Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-08
Joyner. OF North Carolina.
Selected as President
Of the AssoCia-
tion Today.
EDUCATORS SWAT
HIGHER COLLEGES
Declare That Students Are Deqen-
crate and That Present
Methods Must Be
Changed to Bet
ter Results.

Denver, Colo, July 81. A. 10y
ner, of North Carolina, the antf-book
trust candidate, was chosen for presi-
oent or the National Educational as
soclation by the nominating commit
tee today. He defeated BENJAMIN
Blewett, OF St Louis. and Dr. John III.
Philips, of Alabama. Joyner Is sum-
erlntendent of schools in North Car
olina. ~
The officers elected are; J. A. Joy
ner of North Carolina, president: A.
FL. Chamberlain of California. treas
urer; d.. II. Harvey of Wisconsin.
first vice. president
Answering the question as why a
young man degenerates within SIX
months after entering college, which
ne said had not infrequently been ask
ed OF him by teachers OF the lower
schools, Chas. Fordyce, dean OF the
University of Nebraska, in an address
before the higher education depart-
ment of the National Education aaso-
clauon this morning, declared 10 wss
because he was not made self reliant
perore he was sent to college He
proposed the English and the German
methods to stop tbs inr7ssng @ NOR
al standarAs.,.. =.
Forestry and the care OF natural re-
sources were discussed by Hugh A.
Wynkenwerder. OF Colorado COLLEGE.
In a paper in which he urged the
western boy who thinks of coming
west to apply himself to the Study
of nature and the preservation OF it's
resources
The college muckraker has said.
and has proved his point that college
education today is chiefly notable for
It's inenectiveness, said John III. r.
Main president of Iowa College.
Grinnel, Iowa, in an address before
the department of higher education OF
the National Education association to-
day. But like all epigrammatic
statements. this is not the only thing
that can be said and proved about
college education. It may also be
shown that it is the most effective
| method in existence for acquaintinx
men with the world and making them
efficient agents in il.
The college bred man is. under
| normal conditions, the superior man.
but he may be produced at too great
expense when we consider all the time
and labor and money spent upon him.
Efficiency has a definite relation to
cost of production.
Lack of efficiency in college edu-
cation is largely due to absence of in
ner-community life in our colleges.
This is due to diversity of interests
cultivated by the elective system, the
large and rapidly growing number OF
courses offered, the absence of a def
mite controlling purpose in the insti-
tuition ais a whole, the professional
and technical methods that too often
characterize the work, the absence of
relationship between teacher and
pupil on a personal basis, and finally
the absence of genuine desire for u
unified spirit and life.
ITO correct this condition thera
must first of all be genuine desire
for inner-cOmmunity life. strong
purpose looking to this end will
achieve it. There must be an insti-
| tutional spirit developed by strong
personalities in administrative and
teaching positions. There must be or
sanitation of the elective system in
such way as to secure unity of spirit
particularly in lower classes. The
college must at times work as col
lcge on the intellectual and spiritual
side as well as on the side of athletics
and general activities. In the modern
college the problem is difficult one.
but when We determine to solve ~. We
can do So"
Training the Girls.
THE new order of things has
| come, but women, so far. have MT
been given the means with which 10
utilize it, said Mrs. Ellen Fl. Rich
ards, of the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology, Boston, IN her address at
a department meeting Of the National
| Education association. ITO whom
shall We turn for experience and
knowledge? The man In the indus
| trial world
The mana cement of American in
dustries the methods Of the American
business world stand at the very front
brought there by using the lessons OF
experience to form a definite science
of business methods. The home can
not be maintained without labor
how much labor depends upon the
perfection OF machinery and thea.
woman's greater flexibility OF though.
and adap ptability of manipulation. She
must feel the sense of power over
things