Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-11-07
ADDRESS BY PROF. M'FAR-
LAND.
Middlebury College Instructor
Speaks at Harvard.

Speaks at Harvard.
Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 81. - The
18th annual meeting of the New Eng
land Association of Colleges and Pre-
para tory Schools opened this afternoon
in the new lecture hall at Harvard
university. Chancellor Elmer E. Brown
of New York university, Prof. Ray
mond Mcfarland of Middlebury college
and William Orr, deputy commissioner
of education of Massachusetts,, were the
speakers.
A dinner and reception were held this
evening at Harvard Union. Those
down Tor after-dinner speeches the fol-
lowing state superintendent of educa-
ton: Payson Smith of Maine, Henry C.
Morrison of New Hampshire, Mason S.
Stone of Vermont, David Snedden of
Massachusetts, Walter E. Ranger of
Rhode Island and John H. Finley of
New York.
Prof. Mcfarland spoke on present
Fa cilties for the Preparation of Sec
land" He said in part:
"At the beginning of the century de-
partments of education had been or
ganized in six New England colleges,
viz, at Clark university, Harvard,
Brown, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke and
Radcliffe. Within a decade depart
ments have been organized in the Uni.
versity of Maine, Massachusetts, Agri-
cultural college, Middlebury, Simmons,
University of Vermont, Yale, Rhode
Island State college, Bowdoin, Smith,
and Boston university, total of 16 al
the present time.
'These several departments are or.
; gained with teaching staff consisting
of IS professors, four assistant profess
sors, and two instructors Courses ir
education aggregating 116 semester
courses are given in the departments
, in addition, courses in education giver
in other colleges and departmental
courses in special method raise the
total number of courses now available
in New England to 160.
"Bates, Clark college, Dartmouth
and Holy Cross are among the colleges
without departments of education
where courses in education are given
Practice teaching by students is car
ried on at eight institutions. perhaps
: with best results at Brown, Harvard
! and Wellesley. The systematic obser
walton of teaching in elementary anC
, secondary schools is undertaken in l;
institutions.
1.-The number of students in educa
. ton at the several institutions may b,
taken as an index of the activity O.
the individual institutions in education
Brown university leads the other New
England colleges with an enrolmen
of us students in education. Thel
follows Mount Holyoke with 1876
Wellesley with 1913, Middlebury witt
l42, Bates with about 40, Boston uni
e versity with 1879, Harvard with lis
Smith with 1903.
., THE enrolment of students of edu
cation in the above named institution
= embraces about ee-fourths the tota
enrolment in New England colleges
which is about 1900 students. Gradu
ate students constitute about one-sixtl
the total enrolment.
Here again Brown is in the Leaf
T with l16 graduates, out of total o
: 252 graduates scattered among eigh
COLLEGES.
THE distribution of these student
by states gives Massachusetts the Leaf
with S72 students of eduaation. Thel
follow in order Rhode Island with 18S
Vermont with 1877, Maine with IT'S
Connecticut with 80, and New Hamp
shire with "a
what is the probable effect of thi
body of trained teachers on educationa
conditions in the several states? Tn
ratio of students in education to stat
population may serve as basis for es
timating the effect.
Here Vermont leads the other state
by WIDE margin. There is one studen
in education in Vermont for every 100
of its population. In Rhode Island tn
ratio is :2S82; in Massachusetts, 1856
in Maine, l:4l70; in New Hampshire
1:17,94l, and in Connecticut 1:46, az
people.
In the matter of having traine
teachers in secondary schools the pro:
poets are, thus, "a times as good fo
Vermont as for Connecticut.