P/3 N2e2° N.E.A. BULLETIN Vol. IV. No. 2 December 1915 Whole Number 17 Entered as second-class matter March 22, 1913, at the post-office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, gnder 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, NEW YORK CITY, JULY 3-8, 1916 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR 1915-16 GENERAL ASSOCIATION David B. Johnson President Durand W. Springer.................08. Secretary Grace M. Shepherd Treasurer David Starr Jordan, Chancellor, Leland Stanford Jr. Mrs. James M. Greenwood Mary C. C. Bradford, State Superintendent of Public Instruction i | John D. Loper, Superintendent of Schools » John E. Bray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction ’ Walter R. Siders, Superintendent of Schools............ccceceeeeeeecee Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction __W.N. Sheats, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mason S. Stone, State Superintendent of Education Pt J. George Becht, Executive Secretary, State Board of Education Frank L. Crone, Director, Bureau of Education, Department of Public Instruction BOARD OF TRUSTEES » Carroll G. Pearse, Chairman............. Milwaukee, Wis. ' James Y. Joyner, Secretary Raleigh, N. C. Mememes b. Doherty...............-eeeeeee St. Paul, Minn. kk ak bcs ges iveesle des Orono, Me. - David B. Johnson Rock Hill, S. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President First Vice-President : Grace M. Shepherd Treasurer Carroll G. Pearse Chairman Board of Trustees. . George B. Cook.........................Member by Election _ Durand W. Springer Rock Hill, S. C. Ann Arbor, Mich. Boise, Idaho Stanford University; Cal. Kansas City, Mo. Denver, Colo. Phoenix, Ariz. Carson City, Nev. Olympia, Wash. .. Pocatello, Idaho Tallahassee, Fla. Montpelier, Vt. Harrisburg, Pa. Manila, P. I. Term expires i Term expires i Term expires i ..Term expires i Ex officio Rock Hill, S. C. Stanford University, Cal. Boise, Idaho . Milwaukee, Wis. Little Rock, Ark. Ann Arbor, Mich. 2 THE N. EB. A BULLETIN es * BOARD OF DIRECTORS Directors ex officio David B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. Grace M. Shepherd, Boise, Idaho David Starr Jordan, Stanford University, Cal. Carroll G. Pearse, Milwaukee, Wis. Durand W. Springer, Ann Arbor, Mich. LIFE DIRECTORS Bicknell, Thomas W., Providence, R. I. Jordan, David Starr, Stanford University, Cal, Board of Education, Nashville, Tenn. Joyuer, James Y., Releigh, N. C. Brown, Elmer Ellsworth, New York, N. Y. Marshall, T. Marcellus, Stouts Mills, W. Va. Butler, Nicholas Murray, New York, N. Y. Maxwell, William H., New York, N. Y, Claxton, P. P., Washington, D. C. Parker, Charles I., Chicago, II. Cook, John W., De Kalb, IIl. Pearse, Carroll G., Milwaukee, Wis. Cooley, Edwin G., Chicago, IIl. Schaeffer, Nathan C., Harrisburg, Pa. Corson, Oscar T., Columbus, Ohio Skinner, Charles R., Watertown, N. Y. Eliot, Charles W., Cambridge, Mass. State Teachers Association of Illinois Fairchild, E. T., Durham, N. H. Swain, Joseph, Swarthmore, Pa. Gove, Aaron, Denver, Colo. Taylor, A. R., Decatur, III. Graham, H. A., Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Teachers Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Green, James M., Trenton, N. J. White, Charles G., Lake Linden, Mich. Harvey, Lorenzo D., Menominee, Wis. Young, Ella Flagg, Chicago, Il. Jewett, A. V., Abilene, Kans. DIRECTORS BY ELECTION MOINS SN6 so ondas W. H. Feagin, State Superintendent of Education....... Montgomery OU iia 0-<-0.0- 32008 Cc. O. Case, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. . Phoenix ELE Pe Geo. B. Cook, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Little Rock California .......... Susan W. Dorsey, Assistant Superintendent of Schools..Ios Angeles ON Cb os as wewe sd Anna L.. Force, Principal, Columbian School............ Denver Connecticut .../.... Frank LL. Glynn, Director, Trade Education Department, ) Boardman Apprentice Shops ...........eee00. +....New Haven On ge See A. Henry Berlin, Principal of High School .......... Wilmington District of Columbia. E. I. Thurston, Superintendent of Schools............. Washington RG ie Lise bom,» 0545 George M. Lynch, State Supervisor of Rural Schools.... Gainesville rere M. L,. Brittain, State Superintendent of Education....../ Atlanta PD cc untvtee dade ce bekaans eee talss eee beenemna Nashville .R. J. Tighe, Superintendent of Schools................. El Paso .Christian N.. Jensen, President, Brigham Young College. Logan Guy Potter Benton, President, University of Vermont... Burlington Frances S. Williams, President, State Primary Teachers PENNO «ci ond dewkhpasacseddcadce hoe kee cet cen Lynchburg Elmer L. Cave, Superintendent of Schools.............. 