The Mankato free press., 1916-04-28
HESS IS MADE The HEAD
New Ulm Man Elected President OF
Minnesota Superintendents and
School Principals
From Saturday, DaI,v.

From Saturday, DaUv.
Superintendent H. c. Hess of New
Ulm was elected president of Mime
sofa superintendents and principals
of high schools at the annual busi-
ness meeting of the superintendents'
section of the Minnesota Educational
association yesterday in the main au-
ditOrium Of the engineering building
of the University of Minnesota.
Other officers are: Superintendent
j. B. Hagen of Detroit, Mimi, vice
president; Superintendent G. III. San
berg, of Crookston, secretary and
treasurer.
The general topic under discussion
at the meeting Of superintendents
yesterday afternoon was Educational
Measurements and Tests"
Superintendent Herman A. Johnson
of Rochester spoke on "The Value of
Cooperative Measurement" Super
intendent j. A. Vandyke of COleraine
discussed can Experiment With the
Ayres Measuring, Scale for Spelling
Contests" Superintendent E. 3. For
ney of Cokato talked on standards
and Tests in Small Schools" Su
perintendent B. o. Greering of Eve
leth spoke on TESTS in Reading" and
M. E. Haggerty professor of educa-
tional psychology of the University of
Minnesota, discussed Educational
Measurements"
Each of the speakers used charts
showing tabulated results obtained by
experiments in their several schools.
The superintendent and principals
held get-tOgether gathering and
dinner at the Eiks' club, Minneapolis,
last night The short course, which
began Wednesday night, will close at
noon today.
On the program this morning will
be e. p Cubberley of Leland Stan
ford university, who will talk on "The
Nature of the Superintendent's
Work"
The closing address of the session
will be made by w. C. Bagley, direc-
tor of the school of eduction Of the
University of Illinois, who will talk
on THE Principles cf Parsimcny and
Prodigality in Education"
rom Saturdays Daily.
The unfavorable weather Of the last
few days prevented the Mankato Com
mercial college from opening the
baseball season today. A game was
matched with Parker college to be
played at Winnebago this afternoon.
The game has been postponed and
will be played later in the season
The squad has been cut to enough
men for two teams and regular prac-
tice games will be played whenever
possible. KLEIN, Albertson, and Pack
ard will do the hurling for the team
1t looks as if Quinnell was best man
for the initial sack. Lever will hold
down third Looney is showing up
as best fielder for short Second is
an unsettled proposition. j. Sulli-
van, Nellis and Lindberg are of about
equal worth.
Larson and Cavanaugh will do the
catching. L. Sullivan, Struck and a
pitcher or one of the catchers will
likely make up the cut6eld.
A game with Morningside college of
Sioux City, Iowa, has been secured
to be played at Mankato, May "a
This should be one OF the big games
addition Of a game with the School
for the Deaf at Faribault, this brings
the number of games to be played up
to fourteen, by far the heaviest sched-
ule ever attempted by the local col
lege.
Wilson, Wisconsin, April 22-Two
men were slightly injured when
passenger train Of the Chicago and
Northwestern left the track near this
place about nine O'Clock this morn
ing and ran into bluff Of soft clay.
The rains had been washing this soft
clay down upon the track. The en-
gine, tender, baggage car and smoker
left the track, but no part of the
train tipped. Engineer Washburn of
Minneapolis was slightly bruised. One
of the passengers was also hurt a
little. The fact that the passengers
were all saved seems to have been
due mainly to the fact that the train
was one of all-steel cars. The por-
tion of the train that remained on
the tracks was detoured to Chicago.
viii Hold Annual Banquet.
The New Ulm Commercial club is
making arrangements for it's annual
banquet and the committee in charge
has issued invitations to citizens in
the nearby cities and villages request
ing them to be present. The banquet
will be held i'll Turner hall, Wednes-
day evening, April 26.
Preparing For Bridge Work.
WOrkmen were engaged today In
the construction of q tool house on