Director J. H. Collins, of Illinois, presented the following petition for the creation of a new department:

To the Directors of the National Educational Association:

GENTLEMEN: We, the undersigned, active members of this association, earnestly believing that the simplifying of our spelling is an educational question, and that it would greatly tend to promote the cause of popular education, respectfully request you to authorize us to organize a Simplified Spelling Department of this association.

(Signed)

DAVID FELMLEY, president State Normal School, Normal, Ill.
JOHN W. COOK, president State Normal School, De Kalb, Ill.

O. T. BRIGHT, County superintendent of Cook county, Chicago, Ill.

A. R. ROBINSON, principal High and Manual Training School, Chicago, Ill.

E. C. DELANO, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.
Leslie Lewis, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.
ALFRED KIRK, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.
WM. C. PAYNE, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.
W. C. DODGE, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.
MISS ELLA C. SULLIVAN, Chicago, Ill.

HENRY C. Cox, principal Garfield School, Chicago, Ill.

E. C. ROSSITER, principal Medill High School, Chicago, Ill.
WM. J. BARTHOLF, principal Von Humboldt School, Chicago, Ill.
DUDLEY GRANT HAYS, principal Arnold School, Chicago, Ill.
A. H. YODER, editor Adolescence, Chicago, Ill.

E. O. VAILE, editor Intelligence, Oak Park, Ill.

A. V. GREENMAN, superintendent of schools, Aurora, Ill.

W. L. STEELE, superintendent of schools, Galesburg, Ill.
JOHN RICHESON, superintendent of schools, East St. Louis, Ill.

F. T. OLDT, superintendent of schools, Dubuque, Ia.

J. A. COLLINS, superintendent of schools, Springfield, Ill.

JOSEPH CARTER, superintendent of schools, Champaign, Ill.

LINCOLN P. GOODHUE, assistant superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.

FRANCIS W. PARKER, director School of Education, University of Chicago.

OSSIAN H. LANG, editor School Journal, New York city.

J. H. VAN SICKLE, superintendent of schools, Baltimore, Md.

C. B. GILBERT, superintendent of schools, Rochester, N. Y.

C. C. ROUNDS, institute instructor, New York city.

E. B. Cox, superintendent of schools, Xenia, O.

Director Collins, after reading the application, moved that it be granted, and the Department of Simplified Spelling be established. Seconded by Director Mott, of Indiana.

After brief discussion, a motion to lay the motion of Director Collins on the table for a year was carried by a vote of thirteen in favor and eight against.

The Secretary reported a communication from Hon. Alfred Bayliss asking to be allowed to present personally a communication from the Round Table of State and County Superintendents of the Department of Superintendence. Permission being granted, Mr. Bayliss stated briefly that the widespread interest in the question of the consolidation of school districts in rural communities and the transportation of pupils had led to the appointment at the Chicago meeting of a committee to ask the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association to appropriate a suitable sum of money to be used by a committee appointed by the association to secure full and exact information with regard to what has been done in this direction in several states, and to publish this information for general circulation among the rural communities.

Director Carrington offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: Resolved, That the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and hereby is, appropriated to defray the expense of collecting information regarding the progress, means, and results of consolidating rural schools wherever the experiment has been made, and for the preparation and printing of such a report to the National Educational Association as may be useful as a bulletin of information and recommendation for general circulation among the people.

Provided, That the association shall appoint a committee for that purpose, and, provided further, that no member of such committee shall receive compensation for services in any form.

After brief discussion, the resolution of Director Carrington was, under the rules of the board, referred to the National Council for consideration and recommendation.

SECRETARY SHEPARD.-A communication has been received from the National Association of Elocutionists in session at Buffalo, N. Y., June 24, ultimo, stating that a committee had been appointed to attend the Detroit convention of the National Educational Association and to present in person a request from that body. Miss Marie L. Bruot, teacher of elocution and oratory in the Central High School, Cleveland, O., a member of that committee and an active member of the National Educational Association, is present and wishes to be heard.

President Green then invited Miss Bruot to address the board.

MISS BRUOT.-Mr. President and Members of the Board of Directors: At the convention of the National Association of Elocutionists, held in Buffalo the last week in June, Professor Robert I. Fulton, dean of the School of Oratory of the Western University of Ohio, Professor Thomas Trueblood, of the University of Michigan, and myself were appointed a committee to appear before this body to ask that some time be given to the subject of the "spoken word" upon the programs of the National Educational Association. I regret exceedingly that the chairman and the other member of this committee are not present, but I realize and believe that there is no one of your number who does not fully appreciate the value of this subject—the "spoken word" and we trust that this honorable body will give this subject a place on your program, that the methods of teaching reading and expression may be presented and discussed. Sincerely believing that it is for the best interests of education that some time be given in the conventions of the National Educational Association to the subject of the "spoken word," I present this request, on behalf of the committee, for your consideration.

