Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26
BIG WEEK FOR TEACHERS
All Ready for the Transmississippi Bduoa.
tional Convention.
MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM is PREPARED
Large Attendance Assured by Re-
turns to Inquiries of the
Local Executive Conn
nittcc.

- NNhNANA RAN NNAA'A =
directly or indirectly in the progress of
education in the states Of the Transmits
sissippi country.
The indications are that II will be one
of the most brilliant aggregations of edu-
Gators ever held in the west. Prominent
people from all over the country are coming,
and several thousand delegates are sure to
be in attendance. The local committees
have been busily engaged arranging the
final details the last week, and everything
is now announced to be in readiness. On
the program for the three days meeting
there appear the names Of over 100 persons
and it is thought there will be very few
vacancies in the list Of participants.
The convention proper opens on Tuesday
evening at S;l5 o'clock at the exposition
Auditorium. 1t will be presided over by
DR.. A. f. Nightingale, superintendent of
the Chicago High schools. The music will
be furnished by the Thomas orchestra. On
Wednesday morning at Boyd's theater the
first of the Town town general sessions
begins.
The complete program which has been
making for the last few weeks, is ready, and
is now being printed and will be ready for
distribution on Tuesday morning. The plan
of the National Educational association has
pNNh iuiStly luIloNCu Wlln inc result Una
a program has been completed that will
compare well with that of any similar con-
v%ention that has ever been held in this
country. The program includes addresses
by men of high reputation in the educa-
tional world and from all parts of the
United States. There are to be five SEES
sions of the general meetings and thirteen
conferences on special subjects, of two ses-
sions each.
On the program for the general sessions
are addresses as follows: Hon. j. Sterling
Morton, former secretary of agriculture,
original founder of Arbor day, and who has
made a careful study of tree culture, will
speak on The Conservation of Forests. Re.
Afforestation, and Arhor Day" Arbor day
has become a general celebration in the
public schools of this country, and is a
subject in which teachers are everywhere
interested. President George A. Gates OF
Iowa college will speak on THE Training
of the Citizen in a Democracy" Superin-
tendent j. +. Millspaugh OF Salt Lake City
will present an address on The Relative
Value of Scholarship and Training for
Teachers" Superintendent j. f. Heating
of Pueblo, Colo, will discuss The Ideal
Grammar School" Miss Maud Summers OF
Chicago, representing the American Fedora
ton of Women clubs, will try to impress
the attendants with the necessity for the
Corporation of Women's Clubs and Teach
ers." Superintendent A. b. Warner of Mis-
souri, Valley has an address on What is the
Teacher Problem" and Superintendent
Aaron Cove of Denver one on DO Our
Schools Cost Too Much" At the evening
session of the second day Hon. w. w. Stet-
son, state superintendent of public instruc-
| tinn nf MoSnn 10 lNNn fnr IN nIIr,gg ~,
The Condition and Needs of Rural Schools
and Prof. Albion w. Small of the Univer-
sity of Chicago will talk on Education and
the New Americanism. The speakers and
subjects for the general sessions of the final
day include addresses by Richard Water
man of the Kosminsky school of Chicago on
THE Function of Manual Training in the
Elementary School" by Prof. Seymour Eaton
of the DreXel institute of Philadelphia, on
Commercial Instruction in Our Schools
by superintendent +. Louis Sedan of ST.
Louis, on Morality and the Public Schools
by Mrs. j.. f. Young, assistant superintend-
ent of schools at Chicago, on Ethics in
the Teaching Force" and by President e.
Benjamin Andrews of Brown university, on
THE Public School System as an Instru-
ment of Social Advance
The evening sessions of the gen
eral meetings are to be held in
the Auditorium on the exposition
grounds. which seats $500 people, and are
to be opened with music by the Thomas
orchestra, which is now playing an engage
ment for the exposition. The morning ses-
| sions are to be held at Boyd's theater,
which is commodious and conveniently To-
Gated. The conferences have been arranged
by educators who have made special studies
of the different branches to which their
| meetings relate. They will be held in thir-
teen different halls in the business part OF
the city and be more in the nature of dis
cussions than the general meetings.
Conference Programs.
The conference upon Boards of Educa-
tion has been arranged by Hon. G. II
Trewin of Lansing, Ia, and includes papers
by William George, editor of the American
School Board Journal of Milwaukee; by Hon
j. NJ. Chatterson of the Louisville, KY.
Board of Education; Hon. j. w. Garside OF
the Atchison, Kas., Board of Education; by
Hon. John Schwaab of the Cincinnati, o.
Board of Education; President Paul #. Cost,
of the st. Louis, Mo-, Board of Education
President l.. NJ. Mann of the Des Moines
Ia, Board of Education, and President b
Zimerman of the st. Paul, Mimi, Board o
ElutullbH'
The conference on rural schools has beer
arranged by Hon. John X. Kirk, state su,
perintendent of schools of Missouri, II
which he has enlisted the participation
among others of county superintendent l.
H. Knowles of Marion, Kas., George L.. Far
ley OF Plattsmouth, Neb,, George A. Peair
of Lawrence, Kas, Ainsley l.. DayhOff o
Hutchinson, Kas., T. S. Johnson of Beloit
Kas., S. NJ. Barrett of independence, Mo.
Jessie N. Galloway of Wahoo, Neb, anC
M. X. Howard of Leavenworth, Kas.
The conference on secondary schools anC
colleges is under the direction of Presiden'
William +. Slocum, jr., of Colorado college
and among the educators who viii discus!
the questions presented are DR.. 4. II. Dan,
iels of the University of Illinois, DR.. Arthur
Allin of the University of Colorado, Superin.
tendent j. II. VanSickle Of Denver, Chancel
Tor George Il. MacLean of the University o
Nebraska, Principal Irwin Lewiston OF tht
Omaha High school, DR.. a. F.. Nightingale
superintendent of the Chicago High schools
Prof. l.. Il, Holden of Beloit college, Presi
dent w. S. Chaplin of Washington univer,
sity, and President George A. Gates of low
college. TIL conference for science teach
ers under Prof. Charles e. Bessey of thu
University of Nebraska has been arranged
for nearly every branch of natural and ap.
piled science. Among those who will partic.
ipato in this conference are: Prof. Charles S