The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-05
FULLY 25OO ARE NOW HERE FOR SESSIONS All the Hotels Are Crowded With Educators DEPARTMENT. WORK
 
DEPARTMENT WORK
Exhibits in High School Gymnasium Are Especially Good and Caused Much Favorable Com
 ment Yesterday

The registration of delegates to the Alabama Educational assoclation's meet ing totaled about 25O0 last night and it is very likely that 800 more teachers will arrive today.
 Every hotel in town is completely filled and the boarding houses and private rooming houses are taxed to their ut most to accommodate the hosts of teach CTS who have arrived for the session. The train committee under Chairman Young is meeting every incoming train and the work of establishing the visitors in their different places is taken up at once.
 The High School building was the busy place yesterday and the halls were crowd ed with the throngs. The library of the High School building has been converted into a sort of resting room and com mittee of ladies Is there continually serving coffee and light refreshments. This idea is exceptionally creditable and
 is proving very popular with the visiting teachers.
 The work of registration was carried on with renewed vigor yesterday and there was a long line of people waiting for a chance to register. The basement of the High School building has been given over as a place to register and a special committee is in charge of table in the lobby of the Hotel Hillman where regis tration can also be made. The Hillman has been made the headquarters for the visitinfi people and a number of them were there yesterday
 The exhibits in the gymnasium of the High School building are exceptionally fine and created a vast amount of in- terest yesterday. The exhibit of the rural districts is worthy of special mention as there are some very fine pieces of work there in the way of manual training and domestic science.
 The different departmental sessions were held in various rooms of the high school building yesterday and the visitors took advantage of the chance to meet together and discuss matters In connection with their own departments. These depart mental sessions are proving very popu- lar and the rooms are always crowded.
 The distinct feature of the meeting of the Alabama Association of High Schools yesterday morning was a well prepared paper by Prof. M. T. Fullan of Auburn, who spoke on Some Examples of Stu dent-made Apparatus for Demonstration and Laboratory Work in High School Physics" Among the points that the paper pointed out were: Some say their schedule does not permit putting in enough of this work to make it worth while and others say that their pupils are immature and have not the ground work sufficient to get the proper value from the work By far the greatest number complain of the lack of funds for purchasing equip ment. In answer to these questions Pro- lessor Fullan said "The form of ap- paratus prepared by the students pos sesses a definite pedagogical value and that by being simple 1t directs more at tention to the principal involved than to the apparatus That it is economical and requires a small amount of money in pro- portion to the quantity of the apparatus; that it affords valuable means of corre- lating the work in the manual training and science departments. That the plan is entirely practical and the designs offered may be executed by high school teachers under the direction of the teacher"
 In connection with the speech Professor Fullan had a large amount of apparatus with him and gave in all very fine lec- ture.