discipline that comes from careful study and systematic drill or the development of character that results from obedience to authority and from the performance of required tasks, whether they are interesting or not. A great deal of the work in any school is bound to make demands upon the will power and determination of pupils. It ought so to do as a preparation for the requirements of practical life. But if, in addition to this, a spirit of social and individual activity can be encouraged and wholesome interests aroused and quickened by other means than textbook study and schoolroom recitation, then these other aims are worthy of encouragement and emphasis. It is the conscious aim of the school to utilize as many of the natural interests of children as possible; not to weaken, but to reinforce and invigorate the process of education in those fundamental facts that constituted almost the sole aim of the "education of yesterday."