DARTMOUTH SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS MEET

At the state gathering of superintendents and principals in August at Plymouth, twenty odd Dartmouth alumni who are engaged in school work assembled for an informal supper and discussion of questions pertaining to the relations between Dartmouth and the schools of New Hampshire. Each man present spoke, and the gathering seemed to be productive of much good-fellowship and of increased understanding on the part of the schoolmen of the problems which Dartmouth is facing.

The success of this meeting led to the planning of similar one at the time of the various State Teachers' meetings in October. On October 22, at the time of the New Hampshire State Teachers' Meeting in' Manchester thirty men met for lunch. The faculty was represented by Professors Emerson, G. D. Lord, Hardy, McConaughy, and Green. Charles W. Bickford '87, Superintendent of Schools in Manchester, had charge of the local arrangements. The informal discussion which took place seemed to be of interest to all present, and of considerable value to the College in promoting the more cordial relationship between it and the schools of the state.

At the time of the Vermont State Teachers' Convention in Rutland, a similar gathering was arranged for the thirty or more Dartmouth alumni who are teaching in Vermont. Mr. McConaughy, the newly appointed Profes- sor of Education, who was a speaker at the Convention, brought greetings from the College, explained the new method of selecting approved schools, and told of the new interest on the part of Dartmouth in the work and welfare of the secondary schools in New England.

Earlier in the week, at Bangor, the Dartmouth men who were present at the Maine Teachers' Meeting, also met for an informal discussion of these questions.

So successful have these meetings in are under way for a similar one at Boston on November 5, the night before the Dartmouth-Pennsylvania game. Any Dartmouth alumnus who is engaged in any form of school work is cordially invited to attend the informal dinner which will be held at the City Club. In order that proper reservations may be made, such men are asked to inform Mr. Wilbur J. Rockwood '85, Principal of the Everett High School, Everett, Mass., in case they are able to attend. Members of the faculty will be present, and the whole affair will be planned, not as a banquet with set speeches, but as an informal interchange of opinions regarding the important problem of Dartmouth's relations to the secondary schools of New England.

Later during the year arrangements may be made for such a gathering in New York for the Dartmouth men teaching in that vicinity.