ing languages, and would use translations and adaptations from all foreign languages, old and new. Every exercise would be a spelling lesson. The children would begin their work by getting acquainted with trees, plants, animals, hills, streams and rocks, and they would learn to care for animals and plants. In the next stage they still keep their eyes on plants and animals, studying them more biologically, and would begin experiments in physics, chemistry and biology, including a fireless cooker, a camera and a wireless telegraph. By this plan, Mr. Flexner says, two or three years can be cut out of school, giving students a chance to take up professional studies earlier than usual. Play facilities, sports and gymnastics would be essentials all through the course. "Let us imagine," he says, “a modern school in New York City; consider for a moment its assets for educational purposes; the harbor, the Metropolitan Museum, the Public Library, the Natural History Museum, the Zoological Garden, the city government, the weather bureau, the transportation systems, lectures, concerts, plays, and so on. Other communities may have less, but all have much. "As things now are, children living in this rich and tingling environment get for the most part precisely the same education that they would be getting in, let us say, Oshkosh or Keokuk." "Not only do American children as a class," Mr. Flexner asserts, "fail to gain either knowledge or power thro bugh the traditional curriculum, but they spend an inordinate time in failing," "longer than in any other Western country," he adds. The graduate of the "modern school" will be, it is guaranteed, trained to know, to care about, and to understand both the physical world and the social world. There will be some trouble, it is admitted, in re-adapting schools and teachers to the new system. "On the other hand," says Mr. Flexner in conclusion, "the spirit of revolt is rife, and teachers can be found whose efforts have already passed beyond conventional limits: with these the new enterprise would be started." Only with Thine Eyes," "Annie Laurie,' "Auld Lang Syne," "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms," and "We're Tenting Tonight," were sung between each choir's numbers. In this way everybody had a fine chance to help out in the evening's enjoyment. The size of the assemblage showed plainly the character of the borough's people, their interest in affairs educational and the need of a new and larger high school building. When this was mentioned it provoked an unexpected and unusual show of enthusiasm. Dr. C. F. Hoban originated the community singing idea here, and it has been carried out with the assistance of Mrs. Martha Matthews Owens. PHILADELPHIA. Contrary to the assertions of its opponents, the new child labor law has not brought hardship to the poor, who are dependent upon the earnings of their children, according to Henry Gideon, chief of the bureau of compulsory education. Mr. Gideon says that since the enforcement of the law was begun three months ago, only four complaints of hardship have come from parents, and these have been from the very poor or from the mothers of industrial "drifters" as the children are called that drift from one employment place to another. The law has had a salutary effect. It has reduced the number of chil-dren leaving school and seeking employment certificates from 4,000 issued in corresponding months last year to 1.100 this year. And, according to Mr. Gideon, if the present rate of reduction is maintained, be tween 7,000 and 8,000 children who I would have left school under the old law, will remain in school because of the provisions of the new law. Another good effect of the law, according to Mr. Gideon, has been the stimulus it has given children to keep up with their grades and seek promotion. It is generally known by pupils now that they cannot leave school unless they have passed the sixth grade. Formerly no standard of attainment was set, and the child of fourteen could get a working certificate, no matter how unlearned. director Speaking of the effect of continuation education, which forces every child under sixteen employed in industry, back into the schoolroom for eight hours a week, Louis Nusbaum, of vocational education, stated that the authorities here are trying to increase the child's general culture and intelligence rather than give it specific trade instruction and thereby exploit it for the sake of a certain industry. "We are not aiming," he said, "to make the children better boxmakers or to teach them to take off the spools in a stocking manufactory with greater rapidity. We are giving them a general practical course in education that will make them better able to use their brains in all emergencies, and thus to become better workmen." The advance in tuition rates at the Wharton School and the College of the University of Pennsylvania is in line with action which has been taken in many other educational institutions in the country, and, while coincident with the general increase in the cost of living, to which universities, as well as other enterprises, must be responsive, it is traceable to causes and conditions antecedent of the present general trend. Harvard, with its magnificent endowment, has found it necessary to stiffen its rates, if its standards and activities are to be maintained, and institutions like the University of Pennsylvania, more dependent upon voluntary income, are at least equally justified in looking for increased contributions from the immediate beneficiaries of the facilities they provide. MILES C. HOLDEN, President Cover Company Much cannot forever be given for nothing, and the universities have been furnishing more than they could afford in many instances. But there is another side of the question which cannot be disregarded. The average college youth is not gilded. The rich are in a marked minority at Harvard; in lesser proportion in Pennsylvania. Another fifty dollars a year will mean a lot to many a youth who is working his way, or whose college life represents the sacrifices of a thrifty home. Scholarships and aids are numerous, but they seldom meet the demand in full. If the rates could only be raised for those whose college life is an alternating change of carousal and siesta and the luxury of the club, and who best could afford the extra cost, and the student whose necessity sharpens his appreciation were deprived of none of the benefits of the lower schedules, the interests of society would be better served.