The Detroit times., 1914-09-10
SAYS GOOD Will
FOLLOW in WAKE
OF GIANT WAR
Democracies viii Succeed Mon
arches in Europe, DIR. w. E.
Chancellor Tells Teachers
INSTITUTE SESSIONS
PROVE INTERESTING
Over $500 Present Wednesda,
DR. D, E. Phillips, Denver,
in List Of Speakers

interest In the Detroit and WAYNE
county feaehers institute IN the Cen;
trai Hlgh school continues unabated
ana wednesday mornings session
opened amid renewed enthusis am
among the more than two thousand
teachers Of the city and the AGO OF the
county, the attendance again being IN
excess Of $500.
Some particular feature OF the pro.
gram OF course. attracts more than
usuai attention. but there seems to be
Q general opinion that each number is
worthy one, and the only regret
among the teachers Ia that they can.
not hear all the lectures.
In the boys gymnasium the exer.
cises were begun. Wednesday, with a
lecture ~ DR.. ID. e. Phillips, of the
Colorado university. Denver, his sub.
1ect being The unmeasurable element
In education" DR.. Phillips handled
this subject In a way that indicated
much thought and close study. In his
many apt and interesting stories ia
illustrate points brought out the teach.
ers were with him throughout. and
complimented him with the closest at.
tention. Music especially Is the ele-
menf welding the greatest influence
ana expanding the soul to finer and
better thoughts and deeds. and still its
influence 10 impossible OF measure.
ment, the speaker said. Definitions of
words could not be found In diction-
aries alone, and the only true meaning
OF language came from the heart, was
another thought brought out.
DR. WfI1fQu m n Nboucol1nr N So~rn
superintendent OF the school system OF
Washington, d. c., and q historical
writer OF note. lecturing on Us the
world growing better or worse?" used
the experience and information he
has gained from extensive travel In
the United States and Europe to show
that we are progressing along lines
entirely satisfactory as far as the gen.
eral moral and social welfare is con-
cerned.
DR.. Chandler was certain that out
Of the horrors of the war now de-
Europe great good will event
ualiy come. II will mean the estab
lishment or democracfes and the elm
nation Of monarchies very largely, he
said, and some of his experiences In
Europe made him proud OF his Amer
lean citizenship In comparison with
the aristocratic reconsideration of the
people who lived by honest toll. Even
the cold facts OF census statistics re-
garding the divorce and other social
evils did not feaxe the doctor, and he
found satisfaction In the proposition
that even though divorce seemed to
be on the increase It was based on
better and higher intellectual consid.
erations--that the woman Of today re-
fused to stand for and submit to indig-
mites that prevailed In times gone by.
Lectures by DR.. e. b. Ryan, presi-
dent Of Colgate university, New York;
DR.. ]. Paul Goode. Of the Chicago uni
versity faculty; DR.. M. v. O'Shea, OF
the Wisconsin university: Misses
Elisabeth Farrell and Sarah Nicholson,
OF the public schools OF New York,
and Prof. William r. Rauch. director
of the department of music OF Michi-
gan university, are delivered daily,
each dividing his or her time between
the three lecture rooms
Thursdays program includes a lot
of most interesting subjects, and the
ones In the auditorium by DR.. Bryan
on CAR educational PLATFORM" DR..
Goode on american influence In the
Philippines" (illustrated). DR.. Phillips
on THE supremacy of the struggle for
lises DR.. Chancellor on ''The teacher
as social engineer" and DR.. O'Shea on
Measuring intelligence In the
schools" promise to be exceptionally
fine