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Excerpt from Elimination of Obsolete and Useless Topics and Materials From the Common Branches The Iowa State Teachers' Association in its Sixtieth Annual Session in Des Moines, November 5, 6 and 7, 1914, by resolution (No. 6) provided as follows: "That this Association through its President should appoint a representative committee to study and to make a report upon the elimination of obsolete and useless topics and materials from the common school branches with a view that the efforts of childhood may be conserved and the essentials be better taught." In accordance with this resolution, Prof. John E. Stout, President of the Association, appointed the following committee: Geo. H. Betts, Department of Psychology, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. W. F. Cramer, City Superintendent of Schools, Atlantic, Iowa. W. L. Hanson, City Superintendent of Schools, Burlington, Iowa. E. E. Lewis, Department of Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. John R. Slacks, County Superintendent of Schools, Sac County, Sac City, Iowa. C. W. Stone, Director Training School, Iowa State Teachers' College, Cedar Falls, Iowa. G. M. Wilson, Department of Agricultural Education, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. The committee began work at once through correspondence. After getting policies more or less outlined by this method, the first meeting was held in the State House at Des Moines, Saturday, January 9. At this meeting A. C. Fuller, Jr., of the State Department of Public Instruction was asked to act as the permanent secretary of the committee. Other meetings were held on Saturday, March 13, and on Saturday, October 16. The work of the committee, however, is not indicated by the number of meetings held, as there was constant correspondence and constant work looking toward final report. The committee is particularly pleased that the report is unanimous not only in general spirit but in minor details. Every member of the committee realizes the great necessity of its work and the desirability of trying to perform the function for which it was created as fully as possible in the first report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.