Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — TEACHERS TO GO WEST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEACHERS TO GO WEST

A HOST WILL ATTEND THE DENVER CONVENTION. Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Educational Association, July 5-12—Many Eminent Educators on the Program. Thirty Thousand Expected. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National Educational Association will be held in Denver, July sto 12. The association goes so far West this year for the second time in its history. In 1888 the session was held in San Francisco, the president of the association for ’BS was Aaron Gove, then and now superintendent of the Denver schools. The San Francisco meeting was the largest the association has ever held, before or since that

time, and such enthusiasm as was manifested in 1888 has not been known until 1895, when the fame of Denver has called forth, three months before the time set for the July meeting, an enthusiasm on the part of educators throughout the country,

which assures an attendance of between 20,000 and 30,000 people. The San Francisco attendance was 12,000. The National Educational Association was established in 1857 in Philadelphia; its object, as stated in the preamble to the constitution, is “To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.” Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia College, professor of philosophy and education, and State university examiner for New York, is president of the association. Dr. Butler is one of the young men who have of late years come to the front in educational lines. He is 33 years of age and is recognized as one of the

most advanced thinkers, and among the most progressive educators iii the world. Superintendent A. C?. Lnne, of Chicago schools, is vice-president; Irwin Shepard, State superintendent of Minnesota, is secretary; Superintendent J. M. Greenwood, of the Kansas City schools, is treasurer, and Superintendent N. A. Calkins, of the New York schools, is chairman of the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the association. The membership is composed of men and women eminent in educational lines in the United States and Canada, and numbered last year over 5,000. Convention Program, The National Educational Association has eleven departments, each of which has a meeting place and holds sessions of its own, in addition to -those of the general convention. The departments are: Kindergarten, Elementary, Secondary, Higher, Normal, Manual Training, Art, Music, Business Education, Child Study; and a National Council of Education.

Among the noted educators who will read papers and take part in the discussions of the convention and its departments are: President De Gar mo, of Swarthmore; Commissioner Harris, of the United States Bureau of Education; Hon. Hoke

Smith, Secretary of the Interior; I’rof. Jackman. of the Cook County Normal School, Illinois: Chancellor W. H. Payne, of Nashville University; George H. Martin, Supervisor of Boston Schools; Prof. William Carey Jones, of the University of California; James L. Hughes, Inspector of Schools, Toronto; Dr. J. M. Rice, of New York; Mrs. Mary Hunt, of Boston; Prof. Richard T. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin; N. C. Shaeffer, Pennsylvania State Superintendent; Halsey C. Ives, Chief of the Art Department of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Convention City. Not only has Denver become famous as a city of conventions, some sixty organizations having met there in convention last year, but no city of the age and size of Denver is so well known throughout the country for the superior excellence of its school system and for the educational advantages it affords. Ever since the Knight Templar Conclave. of August, 1892, when 109.000

guests were so royally entertained in Denver, that city has always been considered in choosing a place for large conventions. Several other cities, east and west, fought hard for the ’95 convention of the National Educational Association, but Denver prevailed. from all points in the East, railroads will sell tickets to Denver and return at one fare, plus $2 for membership in the association. These tickets will read, “good returning July 15 or 16,” but if deposited with the Union Ticket Agent in Denver the return coupons will be extended to any time up to Sept. 1.

DR. BUTLER.

DENVER CITY HALL.

AAROX GOVE.

COLORADO STATE CAPITOL, DENVER.