AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION. Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting, JULY 9, 10. 11, 12 AND 13, 1888. JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. FIRST DAY.-MONDAY, JULY 9. The fifty-ninth annual meeting of the American Institute of Instruction opened Monday evening, July 9, 1888, at Newport, R. I., J. Milton Hall, of Providence, President. At 7 o'clock, P. M., a meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the Ocean House, the head-quarters of the Institute. At 7:30 P. M., a concert was given in Music Hall, the audience room of the Institute, by the full band of the U. S. Steamship "New Hampshire," Mr. McQuown, leader. A large audience assembled. At 8 P. M., the regular exercises of the session began. President Hall called the Institute to order, and prayer was offered by the Rev. E. P. Tuller, of Newport, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Professor R. G. Hibbard, of New Britain, Conn., was then introduced by President Hall, and gave the Institute an expressive rendering of Drake's "The American Boy." His Honor, John Hare Powel, Mayor of Newport, delivered the following address of welcome to the Institute on the part of the city of Newport: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:-I appear before you to-night, not on account of any aptitude, or fitness of my own for the position of the person to whom the honor and pleasure of welcoming your distinguished association to the shores of this island either belongs or is due, but, simply, because I have been delegated by my associates for the discharge of that pleasing duty-by virtue of the position which I happen, temporarily, to fill as representing this city on the Joint Committee placed in charge of the arrangements for your visit to this place. I most sincerely wish that the honor of addressing you had fallen on the shoulders of a man more capable of putting into words all I would like to express at this time, but I earnestly hope that my intention and desire to say all that is fitting may be taken for the deed, and that my short comings as a speaker. may be overlooked. In any event, I do not imagine that much is expected, or is to be desired from me, in the way of oratory, and standing, as I do here, in the presence of so many trained and experienced speakers, I should be bold indeed, with my inexperience in forensic matters, did I attempt any flights of oratory, even were I capable of attempting them, for I should, undoubtedly only make a most signal failure of the effort. My only duty here is to extend a welcome to the American Institute of Instruction, and when I reflect on the significance and paramount importance of the work of the members of that organization, of the potent and far-reaching influence on the rising generation, and the effect on the future well being of this great nation, through the youth entrusted to the fostering care of its members; and when I remember the trite and most true saying of Lord Bacon, who said "The end of all learning is to the good of mankind," I should be, as, most assuredly, I am, happy to welcome to our midst so notable an |