The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
Forty Divisions Assemble
for Addresses and Spe-
ciaI Business.

More than 10000 school teachers
the advance guard of the seventy
fifth annual convention of the Indi-
ana State Teachers Association, to-
day split in forty groups in twenty
assembly places for educational con-
ferenceS.
The state statutes declare that a
teacher attending the convention
must attend at least four confer
ences to obtain the two days pay
Three indianapolis teachers were
elected officers Of the handwriting
division at its session in Hollen-
beck hall, Y w. c. A. New off,
GERS are D. c. Bughey, Manual
Training high school, president;
Miss Mabel voris, public school 80,
vice-preSident, and Mrs. Lettie Page
Trifz, penmanship supervisor In
dianapoliS schools, secretary treas
urer.
Handwriting OIL Display
An address by G. G. Underwood
director of Indianapolis elementary
education, demonstration of pri-
mary handwriting by six Indian
apolis teachers, and demonstration
of musical handwriting by children
from Public School 81, completed
the program.
The County Superintendent AS
ISOLATION met in the house of repre-
SentativeS chamber.
Or. Emma Grant Meader of Co
lumbia university, principal speaker,
talked on the progress made in child
education in the last few years.
No longer, she said, are the old
standardized, "lockstep measures
used. Children are obtaining much
more individual instruction"
DR.. Homer P. Rainey, president of
Franklin college also spoke.
Few Perfect Physically
1.-THE physical education instruc-
tor of today is better able to pre-
scribe a diet than the DOCTOR" said
George T. Stafford of the Univer-
sity Of Illinois before the physical
education section, in Manual Train
ing high school gymnasium.
Stafford declared less than 8 per
cent of students examined are ply
sically perfect.
Let the fapper smoke" he said,
"all our efforts won't stop her, in
all probability. Start work on others,
where the effort will be positive
from the beginning" he added.
Round-table discussion and an
address by Dean Charles M. Thomp-
son, dean of Illinois university
comprised the program at the morn
ing session of the commercial Sec
tion in the Lincoln Travertine room
Booking" was the subject of P. W.
Cutshaw, Brazil, Ind, to the COM
mercial group this afternoon. Miss
Paulina w. James, Terre Haute
Ind, spoke Common Problems in
Commercial Education"
Essay Tests Attacked
Attacking the standard essay type
of public school examination, Prof
w. Reeve of Teachers college, Co.
lumbia university, addressed in.
structorS of the Grammar Grades
division in the Pettis Dry Goods
Company auditorium. Reeve urged
the teachers to give more short ex-
aminations, instead of laying stress
on one major test.
DR.. Herman T. Briscoe Of Indiana
University faculty, presented tc
high school science teachers, Man
ual Training high school in con-
densed form "the proper material
to be presented in a high school,
science course" He also talked on
THE Electro Theory of Valency."
The science teachers also heard
an address by Herbert Hazel
Bloomington, Ind, on 1.-THE Present
Status of Physics in High Schools. >
Much of literature read today is
escape" literature, sought as relief
from high nervous strain of modern
living, Professor F. c. Tilden, De
Paw university, asserted at the
English and library section meeting
at Meridian Street M. E. church.
Women over 40 have been found
to be principal readers OF vulgar
literature, while most wild west
books were bought by men over 40, p
he said.
Reading Rated First
Reading before grammar in
modern language teaching" was adj
vocated by Professor Arthur c.
Bovee of the University of Chicago
at the meeting of the modern Ian
guage group at Central Christian
church.
Second year work should have
as much individualized work as
possible, to enable the students to
work faster" said Miss Thekla of
South Bend, in speaking on Work
OF the Second Year"
Professor M. r. Nichols of De
Paw university was named presi-
dent Of the group; Miss Ella Lyon
of Washington, Wce-president, and
Miss Merceda of Alexandria, sec
rotary.
Miss Isabelle Mossman, 6172 Ash
land avenue, was nominated for