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importance of domestic science teaching Avas further emphasized by • 

 L. D. Harvey and J. W. Robertson in their addresses before the gen- 

 eral convention, as well as by others who spoke upon the general sub- 

 ject of industrial education. 



The American Home Economics Association held three sessions, 

 the first devoted to the discussion of Domestic Science and Art in the 

 High School, Vocational General Training, and College Preparatory; 

 the second to brief addresses on dilferent phases of home economics 

 instruction ; and the third to Teachers' Problems in Domestic Art and 

 Science. 



A movement which has been under way for a number of years for 

 the reorganization of the departments of the National Education 

 Association culminated at Denver in the adoption of the report of a 

 special conunittee on reorganization, which reduced the number of 

 departments from 21 to 10. In doing this three departments (physi- 

 cal education, Indian education, and the library) were eliminated 

 entirely. The national council and the departments of higher educa- 

 tion, music education, and special education remain as before, while 

 the department of women's organizations becomes the department of 

 school patrons. 



The remaining 13 departments will be combined as follows: The 

 department of superintendence and that of school administration into 

 a new department of superintendence; the department of child study 

 and that of normal schools into a department of professional prepara- 

 tion of teachers; the departments of elementary education and kinder- 

 garten education into a department of elementary education; the 

 departments of secondary education, business education, and science 

 instruction into a department of secondary education ; and the depart- 

 ments of manual training, rural and agricultural education, and tech- 

 nical instruction into a department of industrial education. This 

 last department is also to include domestic science instruction. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AT THE SECOND NATIONAL CORN 



EXPOSITION. 



The growing sentiment in favor of better utilization of all available 

 agencies for promoting agricultural education was strongly empha- 

 sized in the prominence given to strictly educational features at the 

 Second National Corn Exposition, held at Omaha, December 9-19, 

 which is enthusiastically declared by an agricultural journal to have 

 been "the most elaborate demonstration of farm products ever held 

 in this country." Nearly 10,000 different exhibits, relating more i)ar- 

 ticularly to the production and utilization of farm crops, and repre- 

 senting 28 States, scattered from Connecticut to "Washington, and 

 from Minnesota to Texas, besides entries from Hawaii, Canada, 

 Mexico, England, and Argentina, filled to overflowing the 250,000 



