DIRECTOR SOLDAN.I rise to second the motion of Director Harris, and wish to say a few words in explanation. The chairman of the committee on education of the board of directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. called on me in St. Louis on Friday, before I left, and submitted in brief the following plan or intention on the part of the educational committee: They wish to conduct the educational department at the world's fair largely according to the ideas and wishes of the teaching profession in the country. They wish to be guided in the plans and in the collections of exhibits by the best advice that can be obtained from educators. Mr. Schroers, in discussing this idea, said that he wished the advisory board, if it should be the pleasure of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association to appoint such a board, to aid in planning the lines according to which the educational exhibits should be selected and arranged in every detail; that, while the committee on education of the directory in St. Louis would assume all responsibility, they wish to keep in touch with this proposed committee of the National Educational Association and be guided in the general outline, as well as in the details, by their advice. The scope of the duties of the committee on education which sends this letter is indicated by the following extract from the by-law creating the committee on education :

The Committee on Education and Educational Congresses shall consist of seven members, and shall have charge of all matters pertaining to elementary and higher education in schools and other institutions of learning, whether devoted to science, literature, or art, and also of all educational congresses and conventions, and all subjects directly connected therewith.

The motion of Director Harris was then put to vote and adopted unanimously.

PRESIDENT GREEN.-This motion, as I understand it, carries with it directions that the chairman appoint a committee of twenty-one. I will, with the permission of the board, announce the committee later.

Under the call of miscellaneous business, Director Springer, of Michigan, reported that in securing advance memberships and in advancing the interests of the association in other ways he had spent $113, altho he was aware that but $20 was allowed each state director under the rules and customs established. He thought that this amount was quite insufficient for the director of the state in which the annual convention is held, and moved that hereafter the sum of $100 be allowed for the expenses of the director of the state in which the annual meeting is held. Seconded by Director Ross, of Tennessee.

After brief discussion, the motion of Director Springer was put to vote and lost.

DIRECTOR NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, of New York. - The members of the board will doubtless remember that in the amendments to our constitution in 1895 provision was made for the election of foreign educators as corresponding members. This action was intended to be an honorable recognition of men and women in foreign countries who had gained distinction in educational work. We have only once taken advantage of our authority by the election at the Washington meeting of ten persons as corresponding members. In connection with the exposition at Paris last year a number of persons gained what seems to be very considerable distinction, partly thru their service at the exposition and partly thru the various valuable reports made to their respective governments on educational methods and progress. I submit herewith a list of such persons, and move that they be chosen as corresponding members:

Léon Bourgeois, formerly minister of public instruction, member of the Chamber of Deputies; 5 rue Palatine, Paris, France.

Charles Bayet, director of primary instruction in the ministry of public instruction; 27 rue Gay-Lussac, Paris, France.

Élie Rabier, director of secondary education in the ministry of public instruction; 27 rue de Fleury, Paris, France.

Camille Sée, counselor of state; 65 avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

E. P. Kovalevski, officer of the imperial ministry of public instruction, St. Petersburg, Russia. Fabian Ware, inspector of secondary schools for the board of education, London, England; 54 Goldhurst Terrace, Hampstead, N. W., London, England.

Cloudesley S. H. Brereton, vice-president, international jury of awards for elementary education, Paris exposition; Briningham House, Norfolk county, England.

Béla de Tormay, chief of bureau in the royal ministry of agriculture, Budapest, Hungary.

Seconded and carried without dissent.

At this point the President announced the following members of the advisory board created by the resolution of Director Harris, as follows:

William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education of the United States, Washington, D. C.

Edwin A. Alderman, president of Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Newton C. Dougherty, superintendent of schools, Peoria, Ill.

Nicholas Murray Butler, professor of philosophy and education, Columbia University, New York city. William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York, N. Y.

James MacAlister, president of Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.

Calvin M. Woodward, director of manual training, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Halsey C. Ives, director, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Mo.

Aaron Gove, superintendent of schools, District No. 1, Denver, Colo.
Andrew S. Draper, president of University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.
William R. Harper, president of University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University, Cal.

J. G. Schurman, president of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

Daniel C. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

James M. Greenwood, superintendent of schools. Kansas City, Mo.

Charles M. Jordan, superintendent of schools, Minneapolis, Minn.

Lewis H. Jones, superintendent of schools, Cleveland, O.

