tanks and aquaria. The local museum has also a very good exhibit of such specimens. So there will be unusual opportunities for the nature study section.

It has been suggested that the history section devote one-half day to visiting the monuments of early California history. Historical remains are numerous in the vicinity of Monterey, which adjoins Pacific Grove. Sup

pose someone thoroly familiar with these scenes were secured as guide and instructor on such an expedition; let him point out the interesting places, and guide the party in the steps of the Mission Fathers from the cross where they landed, to the San Carlos and Carmel where they labored and taught; what fun to dig around inside the old custom house and the capitol building; and finally to get a few snap shots at some of the black-eyed children of a vanished day as they flock about the door of a tumble-down adobe!

Of course Del Monte will be the centre of social life. There will be rapid connections by rail with Pacific Grove. The hotel will throw open its six hundred guest-chambers, its parlors, billiard and ballrooms to the teachers. If any want to, they can lord it in the clubhouse and on the golf links. Terms have been secured that put Del Monte accommodations within the reach of all who care to stay there. And yet the same bill of fare and the same courteous attention will be given the teachers that was received when Carnegie stopped here, or when the Princess Louise called it "the cleanest and best-kept hotel she had ever visited." A right good orchestra will be there; it may strike up some lively music at the New Year's reception. At

this function, Mr. Junker promises to throw open the ladies' parlor and billiard-room in connection with the ballroom and enclosed veranda. There will be plenty of space for all who come from Pacific Grove, as well as for those that may be staying at the hotel. I shall not say there won't be dancing.

Many teachers will find quarters in Pacific Grove. El Carmelo is a good hotel, and there are many excellent boarding places within easy reach of Assembly H 11. The attractions of Pacific Grove are well known. To those who have not visited the place in winter we will say that there are no fogs at this season, that the air is warm-almost balmy- and that the big waves thundering on the rocks out toward the lighthouse are more fascinating than the gentle wash of those in summer; while the numerous paths that wind under overhanging boughs, thru brakes and mossy banks by lake

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and cypress groves, are just as attractive as ever. To prove this, we call to witness the fourteen newly-married persons that recently met all on a day at the El Carmelo. They say marriage is catching. Let it be so! If there is a thinning of the school ma'am ranks as a result of all these social opportunities, if some are consolidated out of the profession, it will only leave more room for the rest. However, as a pious resident of Pacific Grove, the writer feels it his duty to warn the schoolmasters against the bar of the Half Way House the Last Chance Coming and First Chance Going-and the scene of many a wreck.

Pacific Grove is a favorite place for rest and recreation among Stanford people and others. It will be a delightful change from the grind of teaching. This fact will not, however, interfere with the serious work of the

Association. tion. In the symposium, matters will be discussed of vital interest to teachers; such as measures to raise the business of teaching from a makeshift and a lottery where the fittest least often survive, to the level of an ideal profession. Altogether it bids fair to be one of the most memorable meetings in the history of the Association.

Mr. Faulkner has secured some lecturers of national reputa

Elisha Benjamin Andrews.

Elisha Benjamin Andrews was born in Hinsdale, N. H., January 10, 1844. His father and grandfather had been Baptist ministers. His father, a lecturer of repute, was several years a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and of the Massachusetts Senate. Young Andrew's earliest education was received in a district school at Montague, Franklin County, Mass. He was preparing for college at the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield, Conn., at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion. He promptly enlisted at the age of seventeen in the Fourth Connecticut Infantry for three years. The regiment was later known as the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and Mr. Andrews, passing thru various grades of promotion, and receiving a command before Pittsburg, Pa., August 24, 1864, was mustered out as second lieutenant, October 30, 1864. After the war he attended two terms at Powers Institute, Bernardston, Mass., and one at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. He entered Brown University in 1866, and graduated in 1870. Graduating from Newton Theological Institution (Mass.) in 1874, he was ordained a Baptist clergyman the same year, and was pastor of the First Baptist Church, in Beverly, Mass., 1874-5. He resigned his pastorate to accept the presidency of Denison University, in Ohio, which post he left to assume the professorship of homiletics and pastoral theology in Newton Theological Institution. In 1882, he resigned, and went to Germany to study history and political economy in the universities of Berlin and Munich, having already been appointed professor of history and political economy in Brown University. On his return from Europe he filled that chair until 1888, when he accepted the professorship of political economy and finance in Cornell University. In 1889, he was elected president of Brown University, occupying the chair of moral and intellectual philosophy. In 1892, he was appointed by President Harrison one of the members of the International Monetary Conference at Brussels. In 1898, Dr. Andrews was elected superintendent of schools of Chicago, which position he filled until 1900. In August, 1900, he entered upon his duties as chief executive of one of the most progressive educational institutions in the west, the State University of Nebraska.

Chancellor Audrews received the degree of D.D. from Colby University in 1884, and that of L.L.D. the same year from the University of Nebraska. In 1900 he received the degree of L.L.D. from Bunn University. The Uni

versity of Chicago bestowed the same on him in August, 1901, giving as the special reason for the bestowal Mr. Andrew's successful services in improving the administration of the Chicago schools. He has published a large number of volumes, as well as an immense number of addresses, lectures,

Principal Speaker at the California Teachers' Association, Pacific Grove, 1901.

and magazine articles.

His principal books are: "Brief Institutes of Constitutional History, English and American," 1886; "Brief Institutes of General History," 1887; "Institutes of Economics," 1889 (new edition, 1900); "The Duty of a Public Spirit," 1892; Droysen's "Outlines of the