The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07

are derived; agriculture in the widest
sense. as the ultimate fundamental oc-
cupation determining the food supply of
all the people, ana, so far as may be
possible at the time this biological
training should give such information
OF the facts CONCERNING life as the
pupils of from twelve to sixteen years
of age are able to grasp"
The teaching of the biological
sciences in the high schools reads the
report, should be governed strictly by
the larger needs of the life of the COM
munlty, and that such teaching should
not be shaped in conformity to tradi-
uona1 standardized requirements We
noId, IN other words, that he real prob
lem is, not how much theoretically
speaking, a high school pupil can be
made to know of the subject matter of
botany and zoology as organized
branches OF human knowledge, but
rather, In what way this organized
kIIoWledSe can best subserve his needs
IN the community
Departmental Meetings.
The departmental meetings were the
order OF things this afternoon. The
kindergarten and primary department
under Miss Eveline Eccles of Hutch
lnson, met in the First NJ. E. church;
the common and graded school depart
nent under Superintendent John H.
Hughes of Chanute, in the Auditorium.
ana the college and high school de-
partment under Superintendent John
X HeIIeIHnger in the high school
auditorium
Several college reunions will be
held this evening. The University of
kansas will hold its annual reunion
and banquet at o'clock in the First
Baptist church. The Baker university
reunion will take place at the First
NJ. E. church at $50 O'Clock. The
Campbell college reunion will also be
held at $50 o'clock at the First
United Brethren church. At o'clock
the Kansas Wesleyan banquet will take
place at the Central Y. M. c. A.
The Washburn banquet will be held
Friday evening at 6 o'clock at the
First congregational church. The re-
union of the State Agricultural COL
Iege will be held in the Commercial
club rooms at o'clock, the Western
State Normal school in the rooms of
the Commercial club Friday noon; the
Pittsburg Manual Training Normal
school at the First Baptist church Fri
day at o'clock; the College of EN-
Friday afternoon; Cooper college at the
Central Y. M. c. A. Friday at o'clock;
Ottawa university at the First Baptist
church Friday noon.
Auditorium Entertainment.
The great entertainment feature of
the meeting of teachers will be in the
form of IAN evening of grand opera"
at the Auditorium tonight. The Com
mercial club of Topeka has spent ST.
200 to procure some of the best talent
in the country.
Edmond Warnery, the tenor, has
been one of the singers at Covent
Garden and has been with the Chicago
Grand Opera company since its foun-
dation, making successes in such diff
fcult roles as that of PelleaS, in De-
bussy's "PelleaS and Melisande," and
that of Nicias, in ''Thais." He has,
SO critics declare, one of the best re-
cital voices in America.
Mabel Sharp Herdien of Chicago, so
prano soloist for the Apollo club and
the Thomas orchestra, has been heard
in Kansas before, and has met with
has a voice of unusual power and quail
ity and is an American who has won
brilliant success in musical circles in
the old world. Her repertoire shows
an unusual range. Frederick Wallis,
the baritone, is recognized as a bril-
liant interpreter of the best opera
music. The pianist is Theodore Stur
xow Ryder, who ranks high both as
an accom- PIANIST and a soloist.
Manual Training Round Table.
The manual training round table OF
the State Teachers association meets |
tomorrow afternoon in the high school
auditorium. DR.. George E. Myers, !
principal of the state manual training |
normal, Pittsburg, Kan, will preside.
Manual training is rapidly finding a !
place in the grades as a pre-vocation- |
al training for the large number of