JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS AND ADDRESSES

OF THE

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

Journal

OF

Proceedings and Addresses

OF THE

FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

HELD AT

DENVER, COLORADO

JULY 3-9

1909

1909

Published by the Association

SECRETARY'S OFFICE, WINONA, MINN.

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CONTENTS

Act of Incorporation

By-Laws

Certificate of Incorporation

Calendar of Meetings

Officers for 1908-9

Officers for 1909-10

Report of Treasurer

Report of Board of Trustees

Secretary's Minutes of General Sessions

Annual Meeting of Active Members

Annual Report of Committee on Resolutions

Minutes of Meeting of Board of Directors for 1908–9

Minutes of Meeting of Board of Directors for 1909-10

GENERAL SESSION

The Need, Scope, and Character of Industrial Education-Harvey

The Scope of the Department of Women's Organizations—Miss Gill

The Call to Citizenship—Butler

Ethics in Civil Life-Abercrombie

Education and the Petition to the Third Hague Conference-Gordy

The MacDonald College Movement-Robertson

92

Educational Progress in Porto Rico-Dexter

100

In Memoriam: Dr. James Hulme Canfield-Butler

105

Should the Public School Be the Bulwark of Public Health ?-Favill

Hygiene in the Boston Public Schools-Burke .

107

118

Hygiene in the St. Louis Public Schools-Blewett

123

Moral Training thru the Agency of the Public Schools-Barnes .

Some Experiments in Moral Education-Sharp

129

141

Childhood and Morality-Lindsey ·

146

DEPARTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENCE (Chicago Meeting, 1909)

Secretary's Minutes-Nelson .

TOPIC: THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE IN SCHOOL WORK

159

I. What Is Possible and Desirable in Simplification-Richey

II. Fundamentals in the Elementary School Curriculum-Meriam

III. In Class Instruction, How Can the Individual Be Reached?—Siders

IV. Retardation of Pupils and How to Minimize It-Greenwood .

TOPIC: ARTICULATION OF HIGHER INSTITUTIONS WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS

I. The Relations of the University to the Secondary School-Brooks .

II. Articulation of Higher and Secondary Education thru Teaching and