of Speech under Elizabeth and the Stuarts, the New England Town Meeting, Peace Negotiations with America, and the Parliament Act of 1911. The plan is the best yet applied to the use of sources in history and the working out of the plan is eminently comprehensive and discriminating. HORACE MANN READERS: PRACTICE PRIMER (119 pages) and SIXTH READER (460 pages). By Walter L. Hervey and Melvin Hix. New York: Longmans, Green & Company. Cloth. Illustrated. The Practice Primer is delightful and attractive supplementary material, and in the Sixth Reader the authors have really succeeded in bringing together 120 selections that are sure to be new to the young people and they are highly attractive in every paragraph and brimful of information that is out of the ordinary and well worth while. It is an unusual combination of significant articles dealing about equally with nature and human nature. ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY. By Harmon B. Niver. New York: Hinds, Noble and Eldredge. Cloth. Illustrated. 8 by 10. 360 pages. This is a new text-book in geography from many standpoints. Its 360 pages have an unusual amount of material. It begins with five pages of Home Geography, eleven pages of Home Life in Other Lands, followed by Soil and Climate, Physical Features, Life in City and Country. There are seventy-eight pages on the United States, eighty-four on other countries, closing with sixty pages of Appendix with maps and tables. It is not our custom to criticize the weaknesses, but since we have recently ridiculed an English Geography because of its lack of knowledge of New England we are tempted to say that every geography written in America, even, should be blue penciled by some one who knows America from observation, since that would prevent our authors putting New Bedford and Fall River under "Cities of Rhode Island." Whether this is the fault of the author, the office editor, or the typesetter it should be impossible to have such errors in as elaborate and good a text-book as this. Certainly eternal vigilance is the price of geographical accuracy. We would not overmagnify trifles but since we criticized somewhat severely the ignorance of the British makers of a geography we can hardly pass unnoticed even a slight slip like this in an American-made book. LAUGHTER AND LIFE. By Rev. Robert Whitaker. American Sunday School Union. Cloth. 147 pages. Price, 65 cents net. In view of the general interest in the subject of play, and the proper development of the play-instinct in the race, Rev. Robert Whitaker's prize book "Laughter and Life" will be found to be of considerable value, especially to Sunday-school and social settlement workers. Leaving methods to others, the author treats his subject in a large way as the titles of some of the ten chapters would indicate. "The Seriousness of Laughter, "The Natural Function of Play," "The Exploitation of Fun," "Legislation and Laughter," "The Diffusion of Delight," are a few of the well chosen titles. The author's style. terse and epigrammatic at times, picturesque and pointed with anecdotes, holds the reader's attention throughout. Upon every page are sentences that would stand alone and could be memorized in one reading. Some are ingeniously worded, such as: "Nothing makes for good which does not make for good." "Nothing is holy which does not make things whole." "Nothing is valid which does not make value." The argument is well supported by Biblical quotation and historical and contemporary illustration, all tending to show the importance of amusement, how hollow and demoralizing much of it is, and the great need of sane and simple play for the enrichment and enlargement of life. In conclusion of his argument the author says: "This we must do with our amusements. Men and women will have them, tainted or not, and they will have them of a corrupt kind, if such can be had cheaper than the better quality of fun and frolic, and if there are big returns to the few in serving to the many these poisoned pleasures. The wrong kind of recreation must be made unprofitable, obviously, and very seriously unprofitable to those who purvey it as well as to those who purchase it, and the right kind of recreation must be made accessible and attractive and made indeed YOUR OWN druggist WILL TELL YOU Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids, No Smartingjust Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the Eye by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago the only kind that is legally available, if we are to teach our cities and nations, as well as individuals, to laugh unto God!" "We need to put more laughter into our thought of God and more thought of God into our laughter, and to do this we must put more of downright directness into all life." THE WHEAT INDUSTRY. By N. A. Bengtson and Dowse Griffeth, University of Nebraska. Industrial Series. Edited by G. E. Condra. Boston, New York, Chicago: The Macmillan Company. Cloth