SPRINGFIELD, MASS.:
CLARK W. BRYAN & COMPANY, PRINTERS.

1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by MILAN C. STEBBINS, PRESIDENT, FOR THE ASSOCIATION,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

CONTENTS,

l'age.

ORDER OF EXERCISES, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

OFFICERS FOR 1871-1872, . ..... 7

JOURNAL OF. PROCEEDINGS, . . . . . . . . . . .

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, Hon. A. J. PHIPPS, .... 9

Hon. J. L. PICKARD'S ADDRESS, ..........

RESOLUTIONS RelatiNG TO THE LATE William SEAVER :

AND THE REMARKS OF T. W. VALENTINE, .... 20

OFFICERS FOR 1872–1873, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

REMARKS OF Rey. CHARLES HAMMOND, AND PROF. S. S.

GREENE, UPON THE LATE DR. Lowell Mason, .. 24

REMARKS UPON THE LATE ALBERT A. GAMWELL; BY

WILLIAM A. MOWRY, . . . . . . . . . . . .

RESOLUTIONS AND Closing ADDRESSES, ...... 32

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS, . . . . . . . . . . .

Public EDUCATION IN GERMANY; BY NATHANIEL T. ALLEN,

THE TRUE EDUCATION; BY E. E. White, ...... 69

INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION UPON LABOR; By Hon. J. W.

PATTERSON, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

DRAWING IN GRADED PUBLIC SCHOOLS; BY WALTER SMITH, 121

VOCAL MUSIC AS A BRANCH OF EDUCATION IN OUR COMMON

SCHOOLS; BY J. BAXTER UPHAM, M. D., ..... 161

ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ITS PLACE IN POPULAR EDU. .

CATION; By Francis H. UNDERWOOD, .... . 186