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BOSTON. Mrs. Herbert J. Gurney of Wollaston, president of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs, at a meeting of the executive board, made the following plea: "The educational department is now urging through the individual clubs that boys and girls of high school age be encouraged to remain in school and finish their education, rather than to seize the opportunity left open by the drafting of so many wage-earners. A step further is the high school patronage plan, by which boys and girls may be enabled to continue school training through temporary financial aid offered by the women's clubs.

"The plan is for each club to keep in close touch with the high school classes in its community and, when a student drops out, to learn the cause; and if it is because of financial embarrassment occasioned by the absence for military service of an elder member of the family, to try to arrange some means by which the student may return to finish his or her studies. plan has no relation to the scholarship maintained by some clubs and in many cases would require but a small expenditure to accomplish results.

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"This movement grew out of the printed appeal to students to continue their studies, which was circulated by the Council of National Defence through the Massachusetts of Department Education, which Mrs. W. S. Ripley, Jr., chairman of the educational department of the federation, also is a member."

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CAMBRIDGE. According to the latest statistics compiled there are 5,429 Harvard men taking active part in some branch of national service. The greatest number are enlisted in the United States Army, which contains just three short of 2,000 Harvard men.

In the navy there are 713 men who have been enrolled at Harvard at some time

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NEW YORK CITY. Columbia
University was within its rights when
it excluded as a student there Leon
Samson, after he had addressed
meeting where Emma Goldman was
the chief speaker, according to a deci-
sion in the State Supreme Court
denying a motion for an injunction
sought by Samson restraining the
preventing
college authorities from
his attendance.

The court ruled "the inevitable
close contact that would place Sam-
son with impressionable young men
of his own age who might thus be
inoculated by him with the poison
of his disloyalty would constitute a
menace to the university."

Use of university endowment funds in an educational campaign to teach patriotism to the American people, was advocated by Professor Robert H. McElroy in an address at a conference of distinguished educators here last week. Professor McElroy was granted leave of absence from Princeton University to take charge of the educational work being conducted by the National Security League.

"Almost every university in the land," he said, "has a quantity of 'dead money' lying idle in the form of endowments, made without any specific object in the mind of the benefactor. These funds, in my opinion, should be used to spread the doctrine of patriotism among the people of the United States."

Dr. McElroy was empowered to communicate with the principal colleges and universities to obtain their co-operation in the appointment of committees to study means for effecting improvements education in civics. The subjects to be taken up by the committees will be:

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"Assimilation of immigration. "Education and citizenship. "The wider utilization of schoolhouses, making them centres of activities.

"Revision of textbooks to overcome the system now existing by which they are installed in the schools through legislation lobbies rather than for the material which they contain.

"Utilization of 'dead money' for patriotic educational work.

"Revision of German literature, although none of the representatives advocates suspending the teaching of German language or literature. It is agreed, however, that the subject matter now used is an insidious influence for panGermanism."

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classes have been eradicated. Every

child that presented itself for school-
ing was assured of the full two ses-
sions a day. There are no half-day
Accommodations have been
classes.
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for all who may apply during the
coming school week of heavy regis-
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PENNSYLVANIA.

HARRISBURG. Pennsylvania invested $7,333,564 in the construction of schoolhouses outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the year ending July 1, 1917, according to a report just completed by Dr. J. George Becht, executive secretary of the state board of education. This program is the most ambitious in the way of school building known in the state in any

WESTFIELD. Charles Philhower, Warren county superintendent of County, was elected to the superinyear. as supervising tendency of schools, principal, in Westfield.

NEWARK. A museum for the exhibition of work done in the local public schools, the display being changed periodically, is among the prospective innovations for the Newark schools.

The plan is to have on display examples of the best work done in each and all of the grades, properly set up so that the teachers may inspect it and derive inspiration to improve their own classroom product.

There is only one other city in the world that is known to have one-Berne, Switzerland.

The school year opens with a distinct triumph for the board of education and the educational heads of the local system. All part-time

The report shows there were erected twenty-two buildings ranging in price from $50,000 to $100,000, six from $100,000 to $200,000, six from $200,000 to $300,000 and two costing more than $600,000. Plans for 223 buildings costing less than $50,000 were submitted to the board.

Inquiries show that material prices went up during the year from fifteen to thirty-five per cent.

Allegheny county leads the coun-
ties in number of buildings, show-
ing twenty-four to cost more than
$650,000. Luzerne and Washington
divide next honors with eighteen,

but Fayette is right behind with
seventeen; Berks shows seven;
Blair, three; Bucks, seven; Brad-

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ward boys and girls. It has also provided for the child of unsound mind, and the last legislature established an orphanage for the care, cure, and training of cripple children.

About forty-eight per cent. of the cripples become criminals, says the University of North Carolina News Letter. Ninety-eight per cent. of the minor cases, such as curved wrists, cloven feet and troubles that prevent them from being able to labor, can be cured and made self-supporting.

thoroughly as possible, and that the
development of these members of the
human body can be accomplished
without interfering with mental
growth-in fact, doing a thing be-
cause one has a worth-while motive
for doing it should act as a stimulus
to the brain.

