Northern Indiana Teachers' Association. Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 4, 5, 6, 1912, Announcements. Admission to all sessions will be by ticket. Membership cards can be secured at the headquarters desk in the lobby of the Auditorium Hotel, and at the doors of the various meeting places of the Association. The opening and closing sessions of the Association will be held in Orchestra Hall opposite the Art Institute. This is a magnificent auditorium, seating about three thousand persons. No more than this number will be admitted. A reserved seat ticket for the opening session can be secured at the box office of Orchestra Hall on Thursday, April 4, in exchange for the coupon attached to your membership to your membership ticket. No seats reserved before this date nor by mail. Similarly a reserved seat may be secured for the closing session any time during Friday, morning and afternoon, and Saturday morning in exchange for the second coupon attached to your membership ticket. No seats reserved for the closing session before Friday, nor by mail. Membership tickets, including the two coupons mentioned above, can be secured in advance by sending the annual membership fee of fifty cents to Supt. O. M. Pittenger, Treasurer, Frankfort, Indiana. This will avoid the crowd at the Treasurer's desk on Thursday. Teachers May be Paid for Attending. Teachers may be allowed daily wages for attendance at the Northern Indiana Teachers' Association and for visiting the Chicago Schools. Under the law enacted by the last Indiana Legislature, school boards and trustees are permitted to set aside three days out of each school year for visiting schools and for attending teachers' meetings. If you have not already made your allowance for the present year, will you not see that it is utilized for this meeting? Visiting Chicago Schools. This is an unparalleled opportunity to visit a system of schools exemplifying every phase of school work. Since the notable Educational Commission of the City of Chicago made its report in 1900, the school system of that city has held rank among the best of the larger systems in the United States. Every modern feature of educational endeavor can be seen here either in private or public schools. The school authorities have extended a cordial invitation to all members of the N. I. T. A. to visit the schools of the city on Thursday, April 4th. Directories and other information can be secured at Headquarters in the Auditorium Hotel. Railroad Rates. Altho no reduction below a two-cent fare can be secured, arrangements have been made with the main companies running into Chicago to run special trains for the accommodation of teachers, either going or returning, when the numbers are large enough to warrant. Superintendents are urged to ascertain the number of teachers and their friends who will attend the meet gress street and Michigan boulevard. Great Northern Hotel Jackson boulevard and Dearborn street. The Stratford Hotel - Michigan and Jackson boulevards. Hotel LaSalle-LaSalle at Madison. street. Congress Hotel and Annex-Michigan boulevard and Congress street.. The Wellington Hotel-Jackson boulevard and Wabash avenue. Superintendents, principals, teachers -Let us make this one of the greatest meetings in the history of the N. I. T. A. The programs provided for the various sessions are certainly attractive. These, together with the opportunities offered to visit a great metropolis with its myriad interests, a great system of schools with its diversified activities, a great university, the highest product of modern educational endeavor-all these things, bringing into our schools new life, new inspiration, new professional spirit, furnish an opportunity that should not be neglected. Complete programs will be issued about March 1st. H. B. BROWN, President, Thursday, April 4, 1912. Visiting Chicago Schools. Thursday, April 4th, 8:15 P. M. Opening Session. Invocation. Vocal Solo-Miss Helen Axe Brown, Valparaiso, Ind. Welcome Address-Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, president Chicago University; Dr. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent Chicago City Schools; Hon. Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago. Address-"Tradition and Reform in Address "Education as a Preventive Cafeteria luncheon will be served in the Men's Commons, adjoining Mandel Hall, in Lexington Hall, and in the lunch room of the School of Education, from 12 until 2 o'clock. Ample accommodation will be provided for (Chicago University.) Sectional Programs - High School, Mandel Hall; Grade, Belfield Hall, room 159; Ward Principals, Kent Theater; Kindergarten - Primary, Emmons Blaine Hall, room 214; Reading, Haskell Assembly Room, Haskell Museum; Art and Manual Training, Emmons Blaine Hall, Art Room, room 400; Music, Law School Building, north room, ground floor; Penmanship, Cobb Hall, room 6A. Friday Evening. No session of the association has been planned for Friday evening, in order that teachers may have this time for visiting, theatergoing, etc. Saturday, April 