Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
MEETS IN BOSTON
Forty-Second Annual Session of N
E. A. to Be Held There.

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OTTUMWA TEACHERS WILL ATTEND
Educators to Gather in Eastern City
July 6 to 10-Many Side Trips to
Eastern Summer Resorts Arranued
Program of General Sessions.
| Many of the teachers Of the city
will attend the forty-second annual
convention of the National Education
al association, which will be held at
| Boston, Mass, July to 10. The Off
cial rogram-bulletin for the event
has just been issued and it is seen
that the most noted educators in the
country are on the program. Chas.
w. Eliot, president of Harvard col
lege, is president of the association,
and Irwin Shepard, of Winona Mimi,
is secretary. Many of the teachers of
the city will attend the convention for
the double purpose of securing the
benefits to be derived from contact
with the brainiest educators of the
country, and for the pleasure which
the trip assures. Side trips at small
cost will be run to all the eastern sum-
mer resorts while the options that
have been granted by the roads giving
| the traveller the opportunity of return
ing by a different route with unlimited
stop over privileges will make it an
ideal summer vacation trip.
There will be meetings each day
during the five days session of the
eighteen departments in the associa-
| ton aside from the general sessions.
In these department meetings papers
will be read by the most prominent
| specialists in America. A rate of one
! fare plus the membership fee of 50
has been secured on nearly all the
eastern roads with extension privileges
until September l when desired. This
will give the teacher an opportunity
to spend the summer in the east at a
low cost The Iowa headquarters. dur
ing the convention will be at the
| Westminster hotel.
The following is the program of the
! general sessions:
Monday Evening, July 6.
500 o'clock
Chorus.
Blessing-Rev. Edward Everett
Hale, D. D., Boston, Mass.
Addresses of Welcome-Hon. John
4 l.. Bates, governor of the common
wealth of Massachusetts; Hon. Pat
rick A. Collins, mayor of the city OF
| Boston; Henry S. Pritchett, president
| of the Massachusetts institute of tech
nology. Boston, Mass.
/ Replies-AIoert G.. Lane. district SUI
i perintendent of schools, Chicago. Ill.
chairman of the board of trustees OF
the national educational association
Hon. W. T. Harris, United states com
missioner of education, member of the
executive committee of the nationa
! educational association.
Presidents address. THE New Def
milton of the Cultivated Man"-Charle
w. Eliot. president of Harvard univer
sity. Cambridge. Mass.
'The Jeopardy of the Culture Ele
ment in Education Benjamin An
drews. chancellor of the University o
Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
uCSuay Evening" Suly
s o'clock. Topic, Manual. Trade
and Technical Education" Calvin NJ
Woodward, professor of mathematic'
and dean of the school of engineering
Washington university, ST. Louis. Mo.
Robert II. Thurston, professor of me
chanical engineering, Cornell univer
sity. Ithaca, N. Y; Thomas M. Balliett
superintendent of schools, Springfield
Mass; Henry S. Pritchett, presiden
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. Boston. Mass.
Wednesday Evening, July 8.
s o'clock. Topic, School Gardens
City School Yards, and the Surround
ings of Rural Schools "-Orville 7
Bright principal of the James r. Doc
little school. Chicago. H.; Charles R
Skinner, state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction, Albany. N. Y; Hon
Charles B. Aycock, governor of Nortl
: Carolina; Henry l.. Clapp, principal o
the George Putnam school, Boston
Mass.
Thursday Evening, July 9.
o'clock. THE Teaching of Civic
and Good Citizenship in the Public
Schools, R. w. G. yelling, New Yorl
City.
"The Justification of City Expendi
ture on Parks and Pathways
!. for Public Education" Hon. Nathal
Matthews, Jr. Boston, Mass.
"The Nature Study Movement"-L
H. Bailey. professor of general and es
: detrimental horticulture, Cornell uni
!, versity, Ithaca, N. Y.
: Friday Evening, July 10.
5 Topic, Education in the Southern
t States"-Hon. Chas. B. Aycock. gov
, ernor of North Carolina; Wallace But
trick, secretary and executive Office
of the General Education board, Ney
York City; Edgar G. Murphy, secre
tary of the Southern Education board
Rev. Chas. T. Walker, Augusta, Ga.
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