Illustrated. This is by far the most elaborate and attractive story of the wheat industry that has ever been prepared for the schools. The phases treated in extenso are The Wheat Plant, Cultivation and Growth, Harvesting, Threshing, Marketing, Milling, Use, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Asia, and Europe. . The information is reliable, the text is attractive, the illustrations are illuminating. Each chapter closes with questions and suggestions. The information is so classified as to be of great assistance to the learner. All facts and figures are the latest. SOME CHRISTIAN CONVICTIONS. By Henry Sloan Coffin. Yale University Press. Thoughtful and seriously-minded people will be grateful to Henry Sloan Coffin, associate professor in Union Theological Seminary, for his interesting book on "Some Christian Convictions." Obviously Mr. Coffin feels the throb of the twentieth century life. Old forms of belief are discarded or re-interpreted. His outlook is modern without being revolutionary. In eight lectures he handles these subjects: Religion, The Bible, Jesus Christ, God, The Cross, The New Life, The Church, and The Future Life. In his discussion of these profound problems Mr. Coffin discloses a freedom of intellect, a fearlessness of inquiry, and a spiritual insight and responsiveness which is quite refreshing. Its chief value will be found in this temper of soul rather than in the conclusions reached, although these are not small. The author intends to offer help to men and women who seriously question old forms of religious beliefs. Instead of formulated beliefs, for instance, he says: "Religion is Experience; it is the response of man's nature to his highest inspirations; it is his intercourse with Being above himself and in his world; and it is normal." Throughout the book insistence is laid upon the normal life, transmuted into larger and purer experience through the spirit of God. The most informing chapter in the book is on our idea of God and of awareness of his presence. This is indeed the great religious inquiry, for all else will be colored if not determined by it. All of us might not be ready to affirm with Mr. Coffin, that "God is as real to the believer as beauty to the lover of nature on a June morning, or to the artistic eye in the presence of a canvas by a great master." As an objective personality God may be as real as a rose or a sunset to some select souls; but it may be doubted whether this knowledge is general. 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EDUCATIONAL NEWS This department is open to contributions from anyone connected with schools or school events in any part of the country. Items of more than local interest relating to any phase of school work or school administration are acceptable as news. Contributions must be signed to secure insertion. MASSACHUSETTS. BLACKSTONE. Albert G. Eldridge, superintendent of the Blackstone-Seekonk Union, has accepted a position on the faculty of the North Adams State Normal School. His resignation here, which will take effect February 1, terminates an unusually profitable period for schools in this union. At North Adams Mr. Eldridge will probably have charge of work looking toward the Americanization of children of foreign parentage. FITCHBURG. Charles S. Alexander, for twenty years principal of the Normal Training School of this city, died after two months of serious illness. He was a graduate of the Bridgewater Normal School and had taught in the Day Street school of this city before coming to the normal school faculty. He was sixtytwo years of age, and was always :-: :-: :-: prominent in the professional activi- interested in what he has left. I feel ties of New England. of NEW HAMPSHIRE. DOVER. Frank Damon Waltham, Massachusetts, was) elected superintendent to succeed Superintendent E. W. Butterfield. Mr. Damon is forty-five years old, is a graduate of the University of Maine, and has done supervisory work at Lexington and Lynn, Massachusetts. Recently he has been studying at Harvard. He was sub-master of the Bangor, Me., High School for ten years. MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. NEW YORK. POUGHKEEPSIE, Urging President Wilson to break diplomatic relations with Germany and Austria, a petition signed by thirty members of the Vassar College faculty was forwarded to Washington. President Henry Noble MacCracken did not sign the petition, and said that it did not represent the opinion of Vassar, but the ideas of the individual signers. On the strength of the petition the signers go on record as being of opinion that the time has come to break with Austria and Germany, and such sentiments are construed here as meaning that the signers favor a NEW YORK CITY. Ex-President William H. Taft was the principal speaker at the fortieth annual convention of the New York State Stenographers' Association. He paid a high tribute to the memory of James M. Ruso, who for thirty years had