A age © x N2e2- OCT 8 4515 N.E.A. BULLETIN September 1915 Whole Number 16 Vol. TV, No. 1 Entered as second-class matter March 22, 1913, at the post-office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Published September, December, January, February, April and June, by the National Education Association of the United States. Office of publication, Ans Arbor, Michigan. — DEPARTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENCE, DETROIT, MICH., FEB, 21-26, 1916 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE espa oe STATES OFFICERS FOR 1915-16 GENERAL ASSOCIATION CIEINOTD 6 6. op dn soc e ees cacccaces DONS i o.c.0s sabes Secu ee on Rock Hill, S. C. REO OTINGET.... 2.2.55. e ce eee PIII san Sse 'w ain oa icin dog eae Ann Arbor, Mich. SSS. TEE MUN io a Snes wesc bans Boise, Idaho VICE-PRESIDENTS David Starr Jordan, Chancellor, Leland Stanford Jr. University.......... Stanford University, Cal. IS MORMON. 6 28 65 oun se 05s We nnsacpaevasbenscevsceecanes Kansas City, Mo. Mary C. C. Bradford, State Superintendent of Public Instruction......... Denver, Colo. Sumer moner, superintendent of Schools .............ccccsccecucceecs Phoenix, Ariz. John E. Bray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction................ Carson City, Nev. . Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction..... Olympia, Wash. ewanter &. Siders, Superintendent of Schools.............c.cccceccecccece Pocatello, Idaho W. N. Sheats, State Superintendent of Public Instruction................ Tallahassee, Fla. Mason S. Stone, State Superintendent of Education..................... Montpelier, Vt. ]. George Becht, Executive Secretary, State Board of Education......... Harrisburg, Pa. Frank L. Crone, Director, Bureau of Education, Department of Public ED gis v3 og phiecd bbe wce be <«sb.5 4 kbaae & ee eR ae sk done Manila, P. I. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Carroll G. Pearse, Chairman............. Pirwaetes, Wis... .. ..ccwsswes Term expires in 1918 james ¥. Joyner, Secretary.............. | iy ie eee Term expires in 1916 SS Se St, PR, MM iv anss.ceekeans Term expires in 1917 SE ee ORE. NO ais n de SP KC aes Term expires in 1919 NN er ae Oe kW wavs en wane ee Ex officio EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ee NE a eR Bley Rock Hill, S. C. ES I First Vice-President .......... Stanford University, Cal. eee ar RUORONED. is 25.4.4 ccwakt W. S. Taylor, Associate Professor of Agricultural Education, University of Texas...........2002ed Austin, Tex. Classroom Teachers President .......----+-- Mary E. Adkisson, Teacher, Public Schools......... Denver, Colo. Vice-President .......-- [Isabel A. Ennis, President, Class Teachers Organiza- SOD GE SE, in 6's SR ca Thee adda etees bo New York, N. Y. Secretary .-------++++-- Mary V. Donoghue, Sixth Grade Teacher, Stewart a Ae ere Ae a re . ss... Chicago, Il. NOTES We still have some of the advance reprints of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence held at Cincinnati last February which may be obtained by remitting twenty-five cents for each copy desired. For the first time in the history of the Association, New York City extended an invitation for a summer meeting. The vote of the Board of Directors seemed to indicate that they appreciated this awakening on the part of New York. The Oakland Volume of Proceedings will be unusually valuable by reason of the large number of papers presented by foreign delegates. Persons other than members who desire to order volumes should do so as early as possible, as we expect a larger demand for the same than we ordinarily have. This year our meeting was six weeks later than usual and, owing to the length of the sessions, the volume of Proceedings will be larger than it has been for the past two years, so that members need not expect the Proceedings to be delivered before February. We appreciate the efforts which some of our active members have put forth to increase the active membership list. If you believe that the Association is doing a good work, do not be afraid to tell some teacher who is not a member. The names and addresses of prospective members are always welcomed by the Secretary. Discussion with regard to the prospective change in form of printing the Proceedings continues with the result that the Secretary has been authorized to send out to each of the members in connection with the statement for dues a request that the members in remitting indicate their preference for the magazine form or the volume form, either of which would be supplied at the regular two dollar membership fee or for an additional dollar both could be secured. If a record had been kept at Oakland for the purpose of determining the best speaking averages, President Jordan and Commissioner Claxton would* have been far in the lead, and for the first time in several sessions the United States Com- misisoner of Education would have come out second best. During the two weeks’ session, President Jordan appeared publicly twenty-four times and established a record which it will be hard to beat. During the same period he was called upon for probably a dozen addresses in connection with congresses held in San Francisco and Palo Alto. The National Association of Executive and Administrative Women in Educa- tion was organized in Oakland on August 23. Its name indicates its purpose, namely, to unify the activities of the women’s executive and administrative educa- tional interests. It is proposed to hold the meetings in connection with the National