MONDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 8:00 O'CLOCK Complimentary Concert On Monday evening, July 7, at 8:00 o'clock, the following musical program was given in the Tabernacle: 1. Song of Welcome (Specially written for the occasion) TABERNACLE CHOIR AND STEPHENS CONCERT CHORUS 2. Fantasie on Faust. 3. The Pioneers . Violin Solo, MR. WILLIAM C. CLIVE MR. HORACE S. ENSIGN 4. (a) Selections from "Cavalleria Rusticana" (b) Andantino, "To My Wife" MR. J. J. MCCLELLAN, Organist 5. Fierce Flames Are Soaring (from "Il Trovatore") Stephens Gounod-Sarasate Stephens TABERNACLE CHOIR, NEW YORK TOUR CHOIR, SOLOISTS, MRS. EMMA RAMSEY MORRIS 6. Sextet from "Lucia” AND GREAT ORGAN 7. Hallelujah (from "Messiah") TABERNACLE CHOIR AND GREAT ORGAN Mascagni Lemare Verdi Donizetti Handel SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS SECOND SESSION-TUESDAY FORENOON, JULY 8, 9:00 O'CLOCK Preceding the addresses of the morning, the following musical recital was given by the children of the third and fourth grades of the Salt Lake City public schools: After the musical recital, the meeting was called to order by President Fairchild, and the following addresses were given: "The Personal Element in Our Educational Problems"-William H. Campbell, principal of D. S. Wentworth School, Chicago, Ill. "The High-School Period as a Testing-Time"-Clarence D. Kingsley, high-school inspector, Massachusetts Board of Education, Boston, Mass. At this point a chorus from the Provo schools, under the direction of J. R. Boshard, supervisor of music in Provo high and city schools, presented the following musical program: Addresses were then delivered as follows: "Teaching and Testing the Teaching of Essentials"-Thomas E. Thompson, superintendent of schools, Leominster, Mass. "The Schoolhouse Evening Center: What It Is, What It Costs, and What It Pays"Lee F. Hanmer, director, Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, N.Y. TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING, JULY 8 Tuesday afternoon was given over to a reception at Saltair. In the evening Arthur H. Chamberlain, managing editor of the Sierra Educational News, San Francisco, Cal., gave an illustrated lecture on "Our Western Wonderlands." THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS THIRD SESSION-WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 8:00 O'CLOCK Preliminary to the opening of the session, the following musical program was given: 1. Ensemble (from "Chimes of Normandy") SPRINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS. MR. MARK ROBINSON, Director 2. Jewel Song (from "Faust") MISS CORA THORNE 3. Sweetest May LADIES' GLEE CLUB, Springville High School Planquette Gounod Evans The meeting was called to order at 8:00 o'clock by President Fairchild, and the following program presented: Ore. "Measuring Results"-L. R. Alderman, superintendent of city schools, Portland, "The New Rural School"-Neil C. Macdonald, state inspector of consolidated schools, Valley City, N.Dak. "Education as the Interpretation of Life"-Mary C. C. Bradford, state superin tendent of public instruction, Denver, Colo. At the close of the program, President Fairchild announced the following Committee on Nominations: FOURTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS FOURTH SESSION-THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 8:00 O'CLOCK The following musical program was presented before the opening of the session: 1. What the Chimney Sang 2. Thine B.Y.U. MALE QUARTET, Provo MISS CLARINDA HOLMAN, Provo B.Y.U. STRING QUARTET, Provo Parks . Bohm Tchaikowsky The convention was called to order at 8:00 P.M. by President Fairchild, and the program of the evening presented as follows: "Some Social Uses of Education according to Nature"-William Estabrook Chancellor, editor of School Journal, New York and Chicago. "The School Plant as a Public-Health Asset"-Caroline Bartlett Crane, social and sanitary expert, and investigator of municipalities, Kalamazoo, Mich. "Education for Freedom"-Charles Zueblin, publicist, Boston, Mass. "Rural Betterments"-Perry G. Holden, director, Agricultural Extension Department, International Harvester Company, Chicago, Ill. FIFTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS FIFTH SESSION-FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 8:00 O'CLOCK The opening of the session was preceded by the following musical program: 1. Lead Kindly Light Imperial Male Quartet-MESSRS. ASHWORTH, GRAHAM, 2. A French Peasant Song MISS EDNA EVANS 3. (a) I Heard the Voice of Harpers (from the “Holy City") Dudley Buck Eva del Acqua Gaul Soprano Solo, MRS. CHARLES DAILY Baritone Solo, MR. HORACE S. ENSIGN Organ, Harp, and Piano Accompaniment MR. J. J. MCCLELLAN, Organ MRS. WALTER TUTTLE, Harp MISS ROWENA KORNS, Piano (b) All Kinds of Women 4. Cupid Has Found My Heart MR. FRED C. GRAHAM Brackett President Fairchild called the meeting to order at 8:00 P.M. The following addresses were presented: "The National Bureau of Education"-P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, Washington, D.C. "The Teaching of Civics in Elementary and Secondary Schools"-J. Lynn Barnard, professor of history and government, School of Pedagogy, Philadelphia, Pa. "The Advance Movement of Teachers of English"-James F. Hosic, head of English Department, Chicago Normal College, Chicago, Ill., and secretary of the National Council of Teachers of English. "The High School and Democracy"-Thomas Jesse Jones, specialist, Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C. President Fairchild announced that Joseph Swain, president of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., president-elect of the National Education