3ellingham M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools........ Charleston Nellie Minehan, Vice-Principal, Seventh District School. Milwaukee C. A. Duniway, President, University 6f Wyoming...... Laramie I.. D. Henderson, Superintendent of Schools............ Junean Vaughan MacCaughey, Professor, College of Hawaii.... Honolulu .Frank LL. Crone, Director of Education..........cccceece Manila Ralph §S. Garwood, Dean, College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, University of Porto Cico.......... Mayaguez DEPARTMENT OFFICERS National Council ...- Robert J. Aley, President, University of Maine...... Orono, Me. ...Augustus S. Downing, First Assistant Commissioner OE TORN in nie wis saa hin Sorgen wdc akabeewai Albany, N. Y. ... William B. Owen, Principal, Chicago Normal School. Chicago, IN. David B. Johnson, President, Winthrop Normal and ee RS | a eee ee we Rock Hill, S. C. ...A. J. Matthews, President, Normal School of Arizona. Tempe, Ariz. .Ellen C. Sabin, President, Milwaukee-Downer College. Milwaukee, Wis. Kindergarten .Mary B. Fox, Director of Kindergarten Department, Waaretaity. Of TRG. cddee den sb sdecnsecakemass Salt Lake City, Utah ... Ella C. Elder, Supervisor of Kindergartens.......... Buffalo, N. Y. .Fanny A. Smith, 863 Lafayette Street.............. Bridgeport, Conn. Elementary -Ada Van Stone Harris, Director of Elementary Prac- tice Teaching, Public Schools.............+....- Pittsburgh, Pa. ... Bertha M. McConkey, Assistant Superintendent of ee, EEE See re ee ny ee ee Springfield, Mass. . Marie Turner Harvey, Teacher, Porter Rural School, PIR Zt ante nkcch ache 6 eA Dans CRM oe Ae Kirksville, Mo. Secondary Edward Rynearson, Principal, Fifth Avenue High WOE: 63.68 beers sb an agAeane isdwhed de dkeake Pittsburgh, Pa. ...Emma J. Breck, Head of English Department, The SPONGE [COMIN 3... ss 0s sors Cds eae ween kee Oakland, Cal. ...Walter J. Beggs, Teacher of Latin, Johnson High TT Le TE Te eT To ee oe . Paul, Minn. ...Ellwood P. Cubberley, Professor of Education, Le- land Stanford Jr. University ............-..000 Stanford Univ., Cal. ...Sidney E. Mezes, President, College of the City of PIO EOE. ke cone Saaik ssa ceaaahaee eee ee Me ...John E. Rouse, Head of School of Education, James BEE TROT 5 oon sok Wha Rees eG . Decatur, Ill. Normal ... Livingston C. Lord, President, State Normal School.. Charleston, Il. ...George H. Black, President, State Normal School... Lewiston, Idaho ...Dimon H. Roberts, Superintendent of Training De- partment, State Normal College................ Ypsilanti, Mich. 4 THE N. EB. A BULLETIN ee Superintendence President ....cccc0. ..-.M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools....Charleston, W. Va, First Vice-President .... Lawton B. Evans, Superintendent of Schools Augusta, Ga. Second Vice-President .. Lucy Wheelock, Principal, Kindergarten Training School Boston, Mass. Saginaw, Mich. Vocational Education and Practical Arts President Frank A. Parsons, President, New York City School of Fine and Approved Arts New York, N. Y, Vice-President ..A. H. Chamberlain, Secretary, California Council of Education San Francisco, Cal, Vice-President Leonard William Wahlstorm, Head of Manual Train- ing Department, Parker School. Chicago, III. Corresponding Secretary.Florence E. Ellis, Art Director, American Crayon ee re ee diutkaddihs 6400 be dD ....Sandusky, Ohio’ Music President Hollis E. Dann, Professor of Music, Head of Depart- ment of Music, Cornell University Ithaca, N. Y. Vice-President Secretary Constance Barlow-Smith, Assistant Professor of School Music, School of Music, University of DE Act h aah bina ee6 ca alk eed beeeee see tenes Urbana, IIl. Business eee eee re J. L.. Holtsclaw, Director, High School of Commerce. Detroit, Mich. Vice-President L. Gilbert Dake, Department of Commerce, Manual Training and Commercial High School Oakland, Cal. Secretary Clyde Blanchard, Instructor of Business Economy, Extension Division, University of California Berkeley, Cal. Child Hygiene President Linnaeus N. Hines, Superintendent of Schools Crawfordsville, Ind, Vice-President