South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-02
Decide to Have a Two Days
Meeting in Place of One of
the Nine Institutes Re-
quired by State.
BOY QUESTION is
DISCUSSED BY SPEAKER
Life is Divided Into Three
States, the Animal, Saw
age and Man, Says N.
D. Henderson.

Abandonment of the fall meeting
Of the st. Joseph County Teachers
association will not be made. This
was decided following the meeting of
the executive committee of the assO-
citation in the high school Thursday
morning 1t was decided at the COM
mittee meeting to substitute the an
nual fall session of the teachers for
one of the nine Institutes that are
held during the school year, which is
in compliance with the Indiana sta
tute which went into effect this year.
A committee of three consisting of
r. A. Longfield, county superinten-
dent; l.. j. Montgomery, city super
intendent and +. j. Nuner, city su
perintendent of schools of Mishawaka
was chosen TO select the date and
make out the program. Outside tai
ent will probably be brought in to
address the teachers, as has been
done in years past.
Talk of abandoning the fall session
which lasts for two DAYS was started
when the state school statute making
it compulsory for teachers TO atteD1
one day institutes once a month, be-
came effective. 1t was deemed unad-
viseable to hold the session with SO
many other institute meetings on the
calendar.
Well Attended.
In years past the annual meeting
of the Teachers association has been
highly successful from the standpoint
of attendance, and in view of this
fact that the two days meeting1
might be substituted for one institute
session, it was decided TO hold the
meeting this year at least. The
teachers of the county and city are
in South Bend this week attending
the county institute at the high
school,
In the afternoon lecture DR.. W. d.
Henderson discussed the evolution OIL
the boy. He declared that the life of
the boy might be divided into three
stages the animal, the savage, and the
man.
"In the animal stage the boy isl
thrown into constant contact with the
home. 1t is there that he is closely |
affiliated with his mother and his
father and it is there, too, that he isl
more tightly bound TO his mothers
apron strings than anywhere else. /
But there is one great lesson that the [
home must teach, and that is the les
soon of obedience. If the home does !
its proper functioning, does all that
it is supposed to do in training the /
child, the boy, it Will teach him the
lesson of obedience.
The savage State.
progressed from the stage of the !
home life. he comes into the school /
room. In the animal stage he learn I
ed the lesson of obedience. He I
learned the lesson Of obedience, /
repeat, just as any animal does, by /
the exercise OF power. backed by jus
tice and judgment. In the savage /
stage he is in the environment of the
school and the force that operates
on him is the teacher. and the result !
is that he learns self control.
"In the man stage, grown and de- !
Veloped with all his powers expanded, |
he learns the force of cOmpanionshlp. /
He fosters companions, he continues
the expansion of his powers. There
he may get companiOnship out OF /
books, out of the works of foremost /
authors. out of the lives of heroes. /
And above all he may get the COM /
from the Master. /
THE instincts are the products OF /
mental organisms" SAID DR.. A. b. Van
Ormer at the county institute lecture 7
morning. NO one believes
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