Education Association. The officers elected for this year are: President, Lucy K. Cole, Seattle, Wash.; Vice-President, Agnes Howe, San Jose, Cal.; Secre- tary, Jessie Belton, Puyallup, Wash.; Treasurer, Mary A. Mugan, Fall River, Mass.; Executive Committee: Anne W. O’Niell, Chickasha, Okla:; Lillian Tingle, Port- land, Ore.; Carrie Dicken, Ann Arbor, Mich. 6 T2.EN BE A BULLETIN ee An experiment was tried this year of holding the summer meeting at the cloge ——— i fl of the summer schools. For some years, the claim has been made that it waz | impossible for a large number of our members to be present at the meetings whey | held in July owing to the fact that they were engaged in summer school wor, | The experiment of changing the time was not a failure. Neither can it be eop. sidered a success, however, in attracting many of the teachers who were engaged in summer schools. After a careful consideration of the matter, the Board of Directors decided to return to the early part of July as the meeting time for next year. FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION The Ffty-third Annual Convention of the National Education Association par. took of the nature of an International Congress on Education and was held at Oakland, Cal., August 16 to 27, 1915. It has been impossible to prepare a registration record in the time since the close of the convention. We are sure that the registered attendance was larger | than at St. Paul a year ago. The actual attendance was considerably in excess of the registered attend- ance. The local hall conditions to- gether with the counter attraction of the Panama-Pacific Internatiop- al Exposition made it necessary for us to waive the usual rule of re stricting attendance to members, in connection with the Exposition had been to open their doors to the public and the Association would have been subjected to considerable criticism if it had not followed this custom. However, the fact that the meetings were opened to the public made it possible for a large number of teachers who did not have the proper professional spirit, to take advantage of the benefits of the Congress without registering DAVID staen JORDAN have registered if our usual policy had been followed, but many of them would. In a conference with the representatives of the transportation lines, it was conceded that we had the largest meeting which had been held thus far and that it was unlikely that any other would anywhere near approach it in size. Twelve general meetings of the International Congress on Education were held and fifty-four meetings of the departmental congresses. Twenty different organizations held forty-nine different meetings during the two weeks. While we have not been able to make exact checkings with regard to the program, it is prob able that over five hundred different persons appeared on the programs of these various meetings. In spite of war conditions, thirty-one different countries were represented by officially accredited delegates or speakers, so that the meeting was more truly international in character than those held at Chicago or St. Louis ee The policy of all Congresses held | ee as members. Not all of them would | 3 vie mo wh pul det wer we ove at | aph To: side com for : mitt amo Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Com Exec ture: first You Eng! Teac for 1 the « for i conc publ: whic com: to bi carri a et of at he er he ly ld le ere ent we ob- ere 5 F onkeg tae eg ne mas Se Ae OE ETE LATTE ae Tessa hk. BRA BULLE EBT EN 7 ——_————OOe—e—e—e—e—e—e—e_e—=ee——e—e=eaeEeEeES={—_m—_—=EaEeEeEeEeyy——_Qq@q@qaryErEreeeeeeeeeyy eS These foreign representatives were seemingly as anxious to secure the American viewpoint on educational problems as they were to give us theirs. Oakland and California were extremely hospitable and social activities were more numerous than at ordinary meetings. The fear had been expressed that while large numbers of teachers would go to California they would go for the purpose of seeing the fair and would not attend the meetings of the Association. The facts fully disproved that theory. Not in five years have the general or departmental sessions of the Association been better attended than during the first week of this year. It is true that the attendance upon the meetings the second week was not as large by 50 per cent as the attendance the first week and yet on the second Thursday the attendance in the various departmental Congresses totaled over three thousand. ANNUAL MEETING The annual business meeting of the Association was held in the Theatre of the Civic Auditorium, Oakland, Cal., Thursday, August 19, and was called to order at 11:20 A. M., by Vice-President Joseph Swain. The Executive Committee presented the following report with regard to appropriations and the same was adopted. To the Active Members of the National Education Association :— As required by the By-laws of this Association, your Executive Committee has carefully con- sidered the requests for appropriations which have been presented by the chairmen of the various committees, both general and departmental. The Committee has been unable to recommend the allowance of all the appropriations asked for and in most cases has been obliged to recommend a smaller appropriation for the several com- mittees than was asked for. We feel, however, that the Association can with safety appropriate the amounts named to the following committees to be used by them during the year 1915-1916:— eC POR. ..o56 5 tbs vic kw ee buhaee baduabec cde abe emelnmnll $1,400 i err PSOMeenes: te TORCMO 6 oc i icc ede dicey s cc vwsadawecleccnsevbbsabdedaceee 1,000 Committee on Vocational Education and Vocational Guidance............ 