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happily, and that to accomplish this object it 

 is essential that every school inculcate the love 

 of truth, justice, purity, and beauty through 

 the study of biography, history, ethics, natural 

 history, music, drawing and manual arts. 



9. The National Educational Associatiain 

 wishes to record its approval of the increasing 

 appreciation among educators of the fact that 

 the building of character is the real aim of the 

 schools and the ultimate reason for the ex- 

 penditure of millions for their maintenance. 

 There is in the minds of the children and 

 youth of to-day a tendency toward a disregard 

 for constituted authority ; a lack of respect for 

 age and superior wisdom; a weak appreciation 

 of the demands of duty; a disposition to fol- 

 low pleasure and interest rather than obliga- 

 tion and order. This condition demands the 

 earnest thought and action of our leaders of 

 opinion, and places important obligations upon 

 school authorities. 



10. The National Educational Association 

 wishes to congratulate the secondary schdols 

 and colleges of the country that are making . 

 the effort to remove the taint of profession- 

 alism that has crept into student sports. This 

 taint can be removed only by leading students, 

 alumni and school faculties to recognize that 

 interschool games should be played for sports- 

 manship and not merely for victory. 



11. The National Educational Association 

 observes with great satisfaction the tendency 

 of cities and towns to replace large school com- 

 mittees or boards, which have exercised through 

 subcommittees executive functions, by small 

 boards which determine general policies but 

 entrust all executive functions to salaried ex- 

 perts. 



12. Local taxation, supplemented by state 

 taxation, presents the best means for the sup- 

 port of the public schools, and for securing 

 that deep interest in them which is necessary 

 to their greatest efficiency. State aid should' 

 be granted only as supplementary to local taxa- 

 tion, and not as a substitute for it. 



13. We can not too often repeat that close, 

 intelligent, judicious supervision is necessary 

 for all grades of schools. 



14. A free democracy can not long continue 

 without the assistance of a system of state- 



supported schools administered by agents 

 chosen by the people and responsible to the 

 people for its ideals, its conduct and its results. 



Eliphalet Oram Lyte, 



of Pennsylvania {Chairman), 



Charles J. Baxter, of Neiv Jersey, 



Edwin G. Cooley^ of Illinois, 



Erank B. Cooper^ of Washington, 



Charles D. McIver, of North Carolina, 



Miss Anna Tolman Smith, 



of District of Columhia. 



Miss ITarriet Emerson, of Massachusetts, 



O. J. Kern, of Illinois, 



Edward J. Goodwin, of New York, 



William L. Bryan, of Indiana. 



Cominittee on Resolutions. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The University of Cape Town conferred 

 honorary doctorates on several members of the 

 British Association on August 17, including 

 the president. Professor G. W. Darwin, of 

 Cambridge; Professor W. M. Davis, of ITar- 

 vard University, and Professor Porter, of Mc- 

 Gill University. 



The Ophthalmological Congress, which held 

 its annual meeting from August 2 to 5, 

 awarded the Graefe Medal to Professor Her- 

 ing, of Leipzig, for his work in the domain of 

 physiological optics. 



The Emjieror of Austria has made Dr. Karl 

 Toldt, professor of anatomy in the University 

 of Vienna, a life member 6f the Austrian 

 House of Lords. 



Professor J. M. van't Hoff, the eminent 

 physical chemist, has been elected a member 

 of the Academy of Sciences at Turin. 



Dr. J. Larmor, of Cambridge, will lectiTre 

 on mathematical physics at Columbia Univer- 

 sity during the year 1906-7. 



Professor Podwyssotzki, dean of the med- 

 ical faculty of Odessa, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Institute for Experimental Medi- 

 cine at St. Petersbiirg. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, and Mrs. Britton 

 sailed for Bermuda on August 30, to carry 

 out some botanical investigations, returning 

 during the last week in September. 



