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their actions, or that intemperance should 

 mark their utterances. A code of profes- 

 sional conduct clearly understood and rigor- 

 ously enforced by public opinion is being 

 slowly developed, and must one day control 

 all teachers worthy of the name. 



19. In teaching, as in every other kind of 

 work, the best service is secured by iinding 

 the individual best fitted to the particular 

 place as indicated by training, experience, 

 and meritorious service; the National Educa- 

 tion Association therefore heartily approves 

 a merit system of promoting teachers and fill- 

 ing vacancies. We assert, furthermore, that 

 the grounds upon which a teacher may apply 

 for a position are preparatory training, ex- 

 perience, and meritorious service — in a word, 

 professional fitness, alone; and that the use of 

 other personal and political arguments to se- 

 cure appointment is deplorable in the teacher 

 and a serious menace to a high professional 

 standard. 



The foregoing principles and aims have 

 been fully considered by the Committee and 

 unanimously recommended to the Active 

 Members of the National Education Associa- 

 tion for adoption. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Committee on Resolutions: 



Howard J. Eogers, Chairman, 



of New York. 

 Orville T. Bright, 



of Illinois. 

 Charles E. Chadset, 



of Colorado. 

 Edgar H. Mark, 



of Kentucky. 

 George M. Philips, 



of Pennsylvania. 

 David B. Johnson, 



of South Carolina. 

 Adopted by unanimous vote of Active 

 Members in session, July 1, 1908. 



Irwin Shepard, 



Secretary 



CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS 

 The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation announces that the following physi- 

 cians and scientific men expect to attend the 

 approaching congress at Washington : 



Belgium: J. F. Heymans, Ghent. 



Denmark: Holger Eodam and Johannes 

 Fibiger, Copenhagen. 



Germany: G. Hermann, Munich; Mme. 

 Lydia Eabinowitsch-Kempner, F. Meyer, G. 

 Kirchner, Eobert Koch, Gotthold Pannwitz 

 and F. Helm, Berlin; F. Kohler, Werden a. d. 

 Euhr; Dumpf, Ebesteinburg b. Baden-Baden; 

 W. Schwabe and Uhlmann, Leipzig; W. von 

 Leube, Wiirzburg. 



Great Britain: W. E. Smith, G. A. Heron, 

 C. Theodore Williams, H. Horton-Smith and 

 A. Latham, London ; Sheridan Delepine, Man- 

 chester; Sims Woodhead, Cambridge; Nathan 

 Eaw, Liverpool; N. D. Bardswell, King Ed- 

 ward Sanatorium, Midhurst; E. W. Philip, 

 Edinburgh; William Osier, Oxford. 



France: Charles Baradat, Cannes; F. Bar- 

 bary, Nice; A. Calmette, Lille; Dupeux, 

 Bordeaux; A. J. Magnin and L. Landouzy, 

 Paris; E. Herve, Lamotte-Beuvron ; A. Leime, 

 Versailles, Arloing, Lyons; P. Gallot, Men- 

 tone. 



Italy: Umberto Gabbi, Messina; Massa- 

 longo, Verona; Eduardo Maragliano, Genoa. 



Greece: Bastile Patrikios, Athens. 



HoUand: C. F. J. Blocker, Voorburg; E. de 

 Josselin de Jong, Eotterdam. 



Norway: F. Harbitz, Christiania; Herm. 

 Gade, Hagekiken pr. Bergen. 



Austria: Eeisinger, Komitau i Bohmen; 

 Lang, H. von Schroetter, Bartel, C. von 

 Pirquet and H. Eiedl, Vienna; A. Taussig, 

 J. Dvorack and T. Altschul, Prague. 



Eoumania : J. Mitulescu, Bucharest. 



Eussia: S. von Unterberger, N. Th. von 

 Tschigaieff and A. A. WladimirofP, St. Peters- 

 burg. 



Sweden : Karl Petren, Upsala ; K. O. Medin, 

 Stockholm. 



Switzerland: Spengler, Davos-Platz; Th. 

 Exchaquet, Leysin; Egger, Basle. 



Spain: Jose Chabas, Valencia; A. Martinez- 

 Vargas, Barcelona. 



Hungary: H. Preisz, Budapest. 



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