On motion of Director Gove, the Secretary was instructed to present this request of the committee of the National Association of Elocutionists to the President of the association in 1902, and to the presidents of such departments as may appropriately include the subject in their annual program.

The Secretary read the following communication from the chairman of the committee on education of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., as follows:

LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION COMPANY,

ST. LOUIS, U. S. A., July 7, 1901.

1. M. Green, Esq., President, National Educational Association, Detroit, Mich.:

DEAR SIR: Recognizing the fact that the educational exhibits will form one of the most important features of the world's fair to be held in St. Louis in 1903, the Committee on Education, of which I have the honor to be chairman, considers it its duty to ask the National Educational Association at its annual meeting in Detroit for its full co-operation in making the educational department of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi tion a complete success from every aspect. Therefore the undersigned begs to suggest that the National Educational Association appoint a committee to act as an advisory board to the committee having in charge the educational exhibits at the world's fair in St. Louis, and that the state and city educational authorities act as agents of their representative states and cities in the preparation of the representation of the systems, institutions, and instrumentalities within the sphere and range of their official connection or authority. Trusting that your body will act favorably upon these suggestions, we beg to remain,

DIRECTOR HARRIS.—I move that this communication be received and placed on file. Seconded and carried.

DR. HARRIS.-I now offer the following resolution:

WHEREAS, The authorities of the world's fair to be held in St. Louis in 1903 in commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase have tendered an invitation to the National Educational Association to co-operate with their Committee on Education, be it

Resolved, That the President of the National Educational Association appoint a committee of twentyone, whose duty it shall be to act as an advisory board whenever the education committee of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition submits specific questions or asks their co-operation. This advisory board shall have power to fill vacancies, and also to add further members to their number.

DIRECTOR SOLDAN. -I rise to second the motion of Director Harris, and wish to say a few words in explanation. The chairman of the committee on education of the board of directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. called on me in St. Louis on Friday, before I left, and submitted in brief the following plan or intention on the part of the educational committee: They wish to conduct the educational department at the world's fair largely according to the ideas and wishes of the teaching profession in the country. They wish to be guided in the plans and in the collections of exhibits by the best advice that can be obtained from educators. Mr. Schroers, in discussing this idea, said that he wished the advisory board, if it should be the pleasure of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association to appoint such a board, to aid in planning the lines according to which the educational exhibits should be selected and arranged in every detail; that, while the committee on education of the directory in St. Louis would assume all responsibility, they wish to keep in touch with this proposed committee of the National Educational Association and be guided in the general outline, as well as in the details, by their advice. The scope of the duties of the committee on education which sends this letter is indicated by the following extract from the by-law creating the committee on education:

The Committee on Education and Educational Congresses shall consist of seven members, and shall have charge of all matters pertaining to elementary and higher education in schools and other institutions of learning, whether devoted to science, literature, or art, and also of all educational congresses and conventions, and all subjects directly connected therewith.

The motion of Director Harris was then put to vote and adopted unanimously. PRESIDENT GREEN. - This motion, as I understand it, carries with it directions that the chairman appoint a committee of twenty-one. I will, with the permission of the board, announce the committee later.

Under the call of miscellaneous business, Director Springer, of Michigan, reported that in securing advance memberships and in advancing the interests of the association in other ways he had spent $113, altho he was aware that but $20 was allowed each state director under the rules and customs established. He thought that this amount was quite insufficient for the director of the state in which the annual convention is held, and moved that hereafter the sum of $100 be allowed for the expenses of the director of the state in which the annual meeting is held. Seconded by Director Ross, of Tennessee.

After brief discussion, the motion of Director Springer was put to vote and lost.

DIRECTOR NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, of New York. - The members of the board will doubtless remember that in the amendments to our constitution in 1895 provision was made for the election of foreign educators as corresponding members. This action was intended to be an honorable recognition of men and women in foreign countries who had gained distinction in educational work. We have only once taken advantage of our authority by the election at the Washington meeting of ten persons as corresponding members. In connection with the exposition at Paris last year a number of persons gained what seems to be very considerable distinction, partly thru their service at the exposition and partly thru the various valuable reports made to their respective governments on educational methods and progress. I submit herewith a list of such persons, and move that they be chosen as corresponding members:

Léon Bourgeois, formerly minister of public instruction, member of the Chamber of Deputies; 5 rue Palatine, Paris, France.

Charles Bayet, director of primary instruction in the ministry of public instruction; 27 rue Gay-Lussac, Paris, France.

Élie Rabier, director of secondary education in the ministry of public instruction; 27 rue de Fleury, Paris, France.

Camille Sée, counselor of state; 65 avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

E. P. Kovalevski, officer of the imperial ministry of public instruction, St. Petersburg, Russia. Fabian Ware, inspector of secondary schools for the board of education, London, England; 54 Goldhurst Terrace, Hampstead, N. W., London, England.

