The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-04

Teachers and principals from all over New England will gather Frl- day and Saturday, December and g, at the annual meeting of the New England Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools to be held at the Hotel Statler, Boson, it was announced today by Pro- lessor George s. Miller, Tufts Col lege, secretary of the association. At the same time a number Of educative cooperating associations will hold meetings: New England Junior College Council, Association of Teachers of Mathematics :n New England, New England Asso- citation of Chemistry Teachers, and New England Modern Language Association. The meeting will open at 12 m on Friday with htree luncheons for the official delegates. Dr Kenneth c. M. Stills, president of Bowdoin, will act as host and chairman of those delegates from institutions of higher learning. They will discuss Gains and Losses in Our New England Col leges for the Past Year." Prob lems of Taxation," and Are the Colleges Keeping Pace with the Changing World?" Those from private secondary schools will be under the guidance of William l.. w. Field, headmaster of Milton Academy. These delegates VIII discuss the "Cooperation of Depart ments in Maintaining standards of Written and Spoken English. schools will be presided over bs, rry.ve..a5 IT 9ipoor prippfna1 of Brookline High school. They will listen to Some Aspects of the Ma tional Survey of Secondary Educa- tion'' as presented by Roy O. Bill lett. Specialist in School Admins | tration in the United States Of flee of Education with a discus | sion led by Jesse B. Davis, pro- lessor of secondary education al
 Boston University.
 At 2:45 the business meeting oi
 the association will be held TO,
 report sand election of officers. Al
 three o'clock the address of the afternoon will be given by Di
 Chauncey H. Boucher, Dean at the University of Chicago, who will speak on "Certain Implications in
 Presnt Day Experiments in the Re- lations Between School and Cof- lege". A discussion will be led by N. Horton Batchelder, headmastei l of Loomis Institute, Windsor oCnn, and Thomas J. Abernethy principal of Westfield High school The meeting will be presided over l by William b. Wing, Portland
 president of the association.
 At six o'clock there will be ar
 informal reception for the mem. bers, with committee in charge
 consisting of: Dean Frances l. Knapp, Wellesley College, acting
 as chairman, Miss Clinena l.. Judd
 Smith College; Dr Guy M. Win | slow, Lasell Junior College; VII.
 liam Y. Morrison, Manchester
 (N. H.) Central High school.
 | At six-thirty the annual dinner | will be served for the members in the Georgian room at which the association president, William B | Wing, will preside. The gues speakers will be President James
 B. Conant, Harvard University
 President Hugh F.. Baker, Massa
 chusetts State College; Presiden aBncroft Beatley, Simmons Col llege; and Headmaster M. Fuess Phillips Andover Academy.
 On Saturday morning, Deal
 Boucher of the University of Chi
 cago will act as leader for an in I formal discussion of various mat
 ters pertaining to secondar.
 school problems Concurrently fl
 the morning will take place tn
 meetings of the cooperative asso | ciationG Tha Nav Unsland Col