The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-26
PRESIDENT HARRISON. OF Sot TIL
ERN RAILWAY, FoR sCIEN-
TTETC EDUCATION.
RECEPTION AT NIGHT
NEARLY TWO THOUSAND DELE
GATES SPEND EVENING AT JET
rTRsoN-sEvERAL SECTIONS
HAVE SESSIONS.

p,islIed yesterday by the State Educa-
,iouaf Conference, IN session Mere this
week. when i dozen sections and de-
partments net ct the various school
I,uildlss - discuss topics of interest 10
each and TO hear addresses by dis
t;nguishe5 edrcatogs and men of az
fairs in other professions and other
lines OF business.
The sessions began yesterday morn
Ing at . o'clock In several places sim.
uItaneousiy. and continued until after
9 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Last
evening at the jefferson Hotel audi
torium "a reception was rendered the
2 .00e delegates given under the aus
pieces Of the Elementary TEACHERS
Associat ton.
The principal addresses of the day
were delivered by Fairfax Harrison.
president Of the Southern Rilway, be-
fore the Virginia state Teachers AS
ISOLATION, meeting in Room 2o2 OF
the John Marshall Hisfa school. and
/ bv Bruce r. Payne president of the
Peabody College for Teachers, yester-
day afternoon, before the same asso-
/ citation, In the auditorium OF John
! Marshall High School
/ President Harrison spoke on The
| School OF HelIas" using the classica!
education of olden times as compar-
son with the needs of the present. IF
God is on the side OF the big bat
ta'ions" he said, then God is today
with the advocate of the So-called
scientific az distinguished from the
classical education"
\ Tyranny of Taste
Attributing the growth Of scientific
education to Auguste Comte with his
doctrine OF The necessity for an indus
trial people In the modern world. Pres
ident Fairfax declared that "subeervi-
epce 10 merely literary standards ac-
Complished through centuries a tyran-
ny Of taste in education which has
been carried 81" far that he spirit
which gave vitality 20 all literature. be
it ancient or modern, has, in the praC-
Hcal experience Of many educators,
( been forgotten, and only the dry husk
! remains T'ne speaker entered a
, strong plea for the revival Of true
I classiCism.
I BESIDES the continued meetings Of
the division superlntendents and the
! Virginia State Teachers Association
there were half u dozen section meet
lugs yesterday afternoon at o'clock
! in John Marshall High School. Viz
GINA Mechanics Institute the Ruffner
i School and the auditorium of the
/ Chamber OF Commerce.
One Of the most important meet
lngs OF the afternoon WAS that Of the
7 Normal school Conference. which met
az ? o'clock in Room $40 Of JOAN Mar
shat High School. with T., II, Russell
president IF the Fredericksburg State
I Normal. presiding. Several addresses
/ were made on the training and educa-
/ ton az teachers, the principal speak
ers being G. j. Heatwole, of the Har-
risonburg state Normal; Dc. j. L.
Jarman, president Of tho Farmville
Normal. Professor =. Y. Tyler of the
r Frederick ehurg Normal. and President
J. p Mcconnell OF the Raford
Normal
The discussions were varied and in
tereatlue, dea ing chiefly with the his
tory Of education in Virginia. and the
best means of encouraSing the en-
ployment OF trained teachers in the
pubic schools together with the best
: means Of preparing teachers for their
work
The meeting OF the conference of
the John Fox school After 81 morn
ing session luncheon was served by
the city school board after Which SEES
sions were resumed.
Superintendents and Trustees.
How Shall p Superintendent In
crease His Fficlency1' was the queS
ton discussed by ". j. Edmondson OF
Washington County, w, W Lynch Of
Winchester. and j.. p, McCleur of
Buena Vista, during the afternoon
session. "a Long Lane That Has
Many Trimmings and Leads Nowhere"
by T.. Albert Smith If Fauquier closed
the afternoon, the address to have
been given by J, Z. Neff of Staunton,
, and j. G. Johnston, of Charlottesville,
were continued to this morning, when
the conference of division superintend-
ents vii be resumed at II O'Clock In
! the Chamber of Commerce audito-
! rum. DR.. Heck. Of the University of
/ Virginia. viii also speak this morn
ing His subject viii be The Re-
! sponsiAility of the Superintendent for
| the Health OF the Children"
The School Trustees Association
/ had two busy sessions in the Cham
/ Der of Commerce auditorium the fea-
| ture Of which anne at the close of
the day when Superintendent of Pub
! lie Instruction r G.. Stearnes ad-
/ dressed the trustees, giving his views
/ Of how they should perform their
! duties. Mr. Stearnes answered many
questions put to him by the trustees
Several interesting addresses of inter-
est to school trustees were heard The
body vii, meet today at $50 O'Clock
in the court room of the State Cor
( poration commission In the Capitol
! II, +. Clement Of Chatham is pre-
siding.