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NATIONAL
Assembly Of Educators To
Meet In Chicago

Chicago, July 5--Thousands Of edu-
Gators from all parts Of the United
States are already gathered in this
city and many thousands more will ar
rive here before next Monday to at
tend the Fiftieth annual convention Of
the National Education Association,
which will begin tomorrow with three
sessions Of the educational council.
The convention which promises to be
Of especial interest and importance, is
scheduled to continue through next
week, closing with q general session
on Friday evening, July IL.
The Auditorium Hotel and the Con.
gress Hotel have been selected as the
headquarters Of the convention and
the sessions Of the general convention
will be held at the Auditorium Thea.
tre. In addition to the general ses-
sions there will be daily sessions Of
nine Of the principal departments, with
round table conferences, addresses and
by noted experts.
Among the departments which will
hold special meetings are the depart
ments Of Kindergarten education; Of
Elementary education, Normal
Schools, business education, child by.
giene, science instruction, physical
education, special education, school
patrons, rural and agricultural educa.
ton.
Fifty or sixty of the leading church.
es of the city have arranged special
sermons and addresses on education.
al matters for Sunday and have In
vited the delegates to attend services.
The rest of the day will probably be
devoted by most Of the visiting men,
bers to sightseeing tours through the
city on their own account.
The real work of the convention will
begin on Monday. In the morning
there will be a number of department
al meetings and in the afternoon the
first general session Of the convention
will be called to order by President
Carroll G. Pearse of the association,
who will deliver his annual address
after the conclusion of the customary
welcoming speeches. Immediately fol.
lowing the afternoon session the mem.
bers from each State will convene in
places assigned to them to choose
their representatives upon the commit.
tee which will nominate officers for the
coming year.
When the time comes for the elec.
tion Of officers Q stormy session Is ex.
pected in which the "progressives"
will be arrayed against the conserva.
tive or machine faction" The pro-
gressives, led by members Of the In.
terborough Association of Women
Teachers Of New York, will probably
open the fight and will make every ef.
fort to have their candidate for the
presidency, Miss Grace e. Strachan, of
Brooklyn, elected. There has been con.
siderable dissention among the two
factions for the last two or three years
and the feeling has become so strong
that in the opinion Of many members
an attempt of the machine faction"
to overrule the progressive element
may lead to q split between the war
ring factions and Q complete disrup-
ton of the association.
In the course of the sessions many
subjects of great educational import
ance will come up for confederation
and discussion. The subject Of estab-
fishing national university support
ed by, the government will be dis.
cussed by four presidents Of state col
leges, Edmund J. James, of the Uni.
versity of Illinois; Charles R. Van
Hise, OF the University of Wisconsin;
James H. Baker, Of the University Of
Colorado and William o. Thompson,
of the University Of Ohio.
Among the famous educators who
will attend the convention and deliver
addresses are Baroness Bertha Won
Suttner of Vienna, said to have In.
spired the Nobel Peace foundation,
whose annual award of $4,000 she
won by her book, Lay Down Your
Arms" DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, noted
as the leader of the pure food agita.
ton; Jane Adams, head resident Of
Hull House, in this city; DR.. e. j. Rus.
sell, director Of the Rothamsted Elk.
perimental Station of Harpenden, Eng.
land, which has records of crops raised
by various systems for more than fif-
ty years; DR.. F. b. Dresslar, special
list in school hygiene and sanitation in
the United States bureau OF educa-
ton; DR.. David Starr Jordan, presi'
dent of the Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity; DR.. Philander P.Claxton, Unit
ed States commissioner of education.
DR.. Luther Halsey Gulick, director of
the department of child hygiene, Rus
sell Sage Foundation, New York, and
many others.
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