The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-07-06
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS
OF EDUCATION ADDRESSES
BOSTON MEETING.
FOOTBALL IS DENOUNCED
David Starr Jordan Opposes Game on
the Ground Of Brutslity.-Dr. Elmer
Brown Tells National Teachers As.
soeiation OF the Work Which 10 Bs-
ing Carried on Through the Country.

Ro ton, July :. Dcnouncing college
football AZ a combination Of brutality
and pugilisn that appealed to the love
of the sordd. David Starr Jordan.
president of Leland Stanford. Jr..
university. led IN tho discussion that
followed a report made today by the
committee on moral education In pub
lie schools to the national council of
education of the National Educational
association. Ia convention here. lie
added:
Some day the college presidents
and school heads of this country VIII
perhaps he called cowardly and brutal
because they did not put "A stop To the
dangers of football. a sport that de-
stroys the best there is In American
youth"
The game. he continued. arouscs the
same love of the surdid that forced
the interests of the country In "A ring.
way out In Nevada. where a black
man and white man were pounding
each other yesterday
mo intelligence Is required In the
game Of football" he asserted Black
smiths and boilermakcrs can play the
game AS well az men of finer intel
lects: In fact. they are considered the
best raw material for the game
President Jordan favored the substi-
tuition of the English game. In most
of the ~ departmental meetings of
the convention today there was at
least one advocate OF the instruction
I Of industrial training and agriculture
In the secondary schools. At tho see
ond meeting of the general sessions of
the association tonight President
James Y. Joyner delivered his annual
address. He was followed By Com
missioner OF Education Brown, wac
spoke as follows:
brief outline of the course
that will he pursued by the
United States bureau of edu-
| cation In It's efforts to promote ed
ucation during the coming year. and n
tribute to the achievements OF the late
Dr. william Terry Harris. formerly In
charge of that work, were the principle
feature u an address by Dr Elmer ~
Brown. the present commissioner of
I
tion association Ia this city today
1T was an extraordinary legacy that
was left to the bureau Of education by
Commissioner william Terry Harris"
declared DIR. Brown. "rhc present ad-
mlnlstratlon of that office has no finer
nor higher responsibility than that OF
maintaining at It's best the spirit and
that tradition which constitute that
legacy"
Dr. Brown referred Ia the institution
al new division for the promotion of
methods of school administration and
Also of the use Of specialists for i'm
proving the work Of tho land grant
colleges AZ additions that had been
made to the activities Of the service
under him. lie pictured the educa-
tional work carried on In AIascka as
the most extensive experiment ~ that
Kind In the world
The White Mans Burden.
Such a practice school presents the
white mans burden In It's most con
crete form. with all of the difficulties
| aud all of the Inspiring opportunities
presented by this world education
movement OF our time" he added.
There in Alaska the school physician
and the school nurse are now going up
ana down. helping the people In their
sickness and teaching them how to live
clean and wholesome lives. The girls
are learning To cook and 10 sew and
| to make good homes. The boys are
learning to earn an honest livelihood
z
industrial pursuits, by the raising of
reindeer. by improved fishing. garden
Ing and the use OF common tools They
are learning something of the white
mans wisdom and the white mans
better aims In life, which shall help
them In their new relations with the
, white man as their neighbor and fcl
low laborcr"
Bureaus Co operate.
10 extend the influence of the bu-
reau and to strengthen IL Dr. Brown
said close cooperation had been ar
ranged with the library of Congress
and with the bureau OF census. The
latter bureau. he said. Is endeavoring
to obtain more nearly uniform and
comparable statistics concerning state
and city systems of education.
I'VE have now more reason than ever
before to hope that the reproach
which has lain against our school re
ports. that they 30 not tell an intel
llgible tale. is soon 70 be thing of the
past" declared DR.. Brown.
Speaking of the functions OF his bu-
reau, DR. Brown said:
| THE Improvement of school attends
ance must go hand in hand with the