Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-08
EXPERTS MEET T0D|sCUss
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
Simple Experience of Boys in Streets
>" Often Influences Start in
Life.
EDUCATORS
s ATTEND
MAN y
Function of State University to Get
i Standard for Specialized Training
Set Forth in Several Papers-Nfiss
liathrop TO Speak Tonight.

At the fourth annual conference on
Vocational Guidance begun last night
IN tho John MARSHALL High School cx
nrcssion was given TO the practical
PIN sca o.: vocational guidauce nc con-
ccrned with street life by Phillip Davis.
director of the Civil Service ETouse.
Boston, Mass. Mr.. Davis said that the
simple experience OF street life often
Influences tho start ia life, That the
experiences OF the bootblack, OF the
newsboy and OF the man who works
about the highways gives him his be-
ginnlra. and that he must I've held by
Tiat experience until something larger
comes into his life. Tho experience
is not always bad; II may often be
good, or nj least, turned towards :.
good affection. The speaker said that
many :,et from the strccts standards
Of conduct and OF behavior. ana That
{. study OF tho street life III rs essen
ual -rG the study OF the influence OF
the home aad school.
In the absence OF James $. Hiatt,
OF tho 1'ublic Education Association.
tho session OF tile National Vocational
Guidance Association convention was
opened by Frank ~. Leavitt, Of tho
University Of Chicago. An address OF
welcome WAS delivered by Frank Duke,
superintendent OF the virginia Me-
clinnicn' Institute
MISS HIIDGIsS ON aDEXTERITE
IN RELATION TO GuIDANCE''
Various subjects were discussed.
Miss Anna G.. Hedges, specialist III yo-
| c;ltioral training Tor girls, IN the New
York state Education Department, OF
Albany. read q paper on "DeNterity
sni Sl;ill IN Relation to ,Guidance.'
, ana Prof. j, ID. l3liir, OF tho University
o. Missouri. ta,ite, ~op Vocational
Guidance: n Function OF tic State Uni
rerslty." Prof. l2lin said that IL was
the function OF tile State university
TO set standard for vocational guild
, nnce. that 1. Was tho duty OF the uni
verslty to lead In tho general voca-
tional education OF tho public.
Tho meetings OF the National Voca-
tionai Guidance Association Will con-
, tinuc through Thursday, when. Mt $50
p'ciock. tho association Will join with
tile National Society for tho Promo :
ton 0f Industrial Education
One OF the principal speakers on
| Wednesday, night Will DC Mrs. Lucinda
W. Prince, who was the first to organ
iZc trade schools for young women. and
whose services have been secured
through tho efforts OF tho Retail MGR
! chants Association.
| INTERESTING ADDRESSES
ON TO-DAY'S PROGRAM
The program for to-day follows:
10 A. M.-Topic: Vocational Guild
Vocational Guidance in Boston,
Assistant superintendent Frank "
Thompson, boston. Mass.
some Suggestions Tor Presenting o
Course in Vocational Information 10
Pupils In the Smaller High Schools
Superintendent w. y. W'heatlcy, Mid
dletolvn, Conn.
Vocational Guidance and the Cur
riculunli" Fpr. Ira $. Vile, New York
, Board OF Icducntion.
The Focusing Point for Vocational
Guidance, Director Q. w. burroughs
Vocation Bureau, Pittsburgh, Pm
$3.50 =. M.--Busincss meeting OF the
National Voccsional Guidance Associa-
tion.
Reports, election or officers, etc
8 j.. M.---Topic: "Yocntional. Guidance
and Social Welfare"
Tho Question Of Organization OF Vo-
cat!on:l Guidance in the South" David
spence ELI, I'h. D., director OF Division
Of Educational Research, public Schools
New Orleans, La.
'7"IIow to Organize and Administer a
System OF Vocational Guidance" Will
liam NJ Leiserson. Wisconsin Free En-
'Part-Time Secondary Schooling and
Vocational Guidance" Dr. II. y. Clax-
ton, United States Commissioner OF
nJucatiop, Washington d. C,
Some Items TO 10 Considered IN q
Vocational Guidance. Program" Miss
julia @. LRthrop, ohief United States
Children's Bureau, Washington, d. G. .
National Aspects OF Vocational Guild
ance." President j. y. Eggieston, Tir.
ginia Polytechnic Institute.