SPECIAL SUBJECTS OF CURRICULUM. 727. Association of high school teachers of English of New York city. Reports of committees. Bulletin XVI, May 1915. 59p. 8°. 3. Contains: 1. R. T. Congdon: Some forms of co-operation in English composition teaching, p. 3-9. 2. Report of the committee on co-operation, p. 9-18. G. P. F. Hobson: Co-operation between English and Latin, p. 19-22. 4. J. E. Peabody: Co-operation between English and biology, p. 22-25. 5. Maude M. Frank Report of the committee on literature in the high school, p. 31-37. 6. Report of the committee on public speaking and dramatics, p. 45-49. 728. Association of history teachers of the Middle States and Maryland. Proceedings of the meetings held in 1914 at Trenton, N. J., and New York, N. Y. No. 12. 105p. 8°. (Edgar Dawson, secretary, Hunter college, New York, N. Y.) Contains: 1. C. N. Kendall: The teaching of local history in the schools, p. 9-17; Discussion, p. 17-18. 2. A. C. Howland: The teaching of military history in the schools, p. 28-31. 3. S. B. Howe: Should military history be taught in our schools and colleges? p. 32-37. 4. J. H. Latané: The significance of local history, p. 38-43. 5. William Fairley: History teachers for secondary schools, p. 69-79; Discussion, p. 79-92. 729. Music supervisors' national conference. Eighth annual meeting at Pittsburgh, March 22-26, 1915. A summarized report of the sessions. School music, 16:19-50, March-April 1915. Contains: 1. Earl Barnes: The relation of rhythmic exercises to music, p. 25-26, 28, 30. 2. P. P. Claxton: The place of music in national education, p. 80, 32, 34, 36. 3. K. W. Gehrkens: Ultimate ends in public school music, p. 44, 46, 48, 50. 730. Abbott, Allan. A course of study in English for a metropolitan academic high school. Teachers college record, 16:13-31, May 1915. A study in the development of a course of study to meet particular social needs. The course outlined in the article was planned and in its main features carried out in the Horace Mann high school during the winters of 1912-1914. 731. Bate, W. G. An experiment in teaching a course in elementary sociology. School review, 23:331-40, May 1915. A high school course in sociology and social problems. Satisfactory results attained in Mankato high school, Minnesota. Gives an outline of the course. 732. Chandler, Frank W. A creative approach to the study of literature. English journal, 4:281-91, May 1915. The author has been conducting a course in literary appreciation at he University of Cincinnati. He assigns for study various types of literature and the pupils give oral and written reports on what they have read. They endeavor to express the spirit of the poems they have read in verses of their own. "Critical interpretation and appreciative creation complement each other." 733. Conrad, Otto. Fr. W. Foerster's idee der staatsbürgerlichen erziehung. Zeitschrift für lateinlose höhere schulen, 26: 71-77, February 1915. A brief exposition and a criticism of the leading ideas expounded by Foerster in his book: "Staatsbürgerliche erziehung. Prinziplenfragen politischer ethik und politischer pädagogik." 2d ed. 1914. 734. Dickinson, Edward. Music and the higher education. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1915. 234 p. 12°. CONTENTS.-Prelude: In a college music room.-1. The college and the fine arts.-2. Music in the college.-3. Teacher and critic: his preparation and his method. 735. Dunn, Arthur William. By what standard shall we judge the value of civic education? Boston teachers news letter, 3:4-10, May 1915. Read before the American institute of instruction, July 1914. 736. Gammans, Harold W. The pupil who fails in secondary school English; how to teach him. Education, 35: 565-70, May 1915. Continued from February number. Value of supplementary reading to arouse interest, etc. 95350°-15-2 737. Handschin, Charles H. tion, 35:597-600, May Problems in teaching modern languages. Educa1915. Advocates exercises in direct method based on the text; also texts dealing with the best authors. 738. Hosic, James Fleming. The essentials of composition and grammar. School and society, 1:581-87, April 24, 1915. A paper read before the Department of superintendence of the National education association, at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 26, 1915. Discusses the different scales and tests in composition and grammar. 739. Latham, Azubah J. The making of a festival, with some account of the Teachers college festivals of 1914 and 1915. Teachers college record, 16:44-60, May 1915. 740. Leavitt, Frank M., and Brown, Edith. History for prevocational boys. Elementary school journal, 15:463-75, May 1915. Outlines course of study, purport being to give children an elementary appreciation of the evolution of the worker, particularly an understanding of the organizations of labor and capital as they exist today, and kindred topics. Gives list of references: p. 474-75. 741. Mackie, Ransom A. The value of history. Education, 35: 560-64, May 1915. Discusses the purpose and value of teaching history. 742. Walker, N. W. High school pupils tested on spelling. North Carolina high school bulletin, 6:70-76, April 1915. A test conducted in the high schools of North Carolina. Gives the words used and the per cent of times each word was spelled correctly. RURAL EDUCATION. 743. McBrien, J. L. Ideals in rural education. Arkansas teacher, 3: 2-4, May 1915. 744. Teacher-training for rural schools in public high schools of the United States. American school board journal, 50:30, 32, 34-35, May 1915. Also in Missouri school journal, 32: 204-10, May 1915. 745. Osborn, Harriet B. The improvement of rural school grounds and interiors. Education, 35: 555-59, May 1915. Enough land should be provided for a school garden and a suitable playground. Advocates closer relations between the school and the grange. 