New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-08
THE PRESIDENT TO THE EDC' nuns

. LETTER FROM MAJOR MKINLEY READ bEForE
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS.
,,uua,kse WIS July AT to-days session OF
tho National Educational Association. after ihVooa-
ton by the Rev. Dr.. George II lae' rre'ue''
Skinner proceeded promptly TO business Inc 'o'-
lowing letter was read from President Men
The Hon Charles r. Skinner PRESIDENT ''''''"
Educatlonai Association. To-. -. tho
NV dear sir: have been deeply grat!hed oy tns
c9rG:a" ~ lanai Educational Association but have
sel obliged owing 70 great pressure az Pu o.. ne ~
ness TO reply that 1t Will be impossp,e o' has for
sverv citizen the greatest significance lts menloers
constitute body OF ;raned ps nv the founders
~ our Government and the enthusiasm anu dew , r.
ton evidenced in these ANNA. Mee, neTmanency and
Strength Of our institutions You and your sss sor
ciates Of this organizSon nave nS in rs annals
reunion HR,c yo sn.l he W fnIi1M MKINLEY
r,n,e. NJ Green. OF the Trenton N. j. Normal
School. spoke on Data Of Method
Alexander Graham Bell, OF Washington, ~ -
snota on The Education OF the Deal ProtessS,
e said that when the first deaf child was raIsn
70 speak Two hundred years ago, II wa nc cSrist
rb sneaker referred 70 other efforts falling necsuss
intolerance compelled their anangon M I'M oral meth
discussion Of the riss ana progress 81 WIG
Cd compesee or Of the different headquarters Of the
oi,,ss Iooking for the National educd'ond' -
vention showed Salt Lake 70 be IN th e ea1
omaha Los Angeles. washington ana sS''2 }oilows
Mas ne Wurray Butler New-York: Or James
canied ohio Charles II Keyes California nsana
:, Presto, Mississippi and Daniel X Goss lnual'a
~ Standardization from the Board OF Directors
mbodled ne me Board of Directors do hereby
recommend that Article III Section ssct Of me
stiution he amended as follows: a. his asso
~, tion NAV on application accompanied by annua,
fee OF 81 and the paymeni , OF a asssc t9
%ine department meetings were hello tnls alser
noon , rnnntinr The subject being Child study
Dr. John Dewey. OF the University OF anb cbiId
the first paper The ~ n xh great att interest
Mss f,ertha PAYNE an associate OF Jane Adams IN
the Hull House work answe.e ny Hep for the Kin
dsrearten?' decidedly in the affirmative .,
DR. Jenny B Merrill kindersa5 ,d so ,Seme
N SoSs Of child study in the Kindersa.ep Or
Merrill explained '9 Sn in and said she
though, all methods Of child study were GOOD io'
the Tba meeting OF the Round Table for the EdSGs
on the Deaf attracted mne9 on Ten
Jean Miner Sobp penc ak and '"t creyon Francis
Devcreaux Clarke superintendent OF the Michigan
school ~ the ps snsu ssse laying Special
emphasis on the omission OF dehnitiots en- raadinS
professor Edmund Lyon State lnsRecS1 % co 1nr
New-York Schools Tor the Deaf r sposke OF Oo'"'
ptr"Wy jones' OF cleveland, "A Plea for the
Highe. Education OF the Deaf n our 20 Tau
and there was n paper by T. H. carter vi WV"
The National Hobart Society held an interss,inS
soseion Or John Dewey spoke on the Ethi,,ai
Principles Underlying Education" Charles ~, DE
Garmo svarhore deysrsd an sna On Other
cnmmiftee APPOINTED last year TO report the con-
troll. management, maintenance courses OF STUDY
The - meeting OF the art department was most
nierestns nnTber OF papers were read and dis
cussed. A most interesting session "as 'ns' "