The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-09
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The National Convention Of Educators g
be Held In Minneapolis In July will
be Of Great Interest.

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
Paul, and with a fair response from
outside districts the 1000 limit will
be largely exceeded.
Schoolma'a 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.
It 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 Z. 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 l.
Visitors to the convention will be
enabled to secure one fare rate plus
$500. Moreover, the tickets sold un-
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 fiat rate of half fare has
been granted by the railroads. Tick
cts will be on sale at all points with
in q radius of $50 miles of Minneapo-
lis OH 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-
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 enjoy
ing their vacation at the lake.
One of the many entertaining fea-
lures planned will be public re-
CepL1On TO Dc given dt l1Ic oOs1IC ullt-
versity. The receiving line will well
come visitors in the University Arm
ory, but every building on the cam
pus will be illuminated. The oppor-
tunities for display at the university
are we'll nigh limitless and the recep-
ton to be held there will unquestion-
ably be an event to be remembered.
An 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-
siss;nni basin for GeOgraplical and