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SUGGESTED READINGS FOR COMMITTEE REPORTS

1. Get Alice Morse Earle's book on Child Life in Colonial Days and read what she has to say on early textbooks. Then tell the class about them.

2. Assign sections from some of the following chapters in Volume 33, Chronicles of America Series:

I. School Days in Early New England

II. Schools in New Netherlands

III. Schools of the Middle and Southern Colonies

IV. The Colonial College

V. Franklin and Practical Education

VI. Jefferson and State Education

VII. Washington and National Education
VIII. Schools of the Young Republic

IX. Horace Mann and the Public School

X. De Witt Clinton and the Free School
XI. The Westward Movement

XII. Rise of the State University

XIII. Catholic Education in America

XIV. Rise of Technical Education

XV. The Morrill Act and What Came of It

XVI. Women Knocking at the College Door
XVII. The New Education

XVIII. The University of Today

3. Chapters I, X, and XIII of Tappan's When Knights Were Bold describe education for knighthood, apprenticeship in trade guilds, and the schools of England 500 years ago.

4. Quennell's History of Everyday Things in England, Part II, gives a description of medieval England's grammar schools, colleges, and cathedrals.

5. Robinson's Readings in European History, Volume II, describes student life in Paris during the Middle Ages.

6. Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery, Chapters III and X, pictures graphically the struggle of a former slave boy for an education, and his educational work at Hampton and Tuskegee. Questions based on above reports:

Why was education for knighthood necessary during the Middle Ages and not now?

Why was the study of Latin emphasized in the monastery and cathedral schools of England and France in medieval times?

What particular kind of education is stressed at Hampton and Tuskegee? Why?

How has the Industrial Revolution affected our educational institutions?

7. Read of the struggles for an education by Franklin, Lincoln, Gompers, Bok, Mary Antin, Helen Keller, etc.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

1. Earle's Child Life in Colonial Days.

2. Mary Antin's At School in the Promised Land.

3. Kelly's Little Citizens.

4. Eggleston's Hoosier Schoolmaster.

5. Hughes' Tom Brown's School Days.

6. Bok's Americanization of Edward Bok.

7. Riis' The Making of an American.

8. Davis' The Iron Puddler.

9. Anderson's History of Common School Education: Chapters

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 24, and 26.

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*From a circular of information issued by the Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior, Washington, May 16, 1924.

1 May be admitted at 6 years of age.

2 Seventh grade for children 15 years of age.

3 Provided the child is over 14 years of age.

4 Or attend day school one-half day per day or an evening schoo..

5 School officials may admit to any school children over 5 years of age.

6 Children 14, 15, and 16 must attend 100 days if 8th grade has not been completed.

7 School attendance not required of children 14 to 16, but if they work, employment certificates are

necessary.

8 Illegal to employ children under 14, but employment certificates may be issued to those 13 or over. 9 Liberal exemptions above 15.

10 Provided the child is over 15 years of age.

11 Children over 14 who have not completed the 6th grade may be required to attend a part-time school.

12 In cities of second class, 5 to 21.

13 If illiterates, 7 to 17.

14 Children 13 and 14 must attend 100 days per year. Children 15 must attend, unless they have completed the elementary grades.

15 For colored children 8 months, for white children 9 months.

16 School board may exclude children under 6.

17 State-wide law, but any county can release itself therefrom by majority vote.

18 Employed children not having completed high school must attend part-time school.

19 Entire term in cities.

20 If a high school is maintained.

21 Exempt after 14 if 8th grade is completed, or service needed for self or family.

IMPORTANT PROVISIONS OF COMPULSORY-ATTENDANCE LAWS IN FORCE
JANUARY 1, 1924—(Continued)

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22 Only children 5 to 16 years of age are enumerated.

23 Provided children are 14 to 16 years of age.

24 Lawfully employed minor between 14 and 16 must attend continuation school.

25 In cities of over 4,500 inhabitants, 7 to 16.

26 For children 15 to 16 years of age; elementary grades for children 14 to 15 years

issuing employment certificates examine children as to their ability to read and write.

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27 Children must attend until their 17th birthday if they have not completed the 8th grade.

28 Lower age may be changed to 7 years by local school board. Exemption after 16 if 7th grade is completed, but part-time schooling required.

29 Liberal exemptions above 14.

30 Employed children 16 to 18 must attend part-time or evening school if such school is maintained. unless elementary grades are completed.

31 All persons 16 to 21 seeking employment at a machine must secure an age certificate stating that they are over 16.

32 Exempt after 16 if lawfully employed, but part-time attendance required.

33 Children 16 to 18 and those under 16 who have completed the 8th grade must attend high school 30 weeks per year unless lawfully employed. If employed, such children must attend a part-time school 144 hours per

year.

34 In cities 150 days, 50 of which shall be consecutive.

35 Persons over 18 years of age are not to be excluded from school on account of age.

36 Completion of elementary grades exempts, if child is employed.

37 Children 14 may obtain employment certificates if they have completed the 8th grade.

38 In first-class districts, 8 months.

39 If a high school is maintained within two miles of pupil's home.

40 The school board may admit to school free of tuition persons 20 to 30 years of age.

41 In Child Labor Law, 14 to 17.

42 Full term in cities of first class; 8 months in all other cities; 6 months in towns and villages. 43 To receive share of Government royalty funds, 8 months.

CHAPTER VI

PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY

66 'All's to be feared where all is to be lost."

-Byron

In this closely united world of ours a disaster or danger to one person concerns us all. The newspapers may tell of a robbery in one part of the city that occurred last night. It may be your home that will be robbed tonight. Fire may start in a motion picture house and spread to your store next door. Therefore, protection against certain dangers may no longer be left to the individual. It is as much a community affair as is education or recreation.

Governments protect life and property. The few who will not obey laws are, through government, forced to obey; and those who break the laws, or disturb the peace, or injure, or threaten to injure, the life or property of others, are punished through government. This service of government leaves us free to satisfy our needs and desires in an orderly way.

Destruction by Fire. Beware of fire! A friend when respected; a foe when abused! Destruction of property may be caused by many agencies: by flood, by tornado, by earthquake, by volcanic eruption, by fire. Destruction by fire is the most common. All the other agencies mentioned arise from natural causes, over which man has little if any control. But destruction by fire is almost entirely due to man's carelessness. A man may build a dam to check a flood, or a cellar to preserve life in case of a tornado; but the same man may drop a lighted cigarette and cause a fire. If the buildings consumed every year by fire in this country

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