746. Uriot, G. La dépopulation des campagnes. Ses causes. L'école peut-elle y porter remède? Revue pédagogique, 66:145-56, March 1915. "To accomplish this delicate task "-of staying depopulation of the rural districts through emigration to the city and through decline of the birthrate"it is necessary that the teacher himself be country-bred, one who knows and loves the fields." SECONDARY EDUCATION. 747. Angell, James R. The junior college movement in high schools. School review, 23: 289-302, May 1915. Based upon data obtained from nineteen universities and seven colleges, members of the North central association, or institutions of like character. Thinks that such colleges will bring opportunities for advanced vocational training to thousands of students. 748. Douglass, Aubrey Augustus. The present status of the junior high school. Pedagogical seminary, 22: 252-74, June 1915. 749. Hoblit. Merritt L. The high school unit: quantity, quality, and credit. School review, 23:303-6, May 1915. Says that a unit of high school work is very difficult to define in any other than a quantitative way. 750. Inglis, Alexander. A fundamental problem in the reorganization of the high school. School review, 23: 307-18, May 1915. 751. Says that the six-year high school plan will solve many of the perplexing problems in school organization, most of which center around the seventh and eighth grades of the elementary school and the first year of the high school. The socialization of the high school. Teachers college record, 16: 1-12, May 1915. 752. Puncheon, Katharine E. High school programme of studies: constants and electives. Pennsylvania school journal, 63: 477-81, May 1915. The writer is convinced that boys and girls of high school age accomplish more on a rather carefully prescribed course of study, wisely and judiciously administered. Thinks that to open a system of free election or even comparatively free election to high school students cannot bring good results. 753. Snedden, David. High schools-new and old. School and society, 1: 621-26, May 1, 1915. Notes of an address given by Commissioner David Snedden, of Massachusetts, before the Philadelphia high school teachers' association, March 20, 1915. TEACHERS: TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS. 754. Brown, Elmer Ellsworth. University departments and schools of education. Old Penn, 13: 943-46, April 24, 1915. Lecture delivered under the auspices of the School of education of the University of Pennsylvania. 755. Green, Clyde C. The promotion of teachers on the basis of merit and efficiency. Journal of education, 81: 482-83, May 6, 1915. Address delivered before the Department of Superintendence, National education association, February 1915. Also in School and society, 1: 705-9, May 15, 1915. 756. Hodgson, Elizabeth. Equal salaries for men and women teachers. Education, 35: 571-77, May 1915. Says that equal salaries for men and women almost " inevitably means lowering the present level for men, driving into other work many of the best ones now teaching." Cites sociological reasons for employing more male teachers in grammar and secondary schools. 757. Meierhofer, Hans. Morbidität und mortalität der lehrer. Schweizerische blätter für schulgesundheitspflege und kinderschutz, 13: 49-52, April 1915. Statistics gathered in Zurich, 1912, 1913, and 1914, which give occasion for interesting comparisons and conclusions. Age and sex of teachers are considered as important factors. 758. Moore, V. B. Legal rights of patrons and teachers in public schools. School and home, 7: 8-9, May 1915. Considers the authority of the teacher under three headings: Authority at the school; Authority on the way to and from school, and, Authority at home. 759. National council of teachers of English. Preparation of high-school teachers of English. A report of a committee of the National council of teachers of English. English journal, 4: 323–32, May 1915. Questionnaires were sent to high-school teachers of English. This report presents the tabulation and analysis of the returned questionnaires. 760. Strong, Edward K., jr. Teacher training. School and society, 1: 587-93, April 24, 1915. Read before Section L of the American association for the advancement of science, Philadelphia, December 30, 1914. 761. Wisconsin. State board of public affairs. Conditions and needs of Wisconsin's normal schools. Report of cooperative survey, by A. N. Farmer, director. Issued by the State board of public affairs, December, 1914. Madison, Wis., Democrat printing company, state printer [1914] 653 p. fold. maps, diagrs. 8°. HIGHER EDUCATION. 762. American association of collegiate registrars. Proceedings of the fifth annual meeting . . . Richmond, Va., February 24-25, 1914. Lexington, Ky., The University press. Galesburg, Ill.) ... 72 p. 8°. (Miss Mary Scott, secretary, Contains: 1. A. M. Mann: Should the registrar determine the kind and amount of advanced credit that an applicant shall receive on the basis of college work done elsewhere? p. 9-13. 2. A. H. Espenshade: The best way to deal with applicants who have been 'dropped" by other colleges (a) for poor scholarship (b) for misconduct, p. 13-23. 3. C. M. McConn: The question of statistics. What statistics should be kept by a registrar's office, and what provision should be made for publishing them, p. 25-35. 4. A. A. Bacon: Should the registrar in a small college be a teaching member of the faculty? p. 39-43. 5. E. H. Davis: To what extent, if at all, should the registrar be a disciplinarian? p. 52-54. 6. A. H. Parrott: Should the registrar do any teaching? What, if any, benefits are to be gained by his doing so? p. 54-57. 