Open Meetings Research Articles

Open Meetings of NASSP Committees

For the first time, open meetings of NASSP Commitees were held during the Association's annual meeting in St. Louis. These meetings were well attended. Following is a listing of the 17 NASSP Committees and their membership. In some instances, all the com mittee members were not present. A report of the work of each committee was given by the chairman or a person designated to act as such. Each meeting was open for discussion and suggestions from the audience. At the end of the listing of the members of each committee (except 2) is a summary of the report made at the meeting.

Proceedings of the Forty-sixth Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri February 24-28, 1962

DUE to the large number of participants on the program, only the names of the participants of the Discussion Groups are included. Those papers that were submitted will be con sidered for publication in issues of the NASSP BULLETIN during the coming school year. This issue is composed of: Part I, General Sessions; Part II, Participants in the Discus sion Groups; Part III, Open Meetings of NASSP Committees; Part IV, National Advisory Council Committee; and Part V, Business Meeting.

The Luck in the Head: A Problem in English Folklore

THE question I wish to discuss in this paper, that of the true import of certain English placenames, was, to the best of my knowledge, first formulated in 19071 when, in a lecture on English placenames the late Henry Bradley called attention to those OE names which were compounded of an animal's name and the word head. Hartshead and Swineshead are two straight-forward examples and there are others in which the meaning has been concealed by a change of word form e.g. Farcet in Hunts, which is Fearresheafod or Bull's head. Proceeding, I feel rather rashly, from the fact that some of these are the names of hundreds and that it was common to name a hundred from its place of customary assembly, Bradley concluded that the names possibly derived from 'a custom of setting up the head of an animal, or a representation of it, to mark the place for public open air meetings.' In 1933 Professor Bruce Dickens took up Bradley's hypothesis and propounded the view2 'that some of these places were once the site of bloody sacrifice in which the head, animal or human, was offered to a heathen deity'. In 1934 Professor Dickens contributed an Appendix to the volume 'Placenames of Surrey' on this same question3 (EPNS, XII C.U.P.

Scientific hydrology

The International Association of Scientific Hydrology held three symposia (nine sessions) in cosponsorship with IAM, IAPO, and SCOR, besides a symposium on Hydrological Maps, two plenary sessions on general and administrative matters, 20 open meetings of special Commissions, 5 open meetings of Committees, and 3 Council meetings.The General Assembly at Helsinki highlighted, more than ever, the increasing role of international affairs of the AGU. About 30 hydrologists from the United States attended, 15 of them from non‐federal organizations, a particularly gratifying showing probably attributable in part to the availability of NSF travel grants to scientists. Forty‐seven papers in Hydrology, all of good quality, where given by American hydrologists. We met with prominent hydrologists from all parts of the world, many of whom were known to us from their writings or from previous meetings. As usual in such technical meetings there was a double‐barreled profit; as much is gained from personal contacts and direct arrangements for exchange of data as from the formal presentations themselves.

OPEN MEETINGS

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 16 p. 588-588 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons OPEN MEETINGS First published: 01 October 1949 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1949.tb37144.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume2, Issue16October 1949Pages 588-588 RelatedInformation

International Geological Congress, Eighteenth Session—Great Britain, 1948

AbstractThe scientific proceedings of the Eighteenth Session of the International Geological Congress included twelve series of Sectional Meetings, open meetings of the Association of African Geological Surveys, and of the International Paleontological Union, and special discussions on the Geology and Mineralogy of Clays. Summaries of these Sectional and other meetings, prepared by their officers, are published in advance in the full Report of the Session.

British Commonwealth Entomological Conference

THE Fifth Commonwealth Entomological Conference is to be held in London during July 22–30, There will be several open meetings at which the following subjects will be discussed : (1) insecticides, including recent developments, mode of action, uses and limitations in the field, mechanical appliances, and application from the air ; (2) biological control of insects and weeds ; (3) estimation of insect populations in the field ; (4) recent developments in the control of insects in stored products ; (5) tsetse research ; (6) Continental quarantine ; (7) locusts and grasshoppers. Programmes will be available in due course on application to the Director, Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, 41 Queen‘s Gate, London, S.W.7.

Editorials

The article by Professor Douglass is in this issue is very timely and coming from a Professor of Secondary Education who is friendly toward mathematics ought to carry more weight than if it came from a teacher of that subject. The same is true of the article in this issue by Mr. Klopp. For some reason or other, the attacks on mathematics have been particularly numerous recently an done can only conjecture what the final outcome will be. Professor Douglass seems to think that it is not too late for those of us who still feel that the educational value of mathematics is important to proceed to do something about it. It is to be hoped that at the next meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Chicago, tbe members will try to discuss many of these pressing problems with each other both privately and in some of the open meetings.

Programs of coming meetings: Tentative programs arranged for open meetings of National Association of Directors of Educational Research, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Afternoons, February 28, March 1, March 2, in the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel, Chicago.

Programs of coming meetings: Tentative programs arranged for open meetings of National Association of Directors of Educational Research, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Afternoons, February 28, March 1, March 2, in the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel, Chicago.

A FINAL WORD TO THE FELLOWS AND. MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

The duties and responsibilities of your presidents are such as to prevent them from addressing you frequently in your open meetings. That is why I avail myself of the courtesy of the Editor ofThe Journalwhich permits me to deliver a brief valedictory to my friends all over the country and to add some remarks in connection with the subject discussed in the inaugural address¹I delivered on June 4, 1912. Advancing years have added to the greatness of the edifice called the American Medical Association. It has served you, its constituents; it has benefited the American people. From year to year its scientific work has expanded and its civic importance increased. Its Judicial Council and its councils on Health and Public Instruction, Medical Education and on Pharmacy and Chemistry, have submerged scores of inferior medical schools, enlarged knowledge, opened new horizons and fastened the links between all classes