Friday Evening, April 4 8:00 o'clock SARAH CASWELL ANGELL HALL Address before the Schoolmasters' Club. 15. The Paradox of Oxford, Mr. Paul Elmer More, Editor of the Nation, New York. MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE Chairman Professor Frederick Lutz, Albion College. Wednesday Afternoon, April 2 2:30 o'clock ROOM 203, UNIVERSITY HALL Presiding Officer-Professor Frederick Lutz. I. 2. M. Henri Bordeaux, Mr. William A. McLaughlin, University of Michigan. Gottfried Keller's Novellen in the High Schools, Professor John W. Scholl, University of Michigan. 3. A Trip into the Country of Mérimée's Columbia, Professor Clyde B. Ford, Michigan State Normal College. Thursday Afternoon, April 3 2:30 o'clock ROOM 203, UNIVERSITY HALL. Presiding Officer-Professor Max Winkler, University of Michi gan. 1. Problems of Elementary Work in German, 2. Miss Mary McNerny, Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich. A New Talk on an Old Subject, Miss Marie Haefliger, Alma College. 3. Charles Nodier as an Exponent of German Romanticism in France, Professor J. H. Bacon, Kalamazoo College. Friday Afternoon, April 4 2:30 o'clock ROOM 203, UNIVERSITY HALL. Presiding Officer-Professor Arthur G. Canfield, University of Michigan. I. Miss Bertha A. Williams, Flint, Mich. *Illustrated with stereopticon. 2. Composition Work in Modern Languages, Professor H. R. Brush, Hope College. 3. Herder's Ideals of Literary Criticism, Miss Miriam D. Goldman, Central High School, Detroit. ENGLISH CONFERENCE Friday Afternoon, April 4 2:00 o'clock AUDITORIUM, HIGH SCHOOL Chairman-Assistant Principal E. L. Miller, Central High School, Detroit. Secretary-Miss Caroline E. Britten, Jackson. 1. How much English should our boys and girls know when they enter the high school? Miss Clara Beverly, Supervisor of English in the Grammar Grades of Detroit. 2. What College Freshmen know about English when they arrive on the Campus. Mr. John R. Brumm, University of Michigan. 3. Discussion of the Above. Mr. W. M. Aiken, Head of the English Department of the Ann Arbor High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. HISTORY CONFERENCE Thursday Afternoon, April 3 1:45 o'clock ROOM C-3, HIGH SCHOOL Chairman-Mr. C. S. Larzelere, Central State Normal School, Mt. Pleasant. Secretary-Mrs. Erie L. Gates, Bay City. I. The Case of History in the High School, Miss Mary Fairman Power, Central High School, Detroit. 2. The Use of Sources in the Teaching of History, Professor Ernest A. Balch, Kalamazoo College, Kala mazoo. 3. The Function of the Elementary History Courses in the University, Mr. William A. Frayer, University of Michigan. 4. Round Table. Topic: The Relation of English History to American History in the High School Courses. I. 2. Conducted by Principal N. B. Sloan, Eastern High Friday Afternoon, April 4 I:45 o'clock ROOM C-3 HIGH SCHOOL Some Thoughts on the Articulation of our History Courses, Political Science in History Teaching, Professor James E. Mitchell, Alma College. 3. The Highway with History, 4. Professor Earl W. Dow, University of Michigan. Conducted by Mr. W. H. Hathaway, Central High 5. Some Proposed Changes in the History Course, CONFERENCE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY Thursday Afternoon, April 3 2:00 o'clock PHYSICAL LABORATORY, WEST LECTURE ROOM Chairman-Professor N. H. Williams, University of Michigan. Vice-Chairman-Mr. F. C. Irwin, Central High School, Detroit. Secretary-Mr. B. E. Smith, Central High School, Grand Rapids. 1. Electric Waves and Their Measurement, Mr. D. L. Rich, University. 2. A Laboratory Method of Determining the Atomic Mass of Zinc, Mr. O. Tatlock, Detroit Central. 4. (a) A Simple and Effective Apparatus for Boyle's Law, (b) A Self-filling Barometer Tube and Manometer, (c) A Self-starting Siphon, Professor F. R. Gorton, Normal College. 5. The Preparation and Properties of Permanently Liquid Sulphur Trioxide, Professor D. M. Litchy, University. 6. The Place of the Electron Theory in Elementary Teaching, Professor K. E. Guthe, University. 7. What the Science Teacher May Do to Help the Prohibition of the Adulteration of Food and Drugs, Professor B. W. Peet, Normal College. 8. Lecture on Sound, 8:00 o'clock UNIVERSITY HALL Professor D. C. Miller, Case Scientific School. 9. Business Meeting. IO. II. 12. Friday Afternoon 2:00 o'clock The Relation of a High School Science Teacher to Instruction in Agriculture, Professor Frank S. Kedzie, Michigan Agricultural Col- A Hand Winch for Laboratory Measurements, A Theory of Snow Crystal Formation, Professor J. C. Shedd, Olivet College. 13. Adaptation of the Teaching of Chemistry to Vocational Subjects, Professor Delos Fall, Albion College. 14. Some Experiments in Light, Mr. H. N. Chute, Ann Arbor High School. 15. Volume and Pressure Changes in a Typical Sound Wave, Mr. W. W. Sleator, University. 16. A Miniature Gas Plant, Mr. R. C. Josenhans, Jackson. 17. (a) An Application of Boyle's Law, (b) Index of Refraction, Mr. R. H. Struble, Eastern High School, Detrot. MATHEMATICAL CONFERENCE (Admission by badge) Friday Afternoon, April 4 1:45 o'clock TAPPAN HALL Chairman-Mr. Alburtus Darnell, Detroit. Secretary-Professor W. H. Pearce, State Normal College. I. A List of Books for High School Teachers, with Comments, 2. Revolving Vectors, Professor G. W. Patterson, University. 3. Class Room Methods and Expedients. (Ten minute talks) First Lessons in Geometry, Miss Marion S. Gerls, Detroit. Mr. L. D. Wines, Ann Arbor. An Experiment in Geometry, Miss Gertrude L. Roper, Detroit. The First Semester in Algebra, Mr. F. E. Wilcox, Grand Rapids. BIOLOGICAL CONFERENCE Thursday Afternoon, April 3 Chairman-Prof. Wm. E. Praeger, Kalamazoo College, Kala mazoo. Secretary-Miss Helen B. King, Saginaw. Plans and Discussions of new courses in Botany, Zoology, Civic Miss Jessie McNall, Hastings. 3. A Course in Zoology, Prof. Jessie Phelps, State Normal College. 4. Discussion, Miss Grace Ellis, Grand Rapids. Friday Afternoon, April 4 Civic Biology-A New Plan for the High School Course by Dr. C. F. Hodges of Clark College, Worchester, Mass. A presentation of material sent in advance from the April publication of Dr. Hodges new text-book of Civil Biology, Miss Ellen Bach, Kalamazoo High School. Discussion, Professor Le Roy Harvey, Western Normal School, A New Course in Agricultural Botany, Professor Walter French, Michigan Agricultural College. Discussion, Mr. A. McVittie, St. Johns. |