The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-02
OF STATE
WELCOMED TO CITY
MINNESOTA EDUCATORS TO BE
HERE DEC. 26 TO 20.
Local Committees Arrange to Give
Pedagogs So Good a Time that They
Will Make Minneapolis Permanent
Meeting Place-Program ! Replete
With Topics Of Professional Interest.

+ Arrangements for the forty-fourth
annual convention of the Minnesota
Educational association, to be held in
Minneapolis from Dec. IS to 80 are
now almost completed. An unusually
ATTRACTIVE program has been prepared
and 1t is estimated that between two
and three Thousand teachers from all
parts of the state will be in attendance
The low railroad rates and the excel
lent facilities for furnishing rooms in
private residences provided by the local
committee, of which Professor D. H
FAINTER is chairman, will make it pos.
teachers to attend the convention at a
nominal expense.
Some Prominent Speakers.
The opening session will be on Wed
nesday forenoon, Dec 80, when two
preliminary conferences will be held
one on the teaching of English, and the
other on the training of rural teachers
The afternoons and evenings will be de-
voted to the general meetings at which
lectures and addresses will be given by
akiche Hartman the famous author
and artist of New York; Judge Benja-
min B. Lindsey, the well-known "kid''
Judge of the juvenile court in Denver;
DR.. Emil G. Hirsch, rabbi of the Sinai
congregation, of Chicago; Mrs. Marian
Foster Washburn, a prominent edu-
Gator and author of Elgin, ILL.,, and
Mrs. Leonora NJ. Lake, vice president
of the Catholic Total Abstinence union
of st. Louis. Mrs. Lake is well known
as a brilliant orator and forceful
speaker.
The forenoons will be, occupied with
sessions of the various sections and de-
partments, of which there are now nine,
VIZ: county superintendent, high
school council, college, associated school
boards, graded school, elementary,
music, business college and rural school
sections. This year application will
another section, that of manual arts.
The rapid growth of manual training
in the public, schools has produced a
new class Of teachers with problems of
their own, and it is the intention to
establish department of the associa-
ton where these special teachers may
meet and discuss questions pertaining
to the details of their work.
City Headquarters.
The headquarters of the convention
will be at the West hotel, where rail
road certificates will be received for
endorsement, and where the local COM
mittee will have an information bureau
to help visiting teachers find suitable
rooms and boarding places. The meet
lngs Of the general session will be held
at plymouth church, and the various
sectional meetings will be held in the
city hall. -.
The meeting this year will be an i'm
portant one in many respects, on &C.
count Of the large number Of import
ant committees which are to present
final reports at this meeting. The
committee on revision Oh the constitu-
ton. of which Professor George S.
Innis of Hanlline university is chair
man, is expected to report important
changes in the constitution. President
Maxwell of the Winona Normal school
is chairman of special COMMITTEE to
penses of teachers. This committee
has carried on careful and compre-
henslve investigation of the subject and
its report promises to be a feature.
Teaching of English.
Then there is the COMMITTEE on the
teaching of English, of which Professor
R. w. Cooper of Hamline is chairman.
This committe has been at work for
two years on its report and it is under
stood that it will have some important
SuSSeSUlOuS 10 3i4 Wdke regarding Gne
teaching Of the mother tongue in the
public schools.
County Superintendent Boraas of
Goodhue county, assisted by some of
the ablest educators in the state, has
been at work for two years on the
problem Of training rural teachers, and
his final report IS to be made at this
meeting. = -zssSF -
This will be the first time in thirteen
years that the association has met in
Minneapolis, and the city teachers and
university faculty are doing, every.
thing in their power to make the meet.
ing such success that this will be
chosen as the regular meeting place.
Wallace G.. Nye Of the Commercial
club is looking after local arrangements
and is keeping in close touch with the
executive committee, consisting of Pro-
fessor A. w. Rankin, president of the
association, and Superintendent W. e..
Kunze Of Red Wing, corresponding
secretary. .,- -