A conference and a luncheon Saturday, comprising the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association, brought to a close a nine day's series of discussions which has been held here under the auspices of the School of Education. This year's session was the most ambitious, and has been the most successful, in the history of the organization.

The meeting on Saturday centered around the subject of "Education and Its Relation to Modern Business," and was discussed by outstanding figures of the scholastic and professional worlds. Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Graduate School of Business Administration opened the morning meeting at 10.30 o'clock in Agassiz Houser Radcliffe College, with a critical analysis of "Ethics and Business." He was followed by A. V. Shaw, senior partner of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, who was informative and helpful on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem."

Holmes is Toastmaster

When this conference had ended, the members of the association, together with a large number of guests interested in educational matters, met for luncheon at the Hotel Commander. Dean H. W. Holmes '03 of the Graduate School of Education, acting as toastmaster, introduced the speakers.

Dr. W. T. Foster '01, director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, emphasized the significance of the teacher's role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution.