7. What should be done with deficiencies of college students in English,
spelling, composition and penmanship?
8. The control of athletics and place of physical education in the
curriculum.
9. What should be done on the matter of our students who go North to
work during the summers, and who thereby do not return to their home
communities for several years, thus getting out of touch with the life
of their home communities, in which places many of them are needed after
they finish school?
10. How far are we preparing teachers for the public schools and the
high schools? What is our part in the forward rural school movement?
11. How far are our efforts for religious education giving our students
training for religious leadership?
It is evident that the association is rapidly broadening the scope of
its interest from the formal topics of the earlier meetings to the vital
problems outlined in the questions discussed at the last meeting.
_The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools._—This
association was organized in 1904. Annual meetings have been held each
year. State associations have been formed in almost all the Southern
States. Teachers representing 21 States were present at the last annual
meeting of the national association. These meetings are having a
wholesome effect in the development of higher ideals, better methods,
and cooperation among teachers in all efforts to adapt education to
community needs.
The twelfth annual session of the National Association of Teachers in
Colored Schools was held in Cincinnati, July 29, to August 1, 1915.
Among the subjects discussed were “The need of a graduate school for
Negroes,” “College athletics,” “Standardizing of Negro schools,”
“Harmonizing conflicting views of Negro education,” and “National
education.” The 1916 meeting of the association will be held in
Nashville. In connection with the meeting of the National Association of
Teachers in Colored Schools the Annual Conference of the Presidents of
Land-Grant Colleges took up “Its mission,” “Its responsibility,” “Its
opportunity,” and “Its relation to the public school system.” Other
subjects were “The problem of dormitory life,” and “Preparation of
teachers of agriculture.” Another organization which met with the
national association was the Council of College Presidents.