Arizona republican., 1911-03-31
TEMPE
TOUR OF
PRESIDENT MATTHEWS
Visiting Schools and Attending In
stitute at Tucson

The tour of President Matthews
through the southern part of the ter
ritory in the interests OF the normal
and on other school business can be
traced by the following clippings. the
first taken from the Yuma Exam
liner and the second from the Tue
son Citizen:
Prof A. j. Matthews. president of
the Tempe Normal school. is in town
today visiting the high school and
the grammar school of this city. He
is also shaking hands with many of
his friends who live here in Yuma.
This afternoon President Matthews
made a short address before the high
school student body He also Wis
tied the Yuma Heights Orange grove
and took a ride through the valley.
He expressed himself as confident
Of the future of the agricultural in
terests of this valley
He leaves tonight for Tucson
where he will deliver an address be-
fore the Pima County Teachers In
stitute now in session in that city"
Yuma Examiner.
THE second dav of the Pima Coun-
ty Teachers Institute opened with a
large attendance and the exercises
for the morning began with two
Flower Song, from Faust, and My
Bairnie'
Expectation From Schools
Mr. A. ]. Matthews, president of
the Arizona Normal school at Tempe,
gave an interesting address on the
Expectations from the Public
Schools He said in part: 1T is
good for us TO reason together oc-
casionally on all matters pertaining
to the public welfare 1t has been
said that man is considered a rea-
soning being. but it must be con-
fessed that in most minds there is a
lack of reasoning power along some
lines Of thought. This lack of rea-
sonableness is exhibited in the ex-
pectations in which men indulge
concerning forms of government,
codes of morals and systems of edu-
cation Miracles cannot be expect
ed from our free schools, they must
deal with human nature as they find
it. IL humanity were perfect. our
schools would be perfect. but the
humanity with which the schools
deal is certainly far from perfection.
We believe that the public schools
stimulate higher tendencies and sup
press the lower. We affirm that the
intelligence developed in our public
schools. and the moral influence
welded in them tend to make better
citizens of the pupils than those
pupils otherwise would become
believe that on the whole our pub
lie schools make for righteousness
as well as intelligence and the fact
that they are not able TO remove all
the evils does not imply that they
are inefficient. but only indicates
that the evils to be removed are
endowed with gigantic magnitude and
unyielding persistence
I'm summing up he said. The free
public schools of America have met
all reasonable expectations Tucson
Citizen.
At the beautiful country home of
Mrs. Filing Olsen. a large number
of her lady friends were delightfully."-
entertained Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Mac Bean and daughter of Chi
cago were the guests Of honor. Dainty
refreshments were served and the
ladies present enjoyed thoroughly
pleasant afternoon. Those who en-
joyed Mrs. Olsen's hospitality were
the following named: Mrs. Mac Bean.
Miss Margrette Mac Bean. Mesdames
c. G. Steele, o. C. Watson. d. H.
Mcdonald j z Jensen. 8. j Weir.