The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-04

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Mrs. Charles Allen Mills will give a
dinner party tonight for Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Castell of Princeton, Mo-, who
Mr.. and Mrs. r. ]. Handy. The guests
will be: Mr.. and Mrs C4stell Mr..
and Mrs. Monte Kistler. Miss Ann
Ruder, Miss Esther Dolley, Mr.. Rus
sell Handy and Mr.. Todd Matthews.
An event of interest in washburn
circles will be the marriage of Miss
S. Rebecca Taliaferro and Mr.. G.
Bruce Blair. Miss Taliaferro was a
member of last years graduating
class, and received two degrees, ore
in music, the other from tcc College
OF Liberal Arts She is also a gradu-
ate of the College of the Sisters of
Bethany and has been a t,,acher of
piano in an Iowa college for two years
She has since given private lessons
here. Mr.. Blair also has many friends
in Topeka. He graduated from the
Tabor, Ia, college, later taking his
elected to a fellowship for high schol-
arship in astronomy at the University
of California Following this ael
taught three years at Washpurn and
two years at Morningside college,
Sioux City, Ia, and has been on the
Chautauqua lecture platform. The last
two years Mr.. Blair has laken post
graduate work at Kansas university
qualified for the position he has Ie-
Gently accepted as a professor of phys
les in the state agricultural college at
Corvallis, Ore.
The approach of cooler weather sug-
gests work, as well as parties and
weddings and dances Some of the
study clubs Will organize this mon n
&c INC "a
Ladies' Music club will nave it's FIRST
meeting of the year wednesday, Sep
TENDER 20. The Music Study club Will
have it's first meeting the last week IN
September or the first week il. October.
The Minerva club, which mas { depart
ment of music. will meet september
80 in it's first regular session
The Matinee Music club have pre-
their first meeting Thursday. October
TO- Their course will include the
study of Mendelssohn, Grieg, Tschsi- |
koWsky and seven operas.
Miss Mignon Logan, whose marriage
to Mr.. Gilbert Worley will take place
in the late autumn, Will be he guest
of honor at a party Saturday afternoon
at which Miss Verna Worley; the sister
of Miss Iogan's fiance, will be hostess.
Miss Logan has not set the date OF her 4
marriage, but she expects to slave quite /
a large wedding at the First PresDy-
terrain church.
"Eaucation." they say. sis the chief |
defense of nations" and because nearly |
every one is directly or indirectly in |
terested in it's progress, it is worth |
while to note that the Topeka grades
have. as principal of one of the most |
innortant grammar schools a man of |
advanced theories on the training OF
the young idea and excellent pre-
paration for his duties. Mr.. Carl Pc
terson, the new principal OF Harrison |
street school, has recently returne
from California to accept the position. /
He is a Kansas man, was educated at /
the state university, and afterwards 1
taught in Topeka and was principal @
Summer school. Following his resigna,
Europe several months making a spe:
cial study of the public school systems
of the countries he visited. After his
return he went to Berkeley, Cal. and
took post graduate work in the uni
where teachers from the larE
Lst universities all over the world teach
Turing the summer session. Profess
sors from Berlin, Harvard, Oxford anG
other schools lectured to the students
his summer.
Our educational system is years be-
hind the times" Mr. Peterson says,
and while it has advanced a great |
deal, it has not begun to keep pac |
with the industrial changes that have
altered the demands put upon ..4e
schools. In Munich, Germany, the
plan of vocational schools to supple
nent the regular school education. has
proven a wonderful success, sending
put the vast majority of it's students |
% take positions at skilled work The
apparent waste of lime and money ami
effort under the present system, which
S acknowledged to fail in so many
cases to At children for the busine
If living, not the fault of the teac
rs or boards of education, for they
ire bound to wornout methods by |
traditions of a nee1 for erudition tharI
10 longer exists, and when the tax
payers see the need for change, Tho
,hange will cone.'
Mr.. Peterson and his wife, former
Mss Edith Pearson, of Topeka. re-
urned a few days ago from BerkIey
md will make Topeka their permanent
lone.
A series of receptions will be hel.
It the Y. M. c. A, beginning Septem
Der %, and continuing through that
week. There will be parties for the
Ugh school people, Washburn college.
he commercial schools, the railroad Of
ice men, and the general public
4 n HI
The Sigma Delta Psi girls met Tues L
lay evening with Miss Margaret TilIot-
on and Miss Helen TilIotson, at their | i
lome on Fillmore street.
X
Tie Beta girls will meet Thursday
fternoon with Miss Alice Griffin, 4O4
Voodlawn avenue.
X If
Miss Corinne Gunther has returned
o St. Louis. after spending three
weeks with her mother. Mrs. ]. Gun
her, of 234 Tyler street. Miss Gun E
her is now assistant supervisor of !
mystical training in the St. Louis pub +