Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-20
STATE TEACHERS TO
ATTEND CONVENTION
Gathering Will Be Held In BaIti-
more Next Week
BIG PR0CRAM ARRANGED
Expected That 1900 Instructors From
The Counties Will Be On Hand
For Sessions.

Pretty school teachers by the score
| from the counties will go to Baltimore
next week and will spend three days
there Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day-during which the annual con-
vention of their State Association
will be held. At the convention at
Ocean City in 1916 the promise was
made that their next sessions should
be held in Baltimore and that they
should have full opportunity to pick
| up ideas there in the school line.
During the week school trustees,
school superintendents, supervisors
and other school bodies. including the
State Board of Education, will meet
! there. DR.. M. Bates stephens. Su-
perintendent of Public Education, will
be the pivot around whom the many
activities and discussions of the week
will revolye.
The city and county schools near
Baltimore will hold morning sessions
on these days to allow county teach
ers to visit and inspect classes Some
of the schools will be closed In the
afternoons so that the entire teach
ing force may attend the conferences
and lectures. Many of the visitors
will take occasion to visit historical
and industrial centers of interest
Business headquarters will be at the
Western High School; hotel quarters
at the Rennert.
The convention will open with a
luncheon rendered at the Western
High School on Monday. from / to 2
o'clock TO the county teachers by the
Elementary Teachers Association,
Teachers Literary Club, Educational
Society of Baltimore, Schoolmasters'
Club, Principals Association and
Kindergarten Teachers, all Of Balti-
more.
From to $50 O'Clock Monday and
be held for each elementary grade
and every subject of the high school
course, with teachers being distrib-
uted at the Western High School.
City College, Teachers Training
School and Mccoy Hall. At p M.
the first large general gathering will
be held at the Lyric, with a chorus
by the Training School and addresses
by Mayor Preston, superintendent NJ
Bates Stephens. of the State; Super
intendent Charles j. Koch, of Balti-
more, and the president of the Asso-
citation, Prof Sydney S. Handy, OF St
Johns College Another general
meeting will be held in the Lyric at
8 p NJ, at which Dr. p. p. Claxton.
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation, viii be the speaker. There
will be an exhibition by 100 normal
school girls on Maryland's part in
our national struggles. and music by
the City College Orchestra
On Tuesday morning a conference
will be held on Rural Life Prob
lens and on Wednesday morning one
on Health. Play and Recreation.
At $3.50 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
two large meetings will take place
simultaneously at the Western High
School and Baltimore City College, to
be addressed by DR.. David Snedden
and DR.. Thomas H. Briggs, both OF
Columbia University The evening
session will include an address on
The Professional Spirit OF the
Teacher, by Dr. J. H. Ruediger, OF
George Washington University; an adj
dress on Home Economics, music by
the Polytechnic Orchestra and o
chorus by the Western High School
The general afternoon session on
Wednesday will be addressed by DIR
c. Alphonso Smith, head OF the Eng
list Department, United States Naval
Academy, and by the fraternal dele
gate from the Virginia State Teach
ers' Association. The evening meet
ing will have as speaker DR. Henry
Lewis Smith, President OF Washing
ton and Lee University. There will
also be a chorus by the Eastern High
School and lecture recital by Samuel
MacManus, the Irish poet
Marguerite Clark a great delight in
second "Sub-Deb" story, entitled
"Bab's BurgIaro-CoIonfal Tueedav