Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-19
EDUCATORS
TO ADDRESS CONVENTION
Ninth Annual Meeting OF Virginia
Educational Conference Opens
Tuesday Night.
1900 DELEGATES EXpECTED
Official Program Lists Among Speak
ers p. +. ClaxtOn, Fairfax Harrison,
q. Alphonso Smith, #. v. Farms
worth and Bruce II. Payne.

Numerous speakers of prominence
will address the sessions of the ninth
annual Virginia Educational Confer
cnce. which will open in the audito-
rum of the John Marshall High
school building on Tuesday evening.
Among the more widely known Of
the speakers will be: Governor Henry
Z. Stuart. T.. T.. Clnxton. United States
Gommlssioncr Of Education; President
rairfaX Harrison. of the Southern
Railway Company; DIR. L. u. Farms
WORTH Teachers College. Columbia
University: President Bruce Il. Payne,
or Peabody College for Teachers,
Nashville. Tenn. and DR.. c. AIphonso
Smith. Of the University of Virginia.
The gathering promises to be one
or the most important educational
meetings ever held in the State The
conference is composed OF four related
parts the largest of which is tho
State Teachers Association. of which
President L II. Russell. of the Fred
ericksburg State Normal School. is
president. and Agar Woolford, OF
Richmond. is secretary. During tho
conference It is expected that fully
300 members OF this organization
viii register. The School Trustees
Association Will bring $50 OF It's menu
her. here. and Its deliberations will
be presided over by ~ E. Clement, of
Chatham.
ci,cers OF the conference of Division
y. -. ~.
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
lion. honorary president; e. c. Glass,
OF bynchburS, superintendent; and
Arthur d. Wright. superintendent of
public schools in Hcnrico County, gee
rotary.
CONFERENCE ISSUES
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
Tho OFFICIAL program Of the sessions
OF tho conference, showing the meet
ings of the various sections, follows:
CONFERENCE OF DIVISION SUPER
INTENDENTS.
1obn Mar.,, ~, Ss,n, "a. sl5 r. II.
N 10. Clement. president. School Trus-
tees ASSOCIATION. presiding; address OF
.@'fshle c %. Hon.George Ainslie address.
stearnes. superintendent of Public In
Struction: address, Hon. Henry c.
Hon p. P.SClaxton, United States Com.
missioner of. Education.
Wrdnrraay; NSyembsr rs. 900 a. NJ.
mittees; County. High SchooisWWhat
Trey Have Vel Done What They Can DO
e; L, SCOTT. Amherst cornty: How
May The Rural Schools BE More Close
~ Related to the Life And Needs OF
The. Educational Value OF Moving
lectures" Principal j. II. saunders,
Wednesday,. November 81. 2.a0 T.. NJ.
Auditorium William r. Fox School
How s, Shall Superintendent. Increase
r. Mccluer, Beuna Vista; "A Long
I Lans rh Nnwb Has Many aT,prn,ngs ana
Faugulef; SELECTING Teachers and
s ,aansen Their Jshnso Ns
Thursday. November 20. II A. VI. Au-
nitoriTm GhaTber Of Commerce Build
hsff ynio Ss ths sirsna
tcndcnt For the Health of the Chill
dren;" discussion.
ditorium Chamber OF Commerce Bulld-
Public sSaool SYSTEM Harris Har,.
hampton:, "'lato's Doctrine of Educa-
ton DIR. e. r. Crook. Randolph Ma
con wornpas College: "a Model Rural
II. r. watkins. Haiifax: ::rhe Legisia-
ture and the schools" Hon. Martin
WILLIAMS m, 3. Penrisburg; Text Books
Ont r. c. stearnes, Richmond. - 49,
VIRGINIA. STATE TEACHERS AssO-
Il. H. Russell. president. Fredericks-
Rlchmond; George w. Guy. treasurer,
"wednesday. November ~. 8,ao a. VI.
Room 2o2-Meeting of the executive
committee.
Auditorium John Marshall High School
Prayer, Rev. II. D. c. MacLnchlan,
Seventh Street Christian Church. Rich
C. Chandler. Richmond: Response for
the association, Mr.. e. T. shewmake.
T address, The sehop Of
Harrison. Esq. president Southern