William T. Carrington, state superintendent of public instruction, Jefferson, Mo.

F. Louis Soldan, superintendent of schools, St. Louis, Mo.

Carroll G. Pearse, superintendent of schools, Omaha, Neb.

There being no further business, after announcements by the Secretary, the board adjourned.

IRWIN SHEPARD, Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1901-1902

DETROIT, MICH.-THURSDAY, JULY 12, 4:30 P. M.

The newly elected Board of Directors was called to order in Temple Beth El at 4:30 P. M., July 12, by President-elect William M. Beardshear. The following directors responded to the roll-call:

Nicholas Murray Butler, New York; Oscar T. Corson, Ohio; Albert G. Lane, Illinois; Aaron Gove, Colorado; F. Louis Soldan, Missouri; J. M. Greenwood, Missouri; William T. Harris, District of Columbia; Mary H. Hunt, Massachusetts; E. Oram Lyte, Pennsylvania; Teachers' Institute, Pennsylvania; William M. Beardshear, Iowa; F. Yale Adams, Arizona; Wilbur F. Gordy, Connecticut; W. N. Sheats, Florida; Miss Permeal French, Idaho; Alfred Bayliss, Illinois; H. E. Kratz, Iowa; Frank R. Dyer, Kansas; W. H. Bartholomew, Kentucky; John S. Locke, Maine; D. W. Springer, Michigan; Charles M. Jordan, Minnesota; W. T. Carrington, Missouri; Carroll G. Pearse, Nebraska; H. Brewster Willis, New Jersey; Hiram Hadley, New Mexico; Augustus S. Downing, New York; J. M. H. Frederick, Ohio; E. D. Ressler, Oregon; Watson Cornell, Pennsylvania; W. B. Jacobs, Rhode Island; George J. Ramsey, Virginia; C. M. Sherman, Washington; L. D. Harvey, Wisconsin; Miss Estelle Reel, Wyoming; Charles H. Keyes, Connecticut; Irwin Shepard, Minnesota.

Present, thirty-seven members.

The minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors held on July 9 were read and approved.

On motion of Director Greenwood, the chair appointed the following committee to nominate members for the National Council: Directors F. Louis Soldan, of Missouri; Charles M. Jordan, of Minnesota; and Nicholas Murray Butler, of New York.

Mr. J. H. Francis, of California, by permission of the President, stated to the board that Superintendent J. A. Foshay, director-elect for California, was not present, and, as that state desired to be represented in the meeting of the Board of Directors, he requested that permission be granted to him to represent Mr. Foshay as a proxy.

Director Greenwood moved that Mr. Francis be permitted to represent Mr. Foshay by proxy in this meeting, stating that he considered it only fair that California be allowed the privilege of voting representation in the Board of Directors. Seconded.

Director Gove, of Colorado, questioned the advisability of this motion as being an innovation on the custom and precedents of the board.

Director Pearse, of Nebraska, called attention to the impropriety of any action by which the Board of Directors should change the action of the electors of the National Educational Association in transferring the right to vote from the duly elected director to a proxy, and especially to a proxy not appointed by the director himself, thus arbitrarily changing the membership of the board.

In response to an inquiry, the Secretary stated that this question had frequently been before the board for action, and that the board had always refused to allow proxies, even when designated by the absent members.

The motion of Director Greenwood was then rejected by a decisive vote. President Beardshear announced as the next order of business the election of a member of the Board of Trustees to succeed F. Louis Soldan, of Missouri, whose term of office expires with this meeting.

A motion was made and seconded that Mr. Soldan be nominated to succeed himself as a member of the Board of Trustees.

Director Soldan stated that, while he was willing in all things to follow the directions of the board, he much preferred that some other member from among the large number so competent for this service should be elected to the vacancy.

Director Pearse, of Nebraska, moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the board for the election of Director F. Louis Soldan, of Missouri, as member of the Board of Trustees for four years, to succeed himself. The motion was seconded and carried without dissent.

The Secretary having reported that the ballot had been cast in accordance with instructions, President Beardshear declared Director Soldan elected as a member of the Board of Trustees.

On motion of Director Ramsey, of Virginia, Director William T. Harris was elected to succeed himself as a member of the Executive Committee for the term of one year. President Beardshear announced as the next order of business the receiving of invitations for the next annual convention.

