The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-09
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The National Convention of Educators &C
be Held in Minneapolis in July Will
be of Great Interest.

| Minnesota teachers fl ON 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 a 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 fair response from
| outside districts the 1000 limit will
be largely exceeded.
Schoolma'ams 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-first 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
i 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 flat rate of half fare has
been granted by the railroads. Tick
cts will be on sale at all points with
/ in radius of $50 miles of Minneapo-
lis-on July and and outside that
limit one day earlier.
| Minneapolis teachers, acting with
committee appointed from the Min
j 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 simplified 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-
| tiers 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
| ize 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 en- oy-
ing their vacation at the lake.
One of the many entertaining fea-
| lures planned will be 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. C. W. Hall will conduct an
| other party through the upper Mis-