THE MICHIGAN DAILY p Conferences Held By Schoolmasters Club ork Of Grade, ligh Schools' Is Discussed 'y Aspects Of Problem f Education Dealt With i Annual Meeting mny aspects of the educational ems which are facing the teach- f the state in grade and high ls were discussed yesterday e conferences of the Schoolmas- Club. Education y, State, and Federal school offi- told the members of the School- ers' Club the progress of their ctive fields in meeting the pres- conomic crisis of the schools at nference held yesterday at the ersity High School. M. Allen, superintendent of Is of Highland Park, stated that s in the hands of the city school Is to balance their budgets, in ' to relieve the present situation. alk was illustrated by slides and Program For Today GENERAL SESSIONSj 10:00 a. rn.-Conference for teachers. University High School Audi- torium. Chairman: A. L. Cross, University of Michigan. 10:00. m.-Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars. Room 2225 Angell Hall. Chairman: John W. Baldwin, Collegej of the City of Detroit. Round table discussions. GROUP CONFERENCES 9:30 a. m.-Biological Section. Room 2054. Natural Science Build- ing. Ueographical Section. Room 25, Angell Hall. Social Science Section. Room 25, Angell Hall. 10:00 a. m.-Business Schools Section. Michigan Union. 12:00 a.m--Luncheons: Business School. Michigan Union. Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars. Michi- gan Union. budgets and it is the duty of homeC economic teachers to instruct themf in planning inexpensive, though wholesome meals, she said. Geography At the geography conference Emanuel Clark of the Ferris Insti- tute, Big Rapids, spoke on "Geogra- phy in the Social Sciences." He sum- marized the relationship of the old' geography to the new as well as to the social sciences and problems of today. Faye Coney, of Ann Arbor's Jones School, spoke of the impor- tance of "Local Surveys and Re- gional Plannings" to the teachinc of sciences and social sciences. Retiring President four speakers of the program. Prof.t Gerald D. Sanders, Michigan State Normal College, and George D. Helm, of the department here presented the college viewpoint, while Miss Mary N. Eaton, Grand Rapids, and Miss Winifred Burroughs, Sturgis, spokej concerning the difficulties confront- ing the high schools in fitting pupils for college English work. Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy At the physics-chemistry-astron- omy conference of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club motion pictures were shown, in which Sir Ernest Rutherford and Sir William Bragg, well-known British scientists, dis- cussed "Construction and Transfor- mation of the Elements" and "Ar- rangement of Atoms in Molecules and Crystals," respectively. Sir Ern- est was the first man to transform elements by meansof bombardment of the nuclei with alpha particles. The University of Chicago present- ed a novel method of teaching chem- istry to students by motoin pic- tures. The topics presented were "Oxidation and Reduction" and "The Molecular Theory of Matter." Prof. Dean B. McLaughlin of the astron- omy department presented a film showing the movements of various heavenly bodies and the pictures of the 1932 eclipse taken by the expedi- tion which he headed. Vocational Education At the luncheon given for the Michigan Society for Vocational Ed- ucation yesterday in the League Ball- room Miss Marie Dye, president of the organization, urged each group to send as many representatives as possible to the American Vocational Association Convention to be held next December in Detroit. The speakers, Clyde Allen, presi- dent of the Michigan Association of Teachers of Vocational Agriculture, Miss Mary Barber, president of the Michigan Home Economics Associa- tion, and Warren Bow, local chair- man of the convention, spoke on the advantages this convention will offer. The Classics Opening the classical conference of the club yesterday morning in Angell Hall, Mrs. Mina E. Land, of Royal Oak High School, presented a paper entitled "Must We Forsake the Old for the New?" Other papers read at the morning session were "Development of Original Composi- tion in High School Latin" by Helene Eruegemann, of Dearborn High School, and "The Irony of Sopho- cles" by Helen Bishop, of the City College of Detroit. Following a luncheon at the Con- gregational Church, the afternoon session opened in Angell Hall with a paper on "Parallels Between Cicer- onian Politics and the Recent American Election" by Myrtle Wood- ward, of Corunna High School. PHONE Holland Furnace Co. for your FURNACE and CHIMNEY SPRING CLEANING The Clean, Efflicient Way earce, State superin- c instruction, warned hat it was in their the morals of the to make them realize give the little fellow monson of the school e of the 17 members Joint Committee of luded the conference t conditions of the 'lorable, but that he his belief that better nited States are im- E. Carrothers of the 1 discussed the rela- ,xes and the present ping public improve-j