Each of the above papers will be followed by general discussion. G. H. Mingle, president, Anderson; James F. Organ, vice-president, Vincennes; Herriott C. Palmer, secretary, Franklin. Executive Committee-H. H. Clark, chairman, Bloomington; Mary B. Cox, Huntington; J. Z. A. McCaughan, Kokomo. Indiana High School Athletic Association. Assembly Room, Claypool Hotel. Wednesday afternoon, December 27. Meeting will convene immediately at the close of the session of the High School Section. Officers-Lotus D. Coffman, president, Connersville; J. T. Giles, secretary, Marion; Geo. W. Benton, treasurer, Indianapolis. English Section. Room 12, State House. Wednesday, December 27, 9:30 a. m. "English Work in the Country Schools and the Township High Schools"-PaperJohn F. Haines, superintendent Hamilton County, Noblesville. Discussion-John B. Wisely, professor of grammar and composition, State Normal School, Terre Haute; E. L. Hendricks, superintendent of schools, Delphi. "Reading Aloud"-Paper-John M. Clapp, associate professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington. Discussion-Blanche E. Woody, Brazil High School; Otis B. Spurlin, Shelbyville High School. "Some Obstacles in the Teaching of Literature"-Paper-Thomas H. Briggs, professor of English, Eastern Illinois Normal, Charleston, Ill. Discussion-Martin W. Sampson, professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington. General discussion will follow as far as time allows. Discussion-Led by Miss Bryant, Brazil, and Mr. W. E. Fisher, Peru. Paper-"The Music of the Child's First School Year"-Miss Effie Hessin, Muncie. Discussion-Led by Mr. J. M. Black, Washington, and Miss Viola Murphy, Delphi. Paper "The Relation of the Normal School to Public School Music"-Miss Lelia Parr, Terre Haute. Discussion-Led by Mr. Wm. Miles, Ft. Wayne, and Miss Anna Birchard, Ander son. A general discussion will be permitted on each paper. President, E. B. Birge, Indianapolis; vicepresident, J. M. Black, Washington; secretary, Miss Beatrice O. Sanders, Bedford. Executive Committee-L. M. Tilson, Lebanon; Rena M. Rice, Lafayette; G. W. Scott, Sheridan. Classical Section. Room 29, State House. Wednesday, December 27, 9:30 a. m. "Some Problems in High School Latin"Prof. Warren S. Peters, Shelbyville High School. "Further Suggestions on the Problem of Stimulating Interest in the Classics"Prof. Cleveland K. Chase, Earlham College. "The Needs of the Secondary School as a Fitting School for College"-Miss Esther B. Ludwig, DePauw University. "First Year Latin"-Prof. H. W. Johnston, University of Indiana. Dr. Edwin Post, president, DePauw University; Lillian Gay Berry, secretary, Indiana University. Mathematical Section. Assembly Room, Claypool Hotel. Wednesday, December 27, 9:30 a. m. "The High School's Portion of Higher Mathematics"-Prof. D. A. Rothrock, Indiana University. "Teaching versus Instructing"-Prof. John C. Stone, Michigan State Normal College. "In What Grade Should the Child Begin the Study of Algebra, and How Intensively Should the Subject be Pursued?"-Supt. George L. Roberts, Muncie. Leaders of discussion-Franklin S. Hoyt, assistant superintendent grammar schools, Indianapolis; Charles J. Waits, principal Terre Haute high school. "How Can High School Mathematics Better Prepare for the Study of High School Mathematics?"-W. A. Fiske, teacher of science, Richmond high school. Leaders of discussion-Julius B. Meyer, principal Lafayette high school; John J. Mitchell, principal Logansport high school. Reports of committees and other business. Prof. S. C. Davisson, president, Bloomington; Chas. J. Waits, vice-president, Terre Haute; Amelia Waring Platter, secretary, Indianapolis. Executive Committee-J. F. Millis, chairman, Indianapolis; Kate M. Meek, Marion; Thomas W. Records, Evansville. County Institute Instructors' Section. Room 29, State House. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. Address-Dr. Robert J. Aley. Round-table discussions of the following: "The Chief Characteristics of Good Institute Work"-Prof. F. M. Stalker, head of department of history of education, Indiana State Normal School. "Departmental Work in County Institutes" -Prof. J. A. Woodburn, head of department of history, Indiana University, leader. "Character and Number of Evening Entertainments in County Institutes"-Supt. T. A. Mott, Richmond, Indiana, leader. Robert J. Aley, president; George F. Bass, secretary. Executive Committee-Robert J. Aley, Fassett A. Cotton. Grammar Grade Section. