Tenth Annual Meeting of the National Council
of Teachers of English

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S.A.

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

National Council of Teachers of English. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 25-27, 1920

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On the occasion of the tenth annual convention the members of the Council meet to celebrate progress and plan for the future. The record covers a short period but one of intense activity. Nine years have witnessed far-reaching changes in education and the establishment of new traditions with which all the workers in our field should be thoroughly familiar.

THE BEGINNINGS

The National Council had its beginning in the midst of the storm and stress of the controversy over college entrance requirements and the freedom of the high school. At the Boston meeting of the National Education Association in July, 1910, a resolution was passed by those present at the English Round Table of the Secondary Department requesting the chairman of that department to appoint a committee on college entrance requirements in English and to instruct this committee to make protest to the College Entrance Examination Board with regard to the requirements that the Board had set up. These requirements were, as everyone knows, defined in the first instance by the so-called National Conference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in 'President's address, delivered before the Council, November 26, 1920.