rly in the line of ed- wanted better public d, "and we have got n 1929 the amount of ch went to the main- vernment functions t. Today it is one- course, is too much." 1, the formation of o find out the facts e taxes and expendi- in the pension sys- of banks; and a state ae house of 15 mem- hom would be elected every year for a five-year term, whox would be paid well, and who would stay in constant session to study laws and equalize taxes. Prof. Arthur B. Moehlman, of the i literary college, discussed "The Sup-w ply and Demand of Teachers and the School Crisis," and F. M. Thrun, of the State Education Survey Com-; mission, talked on "Concrete Studies; in School Support and the School Crisis." Speechi "We go. on the assumption that every person is educatable, so we drive our students. We have toow much democracy in education; the requirements should be higher." This is the opinion of Dean Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University, as ex- pressed in an untitled address before the speech section of the Schoolmas- ters' Club, at 2:30 p. m. in the Chapel of the League. Dean Dennis stated that the pres- ent "debate to win" idea is all wrong, and that in a few decades this, atti- tude will change. Interpretations of beautiful things, he said, will have been substituted for the "cheap, taw- dry stuff" that declamators now use to impress judges.. "We must not, debate to win," he said; "we must' debate to know." A round-table discussion at the 9+ a. m. meeting in the Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre, led by Mr. Harry T. Wood, director of men's debating at Michigan State Normal College, on "What's the Answer?" It was a prac- tical treatment of present business- conditions and their effect on debat- ing work in the high schools. The second round-table confer- ence, entitled "Corrective Speech," was led by Miss Clara Stoddard of the Detroit Board of Education, and was mainly an analysis on problems in speech correction. Miss Stoddard said that the province of the speech teacher is the work of adapting the student to correct speech after phy- sicians have examined and corrected any physical defects he may have. At 2:30 p. m., speech instructors; from throughout the State convened again in the chapel of the League and held their business meeting and elections. Results of the election are: J. Merril Heaphy of Pontiac High School, president;'- Frederick McKay of Michigan State College, vice-pres- ident; Miss Cyretta Morford of Red- ford High School, re-elected secre- tary. Home Economics A health program, supervised by the home economics department, was advocated for all high schools by Miss Lydia J. Roberts, chairman of Home Economics at the University oC Chicago, in the opening speech at the home economics conference yesterday afternoon in the League. Miss Roberts advised that health committees be formed to regulate luncheons, and to provide regular courses for all students on health problems. Her speech was entitled "The Home Economics Teacher and the Health Program." "Normal weight and height are not j true gauges that a child is properly fed," Miss Icie G. Macy stated in her talk on "Nutrition and Health in the Present Crisis." Many people have been reduced to much smaller fects of the cyanide to one-half of one per cent of that of the untreated: cyanide. The best combination which isj evolved from the experiment will be recommended or required for use in the treatment of factory wastes by the Stream Control Commission of Michigan. Mathematics In a paper yesterday entitled "Mathematics as Adjusted to Pupils in Our High School," J. G. Wolber, assistant principal at the Northwest- ern High School, Detroit, told the mathematics conference of Michigan Schoolmasters what was being done in his high school to adjust pupils to their proper grade in the study of mathematics. Miss Nellie Lose, supervisor of mathematics, Flint, delivered a paper entitled "Giving the Pupil of Low Mentality a Chance in Mathematics." She gave the results oz an investiga- tion" conducted by Prof. Raleigh Schorling of the education school in connection with a committee of grade and high school teachers. 100 ENGRAVED CARDS and PLATE $2.25 - Any Style - DAVIS & OUILINGER 109-1 1iEast Washington St. Phone 8132 Second Floor These investigations concerned the work that is being done in connec- tion with backward Dunils. Solutions to conserve fish from the effects of cyanide dumped in streams by manufacturing concerns by neu- tralizing the cyanide are now being tested by the Institute of Fisheries Research in the Museum of Zoology. E. F. Eldridge, research assistant at Michigan State College, is work- Prof. A. L. Cross of the history ing on solutions, one of which, ac- department was succeeded as presi- cording to the tests made in the in- dent of the Michigan Schoolmasters' stitute's laboratory, when mixed with Club yesterday by Prof. A. H. Harrop commercial cyanide reduces fatal ef- of Albion College. 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