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. "The Teaching of Arithmetic in the Grammar Grades"-Franklin S. Hoyt, assistant superintendent of grammar schools, Indianapolis, Indiana. Discussion Miss Lavonne Hunt, departmental teacher of arithmetic, Marion, Indiana. "Physiology and Hygiene"-W. A. Millis, superintendent of schools, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Discussion G. E. Derbyshire, principal of the Garfield school, Muncie, Indiana. President, Supt. E. H. Drake, Bedford; secretary, Miss Anna Beck, Crawfordsville. Executive Committee-Supt. B. F. Moore, Marion, chairman. Elocution and Reading Section. Palm Room, Claypool Hotel. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. Introductory remarks by the president, S. I. Conner. "Clear and Connected Speaking in the Class Room"-Prof. Charles Swain Thomas, head of English department, Shortridge High School, Indianapolis. "Reading for Expression"-Prof. Charles Williams, head of oratory department, Marion Normal College. "Reading in the Primary Grades"-Miss N. Cropsey, assistant superintendent of Indianapolis schools. "The Reading Problem in the Public Schools"-Prof. H. B. Wilson, superintendent of city schools, Franklin, Ind. Discussion Professors Trueblood, Clapp, Lockridge, and Mrs. Ormsby. Prof. S. I, Conner, president, Indianapolis; Miss Kathryn E. Swank, secretary, Elkhart. County Superintendents' Association. Room 67, State House. Tuesday, December 26, 2:00 p. m. Opening exercises-E. E. Helt, superintendent Vermillion county. "Departmental Work in the County Institute"-H. O. Buzzaird, superintendent Monroe county. Discussion W. R. Armstrong, superintendent Jay county. "How to Determine the Relative Worth of the Teacher"-A. J. Reifel, superintendent Franklin county. "How May the County Superintendent Best Help the Beginning Teachers?"-E. E. Robey, superintendent Howard county. Discussion-J. M. Wilkey, superintendent Fountain county. "The Library in the District School"James W. Frazier, superintendent Madison county. Discussion-Frank E. Cooper, superintendent Lake county; W. H. Stone, superintendent Owen county. Miscellaneous business. Wednesday, December 27, 9:00 a. m. Opening exercises. "The Public and the Public Schools"-W. E. Stipp, superintendent Lawrence county. "The Tenure of the Teacher's Position"O. S. Baird, superintendent Clinton county. Discussion Homer Dilworth, superintendent Steuben county; W. O. Headlee, superintendent Rush county. "Problems of the County Superintendent❞— Irvin Brandyberry, superintendent Adams county. Discussion E. C. Gullion, superintendent Boone county. "Why Educate the Boys for the Farm?"Oscar Thomas, superintendent Putnam county. Discussion-Chas. W. Paris, superintendent Randolph county; E. G. Bunnell, superintendent Laporte county. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. "The Largest Service of the County Superintendent"-Lawrence McTurnan, deputy superintendent public instruction. "Industrial Education in the Rural Schools" -Charles W. Jordan, superintendent Wayne county; H. S. Moseby, superintendent Perry county. Election of officers. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. Session in Kindergarten Training School, Alabama and Twenty-third streets. Games Leaders, Miss Edith Wachstetter, Indianapolis; Miss Winifred Dean, Indianapolis. Officers of department of kindergarten education-President, Miss Annie Posey Barrows, South Bend; secretary, Miss Leonore D. Eldridge, Indianapolis. Executive committee-Chairman, Miss Alice Corbin, Michigan City; Miss Edith Wachstetter, Indianapolis; Miss Belle Lockridge, Roachdale. Modern Language Section. Wednesday, December 27, 9:30 a. m. "To What Extent Should Conversational German be Made a Part of a Two-year High School Course and of a Four-year High School Course?"