The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-26
N. E. A. At BOSTON
Arrangements Making for the Great
Teachers Gathering at
the Hub.
City Of Beans Will Try to Guido All
Her Predecessors as a
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Special to The journal. ~ ~ 5ifA
Boston, May 26.-Boston educators are
working with system and enthusiasm for
the forty second annual convention Of the
National Educational association. which
will be held in Boston July g. to 10. The
association has not met In Boston for
thirty zone years and the session will be
only the second held in New England for
forty-sixth years. President Eliot OF
Harvard university is the president this
is busy arranging q thousand details in
order to secure a large gathering OF
teachers from all parts Of the country,
and then to entertain them handsomely
after they arrive. Judging from the
crowds here at the last Christian En-
deavor convention, the historic attractions
Of the city and of this part Of the coun-
try will bring many here. With this in
mind. the committee has arranged great
many excursions, and everything of large
historic or popular interest Is included,
even if not in the city. Even trips to
Quebec and to Jamaica in. the West Indies
are laid down among the attractions Of
fered to the visitors. Return tickets from
the convention are good until Aug 81,
and SO there will be plenty Of time to take
In some of these incidentals. But the in
tellectual and professional features OF the
convention are relied upon as the main
attractions.
General sessions will be held every
evening Of the five days in the largest
hall In the city, that Of the Mechanics
association. The national council, which
is an organization within the association,
will have sessions every day except
Wednesday. But the main work will be
done in the department sessions, Of which
there are seventeen as follows: Kinder
garten, elementary education secondary
education, higher education. normal
schools, superintendent (Which will not
meet till next February in Atlanta), man
,lal training. art education, music educa-
ton, business education, child study,
physical training, science instruction,
school administration, libraries, special
education and Indian education. While
the programs Of these different meetings
are too voluminous to give in detail, yet
the main features may be summarized as
follows for the information of those who
expect to attend:
The opening general session will be de-
| voted to the official reception and re-
plies. After the invocation by Rev. Dr.
Edward Everett Hale. Governor Bates
will speak for the state and Mayor Col
| Inns for the city. followed by President
| Pritchett of the Institute of Technology
| in behalf Of the educational interests.
First to reply will be Albert G. Lane, dis
trict superintendent Of schools Of Chi
l Se0eo
| tees Of the National Educational asso-
citation. After him will speak William
T. Harris, United States education COM
| missioner, who is also a member Of the
executive committee. President Eliot Of
Harvard. as president of the association,
| will speak upon 1.-THE New Definition OF
! the Cultivated Man. and E. Benjamin
Andrews, chancellor Of the University of
Nebraska, will give an address upon
''The Jeopardy Of the Culture Element
in Education" Tuesday evening the gen
eral session will take up manual, trade
and technical education and the first
speaker will be Calvin M Woodward,
professor of mathematics and dean Of the
school Of engineering at Washington uni
yersity, st. Louis. Other distinguished
speakers will also appear the same even
ing, including President Pritchett Of the
/ Institute of Technology. Wednesday
evening the general session will consider
school gardens, city school yards, and the
surroundings Of rural schools, the first
speaker being Orvtlle T. Bright, princi-
pal of the Doolittle school of Chicago
For Thursday evening, citizenship, parks
and nature studies will be the range OF
subjects, the latter being considered by
Professor L. Fl. Bailey Of the department
Of horticulture at Cornell university
The last evening Of the session will be
devoted to education In the southern
states and the first speaker will be Gov
ernor Aycock Of North Carolina.
President Harper Of Chicago university
is president Of the national council, anG
its sessions will be held in the Contra
Congregational church. Jesse F. Mills
paugh, Of Winona, Mimi, is the secretar,
Of the council and President Nicholas
Murray Butler, Of Columbia is one Of thu
executive committee. One of the western
representatives who will appear on Mon
day afternoon, July 6, is Mrs. Ella Flag,
Young, professor Of education at Chicag
university, and her subject will be tn
saving of time In elementary and second
airy education. That afternoon Presiden
William Dewitt Hyde of Bowdoin colleg
will speak upon the educational progress
Of the year. Tuesday afternoon the ives
/ will have two representatives and tn
third speaker will be Commissioner Harris
The two are George Albert Coes of North
J, western university at Evanston, ILL.,, an
I | Right Rev. J. Lancaster Spalding, bisho
of Peoria. Thursdays session will be
memorial and Fridays will be for bus
} ness.
The subjects and speakers in the Dill
) ferent departments cover a wide rang
I Some Of those of special interest in tn
I west are the following: In the discussio
81 of the kindergarten one Of the speaker
81 will be Superintendent r. Louis Soldan
u the ST. Louis schools. Richard Watso
Glider, editor of the Century Magazin
! will speak Friday forenoon on the uplif
J ing influence of the kindergarten. Mi.
Elizabeth Harrison, principal Of the Ki1
dergarten college Of Chicago, will spea
j at the same session on mothers classe
} and Mrs Professor Young !, above n1el