The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-16
state Teachers Association.

| The nineteenth annual convention of the
Pennsylvania State Teachers Association
will be held in the Academy of Music, Phila-
/ delphia, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
/ day, Aug. Goth, 21st, 22d. The address OF
welcome viii be made on Tuesday morning
| by Prof Frederick F. Christine, \. NJ, OF
Philad'a, and the response by Prof 4. X.
| Horne, \. NJ, Chairman of the Executive
/ Committee. The Deputy State Superin-
| tendent of Common Schools, and President
of the Association, viii deliver his inaugural
at noon. In the afternoon a special Super
intendent's meeting will be held. In the
| evening an essay viii be read and several
! lectures and addresses delivered. On We'd
nesday morning the State Board of EXami-
ners will make report, which win be dis
cussed by eminent educators. In the after
noon a meeting in the park will be held, at
which there are to be orations, impromptu
! speeches, etc, followed by drives and ram
bles i'll the west and east parks. The read
ing Of an original poem and an essay and
the discussion of school matters will consti-
tute the evening proceedings. On Thurs
day morning William II. johnson, teach
er seventy-eight years old, will read a paper
on facts touching the progress of education
in the State during the past fifty years. The
subject of coeducation of the sexes in Amer
| lean colleges will be discussed by several
Presidents of Colleges. In the afternoon
steamboat excursion free to members will
be had from Riverton to Chester. In the
evening an essay will be read and several
addresses delivered.
On Friday morning the members-of the
association will go on an excursion to Long
Branch (round trip two dollars). Members
showing their cards of membership and hav-
ing them stamped will obtain tickets at fifty
cents reduction, making tho fare $3.50 for
| the round trip. 1t is desirable that these
who intend to accompany the excursion
provide themselves with tickets as early as
possible, sothat the necessary arrangements
may be made for the accommodation of all
a complete orchestra viii be i'll attend
ance during the morning session, which will
play under the direction Of Prof. Jean Louis
whenever called upon. On the evening of
the goth the ''Saengerbund'' Cfifty mem
bers) Will sing several pieces under direc-
tlon of Prof. VIM. Hartmann. Onthe even
ing of the 21st the Young Maennerchor''
will sing under the direction of Prof. VIM.
hartmann On the evening of the 22d
! ~ oung Maennerchor'' and '1Bouuet of Ar
fists" of Philadelphia. The Young Maen-
nerchor" sixty members) will accompany
! I'm corpore' the excursion to Long Branch
| An anthem will be sung every morning by
! some school of Philadelphia under the di-
rectiOn of Prof. Lewis.
Persons having orders from the ticket
agent of the Association can procure excur-
sion tickets at the principal stations on the
Cumberland Valley railroad, Lehigh Valley
railroad, North Penna railroad. Northern
Central railroad and Pennsylvania railroad.
Excursion tickets can be procured without
orders at the principal stations on the Cata-
wlssa and the Lackawanna and Bloomsbury
railroads, and Philad'a and Reading rail-
road and branches. Persons having paid
full fare one way an'procure from the tick
ct agent passes to return free on the Ale
gheny Valley railroad, Delaware and Hud-
son railroad, and Oil Creek and Allegheny
railroad.-HarriS6urg P4triot