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Stratton D. Brooks : The question of admission to the university with- 

 out examination. 



A. Kaswell Ellis : Take one of our educational problems and make 

 a thoroughgoing scientific treatment of it. 



Grant Karr : Define the psychological nature of the common-school 

 subjects. 



J. Stanley Brown : The time element as it affects the elementary, 

 secondary, and college courses. The six-year course for the high school. 



Other suggestions were offered, but were to be made more 

 definite and sent to the Secretary. 



On Wednesday at 5 p. m., at the regular business meeting the 

 following officers and members of the Executive Committee were 

 chosen : 



President — Professor Wilbur S. Jackman, College of Education, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago (continued another year). 



S ecretary-Treasurer — Manfred J. Holmes, Illinois State Normal Uni- 

 vei'sity, Normal, 111. 



Members of the Executive Committee, to serve for two years — Charles 

 A. McMurry, State Normal School, DeKalb, 111.; Reuben Post Halleck, Male 

 High School, Louisville, Ky. 



A motion was carried to appropriate fifty dollars ($50) for 

 the Secretary's expenses during the past year. 



A motion was carried to allow the Secretary one hundred and 

 fifty dollars ($150) for expenses; provided, that such sum remain 

 in the treasury after all other indebtedness of the Society has been 

 discharged. 



The discussion of Miss Brooks's paper on " The Relation of 

 Theory to Practice in City Training Schools" brought out some 

 helpful comparisons as to how different cities are trying to supply 

 their schools with trained teachers. This discussion also suggested 

 the question of having a few leaders of discussion well prepared 

 beforehand, and ready to do justice to the paper discussed. 



On Thursday, at 9 a. m., the following-named persons were 

 elected to active membership : 



Ezra W. Benedict, principal of high school, Warrensburg, N. Y. 

 Sarah C. Brooks, principal of Teachers' Training School, Baltimore, Md. 

 Edwin C. Broome, superintendent of schools, Rahway, N. J. 

 John F. Brown, professor in education, State University, Iowa City, la. 

 J. Stanley Brown, superintendent of Township High School, Joliet, 111. 



