The Portland daily press., 1895-07-06
INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION,
Most Important Series of Meetings Next
Week.

| week.
| The American Institute of Instruction
will begin its sixty fifth annual conven
ton in the City hall, Monday next
| The evening sessions will begin about
z. 10 O'Clock, and close about $50 O'Clock.
The morning session will begin about
9.15 o'clock, and close aboutr ~. 81
O'Clock. The afternoons will be left free
for rest and recreation. In arranging the
program the utmost effort has been made
to select those subjects which are attract,
ing the widest and most earnest atten-
ton at the present time. The reputation
| of the speakers and the Importance of the
topics, both from philosophical and a
practical point of view, make it certain
that this will prove of vast consequence
to the educational interests of New Eng
land. The various sessions will be made
enjoyable by music of high order. The
Temple Quartet of Boston, consisting of
E. M. Spears, first tenor; E. F. Webber,
second tenor; Robert Bruce, baritone
L. B. Merrill basso, will be present at
every meeting.
The members of the institute and their
friends will begin to arrive by boat Mon
day morning, and continue through the
day. The treasurer will open his office
at the United States Hotel from to p.
M, on Monday, and subsequently will
have his office in an anteroom adjoining
the City hall. He or his assistants will
be in attendance before and during each
session, to receive the assessment of one
dollar from each member and to stamp
return tickets During each afternoon of
the convention the treasurer can be found
at the Fal mouth hotel
The officers of the Institute will be
located as follows The President at the
Falmouth, the Secretary at the Preble,
the Treasurer at the Falmouth, the Assis-
tant Secretary and the Assistant Treas
urer at the United States. W. W. Stetson
of Auburn, is president; Chas. W. Par
meter, Cambridgeport, Secretary; L. H..
Moody, Providence, assistant secretary
l. 81. Webster, Maiden. treasurer; L. l..
Camp, New Haven, assistant treasurer.
I There are three classes of members
honorary, active, and associate. Honor
airy members are very few, being chosen
only in view of long and valuable service
in the cause of education Active mem
bers, who alone are empowered to vote
and to hold Office, must have been elected
at some regular meeting of the Institute
on recommendation of the Committee on
Membership. They may be teachers,
superintendent, or other school officers
in public or private schools, or in other
institutions of learning, or other persons
| interested in educational w ork. Associate
members are any persons of good moral
character who may wish to avail them
selves of the privileges of the meeting
| No election is necessary. The simple pay
ment of one dollar to the Treasurer con
| stitutes the payer an associate member
for the current year.
This will be Monday evenings pro-
gramme:
Addresses of Welcome
(a) On behalf of the State of Maine,
His Excellency, Henry. B. Cleaves, Coy
ernOr.
(b) On behalf of the City of Portland
| His Honor, J. P. Baxter, Mayor.
| The Public School System as an Instru
| mentality for Social Advancement: Rev.
| E. Benjamin Andrews D. D., LII d.
| President of Brown University.
These are on the Portland Committee:
Representing the Board of Trade-Hon
Seth L. Larrabee, F A. Smith, Esq,
Hon. VIM. W. Merrill
Representing the City-Orlando M
Lord, 2. S. Nickerson, P. j. Mcdonald,
Daniel F. Nash.
Local Executive Committee-George S.
Hunt, chairman; Hon. VIM. W. Merrill
secretary; James P. Baxter. Edward B.
Winslow, Albion Little L. A. Goudy
Chas. S. Fobes, Joseph E. Blabon, AL
bro E. Chase, Chas FF. Guptill, Henry S
Osgood, A. W. Smith, G. W. T. Cooling
Wm. II. Scott, Fred n. Dow.
1t is to be hoped that there will be ;
wide interest excited among our citizens
| in these meetings. They are free to all
The gentlemen who will read papers ar,
men whose names are a power in thu
educational world. Among them arr
| UllOcc VI IoolOOAU l.. IA. WdlhcI VI
Boston Institute of Technology; Presi-
dent Gates of Amherst College. Rev. DR.
Day, so well known here, chancellor Of
Syracuse University; President Charles
Thwing of Western Reserve University
and Adelbert College; Prof. Scripture o.
Yale University; President Chase o.
Bates College; Superintendent of Schools
Carroll of Worcester; Conley of Boston
Beckwith of Adams, Mass, and many
others. On Thursday evening the session
will close with banquet at which five
minute addresses will be made by dis
tinguished guests.
We feel certain that Portland will ex-
tend hearty welcome to the teachers
and City hall will prove all too small for
those who will wish to hear the exercises
Deering High School.
The following pupils have been admit