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Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting

OF THE

American

Institute of Instruction

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

PROCEEDINGS, CONSTITUTION

LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS

AND ADDRESSES

Published by order of the Board of Directors

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
American Institute of Instruction

1906

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.

President.

WALTER E. RANGER,
Providence, R. I.

Secretary.

WM. C. CRAWFORD,

596 Cambridge Street, Allston District, Boston, Mass.

Assistant Secretary.

PAYSON SMITH,

Auburn, Me.

Treasurer.

ALVIN F. PEASE,

3 Kneeland Street, Malden, Mass.

Assistant Treasurer.

NATHAN L. BISHOP,

Norwich, Conn,

Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting

OF THE

American Institute of Instruction

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
JULY 9-10-11-12, 1906

GENERAL SESSIONS

Monday Evening, July 9.-Woolsey Hall

Brief Organ Recital.
Vocal Solo..

8 to 10

Prof. H. B. Jepson, Yale University Organist
Dr. Charles Zimmerman

Prayer. Rev. William W. McLane, D. D.
Addresses of Welcome. His Excellency, Governor Henry
Roberts, Hartford; His Honor, Mayor John P. Studley,
New Haven; Arthur M. Wheeler, Durfee Professor of
History, Yale University.

Address in Response. Dr. A. E. Winship, Editor Journal of
Education, Boston.

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"The Teaching of Commercial Geography." Albert G. Keller, Assistant Professor of the Science of Society, Yale University.

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Disciplinary Values of Education." Frederick W. Hamilton, President Tufts College.

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Accompanist, Miss Clara Louise Jepson

"Educating the People for International Arbitration." Wm. H. P. Faunce, President of Brown University.

"Some Recent Educational Developments in England." Kate Stevens, Teachers' Training College, London.

Henry T.

"The Arts and Crafts in the Public Schools." Bailey, Editor "The School Arts Book", and formerly State Supervisor of Drawing for Massachusetts.

Wednesday Morning, July 11.-Woolsey Hall

9 to 10.30

One Thousand Children from the New Haven Public Schools, under the direction of Supervisor Benjamin Jepson.

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Three Part Song.

The Star-Spangled Banner Exercises in Dictation....

Austrian Hymn To be sung at sight German Hymn

To be sung at sight
Russian Hymn

To be sung at sight With semi-chorus of boys

By the entire chorus

Patriotic School Song-Air, " Onward, Christian Soldier."
With grand organ accompaniment by Prof. H. B. Jepson
At the piano, Mr. Harry Cowles

NOTE. The songs for sight reading were written for the occasion by Dr. Horatio Parker, of Yale University. They had never before been heard or seen by the children. The same may be said in reference to the exercises in dictation.

"The Individual versus the Class." George C. Chase, PresiIdent of Bates College.

"The Need for Public Trade Schools."

President of Trinity College.

Flavel S. Luther,

Wednesday Afternoon.-Woolsey Hall

4.30 o'clock

Organ Recital. Benjamin Jepson, Supervisor of Music in the

Public Schools of New Haven.

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"On the Trail of the Troublesome Boy." Carroll G. Pearce, Superintendent of Schools, Milwaukee.

"What Service Does the Public Require of the Public's Schools for the Public's Children? His Excellency, the Honorable George H. Utter, Governor of Rhode Island.

A pleasant feature of the evening was the introduction, by President Ranger, of three of the most prominent members of the Institute George A. Walton, whose first meeting was in 1846; William A. Mowry, whose first meeting was in 1851, and David N. Camp, the senior of both in years. As each was presented, the audience rose. Each made a brief and happy response to this recognition.

Thursday Morning, July 12.-Woolsey Hall

Baritone Solo
Violin Solo.
Soprano Solo..

9 to 10.30

General Subject:-City School Problems.

"The Problem of Rights at School." Superintendent of Schools, Providence.

William E. Morgan Miss Mollie Stanford Miss Leola Lucey

Walter H. Small,

Frank H. Beede,

"The Problem of the Incorrigible Boy." Superintendent of Schools, New Haven.

"The Problem of the Backward Pupil." Andrew W. Edson, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, New York City.

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