The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-20
Twenty Ninth Annual Session of Alabama Association Be-
 gins Next Thursday
COMMITTEES ALREADY
 HAVE WORK IN HAND
All Sessions will Be Held in the High School Building and Pupils VIII Be Dismissed Thursday
 and Friday

Next Thursday begins the twenty ninth annual session of the Alaoama Educational association. All over Ala bama the teachers are getting ready for their rush toward Birmingham. It is estimated that the convention VIII bring at least 5000 people to the city. A perfect organization has been com pleted among the local committees and 1t Is believed that the situation VIII pc handled better than ever before. .. Glenn, chairman of the committee on reception, has prepared everything to make the visitors feel they are at home.
 Chairman c. A. Brown, assisted by the committees of the Chamber or Commerce, and Business Mems league, is stil working on the subscription of funds and hopes to finish it up by Tuesday. The committee on hotels and boarding houses has perfect system In hand although most of last years delegates are looking up the homes they occupied before. T. c. Young will be In charge of the committee to meet the trains. E. E. Smith of the com mittee on information R. L. Dimmitt of the committee on halls and meet ing places, and Miss Leta Kitts, of the committee on music. have their plans well in hand. All sessions will be held in the High school building as the High school pupils will be dis missed Thursday and Friday and many will assist in the entertainment Of their guests
 Frl. oso +rsr political organization devoted to pro- noting the educational interests of the white people of Alabama.
 Not least among the many depart ments of the association is the asso- citation of Alabama high school girls, which will carry out a full programme and since the establishment of the the most important of all. Here is the programme of the high school division at the high school museum:
 THURSDAY, MARCH "A, 9:30 A. M.
 1. Annual address of president, w. R. Harrison, superintendent of schools, Union Springs.
 ?. High school problems in Ala bama:
 (a) "Relation of the High School to the Elementary School" P. M Me Neill, principal Coffee county high sch ool, Enterprise.
 (b) Necessary Laboratory Equip ment for High Schools" A. A. Persons, superintendent of schools. Bessemer.
 Co Best Methods of Introducing Az riculture and Allied Branches Into High Schools L. N. Duncan, professor of agriculture, Alabama Polytechnic Tnsti- tute.
 (d) High School Athletics" B. B. Broughton, principal of Madison coun- ty high school, Gurley.
 (e) Some Needed High School Legis- lation." J. H. Foster, Superintendent of sch hools, Tuscaloosa
 Divisions of Association of Alabama High schools, Friday, March 25 390 p. m
 ENGLISH
 (High School, Room 103)
 1. Aims for the High School Course in Literature" F. D. Losey, professor in the. University of Alabama.
 2 My English Course in County High School" Miss Martha Hamil, At more; Miss Isabel Whitaker. Columbia; Miss Lillian Gatllng, Enterprise.
 B. "The Importance of Theme Writing Miss Eleanor Churchill Gibbs, State Nor nal college, Livingston.
 4. Suggestions for Teaching the Clas- sics,'' Miss Floribel Brown, Birmingham; Miss Aline Bright, Mobile.
 B. Round Table-Time assignment and correlation for the teaching of compost tion, history of literature, and the clas sics in the high school.
 MATHEMATICS.
 QIigh School Room 101.)
 l. Reasons for Curtalin4 the Time Usually Devoted to Arithmetic" J. B. Chapman, Bessemer public schools.
 2. "Goemetrical Drawing as an Aid in the Teaching of Geometry R. o. Dykes, Fourth District Agricultural school, Syla- cauga.
 3. "The Necessary Equipment of the Teacher of Mathematical, D. s. Pugh, South Alabama institute, Thomasville.
 f. Some Weak Points in the Teaching of High School Mathematics" c. w. Brock, State Normal college at Living ston.
 . 5'"The Mathematics the College Ex- poets the High School Graduate to Know" Herbert A. Eayre, professor of mathematics, University of Alabama SCIENCE.
 (High school room 113)