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literary or poetic imagination. The 

 imagination of DarAvin or Pasteur, for 

 example, is as high and productive a 

 form of imagination as that of Dante, 

 of Goethe, or even of Shakespeare, if 

 we regard the human uses which re- 

 sult from the exercise of imaginative 



others took part in the departmental 

 sections for elementary, secondary and 

 higher education, science, normal 

 schools, school administration, phys- 

 ical education, defective children, In- 

 dian education, business, art, musiCj 



PErSIIENT Chaim.ks av. Ki.iot. 



powers, and mean by human uses not 

 meat and drink, clothes and shelter, 

 but the satisfaction of mental and 

 spiritual needs. 



Tliere were some three hundred 

 speakers announced on the official 

 program, a few of whom addressed 

 the general evening sessions, while the 



libraries, cliild study and kindergarten. 

 The discussion of tlie teaching of sci- 

 ence should be of especial interest to 

 the readers of this journal, but this 

 is never noteworthy at the meetings 

 of the association, there being very 

 few men of science in attendance. It 

 is unfortunate that this is the ease, 



