Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-11-26

University Glec Club.
Of Mersfelder was then made Of re-
'sponsibility for the reports referred 20
by Mr. Baca.
AS all attempts 20 induce Secretary
Rupert f. Asplund to reconsider his
refusal TO be a candidate again for
the secretaryship after four years Of
efficient service. J. II. Wagner OF
Santa Fe, and Miss Susie Whitaker,
private secretary of DR.. f. II. II. Rob
erts of the Normal university at East
Las Vegas, were nominated for the
post.
The efficient services Of c. l.. Burt
.of Mountainair. earned him a renom-
nation for the treasurership. J. B..
Taylor Of Deming was nominated on
the executive committee to succeed
d. II. Wagner. whose term had eX-
pired. r. r. Larkln of East Las We
gas was renominated for railroad sec
retary.
4 Touch of Romance.
w r, Holt of Deming won applause
when he moved to appoint a commit
ace OF four TO include President w. b.
Mcfarland, to send the following tele-
gram to Mr.. and Mrs. Francis B.
Sayre:
To Mr.. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, the
White House. Washington
The New Mexico Educational asso-
citation, in convention assembled. pre-
sents the sincerest congratulations
and heartiest fluctuations to the
bride Of the nation" and the noble
man Of her choice.
The association also presents
through the bride. its kindest compi-
ments to her illustrlous father, tho
eminent educator, the distinguished
statesman and loved leader OF the
most enlightened nation on earth.
WILLARD f. HOLT,
Chairman
WALTER B M'FARLAND,
RUPERT +. ASPLUND,
ALVAN y. WHITE.
The resolution was adopted with
standing vote and the president APP
pointed the following additional mem-
bers ON the committee: w. r, Holt
Alvan n White and Rupert r. AS.
plund.
Dr. ClaXtou on Reading.
The main part of the session was
given to Dr. p p Claxton. whose ad-
dress on Literature in the schools,
won unstinted plaudits OF all the
school problems he considered it the
most important. Il believe in indus
trial and in agricultural education,
he said but | am still of the opinion
that if / had the power Of the ear
to impose my will and could impose
only one thing, it would be to incul-
cate the habit of good reading
He enumerated four essentials in
seeking to implant the love OF good
literature in the child's mind;
Select the greatest piece of liter
aturc that a child can begin TO COM
prehend
"It should be whole piece, not q
fragment
1T should oe literature Of power.
"It should be clothed in the sim
plest language"
The man who has read hundred
good books, say four a year, cannot
he classed as uneultured. An edu-
Gated man is a thousand men in one,
for as the German says, "A man is
what he eats The spirit of man
must feed on the spirits of men who
have gone before.
Second Hand Teachers.
or course, there are teachers who
are made of clay and there are those |
who have the breath of life breathed
into them. There are also first-han |
teachers and secondhand teachers, 1
and occasionally teachers who are
third hand in that they are generally
behind-hand in addition to having the
other two hands. Most of us are sec
ond-hand teachers, we are not discov- |
erers of any great truths but merely I
peddlers of secondhand knowledge /
The great first-hand teachers are
the kings and priests of God and hu- +
manity but they are those who have /
pushed back the walls Of darkness +
they have stood on the mountain tops I
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