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tion as applied to the practice and province of teaching. So 

 I think this part of our policy is shown to be pedagogically 

 sound. 



Next summer we shall offer another summer school of 

 four weeks. This policy has been definitely established by the 

 management of the college, and the results already indicated 

 are so good that we shall continue these summer schools. 



Mr. Platt. Mr. President, I want to say a word or two 

 in approval of the plan of President Stimson, of holding this 

 summer school at the college for teachers, in which they teach 

 them something about nature. I do not know anything about 

 it myself further than this: That one of the teachers in the 

 New Haven schools, and a bright and successful one, too, 

 went up there and spent a few weeks at this school. On her 

 return she said her eyes had been opened to a great many 

 things which she had not known about before, and which had 

 been taught her there. Ideas were given her there that would 

 be of use to the scholars in her school. So that I say that that 

 one teacher that I happened to fall in with feels as though she 

 wanted to approve of this plan of holding these summer ses- 

 sions for the training of school teachers at Storrs. 



Mr. HoLDEN. Mr. President, I have just one word which 

 I want to say in explanation, perhaps, of what I said before in 

 regard to our school teachers. I think that Brother McLean 

 looks at it from one standpoint, while I have been looking at it 

 from another. The conditions in Simsbury, where Brother 

 McLean is located, are very different to what they are in many 

 other parts of the state. I know personally that that is so. 

 I know of teachers teaching in the public schools of Connecti- 

 cut, within a very short time, who do not understand the com- 

 mon ordinary principles of school teaching. That is a fact. 

 I say this not because I want to discourage them or to unduly 

 criticise, but only because I want .to wake up the people to the 

 opportunities that exist for improvement. I am not saying 

 that there are not good teachers. Any such statement as that 



