[Hon. William Torrey Harris, United States Commissioner of Education; Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York.] Volume containing thirteen offprints and pamphlets on education, including eleven by.Harris and one by Butler.

The thirteen items bound in a modern grey buckram binding with shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. The pamphlets in good condition, on aged paper, in worn binding, with last item disbound. Each pamphlet numbered in red ink at head of title-page, the first with a shelfmark. ONE: [John W. Noble; William T. Harris.] 'In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting A report of the Commissioner of Education upon the conditions of the public schools in the District of Columbia.' 15pp., 8vo. Noble's short covering letter dated 13 December 1892; Harris's report dated 12 December 1892. TWO: Wm. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education. 'The Influence of the Higher Education of a Country upon its Elementary Schools.' Reprint from Proceedings of the National Educational Association of paper read before the General Session at Asbury Park, N.J., July 11th, 1894. 7pp., 8vo. THREE: W. T. Harris. 'Higher Education. Its Function in preserving and extending our Civilization. University Convocation Address Delivered at the Quarter Centennial Boston University, May 31, 1898'. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, September, 1898. 17pp. (paginated 147-161, 204-205), 8vo. FOUR: W. T. Harris, Washington, D.C. 'University and School Extension.' 12pp., 8vo. FIVE: William T. Harris, Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C. 'A Brief for Latin'. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, April, 1899. 4pp. (paginated 313-316), 8vo. SIX: William T. Harris, Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C. 'Why Art and Literature ought to be studied in Elementary Schools'. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, April, 1897. 10pp. (paginated 324-333), 8vo. SEVEN: Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York. 'Educational Progress of the Year'. A Report presented to the National Council of Education, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 10, 1899. Also printed in The Outlook, August 5, 1899. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, September, 1899. 18pp. (paginated 167-184), 8vo. EIGHT: William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, Washington, D.C. 'Classification and Instruction in Rural Schools'. An Address delivered before the National Educational Association, at Milwaukee, Wis., July 8, 1897. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, October, 1897. 8pp. (paginated 209-216), 8vo. NINE: Dr. W. T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education. 'What the South is doing for Education and what Education is doing for the South.' Read at the National Congress of Education, Atlanta, Ga., October 26, 1895. 8pp., 12mo. TEN: 'Laws relating to City School Boards.' Washington: Government Printing Office. 1897. [2] + 78pp., 8vo. ELEVEN: W. T. Harris, LL.D., U.S. Commissioner of Education, Washington, D.C. 'Our Educational Exhibit at the International Exposition in Paris in 1900.' Address delivered before the National Educational Association meeting, at Washington, D.C., July 8, 1898. 11pp., 8vo. TWELVE: W. T. Harris. 'The Necessity for five Co-ordinate Groups of Studies in the Schools'. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, April, 1896. 12pp. (paginated 323-334) and covering title-leaf, 8vo. THIRTEEN: William T. Harris, Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C. 'The Future of the Normal School'. Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, January, 1899. 15pp., 8vo.