Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
ALUMNI MEET AT BUFFALO.
President Thomas Delivers Ad-
dress Before 5000 Teachers.

The New York State Teachers asso-
citation held it's annual meeting at Buff
falo November 25-27 and the Middle
bury graduates in attendance were ten
dered luncheon at the Ellicott club by
Judge Thomas H. Noonan, 81, and
Samuel B. Botsford, 100. Those pres
ent were Samuel j. Preston, 'S2, super
intendent of schools in White Plains,
N. Y; Supt. Frank D. Boyden, '9l, of
Ithaca; Supt. A. A. Lavery, '91, of
Elnora; Smith C. Shedrick, ex-'97, of
Buffalo; j. Gordon Peach, IL, now
law student in the University of Buff
falo, and President Thomas.
There were 1000 teachers in attend
ance at the gathering. The day ses-
sons were held in twenty-three differ
ent sections, such as "The Teachers of
English" 1.-The Teachers of Music"
and "Rura Schools" At the latter
section Superintendent Preston deliv-
cred an address and was elected pres
ident of the section for the coming
year. Superintendent Boyden was
member of the committee on resolu-
tions
The evening meetings were held in
the Broadway arsenal, the largest
audi in the city. The attendance
at the opening session Monday evening
was stated by the Buffalo papers to
have been over 5000. The closing ad-
dress of this meeting was delivered by
President Thomas, whose subject was
"De Senectude Paldagogi," AS report
ed in the Buffalo Express, he said
"Mr. .Carnegie's magnificent gift to
higher education in the establishment
of the Carnegie foundation for the ad-
vancement of university teaching makes
the problem of support in old age COM
paratively easy for the college or uni
yersity professor. If the college teach
er can manage to live out 25 years of
service, and is fortunate enough to be
connected with an institutiontof high
standard, reasonable endowment, and
free from sectaran control he is as
sured of a competence sufficient to re-
lieve him and those who may be de-
pendent upon him from anxiety, at least
Ia he has exercised ordinaryIprudence
in the management of his own affairs.
1t is little surprising that this benef-
cent example has not exercised greater
influence toward the establishment of
retiring allowances for public-scho
teachers than appears to have been the
case. 1t must be supposed that Mr..
Carnegie selected college teachers as his
benefciaries, not because they are more
worthy or more deserving of such as
sistance, but because the institutions
they serve are supported usually by
private endowment and because they
must look, therefore, to private sources
for such assistance as may be given
them when their years of service are
concluded.
"The time will come and ought to
come speedily when every servant of
our public schools will be able to look
forward to at least a modest income
from the public treasury during his de-
clining years after life of faithful and
acceptable endeavor. That goal has al
ready been reached in some of our large
city systems and the movement is
bound to spread, since it is founded
both on justice and on wise public poll
cy. 1t may even now be urged that the
teaching profession is not so badly off
as the ministry in the matter of sup
port for old age, and that the teacher is
usually better advantaged in this re-
spect than the great majority of en-
ployees in commercial and industrial
pursuits.
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