Papers: I. D. Steele, San Jose High School; Miss Minnie Maher, Girls’ High School, San Francisco. Discussion opened by Miss Lucy R. Watkins, Watsonville High School; R. D. Faulkner, Horace Mann Grammar School, San Francisco.
Topic: “The Correlation of History with Other Subjects in the Teaching of History in the High School.”
Papers: E. D. Adams, Stanford University; T. M. Marshall, Alameda High School.
Discussion opened by Miss Eleanor Johnson, Oakland High School; F. H. Clark, Lowell High School, San Francisco.
Officers: President, J. N. Bowman; secretary, H. W. Edwards.
On the principle of history being a continuous subject from grade to university, grade and high school teachers were united in the same section. This plan has been adopted by the English section also, and others are thinking of it.
NEW YORK CITY CONFERENCE.
The New York Conference of History Teachers held its meeting on Saturday, December 11, 1909, at the College of the City of New York. After the opening address, Professor Henry Johnson, of Teachers’ College of Columbia University, gave the principal paper upon “Special Aids to Visualization in the Teaching of History.” This was followed by a discussion upon “The Solution of Some Practical Difficulties.” Miss Francis E. Chapman, of the Flushing High School, spoke upon “Lack of Judgment”; Miss Clara Byrnes, of the Normal College, on the “Lack of Vocabulary”; Miss Edith M. Tufts, of the Speyer School, upon the “Failure to Understand Alien Morals,” and Mr. James G. Croswell, of the Brearley School, upon “Lack of Imagination.” At the close of the meeting a luncheon was held in a neighboring hotel.
The report of the committee on nomination for officers for 1909-10 was adopted as follows: For chairman, Livingston Rowe Schuyler; secretary, Daniel C. Knowlton; treasurer, W. Franklin Brush. For members of the executive committee: Miss Clara Byrnes, Arthur P. Butler, William Fairley, James G. Croswell.