-Philadelphia Bulletin. The School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania has just received a new accession to its departmental library, a collection known as the Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education, recently established by Dr. James H. Penniman in memory of his mother. At the time of establishing it Dr. Penniman expressed his intention of making additions to the collection of 3,000 books given at the start just as rapidly as judicious purchases could be made. At present Dr. Penniman is spending most of his time at the large centres selecting and buying books upon education. As a result of these activities during the past two months, he has increased the library by a gift of about 500 volumes, and he expects to make further additions in the immediate future. The 500 books in Dr. Penniman's latest donation may be roughly classified as follows: History of Education, about 100 volumes; Special Methods, 75; General Method, 50; Textbook Collection, 50; Educational Essays, 50; Moral Education, 40: School Administration, 25; Educational Psychology, 25; Foreign School Systems, 15; Rare Books, 15; MASSACHUSETTS Treatises on Kindergarten, 5; Miscellaneous, 50. WEST VIRGINIA. CLARKSBURG. A boom has been launched here for Deputy Sheriff George W. Conley as Democratic candidate for state superintendent of education. Mr. Conley was formerly superintendent of the Piedmont schools. CENTRAL STATES. ILLINOIS. PEORIA. On account of local conditions in the city of Peoria the meeting of the Central Illinois Section of the State Teachers' Association has been postponed from March 17 and 18 to April 14 and 15. "It is hoped that all who usually attend this section meeting will adjust themselves to the new date," says the bulletin of the State Department of Public Instruction. LINCOLN. E. H. Lukenbill, who has been assistant county superintendent for several years, was elected to succeed County Superintendent D. F. Nichols, who resigned. The election raised interesting points as to qualifications of candidates under the new law, and the attorney-general's decision eliminated several candidates. Mr. Lukenbill is well qualified, legally and actually, for the Government Positions for Teachers All teachers should try the U. S. Government examinations to be held throughout the entire country during the Spring. The positions to be filled pay from $1,200 to $1,800; have short hours and annual vacations, with full pay. Those interested should write immediately to Franklin Institute, Dept. J 221. Rochester, N. Y., for schedule showing all examination dates and places and large descriptive book, showing the positions obtainable and giving many sample examination questions, which will be sent free charge. work. His predecessor established high standards for Logan County. IOWA. DES MOINES. For the first time in all time there are two women members of the school board, Mrs. Hoffman and Mrs. Hanna. The board has but one member who was re-elected. KENTUCKY. ASHLAND. By a unanimous vote and with an increase in salary Superintendent James W. Bradner was reelected here for another three-year term. His salary is now $2,500 a year. Ashland is now classified as a third-class city, and Superintendent Fradner hopes to have a new $100,000 high school building next year. Manual training has been introduced this year, as has departmental work in the seventh and eighth grades, both changes proving profitable. MICHIGAN. DETROIT. At the meeting of the National Federation of State Education Associations at Detroit over thirty states were represented, and the following executive committee was elected: Charles S. Foos, superintendent schools, Reading Pa., president; Alfred C. Thompson, president, New York Teachers' Association, Brockport, N. Y., vicepresident; E. M. Carter, secretarytreasurer State Teachers' Association, Columbia, Mo., secretarytreasurer; A. H. Chamberlain, executive secretary California Teachers' Association, San Francisco, Cal.; J. H. Wagner, secretary New Mexico Teachers' Assembly, Santa Fe, New Mexico; R. H. Wright, president North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, Greenville, N. C.; Miss Nellie Minehan, state director National Education Association, Milwaukee, Wis. President Foos stated that the federation was a clearing house for the various state associations, and urged that there be a free interchange of opinion on the paramount problems of the several state associations. G. W. Briles, of Ada, Okla., president of the State Education Association of Oklahoma, suggested that there should be a concerted effort in the various state ciations and advised that all state associations do some specific thing each year. asso NORTH DAKOTA. DEVILS LAKE. This city is to have a new high school which shall be a complete community centre, if the progressive plan of Superintendent Nelson Sauvain is carried out. WISCONSIN. JANESVILLE. All persons interested in Rock County educationally are kept well posted through an educational bulletin, neatly printed, prepared by County Superintendent O. D. Antisdel and the county. training school faculty. MADISON. Pacifists notwithstanding, a set of military trenches illustrating the principle upon which the entrenchment of a large army would be planned, will be constructed by a company of the student militia near the university campus for the annual inspection which is to be made Tuesday, May 9, by Major Monroe McFarland of the general staff of the United States Army. A periscope constructed by Lloyd M. Garner, captain of one of the companies, will be used in the exhibition. Barb wire entanglements of three kinds will be constructed before the trenches. The first consists of wires strung on posts, which are three or four feet high; the second is the stringing of entanglements over low stakes; and the third consists in burying the butts of large branches in the earth and the stringing of barb wire among the twigs. By Gerald Chittenden Instructor in St. Paul's Unique among "Prep" school sto- "... 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