Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-21
EDUCATIONAL WEEK" IN
DETROIT BEGINS TO-DAY
ru"c"t"rs From All Parts Of Country
Arriving for Conferences
and Conventions.
PROMINENT MEN ON PROGRAMS
Subsidiary and Allied
BODIES of National Education AS
sociatiou to Have Gatherings.
Social Festivities Arranged.

educators from all parts of the country
"eSah arriving in Detroit to-day for
! 'he week of conferences ana convcn-
ions opening tomorrow. under the
! auspices OF the National Education AS
Soclation. rwenty-onc subsidiary and
Allied bodies of the association are! TO
nave gatherings. much of The work he
ing preliminary 10 the general conven-
non OF the organization in New York
City next July.
The chief meetings of the week will
De held by the department of superin-
| tendance of the National Education AS
soc'ation and the National Council of
fducaiion The former is headed by
NJ. t. Shawkey. State superintendent
VI SCHOOLS in West Virginia. and the
latter by Robert j. Alley, president of
the. University of Maine other or
CARNATIONS, with their presiding Of
iicers, which will take part in the
weeks activities include
conferences on Normal schools. Liv-
'hSSton {. Lord. Charleston tlll)
! state Normal School. chairman: t:duca-
tional Press Associations of America.
John Macdonald. Topeka. Kan. prcsi-
dent: National Society for the study
Oh Education. Randall j. Condor, SUI
perlhlendent Of Cincinnati schools
piesiueht' American school Peace
League. Randall J. Condor Cincinnati
president: Council of State Depart
ments of Education Thomas r. Fine
gan. assistant state commissioner of
New York. chairman. Conferences ON
Rural and Agricultural Educatior,
George y. Works. Cornell University.
chairman: National Federation of Stat,
teachers Associations, Charles s Zoos
Snperi ntendcnt OF Reading (po
schools. president: National Council of
Urinary Education. ELLA V Dobbs
University OF Missouri. chairman: So
c!ety of College Teachers of tducn,ion
Charles II. Judd University of Chicago
president: National Association Of
state Supervisors and inspectors or
Rural schools, Lester s. WINS. Column
b'a University. PRESIDENT: American
home Economies Association, Martha
van RENSSELAER,. Cornell University,
president: Conference Of Teachers of
Educatio ia State Universities y p
'laNton. United States Commissioner
OF Education, president: National Asso.
cation OF Teachers Agencies A. r
fease. Boston, president: Nationo,
council OF Teachers of English. Edwin
VI hopkins. University of Kansas
president; National Vocational Guid-
ahce Associa ton. jesse Il. Davis. Grand
Rapids, Mich. president; School Garden
Association OF America, Van E;vri. XII
patrick. New York City, president; In
ternational Kindergarten Union l,cy
Wheeler, Boston, chairman; Nn,ion:,I
Congress OF Mothers and Parent
teachers Associations. Mrs Fr.d.ric
Schoff, Philadelphia, president: Ma.
iional Association of Executive and
administrative Women In Education
Lucy N. Cole, Seattle, president
DELEGATES ALREADY
HEGIN TO ARRIVE
Registration and assignments to,
hotels and boarding houses occunicd
the managers Of the conventions TO.
day. Because OF the fact that several
-! the organizations will not meet until
Wednesday or later, it was expected
mat this work would continue for
several days
The first of the meetings will h.. held
tomorrow morning. when the Society
of College Teachers of Education a,,j
the Council of State Departments of
Education Will open. The latter viii
conclude it's sessions in the afternoon,
nut the former will extend through
Tuesday morhfrg. The National Eoca-
ilonal Guidance Associate starts to-
morrow afternoon and tn" Nationa!
Society for the Study of Education. th.
American school Peace League and the
National Council of Education begin
their activities in the evening.
Thrift is to be the topic for the
National Council Of Education ~ its
initial session, and nine speakers are
10 discuss il in its relation TO country
liI". industries, health and hygiene
banking, conservation, the homo and
mems organizations, such as labor
unions, commercial associations and
similar bodies. This discussion will be
a scque! to "a public school essay con-
test on Thrift" which closed with
January. Prize winners VIII h" Sc
lectcd from each community, county
and state. and the ten best in each
State will be considered in awarding a
national prize. 1t is estimated that
10000 school children wrote ON the
subject.
The Department OF Superintendent
wii begin its sessions Tuesday even
ing. Nicholas Murray Butler. pr.si-
dent Of Columbia University. has been
announced as the principal speaker.
his subject being, what Is Going on
In the V Grid" The department win
hold meetings up TO Friday evening