6th, 9:30 A. M.Business Session. The following publications go regularly to the school. Purdue Exponent, Purdue Agriculturist, Journal of Education, Literary Digest, Popular Mechanics, Round Table (Beloit College), Farmers' Guide, Current Events, Educator-Journal, Congressional Record, Daily Student (Indiana University), Normal Advance (Indiana State Normal), Uncle Remus and Library Occurrent. Many of them come without expense to the school and nearly all of the others are secured at reduced rates. Prof, Herman Wimmer is the superintendent. The Southern Education Board of Washington, D. C., an organization which is devoting its energy and much money to the betterment of school conditions in the Southern States, pays Otis E. Hall, superintendent of Montgomery County, the marked compliment of asking his permission to publish and distribute the paper on "How Violin Solo-Mr. F. Ingersoll, Valpa- Consolidation of Schools is Effected," raiso University. Address "Public Education and the Problem of Democracy," Edward Howard Griggs, A. M., L. H. D. Adjournment. The Bremen Public School Library contains about 1,200 volumes, a large portion of which are suitable for general reading. The library is largely supported by a tax levy and the general public is invited to make use of the books. The books are catalogued and the record of borrowed books is kept in the same way as in larger city libraries. Any citizen of Bremen may borrow books from the library by securing a card at the library. which Mr. Hall read before the State Teachers' Association. George W. Knorr, Washington, D. C., Department of Agriculture, who has charge of the educational work the government is doing in the interest of the country schools, has also written Mr. Hall expressing the wish that the paper may be given wide publicity. Mr. Knorr has visited this county a number of times and in a recent pamphlet he published for general distribution by the government he used a large number of pictures of the excellent consolidated school buildings of the county. These two letters show that Mr. Hall is already a factor in the development of the consolidated school system. It will only be a question of a few years until the whole United States will be dotted with modern, upto-date consolidated school buildings. The letters received by Mr. Hall from these distinguished educators follow and are self-explanatory: Washington, D. C., Jan. 30, 1912. Superintendent Otis E. Hall, Crawfordsville, Ind. My Dear Superintendent Hall: Your admirable paper on consolidation read at Indianapolis is one of the best, possibly the best, statement of the case I have ever read. I should like to send a copy along with an introductory note to the State Supervisors and State Superintendents in the Southern States. May we have your permission? I wish that it might be published for wide circulation. Would you object to our doing this if we can find the means? Thanking you for the opportunity to read it, and ever with best wishes, Cordially yours, A. P. BOURLAND. Washington, D. C., Jan. 18, 1912. Superintendent Otis E. Hall, Crawfordsville, Ind. Dear Mr. Hall: I have copy of your paper read before the Indiana State Teachers' Association and was benefited by reading it. You have made a statement of perhaps the most important part on the consolidation movement and you have done it very well. I hope that your paper will be given publicity in such shape that it will get into the hands of the trustees, principals and teachers, so that it may be instrumental in creating a consolidation sentiment in counties where the idea is still new. Wishing you further success, I am, Very cordially yours, GEO. W. KNORR. County School Superintendents of the Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Congressional Districts held their semi-annual meeting in Kokomo. Some of the visiting superintendents visited the High School and the Central School until 10:30, when the party, in automobiles, went to West Middleton. An hour was spent in visiting the schools there. Speech by Superintendent Greathouse. From West Middleton the visitors went to Russiaville, where they had dinner. A visit to the schools of Russiaville followed and State Superintendent of Schools C. A. Greathouse, who joined the party early in the morning, made an address instructive and pleasing to pupils and patrons who had gathered. Other superintendents made short talks and just before departure, a group picture of the superintendents was taken. From Russiaville, the party proceeded to New London, where the schools. were visited and where remarks were made to the teachers and pupils. Prof. Greathouse left the party at New London, being compelled to catch a train back to Indianapolis to attend a banquet at night. Superintendent Hutson as Host. Returning to Kokomo, the superintendents had supper at the Y. M. C. A. as guests of Superintendent Hutson. Following was an evening session which lasted until 10:30 o'clock, discussions by the superintendents of what they had seen in the various |