Putting motivation into practice,
after teachers had been trained,
seemed a simple operation while
confined to the building of tepees or
the twirling of sticks. But the child
would have no motive for building
tepees if he was without a knowledge
of Indian life or for the twirling of
sticks unless he had a close ac-
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early ancestors' methods of fire mak-
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The county treasurers in eighty-six counties got nearly half as much for handling public school money in 191516 as the county school superintendents received for running the school systems, according to the report of the state superintendent instruction in North Carolina. Eighty-six county treasurers ceived in commissions $56,869 from the public school fund, and 100 county superintendents $116,948 in salaries.

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Thirteen counties applied to the education of their children every dollar of their public school money in 1915-16, without the loss of a cent in commissions paid to anybody for handling the fund.

In five counties the banks were custodians of the fund without charge. They were Forsyth, Jones, Moore, Northampton and Union.

In four counties the county treasurers are on a salary, not a fee basis. In five counties the sheriffs acted as ex-officio treasurers of the school fund and received no extra commissions therefor.

Nearly three-quarters of a million dollars was passed on to the county school children in these counties

without losing a cent in extra commissions.

In eighty-six other counties nearly $57,000 of the public school fund went into commissions alone.

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SIOUX CITY. When in Superintendent M. G. Clark assumed control of the Sioux City school system he brought into being a new and well thought-out plan of education, founded upon motivity in learning, by which the boy or girl is induced to strive for results through a desire to accomplish something of credit to himself, serviceable to the district or pleasing to others. Simplicity of texts and localization of subject matters are emphasized in his plan.

Mr. Clark is a firm believer in the efficacy of doing a thing because it is worth while, of the training of the eyes, hands, limbs and muscles

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If Mr. Clark has a hobby it is to make one hand wash the other. Here was his chance. Establish a printing office, teach printing in the high school, give to those students who desired the trade an opportunity to learn it while attending school and without loss to the cultural or academic side of education, and make the proposition practical by using the output to supply the need for localized and motived textbooks, pamphlets and other printed matter.

The plan was adopted and Willis M. Pritchard, a local printing office foreman, was added to the teaching force and instructed to secure a sufficient plant and plan a practical course of study.

MICHIGAN.

ANN ARBOR. The position of Dr. Carl Eggert, assistant professor of German at the University of Michigan, was declared vacant by the board of regents at the close of an investigation of charges that he had made unpatriotic utterances. Dr. Eggert has been connected with the university since 1901.

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JEFFERSON CITY. President
B. F. Allen of Lincoln Institute, one
of the best known negro educators
in the country, has been re-elected
to head the institute.
rollment thus far surpasses any in
the history of the school. The
girls outnumber the boys. At the
recent state fair held in Sedalla,
Mo., Lincoln Institute won five
blue ribbons and two red ribbons
for excellence in industrial work.
JOPLIN. J. A. Koontz, formerly
superintendent of this city, is edu-
cational secretary of the Y. M. C.
A. at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas.
It is in line with his taste, and for
this work he has especial talent.

KIRKSVILLE. The State Nor-
mal School here has won the scho-
lastic recognition of the State Uni-
versity of Missouri and of the Uni-
versity of Chicago and its full
fledged graduates with the bach-

elor's degree are admitted to these institutions for post-graduate work.

OHIO.

CLEVELAND. Schools with more than thirty classes are to have an assistant principal.

NORTH DAKOTA. DRAKE. This township is building a consolidated school costing $100,000, closing all other schools.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

ABERDEEN. A bureau of educational research, organized by the department of education of the Northern Normal and Industrial School, will co-operate with the public school men of the state in establishing South Dakota educational standards in various elementary school subjects. Tests will be given this year in arithmetic, spelling, reading and writing. Already many prominent school men of the state have signified to their willingness co-operate with the bureau in this work.

WISCONSIN.

Miss Janet Rankin, School Service secretary and editor of the Educational News Bulletin of the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction, has received a year's leave of absence from the department to carry on work as research assistant to Superintendent A. N. Farmer of Evanston, Illinois.

The following resolution was adopted by the State Legislature at the last session:

"Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the state superintendent of public instruction be requested to take such steps as may be necessary to provide that the national anthem, 'The Star Spangled Banner,' and other national patriotic songs be more extensively taught and sung in all of the schools in this state."

their part in carrying out the proAll schools are requested to do visions of this resolution. Every pupil in the upper grades and high school should know by heart and be able to sing the leading patriotic songs.

MADISON. The following stateincluded ment is in a pamphlet sent by the State Department of Education to the high school principals of the state:

"Beginning with the school year 1919-20, it is expected that every high school in the state will employ a teacher librarian who has had the library training represented by the course for teacher librarians in the University of Wisconsin, or its equivalent. Principals of high schools should plan to meet this requirement by that date, or sooner if feasible."

Professor T. K. Urdahl, of the political economy department of the University of Wisconsin, has been half of the year 1917-18 to enter the granted leave of absence for the first service of the industrial commission at Washington, D. C.

RIVER FALLS. A school nurse was employed during the past year by the cities of River Falls and Ellsworth jointly. This nurse took care of physical examination work in these two cities, and through the generosity of the city boards spent the rest of her time in the rural districts of Pierce County.