_The Association for Negro Youth._—This Association was organized at Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1913. The plan has been to admit only institutions maintaining work of college grade. So far 10 institutions have been admitted to membership. The following quotation indicates the embarrassment of the association in its effort to be just to the colleges within and without the organization: One of the most important topics of the several sessions was that of admission of additional colleges into the association. The consensus of opinion prevailed that the association needed more careful detailed information about the colleges, both within and without the organization, and the executive committee was authorized to make a careful study of all colleges both within and without the association that some standards for grading of membership might be established. The general purpose of the association is indicated by the following list of topics discussed at the four annual meetings, 1913 to 1916: 1. College entrance requirements. 2. The requirements for a college degree. 3. The reception of students dismissed from other colleges. 4. How far should we allow students to specialize in professional work during their college course? 5. Foreign languages as requirements for college entrance. 6. Uniformity in the exchange of records. 7. What should be done with deficiencies of college students in English, spelling, composition and penmanship? 8. The control of athletics and place of physical education in the curriculum. 9. What should be done on the matter of our students who go North to work during the summers, and who thereby do not return to their home communities for several years, thus getting out of touch with the life of their home communities, in which places many of them are needed after they finish school? 10. How far are we preparing teachers for the public schools and the high schools? What is our part in the forward rural school movement? 11. How far are our efforts for religious education giving our students training for religious leadership? It is evident that the association is rapidly broadening the scope of its interest from the formal topics of the earlier meetings to the vital problems outlined in the questions discussed at the last meeting. _The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools._—This association was organized in 1904. Annual meetings have been held each year. State associations have been formed in almost all the Southern States. Teachers representing 21 States were present at the last annual meeting of the national association. These meetings are having a wholesome effect in the development of higher ideals, better methods, and cooperation among teachers in all efforts to adapt education to community needs.