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 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. 



The determining factors of elementary education and the necessity for 

 uniformity of practice throughout the Pan American Republics. 



SECONDARY EDUCATION. 



Public support of secondary education conditioned by the character and 

 purpose of instruction given. 



UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. 



The various types of university education; the function of the State- 

 supported university; the relation of the American university to 

 public service and the work of governmental administration. 



EDUCATION OF WOMEN. 



The desirability, essential features and place of coeducation in the differ- 

 ent grades of education as carried on in a democracy. 



TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 



Engineering education in its relation to education in general and to the 

 different types of technical education in particular; the part that 

 engineering education may play in the industrial and scientific 

 development of a country; educational preparation for the teach- 

 ing and practice of, and investigation in, the medical sciences; 

 the special character of agricultural education, admission require- 

 ments for schools and colleges engaged in its teaching, and the 

 necessary financial support for it; the importance of industrial 

 education, its establishment through local, State, and Federal 

 support and its coordination and cooperation with the various 

 trades and industries; educational preparation for business, 

 domestic and foreign, as carried on in the commercial nations of 

 Pan America. 



SECTION V. 



ENGINEERING. 



CIVIL ENGINEERING. 



Engineering work in general. 



Mountain railroad transportation development; uniform gauge for rail- 

 ways throughout North, Central, and South America; public 

 roads, highways, streets and pavements. 



Improvement of river mouths; development of river navigation; open 

 channel work; canals; bridges, long-span, bascule, vertical, lift, 

 fixed submergible; harbor and port terminals, including piers and 

 quays on deep-water fronts. 