0.0.00. cece ee eens 750 Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education .............. 0c cece ee cee eeeee 400 Suemees On the Improvement of Physics Teaching............ccccecccccsccsscvccvccccece 200 rien’ PPGRIEUND 6.6 6 .0.00sin dn svicices cnc tedc¥dde eter asbebedstaserdiues 200 Committee on Economy of Time in Elementary Education ................00cceeeeceeeees 150 Committees from the Library Department, 5 in number, $25 each...............0-eeceeeees 125 Committee on Tests and Standards of Efficiency in Schools and School Systems............. 100 Committees from Department of School Patrons, 2 in number, $25 each .............--22005 50 Committee on the Culture Element and Economy of Time in Education.................... 50 Committee on Research, Standardization, and Correlation, Department of Business Education 50 Committee on Classification and Terminology of the Exceptional Child..................4.. 15 In making these appropriations, your Committee recommends that authority be given to the Executive Committee for next year to assume temporary responsibility in deciding which expendi- tures are most important in the work of these various committees and which expenditures shall be first authorized, if in any case it shall be impracticable for all such expenditures to be allowed. Your Committee also recommends that requests from the Committee on Uniform Nomenclature in English Grammar, the Committee on Standards That Are Agreed upon in the Proper Making of Teachers, and from the Committee on a National University be referred to the Executive Committee for next year for such appropriations as may be warranted by the necessities of the committees and the condition of the finances of the Association. A second report was presented by the Executive Committee as follows:— Your Executive Committee, to whom is entrusted the responsibility for suggesting subjects for investigation by committees, would respectfully report that it received a communicaion from the American Society for Thrift, asking that a committee be appointed to investigate the thrift problem concerning America and report upon methods by which the subject of thrift may be taught in our public schools. It also received a communication from S. W. Straus, President of the Society for Thrift, in which he agreed to personally defray the expenses that would be incurred in the work of this committee. He also offered three cash prizes in amounts of $750.00, $250.00, and $100.00, which were to be awarded by the National Education Association for essays on this subject, the contest to be carried on under conditions named by the Association. 8 THRBN EBA BULLETIN ———_ Se —_ We, therefore, recommend that a committee be appointed to be known as Committee on Thrift Education. At a meeting of the Board of Directors held on Monday, August 16, the directors recommended favorable action on this suggestion. Since that time, the suggestion has come that it would be well to have this committee, if authoried by you, report to the National Council of Education as one of its committees. The report was adopted. The report of the Board of Trustees was presented by the Chairman, Carro}} G. Pearse, of Milwaukee, Wis. The Principal Account is the same as a year ago, having a cash balance of $2,897.50, and investments totaling $185,102.50. The Income Account showed receipts of $7,670.64, of which amount $7,434.56 had been transferred to the Treasurer of the Association for current expenses, Grace M. Shepherd, of Idaho, presented the report of the Treasurer, which showed that while a year ago the cash balance was $148.70, it is now $2,616.17. A synopsis of the report is as follows: Receipts I MS a a a OG GiL'R k alW.8 0 © 9 4:8 od clan ed $ 148.70 Convention Receipts and Advance Enrolment........... 13,544.00 Department of Superintendence ....................4.. 2,338.00 ee RDG dd os cis a adn bd coe ome ave 6 mee 12,550.54 Bers Ol POUUNMIOMG PUNE... ww ccc ccc cc ence 7,434.56 ee ee sw eee see siseeanees 568.71 rN ea gl BO a Ua 4 kt o Behe we aw.e ws ares ani Biwitgase Se Rasa Bor Annual Dues, ($2.00) July 1, 191.... to June 30, 191.... $............ indicate years of Associate Membership, if. any. Active Membership will be credited for time of continuous past Associate Mem- bership and names will be published by states in the order of seniority of such continuous membership. If applicant desires to remit for lapses in past Associate Membership, and thus secure the Volume of Proceedings for those years, such payment should accompany this application. NOTE that in signing this application you agree that membership, and the obligation to pay the annual dues, shall continue from year to year unless notice of discontinuance shall be sent to the Secretary before November 1 of the year for Which discontinuance shall apply. * a & oo al National Education Association of the United States b APPLICATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP ‘ i ' Sener Jog Pen pata wk Ride 6 Ae Slew & ee a 191, P | DURAND W. SPRINGER, Secretary N. E. A., Ann Arbor, Mich. V y. Ne a N (Corporate name 2 <7 Lh SEEN RRS See oe epee a : of school, school board, library, club, or organization] 4 as an Institutional Active Member of the N. E. A., with the understanding that the t y institution shall receive the annual Volume of Proceedings and other publications, I including Bulletins and Special Committee Reports, carriage prepaid, and shall « A be enrolled in the membership list, as annually published, with the name of the js chief executive officer and of the librarian or secretary, as desired. 