The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
VISITORS IN CITY.
Missouri Valley Commercial
Teachers Association Here.
G. E. Birch Opens Session With
an Address.
TALKS OFTHES SCHOOLS
Private Institutions Must Find
New Paths.
Banquet at the Hotel ThrOOp
1ALKS OFTHE SCHOOLS
Banquet at the Hotel ThrOOp
This Evening.

One hundred and two members of
the Missouri Valley Commercial
Teachers association and the Western
Commercial School Managers asso-
citation were registered up to noon to-
day for convention which will last
until Saturday evening.
The first session opened at 1890
this morning with an address by C. E.
Missouri Valley Commercial Teach
erS association.
THE private business school," said
he, must continue to be a pioneer
must find new paths leading through
the business forest, must continue to
do much of the work of discovery and
exploration. 1t must be keen to anti
cipate the demands of the business
world; learn where to strengthen the
course, and equally important, where
to lengthen it; seize upon new sub
5ects that should be taught; discard
subjects and methods no longer need
ed It's field is the instruction of
those who have not the time or means
to attend the high school or university,
or who are convinced that the pri-
vate business school offers the most
effective service.
'"This means the business school
must increase its effectiveness must
get down to essentials and eliminate
much that the high school should in
clude. 1t can point out lines of read
ing and investigation that should be
pursued by the student, although time
forbids a fuller developm ent.
ut must take the student far
enough to open his eyes to the vast
possibilities before him and send him
out with an inspiration that will impel
him to round out his knowledge by
reading, investigation and observa-
tion for no matter how Thoroughly
the essentials are taught it must be
admitted that a short course leaves
the student equipped merely to make
an intelligent start.
Another thing: schools diploma
should not be lightly given. Ebert
Hubbard says: I would not graduate
an individual who was not able to go
into an office and make good. I am
not sure but that I would not give my
! final diploma until the individual had
been year in a business office, and
then I would have the diploma signed
| by the employer. To me it is a ridicu-
lous and absurd thing to graduate an
individual from school who is not
able to earn his living You may not
regard this suggestion seriously, and
yet know a school where this has
been practiced to a limited extent
What a Teacher Should Be.
| 1.-THE Manager, the Teacher, and the
| Student" was the subject of an address
given by President Homer H Seerley
of the Iowa State Teachers college.
| The speaker pointed out that the
teacher must cooperate with the stud
ents and gain their confidence. One
great feature. he asserted, in the sue
| cess of an Instructor is his willingness
| to give the student full credit due for
! the work he has accomplished and not
credit himself as a teacher for having
| been the entire factor in the results &C
complished.
| The sessions are being held in the
rooms Of Doughertys Business college,
| on Eighth avenue.
| After luncheon the visitors were
taken on a sightseeing trip over the
city, and many were the expressions
the city.
! Complimentary to the visitors a ban
| quet will be given this evening at the
| Throop hotel at 8 o'clock, Raymond P.
! Kelley acting as POSTMASTER. The fol-
| lowing program will be rendered:
Musical number. Cecelian Male quar-
| tette; address, "Effectivene ss," by Carl
! c. Marshall of Cedar Rapids. Iowa;
reading, Miss Ceora Lanham; solo, Miss
Ethel Barnes; solo, F. L. Robbins
Officers of the association are:
Missouri Valley Commercial Teachers
Association-President, C. E. Birch,
Lawrence, Kan; vice president, w. NJ.
Bryant, Lincoln, Neb; secretarytreas-
! urer, Miss Eva J. Sullivan, Kansas City,
Mo-; executive committee, George z.
| Dougherty, Topeka, Kan; L. H. Hau-
sam. Hutchinson, Kan; F. ]. Kirker,
Kansas City, Mo.
! Western Commercial School Mana
| gers sociation-President, G. w.
! Weatherly, Joplin, Mo-; vice president.
E. A. hartman, Omaha, Neb.; secretary
| treasurer, Almon F. Gates, Waterloon,
| Iowa.