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Only of late have secular teachers tended to unite. Be 

 yond the various training colleges which instruct and ex 

 amine and authorize, there are now sundry professional 

 associations. Of a general kind come the Teachers Guild 

 and the Scottish Educational Institute. Then of more spe 

 cial kinds come the Head Masters [of Public Schools] Con 

 ference; the Association of Head Masters of Intermediate 

 Secondary Schools ; the Association of Head Mistresses ; the 

 College of Preceptors; the Association of Assistant Mas 

 ters; the National Union of Teachers. 



So, too, with the appliances for maintaining a general 

 organization of all concerned in education schoolmasters, 

 assistants, colleges, and the various unions above named. 

 This professorial class, like other professorial classes, has 

 journals weekly and monthly, some general and some spe 

 cial, representing its interests, serving for communication 

 among its members, and helping to consolidate it. 