Lewis M. Terman, Associate Professor of Education, Leland Stanford Jr. University Stanford Wniv., Cal, Secretary. Physical President . E. B. DeGroot, Director, Department of Physical Education, Public Schools San Francisco, Cal. Vice-President Baroness Rose Posse, President, Posse Normal School of Gymnastics Boston, Mass. Secretary May G. Long, Supervisor of Physical Training, Public : NUE 250 Val SUES Gh Ua no’ ails 6Sdle <2 0ese desde va Everett, Wash. ' Science President James E. Peabody, Head of Department of Biology, Morris High Schooi New York, N. Y. Vice-President William Hedrick, McKinley High School Washington, D. C. Secretary John C. Packard Brookline, Mass, School Administration President O. M. Plummer, Director, Board of Education North Portland, Ore, Vice-President George W. Auch, Board of Education Detroit, Mich. Secretary Frank M. Bruce, Business Manager, American School Board Journal Milwaukee, Wis. , Library President Irene Warren, Librarian, University of Chicago....Chicago, IIl. Vice-President Casper Carl Certain, Head of Department of English, Central High School Birmingham, Ala. Secretary Grace D. Rose, Librarian Davenport, Iowa Special President. . Elizabeth E. Farrell, Inspector of Ungraded Classes, Department of Education New York, N. Y. Vice-President Lewis M. Terman, Associate Professor of Education, Leland Stanford Jr. University................. Stanford Univ., Cal. Secretary Frances E. Cheney Springfield, Mass. THE N. E. A BULLETIN 5 ee ea School Patrons President ..---+----+-+- Mrs. Louis Hertz, Council of Jewish Women........ San Francisco, Cal. Vice-President ......... Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Trustee, College for Women, University 06 tthe; Gegttt. »..05.6s0< sacehanes cance St. Louis, Mo. Secretary .--++-+++++eee- Mrs. E. L. Baldwin, State Chairman of the Depart- ment of Gchool Patras. .. 6. 0esescsisssivccscs San Francisco, Cal. Rural and Agricultural President ...---+--+-+0- George A. Works, Professor of Rural Education, Cornell Amit GOGty o.oo a's inn'n's was deedes s canesions Ithaca, N. Y. Vice-President ......... Henry N. Goddard, High School Inspector, State Department of Education .........ceccessesces Madison, Wis. Secretary .-.--++--++-+ee- W. S. Taylor, Associate Professor of Agricultural ‘ Education, University of Texas...........ssee0% Austin, Tex. Classroom Teachers President ..........+44. Mary E. Adkisson, Teacher, East Denver High SchoolDenver, Colo. Vice-President ......... Isabel A. Ennis, President, Class Teachers Organiza- les Ge SIU. 5. 5 x08 40nd ss cde teenie New York, N. Y. Secretary ..-.---+--+--- Mary V. Donoghue, Sixth Grade Teacher, Stewart Geel: * Boia so ca Se chiie db des Cee Chicago, Il. NOTES The attention of every superintendent of schools, city, county, or state, is called to the revised announcement in this Bulletin conc@érning the Thrift Essay Contest. A number of requests were received asking that the time be extended and the dates as revised are the ones used in this announcement. Essays may be written during the months of December and January. Members of the Association who desire to make advance reservations for the Detroit meeting, and have not done so already, will find it to their advantage to correspond directly with Assistant Superintendent of Schools Frank Cody, chairman of the local Committee on Arrangements. Several of the hotels are already filled and you will save time and secure better accommodations by cor- responding directly with him. The hotel . ‘uation in Detroit is such that every- body will be accommodated and accommodated in a satisfactory manner. The copy for the monograph on “The Place of Religion in Education” has gone to the printer and the monograph will be ready for delivery the latter part of the month. It will contain the five essays chosen by the judges as being the best and a synopsis of the other essays presented, together with a bibliography including all the references given by the several writers. We believe that this monograph will be the most valuable contribution to this subject which has been presented. It will contain about 120 pages and will be sold at thirty cents a copy. Orders may be sent to the Secretary at any time to be filled as soon as possible. We were recently asked who of the active members of the Association had maintained membership for the longest time. In looking up the records, we found that twelve of our members have maintained a membership for at least forty years. In the order of date of joining, they are: James Cruikshank, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1857; John F. Eberhardt, Chicago, Ill., 1864; Thomas W. Bick- nell, Providence, R. I., 1865; Sarah A. Stewart, Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J., 1869; Charles W. