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om of method for them in their work, and in every way to cherish the interests of 
members. 
The committee endeavors also to keep up a high standard with regard to salaries for 
ts members, so that they are maintained in health and freedom from anxiety, and work 
ander the most favorable conditions. 
The professional elements in the Association, which make up the total of four hundred 
and fifty-three members, are : twenty-five honorary members ; twenty-one lecturers in 
the various colleges ; fourteen head-mistresses in public schools ; two hundred and fifty- 
four assistant mistresses in public schools ; six head-mistresses in private schools; 
;wenty-eight assistant mistresses in private schools ; seventy-seven coaches; five uni- 
versity extension lecturers, or about to become such : six non-resident governesses; 
seventeen resident governesses—total, four hundred and fifty-three. 
About twenty-five of the above have been through a regular course of training to 
secome teachers. Besides, therefore, being a bona fide association of women teachers, 
it is claimed that it is also a representative body, and, as such, it is felt that members 
have grave responsibilities toward each other in making common cause where educa- 
sional interests are concerned. 
By bona fide we mean professional ” in the full and strict sense of the word. When 
‘he representative of the Association was giving evidence before the select committee in 
the House of Commons on the teachers’ registration bills, the chairman, Sir Richard 
Temple, particularly asked whether the Association was composed of bona fide teachers, 
or merely of persons interested in education. It is satisfactory that the witness was 
able to declare it to be the former, as this gave far more weight to its opinion than 
would otherwise have been the case. 
Lectures were given under the auspices of the U. A. W. T. in the first year of its 
sxistence. 
The advisability of organizing a further scheme, on the lines of the university exten- 
sion lectures, for offering to public and private schools: (a) Courses of lectures; (0) 
Sourses of lessons, in special subjects, given after school hours by especially appointed. 
qualified lecturers, is under consideration. 
TEACHERS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES. 
The object of the Association was not to make money but to provide work for its mem- 
hers, and the registry branch was to facilitate their obtaining the kind of educational 
work they were best qualified to do, and to enable parents and head-mistresses to com- 
municate with teachers with a view to forming engagements. It is often forgotten, 
even by those who have belonged to the Association for a long time, that it is purely an 
oducational body, and does not undertake to provide journalistic work, clerkships, or 
posts as librarians, and it is not easy to disabuse the public mind of the idea that it does 
Jot deal with the sale and transfer of schools and other purely commercial transactions. 
It was thought that the Association will have amply justified its existence, if, keeping 
strictly within the limits defined by its title, ** University Association of Women 
Teachers,” it develops to its utmost all that it legitimately can do as such, 
Since the formation of the U. A. W. T., the Teachers’ Guild and the Association of 
Assistant Mistresses have come into being, having more or less similar objects in view, 
out there is no other society which works on quite the same lines as it. 
KxAMINERS IN ScrooLs.—Though the U. A. W. T. was instituted, as said above, 
primarily to increase and impart knowledge by supplying teachers of every kind, it 
undertook, secondarily, the function of testing knowledge acquired, in order to promote, 
as far as in its power, sound learning and good education, and an examination branch 
was constituted for private schools, not examined by the Oxford and Cambridge board.