Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — INDIANA TEACHERS MEET. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA TEACHERS MEET.

Well-Known Educators Delivered Addressee at Fort Wayne Ceevsutfon. The seventeenth annual meeting of ths 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 superintendent* of the dty schools held a meettag at the Wayne Hotel and discussed the new school laws, and the general impression is that the truancy law win prove to be a great improvement. In 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. McCaughan, 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 Brum*, bangh, 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. Hail closed with an address on “Motor Education.” In the grade sections the •{leakers were Dr. Hall, Prof. Brumbaugh i and President D. F. Moore of Frankfort. In the high school sections the speaker* and instructors were Prof*. C. T. Lane, Fort Wayne; John Wood, Laporte; 8. B. McCracken, Elkhart; Miss Evaline Martin, Marion; J. T. Class, Alexandria, apd E. E. Griffith of the Indiana University. In the business session the following committee was selected: Executive, Superintendent Iz A. Mott of Richmond, W. A. Bell of Indianapolis, Morris M. Paweil of Hartford City, Superintendent John M. Hill of Tipton, County Superintendent Charles Zeigler of Laporte, Superintend* $ ent J. W. Wyandt of Angola, County Snp-< erintendent William Klemm of South Bend. Saturday Prof. Brumbaugh was on the program for addresses on “A Day in an Old Greek School” and “Method in Teach- * ing History,” and Dr. Hall's themes were “Food and Nutrition” and “The Education of the Religious Sentiment” Music was furnished during the convention by the pupils at the Fort Wayne school*. There were also sections in music, penmanship, art and country and villager; schoels, under the direction of the prominent educators. The next meeting will be; at Logansport. John W. Carr of Ander- k. son has been elected chairman of the executive committee. Prof. J. N. Stndy 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.