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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1903
Page
4
A collection of remarks from notable educators and officials on college morals, teacher training, school boards, native and minority education, and the purpose of public schooling. Contributors include William J. Tucker, Abby Marlatt, Grafton D. Cushing, and others detailing aims, methods, and governance of education.
A group of Nantasket teachers led by H. T. Burr of Harvard studied the peninsula’s development. They landed at Pemberton, visited Allerton and Strawberry Hills, and noted wind and wave forming connecting sand bars. A similar trip will depart tomorrow for Beach Bluff and Clifton. Nearly five hundred visitors enjoyed shore days and a sea bath.
A group of more than ten teachers toured MIT yesterday afternoon. They watched two large lumber testing engines operate under 255 000 pounds of pressure, splitting a beam, and saw a steel shafting break under 86 000 pounds. Professor John E. Wright praised MIT’s teaching and facilities.
Miss Mabell L Pray leads about 20 Boston public school children in a pantomime based gymnastics routine. Cordelia Torrey teaches Dillaway School girls in marching and drill. Hartvig Nissen directs Lincoln School students in military style drills and dancing. A request notes ballet humor and stage costumes delight spectators. A fencing act is canceled due to one absence. Posse Gymnasium defeats Malden High School Alumnae 6 to 2 in basketball. An Indiana delegation watches the game from under a basket. Theoretical gym science to be presented by Baroness Rose Posse with Drs Channing Anagnos Gray and Buskirk.
Several hundred teachers toured the navy yard during good weather and viewed buildings and ships. The weekly marine inspection and drill featured calisthenics with music, followed by tours of the monitor Amphitrite and the Constitution.
Visiting teachers of Massachusetts birth or descent have been invited to call at the office of the Massachusetts Old Home Week Association, Room 2%, 244 Washington street, and obtain literature, stamps, etc., bearing on the old home week movement. The association, of which Governor John L. Bates is president, is desirous of having it generally known throughout the country, especially in the West and South, that Massachusetts has now permanently set apart by statute the last week in July as a season of annual home coming and reunion.
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