edge and at least some degree of training and experience in Christian service. This, with the new knowledge of missions that will be acquired by the visiting public will make this unique Exposition a great educative influence.

"BOSTON-1915" is a serious and already highly successful

movement to get together the various civic forces and organizations of Greater Boston so as to develop the resources of the city to the utmost by 1915-the date being set for the sake of definiteness of aim, though the movement will not come to an end by any means on that date.

The idea commands the interest, the time and the money of many of the best and busiest men and women of Boston. It is incorporated and has central offices and an "official organ.' "" It is believed that business methods, careful planning, system, and the co-ordination of the efforts and activities of various organizations heretofore working separately and without much regard to any common ends, will prove just as wise, just as economical and just as effective in promoting the larger welfare of the city as the same principles when applied to private business. The plan contemplates the enlistment of every great interest, such as business, industry, religion, education, science and philanthropy. It seeks the co-operation of the churches, the schools, the lodges, the musical organizations, the womens' clubs, the guilds, the working men's unions, and all others that in any way minister to or conserve the public welfare. It is purposed that these agencies shall carry forward each its own activities but "doing so with regard to the activities of every other and all of them together constituting, by virtue of organization, an irresistible force for the promotion of the common good." It has become, in the language of the official prospectus, a sort of "Clearing-house, through which efforts may be co-ordinated, needless duplications avoided and agreements for concerted action reached." The movement started nearly two years ago and has already accomplished much. In the next paragraph we quote from the summary of results, half a dozen important achievements of this organization thus far, which are only samples of the work it is doing. We will add that one of its officers told us recently that in connection with this work he had found himself the discoverer of a new profession-that of "civic evangelist." Having delivered two or three addresses in regard to the movement, calls had begun to come in to him from other cities all over the country to go over from Boston and help organize similar campaigns elsewhere. There is hardly any limit to what may be accomplished by such concerted efforts of the best brains of a given community in behalf of the general good.

"BOSTON-1915" in the less than two years of its exis

tence

1. Has secured, through organization, the practical co-operation of 1200 leading organizations upon anything that is acknowledged to be for the general benefit of Greater Boston.

2. It conducted on a business basis, in 1909, an Exposition attended by 200,000 persons, which not only helped the public to appreciate what the health, educational, transportation, philanthropic and other problems of a city are, but also made plain the need of a getting-together of individuals, organizations and communities to work those problems out.

3. It has made a careful study of the housing problem in Boston, has published an excellent report regarding it, and is employing an expert to follow up the work with a view to a better understanding of existing regulations and, if necessary, to new legislation.

4. It conducted in the summers of 1909 and 1910 a series of boys' games that not only kept thousands of boys out of mischief, but led to great improvement in the playgrounds, and will lead to their more effective use for the physical and moral development of boys and girls.

5. It was directly instrumental in getting through a state law restricting the use of dangerous fireworks, and it successfully carried out a better method of celebrating the Fourth of July, with the result that accidents were reduced by six-sevenths and there were no deaths.

6. It has made a list, through its Health Conference of the Health needs of Greater Boston, and is in various ways assisting those who are working to bring about better conditions as to the control of contagious and infectious diseases, better school and industrial hygiene, the prevention of infant mortality, etc.

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CHILD CULTURE BULLETINS.

HE State Normal School, Valley City, North Dakota, has undertaken an important campaign for bringing into the homes of the people a knowledge of scientific Child Culture, very much as the Agricultural Colleges through their Bulletins seek to impart a knowledge of the principles governing the successful production of cattle and crops. This movement is based on the conviction that "many fathers and mothers are so engrossed in social and material problems that they unconsciously neglect to keep in touch with the special aid that Child specialists are prepared to render the average household." Short, interesting, untechnical articles have been prepared by specialists in the department of pedagogy, on 1. Eugenics, or the

Science of Being Well Born. 2. Suitable Work for Boys. 3. How Boys Spend their Money. 4. Patent Medicine and the Children. 5. Pure Food and The Children. 6. Precocious Children, are they healthy, etc. These articles while easy to read are sane and scientific and especially adapted to the newspaper and periodical public, and there is no reason why they cannot be used by periodicals of other states of national circulation as well as by those of North Dakota. They come either monthly or semi-monthly.

COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RECOMMENDS CREATION OF NEW OFFICE.