1 yy In consideration of this enrolment the annual membership dues of $2.00 shall | f i be paid each year, reserving the privilege of discontinuing membership by giving | t t notice to the Secretary of the N. E. A. before November 1 of the year for whic) | « such discontinuance is to apply. The Association year extends from July 1 to $ the following June 30 of each year. s " This institution has volumes of proceedings for the following named years | t f Re = ee eke Dilek xia PUMIN bu batethn o:a.0 4.o.0d0sa ss 0550s akc | t or orders volumes of proceedings for the following named years: 19..... , 19 ‘i . 4 é 4 cine eee a SE EE eT. : i ‘ 4% or* I herewith inclose enrolment fee ($2.00) by. ........... ccc cece eee e ccc ccucees ; (Name and method of remittance) | — Name and address of President or Chief Executive Officer ............ 0.0... cc ceees Name and address of Secretary or Librarian to whom the annual Volume of Pre- ceedings for the institution showld be sent .............cccc ccc ceccccccce avenue NESS Ss eer ae GLE Se Re PONE Oe Te ee ¢ I oA ae yea ee ead wei dikisidid.piel winded 4.06. 40 0.9: ce ( 4 : t oeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeneeeeeeereer eee eeeee eee eee ee eee eeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeee eee eee eee eee eeeee I 1 Cc i 1S ONES ae Ge ee ee t ; : i I Es a a a he Ee are oo Btate ... 206.00 +0 ene ( : *NOTE—No enrolment fee is necessary in case of institutions if volumes for -any two years previous to enrolm@nt are owned, or ordered with this application. or THE NN. BA BULLE Tin 17 a tendents of cities of over one hundred thousand population will send four essays and one additional essay for each additional one hundred thouasnd population. The state superintendent will use any method he desires in determining the pest essays from his state, and will send the ten best essays from his state to our office. We, in turn, will have these essays rated and the prizes awarded accord- ingly. These essays are to be on the general subject of Thrift, the idea being to draw out the children’s ideas on the subject without any suggestion as to methods by which the same should be treated. Essays will be limited to one thousand words. All essays sent to the state superintendent must be in sets of three each and type- written. To the writer of the best essay a prie of one hundred dollars will be awarded; to the writer of the second best, a prize of fifty dollars; to the writers of the third and fourth best, prizes of twenty-five dollars each; to the writers of the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth best, ten dollars each. We realize that this method of handling the contest will cause the superin- tendents, city and county and state, some extra work, but we believe that it will be worth this effort to secure a nation-wide interest among the boys and girls of our public schools in the subject of thrift. The contest will close, so far as the writing of essays is concerned, December 1. The county and city superintendents should fix a time for receiving the essays from the several teachers. It might be well to allow the month of December for that portion of the work. The month of January can be given to the county and city superintendents for their work, all essays to be in the hands of the state superintendents the first of February. The month of February will be given to the state superintendents for their examination, the essays from each state to be sent to this office by the first of March. The month of March will be used by this office for its work, so that announcement concerning the prize winner can be made before the close of any schools. From our experience with the prize essay contest last year on the subject of religious education in the public schools, we are sure that this outline is feasible, and we trust that it will meet with the approval of all the superintendents of the country. In addition to the contest for school children, prizes are offered for the three best essays presented by adults on the subject of Thrift—with an Outline of a Method by which the Principles of Thrift may be Taught in our Public Schools. The first prize will be $750, the second prize $250, and the third prize $100. Persons intending to compete for these prizes should notify the Secretary of the National Education Association of their intention not later than December 1, 1915. The essays must be in the possession of the Seeretary not later than March 1, 1916. The essays must not exceed five thousand words and six typewritten copies must be presented. Further details will be sent to those indicating their intention to take part in the contest. President Robert J. Aley, of the National Council of Education, has appointed the following Committee on Thrift Education: Arthur H. Chamberlain, secretary, California Council of Education, San Fran- cisco, Cal. Robert H. Wilson, state superintendent of public instruction, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. J. A. Bexall, dean, School of Commerce, Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon. John D. Shoop, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, I1l. S. W. Straus, president, American Society for Thrift, Chicago, Ill. SE