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Show President's addm: Our work: Ite progress and needs. H. B. Peak, superin-tendent Haskell Institute. Lawrence, Ijsps. The essential qualifications of good elheemhip. Dr. James H. W e l d , librarian of Columbia Cniversity, New York. To what degree has the present system of Indian schools been su&d in quali-fying for citizenship? Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal Hampton Agricultural Institute, .H ampton, Va An Alaskan start toward citizenship. Dr. Sheldon Jackson. general agent of edu-cation in Alaska, Washington, D. 0. Gome of the conditions which prevent a grater degree of wee&¶ in qaalifging for citizenship. William M. Peterson, assistant superintendent Cbiloea, Agncdtnd School, Chilocco, Okla. Field. J. Franklin House, supervisor of Indian sehools. Wednesday, July 8.-The white man's burden versus indigenow development for the lower races. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Heart culture. Dr. Charles F. Meaerve, president Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. Tenure in the civil service. Dr. James T. Doyle, secretary Unlted States Civil Service Commission, Washin ton, D. C. The distribution of good qitemture among Indiin students. Mi6a Frances C. Sparhawk, Newton Center, Mass. Thurshy, July 9.-The department of Indian education met in joint sesaion with the manual-training and elementary de rtmente of the N. E. A. in the New Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston, &a. &day, July 10.-The department of Indian education met in joint session with the physical-training department of the N. E A. The following papers were I EXTRllCTLI PROM P A P E ~A ND DI8OUfflIONs. I meeting.-Dr. Edward Everett Hale, after offering the invocatory prayer, prc-ceded to *elcome the @&era in his own hearty and impressive fashion and said: I am glad to greet our fnenda who have come fmm all parts of the country, and who are especially interested in this work among the Ind~ans. I shall not attempt to teach you anything. I sit at the feet of those who have worked in the service and know what they know and jnst what they do not know. The welcome of the Sf.ts.-LieutenantGovemor Guild nest tended ta the Indian teachers the greetings and welcome of the Commonwealth. He said in substance: It is a great pleasure to extend the welcome of the Commonwealth to those scholam who devote their lives not merely to the education of the nations, but to the uplifting of a people. The problem now yours was once peculiarly our own. In the four great frescoes in the Hall of the FLags at the statehouse Massachusetts honors two victories of war and two of peace. The soldier of the Revolution faces the soldier of the civil war. The pilgrim of the MaYpozue faces the apostle of the Indians. Mwt of US have forgotten that the chartergrant+ to thecolony of Massachusetts Bay in 1628 express1 stated that to ' wynn and lncrte the native8 of the country to the knowledge and oLience of the only true God and Ssvlour of mankind and the Christian faythe' was in the 'royal1 ptention and the adventmer'a free profession the principal1 ende of this plantation. (I am quoting Bmall's introduction to Eliot's Indian Primer.) Indeed, I fear that after the Pequot war most of our New England forbears forgot that New England was established for any purpose connected with |