The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-21
CONVENTION NOTES

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Teachers should not dress as a set
of individuals but in conformity with
the general public, Sheffield ingalls,,
| of AtchiSOn. chairman of the School
Code commission, declared in an ad-
| dress Friday before the boards of edu-
cation round table of the Kansas State
Teachers association. "a teacher in a
large degree should dress in harmony
with. the best ideals of womanhood."
he said. In speaking of the report of
the school code commission to be is
sued November 1, he said practically
no change in the school legislation
for first and second class cities, would
be recommended. The selecting of a
city board of education from the city
at large is the best plan available and
has been very successful in Kansas,
he said.
Thirteen thousand visitors have reg
| istered at the museum of the Kansas
State Historical society in Memorial
hall, since January 1. More than
1000 teachers have visited the hall in
the last two days.
Three hundred Topeka. iunior high
school students entertained the mem
| bers of the music teachers round
table of the Kansas State Teachers
association with a program Friday
aHernoon, in the high school audi
torium. Miss Grace V. Wilson, super
! visor of music in the Topeka public
schools, was chairman of the meeting.
There was lively discussion at the
round table of the teacher of mod
ern languages held at the First Uni
tartan church Friday afternoon, as to
whether there is too much grammar"
in the teaching of modern languages
today. Miss Z. Gallon, of the Uni
versity of Kansas. defended the gram
mar method, as affording short cuts,
and being saver of time for the
teacher, since it is more easy to tell
the pupil how and why rules are ap-
piled, than to let each separate in
stance which arises, be the subject of
a dissertation. Miss Ethel Vaughan,
| of Kansas City, Kan, was elected
chairman of the round table for next
year, and Miss Kate L. Riggs, of Law
renee, secretary. Speakers were:
Miss Lillian Dudley, Kansas State Nor
NAL; Prof. H. c. Thurman, of Kansas
university; Miss Riggs, Miss Margaret
NJ. Prout, Topeka; Nine. Lucie Mon
to1iu, Topeka. and DR.. E. Neuen-
schwander, of Kansas university.
Prof Theodore H. Post, of Washburn
college, sang a number of French
songs.
All teachers should be given in
telIigence tests to determine their pro-
| fessional ability in teaching their spe-
cific subjects, if they cannot show
proof of advanced collegiate work
along the courses they teach, declared
Prof. D. A. Worcester, of the Kansas
State Normal school, Emporia, in an
| address before the members of the
educational and normal training round
| table of the Kansas State Teachers
association Friday. TOO many teach
ers are just one day ahead of their
classes in some subjects and should
know at least at the beginning of the
term what students are expected to
! know upon the completion of the
course. Teachers should pass at least
| a liberal test, and should not be al
! lowed to teach subjects unless they
have completed extensive studies along
/ that line"
Every railroad running trains out of
Topeka has been carrying extra equip
ment for the benefit of the teachers,
today and all the equipment has been
needed.
Strapped to the suitcase of nearly
every teacher boarding a train out of
| Topeka today there was a suit box
with a Topeka label, or a bundle-or
maybe the teacher is wearing a new
| hat or coat or suit or shoes. Any
how, the merchants believe their eff
| forts toward the entertainment of the
| pedagogueS have been well repaid.
| The ambitious scientist who has
been trying to crystalze his dream of
perpetual, costless power from a
radioactive substance, will suffer a
rude jolt, according to DIR. Hamilton
T. Cady. of the University of Kansas,
who pointed out Friday that the
emanations of energy from Thorium,
Uranium, and Radium are not per-
petual The power of these sub
stances to give off energy is not per-
petual, but passing. he declared For
! instance, radioactive salts of Thor
| ium, of which Doctor Cady had a
] specimen on exhibit, is only radio
active for about 10 billion years
| Uranium will only keep on giving off
its emanations for eight billion years.
while Radium, the most-mentioned
substance of the lot, dies" as the
scientist said, in only 2,4O0 years
Doctor Cady was the principal speaker
| at round table meeting of the teach
/ ers of physics, chemistry and general
science, held in the Sunday school
room of the First Congregational
church
Next years chairmen of various
round table organizations which met
Friday afternoon, were elected as fol-
lows: Miss Maude Van CleaVe. KAN