Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-12-13
Wisconsin Teachers AssOcia
ton to Celebrate It's
Golden Jubilee.
Noted Educators to be Heard at the An
nuaI Convention.

The Wisconsin Teachers Association
will hold its Jubilee Meeting, De-
eember 20 to 81. University, college
and normal school professors, city
superintendent, county supcrnten
dents and high school principals, high
school, graded school and common
school teachers, from all parts Of the
state, will spend part Of their holiday
vacations in Milwaukee, in attendance
upon the exercises Of this semicenten
nial. Unusual interest is being mani
tested in the coming meeting and it
promises to be the greatest in the his
tory of the association.
A glance at the program shows that
there are fewer sections this year than
usual few topics but all of them of
vital interest and an unprecedented
number of speakers from other states
of national reputation. Among them
are Or John Bascom. formerly presi
dent Of the University Of Wisconsin,
who will deliver an address entitled
"The Sources of Authority in Teach
ing" Or. Winship, of the New England
journal of Education, will speak on
/ Educational Standards in the Nine
teenth and Twentieth Centuries;' Reu-
ben Post Halleck author and principal
of the male high school, Louisville,
Kentucky, whose subject is "Adoles-
ceucc;" Henry Turner Bailey, who is
in the employ of the MASSACHUSETTS
state board of education who is an
artist, author and lecturer unsurpassed
on the educational platform and who
will give talk on Beauty in School
Work" Professor Wilbur Fiske Cordy,
the eminent historian. who win give
his experience on 1.-The Teaching Of
History in the Elementary Schools;
Professor Francis q, Blair. whose arti-
Giles have created such interest among
school men ami whose subject. "Meth-
cd in Teachiur,' win be Of great in
tereSt To the normal school and city
graded school section; Dean Wilbur ).
iackman OF the school of education,
University of Chicago, whose subject
is THE Course of Study for Elemen-
tary Schools" Mrs. Ida Hood Clark.
vice president Of the Eastern Manual
Training Association and supervisor of
manual training, Nashville, Tennes-
see, and Mrs, Marguerite Warren
Springer of the "Workshop, Chicago,
whose themes will be respectively
"Haudcraft as Elementary Manual
Training" and "The New Indushial-
ism" and Mrs Alice II. Putnam, presi.
dent of the National Kindergarten
Union, who will speak to the Kinder
gartcn Section on "What has the
School n Right to Expect from the
kindergarten
On Monday evening Henry Turner
Bailey win deliver his lecture "A More
Beautiful America, which will be
illustrated Mt the blackboard and with
. stercopuoon slides. On Tuesday even
ing the members OF the association
wil attend the annual festival per
Torrance OF the Messiah in a body
q half rate having been made to the
visiting teachers 10y the management
OF the Arion Musical club
The railroads win make rate Of
fare and q third fer the round trip
from alpoints in Wisconsin and North
ern Michigan, and all the leading
hotels in Milwaukee are offering a
great reduction from their usual rates
to guests. y pleasant and profitable
time is assured all visiting teachers.