Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS

Ut IN ckESI ~ IEAChEkS
Meeting Of Minnesota Educational As.
ISOLATION to be Held In St.
Paul Dec. 1881, 1903.
A meeting that will be of interest to
teachers is the annual gathering of
the state educational association,
which is to hold forth in the city of
st. Paul on Monday, Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday, Dec. %, %, 30
and 81. For the Information of teach
ers and others in this locality who are
interested in educational matters, q
number Of whom are planning 10 attend,
we publish some of the leading features
OF the program for the four days.
session:
First, a social gathering at the Com
mercial Club, Monday night, Dec. %.
Meetings Of county superintendent,
Associated Boards, and high and
city school teachers and superintend-
ents of city schools in separate par
lors until p. m. Light refreshments.
Joint meeting presided over by Presi.
dent Weld of the Moorhead State
Normal. Addresses by leading edu-
Gators and friends of education. 1t is
anticipated that this occasion will be
both pleasant a'd profitable. All
should plan to arrive in st. Paul in
time to attend this meeting. 1t will be
ned in the elegant parlo.s of The St.
Paul Commercial Club about three
clocks FROM the Windsor Hutel, the
associations headquarters.
TUESDAY, DEC. 20.
Prominent among the speakers of
the first session will be Gov. Van
SAINT, Mayor Smith, Superintendent
Olson, and Superintendent R. E. Den
field of Duluth, the latter being on the
program for q lecture on the subject,
How the Superintendent May Help"
Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria, will
deliver the principal lecture before the
association at the Central Presby-
terian church at p. m.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30.
E. O. Vale, of Chicago, will lecture
on Reformed spelling." He is .
Hell-known editor Ut educational
publications and leading though
conservative spelling reformer, and
will interest all.
Also John Kennedy, of Batavia, N.
Y. the author of the famed Batavia
plan. Those attending the convention
for this alone will be amply repaid.
for their time and expense.
Also John Quincy Adams, of Phila-
delphia, lecturer of national repu-
tation who will deliver a lecture on,
"Fhe Development of Art Appreci-
aston." Pyle, the famous illustrator,
will be present with an exhib .tlon of
his own work in connection with an
art exhibit by the State Art Society,
through whose friendly cooperation
The convention is enabled to enjoy
these fine attractions.
THURSDAY, DEC. 81.
Professor Batcheller, of Philadel-
phla, recognized as the leading light
In America in his specially, The
SQUAD Color System of Teaching
Music,' which will be his theme. The
opportunity of hearing him may not
come to the teachers again. Every
teacher anxious to make a success of
teaching music should try to hear
him.
Also, Francis B. Atkinson, OF Chi
csgo, editor If The Little Chronicle,
on "The World with the Lid OF:
Some Aspects of the Use of the News
paper in the S;hoolroom, who will
be followed by j. S. McLain of the
Minneapolis Journal.
Also, Condo Ham in, manager of
the Pioneer Press, on 1.-THE Louis
lana Purchase Elk position: Minnesota
in the Educational Exhibit"
Besides these and many otherinterest-
ing addresses, papers and discussions,
the advocates Of industrial education
viii have an opportunity of listening
to Miss Dopp of Chicago University :
hose urging more practical business
instruction in the public school to
Presioen, Smithdeal, of the Smithdeal
Business College, Ri ;hmond, Vir-
ginia; those interested in the conso]i-
dation of weak school districts and
agricultural instruction in rural
schools to Supe, init ndent K0rn of
illinois; and those who believe in
placing the common branches in the
high course of study to Congressman
Tawney and G. A. Morey OF the state
high school board.
4 Bouqust for hegstrom.
Emil Hegstrom is now instructor for
the Renville, Hector and Olivia bands.