village, and country schools. These results have been repeated in other schools and in other states. I am led to believe that the results gained are in some instances better than results in this same work where funds, equipment, and trained teachers are provided for carrying on the work as an organized part of the school course. The work has this virtue: A child learns to make the best use of his opportunity; he learns that efficiency is the aim and that individual effort wins. In all the above-mentioned instances the work has been encouraged by the existence of the school district, the county, and the state organizations of boys and girls, which have for their purpose the development of individual efficiency; the object being to provide suggestion and direction rather than instruction. Departments of manual training and cooking have recently been established in the high schools at York and Geneva as a direct result of the interest taken in the work of the county and state boys' and girls' associations. In other localities, both rural and urban, thru the activity of the young people, the communities have been led to a higher appreciation of the value of education in agriculture, home economics, and manual training as encouraged by our 8,000 active members scattered over the state. Agricultural and domestic science clubs thruout the United States are doing this same work of spreading the inspiration that comes from individual effort along lines of activity that bring the school, the home, and the community into closer communion and recognize the necessity of all-around development. Referring again to the thought suggested at the beginning of this paper in the discussion on the consolidation of schools, let us make application to the subject under discussion. Insomuch as we should make the best possible use of the one-room rural school in our work of evolution toward the consolidated school, so is it necessary to make use of the facilities at hand if within the present generation we see the establishment of the work in agriculture, manual training, and domestic science in our schools where most needed. The extension work in agriculture and home economics which is being rapidly developed now by many of our leading universities; the organizations of boys and girls working thru the public-school system; the reading courses made popular because of their adaptation to the real conditions as found in the homes of the people; the traveling schools of agriculture, which may later bring traveling schools of home economics; all these movements which stimulate the activity of our young people in a simple, earnest, effective way are doing more for creating a proper degree of respect for industrial efficiency; are helping more to dignify the calling of the farmer and the home-maker than are textbooks, lectures, special schools, and other of the more dignified methods we have been using, yet in which we feel the need of a more effective means of reaching the home and of extending the work. Necrology From May, 1907, to January 1, 1908 Reports of the death of the following-named life and active members have been received since May, 1907; the date of decease follows each name. OLIVER CROMWELL AREY (December, 1907). GEORGE S. BEANE (October, 1907) SARAH F. BUCKELEW (April 27, 1907) EZEKIEL HANSON COOK (November 8, 1907) J. B. CUNNINGHAM (November 11, 1907) S. L. FROGGE (August 2, 1907). ENOCH A. GASTMAN (August 3, 1907) RUFUS HENRY HALSEY (July 25, 1907) G. R. HAMMAN (April 24, 1907). . CHARLES HERBERT HARRINGTON (July 21, 1907) C. E. MANN (June 30, 1907) FRED B. MAXWELL (November 6, 1907) PHILO JESSE WILLIAMS (March 21, 1907). . Brooklyn, N. Y. Los Angeles, Cal. Brooklyn, N. Y. Cincinnati, Ohio Philadelphia, Pa. Birmingham, Ala. Chicago, Ill. Reisterstown, Md. Greenville, Ky. Decatur, Ill. Oshkosh, Wis. Fort Worth, Texas IN THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Heavier numbers show membership from the state in which the meeting of the year was held. Totals.. N. Atlantic Div. 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 11,297 9,072 7,107 10,532 13 656 4,640 10,182 10,355 34,983 8,108 23,642 5,168 17.324 473 2,621 293 321 768 6,891 686 13 16 6 39 INVENTORY AND PRICE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION IN THE DEPOSITORY AT WINONA, MINN., BOUND VOLUMES of tHE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION A complete General Index of all published proceedings from 1857 to 1906 inclusive has been issued in a separate volume, bound in cloth, uniform with the volumes of proceedings. The index will be sent free of charge to those who purchase five or more volumes; to others it will be sent postpaid for $1.00. The index volume will be supplied to active members for 50 cents for postage, wrapping, etc. *Stock exhausted. |
