Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — Teachers’ Association Will Have Fine Program This Year. [ARTICLE]

Teachers’ Association Will Have Fine Program This Year.

One of the greatest conventions ever held by Indiana teachers will be the coming meeting at Indianapolis on December 27, 28 and 29, 1911, and many teachers are planning to attend. The indications are that all attendance records will be broken. The list of speakers Is one of the most brilliant that has ever been engaged for such an occasion in Indiana. Hr. Robert J. Aley, president of the University of Maine, and former ly state superintendent of Indiana; Dr. Elmer B. Bryan, president of Colgate university and formerly tha president of Franklin college; Dr. William E. Watt, of Chicago, the great fresh jjir expert; Dr. Woods Hutchison, of New York city, the brilliant author and lecturer pn health topics; Dr. Henry Suzzano of Col umbia university, one of the most entertaining speakers on the educational platform in America; Meredith Nicholson, of fhdi&napoliß; one of the foremost of American novelists; and Alfred Tbfifipioh Dickens, the oldest surviving son of the immortal English novelist, Charles Dickens. Mr. Dickens will speak on the life and works of his father, giving intimate glimpses of the personal side of the great genius. The address of Mr. Dickens will be one of fjbb events of years ip Indiana educational circles. County Superintendent Samuel *l* Scott, of Jeffersonville, President of the Indiana State Teachers’, association, will speak at the opening session of the general association on Wednesday evening, December 27. '