The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
TEACHERS At San FRANCISCO
READY FOR CONVENTION OF
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
National Council Session Opens tho
notwithstanding Educators
Of Country in Attendance.

San Francisco, July S.-Acting as a
forerunner of the forty-ninth annual
convention of the National Educa
ton association, which will formally
be opened Monday, the annual meet.
ing OF the national council of the or
ganization was held here today. Re.
ports OF officers and committees were
| made and the arrangements for the
convention were surveyed and ap-
proved. The evening session will be
devoted to all address by Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
University, New York.
Judging from the completeness and
wide scope of the preparations that
have been made by educators through
out the country for the congress Of
the society, it will be one of the most
notable and resnlt1ul meetings in the
history of the cooperate educational
movement. Upwards of 5000 men,
bers of the ASSOCIATION have already
arrived in the city, many of them
coming in today It is expected that
more than $4,000 will attend the first
general session on Monday, which will
be held in the great open-air Greek
theater at Berkeley !.
During the five days of the conven-
ton, which comes to a close on Fri
day, almost every conceivable topic
that could come within the general
subject of education will be discussed
by the foremost teachers and scholars
of the nation. The meeting will be
formally opened Monday with ad-
dresses of welcome by Governor John
son of California, Mayor Mccarthy Of
San Francisco and President Benja-
min 1de Wheeler of the University of
California. William Pringle, chair
man of the California committee in
charge of arrangements, who will pre-
side at the meeting, will introduce
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, president of
the National Education Association.
DR.. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United
States commissioner of education, wilt
respond to the welcoming addresses.
"The Relation of Education to Tenn,
perance," by Dr. David Starr Jordan,
president of Leland Stanford univers,
ity, will be the first technical dis,
course of the convention. An address
by Helen Marsh Wilson, state super,
intendent of public instruction in
Colorado, will conclude the opening
meeting.
Speakers at the other general ses-
sion will include President James II.
Baker of the University of Colorado;
President Robert J. Alley of the Uni
versity of Maine; Grace G. Strachan,
of schools, New York
City,. Chancellor Samuel Avery of the
University Of Nebraska; Robert Lee
Jones, state superintendent OF public
instruction of Tennessee; katherine
Devereux Blake, principal of the pub
lie schools of New York City, and
Francis G. Blair, state superintendent
Of public instruction of Illinois.
The "round table" and departmental
meetings will begin Monday after
noon and continue through the five
lays of the convention. Many noted
educators will participate in these
which form the real work Of
he convention. Il
The entertainment program mapped
out for the visitors is pretentious, and
includes visit on Tuesday to the
Preside reservation and Fort Win
ield Scott, where special band con-
,erts and a dress parade and drill
will be given in their honor. The re-
,eption to President Ella Flagg Young
will be at the pavilion rink Monday
Special excursions have
oeen arranged for the leisure hours
If the delegates to the University of
California, Oakland, Mills College,