Cloudesley S. H. Brereton, vice president, international jury of awards for elementary education, Paris exposition; Briningham House, Norfolk county, England.

Béla de Tormay, chief of bureau in the royal ministry of agriculture, Budapest, Hungary.

Seconded and carried without dissent.

At this point the President announced the following members of the advisory board created by the resolution of Director Harris, as follows:

William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education of the United States, Washington, D. C.

Edwin A. Alderman, president of Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Newton C. Dougherty, superintendent of schools, Peoria, Ill.

Nicholas Murray Butler, professor of philosophy and education, Columbia University, New York city. William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York, N. Y.

James MacAlister, president of Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.

Calvin M. Woodward, director of manual training, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Halsey C. Ives, director, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Mo.

Aaron Gove, superintendent of schools, District No. 1, Denver, Colo.
Andrew S. Draper, president of University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.
William R. Harper, president of University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University, Cal.

J. G. Schurman, president of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

Daniel C. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

James M. Greenwood, superintendent of schools, Kansas City, Mo.

Charles M. Jordan, superintendent of schools, Minneapolis, Minn.

Lewis H. Jones, superintendent of schools, Cleveland, O.

William T. Carrington, state superintendent of public instruction, Jefferson, Mo.

F. Louis Soldan, superintendent of schools, St. Louis, Mo.

Carroll G. Pearse, superintendent of schools, Omaha, Neb.

There being no further business, after announcements by the Secretary, the board adjourned.

IRWIN SHEPARD, Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1901-1902

DETROIT, MICH.-THURSDAY, JULY 12, 4:30 P. M.

The newly elected Board of Directors was called to order in Temple Beth El at 4:30 P. M., July 12, by President-elect William M. Beardshear. The following directors responded to the roll-call:

Nicholas Murray Butler, New York; Oscar T. Corson, Ohio; Albert G. Lane, Illinois; Aaron Gove, Colorado; F. Louis Soldan, Missouri; J. M. Greenwood, Missouri; William T. Harris, District of Columbia; Mary H. Hunt, Massachusetts; E. Oram Lyte, Pennsylvania; Teachers' Institute, Pennsylvania; William M. Beardshear, Iowa; F. Yale Adams, Arizona; Wilbur F. Gordy, Connecticut; W. N. Sheats, Florida; Miss Permeal French, Idaho; Alfred Bayliss, Illinois; H. E. Kratz, Iowa; Frank R. Dyer, Kansas; W. H. Bartholomew, Kentucky; John S. Locke, Maine; D. W. Springer, Michigan; Charles M. Jordan, Minnesota; W. T. Carrington, Missouri; Carroll G. Pearse, Nebraska; H. Brewster Willis, New Jersey; Hiram Hadley, New Mexico; Augustus S. Downing, New York; J. M. H. Frederick, Ohio; E. D. Ressler, Oregon; Watson Cornell, Pennsylvania; W. B. Jacobs, Rhode Island; George J. Ramsey, Virginia; C. M. Sherman, Washington; L. D. Harvey, Wisconsin; Miss Estelle Reel, Wyoming; Charles H. Keyes, Connecticut; Irwin Shepard, Minnesota.

Present, thirty-seven members.

The minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors held on July 9 were read and approved.

On motion of Director Greenwood, the chair appointed the following committee to nominate members for the National Council: Directors F. Louis Soldan, of Missouri; Charles M. Jordan, of Minnesota; and Nicholas Murray Butler, of New York.

Mr. J. H. Francis, of California, by permission of the President, stated to the board that Superintendent J. A. Foshay, director-elect for California, was not present, and, as that state desired to be represented in the meeting of the Board of Directors, he requested that permission be granted to him to represent Mr. Foshay as a proxy.

Director Greenwood moved that Mr. Francis be permitted to represent Mr. Foshay by proxy in this meeting, stating that he considered it only fair that California be allowed the privilege of voting representation in the Board of Directors. Seconded.

Director Gove, of Colorado, questioned the advisability of this motion as being an innovation on the custom and precedents of the board.

Director Pearse, of Nebraska, called attention to the impropriety of any action by which the Board of Directors should change the action of the electors of the National Educational Association in transferring the right to vote from the duly elected director to a proxy, and especially to a proxy not appointed by the director himself, thus arbitrarily changing the membership of the board.

In response to an inquiry, the Secretary stated that this question had frequently been before the board for action, and that the board had always refused to allow proxies, even when designated by the absent members.

The motion of Director Greenwood was then rejected by a decisive vote. President Beardshear announced as the next order of business the election of a member of the Board of Trustees to succeed F. Louis Soldan, of Missouri, whose term of office expires with this meeting.

A motion was made and seconded that Mr. Soldan be nominated to succeed himself as a member of the Board of Trustees.