A REPORT on problems of instruction in the University of

Chicago has been made to the College Faculty by a special committee which was named to consult members of the faculty, alumni, and under-graduates with a view to ascertaining where the system of instruction might be improved. The committee reports that the plan of asking the suggestions of alumni and undergraduates has proved most helpful. In a summary the committee recommends that a dean or other officer be selected who shall be relieved from instructorial duties and given the task of investigating conditions and problems of undergraduate instruction, and assigned such functions as may be appropriate. The committee believes that the officer should confer with students, colleagues, and the President or Dean of the Faculties, and should be intrusted with large responsibility. It is believed that there is no office of this kind in an American university. The committee which signed the report was composed of Professor James H. Tufts, Professor Starr W. Cutting, Associate Professor Harlan H. Barrows, Associate Professor Gordon J. Laing, Associate Professor Leon C. Marshall, Professor Robert A. Millikan, Associate Professor Herbert E. Slaught, and Professor Frank B. Tarbell. A full account is published in the University of Chicago Magazine for December.

EVENING RECREATION CENTERS.

N Chicago, during the 1909-10 season, two evening recreation centers were established with day school principals in charge. Neither building had an assembly room or a gymnasium, but the wide corridors gave the boys space for basket ball and the girls opportunity for folk-dancing and games. There were study rooms for those who wished them, a double room for reading and single ones for choral singing. The experiment worked so well that the Board of Educa

tion adopted a report which asked for $10,000 to start social centers the next fall and further recommended that "suitable assembly halls, equipped with opera chairs, be constructed on the first floors of all elementary and high schools, either separate from or in connection with a gymnasium, and further, that parents' associations and all other organizations working for the 'physical, social and moral uplift' of children and adults be encouraged to use school buildings.'

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COURSES IN TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
SUMMER SESSION, 1911.

EACHERS College proposes to make the summer session an integral part of its academic year. All professors will take an active part in the work of instruction-some of them every year, some in alternate years, all at some time within a four-year period. Teachers College courses that are most in demand will be given every year; all other important courses will be given in alternate years or within a four-year cycle.

Courses have already been arranged for and will be offered in the Summer Session of 1911. The complete announcement, including also courses offered by other departments of Columbia University and full information for the guidance of students, will be issued in February and may be had on application to the Secretary of Teachers College, or to the Secretary of Columbia University.

SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL LESSONS.

HE Department of Secondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, has issued a series of stenographic reports of actual lessons in English, German, History, Mathematics and Domestic Science as given in various New York High Schools (TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD for September, 1910). Such reports of the actual procedure of teachers and pupils in actual recitations with introductory and critical comments appended have proved so useful to students at Teachers College that the college desires to indicate their suggestiveness to a wide circle of readers.

COMPETITION IN SCHOOL WORK.

R. Francis H. MacCarthy, author of "Hygiene for Mother and Child," declares that from the physician's standpoint the wisdom of encouraging the spirit of competition in school children by giving

ranking marks or prizes is questionable. "It would seem," he writes, "to introduce an element of stress and possible jealousy that is not in harmony with the simplicity of the child nature, and is abnormal and unhealthy. It is more important that children should learn the meaning of work, and the joy of work well done, than that they should strive to attain the highest marks." William Estabrook Chancellor in his "Class Teaching and Management" likewise concedes that "it is desirable to postpone marking as late in school life as public opinion will permit."

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NEW CATHOLIC JOURNAL.

'HE Catholic Educational Review published by the Department of Education of the Catholic University of America, appeared in its first issue, January, 1911. It is a well edited and well printed magazine and will doubtless be welcomed by a large and intelligent constituency.

The Review proposes to explain the principles which underlie Catholic education and which justify the maintenance of a distinct educational system, including parochial schools, academies, colleges and universities.

The cause of education in general is best furthered by a discussion of the aims and methods represented in the work of the various teaching bodies in the country and by a clearly defined attitude towards the movements which arise from day to day in the educational field. The Review will give in each issue a survey of the field and thus maintain the interest of teachers, Catholic and non-Catholic, in the different problems of education.

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION PRINCIPLES.

ARTICLE four in the Declaration of Principles of the National

Education Association at Boston last July reads as follows:

4. The fundamental consideration in any system of schools is the development of inflexible integrity and strong moral character in those receiving instruction. The Republic cannot survive without a citizenship with high ideals of patriotism, duty and service. This Association, therefore, commends most heartily the growing interest in the moral development of the children of the nation.