Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-21
Programs Issued For Conven-
ton to Be Held During First
Week in January
SESSIONS CONTINUE FOUR DAYS
Places Of Meeting of Different Sections
Arranged = General Sessions to Be
Held in Plymouth Church - List OF
Speakers and Subjects to Be Dis
cussed.
Special to Tlmes-Repupiican.

ers' association, which will meet here
Dec. 81 and Jan. l, and 3, will be
one of the most extensive ever given.
The general association meetings Will
be held in the Plymouth Congregation
al church and the headquarters will be
in the Slavery hotel. Department
meetings will be held in the West
Des Moines, high school.
The annual business meeting will be
held Tuesday evening in 1.-THE club
room Of the Slavery hotel. The pro-
gram will be opened Wednesday morn
ing in the Plymouth Congregational
church. The program is to begin at
$3.50. The program follows:
Wednesday.
$3.50 a. m.-Topic: "A Comparison
of the School System of Iowa With
That Of Canada" Superintendent
Grant e. Finch, Marion.
1880 a. m.-Topic: state Aid to
High Schools" Prof. Forest c. En-
sign, State university, chairman.
%. m.-Invocation, Rev. Frank w.
Hodgdon, pastor of Plymouth Congre-
gational church. Music. Presidents
| annual address, "Our Greatest Need
| County Superintendent f. e. Lark,
Onawa. Address, "Frills and Fads in
Education" Dr. Thomas NJ. Balliatt,
| dean Of school of pedagogy, New York
| university.
Thursday.
a, m.-Address, 1.-The Manual Arts
in the Elementary Schools" illustrated
with materially, DR.. James P. Haney,
superintendent of manual training,
New York public schools. Address,
Public School Music Today and To-
morrow" Mrs. Frances Clark, super
visor of music of the Milwaukee
schools. Address, "rhe Present Status
and Dangers Of Termination in Our
American Educational System" Pres
ident G. Stanley Hall, Clark univers-
ity.
8 D. m.-Address, "The Present
Status of Moral and Religious Educa-
ton" President G. Stanley Hall, Clark
university.
FRIDAY.
9 a. m-"Our Teacher Problem"
State Superintendent ]. F. Riggs. Adj
dress, "The Educational Ladder" DR..
Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United
States commissioner of education,
Washington, D. c.
1:3O-Business meeting Of the edu-
cational council and of general as
ISOLATION.
Round Tables.
Superintendent and principals =
West High school, Wednesday at 1880
Leader, G. H. Carson, Marengo. "Ex-
perrin renting" Grant Finch, Marion
HAS the Product Of Our Schools Reas-
enable Fitness in Scholarship and Per-
sonal Qualities for Citizenship" Ern-
est w. Fellows '"The Selection and
Assignment of Teachers" A. Palmer
Marshalltown. "Some elements OF
Success and Failure in School Admin
| istration," F. w. Else, Oskaloosa
"High School Student Organizations
that Help and Those that Hinder" j. G.
Sanders, West Union.
kindergarten Wednesday, 1880
Leader, Miss Matte Harrison, Sac
City "The Value of Play" Miss
l LOUISE IOu. LES VO1hCS. LIS
cussion by Miss Fannie e. Sanders.
",The Development Of the Kindergar-
ten in Iowa." Miss Florence Ward,
State Normal school.
Intermediate and Grammar Grades
Wednesday, 1:30--Leader, j. o. Nit
chell Blockton. Relation of the
Grammar Grade to the High School"
A. R. McCook, Shell Rock rs Pro-
fessional Training Necessary to the
intermediate Grades?" Miss Margaret
Walker, Des Moines. Importance of
the Assignment of the Lessons" Miss
Mary Davis, Audubon.
County Superintendents-W High
school, Wednesday, 1:30-Lsader, b. j.
Hook, DEBORAH General discussion on
topics suggested by superintendent.
| College Department - Wednesday,
1880, West High school-Leader, Willie
E. Parsons, Parsons college. Presi-
dents address, "Is the Experiment Of
One Degree for all College Courses
Proving Successful Dean Frederick
O. Norton, Drake university. "shall
the Four Year Academy Course be
Adopted?" G. H. Horn, Iowa college.
Honorary Degrees, Should the Dis
tribution of the Same be Checked" %.
A. Jenner, Simpson college. HAS
Specialization Been Overdone in Col
lege Course" Dean A. Marsten, Iowa
State college. HAS the Reasonably
Rigid Four Year Course Been Wisely
Superceded by More Flexible Courses ~
Ward Silver, Parsons college. Glow
We Cheaper Our Colleges; How Shall
We Dignity Our Colleges?" w. c. Will
cox, State university.
English Teachers--West High school
Wednesday, 1:30-W. w. Gist, State
Normal, leader "The Relation Of High
err English to Applied English" Miss
Lillian v. Lambert, Cedar Falls. "What
Can Reasonably Be Expected Of Oul
Schools in Securing Correct English?'
Hon. Johnson Brigham, Des Moines.
] Science Observation-Disclosures $3.50
!, Slavery hotel-Leader, F. e. Goodell
Des Moines. The Essential Equip
ment for Elementary Physics" Frank
f. Amy Iowa college. "a Viewpoint
in Plant Study" Robert w. Wylie
State university. 1.-THE Use of Topo-
graphic Maps in Photography" w. H
Norton, Cornell college.
Latin Teachers--Wednesda West
High school, 1:30--Leader, Charles N
Smiley, Iowa college. "The Latin
Hexameter in the High School" F. c.
Eastman, State university. What
| Constituted Adequate Preparation fol
| Teaching Latin in the High SCHOOL,
| G. w. Bryant, Coe college. The