CONFERENCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND SUPERINTENDENTS

In promoting more cordial relations between secondary schools and the College, Dartmouth has inaugurated a method of selecting the schools which may admit pupils on certificate. In order to increase the efficiency of this scheme the President of the College has invited to an informal conference August 8-12 the secondary school principals and superintendents of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. By bringing these men together in the northern New England states which are on Dartmouth's approved list it is felt that the visitors to the College will form a more definite idea of the type of college which Dartmouth aspires to be and the sort of boy who may wisely come here for his college course.

The discussions will give the faculty of the College, which wishes to discover the most effective means of cooperation, a fuller presentation of the problems of the secondary schools and the desirable relations between these schools and Dartmouth. The Education courses of the Summer Session and the public addresses may give our guests some new suggestions for increased efficiency in public education.

No annual gathering is proposed; Dartmouth does not wish this conference to compete with the state conferences for Principals and Superintendents, and, accordingly, urges that if attendance at only one is possible this summer, preference be given to the state conference.

Several men of high reputation in secondary school work, invited in for the purpose or connected with the Summer Session of the College, will address this conference, as well as conduct round table discussion on topics pertinent to the purpose of the gathering. Among the speakers will be Mr. Edson, Associate Superintendent of New York City; and Mr. Hazen, Principal of the New Utrecht High School,. New York; and Mr. Bliss, Superintendent of Schools, Montclair, N. J. In the final meetings of the conference it is expected that Governor McCall of Massachusetts and Doctor Finley, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, with Mr. Payson Smith, State Superintendent of Schools of Massachusetts, Mr. M. B. Hillegas, Commissioner of Education of Vermont, and Mr. H. A. Brown, Director of the New Hampshire Bureau of Educational Research, will be the speakers.

The College has made arrangements for the entertainment of its guests in College dormitories and will place the whole College plant at the disposal of the conference.