First Session Is Held

Milwaukee, July 6. - One sessicn of the National Council of Edueation was held Tuesday and it was devoted to a discussion of university ideáis. Most interest attached to the address of Jcseph Swain on the work of Stanford university, California. He said that the methods of the University of Indiana were larg-ely followed in crganizing Stanford. So far as the deals of Stanford university are shown in their requirements for entrance and graduation, it is chiefly in the extensión of the elective system that it differs from Indiana university. Each student selects as his major subject the ■work of some one department and it is the privilege of the professor at the head of such department to require the completion of a major subject and also such minor subjects in other departments as he'may eonsJder desirable or necessary collateral work. Reduced to a Minimum. With the e.xeeptions mentioned the student is absclutely free to choose such subjects as he rnay think best, subject to the condition that he must satisfy his teachers that he is ready to profitably pursue the subjects of his choice. The govercment of student? in both Indiana and Stanford universities has been reüuced to a minimum. There are no rules and regulations. It is understood that Ktudents are expected to act in acccrCar.ce with the customs of the best society and, being ladies and gentlemen, are expected to conduct themselves as FUch. The freedom cf the teacher to use his own judgment in what he teaches within the limit of the subjects employed to teach, and his own methods of instruetion, are unquestioned. The university exists for the goed of the Etudents, and therefore every sort of personal helpfulness is a part of the university's duty. The SttKlent's Course. A student should not be forced to do what is not best for him, for entrance, continuance, or graduation. He is taking his own course, not one prearranged for some one else. The teacher must be an eider brother who has got a littU further on the road to learning and who is in the university to glve the benefit of his experience to those younger than himself and to those who have not traveled i?o far on the journey. Tuesday evening the Germán teachers, who hold a separate convention, had their first session. The proceedings were all in the Germán language. Tuesday afternoon a school of practice was held in the seetion devoted to the education of the deaf and a meeting of the seetion of secondary education was1 also held