Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — TEACHERS IN INDIANAPOLIS. [ARTICLE]

TEACHERS IN INDIANAPOLIS.

Indiana Society Had the Banner At tendance of Its Existence. The Indiana Teachers’ Association held its first general session on Wednesday in the Hopse of Representatives- at Indianapolis. It was largely attended. In an address the Rev. F. E. Dewhurst, pastor of Plymouth Church of that city, deplored the custom of compelling children to study subjects not adapted to them. Children should be interested in what they studied; otherwisr* they were injured more than benefited. Prof. Jacob Dorsey Forrest, df Butler College, spoke in a similar vein. Mrs. May Wright Sewall addressed the association on “The Relation of Society to the School.” If the school is to be rotated to society, she said, it must be through the relation of the teacher to the pupils. On Thursday officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Robert I. Hamilton, Huntington; Chairman Executive Committee. F. P. Hart, Coviagton; Permanent Secretary and Treasurer, J. R. Hart, Lebanon; Recording Secretary, Miss Leila Vaught, Martinsville. Vice Presidents and an executive committee were also elected.

The closing session of the general association in the afternoon had the largest attendance of the meeting, and perhaps the largest attendance in the history of the society. With, the “banner" attendance,the officers say.theinterest has been correspondingly greater. Before the closing session adjourned an Indiana council of education, copiposed of twen-ty-five members, was organized, whose duty will be to investigate all matters of. an educational nature and feport to the general association, The various sections elected officers as follows: Primary section: President, Miss Viola Strain Whiting; Secretary, Mrs. E. E. Olcott, Danville. High School section: President, Charles S. Meek, Terre Haute; Secrtary, Harriet|C. Palmer, Franklip. Indiana Historical Society: President, William Wesley Woolen, Indianapolis; Secretary, J. P. Dunn, Indianapolis. Township Trustees’ Association: / President, B. F. Sherrick, Westfield; Secretary, Thomas Nugent, Elnora.