been an official stenographer in the courts of Albany, and was classmate of Mr. Taft at Yale. Mr. Taft said in part: "Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I could say, fellow-stenographers-for there is no defect in my education that comes home to me with so much emphasis as the fact that I am not a stenographer. My father cannot be said to have been a stenographer in the modern sense; but with a determination and insistence that I am afraid was not transmitted to his childrenat least the one in whom I am chiefly interested-he went to work and learned the Pitman system, and he used it in correspondence; he used it in his diaries; he used it in the notes he made on the bench; he used it in the notes he made in charges to the jury. While it was limited to a correspondence style, I presume his characters were such that his notes and his memoranda are easily read now by those who are quite close to stenographers. I have been with them all my life. I had them when I was practicing law, prosecuting criminals-they are in any other, I think (laughter); and more needed in criminal practice than after I came to the Bench, and in the making up of records, the truth is they seemed to be the most indispensible men possible. They are a great test of a man's veracity and accuracy. NEW JERSEY. NEWARK. Describing the "AllYear Schools" experiment here, more than three years after the experiment was started, Superintendent A. B. Poland says: This plan contemplated keeping school in session for forty-eight weeks of the year, divided into four terms of twelve weeks each. The course of study for each yearly grade comprised three substantially equal sub-divisions. Examinations and promotions were made at the close of each twelve-weeks' term. After considerable experimenting, the plan was modified to include formal promotions but twice a year, in September and March, and informal promotions in December and June. This plan saves the loss of time incident to formal examinations more than twice a year, and is more satisfactory to pupils and parents. Except for a few minor changes, made to suit the season of the year, the course of study for the all-year schools is the same as that for the regular fortyweeks' schools. we the all-year school had to be reckThree vital questions concerning oned with and settled before could feel confident that we had attained complete success. These questions were: Does continuance at school injure the health of children? Principals of the all-year schools have reported that the health of pupils has been exceptionally good. Careful investigation carried on year after year has failed to reveal a case of illness that could be fairly attributable to attendance in the summer term. That the children are not unduly exhausted by the summer work is conclusively shown by the high percentage of attendance in these schools during the months following the summer term. It may be added that the health of teachers in the all-year schools has been exceptionally good. Of the 112 teachers required for the summer term of the four all-year schools in 1915, ninety-four were regular teachers in these schools and the balance were regularly employed in other Newark public schools. At no other time during the year have teachers and pupils made such good records of attendance. Is the expense of maintaining school for two extra months justified? Although the saving in the cost of school maintenance was not urged in the beginning as a reason for establishing all-year schools, our experience has proved that their economy is a marked characteristic. A study of the two schools first established, made last March, showed that 283 pupils had graduated from grammar school, who, under the regular plan, would have been still in the schools. Reckoning forty pupils to the class there would have been seven additional classes in the two buildings. As these pupils would have been in the upper grammar grades where the salary per teacher is at least $1,000, the saving at this point alone has been at least $7,000 per annum. For three years, only two schools were conducted as all-year schools. In 1915 Lafayette School and the Boys' Industrial School were organized on the all-year plan. Lafayette is one of the larger schools and is located in a thickly congested part of the city where social and economic conditions are similar to those in the Belmont Avenue and McKinley districts. The enrollment in this school for the year 1914-15 was 1,764. Of this number 1,377 enrolled for the summer term on the all-year plan. In the Boys' Industrial School practically every pupil remained for the summer term and the work carried on was in every way equal to that done during the regular term. These pupils are being definitely trained for industrial life. They are boys who in a year or so will enter shops and work for at least eight hours per day, fifty weeks in the year. conditions in the school are, as nearly as possible, like conditions