The National Educational Association

From the Detroit Tribune. As has beretofore been briefly announced, the fourteenth annual meeting of the National Educational Association will be held in this city on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August 4th, rth, and (ith. Like the medical convention, a portion of its business will bo transactcd in sections, ono of' wliich will meet in the High School room, another in tho Common Council chamber, a third in tho Circuit Court room, and the fourth in tho Eecorder's Court room. The following is a general outlino of tbe progranuno for the meeting: (EXfcR.VL SESSION. Report of tho Committee on " Upper Schools," - the subject of Dr. MeCosh's paper last year,- the Eev. Georgo P. Hays, President of Washington and Jefferson College, Pcniisylvania, cbaivman of couimittec. " A National University." - President A. D. White, of Cornoll TJniversity, is expected to prosent tho leading paper on this subject. The subject will bo further discussed by President Noah Porter, of Yale Colloge ; Superintendont John Hancock, of Cincinnati ; and Superintendent W. T. Harris, of St. Louis. " Sex and Eduoation." - It is intended that thero shall be an opportunity for a full discussion of this subject by exponents of the leading views concerning it. Dr. Edward H. Clarke, of Boston, will present the first paper. Prof. J. K. Hosmer, of the University of Missouri, will read a paper on " Coeducation of the Sexos in Uuiversities." A third paper will be prosented by Prof. James Ortou, of Vassar, entitled, " l-'ive Years in Vassar College." The evening address will be dulivcred by Win. E. Abbott, Esq., of Bellevue, Va., subject, " The Frofession of tho Teacher ;" and others will be announced horeafter. DEFARTMENT OF I1IQHER SDTJCATION. 1. "The Elective System in Colleges and UniverBities," - Prof. A. P. Peabody, Harvard Collego. 2. 'University Endowments," - The Hon. J. B. Bowman, Regent of the University of Kentucky. 3. " Classical Studies in Iligher Institutions of Education,"- Prof. James D. Butler, Madison, Wis. 4. " Plan of the University of Virginia, " - C. S. Venable, Chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia. DEFARTMEXT OF THE NORMAL SCTIOOLS. 1. " What Constitutes a Consistent Course of Study of Normal Schools?"- John Ogden, Associate Principal of the Ohio Central Normal School, WorthiDgton, O. 2. " What are the Essentials of a Profession ; and What Must be the Special Work of Normal Schools to Entitle Them to be Called Professional?" - Larkin Dunton, Head-Master of the City Normal School, Boston, Mass. 3. " Method and Manner,- Louis Soldon, Principal of the City Normal School, St. Louis, Mo. 4. " Training Schools in Connection with Normal Schools,"- Eeport of the chairman of the committee, J. C. Greenough, Principal of the State Normal School, Providence, E. I. DEFARTMENT OF SUPERINTEXDENCE. Report of the committee on " Uniform Plan and Porm for Publishing the Principal Statistical Tables on Education," - T. W. Harvey, State Commissioner of Common Schools, O., chairman of committee. DRFARTMEXT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. " Several Problema in Graded-School Management," - The Hon. E. E. White, Ohio. " Language--Les8ons in Primary Schools," - Miss Keeler, Cleveland, O. " Science in Elementary Schools," - J. Armstrong, Principal of the State Normal School, Fredonia, N. Y. " What Shall We Attempt in Our Elementary Schools?" - Mrs. A. C. Martin, Boston, Mass.