Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-04
Opening Proceedings.


The convention opens Thursday night
rext at O'Clock in Convention Hall. The
full Marine Band will be in attendance
Chairman Henry F. B!ount of the local
general committee will call the assembly
to order. and an address of welcome will
be delivered by District Commissioner
Ross Addresses will follow by President
Whitman of Columbian University, chair
man of the local committee, and United
States Commissioner of Education W. L.
Harris, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis and Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction Charles r. Skinner of New
York state. The annual address of Presi-
dent Greenwood of the National Educa-
tional Assc citation will be one Of the fea-
lures of the evening.
school Hygiene.
The convention proper will be preceded
Wednesday, July g. with sessions of the
ditorium Of the Columbian University.
The program which, however, is subject
to changes, will be as follows:
The first two sessions will be upon the
subject of school hygiene. as follows:
Morning session-9:30 o'clock.
1. School Hygiene-What it is and why
we need it. Dr. Edward M. Hartwell. sec
rotary department Of municipal statistics,
Boston.
2 Observation-Disclosures with explain
atory remarks contents for reference
and printing-not to be read). Prof. VIM.
H. Burnham, Clark University, Worcester.
Mass.
g. School Architecture-Heating, ventila-
ton, lighting and sanitary arrangements.
Superintendent F. Louis Sedan, St. Louis.
Mo-; DIR. D. H. Bergey, University of Penn
sylvania, Philadelphia.
T. School Furniture-Seats, baths, black
boards, maps, etc. Superintendent Albert
P. Marble. New York city; Superintendent
Charles b. Gilbert Newark, N. j.
Afternoon SeSSion-2:3O o'clock.
g. School Anthropometry-Test of the
senses of children. Superintendent James
NJ. Greenwood, Kansas City, Mo.
6. School Diseases and Medical Inspec-
tion-Prof Delos Fall, Albion College.
Mich; Prof. Severance Burrage, Purdue
University. Lafayette, Ind.
7. Hygiene of misunderstanding the
subjects of reading. writing, arithmetic,
etc, and studies of fatigue. Prof. G. w.
Fitz. Harvard University, Cambridge:
Pedagogy, New York city.
Evening sessions o'clock.
Relation of Psychology in its Various As
poets to Education:
l. Introduction paper-Prof: Josiah Royce,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
2. Rational Psychologists. VIM. T. Har-
ris. United States commissioner of educa-
ton, Washington, d. c.
g. Experimental and Physiological Psy
chology-Prof. Lightmer Wilmer. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia.
Discussion, by members of council.
The council will also hold sessions Thurs
day morning and afternoon, both Of which
will be devoted to a discussion of the re-
port of a committee of twelve on rural
schools. The reorganization of the council
and the election Of officers will be consid-
cred in ex scutiye session Thursday at 4:S0
o'clock.
Headquarters Selected.
The various headquarters 50 far selected
are as follows: National executive COM
mittee, the Arlington, banquet room; local
executive committee. 1410 G street: rail-
road joint agency and treasurer National
Educational Association. Willard Hall; Ar
kansas. Riggs House, room q; California,
Riggs House. room So; Colorado. Riggs
House, room p: Florida. Ebbitt House,
rooms 4S and 40: Illinois,, the Arlington,
ladies' parlor: Indiana. the Arlington room
2O7; Iowa. the Arlington, room 206; Kan
sas, Hotel Lincoln, parlors; Kentucky, Ho-
tel Normandie. rooms 10 and 124; Mary
land, Ebbitt House, rooms Z and s: Michi-
gan, Hotel Normandie, rooms 126 and 12s:
Minnesota, Riggs House, room SO; Mis-
souri,, Hotel Normandie, rooms 1875 and 1873;
Nebraska, Hotel Gordon. rooms Z and s:
New England states, the Regent: New Jer-
sey, the Arlington. room 100: New York,
the Arlington. art gallery; North Dakota,