The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-30

pe bringing InlS conulIon ABOUT.
According TO members OF the com
mittee which will submit the foregoing
recommendations IL is believed that the
recommendations will be adopted with
out any particular opposition AS each
change in the constitution and bylaws
was proposed before the committee, it
is reported to have been unanimously
accepted in almost every instance
Referriu>- TO the stomach, rather thar
the brain, as being the foundation OF
real greatness. DR.. John NJ Tyler of
Amherst college urged more physical
open air exercises for boys and girls ae
a cure for "dullness. In his addres:
before the Thursday morning session
Of the convention. DR.. Tyler spoke of
the nervous system as a nuisance
which ought to be abatcd.' - The pur-
pose of the nerves, he asserted, is to
insure a suitable response to every stim-
ulus of the brain, response which will
meet the emergency with just enough
energy. Waste of energy, he declared,
was a sin. The subject of DR.. Tyler's
lecture was '<Growth in the Grammar
School -
The report of the special committee
on the physical Basis of Education"
of which d. H. Christensen, superin
tendeut of the Salt Lake City public
schools, was chairman. was submitted
at the morning session. The report
was a plea for the assistance of sub
normal children. 1t showed that !.
per cent, or three out OF every goo chill
dren enrolled in the state, are mentally
subnormal, and that / $40 per cent. or
two in every 100 of the total school pop
ulation of the state, are similarly ar
fected. Important recommendations, af
fecting feeble minded pupils, to be made
20 the legislature, were contained IN
the exhaustive report of the special
committee.
Says He Was Misinterpreted.
Declaring that the press of Salt Lake
City had conveyed wrong ideas concern.
ing his illustrations, which interpreta-
tion placed Voltaire and Rousseau be-
low. Dr. John W. Cook president of
the Northern Illinois State Normal
school mt De Kalb, took occasion to cor
rect the opinion which was prevalent
Wednesday night. after his first adj
dress. relative TO his references to the
two great men at the afternoon ses-
sion of the convention Thursday. DR..
Cook s talk to the teachers was on
I" A Neglected Factor in Education
Imagination, he declared, is the neg
lected factor
The committee on resolutions submit
ted a partial report, IN which it was
made evident that the committee does
not propose TO draft any resolutions
that do not relate directly TO the
kuowledged work of the association or
that will not be possible for the asso
ciation to carry out in their entirety.
This report, which was submitted by
J. II Paul and l.. R, Eggerton, the 9th
er member being absent, was on the mo-
tion of Mr.. Aird of Utah county. adopt
ed unanimously The report follows:
What Committee Recommends.
We request that any resolutions seek
ing consideration by this association
should be handed in today. Your COM
mittee has considered certain resolutions
that are outside OF the express purpose
for which this association is organized.
These were presented before this body
and referred 10 your committee. Since.
however 'they dealt with conditions over
which this association can exercise nc
control, being entirely beyond the scope
of Its authority, II might have been
thought that your committee should ig-
more them without mention. But we
have concluded that something should
be said In relation to the good taste. or
rather. the lack of it. that would be eX
hibited by this body il it should assume
TO 20 outside of its proper sphere and
give gratuitous advice to municipal or
state authorities on matters lntrusted pc
culiarlv 10 their charge.
AS long as we have so many problems
of our own TO solve: as long. that Is,
our own house has not been really set In
order, the committee feels to. advise
against lne VI IceolutlonS
requesting the reformation OF conditions
in the affairs of other organized institu-
ttons,
While attending these sessions. we are
too busy with Our own peculiar work to
attempt 10 regulate the work OF other
bodies or 10 give them any advice as
to what they should do. We have trouble
enough of our own; and We take our
selves too seriously II we imagine that.
besides reforming the school and its
methods. we can likewise undertake TO
see that the rest OF the world goes right.
Your committee has. therefore. done
nothing with any resolutions that DO not
relate directly to the acknowledged work
OF tho association. and begs leave to urge
that we abstain from cumbering our
books and displaying our energy with dis
cussions, resolutions or suggestions that
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