Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-04
TEACHERS ENROLL
FOR CONVENTION
Thirty-Two Special Sessions Of State
Teachers to Start Wednesday
Morning
ALL SPEAKERS TO BE ON HAND
office g. open Rt the ROme--MIss
McHuEh IL Not Go ne a CRndi-
date for Reelection
This Year.

Thirty-two meetings will be held In
different parts OF the city at the same
time by the teachers who will attend the
Nebraska State Teachers association
meeting, which opens today. Super
intendent T., L. Graft OF Omaha will have
charge OF the schedule Of these meetings
and will keep the officials of the asso-
citation informed Of proceedings by mes
sengers in automobiles.
Tho 5000 teachers who will attend the
association began TO arrive Tuesday after
noon. The first sectional meetings will
be held in the morning. Omaha schools
will be kept open Wednesday for the
benefit Of the visitors.
Registration Monday reached S7l, with
1854 Council Bluffs teachers enrolled. out
state teachers will be permitted to take
part in all work except balloting.
High school pupils who own or drive
automobiles have placed their machines
at the disposal of the local committee,
which win use them in transporting the
teachers and material to the sectional
meetings.
Omaha school directories will be dis
tributed to the teachers as they arrive
at the depots.
office at the Rome.
President Kate McHugh has secured
office space at the Rome hotel. where
she is meeting with the teachers. She
is not n candidate for reelection. being
disqualified because she is now out of
active school work.
Teachers of Indians on the Genoa res
ervation will attend the meeting for the
first time.
All talent for the general association
meetings will appear. the committee ~hav.
ing been assured that none of them will
be absent.
The local school officials have arranged
to permit visitors TO inspect the work at
the Fort special school for boys, the sew
ing department exhibits at the Central
High school and portable school houses
now being erected.
General Session Today.
The first general session OF the asso-
citation will be held Wednesday evening
at the First Methodist Episcopal church,
Twentieth and Davenport streets. The
program will be.
superintendent A. II. Dixon. Tekamah
Vocal Solo-Mrs. A. I. Root. Omaha.
The Social Purpose of Education in
Iheory and In Practice-Prof. c. ID.
strayer. Teachers college. Columbia.
Vocal Solo-Mrs. A. /. Root. Omaha
some Recent Aspects of Vocational
Education-David Snedden, commissioner
of education, Massachusetts.
Sectional meetings will be held today as
follows:
Boards of Education-2:3O o'clock Mt
Central High school.
Intluence of Environment on Education
H L. Thornburgh, Alexandria.
Discussion.
Vocational Training-Mrs. E. L. Hin
man. Lincoln.
Influence on Schools of the Country
Unit of Taxation-E. c.. Yont, Brock
The Board, the Teacher and the Salary
lluestion--Mrs. A. II. Brooke, Hastings
Board or Education; l. n. Clark super
lntendent, Pawnee City.
Colege-2:3O o'clock, room 235, Central
High school.
What revision of the State Laws Gov
erning the Granting OF Teachers Certi-
ficates is Desirable?- Dean C. L. Ash
craft, York college.
Discussion-Dean Charles Fordyce. Uni
versity of Nebraska
The Proposed National Association of
church Colleges-Chan ,ellor C. A. Full
mer, Wesleyan university.
our intercollegiate Athletics-M C.
Letter, Peru State Normal school.
Bllogical-2:30 clock, room 235 Central
held.