Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — BOSTON FULL OF TEACHERS [ARTICLE]

BOSTON FULL OF TEACHERS

Members of National Education Association Meet—President Taft Will Be Among the Speakers. Boston, July -Never before did Boston, the home of culture, see so many school teachers as have gathered here for tbe forty-eighth annual convention of the National Educational association. Thousands already here, and more arrive on every train. General sessions of the association were held at the Stadium of Harvard university in Cambridge. James Y. Joyner, state superintendent of public instruction of North Carolina and president of the association, will preside. Addresses will be delivered by President William H. Taft, ex-Gov. Charles B. Aycock of North Carolina and David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford, Jr., university. Governor Draper and Mayor Fitzgerald will be present to welcome the educators. The music will be supplied by a band and by the Handel and Haydn society of Boston. The sessions, general and sectional, will continue until Friday evening, and it is expected that the closing address will be delivered by Col. Theodore Roosevelt.