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K. O. Joliuson, was appointetl to report next year on a suitable bigli school 

 coui'se which should include af,'riculture. The otlicers elected l)y this depart- 

 ment for the ensuing year were president, K. L. Buttertield, of Massachusetts; 

 vice-president, C. A. Lory, of Colorado ; and secretary, E. E. Balcomb, of 

 Oklahonui. 



Domestic science instruction was also considered by several departments of 

 the association, as well as by the American Home Economics Association, which 

 met at the same time in Denver. Mrs. E. H. Richards read a paper before the 

 dei)i rtment of elementary etlucation on The Application of the Household Arts 

 and Sciences to the Work of tlie Elementary School, and in the department of 

 manual training discussed the intiuence of domestic science on rural and city 

 home life. At the latter meeting the influence of domestic ai'ts on rural and 

 city home life was discussed by Miss Helen Schurz of Kansas. The importance 

 of domestic science teaching was also emphasized by L. D. Harvey and J. W. 

 Robertson in their addresses before the general convention as well as l)y others 

 who spoke upon the general subject of industrial education. 



The American Home Economics Association held three sessions, the first de- 

 voted to the discussion of Domestic Science and Art in the High School, Vo- 

 cational General Training, and College Preparatory; the second to brief ad- 

 dresses on different 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 cul- 

 minated at Denver in the adoption of the report of a special committee on 

 reorganization, which reduced the number of departments from 21 to 10. In 

 doing this three departments (physical education, Indian education, and the 

 library) were eliminated entirely. The national council and the departments 

 of higher education, 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 

 superintendenc*e 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 pi'eparation of teachers ; the departments of 

 elementary education and kindergarten education into a department of ele- 

 mentary education ; the departments of secondary education, business educa- 

 tion, and science instruction into a department of secondary education ; and 

 the departments of manual training, rural and agricultural etlucation, and 

 technical instruction into a department of industrial education. This last 

 department is also to include domestic science instruction. 



The leading officers of the general association elected for the ensuing year 

 were president, J. Y. Joyner of North Carolina ; treasurer, Arthur Chamber- 

 lain of California ; member of board of trustees, J. M. Greenwood of Missouri ; 

 member of executive committee, J. H. Phillips of Alabama. I. H. Shepard 

 holds the position of secretary for life. 



The reorganization of the association ])ractically nullifies the elections held 

 by the different departments, but the matter of filling these positions was left 

 with the executive committee with power to act. 



Thirty-sixth National Conference of Charities and Corrections. — This organiza- 

 tion met at Buffalo, June 9-1(5. A number of the papers dealt with rural con- 

 ditions and other phases of agricultural work. 



In the section of families and neighbor hoqd.s. Dean Jj. H. Bailey discussed 

 R\iral Connnimities, in which he considered the greatest disability at present 

 to be the lack of social and econoniic organizations. John C. Campbell fol- 



