THE

ADDRESSES AND JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

SESSION OF THE YEAR 1873,

AT ELMIRA, NEW YORK.

PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION.

PEORIA, ILLINOIS:

N. C. NASON, PRINTER, ADAMS STREET, CORNER HARRISON.

1873.

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CONTENTS.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION.

Welcoming Address, by Hon. LUTHER CALDWELL, Mayor of Elmira,
"GEO. M. DIVEN, Esq., President Board of Educa-

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tion, Elmira,

Response by Hon. B. G. NORTHROP, President of the Association, .

Release of Unpaid Japanese Indemnity by the United States.

SHIPPEN, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.,..

EDWARD

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DANIEL

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Address in memory of W. H. McGUFFEY, LL.D., deceased.

REED, LL.D., President of Missouri State University, Columbia,

Upper Schools. JAMES MCCOSH, LL.D., President of College of New Jer-
sey, Princeton, .

How Much Culture shall be imparted in our Free Schools? RICHARD

EDWARDS, LL.D., President State Normal University, Normal, Illinois, 51

The Relation of the General Government to Education. Prof. G. W. ATH-
ERTON, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey,

Education in the Southern States. Hon. J. C. GIBBS, Superintendent of

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National

National University.

CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D., President of Harvard

College,

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Classical Studies. Prof. EDWARD S. JOYNES, Washington-and-Lee Univer-

sity, Lexington, Va.,

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Liberal Education of the Nineteenth Century. Prof. W. P. ATKINSON,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.,

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