Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-02
Meeting IN Chicago

President of State Agricultur
Final arrangements for the 6ftieth
meeting o. the National Education
Association. which Is 20 be held in
Chicago July s TO IL have been an
nounced- TIE meeting begins On Sat
urday morning With the meeting o.
the National Council OF Education,
which Aolds three sessions on TIA,
dsy.
On Monday forenoon the regular
work Of the association begins Six
or eight important departments then
bold their first sessions, with strong
programs and excellent <.-eakers. In
the afternoon the first general -.
sion of the association ID held in the
auditorium theater. In the evening
all the educational organizations OF
Chicago hare united - give a IeSap-
ton at he Art Institute on tn. Iaxe
front
The general seesio. OF Aoadsy al
ternooa includes four addresses in re-
cognition of the fac; that the meet
ing then opened = the dftieth The
first of these addresses will be BY
Thomas w. Bicknell. of Providence.
r. l., who was president Of the asso-
citation in 1884. at the time of its first
great meeting. This program will al
so include a discussion OF the Ideals
OF Hal ia Century; the Monuments;
the Achievements Of Fifty years. BY
Superintendent Greenwood, Of Kan
sas City. and a Look Toward the Com
ing Half Century, by Miss Ellen C..
Sabin of Milwaukee, owner college.
The program Tuesday morning will
have for its topic the American High
School; its Relations to the Schools
Below will be discussed by Walter R.
Siders, Superintendent of Schools,
Pocatello, Idaho; Mortality in the
Ealy Years and Some Administrative
Remedies Therefor, will be presented
by Miss Adelaide Steel Baylor, as
sistant in the Office Of the State Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction;
the Specialized or Vocational vs.. the
omposite High School, VIII be dis
cussed by Superintendent Arthur D.
Call of the Henry Barnard School,
Hartford, Conn. Superintendent Mil
ton e. Potter, until recently OF Pueblo.
Colo, and just elected superintendent
Of Schools in st. Paul, will speak on
the Social Activities and Organi1a-
ton OF the High school. Mrs. Kate
Epson Clark, Of Brooklyn, N. T., will
speak on WHAT the Public May Expect
in Dividends, Material, Civic. Social
and Professor William Hughes Mearns
of the School of Pedagogy. Philadel-
plla, will speak OF the Worship OF
he Standards. These six topics all
present vital phases of the high-school
problem, which is today n of the
most pressing problems in our edu-
cational system.
On Tuesday evening, July 8, the top
ic is a National University. An at
tempt has been made in the past to
commit the National Education As
ISOLATION against the idea of a Ma
tional University. Various influences
which do not desire to see the nation
interesting itself in this way in the
higher education of its young men
and women have more than once at
tempted to get an adverse pronounce
ment. This year the National Uni
versity has the floor. Various phases
of the question will be discussed by
President Edmund ]. James of the
University Of Illinois; President Chas.
r. Van Hise of the University Of Wis
consin; President James H. Baker
of the University Of Colorado. and
President William o. Thompson Of
the Ohio State University.
On Wednesday evening the new and
tremendously vital movement which
is enlisting our public educational
system in providing wider educational
opportunity for the young people and
the older people OF our communities
will receive the attention of the con-
vention; the topic for discussion is
announced to be "The Relation of the
Public Schools to the Movement for
Recreational, Social and Civic Oppor-
tunity." The sub topics under this
include: The Schoolhouse as a So
cial and Civic center, by Hon. Frank
P. Walsh. Kansas City; How a Com
munity May Find Out and Plan for
It's Re~creational Needs, by Rowland
Haynes, Field Representative of Play
ground and Recreation Association Of
America; the Relation Of School
house Architecture to the Social Cen
ter Movement, by Dwight H. Perkins,
of Chicago; the Relations Of the Pub
lie Library, the Public School and the
Social Center Movement, by Arthur
E. Bostwick, Public Librarian OF st.
the Organization and Admins
tration OF Recreation and Social Cen
ter Work, by Erich c. Stern, Member
of the Wisconsin Legislature; the
School as a Recreation Center, by
Jane Adams, Head Resident Of Hull
unuco. and fho Cnnia1 Cantor and fho