Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-26
CALL ON MR.. TAFT
Three Hundred Commercial
Teachers Visit White House.
ON TRIP TO MOUNT VERNON
Officers Will Be Elected at Session
Aboard Boat.
GOOD TIME AT BANQUET
Annual Social Session Last Night
Attended by Two Hundred
Members.
GOOD TIME AT BANQUET

Three hundred members of the Eastern
Commercial Teachers Association. whose
annual convention has been in progress
In this city for the past two days. were
received by President Taft at the White
House this morning shortly after 10
O'Clock. The visitors gathered at the
west end of the White House. grounds,
and, forming their reception line, passed
into the executive offices, where the
President received them.
At the head of the line were +. A. Nor
man of Baltimore. president of the
sociation; Allan Davis. principal of the
Business High School and one of the vice
presidents of the association: e. NJ. Hunt
singer Of Hartford. Conn. d member Of
the executive board. and others. The
visitors were introduced to the Pr esident
By the associations officers. Owing to
the press of the days business the chief
executive was unable to make the Snort
address that had been expected.
Address on Shorthand.
Following the reception at the White
House the third days session of tie con-
vention was convened in the study hall
Of the Business High School. The chief
address CT the session was delivered by
]. NJ Kimball of New York city, one of
the oldest shorthand teachers in the
country. Mr.. kimball talked On the sub
ject of Shorthand and took occasion
to severely condemn inscriptions schools
which guaranteed to teach the subject
in stated periods This, he asserted, was
an impossibility, owing to the nature OF
the subject.
of commercial and business schools who
advertised their ability to procure posi-
tions for pupils graduated in the Short
hand courses referred to as not only
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an unworthy commercialism. but earning
an unenviable reputation for all CONNER
cial schools.
. The subject also was discussed by Ray
mond P. Kelly of New York and Mrs. M.
A. Merrill of Stamford, Conn.
In addition to the discourses on Short
ihand" the following papers were read at
this mornings session: "Penmanship-
How ! Teach It," by E. F. Whitmore of
this city; Business Correspondence" by
E. E. Gaylord of Beverly. Mass, and
i"Correlation of Penmanship and Other
Branches by X. c. Atticks of Balti
more, Nd
Shortly after / o'clock the session ad-
journed preparatory to a trip to Mount
Vernon as the guests of the Smith-Pre-
mier Typewriter Company. The annual
business meeting of the association will
take place on the boat latS tins afternoon,
at which officers will be elected and other
routine matters disposed of.
!. Banquet at Arlington.
More than 200 man and woman teach
lers attended the annual banquet of
the Eastern Commercial Teachers AS
isociation, held last evening in the Ar
.lington Hotel. Preceding the dinner the
officers of the association held recep-
ton, at which several guests of the
ISOLATION swere presented to the members.
Z. II. Norman of Baltimore, president
of the association, presided at the
banquet. and in few remarks intro
aItced each of the speakers, all of
whom extolled the value at the present
day OF a commercial education. That
the study of the old classics in Latin
and Greek has given away to bookkeep-
ling and penmansh;p was a theme run
ming through several of the addresses.
MRS. Ellen Spencer Mussey of the
board of education spoke on the useful
mess of a commercial education for
women. and paid a tribute to the local
schools. especially the Business High
tSe.fooi where the methods of teaching,
ishe said, were equal to those of the
flor most business colleges in the
country.
Higher Pay for Teachers.