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of child labor to the decrease of the birth rate.

In addition to the general sessions, there was the usual meeting of the National Council of Education, which consists of sixty of the more active members of the association and holds sessions of general interest. There are, further, departments of kindergarten education, elementary education, secondary education, higher education, normal schools, manual training, art training, musical training, business training, child-study, science instruction, physical education, school administration, library, special education and Indian education, all of which presented programs.

At the meetings of the National Educational Association there is a vast flood of platitudes annually poured out, but when there are practical questions to be discussed, the proceedings become at once more interesting and more scientific. The teachers are taking an increasing interest in all questions