The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-25
DR.. M i'm S Emphasizes
Importance of Soul as
We'll as Machinery.
MAPHIS EXPLAINS
EXAMINERS WORK
Tells How Teachers Standards
Have Been Raised-Superin-
tendents Will Not Here
after Meet With General
conference-Eggleston
Denounces Love Bill.

Pressing home the thought that the
teacher, to fulfil his or her mission,
must work through the necessary and
fundamental mechanics to the spirt-
tual DR.. Edwin Minis, of the univer-
sity % North Carolina, held the clos
est attention OF his audience in an
address last night before the Virginia
Educational Conference. Well known
In this State and always rich in eX-
preston and forceful In presentation,
Or. Minis is always accorded hearty
welcome.
His subject was Mechanics and by
namics In Educational Work Esti
mating the attitude of men who had
emphasized either the spiritual or ma
fteriaI. TO the exclusion of the other.
he told Of the Importance of both, al
ways keeping in view the soul that
must shine through the material
things provided for instruction by
modern systems of education.
Higher Standards.
Following DR. Minis, Professor
Charles G. Maphis, of Charlottesville,
president of the State Board OF Exam
iners. told OF some of the policies Of
the State Board uf Education, as ad-
ministered by his board. He de-
scribed the work OF the body and gave
some facts regarding the practical
results of It's EFFORTS which We're sur
prising to most of his hearers. He
laid stress on the Importance of the
child in all educational effort, saying
that thee teacher was an incident
necessary evil. Mr. Maphis told his
audience of some OF the difficulties met
and overcome in the work OF raising
the standard OF the men and women
who teach the children of Virginia.
Because of the delay of their train,
the superintendent of the Southern
states, who were at Hampton yester-
day. failed to reach Richmond in time
TO be present at last nights meeting
This necessitated the elimination OF
Dr.. j. Y. Joyner, superintendent OF
North Carolina, who was With the
party, from the program. Mr. Maphis
being substituted.
EggIeston's Speech.
A notable incident OF YESTERDAY $
sessions was the address in the after
noon of Superintendent j. =. Eggleston,
Ir., before the Association of School
Trustees. In this speech MI EsSle-
ston discussed the Love bill IN the
Legislature last winter, which passed
the House and which was designed TO
prevent the selection of any division
superintendent outside of the district
in which he was to serve. This meas
ure he denounced as the most vicious
bill proposed in the General Assembly
of Virginia in his time.
Anticipating similar bill In the
next Legislature. Mr.. Eggleston told the
trustees that its passage would be the
seyerest blow struck at education IN
Virginia in years. He rioiculed and
criticized the intent OF the bill and
asked the trustees TO stand by MN.
At the conclusion of his remarks many
OF the trustees shook his hand and
told him to count on them
Step Out of Conference.
Dating from yesterday, the confer
ence of Division Superintendents sep
arated itself from the Virginia Educa-
tional Conference. Reall2lnS thal as
at present arranged the superintend-
ents are unable to hoid satisiao.ois
sessions. a resolution was adopted that
hereafter the conference will not meet
al the same time and place with the
general body. This means that It
will. not go ofticially to Norfolk next
wear and will have no part in the pro-
gram there. However, most OF the su-
nerintendents, it is presumed, Will at
tend informally
n was contended that there are too
MANY side attractions and con1llctlns
meetings at these conferences to per-
nit of satisfactory work. Again, II
is desired that Superintendent EsSle-
ston and Secretary Stearnes snouid
meet and consult with the bodS, Whlch
they find it impossible to do at gen
eral conferences
Compulsory education was dlscusseu
by the superntendents, and favored
by practically all OF them.
The State Teachers Association
elected officers and adjourned sine die.
It's new president. w. II. Keister, Of
Harrisonburg, who has served as
treasure for the past year. is one
of the most popular men in the body
AdIourns To-Nlsht.
Final adjournment of the confer
.ence will be reached tonight, With
an address by DR.. Walter Page, editor
Of "The Worlds Work The Coop
erative Education Association will
have its inning to-day, holding ses-
sion this morning at the Young Mems
Christian Association.
Retiring President N. P. Painter of
the state Teachers Association, under
whose auspices the meeting last night
was held, presided. julius A. Spiegel
added to the program with a either
selection.
DR.. Edwin Minis, taking Carlyle's
definition, spoke of mechanics as the
mechanical side of things, the ma
chinery ofNreligion and politics and
education-the external, institutional
side of life Dynamics he defined as
the inward power. the inner life, the
Infinite phases Of subject
CARLYLE he described as the apostle
of dynamics, and Gladstone, on the
other hand, as the infinite master of
detail, Tolstoi full of soul, never
harmonized himself into the institu-
tions of his country. Bismarck made
a body through which Germany's soul
could speak, Emerson, full of In
spring power, moderated institutions.
yet DR.. Eliot, who said he never had
an idea on educational matters which
Emerson did not anticipate, took hold
of and used the forces in the land,
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