The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-03-17
OFFICERS and
TEACHERS MEET
Meeting Was Well Attended
Fine Program.

teachers and officers meetings
ever held in Roberts county was
was held in Sisseton on March 10.
The crowd in the afternoon almost
exceeded the capacity of the opera
house, there being over five hun-
dred people III attendance
The morning train brought large
delegations of teachers and officers
from the south towns and town.
ships in the county and the speak
ers of the-dav also came OH that
train. The people from the north
part of the county were i'll
town by noon and at one O'Clock
when the meeting began the crowd
was in the opera house and ready
to listen to the program.
The county superintendent was
fortunate i'll securing two of the
most prominent men i'll the state
for the meeting. Professor w. NJ.
Mair of the State College at Brook
ings was one of the speakers and
Prof. j.. {. Woodhurn OF the De
partment of Education in the
Northern Normal and Industrial
School at Aberdeen was the second
speaker MIR. Mair is Superin.
tendent OF the Boys and Girls
Clubs in the state and his address
was along the line of industrial
Education more especially showing
the relation OF the boys and girls
club work to. - esneral lAasation.: W
He breaches the doctrine OF equal
chance for the boy and girl in the
rural communities with the boy
and girl in the town and city. He
took occasion to criticize the
spirit of selfishness so often mani
fest in the acts of some our school
boards. He also criticized the
self satisfied teacher who sees no
need for Improvement cf her edu-
cational standing MIR Mair's
talk proved very popular and he
kept his audience in an attentive
mood for more than an hour.
The second speaker. Professor
Woodburn took for his subject,
Psychology as Applied to Edu-
cation !" He made his talk very
understandable although the sub
iect aud the material presented was
of an unusual character for the
kindof audience he addressed
That the address was we'll received
was manifested in the many words
of appreciation heard from teach
,erS and officers after the meeting
Mr.. Woodburn has very pleasant
manner OIL the platform and his
voice is we'll fitted for public speak
ing In the course of his remarks
he warned the officers that there
were many things to he taken into
consideration in selecting teach
er but chief among these was the
character of teacher. He point
ed ont that the teacher will be iini
tated whether her character be
good or bad and therefore it is eS
sential that her character be of the
highest type that the pupils who
initiate her may be initiating onl,
the good things. He also spoke o
things that should be automitizee
that i, learned without any though
OH the part OF the pupil, simply be
coming automatic. Among sucl
things should be, combinations o
numbers in addition and multipli
cation, correct spelling of words
correct speech and manners AM
acts of courtesy. He used man
apt illustrations to make clear hi
Thoughts and there is little doub
but that he did much good throug
his address. These men mad
many friends while here and the
will be we'll received should the
see fit to come among us again i
the future. They spoke yer
highly of the attentiveness of til