JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS AND ADDRESSES

OF THE

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

SESSION OF THE YEAR 1885,

AT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.

PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION.

NEW YORK:

PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO..

10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE.

1886.

Civil Service Reform and the Public Schools-Tenure of Office and Maintenance

of Teachers, by Henry Randall Waite

122

Teaching as a Business for Men, by C. W. Bardeen ..

138

The Apprenticeship Question and Industrial Schools, by Thomas Hampson..

151

The Relation of Secondary Education to the American University Problem, by

Andrew F. West.

195

The Practical Value of a College Education, by S. N. Fellows..

214

DEPARTMENT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Proceedings and Election of Officers..

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223

On the Educational Value of each of the Common School Studies, by James H.

Hoose.......

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224

The Function of the Normal School in our Educational System, by Edward E.

Sheib......

235

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

The Report of the Progress of Industrial Education During the Year ending

July 1, 1885, by S. R. Thompson..

248

Election of Officers..

258

The Educational Value of Manual Training, by Charles H. Ham..

259

An Outline of Technical Work for a Manual Training School, by William F.

M. Goss....

263

DEPARTMENT OF ART EDUCATION.

Address of the President-Otto Fuchs-Art Education....

275

Drawing in Primary and Grammar Schools, by Mrs. E. F. Dimmock..

284

Drawing in High Schools, by Walter S. Perry..

288

Drawing in Normal Schools, by Miss Kate E. Shattuck.

295

Industrial Drawing for Primary and Grammar Schools, by Charles M. Carter ..

Evening Industrial Drawing Schools, by Otto Fuchs....

302

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DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION.

Syllabus of President Barringer's Address. .

311

The True Object of Early School Training, by Clarence E. Meleney.

Language as an Educator, by Z. Richards...

313

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Election of Officers..

329

A New Departure in Teaching Geography, by L. R. Klemm..

Avenues to the Mind, by William M. Giffin....

The Kindergarten in the Mother's Work, by Mrs. Elizabeth Powell Bond...

Relation of the Kindergarten to the Primary School, by Hon. John W. Dick-

inson.....

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Some Essentials of the Kindergarten, by Mrs. Eudora Hailmann

A Plea for the Elements of Music in Primary Grades, by B. Jepson.

Methods of Teaching Voca! Music, by H. E. Holt.

384

396

The Relative Importance of Song-Singing, and the Reading of Music, by O.

Blackmann

402

Hygiene in Education-Recess or no Recess in Schools...

414

Normal Education--Practice Schools in Connection with Normal Schools.

429

State School Systems-State Supervision of Schools....

439

Secondary Education-The Place and Function of the Academy.

447

REPORTS ON EDUCATION at the World's Cotton Centennial Exposition, New

Report on the Exhibit of the Schools at the Christian Brothers.

528

Report upon the Educational Exhibit of the Colored People.

531

Exhibit of Woman's Work.......

534

Report on the Educational Effects of the World's Exhibition at New Orleans