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Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress
Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress Author:Glen Levin Swiggett 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: FIRST GENERAL SESSION OF SECTION IV. Pan American Union, Tuesday morning, December 28, 1915. Honorary Chairman, His Excellency Carlos Mar!a De Pena. Cha... more »irman, Philander P. Claxton. The session was called to order at 9.30 o'clock by the chairman. Introductory remarks: By the Chairman of Section IV, Philander P. Claxton. By His Excellency Sr. Dr. Carlos Maria de Pena. Papers presented: La filosoffa cientifica en la organizaci6n de las universidades, by Jos6 Ingenieros. The changes needed in American secondary education, by Charles W. Eliot. ADDRESS BY PHILANDER P. CLAXTON, Commusioner of Education of the United States. Honorable Delegates to the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen: I take great pleasure in welcoming to this our capital city all delegates to this section of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, and on behalf of the delegates for the United States I welcome with especial pleasure those of you who come from other Republics than our own. All the countries represented in this congress are much alike in many important respects; all are new and are filled with the energy, the hope, and the vision of youth; all have large natural resources which are as yet developed only to a very small extent; the population of each is sparse as compared with the population of the older countries of the world, but in each the population is rapidly increasing; all are democratic in their form of government and in their life and ideals; in all everything waits on education—industrial progress, social purity, civic righteousness, political strength, spiritual culture—everything pertaining to national greatness and individualhappiness. The most pressing problems of citizenship have to do with the improvement of our schools...« less