Director E. D. Ressler, assistant professor of education in the University of Oregon, presented an invitation from the cities of the north Pacific coast, stating that these cities had united in an invitation and an earnest request that the next convention be held at that one of the cities of the north Pacific coast which the Executive Committee should select as the best suited for entertaining the association.

This invitation was seconded and supported in a brief address by Director C. M. Sherman, president of the Puget Sound Schoolmasters' Club..

Director Charles M. Jordan, superintendent of schools of Minneapolis, presented an invitation from the city of Minneapolis for the next meeting, calling attention to the fact that the Board of Directors, at the Buffalo meeting, had voted in favor of holding the convention in 1897 in Minneapolis, but, owing to the fact that another convention had previously been located in that city on the same dates chosen by the National Educational Association, the Executive Committee deemed it advisable to hold the convention in the city of Milwaukee instead. He now wished to renew the invitation of the city of Minneapolis for the year 1902, with assurances that all the usual facilities for holding the convention would be supplied.

Director Springer, of Michigan, moved that the matter of the location of the next annual convention be referred without vote by the directors to the Executive Committee with power to act. This motion was seconded and passed without dissent.

Director Greenwood, chairman of the Committee on Investigations and Appropriations of the National Council, presented the following resolution:

Resolved, That the sum of two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and hereby is, appropriated to defray the necessary clerical expenses of the committee named by a round table of the Department of Superintendence to collect information regarding the progress, means, and results of consolidating rural schools; provided, that all bills against this appropriation shall be certified as correct by the chairman of the committee aforesaid.

Director Greenwood stated that the resolution had been handed to his committee, and had met with its approval and concurrence, tho it had not yet been acted upon by the National Council, and could not be acted upon by that body before its next meeting, on Friday afternoon, July 12. He further explained that, unless action was taken by the Board of Directors at this meeting, in advance of recommendation by the Council, the result would be that the matter would lie over for an entire year before it could be formally acted upon by this body. This would be a disappointment to the committee of state superintendents who desired to proceed at once with the formulation of the proposed report.

On motion, the resolution was approved, subject to concurrent action of the National Council.'

The Committee on Nomination of members of the National Council presented the following report:

Members of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association:

Your committee finds the following vacancies in the National Council, viz.: By reason of expiration of term: James M. Green, Trenton, N. J.; Augustus S. Downing, New York, N. Y.; A. R. Taylor, Decatur, Ill.; Charles D. McIver, Greensboro, N. C.; R. B. Fulton, University, Miss.

By reason of absence from two consecutive meetings: Frank Rigler, Portland, Ore., whose term expires in 1904.

Your committee, deeming it a wise precedent to continue those members of the Council whose services have been especially valuable, nominate for reappointment for the term of six years the five members whose terms expire as noted above.

1904.

To succeed Frank Rigler, of Oregon, they nominate R. H. Halsey, of Wisconsin, for the term ending

On motion, the report of the committee was received and adopted, and the nominees declared duly elected as members of the Council.

Upon motion, after brief discussion, an appropriation of $700, or so much thereof as may be necessary, was made to meet the expenses of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence in 1902 at Chicago, Ill.

On motion of Dr. Harris, the following-named educators from South America and Central America, several of whom were in attendance on the sessions of the present convention, were elected corresponding members of the association:

From Argentine Republic - Dr. J. B. Zubiaur.

From United States of Brazil-A. Fontoura Xavier, Professor Alcides Medrado.

From Republic of Chile- Julio Peres Canto, Carlos Silva Cruz, Guillermo Freudenburg.

From Republic of Costa Rica-Senor Don Joaquin Bernando Calve.

From Republic of Guatemala - Dr. Joaquin Yela.

From Republic of Nicaragua - Don Alejandro Bermudez, Don Ramiro Gamez.

On motion of Director Butler, of New York, the following resolution was passed with dissent:

Resolved, That the sum of one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to pay the expenses for printing, clerical services, etc., incurred by the Committee of Fifteen appointed under authority of the resolution of the National Council of Education passed July 11, 1898, to inquire into the whole question of a national university; provided that all bills against this appropriation shall be certified as correct by the chairman of the committee aforesaid.

There being no further business before the board, the meeting adjourned.

IRWIN SHEPARD, Secretary.

I The National Council at its meeting July 12 failed to recommend the granting of the appropriation provided for in the resolution; hence the action of the Board of Directors on this resolution is void. - EDITOR.