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Wreaths, pageantry, speeches in honor of George Washington made a good beginning last fortnight for the annual convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association in Washington. But there were more engrossing matters. The some 15,000 pedagogs?one of the world's largest annual professional gatherings???had one thing in common to talk about: Hard Times. U. S. education cost $3,200,000,000 in 1931. How was it going now? Was it true, as President of Superintendents Edwin Cornelius Broome of Philadelphia had said before the opening of the convention, that superintendents must fight...
...world's largest annual professional gatherings???15,000 public school superintendents and teachers, members and associates of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association?assembled last week in De- troit. With them they had ten gold-lettered, morocco-bound volumes containing more than 4,500 tribute-letters to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry...
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