in shops in which these boys will work. To say that they are unable to do such work in July and August would be to deny an almost self-evident fact. They are doing it and they are completing their course one-third faster, and thus the school in any given period of time will be able to train a much larger number of those who are to enter industrial life. MILES C. HOLDEN, President The terms in the all-year schools begin September 1, December 1, March 1 and June 1. The terms in the high schools begin September 1 and February 1. For pupils graduating November 30 and February 28 from the all-year schools, special classes have had to be formed in the high schools. The splendid success of the summer high schools that have been maintained in Newark for the past two summers shows plainly that large numbers of students would welcome the establishment of all-year high schools. The high school students are fairly mature boys and girls, pursuing studies that can be grasped more readily by continuity of application. Many of them are over age and would welcome an opportunity to progress faster. Many others are kept in school only by great sacrifice on the part of their parents and any shortening of their course would lift the burden of support from their parents. MASSACHUSETTS ards, Elizabeth; second vice-president, Miss Eleanor Mombert, Paterson; treasurer, Miss Ida MacMahon, Trenton; railroad secretary, Miss M. Stringer, Newark, and as member of the executive committee, Miss Mary A. Burrough. Elizabeth SPARTA. Proper performance of household duties and farm chores by the children of this township will be credited On their school report cards. Principal Harvey S. Miller hopes by this plan to bring school and home into closer touch. Teachers are watching the experiment with great interest. Children will receive credit for sewing, practising music, making and baking bread, pie or cake, attending church or Sunday School, doing the family wash, ironing clothes, cooking meals, canning fruit, sweeping, dusting, making beds, setting the table, scrubbing the floor, running errands, feeding the farm animals, milking the cows, shoveling snow, being ponight, getting up by seven o'clock in lite, going to bed by nine o'clock at the morning, polishing their shoes, brushing their clothes, taking a bath, cleaning their teeth, washing their faces and hands conscientiously and performing various other tasks, including caring for the baby. It is said that the last has met with the emphatic disapproval of every boy in the village. The constant growth of the all- PENNSYLVANIA. As an echo of the blundering dismissal of Assistant Professor Scott Nearing by The school attendance law is inoperative during the months of July and August, and it was said that on this account few children would attend the all-year schools. This suspicion was based partly on an old fallacy that children do not like to attend school. Such may have been the case forty years ago, but it is Winter and Spring Civil Service Examinations All teachers should try the U. S. Government examinations to be held throughout the entire country during the Winter and Spring. The positions to be filled pay from $600 to $1500; have short hours and annual vacations, with full pay. Those interested should write immediately to Franklin Institute, Dept. E 221, Rochester, N. Y., for large descriptive book, showing the positions available, and giving many sample examination questions, which will be sent free of charge. HOME ECONOMICS. A teacher's special one-year course in Domestic Science w nich covers Cookery; Foods, Hygiene, Dietetics, Sanitation, Nursing, Household Economy, Sewing, Cutting and Fitt...g, Dressmaking and Millinery. MUSIC AND DRAWING (Special one-year course) thoroughly equipping young men and women to teach these subjects in the Public Schools. The demand for these teachers greatly exceeds the supply. Field offers great opportunities and large salaries. We have been graduating teachers and placing them in well-paying positions for 25 years. MANUAL TRAINING. This department prepares teachers for manual training work from First Grade through High School. One year's work qualifies for greatly increased salary. Good situations always open. Strong faculty, beautiful loca tion, adequate equipment in all departments. We also qualify for teaching Industrial Arts, Physical Training and Penmanship. The attention of superintendents and others employing teacher specialists is directed to the qualifications of our graduates. We always have well qualified men and women whom we can recommend for important positions. For catalog address The Secretary, West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan the University of Pennsylvania trustees comes the action recently taken: By a sweeping resolution unanimously adopted by the Board of Trustees the status of the entire teaching body of the University has EMERSON College of Oratory HENRY LAURENCE SOUTHWICK, President