Association, had been called home by reason of severe illness in his family, but had left with him the following message to the Association: I was once present at the installation of Mr. Reid as speaker of the House of Representatives. The House and galleries were packed with a distinguished body of representative men and women. As he came up the aisle and took his place at the speaker's desk, there was prolonged applause, as was his desert. As well as I remember this brilliant scene, I also remember equally well this sentence in his speech: "The honor is for a moment; the care and responsibility for many weary days and nights." This is the feeling of any worthy man when he enters on a high public duty. I am highly sensible of the great honor you bestow on me in electing me to the presidency of the National Education Association. I am more sensible of the responsibility which you have placed upon me. For this confidence you have shown me, you have my cordial thanks; to help carry this responsibility, I ask your hearty support, best thought, and energy. No extended remarks are necessary at this time. I wish to express briefly the spirit in which I shall endeavor to perform my task. The thing for which I pray is vision, for without vision the people perish. There is a vision of the past, a vision of the present, and a vision of the future. The vision of the past is a vision of history; one who places his first emphasis on this vision is a conservative; a conservative has his place, and an important place, in calling attention to the lessons of the past, but if he does not go farther, he falls short of the best. The vision of the present is the vision of science; with the telescope in the heavens above, and the microscope in the earth below, the scientist sees the universe as it is. That one who sees this vision only, and neglects the vision of the past, also fills an important place yes, a very important place-yet falls short of the best. The prophet is the man who out of the vision of the past and the vision of the present can see the vision of the future, and point out the pathway along which our feet must be guided. This Association has a noble past, it is doing a marvelous work in the present, and I invite all teachers, north, south, east, and west, to study these two visions and out of them build the vision of the future in the interests of the children-the hope of America. One God, one country, and a united Association, for the promotion of the best! Again, for the honor of the moment, I thank you; with a sense of the responsibility which comes with this duty, I seek your consecration to, and loving service in, the glorious future, which should be more glorious than our present dreams. President Fairchild, after brief remarks of cordial thanks to all members of the Association for co-operation during the year just over, announced the adjournment of the Fifty-first Convention of the National Education Association. DURAND W. SPRINGER, Secretary GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION ADDRESSES OF WELCOME I. WILLIAM SPRY, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH The distinction which comes to the people of Utah thru this meeting of the National Education Association is deeply sensed. We have looked forward with keenest anticipation to the day when it would fall to our lot to entertain one of the important national conventions; and we are sincerely grateful for the honor and pleasure of entertaining the organized forces of the greatest of all American institutions-the public school. We welcome you because you are engaged in the labor that is nearest and dearest to the hearts of the people of Utah, because your very presence will lend inspiration in a work which we regard as the greatest factor in the nation's civil, social, economic, and political attainments; we welcome you because you are laboring to remove from life that which is coarse and rude and attain that which is delicate, elegant, and beautiful-because you are striving for the development of the best qualities of man's physical, mental, moral, and spiritual nature and the cultivation of the graces of speech and manner the expressions of the refined nature. We welcome you because you represent a great system toward eligibility to full membership in which our pioneer fathers and mothers labored with noble self-sacrifice and devotion, overcoming the hindrances of pioneering and succeeding in the work of mental development by vigorous action and burning earnestness, coupled with faith, courage, and hopefulness. We welcome you because we want the atmosphere of your calling, the influence of your deliberations, the benefit of your conclusions, and the inspiration of your presence. The benefits of culture and refinement-the jewels in the crown of human happiness-that are bestowed thru education are highly prized by the people of Utah. The distinction that comes to men and women thru careful training and education has rested upon Utah's sons and daughters in rich abundance, and their achievements in the creative work of the artist have reflected credit on the efforts of the people of Utah toward systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers. Those of us whose lives have been less distinguished and whose activities have been confined to the ordinary affairs, find great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of our daily tasks because of that assurance and confidence which our schooling has afforded. And it is this widely distributed sense of security in culture that renders the people of Utah loyal to our educational system. The opportunities, which, at great sacrifice, have been afforded to |