Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27

The delegates will relax Wednesday
morning and visits to Arlington, Alex
andria and Mount Vernon are planned.
In the afternoon at the Business High
School the delegates will hear discus
sion of physical training In the schools by
Miss Rebecca Stoneroad, director Of spe-
cial physical work in the local schools,
and lecture on Moral Health Through
School Athletics by Rev. Milton Fair
child of Albany, n. Y. At the evening
session at the Shoreham Hotel Mr.. w. V.
Cox, vice president of the District board
of education, will speak on Practical
Financial Problems of School Buildings
and School Administration" Mr.. Louis
c. Wilson, assistant assessor OF the DIS
trict, will discuss The Young Man and
Social Betterment' and DR.. Charles Gill
more Kerley of New York THE Public
School In It's Relation to the Future
Health of the Individual"
An automobile trip around the city,
with visits to public buildings. is sched-
uled for Thursday morning. In the after
noon Capt. James F. Oyster. president OF
the board of education. will make an ad-
dress on Some General Practical Les
sons From the Cleveland School Fire or
the Life and Limb of Our School Chill
dren," and Miss Julia Richman, superin-
tendent of the second and third public
school districts of the city of New York.
will give her ideas of social health In a
school district. Thursday evening the
principal social event of the conference
is scheduled, it being public reception
at the Raleigh Hotel. The reception will
follow an address to the delegates by Rep
resentative j. " Olcott Of New York on
Legislation Affecting the Schools"
Friday a Busy Period.
Friday will be a busy day. During the
morning the delegates will meet in busi-
ness session at the Willard Hotel. At the
afternoon session at the Business High
School Mrs. Wilbur f. Crafts will give
AN Esperanto Health Talk and Wini-
fred Sackville Stoner, who is only five
years Of age, a recitation in Esperanto on
the anti-tubercufusis crusade. The clos
ing feature will be an address by DR..
Walter Steward Cornell of Philadelphia
on THE Relation of Physical to Mental
Defects in Public School Children; a
Comparative Study of Average, Back
ward and Atypcal Children. Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey, member of the
beard of education, will speak on Men
tai Health in the Schools Practically Con-
sidered' and DIR. A. Adolphus knopf of
Child and the Teacher at the evening
session at the Willard Hotel.
Saturday morning will be devoted to a
visit to the Juvenile Court. at the after
noon session the delegates Will listen 10
he following addresses: Some Aspects
of Moral Hygienics," by Prof Percival
Chubb of New York: THE Educational
Campaign Against Mental ana Moral Re
tardation" by rrof. Lightner Wilmer OF
the University OF Pennsylvania.
The closing session will be Saturday
evening at 7:3O o'clock at the willard
Hotel. l.. r. klemm of the United States
bureau of education will discuss German
Administrative Methods in Relation to
the Health of Public School Children;
Thomas Darlington, health commissioner
of New York city, will tell of the medical
inspection of school children in that me
tropolis and Dr. w. c. Woodward, the
District health officer, will give the clos
ing address on The Public School and
the Public Health"
The conference Is under the auspices of
the Public Federal Education AsSocia-
ton of the District.
Officers and Committees.
The conference committees and the Off
GERS of the organization are as follows:
Business committee-John Joseph Nc
Mahon, chairman.
Committee on hospitality-Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett, chairman; Mrs. Adds B.
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