The largest school of Oratory, Literature and Pedagogy in America. It aims been re-organized, while assurances to develop in the student a knowledge of his own powers in expression whether have been given that no teacher shall as a creative thinker or an interpreter. A beautiful new building. Summer be dropped by the Board except after sessions. Catalogue and full information on application to the case has been passed upon by a committee of nine, representing each one of the faculties, which shall sit in the case in direct personal contact with a similar committee of the DRAWING HARRY SEYMOUR ROSS, Dean HUNTINGTON CHAMBERS, Only 50c Per Month if You Enroll Within 30 Days. trustees. Moreover, the terms of CARNEGIE COLLEGE HOME STUDY COURSES CENTRAL STATES. NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. Several months ago Superintendent Hunter of the Lincoln public schools mailed to every large business man in the city a circular letter describing the night classes of the public schools and asking for suggestions and advice as to further improvements. The business men responded immediately and their answers proved of great value to the department. Not only did the answers pertain to evening classes, but they indicated so well . the attitude of employers that the advice was taken to apply to the school system in general. Over 100 Branches from Which to Select. higher salaries-we can help you. Cut out this ad-make an X before the course in which you are interested--mail the ad to the college. Your tuition will be only a trifle-only 50c per month, if you enroll now. Let us send you free of cost our "Monthly Payment Scholarship" for your consideration, and our 60 page College Bulletin giving full particulars. Send your name and address-now-today-tomorrow may be too late-it costs you nothing-may mean thousands of dollars to you-"do it now." Address CARNEGIE COLLEGE, Rogers, Ohio. THE PALMER METHOD OF It is just as adaptable for use in rural schools as in is free to teachers who provide their pupils with Write us at 30 Irving Place, New York, stating Superintendent Hunter tabulated the answers to his letters and found that twenty-one constructive suggestions for work in the schools had 30 been received from men, including bankers, retailers, manufacturers and 201 professional men. Povlston St., Boston. Mass Four of the business men who replied made emphatic suggestions for subjects, and two wanted more atbetter and a more thorough study of tention paid to spelling. Other sugEnglish. Two asked for more spell- gestions were: a course in manual ing and business arithmetic. Five arts. course in salesmanship, more laid special emphasis on business mechanical and freehand drawing, BOSTON, MASS. Girls' School FOR SALE AT SACRIFICE Flourishing Girls' School in large city of Middle West. Established 25 years. I health of Principal only reason for selling. Address WINSHIP TEACHERS' AGENCY, 6 Beacon St., Boston. TEACHERS' AGENCIES. The Fisk Teachers' Agencies New York, N. Y, 156 Fifth Ave. Washington, D. C., 1847 U Street The Chesley Recommends Only Chicago, Ill., 28 E. Jackson Blvd. MISS E. F. FOSTER, Manager 2A PARK ST. and state. most needed by the city, and advice as to the best ways by which they could co-operate with other educaBOSTON tional agencies and institutions of city Early in 1915 the time seemed ripe for action and the superintendent of schools, together with the Board of Education and the trustees of the Dunwoody Institute, secured the cooperation of various local agencies Berkeley, Cal., 2161 Shattuck Ave. Los Angeles. Cal., 343 Douglas Bldg. Teachers' Agency DOVER in asking the National Society for Telephone 253-6 N. H. No Advance Charges the Promotion of Industrial Education to come to Minneapolis to make this Survey and hold its annual convention. The Survey was begun on May 1, MISS T. M. HASTINGS, Acting Manager 1915, under the direction of the Na THE EASTERN TEACHERS' AGENCY Reputation founded on twenty-five years of successful experience. 6 BEACON STREET, Established 1890 BOSTON THE FICKETT TEACHERS' AGENCY Established 1885. THE GILES TEACHERS' AGENCY, TUSCALOOSA, ALA. Seeks the enrollment of Normal and of A grade college and university graduates, and of specialists in the Fine Arts. It notifies its members of only vacancies concerning which it has had direct information from employing authorities and after every notification personally recommends. It also carefully considers the demands of each vacancy and the qualifications of each member in order that it may render the most efficient service both in notifying and recommending. Constantly growing opportunities in the SOUTH for advancement Write for circular and membership form. alorg all educational lines. No registration fee. course in card writing, and more attention to reading. One man suggested a course in brick laying, while other writers commended the courses in manual art and the whole night school system. One disgruntled