763. American sociological society. Papers and proceedings, ninth annual meeting, held at Princeton, N. J., December 28-31, 1914. Vol. IX. Freedom of communication. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press [1915] 202 p. 8°. Contains: 1. U. G. Weatherly: Freedom of teaching in the United States, p. 133-49. 2. H. S. Pritchett: Reasonable restrictions upon the scholar's freedom, p. 150-59. 3. Discussion by F. L. McVey, E. B. Gowin, C. C. North, Scott Nearing, E. A. Ross, E. L. Earp, Maurice Parmelee, p. 159–68. 4. Preliminary report of the joint committee on academic freedom and academic tenure, p. 170-76. 5. Report of the committee on sociology in the training of teachers, p. 176-83. 764. Bourne, Randolph S. Democracy and university administration. Educational review, 49:455-59, May 1915. Says that the modern university is confronted with the same problems as the modern state the "struggle between autocratic officers of administration and the democratic personnel of the faculties . . . The faculties must understand that their function is to determine the educational end to be realized. The officers must be left free to realize it with the machinery they find advantageous." 765 Crawford, William H. Place and function of the denominational college. Educational review, 49:445-54, May 1915. Says there are signs of a renaissance of the denominational colleges. With secularism at full tide, there is a decided need for such institutions. 766. Deming, Clarence. Yale yesterdays. New Haven, Yale university press, 1915. xvi, 254 p. illus. 8°. Edited by members of the author's family, with a foreword by Henry W. Farnam. 767. Dillard, James Hardy. Colleges and democracy. School and society, 1: 697-700, May 15, 1915. The writer thinks that the preponderating influences about our colleges are anti-democratic, and that a change in the direction of rigidness of standard would tend to restore intellectual work to its proper place of precedence, and would go far in doing away with influences that are aristocratic in their tendency. 768. Graham, Edward Kidder. Inaugural address at the University of North Carolina. School and society, 1:613-21, May 1, 1915. Delivered on April 21, 1915, on the occasion of the author's installation as president of the University of North Carolina. Discusses the function of a state university. 769. Hall, G. Stanley. Medieval and modern universities. Catholic educational review, 9: 404-23, May 1915. Also in Pedigogical seminary, 22: 275-89, June 1915. Address delivered at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Catholic university of America. 770. Jordan, David Starr. Stanford's foundation ideals. School and society, 1: 685-97, May 15, 1915. Founders' day address, delivered by Chancellor Jordan, May 9, 1915. History of the foundation and growth of Leland Stanford Junior university. 771. Macbride, Thomas H. Duplication in separate schools of higher learning, supported by the state. [Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company, 1915] 20 p. 8°. An address delivered before the National association of state universities, Washington, D. C., November 10, 1914, by the president of the State university of Iowa. 772. McCormick, S. B. for state support? Shall the denominational or independent college ask Gives reasons why an independent or denominational college should not seek or accept state aid. 773. Massachusetts. Board of education. Report of the Board of education relative to the establishment of a state university. Boston, Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1915. 43 p. 8°. ([General court 1915] House [Doc.] no. 485.) 774. Reinsch, Paul S. The inner freedom of American intellectual life. North American review, 201: 733-42, May 1915. The free development of scientific teaching. Cooperation between the state governments and the state universities. 775. Schmidkunz, Hans. Akademische weltpolitik. Akademische rundschau, 3: 255-65, April 1915. 46 Discussion, by the secretary of the Gesellschaft für hochschulpädagogik," of a number of reforms and extensions of German university teaching. Foreign experience is utilized. 776. Sharpless, Isaac. The American college. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1915. ix, 221 p. 12°. The object of this book is "to give to the general reader a fair idea, hiding neither blemishes nor virtues, of that peculiarly national institution, the American college, as distinct from the university and technological school." 777. Stansell, Charles V. Some other aspects of freshman knowledge. Forum, 53: 621-26, May 1915. Says that education, in any stage should be "mental discipline induced and supervised by men of vision." Cf. article by Masseck in Forum, 52: 899–902, December 1914. 778. Taft, William H. tional education 4-9, May 1915. Address before the Department of superintendence, Naassociation, Cincinnati. Southern school journal, 26: Advocates enlarging the Bureau of education into a National university. 779. Wisconsin. State board of public affairs. Report upon the survey of the University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis., State board of public affairs [1915] 957 p. 4°. 780. Appendices: W. H. Allen's report to the board, E. C. Branson's report to the board, comment by committee of University faculty upon report of investigators. Survey summary re University of Wisconsin, containing the portion thus far released by the State board of public affairs as submitted December 1, 1914, by William H. Allen. Madison, Wis., Wisconsin efficiency bureau, 1915. 107 p. 8°. CONTENTS.-Scope and method of the survey.-II. What its university means to Wisconsin. III. Earmarks of efficiency and progress.-IV. Opportunities for increasing efficiency. |