this association is limited to dental schools which are integral parts of state universities or of chartered universities of equal standing of the United States, holding membership in the Association of American Universities, demanding graduation from accredited high schools, that require four years of high school work or the equivalent amount of education for matriculation.

The officers of the association for the year 1909-10 are Dr. J. G. Sharp, University of California, Berkeley, Cal., president; Dr. Eugene H. Smith, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., vice-president; Dr. Edward C. Kirk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

EASTERN PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.

This association is composed of volunteer organizations which have made successful attempts at securing humanitarian laws, such as laws providing for compulsory school attendance, free popular lectures, increase of teachers' salaries, regulation of child labor, and improvements in the organization and management of schools. Its last meeting was held in Washington, September 28 to October 3, 1908. Its object was a thorough discussion of the public school as a safeguard to public health, and in order to make this more impressive, the meeting was held in conjunction with the tuberculosis congress in Washington, held at the same time. The exhibition prepared for this congress was utilized to illustrate the lectures on school hygiene. The programme was varied and was carried out by the chairman, Supt. George I. Aldrich, of Brookline, Mass. The papers read dealt chiefly with the hygienic features of public education. The chief speakers were Dr. Pearce Kintzing, of Baltimore; Prof. A. Duncan Yocum, of Philadelphia; Mr. Milton Fairchild, of New York; Miss Julia Richman, of New York; Representative J. van Vechten Olcott, of New York; Dr. Adolph Knoph, of New York; Health Commissioner Thomas Darlington of New York; and others. The association resolved to extend its activity to the entire country and abandon the word "eastern" in its name and constitution. INTERCOLLEGIATE CIVIC LEAGUE: COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

[Statement made to the Bureau by Mr. Gustave W. Buchen.]

The Commonwealth Club of the University of Wisconsin was organized in the spring of 1908 for the purpose, as its constitution states, "of developing higher ideals of social and political service among its members; and of arousing within the student body of the University of Wisconsin a lively interest in public affairs.

The club is one which, with some 30 or 40 others in the leading colleges and universities of the country, constitute the Intercollegiate Civic League. The central organization is located in New York City, but it acts only in an advisory capacity. The clubs make their own

constitutions and rules, and outline their programmes, cooperating with the league only when some definite concerted action is necessary. Each year one or more delegates are sent to the national convention at New York, where the executive committee is elected and the reports of the work of the various clubs are made.

The Commonwealth Club of the University of Wisconsin is closely connected with the department of political science, and members are selected with reference to reasonable scholarship combined with a keen interest in public affairs. The membership is limited to 40, not by thought of exclusiveness, but by a desire to secure capable, active men and an efficient working organization. The members are selected only from the junior and senior classes and from the graduate school.

The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Reuben McKitrick; vice-president, Raymond T. Zillmer; secretary-treasurer, Clarence C. Tolg.

The work carried on by the various clubs in the Intercollegiate Civic League differs according to the communities in which they are located. Some of the clubs confine their activities to the student body, encouraging them, irrespective of party, to work and vote for worthy candidates for office. Other clubs in large cities cooperate with the good-government leagues in their fight against graft and corruption. The Commonwealth Club of the University of Wisconsin has not extended its activities along these lines. Regular meetings were held during the year, at which papers were read and discussions held on subjects of vital political and social interest, with special reference to conditions in Wisconsin. Realizing, however, that this plan limited its field of usefulness, the club has decided on a new and broader course of action. By virtue of the close relation existing between the university and the State, the former is able to render valuable assistance in administrative work and in guiding the policies of the State for the good of the Commonwealth. At the special session of the legislature which is to be convened in January, 1910, several important matters are to come up for consideration, among them being guaranty of bank deposits, industrial insurance, income tax, and water power and dams. With a view to aiding in the consideration of these problems, the Commonwealth Club has been divided into four sections, each section to make a thorough study of one of the above-mentioned subjects. From time to time reports of their progress will be made to the club, and finally the members will appear before the legislative committees and present the results of their investigation. In this way the club hopes to be of direct service to the State by aiding it in progressive and scientific legislation.

Nor are the larger aspects of a club of this kind to be overlooked. Our political system has become so complicated and oftentimes so

inefficient that enlightened democracy demands enlightened leaders. It is from our colleges and universities that the greatest portion of our future leaders is to come. It is therefore highly important that the college man be not only a trained man, but a man of steady purpose, stern resolves, and high ideals. These are the qualities which the Commonwealth Club seeks to instill in its members; and if its mission is fulfilled, it will be a potent force in the fight for clean politics.

