Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — INDIANA'S EDUCATORS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA'S EDUCATORS.

Anna*! Session Is Addressed by Many Prominent People. The Indiana State Teachers’ Association held a three days’ session in Indianapolis and fully 1,000 teachers employed iu the public schools of the State were in attendance. In addition to the general association, which includes the members of all sections, four separate organizations also met, namely, the county superintendents, the township trustees, the Indiana Academy of Science and the college section. While the latter is regarded as a part of the general association, its meetings have a distinctive character, and many members attended them who did not go to the general meetings. The teachers and township trustees appear to agree upon the advisability of asking the Legislature to repeal the section of the school law which permits the transfer of pupils from the rural to city and town schools. They do not object to transfers where it is designed to give pupils the advantage of high school branches, but say that the transfer of all classes is destroying the rural or district schools and overcrowding the schools iu the towns and villages. The first meeting of the general association was held Wednesday night. W. H. Glasscock, superintendent of the Bloomington schools, delivered his address as retiring president, which was followed by the address of Robert Hamilton of Huntiugton, the iucoming president. Thursday addresses were delivered by Dr. C. R. Henderson of Chicago University,,President Parsons of the. State Normul, Superintendent R. G. Boone of Cincinnati and Prof. John L. Lowes of Hanover College. Other prominent educators were heard in the several discussions. The sessions of the association closed at noon Friday. The principal lecture of the morning was by Dr. John M. Coulter of the University of Chicago on “Some Problems in Education." An important event on the program was the report of the committee appointed by the association a year ago to form a plan to interest the people at large in Indiana historical subjects and to bring about a more systematic study of history in Indiana: Thb eommitteeTeeomnionded that provision should be made iu the common school curriculum of the State with a view to giving definite instructions in Indiana history. A resolution was adopted looking to a combined effort with the National Teachers’ Association to ask Congress to reorganize the national bureau of education on broader lines and to iu crease its efficiency. The session closed with the election of the following officers: President, H. B. Brown, Valparaiso; secretary and treasurer, James It. Hart. Lebanon; recording secretary, Miss Leila Vaught, Martinsville; chairman of executive committee, Lawrence McTernan, Anderson.