Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1899 — INDIANA TEACHERS MEET. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA TEACHERS MEET.

Well-Known Educators Delivered Addresses at Fort Wayne Convention. The seventeenth annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association was held at Fort Wayne, when 2,300 teachers were present. The association is composed of the teachers of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth congressional districts. Thursday morning the snperintendentß of the city schools held a meeting at the Wayne Hotel and discussed the new school laws, and the general impression is that the truancy law will prove to be a great improvement. Iq the evening a general meeting was held at the Princess rink. George F. Felts, secretary of the Fort Wayne school board, delivered the address of welcome, responded to by J. Z. McCaugban. principal of the Kokomo high school, followed by an address from the retiring president, W. E. J. Stratford, and the inaugural address by W. C. Belman of Hammond, the incoming president. Friday morning Prof. Martin Brumbaugh. professor of pedagogy, University of Pennsylvania, delivered an address on “influence of the Renaissance,” and G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., on “The Love and Study of Noture.” In the afternoon Prof. Brumbaugh addressed the convention on “Method in Teaching Literature” and Dr. Hall closed with an address on “Motor Education.” In the grade sections the speakers were Dr. Hall, Prof. Brumbaugh and President D. F. Moore of Frankfort. In the high school sections the speakers and instructors were Profs. C. T. Lane, Fort Wayne; John Wood, Laporte; S. B. McCracken. Elkhart; Miss Evaline Martin, Marion; J. T. Class. Alexandria, and E. E. Griffith of the Indiana University. In the business session the following committee was selected: Executive, Superintradent L A. Mott of Richmond, W. A. Bell of Indianapolis, Morris M. Pawell of Hartford City, Superintendent John M. Hill of Tipton, County Superintendent Charles Zeigler of Laporte, Superintendent J. W. Wyandt of Angola, County Superintendent William Klemni of South Bend. Saturday Prof. Brumbaugh was on the program for addresses on “A Day in an Old Greek School” and “Method in Teaching History,” and I>r. Hall’s themes were “Food and Nutrition'’ and “The Education of the Religious Sentiment.” Music was furnished during the convention by the pupils of the Fort Wayne schools. There were also sections in music, penmanship. art and country and village schools, under the direction of the prominent educators. The next meeting will be at Logansport. John W. Carr of Anderson has been elected chairman of the executive committee. Prof. J/N. Study of Fort Wayne was elected president; Edward Boyle of Michigan City, vice-presi-dent: Mrs. E. M. Richards of Auburn, secretary, and W. A. Mills of Attica, treasurer.