A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO The Science, Art, Philosophy and FRANK HERBERT PALMER, Editor VOLUME XXXI SEPTEMBER, 1910-JUNE, 1911 BOSTON THE PALMER COMPANY 120 BOYLSTON STREET 1911 CONTENTS. Agriculture, Place of in Higher Education. L. H. Bailey Algebra, Suggestions on Teaching Elementary. Ernest B. Lytle 249 175 406, 480, 550, 624, 690 472 Art, History of as a College Discipline. Biology, High School Course in. 63, 136, 206, 267, 349, 415, 490, 562, 634, 701 Business, College Training for. John M. Lathrop College Stagecraft. Frank R. Arnold College Students, Self Help among. Clayton H. Ranck Commercial High School Curriculum. Raymond G. Laird Correspondence Schools. Frank Herbert Palmer 244 335 562 443 529 Education, Public, Problem of. 55, 126, 202, 259, 341, 406, 480, 550, 624, 690 Education, The Next Phase. Charlton Andrews Elementary School Ideals. Katharine Woodward Huston English, Differentiation of the High School Course in. President English Grammar, Waste in. Guy W. Shallies 536 Entrance Requirements Bogy. W. E. Aiken 131 Essentials, The Three. Charlotte A. Powell 32 The Tempest Henry V. The Sketch Book French Literary Anniversaries of 1911. Geography, Where lay the Emphasis in Arthur S. Dewing 523 73 Home and School. Superintendent J. M. Greenwood Hygiene, School, Physiological Aspects of. George V. N. Dearborn Individual Student, How to Reach. J. E. Hickman Industrial Education. James Parton Haney Interest, Some Suggestions Concerning. Frank D. Blodgett Negroes, A great National Resource. Frank P. Chisholm Ode, An. (Poem) William A. McKeever Oral Composition. Emma M. Bolenius .72, 140, 210, 278, 354, 422, 498, 566, 638, 710 Private-School Boys, Moral Training of. Charles K. Taylor Public Speaking. Oliver Van Wagnen Religious Freedom of the Schools. Mary H. Leonard Student Organizations in City High Schools. David E. Cloyd Sunday School Curriculum. William C. Ruediger Teacher's Attitude toward his Profession. Edwin C. Browne Teacher, Higher Recognition for the. Walter E. Ranger Teaching, Choosing it as a Profession. W. H. P. Faunce Thread, the Rotten. (Poem) Helen Cary Chadwick Vocational Training for Girls. Idabelle McGlauflin Vocational Training in Elementary Schools. Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature VOL. XXXI of Education SEPTEMBER, 1910 No. I Instruction of Exceptional Children in the New York City Public Schools ANDREW W. EDSON, ASSOCIATE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. N all probability the most striking phase of modern education is the effort to educate and train chil I dren who are a little out of step with the masses. The problems to be worked out in the administration of the public school system in every large city are especially perplexing in New York City, owing to the rapidity of growth of the city, the congestion of population in certain quarters, and the many nationalities to be educated. In considering these problems, certain facts have had to be accepted and certain principles of action adopted. Among them are the following: education is the right of every child— the physically and mentally handicapped, the truant and delinquent, as well as the normal child; the state is under obligations to provide an education for all; special efforts should be directed toward making exceptional children happy, selfrespecting, and self-supporting; the cost of education is a productive expenditure of money rather than a charity; and it is economical as well as humanitarian to protect the helpless from want, the irresponsible from ignorance and vice, the family from an unusual burden, and the state from an increase of the helpless and criminal classes. . The main reason for establishing classes in the public |