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Needs a large number of well qualified teachers of Music and Drawing, Manual Training, Domestic Science and Commercial subjects. Recommends the right teachers to school officials. Speak of your education and experience. That means- The Wisconsin Journal of Education BE PROGRESSIVE. Rnow what your fellow teachers are Address the Publisher The Parker Educational Co. The Wisconsin Journal of Education Vol. XLIII FOR THE TEACHER, THE SCHOOLS, AND THE STATE. DECEMBER, 1911 EDITORIAL COMMENT BY PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA, THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. We have heard very little criticism of the last meeting of the W. T. A. All sorts of people spoke to us in enthusiastic terms about the various addresses on both the general and the sectional programs. The newspapers reported that one or two of the sections were hot (or got hot) on account of the accommodations provided for them; but it seems to be impossible to satisfy everyone in this respect. The association has become so large and complex, and there are so many conferences called for, that it is a physical impossibility to provide ideal meeting places for them all. It is necessary to group them around the Auditorium, for the reason that many teachers want to attend two or three conferences on the same afternoon. We did that very thing ourselves, and there seemed to be hundreds of others doing likewise. And this is right and proper, for the reason that there may be a topic on a special program which will be of particular interest to a teacher, but he may not care for the rest of that program; while in some other section he may find just what he needs. It would be impossible, even if it were desirable, which it is not, to prevent teachers from visiting two or more conferences in an afternoon. There were very few weak places in the various programs, so far as we observed for ourselves, or so far as we could learn from others. The speakers from abroad made good in all cases apparently. President Jordan and Miss Arnold could not be heard in all parts of the Auditorium; but those who were fortunate enough to be within range of their voices said they were fine. Booker Washington and Professor Barnes seemed to please the teachers particularly well, partly because they were especially definite and concrete in what they had to say, and partly also because No. 10 they discussed very real and practical problems in present-day education. A WELL-BEHAVED CROWD. The great crowd was under excellent discipline. There was not much disturbance from late comers or early goers, though some time was lost between events, owing to the large numbers of persons who were arriving or departing. But this could not be helped. It is proposed at future meetings to have after each address a period of ten minutes to be devoted to some kind of ebullient music. This will give an opportunity for those who come late to get seated, and those who want to go elsewhere to make their escape without annoying those who wish to listen to the speakers. It will be understood then that there can be no movement of any sort in a hall while a speaker is holding the boards. A suggestion has been made, and it will doubtless be put into effect, that the executive committee provide sharp-shooters in all the assembly halls, whose duty it shall be to pick off any man who doesn't keep to his seat during the progress of an address. But there is very little reason for complaint. The teachers were on the whole quite wellbehaved, and they showed due respect for speakers, and proper regard for the desires of those who wanted to hear what was said. OUR HOPES REALIZED. For once there was no unseemly excitement over the election of a president. Everyone seemed to realize that Mrs. Bradford was the right person for the place. People were not solicited to vote for her, partly because it was not necessary, but mainly because it would have seemed out of place to have done so. It is no compliment to a person to vote for him because you are asked so to do. When one is button-holed and taken to the ballot |