River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-08
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The National Convention of Educators To
be Held in Minneapolis in July Will
be of Great Interest.

be OF Great Interest
Minnesota teachers from all over
the state are making their vacation
plans with an idea of attending the
National Educational Association con-
vention to be held in Minneapolis
early in July. There is every indica-
ton that the attendance of Mime
sofa teachers will make good the
promise made when the Executive
Committee voted to come here-that
teachers of the North Star state
would attend almost in body, and
that at least 1000 new members
would be secured for the n. E. A.
One-half of this number has already
been obtained in Minneapolis and ST.
Paul, and with a fair response from
outside districts the 1900 limit will
be largely exceeded.
Schoolma' ans have been quick to
realize the advantages to be obtained
| through an attendance upon what
will probably prove the largest and
most successful convention ever held
by the association. Moreover the fact
that the university summer school is
to open July II, within week of the
conventions close, has persuaded
many to come to Minneapolis two
weeks earlier in order to attend the
convention meetings before begin
ming the regular summer work. The
summer school is designed solely for
the instruction of teachers.
1t is, in reality, an advanced nor
NAL school and it has always been
well attended. This year the attend
ance will probably be larger than
ever before in the history of the in
stitution.
The forty-frst annual convention of
the n. e. A: will be called to order
in the Exposition building, Minneapo-
lis, July z. All general meetings will
| be held in the auditorium in which
| President Benjamin Harrison was
nominated for the second time as the
standard bearer of the republican
| party. Here also will be held the
meetings of the Department of Ply
steal Education which are sure to
prove an interesting feature of the
convention. The outside space, for
merly devoted to exhibits of indus
| trial products, will be taken up with
exhibitions of educational supplies
| and text books. The local committee
which has this matter in hand has
| already received numerous requests
for space, and in all probability all
reservations will be allotted by May 1.
Visitors to the convention will be
| enabled to secure one fare rate plus
| $500. Moreover, the tickets sold I'M
der this plan will have coupons at
tached which will be redeemed by
Secretary Shepard for membership
certificates without extra charge. AS
| these certificates cost $500 it will be
seen that a fiat rate of half fare has
been granted by the railroads. Tick
cts will be on sale at all points with
| in a radius of $50 miles of Minneapo-
lis on July and Z and outside that
limit one day earlier.
Minneapolis teachers, acting with
committee appointed from the Min
neapolis Commercial club, have been
| looking into the matter of accommo-
dations for those visitors to the con-
vention who may not desire to go to
hotels. However, this task has been
greatly simplifed by the fact that
hundreds of Minneapolis families
move out to Lake Minnetonka for
| the summer months, leaving their
town houses vacant.
A large number of these houses
have already been placed at the dis
posal of the committee, and others
will be listed as the season advances.
| 1t will thus be possible for visitors
to secure airy and commodious quar-
| ters in the best residence district of
| the city at an unusually small price.
| What is more the train schedule be-
tween Minneapolis and the lake Will
permit convention visitors to patron
| lie the lake hotels if they so desire.
There is no more picturesque fresh
water resort in the country than
Minnetonka. Former Vice President.
| Stevenson always spends his summers
| there; and during one week of last
summer four different members of
! the United States senate were enjoy
| ing their vacation at the lake.
One of the many entertaining fea-
lures planned will be a public re-
ception to be given at the state uni
versity. The receiving line will well
| come visitors in the University Arm
DRY, but every building on the cam
| pus will be illuminated The oppor-
! tunities for display at the university
are well nigh limitless and the recep-
| ton to be held there will unquestion-
| ably be an event to be remembered.
| All the railroads running out OF
| Minneapolis will offer attractive side
trips at low rates. Trips will be Of
fered to nearby points of interest
| such as Minnetonka, the Dalles of ST.
| Croix, or any of the many Minneso-
! ia lake resorts.
In addition to these, special trips
have been arranged to take visitors
| to the Pacific coast, through Colorado
and Utah, through the Yellowstone
Park, the Canadian Rockies, and
to the University seaside station at
Vancouver. This last will be per-
sonally conducted excursion under
the direction of Prof. Conway Mac
MILAN.
Prof. G. W. Hall will conduct an
other party through the upper Mis-
sissippi basin for Geographical and
Geological research.