Move for Higher Pay at Education Convention
The New York delegation led a push at the teachers convention for higher salaries nationwide. It proposed a $3000 appropriation to fund an investigation into teachers pay, arguing the average salary under $350 annually is inadequate. Illinois and Michigan delegates backed similar resolutions, signaling a likely major dispute as the NAeA has previously avoided formal action.
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New York
National Educational Association
United States
Tlinois
Michigan
Comfort for Teachers at Jordan Marsh Parlor and Galleries
The Jordan Marsh Company opens a fourth floor ladies parlor with a cooling green design, lounging chairs, writing tables, a reading table, and free check room service. An emergency room with medicine chest and physician access, an art gallery on the third floor, and an art garden near the parlor entrance showcase oils, engravings, and bric a brac. A fifth floor annex displays a furnished nine room summer cottage via a subway passage lined with Oriental rugs.
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National Educational Association
Jordan Marsh Company
Pathfinder
Art Gallery
Europe
Eliot's Cultivated Man and the 19th Century Shift
President Eliot at the National Educational Association argues the cultivated man now embodies broad sympathy, self reliance, and balanced judgment, merging Emersonian manual skill with science. He outlines four culture elements—character, language, store of knowledge, and imagination—and stresses constructive imagination across arts, science, and public life, urging diverse, humane education.
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National Educational Association
Mechanics’ Trall
Eliot
Emerson
John Addington Symonds
Goethe
Nature
Zola
Paris
Havre
Niagara
Convention Side Lights in Boston Reflect Native Pride and City Sights
Ada Lady and contemporaries from the Indian department visit Boston with guides and bright attire. They tour Technology Building doors, groan over lodging tales, and enjoy parks, gardens, and the Common. Western visitors marvel at price shopping and safety tips. locals describe street scenes, a gunboat visit, and the Mayflower Club tea room at the Old South Church.
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Ada Lady
Oliver Jack
Charley Arm
Joseph Eagle
Bessie Sitting Bear
Indian Department
Technology
Ecru
Boston
Arizona
Cambridge
Dorchester
Missouri
Mon
Montana
Roxbury
Newbury Street
South Station
Kentucky
Texas
Concord
Lexington
National Council
New Old South Church
Girls’ Latin School
Mayflower Club
Lucy Lowell
Irwin
Radcliffe
Yamanaka
Banquet Welcomes National Educators In Boston
A grand welcome to visiting teachers from the National Educational Association greeted about 350 educators at a Vendome banquet in Boston hosted by the American Institute of Instruction. Governor Bates and Mayor Collins spoke, praising education and Massachusetts schools while President Keyes and President Eliot highlighted the convention's significance and enduring endowment. W. T. Harris noted progress in graded schooling and student transportation across states.
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Vendome
American Institute of Instruction
National Educational Association
America
Cc. H. Keyes
Edward Everett Hale
Teachers’ Association
Keyes
Bates
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Boston
Massachusetts
Merrimac
Collins
Mechanics’ Hall
Skinner
New York
Cushing
Eliot
New England
Horace Mann
North Carolina
South
Emerson
United States
W. T. Harris
Tileston
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White Post
Maine
President Eliot OF
Harvard
Swaar Boy
Mechanics Hall
Teck
Mak
Tuskeekee
Italy
Darwin
Pasteur
Dante
J. J. Duncan
Day Schools of
Pine Ridge
Lillian Whiting
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