The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-02
They Will Be Here in Force
Tomorrow.
Expected That $500 at Least
Will Attend.
SUPERINTENDENTS TOO
Their Meeting Will Be Held To-
morrow Evening.
Dyche Lecture a Special Feature
at Auditorium.

Tomorrow the knowledge dispensers
of the state will begin fiocking to To-
peka from all directions, and they VIII
not be counted by the hundreds put
by the thousands, as present indica-
lions point to al attendance at the
meeting of the State Teachers associa-
ton of between $500 and 1000 persons.
1t will be the greatest meeting of the
kind ever held in Topeka.
In years past when the meetings of
the association were held during the
Christmas holidays scarcely thousand
teachers would register. Then there
were the home attractions after four
months of hard work that kept many
of them away from Topeka. 2o
In other states the experiment OF
holding similar meetings earlier in the
season has been adopted with the re-
suit that the attendance was Increase
to a remarkab BILE degree. This fall -prac-
tically all of the teachers of the state
have been granted a leave of absence
on November and 3 provided that
they attend the gathering of the mem
bers of the State Teachers ASSOCIATION.
The Dyche Lecture.
BY Wednesday evening the county
superintendents will all be here and Il
large number of teachers. The special
attraction for that evening will be the
lecture on Cook and Peary and Dis
covery of the North Pole" by Lewis
Lindsay Dyche, the professor explorer
of Kansas university, who will accom-
pany DR.. Cook to the summit of Mount
Mckinley in quest of the records which
are claimed to have been left there.
A special train will arrive tomorrow
evening over the Santa Fe at 10:4o
from INDEPENDENCE, On I0uTSQdy
morning another train will bring 250
teachers at 9:15 from Kansas City,
Kansas. Special cars will be annexed
to many of the incoming regular trains
of the roads running into Topeka in
order to accommodate the teachers.
Received at State House.
The entertainment committee will be
in Superintendent Fairchild's south Of
flee in the Capitol building with corps
of assistants, and this committee will
see to it that the incoming teachers are
provided with comfortable quarters
while in the city. Registration viii
commence in the rotunda of the state
house tomorrow morning, and in addi-
ton to this on Thursday and Friday
mornings registration may be made at
the Auditorium. This is in order tina.
1t will not be necessary for the guests
of the city to miss any of the featursS
of the program.
Kansas avenue at night will be re-
splendent with electric signs welcom-
ing the visitors to the city and every
thing will be done for the comfort OF
the guests. The people of Topeka are
urged to respond still further in the
way of opening their homes for the ac-
commodation of the teachers, and the
secretary of the Commercial club will
be glad to take down the names Of
those who have SO far neglected to ar
range for the entertainment of teach
erS on Thursday and Friday.
Superintendents' Meeting.
Tomorrow the third annual confer
ence of the county superintendents
takes place in representative hall, the
program being as follows:
Forenoon SessiOn-9:3O O'Clock.
Address-E. T. Fairchild, state super
intendent.
Reading-How to Secure Better Re-
suits: Discussion led by Supt. John +.
Eby, Topeka.
The Teaching of Ethics-Discussion
led by Supt. c. E. Rarick. Stockton.
Good schools require well-trained
teachers; normal training in high
schools helps to meet this demand.
Afternoon SessiOn-2:3O O'Clock
Bimonthly and Final Examination
Discussion led by Supt. Mabel Marlin
Ealina. -s.ss9e
Course of Study. Common Schools and
Grades, New Features-Discussion led
by Supt. Anna E. Arnold, Cottonwood
Falls.
The Superintendent's Relation to the