Classes of

Science and

must enter all of our schools, of all grades. women will take equal courses with men. art invites them to enter their service. Progress is universal, let us welcome it.

T. W. VALENTINE read the following, to be sent as a telegram to the National Teachers' Association, now in session at Baltimore:

"The American Institute of Instruction, the oldest educational organization in America, sends cordial greetings to the National Teachers' Association, the largest; may the cordial relations now existing between the two bodies, in this centennial year, be continued not only through the dawning century, but until time shall be no more, or ignorance be banished from the earth."

The exercises were varied, and enlivened by vocal and instrumental music by Mrs. MARTHA D. SHEPARD, of Plymouth, and by appropriate readings by L. W. RUSSELL, Esq., of Providence.

After business announcements by the President, Professor LADD, and the Secretary, the session was adjourned to meet at Normal Hall at 9 A.M., Wednesday.

SECOND DAY,-WEDNESDAY, A.M.

At 9 A.M. the Institute was opened with devotional exercises by Rev. H. SCOTT, of Plymouth, after which Prof. H. O. LADD, on behalf of the State Teachers' Association and the Normal School, welcomed the American Institute to New Hampshire in a very able and appropriate address. He spoke of the growing interest of the people of the State in the improvement of the public schools, and he expected a new impulse to come from the visit of the Institute.

C. A. BURLEIGH, Esq., in behalf of the citizens of Plymouth, welcomed the Institute in an earnest and cordial manner, as follows:

MR. BURLEIGH'S ADDRESS OF WELCOME.

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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the American Institute of Instruction: It is my pleasure, and the wish of the citizens of Plymouth, to welcome to our public places and our family hearths all those composing your distinguished body, and to extend to them the simple hospitality of this country village. The advent of a society embodying so much scholarship and historic dignity, is an occasion of universal interest to us; and we are not unmindful of the honor you have conferred upon this village in making it the chosen place of your sittings, contrary to your hitherto unbroken custom of meeting at the great centres of intelligence and culture. We believe your sojourn here will convince you that mountain air is better than city tonics, and the warmth of country hearts a partial compensation for the lack of city refinement. You will not expect, in this mountain retreat, to enjoy the treasures of art, the laboratories of science, or the polished entertainments which more populous towns afford; but your exercises, being of a deliberative kind, may be as profitably attended amid the quiet of this rural town as in the busy whirl of more active industries; and if your recreations are not lightened by the attractions of the museum and the music of the opera, still may they be cheered by nature's songsters, and the rugged views of our grand old hills. Our attractions are the works of God more than the arts of man, and can now be seen in all their summer fullness; and

though the untutored savage may have given the name, Pemigewasset, it is our favorite stream: it rolls on through this magnificent valley in the same bed which the Great Architect hollowed out ages before the red man paddled his canoe upon its waters.

We could not, if we would, shut out the sublime view of the great stone hills in the north, whose loftiest peak in grand solitude proclaimed the power of God centuries before it was named for the Father of his Country. These gifts of nature, our mountains, lakes, rivers, and woodlands, have long been the pride and glory of our village, and the entertainment of visiting strangers. We call your attention to them that you may combine pleasure with the arduous duties of the occasion, and, in the absence of architectural splendor, discover the riches of our northern landscape.

Permit me again to greet you as the honored guests of the town, and to ask you to mingle with us in full freedom at our tables and firesides, and ere we are fairly acquainted, let us forget that we are strangers. While you share our hospitality, we also shall receive the great benefit of your literary efforts, and enjoy the companionship of our most prominent instructors. We earnestly hope that you will find as much pleasure in our society as we anticipate in yours, and that you can truthfully say, when leaving us, that your lines have fallen in pleasant places.

President LYON replied to the addresses of welcome, as follows:

RESPONSE OF THE PRESIDENT.

Gentlemen :-In behalf of the American Institute of Instruction, it gives me great pleasure to accept your

cordial welcome.

You have already made us feel at

home, and assured us that New Hampshire is a glorious State to come to, whether it be to go from or not.

This

is the sixth time we have visited your State, and have thus shown our readiness to accept your generous hospitality, and our desire to breathe the pure and invigorating air of your hills and mountains.

From your early history, it appears that Captain John Mason, one of the original patentees of your territory, and the owner of a large tract of land, a short time before his death in 1865, by will gave to his brother-inlaw, "John Wallaston, in trust, one thousand acres for the maintainance of an honest, godly, and religious preacher of God's word; and one thousand more for the support of a grammar school; each of these estates to be conveyed to feoffees in trust, and their successors, paying annually one penny per acre to his heirs." New Hampshire has perpetuated the spirit of Mason, and ever united the two great civilizing forces, religion and education, whose external expression is the church and the school-house, and whose most prominent actors, the minister and the school master. Under these ideas her highest institution of learning, Dartmouth College, was founded, and has been nurtured, and she may well be proud of having sent forth from her halls Levi Woodbury, Daniel Webster, George Ticknor, Joel Parker, Rufus Choate, Isaac Fletcher Redfield, and Salmon P. Chase.

At our last meeting in Providence, the honored and successful Principal of Tilden Ladies' Seminary, and a prominent member of your State Board of Education, suggested that Plymouth would be a suitable place for our next meeting. In a few days he wrote me that the citizens of Plymouth cordially favored the suggestion,

and after stating the railroad facilities, hotel accommodations, and many other things important to the success of such a meeting, said that a Ladd in your village "was sure the people would provide for from seventyfive to one hundred ladies, and perhaps more." That was the lad for me, and I could hardly imagine what all the boys of the town would do, if one Ladd could give such an assurance. In the fullness of his heart he neither measured his words, nor guarded his expressions, but seemed to say, let all the girls come, and we will make them welcome. Time rolled on, and the next we heard of that Ladd, he was the dignified president of the New Hampshire State Teachers' Association, "quantum mutatus”! — and in its behalf, he extended a cordial invitation to the American Institute of Instruction to hold its next meeting in New Hampshire. In response to this invitation we are happy to be here, prepared to engage in earnest work, and to manifest our love and honor for the profession of our choice.

Permit me again, gentlemen, to thank you and the teachers of New Hampshire, with the citizens of Plymouth, for your cordial welcome, and to invite you to take part in our discussions.

The PRESIDENT then delivered his annual address to the Institute:

ADDRESS TO THE INSTITUTE BY THE PRESIDENT.

Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the American Institute of Instruction:-I am happy to welcome you to this glad anniversary of our association, which, for nearly half a century, has been foremost in every movement designed to improve the methods of teaching, school organization, and school supervision. It was