-B. C. Von Kahlden, Fort Wayne. Discussion. "The Aim of Modern Language in the Grades"-Miss Mildred Winter, Terre Haute. Discussion. "The Place of Elementary French"-Dr. A. F. Kuersteiner, Indiana University. Discussion. "Reading in Modern Language Study”— Prof. E. J. Fluegel, Purdue University. Discussion. Prof. Geo. D. Morris, president, Indiana University; J. W. Bremer, secretary, Goshen. Primary Section. Ladies' Cafe, Claypool Hotel. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. "Self Expression in the Primary Grades”— Miss Georgia Alexander, Indianapolis. Discussion Handwork, Miss Emma Goepper, Indianapolis. Story Telling-Miss Caroline Townsend, In dianapolis. "Music in the Primary Grades"-Miss Lelia Indiana Academy of Science. Met November 30 and December 1, 1905. John S. Wright, president, Indianapolis; Robert Hessler, vice-president, Logansport; Lynn B. McMullen, secretary, Indianapolis; James H. Ransom, assistant secretary, Lafayette; W. A. McBeth, treasurer, Terre Haute; Donaldson Bodine, editor, Crawfordsville. History Section. Meets the last Friday and Saturday in April. Prof. C. W. Hodgin, president, Richmond; Prof. J. R. Carr, vice-president, Indianapolis; Miss Josephine Cox, secretary-treasurer, Indianapolis. Executive committee-The above named officers and Miss Mattie B. Lacy, Indianapolis, and W. H. Hershman, Noblesville. Indiana Council of Education. Meets at call of president. Dr. W. L. Bryan, president, Bloomington; Mrs. Emma Mont McRae, vice-president, Lafayette; Supt. W. A. Millis, secretary, Crawfordsville. Indiana College Association. Dr. D. W. Fisher, president, Hanover College; Prof. T. C. Howe, vice-president, Butler College; Prof. W. M. Blanchard, secretary, DePauw University; Prof. O. L. Kelso, treasurer, State Normal. Town and City Superintendents' Association. Met at Indianapolis, November 9, 10 and 11, 1905. Officers-Supt C. M. McDaniel, Hammond, president; Supt. F. S. Morganthaler, Rockport, vice-president; Supt. O. M. Pittenger, Alexandria, secretary; Supt. H. G. Woody, Greencastle, treasurer. Executive Committee-Supt. B. F. Moore, chairman, Marion; Supt. T. F. Fitzgibbon, Columbus; Supt. A. A. Campbell, Peru; Supt. J. H. Jeffrey, Gas City; Supt. J. H. Scholl, Rushville; Supt. G. L. Roberts, Muncie; Supt. L. D. Coffman, Connersville. Indiana State Association of School Boards. Met at Indianapolis, November 9, 10 and 11, 1905. Officers-H. C. Yount, president, Covington, Ind.; C. G. Schelke, secretary, Madison, Ind.; C. L. Kiser, treasurer, Alexandria, Ind.; A. M. Sweeney, chairman executive committee, Indianapolis, Ind. Indiana Library Association. Met at Muncie, October 19 and 20, 1905. Officers-Artena M. Chapin, president, Muncie; William M. Hepburn, vice-president, Lafayette; Katharine Fisher, secretary, Attica; Ida M. Mendenhall, treasurer, Indianapolis. EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL. Prof. H. H. Powers, recently of Stanford University, is entitled to much credit for being the first to conceive the idea of having American teachers become students in a genuine summer school of a ten weeks' session as they visit the principal cities in Europe, and under the instruction of distinguished lecturers. A portion of each day will be given to study, and each student can select any one of ten courses of instruction, or possibly two, and at the end of the summer can take an examination, and, if satisfactory, receive a certificate, which will be accepted by several colleges and some universities for a full semester's work. An investment in the "Bureau of University Travel," 201 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass., means an investment in knowledge actually gained by travel under wise guidance. How much more profitable is an investment of that character than the buying of worthless stocks in certain oil, sugar, and rubber companies. Our readers desiring definite information concerning the next trip to Europe under the management of the Bureau of University Travel should address Mr. Ralph E. Towle, 635 Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago, who is treasurer of the company. He bears the best of recommendations. BOOK NOTICES. Deutsche Reden is the title of a book prepared by Dr. Rudolf Tombo