ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

American Institute of Instruction.

LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS, AND PROCEEDINGS.

SARATOGA, N. Y., JULY 11-14, 1882.

Published by order of the Board of Directors.

BOSTON, MASS.:

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION.

1882.

PREFACE.

THE fifty-third consecutive annual meeting of The AmerICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION was held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 11-14, 1882, in connection with the twenty-first annual meeting of THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. The meetings of the INSTITUTE were on Tuesday and Thursday, the 11th and 13th, and those of the ASSOCIATION were on Wednesday and Friday, the 12th and 14th. On Friday evening a joint meeting of both bodies was held, at which short addresses were made by representative men from various states, East, West, and South.

All railroad tickets from New England required the stamp of the secretary of the INSTITUTE, which was obtainable after the payment of one dollar (the annual membership fee) to the treasurer; without this stamp the return ticket was not good. All railroad arrangements from points outside of New England were made by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

Reduced rates for board at the various hotels were offered to members of either association. All arrangements were made by the officers of the two bodies with cordial good-will and remarkable harmony. The meetings were unusually large, the papers were of a very high order, and the discussions were sustained with remarkable interest. Probably no educational meeting ever before held in the country brought together so large a number of distinguished educators, and perhaps never before were read at one meeting so many papers of a high order of excellence, discussing the prominent educational topics of the day with great vigor and ability. The discussions following Mr. Dickinson's paper on "Oral Teaching," and Mr. Clark's paper on "Industrial Education," are reported in full, and will be found following the papers, in this volume. The proceedings, all discussions, and all