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass., 1870; Langdon S. Thompson, Jersey City, N. J., 1870; George M. Philips, West Chester, Pa., 1870; William H. Cole, Sabina, Ohio, 1870; L. E. Holden, Cleveland, Ohio, 1870; Delia L. Williams, Delaware, Ohio, 1870; James.B. Merwin, Middlefield, Conn., 1871; Fayette L. Cook, Spear- fish, S. D., 1875. Of this roll, all but Messrs. Philips and Cook are classified as life members. Mr. Philips is principal of the State Normal School at West Chester and Mr. Cook is president of the South Dakota State Normal School at Spearfish. a 6 THE N. BE. A BULLETIN ———SSS 1916 ANNUAL MEETING President David B. Johnson, Carroll G. Pearse, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, George B. Cook, member of the Executive Committee, and D. yw, Springer, Secretary, met in New York City on November 1 for the purpose of considering the invitation to hold the meeting next summer in New York. This matter had been referred to the Executive Committee by the Board of Directors at the Oakland meeting. During that meeting they were in conference with Tep- resentatives of the educational interests of the city and state, as well as with representatives from the civic and business interests of New York City. The general plan submitted by the New York people being satisfactory, it was decided | to hold the 1916 meeting in that city from July 3 to July 8. The New York teachers have adopted as their slogan “The Largest Meeting in the History of the N. E. A.,” and they are perfecting arrangements to do their part to make it such. Thomas E. Finegan, representing the state department, Andrew Edson, representing the city school system, and Elmer E. Brown, repre. senting the other educational interests, were appointed a committee with author. ity to name all committees that would be needed in connection with the meeting, They have already met_twice and their plans are well under way. To show their interest, Columbia University and New York University have both agreed to postpone the opening date of their summer schools to July 10, altho they will register on July 8. The other summer schools in the Kast have under consider. ation a similar postponement and we are sure that in some cases it will be ar- | ranged. There are forty-seven educational organizations in the city of New York, and at a meeting recently called representatives of thirty-nine were ip conference with Mr. Finegan concerning ways in which they could assist. The present plans are to hold the large meetings in Madison Square Garden provided the experiments which will be made with sounding boards prove satis- factory. Three hotels will be used as headquarters—the Astor House will be the headquarters for New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; the Waldorf-Astoria will be the headquarters for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennesee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana; and the McAlpin will be head- quarters for the other states. In general this gives the Astor House to New York and the states to the north, the Waldorf-Astoria to the states from New York south thru the southeastern territory, and leaves the balance to the McAlpin. Unusually good hotel rates are being secured and everybody will be provided with such accommodations as are desired. When the Executive Committee held its meeting in New York for the purpose of examining the local arrangements in connection with our meeting next summer, the question was asked as to the percentage of teachers in the several states where the convention had recently been held who had taken out membership in the Association as the result of the advance membership canvass. An examin- ation of the records since the Boston meeting in 1903 shows the following results: At that meeting, Massachusetts enrolled approximately 50 per cent of its entire teaching force. In 1904, the meeting was held in St. Louis in connection with the Fair, and but 15 per cent of the teachers in Missouri enrolled. In 1905, the meeting. was