and Professor Rudolf Tombo Jr., of Columbia University, and about to appear with D. C. Heath & Co., publishers, Boston. It will furnish representative speeches by Bismarck, Bülow, Moltke, Schürz and others, together with suitable biographies, explanatory notes, map and portraits. It will offer interesting and instructive reading for the general reader or for advanced college classes. According to the New York Sun, Prof. R. L. Garner is going again to West Africa with his gramophone to study the ape language. Those who have followed this scientist's investigations will be interested in a record of some of his discoveries entitled "Apes and Monkeys; Their Life and Language," a book which is published by Ginn & Company. Ginn & Company announce that they have in preparation an edition of "Das verlorene Paradies," edited by Prof. Paul H. Grummann, of the University of Nebraska. This book will prove especially interesting to the student because of its vivid portrayal of the political and social conflicts of modern German life. C. W. Burkett, professor of agriculture in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has recently prepared a suggestive monograph entitled "Agricul ture in the Public Schools." Ginn & Company offer to send copies of this pamphlet, postpaid, to any address on request. Ginn & Company's November Text-Book Bulletin for High Schools and Colleges has just been published. It contains brief descriptions of all their new and forthcoming books. Those who wish to receive copies of the Bulletin should address the nearest office of the publishers. "A Text-Book in the History of Education" (The Macmillan Co.), by Paul Monroe, Ph.D., professor in the history of education, Teachers' College, Columbia University. The general characteristics of the work are as follows: (1) it furnishes a body of historical facts sufficient to give the student concrete material from which to form generalizations; (2) it suggests interpolations, chiefly by classification of concrete material, that do not consist merely in unsupported generalizations; (3) it gives to some extent a flavor of the original sources of information; (4) it makes evident the relation aspects of the history of civilization; (5) between educational development and other it deals with educational tendencies rather than with men; (6) it shows the connection between educational theory and actual school work in its historical development; (7) it suggests relations with present educational work. The work is a comprehensive outline of the progress of education from primitive times to the present, and in our judgment is a splendid contribution to pedagogical science. It is a pleasure to comment upon the conservative methods employed by the G. & C. Merriam Company in the publication of the Webster's International Dictionary. Not every little slang word or phrase is put into the book regardless of its scholastic or linguistic qualities. It is this conservatism backed by the scholarship of the editor-inchief, William T. Harris, Ph.D., LL.D., United States commissioner of education, and hundreds of others of the greatest educators of this and other nations which has made the International a standard in the United States Supreme Court and in all the courts of the nation, as well as in colleges and public schools. Shakespeare's "Life of King Henry the Fifth" (The Macmillan Co.), edited with introduction and notes by Ralph Hartt Bowles, A.M., instructor in English in the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. "A Tale of Two Cities" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), by Charles Dickens, with an introduction by Edwin Percy Whipple. This work has been edited for school use by R. Adelaide Witham, recently head of the English department of the Classical High School, Providence, R. I. 389 pp. Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 45 cents. "The Fifth School Year" (A. Flanagan & Co.), by Herman T. Lukens, Ph.D., head training teacher Southwestern State Normal School, California, Pa. This excellent work is in reality a course of study with detailed selection of lesson material arranged by month and correlated. 213 pp. 60 cents. |