Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-10
STATE SUPERINTENDENT MAKES
IMPORTANT REcoMMENDA-
TloN TO TEACHERS.
WOULD HAVE COUNTRY
SCHOOLS MORE USEFUL
Favers More Township High Schools
and Consolidation and Classification
Of High Schools Under compstent
Inspector Sectional Meetings in
Progress at Tsaehsrs' Convention.
Special to times Republican.

Special to times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 1O.-The big feat
ure of the fifty-seventh session Of the
Iowa State Teachers Association, today
was the annual address Of Albert M
Deyoe, superintendent of public in
struction.
A country life and rural school COM
mission will follow if his recommends
tions prevail He would have the great
problem of how best to use the rural
school for the uplift of rural life in
Iowa solved by a commission of ex-
rerts devoting their time to the subject
and recommending such changes in law
and in school methods as would best
attain the object. Other things he
recommended and which received the
approval of the teachers in the main
were:
Rural school inspector, supervisor of
rural school libraries and inspector of
high schools.
Classification Of all the high schools
of the state under q competent state
inspector
More township high schools as an
outgrowth of the tuition law.
Better utilization of the existing
school plants by some reorganization
of the administration system.
Sectional Meetings Held.
Following addresses by Prof. j. NJ.
Greenwood. of Kansas City. and ]. d.
Eggleston, Of Richmond, the associa-
ton divided into sections for the af-
ternoon and twenty different meetings
were held in the form Of sectional pro-
grams
This evening there will be given a
rendition of THE Messiah" in the
Coliseum which will be a great musical
event.
The election Of officers will occur af-
ter the musical program. The develop
Ment of a distinctly '.insurgent'' move
ment among the women Of the associa-
tion has lent interest to- this election.
The attendance at the association
meetings has been very satisfactory. 1t
is noticeable that there Is perhaps a
larger proportion of menfin attendance
this year than in the past
Newspapers Best Text Books.
That the best text book is the A.
nancial page of newspaper was the
conclusion reached at a meeting Of the
mathematical teachers Of which Mrs.
f. NJ. Hamitt. of Ottumwa, was chair
man of the committee. Some strong
statements of denunciation Of the pres
ent system Of teaching arithmetic were
made.
Keen interest is centered in the fight
being Waged between men and women
for the presidency. The women claim
majority in the association member
ship and claim they have had the presi-
dency only twice in fifty seven years.
and are asking an equal representation
on the resolution and finance commit
tees and the presidency, of the associa-
ton.
The most active candidate lis F. NJ.
Hammitt. Of Ottumwa, while Miss
Grace Creswell, Of Davenport, is the
women's popular candidate. Friends
Of George Mashall, Of Davenport. are
pushing his candidacy for the presi-
dency.
Colleges Dsterioratino '
It is the concensus of opinion among
college men that scholarship in col
legeS is detertOratlng.
That was the conclusion announced
by Sidney L. Chandler,.of Morningside
College to the department of college
and university education.9
He further declared that it Is due
more than to any other thing to the
surrender Of the colleges. to the unrest
and uncertainty Of the times and to the
spirit of the day. Everything is un-
settleG-in education, in business, in
politics, in religion. There is no
of action, no definite pur-
pose. es
athletics Is the great bane of schol-
arship in the colleges Of today" de-
clared Professor Chandler. Whereat
the college men and women applauded
and a movement was started right then
and there for curbing the tendency to
give undue Prominence to athletics
and to reduce the time which may ac-
tually be given to football and the like
in colleges. Professor Chandler stated
that it is humiliating fact that 1t Is
generally believed the college faculties
are too lenient with those who are
prominent in athletics.
But there are other reasons for the
decline OF scholarship in collegesy such,
for instance, as the prominence given
to social affairs and other side issues.
Then there Is tendency to consider
In college education cKisfy the ques-
tion does 1t pay. The colleges .un-
wisely advertise something about. tin
big salaries received by college men.
In arriving at the opinion that, schQl-
arship is declining In colleges, Pro.
lessor Chandler secured tile opinions 81
a large number 6f college men to whom
Ne wrote. A great many OF them de-
pl0Yed the lack Of serious purpose on
the part Of those who are pursuing
college work. The tendency il to
specialize. Concentration on the part
Of the American people sis a lost art.
Then there is decline ii the spirit Of
Independence. due In some measure at
least to the feminization or the COLI
leges. and there is too much considers
alton only Of those things which 20