Meeting of Teachers' Association

The Harvard Teachers' Association held its eighteenth annual meeting in the New Lecture Hall on Saturday. At the business meeting the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: president, J. B. Diman '96; vice-presidents, E. D. Russell '80 and A. H. Ward '85; secretary, Professor P. H. Hanus; treasurer, O. B. Oakman '87; member of the executive committee, to serve for five years, N. H. Black '96; committee on educational progress, J. E. Downey, F. O. Carpenter '80, N. C. Hamblin, F. M. Leavitt, J. Mahoney, W. D. Parkinson, S. Sears, J. W. Wood, Mrs. F. F. Andrews, and Mrs. E. Bradley; delegates to the State Council of Education, W. H. Cushing '93, G. W. Evans '83, G. P. Armstrong '03.

The general topic for the morning session was "Present Educational Needs." M. L. Perrin, professor in Boston University and superintendent of schools in Wellesley, delivered the first address. He pointed out the lack of home influence on students in the grammar schools and said that they must be worked with individually. Professor W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin College emphasized the need of backbone in college administration to prevent standards from being lowered for the sake of larger numbers. H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the Committee on Educational Progress, then read an abstract from his report.

After the dinner, which was served in the Union, J. Lee '83 and F. P. Fish '75 continued the discussion on the subject of the morning.