Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction (Volume 59) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: educational problems raised by the needs of the schools of New Bedford. Nor were the people of that city insensible to his services. Even the children learned to love him, and the school exercises in his honor were simply beautiful. One Triday, between the hours of eleven and twelve, forty-five hundred school children gathered, each school in its own room, and by wajs manifold and various honored his memory by memorial services. And later in the day many a little group wound its way to a certain grassy hillside, till, ere nightfall, the bright flowers of autumn banked high his grave and made new mounds of beauty all about it. Thus lies his memory garlanded in the hearts of the young people whom he served., As for their parents, there is rising the present summer a fine, large school edifice, to which, in answer to the general desire of the community, has been affixed the name of the Harrington School. The report of the Committee on Necrology was then accepted and ordered to be placed on file. A recess was then taken. After the intermission, President Nicholas Murray Butler of the N. Y. College for the Training of Teachers, and Lecturer upon the History and Institutes of Teaching, at Columbia College, N. Y., delivered a lecture on the subject "Manual Training." The speakers who had been invited to follow this address, ?Superintendents C. E. Meleney of Somer- ville, Mass., and S. T. Button of New Haven, Conn., ?presented papers further elucidating the subject. Then followed an extempore discussion in which Dr. -J. G. Fitch of London, Dr. Greenough of Westfield, Mass., and Mr. E. L. Kellogg of New York City made remarks. The Committee on Resolutions, through the Chairman, Win. H. Lambert, of Fall River, presented thefollowing resolutions, which were unanimously adopted...