Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-10-14

othef talents ana led W tHe Hrt Oh Spsh@
ms, composition, decentralization, play
style
That tho study Of Industrial art also
tends 10 sense Of tho beautiful wss
svtdAnesd by remark made by one
little siri who was trimming 4 hat that
tbs more you put on r. hat the worse II
looks"
Industrial arts include sslf.crit'cism.
fine arts, business. costume designing.
interior decoration. dramatisinE and
manual training. The address was sup
plementad by stereopticon Views
At the business meeting which followed
Miss Browns address Miss Ella Ferrin.
secretary Of the Vermont Women Teach
ers' club. read her report, which was fol-
| lowed by the report Of the treasurer, Miss
Anna Cooley OF Bristol. Miss Mary Maud
Patrick gave q report Of the primary con-
| ference, held at johnson In April OF 1912
| Reports were also made by Miss Margery
| Adsit, chairman of the executive COM
| mlttee; Miss Bessie Bacon Goodrich. OF
the registration committee. and MISS
| Phoebe NJ. Towle. secretary OF the nom
! mating committee. All Of these reports
were accepted and adopted
I Miss Caroline S. woodruff urged mat
the Vermont Women Teachers club De-
come affiliated with the National Educa-
tional association. after which the morn
ing session adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The afternoon session opened in the
strong Theatre at two o'clock with an
! audience that filled the house. MISS
| Mary Wagner. flutist played TO
Wild Rose by Mcdowell. and Snow
flake" by Terschak, accompanied by
Miss Lillian Magner at the piano
Chairman Edwin F. Greene then in
troduced DR.. Patty S. Hill of Columbia
University. who expressed great pleas
ure at this her first visit to the state
Of Vermont. the beauty of which she
had heard so much and the home of
80 many famous men. In her address on
THE Changing Conceptions In the
Education of Young Children, she
told of her experiments in 1905 to FIND
out what would happen II she apphed
the principles of democratic govern
ment in the conduct of school discipline
Her experiment did not meet with
much approval but DR. NJ. B. Hillegas
was one Of three VINO supported hei
in her ideas. The fret consideration ir
the life Of child she said was health
She made plea for larger. better ano
brighter schools for the children. in
some small room at a time when theil
health is of the greatest Importance
She also made plea for smaller
classes to allow of the further devel
opment of individuality and per
sonality The second considera
, ton was for greater free n
or liberty in the pursuit OF hap
,, riness for children in the school room
, This happiness she further said die
/, not CONSIST OF doing Just what on
wants to do. True happiness Is thu
, using of ones talents and receiving
. the right treatment. Happiness OF thu
right kind is the basis Of all menta
and moral sanity. DR.. Hill also EN-
phasized the right of the child to In
dividual differences. and was opposes
to the grouping of children according
TO age or size Some children, she said
, Of six years were often the equal o
children of eight or ten years in In
telligence and some children of eigh
often lacked the Intelligence Of
child of six years. She advocated tn
, plan. when practica BILE. of letting tn
, child so ahead with the teacher t.
protect him from the results OF hi
, immature plans or to encourage whel
necessary.
, The speaker concluded by sayinl
, that school should be place no
where the children are taught to liv
, but where they really live The lee
, ture was fully illustrated by stereop
ticon views
: sCHOOLMASTERS' BANQUET
A large and enthusiastic gathering o
schoolmasters partook Of tho banquet o
the Schoomasters' club in the main din
, ing hall Of &e Hotel Vermont Thursda.
: evening. At the speaking following tn
banquet. Prin. j. E. Colburn of this city
president of the club, acted az toast
master. The speakers included Hugh S
Magill, field secretary OF the Nationa
Educational association; Dean Frank p
. Graves Of the University of Pennsylvania
Lieut.. Gov. Mason S. Stone and the Rev
: A. W. Hewitt Of Plainfeld, represen Mt
: ing the state Board of Education.
During the course of the evening. tn
: officers for the coming year were electe
as follows: President, L. p. Smith o
Wells River; vice. president, J, l.. Hin
Of Burlington; secretary and treasurer
F. II. Clowse of Richmond; eXecutiv
p, committee. Fl, B. Dickinson Of st. Albans
. f. A. Hamilton of Newport and r. y
, Milett of Springfield.
: The address of Mr. Magili was a ring
Ing appeal for better educational facil
ties In the country and explanatio
), and commentator Of the provisions Of tn
:, Smith -Towner bill now before Congress
which provides for a distinct nations
department Of education. with the secre
/. tary in the Presidents cabinet. Nj
& Magill quoted letters from both Hardin
and Cox in which both candidates favore
the main provisions OF the Smith Towne
. bill The speaker read the entire STATE
ment Of Senator Harding. which he sal
Q he had just recently received and whic
e he read at this meeting for the first tim
: in public.
y Mr.. Masil took for the subject Of HI
n remarks the words No greater calling,
= as referring to the vocation of tn
teacher. He eulosized the mission whic
q the teacher has In this county.
- The future OF America must rest
- what is being done to-day in the publ
: schoola Of this country" said NJ
4 Magill we must build In America
a citizenship physically. mentally an
spiritually sound
4 The speaker declared that this wor
!; can only be done through the publ
o schools. He said that everybody admi
= ted that We want the best brains an
J. heart and ability to-day to 60 into tn
- teaching profession, and yet the countr
i is not willing TO pay for the best. tt
S thing that the community can get chea
d that thing IL hold oheaply; that Is VIII
s the teaching profession is not locke
up to more than 1t Ia to-day and VIII
, fathers and mothers in the best cult
waited families OF the country are M
:, urging their children to take up teacf
" ing,