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CONANT TO SPEAK AT CONVENTION OF PEDAGOGUES HERE

Educational Topics To Be Discussed Friday and Saturday in Winthrop House

President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Professor Julian L. Coolidge, master of Lowell House, will address the New England Headmasters' Association at their forty-second annual meeting in John Winthrop House common room on Friday and Saturday of this week.

The program of the meeting was revealed yesterday by Eugene R. Smith, president of the Association and headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School. Various educational topics will be discussed by a group of very distinguished speakers.

A business meeting will open the session on Friday after which Dr. Carl Brigham and Dr. John A. Lefter will discuss "Recent Progress in School and College Relations." That evening, Professor Coolidge will give a resume of the accomplishments of the House Plan; he will be followed by Dean Hanford, who will talk on "Recent Developments in College Education and Its Effect on the Relation between School and College."

On Saturday morning Dr. H. J. Wieler, Medical Director of Hotchkiss School, and Dr. Jesse S. Williams, professor of Physical Education at Columbia, will discuss the problem "Which Way Physical Education?" That afternoon, Dr. Payson Smith, Commissioner of Education for Massachusetts, will deliver an address on "Present Social Conditions and the Challenge to Secondary Education." President Conant's address will close the meeting. The subject of his speech has not been definitely announced, but it is believed that he will talk along the lines brought out in his first annual report.

The Association is made up of headmasters from all the leading schools in New England.

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