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.

Report of the Secretary to the Commissioner of Education.

WINONA, MINN., September 9, 1909. MY DEAR SIR: By the provisions of section 4 of the act of incorporation of the National Education Association by Congress, approved June 30, 1906, I am required to render to you, on behalf of the corporation of said association, an annual report stating the amount of property, real and personal, held by the corporation, and the various receipts and expenditures during the past year.

I am submitting herewith such a report, as follows:

The association holds as personal property approximately 10,000 volumes of proceedings in the depository of the association at the office of the secretary in Winona, Minn., valued at $10,000; 5,000 pamphlets and reprints, valued at $800; office furniture, cases, and equipment, valued at $500; total personal property at Winona, $11,300.

An office is maintained in the city of Washington at 1360 Fairmont street, in accordance with section 8 of the act of incorporation, but the association owns no property, real or personal, in the city of Washington.

The business of the association is transacted at the office established by authority of the board of directors at Winona, Minn.

The association has a permanent invested fund, referred to in section 7 of the act of incorporation, which is the charge of the board of trustees. This fund, at the close of the last fiscal year, June 30, 1909, amounted to $170,000, as per the accompanying Exhibit A, which constitutes the twenty-third annual report of the board of trustees.

You will note that the net revenue from this fund amounted to $6,743.17, which was transferred to the treasury of the association for current expenses.

The fiscal year of the association is from July 1 to the following June 30, the last fiscal year closing June 30, 1909. For this last fiscal year the total receipts for current expenses from all sources

were $37,418.67; the total expenses for the year were $33,609.67; leaving a balance in the treasury June 30, 1909, of $3,809.

The chief sources of revenue are:

Membership fees;

Proceeds of sale of volumes and reports;

Revenue from the invested fund.

The chief sources of expense of the association are:

The printing and distribution of the annual volumes;

The maintenance of the secretary's office and clerical force at Winona, Minn.;

The expense of preparing for and conducting the annual convention.

While a large part of the revenue comes from the associate membership fees received at the annual convention, a still larger amount comes as annual dues of $2 for each member from the 6,000 active (permanent) members of the association.

The last convention of the association, held at Denver July 3 to 9, was in every respect successful; but no special action was taken which would probably be deemed essential or important to embody in this report.

I am, respectfully, yours,

Hon. ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN,

IRWIN SHEPARD, Secretary.

Washington, D. C.

Commissioner of Education of the United States,

EXHIBIT A.

Exhibit A, referred to in the foregoing report of the secretary of the association, consists of the Twenty-third Annual Report of the Board of Trustees, for the year ending June 30, 1909. This report is taken up with a detailed statement of the permanent fund of the association, which amounted on July 1, 1909, to $170,100. There had been $72 added to it during the year. Following is a summary of the principal items:

The report is signed by the trustees as follows: Nicholas Murray Butler, James M. Greenwood, Henry B. Brown, Carroll G. Pearse, and Lorenzo D. Harvey.

The total registration of the Denver convention (the forty-seventh) was about 6,000. While, therefore, not the largest in point of numbers, it was one of the most important in its results, and particularly in the stimulus given to industrial education. The three great features of the convention were those bearing upon industrialism, hygiene, and morals in education. These have become permanent factors in the educational system of the United States and will continue to occupy the highest rank.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, State Supt. James Y. Joyner, of North Carolina; vice-presidents, Lorenzo D. Harvey, of Wisconsin (the outgoing president), Harvey B. Work, of West Virginia, Mrs. Katherine M. Cook, of Colorado, W. M. Holloway, of Florida, M. B. Stevens, of Maryland, W. J. Kerr, of Oregon, T. H. Harris, of Louisiana, F. B. Dyer, of Cincinnati, and L. E. Wolf; treasurer, Arthur H. Chamberlain. Irwin Shepard remains secretary, having been given that office for life. A vote taken by the directors favored San Francisco as the place of next year's meeting.

DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND AIMS.

The following declaration of principles and of aims was made by the association in convention assembled:

The National Education Association, now holding its forty-seventh annual convention in Denver, representing teachers and friends of education in every State of the Union, makes the following declaration of principles and of aims:

1. A free democracy can not long continue without the assistance of a system of state-supported schools, administered by the chosen agents of the people and responsible to the people for its ideals, its conduct, and its results. The com