Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-13
INSTITUTE PROVES
BIG DRAWING CARD;
DR.. ELLIS TALKS
TEACHERS HEAR INTERESTING
LECTURES ON WORK-NOTED
INSTRUCTOR DELIVERS AID.
DRESS ON PEDAGOGY.

Al the morning session Of the La
Sale County Teachers Institute. DR.
Charles { Ellis, dean of the SCHOOL OF
education OF Juanita COLLEGE al Hunt
ng.on Pa, today gave the second OF
his series Of lectures on Pedagogy
ana English, taking Tor his stbject
The Business OF the Public Schools.
! He declared the business OF the
public schools was comprehensive. in.
Guiding the whole child the whole
school. and the whole community,
and should be developed as such a
business. He urged upon ~ teach
ers the necessity OF developing the
physical lite, ana the moral lie OF
the child as well as the mental life,
which Is now developed land The lie.
oesSity of considering the boy not as
an individual in relation to the
school, but as an individual in rela-
ton to other boys.
He spoke OF the training of the
boy in relation TO the community, in
relation TO the home, in relation to
the boys social life, and in relatGn
TO the state as the proper prepare
tion for citizenship for the boy.
Dr. Lincoln Hulley, president of the
John h S,etson university at DeLand.
Fla. spoke Of the making of the man
OF Europe, between the time of the
French revolution 70 the Franco.
Prussian war Tracing the develop.
ment of Italy, of the development o.
France and of the development of the
German empire under Bismarck be
tween these historic dates.
At 1850 the sectional meetings
were held under the direction of Prof.
Clyde l.. Lyon, Miss Lora Dexheimer.
Miss Elizabeth A. Bowers, c. L. Avis.
W r Foster and DR.. Ellis and DR.
Hulley.
The program .of tomorrow's insti-
tute will be-
300 Music. Mrs Bertha Brockway
1926 Lecture, School Organization
Dr. Lincoln HUXLEY.
1905 Lecture, Pedagogy and Eng,
fish. DR.. Charles C. Ellis.
1;l5 Music. Mrs. Brockway.
13j What the Schools Can Do 10
Help Win the War Rev NJ c. Lone,
Streato1.
2:15 Lectures, Or. Hulley and Dr..
Ellis.
800 Sectional meetings.
40 Folks games ald dancing. Mrs.
Bertha Brockway.
Cheeseman's Address.
In spite of the warm weather the
attendance of the La Sale Couny
Teachers Institute continues to hol
to record breaking one, over 400
teachers being on hand for the morn
ing session and the attendance be
Ing slightly larger this afternoon
At | O'Clock, Rev 6 W Chessman
pastor of the First Baptist church IN
this city. delivered an excellent pa
triotic address on What the Puolit
Schools Can DO to Help Win the
War" saying in part
| have in mind a football playe
whom | knew back in college days
He stood six feet tall had a yair o
shoulders like draft horse, ami
weighed two hundred and ten pounds
stripped. Physically he was he idea
for the gridiron and yet he made a
miserable failure as a football play
CT. He lacked the indispensable pc
and dash The college he attende
did not seem able with its mass NEE.
incs before big games and its side
line cheering to get spirit into him.
To-day the United States has a big |
army, its physical proportions TIL Us
with pride But we know it will take
more than physical gianthood &c
make a touchdown between the pole |
al Berlin, It will take a mighty NOR |
ale and the schools OF America can |
help create and maintain that morale |
by an insistent teaching of patriotic |
idealism
Patriotism is contagious, like the |
measles. If millions of school chill
dren are singing the love of country |
the chorus will bridge the ocean 70 !
our men on the firing lines of France !
| read some time ago of patriotic |
at social settlement in the /
heart of a great city II was poly |
glot assembly. There were children |
there representing more than dozen !
nationalities but all Of whom were in
the big American melting pot and !
Americans through and through. Each |
one Of them waved an American Hap |
aud sang with thrilling enthusiasm
our national anthem Multiply gath |
efings like that among the youth OF /
America, give them opportunity to |
demonstrate their love of the FLAG |
of country and of American ideals. /
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