writer said that the board of education had no business to expend public money in giving manual arts training and civic instruction through the medium of the Junior Civic and Industrial league. Evening classes in the public schools are held at the Hayward, Park, McKinley and new high school buildings, the first four nights of each week. Sessions last from 7.30 to 9.30 p. m. Classes first opened on October 11. Courses are offered under five main heads, academic, manual arts, household arts, business and gymnasium. The manual arts classes include mechanical drawing, freehand drawing, wood and metal work and electrical wiring. Girls are taught cooking, house practice, sewing and millinery. Classes in shorthand, typewriting and bookkeeping are also conducted. OHIO. SANDUSKY. The public schools of this city are serving the community in a way that no doubt surpasses that of any period in their history. Since the election of Superintendent Ironton James T. Begg of the schools in 1913, rapid strides have been made. During this time, several teachers have been added to the corps in the grades, physical training introduced, and the cadet system for training teachers inaugurated. The high school enrollment has increased by about 200 in the past two years, with 550 pupils enrolled now and an expected enrollment of over 600 for the next semester. The number of teachers on the faculty has grown from twelve in 1913 to twentythree in 1915. The new high school building costing approximately $262,000 was dedicated in October. Superintendent Begg has introduced new courses and revised old ones to meet the demands of the city. Manual training, domestic science and commercial work are among the new lines added. There are about ninetyfour teachers in the city schools. Salaries in the grades range from $425 to $917; in the high school, from $800 to $1,800; special teachers get from $850 to $1,300. Superintendent Begg was recently re-elected for a term of five years with his salary increased to $3,000. MINNESOTA. MINNEAPOLIS. The ninth annual convention of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, including the report of the Minneapolis Survey, will be held here January 20 to 22. Minneapolis has for a long time been interested in vocational education. Reports on the subject by Teachers' Associations, the work of special committees of the Board of Education and of the Civic and Commerce Association have created much favorable sentiment in this direction. em tional Society's Survey Committee and the Local Minneapolis Survey Committee with Charles A. Prosser, then secretary of the National Sosociety, as the director of the Survey. Everywhere the Survey has met with the hearty support of every interest in the city. Business men, social workers, working men and educators have given freely of their time and their knowledge. The Survey was practically completed early in Noyember and a report was submitted at a joint meeting of the National Society's Survey Committee and the Local Survey Committee, called to consider the findings of the report and to make recommendations as to the kind of vocational education the city needs and how it can best be given. These are being printed in advance of the annual convention of the National Society and will serve as a basis for discussion in that part of the convention program dealing with the Survey. Two years ago the Board of Education created a special committee on Vocational Education made up The morning assembly which is in about equal numbers of educators, now part of every well regulated business men, employers and school helps to promote the comployees engaged in industry, repre- munity spirit, and the assembly singsentatives of women's clubs and so- ing is a most important part of the cial workers. The increasing tight- exercise. The success of the singing ening and enforcement of laws re- depends largely upon the leader. No quiring attendance at school of chil- less important, however, is the kind dren up to the age of sixteen years of book used. A cheap, unattrachas brought into the public schools tive book will kill the enthusiasm of a large number of pupils in need of the children. The success of the instruction largely Vocational in Assembly Song Book Series edited character. bound and the selections by Dr. Frank R. Rix, director of By the will of the late William music of New York City, is pheHood Dunwoody, a trust fund of nomenal. Wherever these books are more than $5,000,000 was created for used, the best assembly singing is to purposes of industrial education. Be- be found. They are attractive and fore undertaking to put into effect well in a comprehensive way the provi- are chosen with consummate skill. sions under which this was given, the trustees of the Dunwoody fund desired complete information as to the kind of vocational education Teachers and superintendents will do well to look into their merits before deciding on a book for assembly singing. |