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Show ijEOUCAIORS LEAVE I FOR THEIR HOMES FINAL SESSION OF SUCCESSFUL GATHERING AT SALT LAKE MARKEU 6Y ENTHUSIASM. Delegates Warm in Their Praise tf Reception Accorded by Utahns and Declare Convention Was Most Sucessful in History. Salt Lake City The fifty-first annual an-nual convention of the National Education Edu-cation association came to a close Friday night, and the Salt Lake meeting meet-ing passed into the history of the organization or-ganization marked as one of the most successful, best managed and most royally entertained meeting of educators educa-tors ever he! 1. The tributes given Salt LaKe ana Utah, including the loca' committees and school officials and teachers who have been most active in preparing lor the meeting were thoughtful ex pressions of sincere appreciation of the hostess city and state and the men and women of Utah who have sought to show their appreciation of the honor of entertainining the N. E. A. The closing session of the convention conven-tion began with an excellent musical program and closed with the reading of an address from President-elect Joseph Jo-seph Swain, who was called home Fri-klay Fri-klay morning by a telegram bringing word of serious illness in his family. He left for Pennsylvania a few minutes min-utes after he had prepared a brief address ad-dress accepting the office to which he had been elected. This address he was to have given at the closing session of the convention Friday night, but it was read by President E. T. Fairchild, whose term of office expired with the adournment of the session. - J. Lyman Barnard, professor of history his-tory and government in the School o: Pedagogy, Philadelphia, was introduced intro-duced by President E. T. Fairchild as a leader in the movement to humanize the teaching of history and civics in the schools of America. Mr. Barnard outlined methods of teaching civics in the public schools of Philadelphia, where from the kindergarten up there is an effort to instruct the children as to their duty to the community and to their government, local and national. James F. Hoosic, head of the English En-glish department, Chicago Teachers college, spoke on "Advance Movement of Teachers of English." Speaking on the subect of "The High School as a Factor in Social Progress," Thomas Jesse Jories, specialist spe-cialist in the government bureau of education, said that the high 6chool of today was to be regarded as having the greatest opportunity for the democratization demo-cratization of the country. P. P. Claxon, United States commissioner commis-sioner of education, outlined the needs for a national bureau of education, calling attention to the fact that me constitution makes no mention of education edu-cation and there are no educational institutions in-stitutions in the way of schools, colleges col-leges or a university that are national. Despite this, the government and the nation as a whole is more or less interested in-terested in education and educational matters, he said. Discussion of problems of educating atypical children was given before Friday Fri-day afternoon's session of the department depart-ment of special education of' the National Na-tional Education association by D. M. P. E. Grozzmann of . New York, director di-rector of the National Association foi-the foi-the Study and Eduactlon of Exceptional Excep-tional Children. A. C. Nelson, state superintendent of public instruction in Utah, was honored hon-ored by being elected second vice-president vice-president of the N". E. A. The retiring retir-ing president, Edward T. Fairchild I was chosen first vice-president |