BULLETIN 



OF THE 



VOL. 12. SALEM, JANUARY -JUNE, 1880. Nos. 1-6. 



KEGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, JAN'Y 19, 1880. 



MEETING this evening. PRESIDENT in the chair. Rec- 

 ords read. Donations and 'correspondence announced. 



Mrs. Margaret Braden and Arthur West, both of Salem, 

 were elected resident members. 



Vice President, D. B. HAGAR, read a paper on " Spell- 

 ing Reform" He commenced by saying that it was too 

 late for sensible men to laugh at the spelling reform. He 

 named a large number of eminent scholars in England 

 and in America who are its advocates, and designated 

 prominent educational bodies who have officially favored 

 its consideration. He alluded to several well known lead- 

 ing newspapers as having adopted some of the proposed 

 new spelling, mentioning the Chicago Tribune, the Utica 

 Herald, the N. Y. Independent, the Journal of Education 

 and the Home Journal^ and stated what had been done by 

 educational associations in behalf of the reform. The 

 following propositions were then advocated : 



(1) That spoken language necessarily precedes written 



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