EDITORIALS 



Of going to meeting and conventions there is no end. There 

 are few teachers who have never gone or been tempted to go 

 to the summer meeting of the N. E. A. There are re- 

 Amnial tively few, however, in the elementary schools who are 

 Meeting accustomed to attend the annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, held 

 during Holiday Week, or, as it is generally known to many, 

 "Convocation Week". The American Nature-Study Society 

 holds its annual meeting at this time in connection with the A. 

 A. A. S. The place of the next meeting is Minneapolis, Minn. 

 Members of the American Nature-Study Society of that city and 

 vicinity are planning a most cordial reception to the Society and 

 will not be satisfied with anything other than a large attendance 

 from members throughout the country. The officers and council 

 of the- American Nature-Study Society generally are members of 

 the American Association and without doubt the majority of 

 them will be present. 



It is hoped that many of our members will be attracted to 

 the Minneapolis meeting. The many sections of the A. A. A. 

 S. and the large number of affiliated societies which meet with it, 

 fill the week with most attractive programs. One who aims 

 to follow the latest developments in science and scientific educa- 

 tion can ill afford to miss these meetings. The general revival 

 of interest in nature-study throughout the country leads us to 

 hope that at Minneapolis we shall have the largest attendance 

 yet recorded at any meeting of the American Nature-Study 

 Society. Further details will appear in the November issue. 



The country life movement has now progressed until its 

 further advance will be irresistible. Economic conditions in the 



country have 'greatly improved; the hard- 

 The Problem of ships of farming have been eliminated, and a 

 the Rural Church better day is dawning for the child in the 



rural school. The next point of attack must 

 be the country church. The rural clergy are even now awaking 

 to the seriousness of present conditons, and organizations will 

 soon be in the field with the one aim to correct the evils which 

 now beset the country church. It is not our intention here to 

 point out what these evils are, but it should be evident that he 

 who is to be a successful pastor to rural people must not only 

 be sympathetic with their spiritual aspirations, but must be 