held at Asbury Park, but in reality it was a New York meeting, Superintendent Maxwell being President of the Association. About 11 per cent of the New Jersey teachers were enrolled and New York contributed a membership of over eight thousand. In 1906, no session was held, but in 1907, with the meeting at Los Angeles, California enrolled approximately 50 per cent of its Ae ae SS aa eee ET os in | on sitt are the app it i awe call of |] viev aa TF FF Oe ~~ a4. eee a. 2 l —- eo + & es. = er =a = THE N. BE. A BULLETIN 7 Ne ——— teaching force. In 1908, at Cleveland, 22 per cent of the teaching force of Ohio was enrolled. In 1909, at Denver, 60 per cent of the Colorado teachers took out memberships. In 1910, at Boston, 34 per cent of the Massachusetts teachers were enrolled. In 1911, at San Francisco, California again gave an enrolment of 50 per cent of its teaching force. In 1912, at Chicago, Illinois was represented by practically 27 per cent of its teachers. The 1913 meeting was held at Salt Lake City and broke all records, the enrolment from Utah being 110 per cent of its teaching population. In 1914, at St. Paul, Minnesota was represented by 25 per cent of its teaching force, and the 1915 meeting, held at Oakland, enrolled 34 per cent of the teachers of California. It is easy to see that when for the first time in the history of the Association, the meeting will be held in New York City, and when for the first time since special efforts have been made to secure a large advance enrolment the meeting will be held in New York state, if New York attains the same ratio that the other states have maintained in the matter of advance enrolments, the 1916 meeting is bound to be a record breaker so far as membership is concerrfed. AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SUGGESTION Ferdinand Buisson, delegate from France to the International Congress on Education, has sent letters similar to the following to many of the institutions in this country which were represented at Oakland: “Will you allow the delegate of France to the Oakland Educational Congress, on his return from the States, to submit to you an idea inspired by the very sittings of that great international meeting? “Between the American Free School and the French Ecole Publique there are profound affinities. Forms notably differ, but the spirit is the same. It is the spirit of the republican democracy, with its double character: incessant appeal to individual spontaneity, incessant effort towards social progress. Yet, it is easy to notice that in their generality, teachers of both countries are not aware of this community of inspiration. On account of the difference of lan- guage they do not discover the near relationship of the two schools; they recipro- cally ignore one another by want of means of direct contact. “Now, it is one of those means which I wish to propose to establish. Let us gather—you in America and we in France—a selection of the finest pages written by the men who, in our days, have best represented the national education in its principles, its original features, its ideal. Let us translate each one of those two pedagogical Anthologies into the language of the other country; and let us exchange, over the Atlantic, this double message of professional brother- hood. It will be as thousands of American teachers were visiting the schools of France and thousands of French teachers those of the United States. “How shall we be able to choose the best pages and the most characteristic views? I take the liberty of suggesting the following method: We shall ask each one of the Institutions in which the teaching staff is being trained (viz. Normal Schools, teachers’ training schools and those of the High Schools, Colleges and Universities which have an Educational Department) to prepare a list of about ten or twelve extracts borrowed from the most renowned contemporary educators. The choice will be directed, of course, by the principals and pro- fessors of the said Institutions. But would it not be also of some interest for you to ascertain the very thoughts and preferences of your students by asking them to point out themselves, according to their own personal impressions, the writings or fragments of writings which have struck them most, those which they would choose above all others to make foreigners understand the American national school? THE N. EB. A BULLETIN io) PRONE: