THE Addresses and Journal of Proceedings OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SESSION OF THE YEAR 1880, AT CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. SALEM, OHIO: It was hoped that the proceedings at Chautauqua would be printed earlier than the proceedings are usually printed, but unforeseen delays have prevented this consummation so devoutly wished. The last paper forwarded to the Secretary did not reach him until December 4, and the last signature was placed in the hands of the binder December 22. If the readers of addresses would always hand to the Secretary their addresses just after reading them, carefully written, paragraphed, and punctuated, the annual volume could be distributed about the first of December. There have been printed 1000 copies of the proceedings, and in the whole edition are bound the proceedings of the Department of Superintendence in Washington, in February, 1880. CONTENTS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION. The Unattainable in Public-School Education, by A. P. Marble............ 33 The Domain of Nature and Art in the Process of Instruction, by W: by G. J. Orr......................... National Council of Education. The Relation of Educators to the Spelling Reform, by F. A. March.......146 Report of Committee on the National Teachers' Life-Insurance Com- ....... Some of the Obstructions, Natural and Interposed, that resist the DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 193 The Practical Use of Reference Books, by Mary W. Hinman....... What should we seek to accomplish in the Reading-Exercise, by E. O. GENERAL ASSOCIATION. First Day's Proceedings. MORNING SESSION. The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the National Educational Association was opened in the Amphitheatre at Chautauqua, N. Y., at 9 A. M., Tuesday, July 13, 1880. President J. Ormond Wilson, of Washington, D. C., called the Association to order and prayer was offered by DR. LEMUEL Moss, President of the Indiana State University, at Bloomington, Ind. The Association was welcomed by the REV. J. L. HURLBUT, Acting President of the Chautauqua meetings, in the following ADDRESS. MR. PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION: It is my pleasant duty on this occasion, to extend to you as our guests. the greetings of Chautauqua. I regret, in common with you, that these words of welcome cannot be spoken by our President, Dr. VINCENT, Who is the originator of Chautauqua, and better than any other person can represent it. But as he is now in lands across the sea, I am summoned as his representative, to express to you our gladness at the coming of your Association. We welcome you right heartily to these groves, consecrated to the cause in which you, like us, are workers. You are educators, and no department of a true education is foreign at Chautauqua, which aims to forward all the elements of a Christian culture. You represent, not a single state, but the entire country, and Chautauqua too embraces all sections of the land and all branches of the church in its fellowship. We welcome as fellow-workers all whose lives are employed in the effort to extend the privileges of knowledge and intelligence throughout our great country. We make you free of Chautauqua, and place at your service all within our bounds. We trust that you may so enjoy our lake-breezes and our shady avenues, and our ample Amphitheatre, as that in future years you may feel inciined to revisit our shores. In the name of the Chautauqua Association, then, I extend to you a cordial welcome, and wish for you the fullest success in your gathering. To this address President WILSON responded in a few fitting words. He then introduced the Rev. A. D. MAYO of Massachusetts, who read the following paper on |