fine
lunch was ready and was heartily enjoyed
by 1876 persons.
At the afternoon session the first business
was the election Of officers, the result be-
ing as follows: President, DR.. F, G. Stroud,
Moorestown; vice president, George W.
Gilbert, Vincentown secretary, Spencer
H. Powell, Lumberton; treasurer, H. j.
Dennis, Beverly township; executive com
mittee, Warren G. Pine. Riverside;
Thomas B. Candy, Burlington township;
Daniel Evan, Eastampton; Robert s.
Evans, Mount Laurel; Richard Hughes,
Florence.
Ull6S Gu1lly AlgOAAOA oA0 AAAoo AAAAAo
Steuber rendered beautiful solos, and Rev.
Arthur F. Hilton, of Moorestown, gave
a talk ON "Jolly PHILOSOPHERS and their
This was very humorous
address.
After Mr. Hilton's talk the meeting ad-
journed. 1t was nearly FIVE o'clock when
the adjournment took place and the late
ness prevented the discussion of many
subjects of mutual interest and advantage
to the members. While the meeting was
very pleasant and entertaining there is
one criticism that can be made and that is
that there were too many parts on the
that took up the time of the
meeting and did not allow for the inter
change of ideas on matters directly con-
nected with education