On motion, the Board of Directors voted to approve the petition and to authorize the petitioners to organize a department to be known as the Educational Department of National Organizations of Women.

DIRECTOR JOHN MACDONALD, of Kansas: At a meeting of the Board of Directors in Washington in 1898, they adopted certain forms of spelling for twelve words. This action was carried by a vote of eighteen to seventeen. I think there are three members present in this Board of Directors who were present at that meeting. The change in spelling at that time affected twelve words. I now propose that action be rescinded so far as it applies to three of the twelve words. Nine years is sufficiently long to find out whether the American press and American people are going to follow the lead of the Board of Directors at its Washington meeting. During these nine years the American press has refused to have anything to do with these words. I therefore offer the following resolution and move its adoption:

Resolved: That the Secretary of the National Education Association be hereby instructed to use the standard spelling in the printing of the following words wherever they may occur in the Proceedings or in any other publications of the Association: Through in all its compounds and variations; Thorough in all its compounds and variations; Though in all its compounds and variations.

The resolution of Director MacDonald was adopted by a vote of twelve to eight, thirteen directors not voting.

The committee on the nomination of members of the National Council of Education reported through its chairman, Charles H. Keyes, of Connecticut, as follows: To the Board of Directors of the National Education Association:

Your Committee on nominations of members of the National Council of Education recommends the following:

J. H. PHILLIPS, Birmingham, Alabama, to succeed himself, term expires 1912.
LIVINGSTON C. LORD, Charleston, Illinois, to succeed himself, term expires 1912.
JAMES H. BAKER, Boulder, Colorado, to succeed himself, term expires 1912.
C. C. VAN LIEW, Chico, California, to succeed himself, term expires 1912.
JAMES M. GREEN, Trenton, N. J., to succeed himself, term expires 1913.
AUGUSTUS S. DOWNING, Albany, New York, to succeed himself, term expires 1913.
E. H. MARK, Louisville, Kentucky, to succeed himself, term expires 1913.

T. A. MOTT, Richmond, Indiana, to succeed Calvin N. Kendall, term expires 1912. GEORGE B. COOK, Hot Srings, Arkansas, to succeed A. R. Taylor, Decatur, Illinois, term expires 1913.

STRATTON D. BROOKS, Boston, Mass., to succeed Charles D. McIver, Greensboro, N. C., deceased, term expires 1913.

O. J. CRAIG, Missoula, Mont., to succeed Charles F. Thwing, Cleveland, Ohio, term expires 1908.

DAVID C. FELMLEY, Normal, Illinois, to succeed Albert G. Lane, Chicago, Ill., deceased, term expires 1908.

DAVID B. JOHNSON, Rock Hill, S. C., to succeed Wm. L. Bryan, Bloomington, Ind., term expires 1908.

BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, Berkeley, California, to succeed Wm. R. Harper, Chicago, Ill., deceased, term expires 1909.

On motion, the report of the Committee on Nominations of members of the Council was accepted and adopted and the nominees were declared elected to the several terms indicated in the report.

There being no further business, the Board of Directors adjourned.

IRWIN SHEPARD, Secretary.

The following committees were appointed subsequent to the close of the convention in accordance with the authorization of the Board of Directors, as noted in foregoing minutes.

COMMITTEE ON A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Benjamin Ide WHEELER, president of the University of California.
JAMES B. ANGELL, president of the University of Michigan.
CHARLES VAN HISE, president of the University of Wisconsin.