623. Society of directors of physical education in colleges. Report of the annual meeting . . . Chicago, Ill., December 30, 1914. American physical education review, 20: 113-67, March 1915. Contains: 1. C. L. Brewer: Intercollegiate athletics as part of the work of physical training in colleges of the Southwest, p. 121-24. 2. J. A. Babbitt: Progressive correlation in gymnasium work, p. 125-34. 3. D. A. Sargent: Is war a biological necessity? p. 135-42. 4. P. C. Phillips: Relation of athletic sports to international peace, p. 143-47. 5. W. S. Middleton: The effect of athletic training on the heart, p. 148-63. 624. Morse, John Lovett. Athletics in the schools. Harvard graduates' magazine, 23: 369-74, March 1915. The writer thinks that athletics for boys should be more carefully supervised. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION. 625. Beard, Mary Ritter. Woman's work in municipalities. New York and London, D. Appleton and company, 1915. xi, 344 p. 12°. (National municipal league series.) Chapter 1, Education, p. 1-44. 626. Bohn, Frank. The Socialist party and the public schools. International socialist review, 15: 614-15, April 1915. Social service work and education related to life discussed. 627. Hahn, H. H. Social demands upon elementary education. Middle-west school review, 7: 10-12, March 1915. The writer says that society makes at least three important demands upon the elementary school curriculum, first, the demand that the subject-matter shall have abundant social value now, second, that its subject-matter shall be representative of all the great social interests, and, third, that the amount of material selected from each social interest shall be the minimum. CHILD WELFARE. 628. American association for study and prevention of infant mortality. Transactions of the fifth annual meeting, Boston, Mass., November 12-14, 1914. Baltimore, Press of Franklin printing company, 1915. 391 p. 8°. Contains: 1. Helen C. Putnam: Continuation schools and their basis in the elementary grades, p. 235-38. 2. David Snedden: Some possibilities of public schools in reducing infant mortality, p. 239-42; Discussion, p. 242-53. 629. Kelley, Florence. Children in the cities. National municipal review, 4: 197-203, April 1915. Discusses the municipal care of children. 630. Schoff, Mrs. Frederic. Guiding the boy in his 'teens. Good housekeeping magazine, 60: 369-75, April 1915. Discusses the necessity of proper home instruction. Illustrated. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. 631. Collins, Joseph V. The chief aim of education. Education, 35: 522-28, April 1915. Discusses religious education and the public schools. Makes a plea for a tolerant and consistent introduction of religious instruction in the common schools, nonsectarian in character. 632. Cross, Ethan Allen. Bible study in state colleges and high schools: a way out. American journal of sociology, 20: 700–5, March 1915. The Greeley, Colo., plan. 633. Dix, G. H. Child study, with special application to the teaching of religion. London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1915. 134 p. 12°. 634. Frayser, Nannie Lee. The Sunday school and citizenship. Cincinnati, The Standard publishing company [1915] 99 p. 12°. Bibliography at end of every chapter. 635. Swetland, Roger W. Denominational academies. Educational foundations, 26: 460–66, April 1915. A discussion of the academy movement. The writer says that the demand for such schools in earlier times was on intellectual grounds, while the demand to-day is on social, moral, and religious grounds. 636. Training religious leaders in the Disciples churches. Religious education, 10: 135-58, April 1915. From the report of the Religious education commission of the Disciples of Christ, presented at the recent convention in Atlanta. 637. Wood, Irving Francis. The survey of progress in religious and moral education. Religious education, 10: 114-23, April 1915. MANUAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING. 638. Commercial club of Chicago. Vocational schools for Illinois. [Chicago, 1915] 66 p. 8°. CONTENTS.-Principles and plan of a proposed law.-Wisconsin's experience.-This movement is democratic. Comparison of Commercial club's bill with that of the state teachers' association.-Draft of bill. 639. Commonwealth club of California. Vocational education. San Francisco, Cal., 1914. p. [617]-670. 8°. (Its Transactions. Vol. 9, no. 12, November 1914) Contains proceedings of a meeting under the auspices of the Club's Committee on education, of which Archibald B. Anderson, of the San Francisco state normal school, is chairman. 640. Cooley, Edwin G. Vocational education in Europe. 641. 642. mercial club of Chicago. Vol. 2. 1915. 177 p. illus. 8°. Report to the ComChicago, The Commercial club of Chicago, This volume describes observations and experiences in European vocational schools during the winter of 1913-14. Ireland, England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Germany were visited, and agricultural instruction was especially studied. Vocational school control in Germany. Industrial-arts magazine, 3: 190-91, April 1915. A reply to Dr. Roman's article in March 1915 issue of same periodical (item 482 of this record). Welfare of working youth in Germany. Educational review, 49: 337-51, April 1915. Welfare work in connection with the vocational schools. Statistics giving results of such work in 1910. Activity of the state in directing continuation schools and preparing teachers. 643. Dewey, John. Splitting up the school system. New republic, 2:283-84, April 17, 1915. Professor Dewey here voices his opposition to separate vocational schools. 644. Duley, W. J. Continuation schools and the training of engineers. School world, 17: 83-86, March 1915. Suggestions concerning education of engineers in England. Discusses apprenticeship, etc. 645. Griffith, Ira S., ed. Two units of manual training for high schools. Manual training and vocational education, 16: 480-92, April 1915. Contains helpful material for teachers and supervisors who have to do with organizing the detail of shop courses and planning equipments. 646. Moore, R. C. The dual system of vocational education. 5-9, March 1915. Illinois teacher, 3: "Some quotations from the literature advocating a separate system for vocational education." 647. Prosser, C. A. The evolution of the training of the worker in industry. Educational monthly, 1: 36–46, April 1915. 648. The place of art in industry. Industrial-arts magazine, 3:155–58, April 1915. Abstract of an address before the Eastern art and manual training association, April, 1914. The writer says that "all children should have an opportunity while they are going thru the schools... to have their sense of appreciation of the things that are right and good and true and beautiful developed so that they may be intelligent consumers of the goods of life, so that they may learn to use aright the best things and to enjoy both their work and their leisure." 649. Shields, Thomas Edward. Vocational education. Catholic educational re view, 9: 289-303, April 1915. Survey of the field. Discusses the report of the Commission on national aid to vocational education, and the attitude the Catholic schools should have toward the movement to introduce the vocational subjects into the schools. 650. Smith, William Hawley. "Over-equipped and undertaught." Industrialarts magazine, 3: 145-48, April 1915. Thinks that the industrial schools of this country are over-equipped, but that they are undertaught owing to the lack of properly trained teachers. 651. Thompson, Frank V. Industrial society and industrial education. School and society, 1: 402-8, March 20, 1915. Read at the Boston principals' meeting, January 12, 1915. Speaks of industrial conditions today and considers what the Boston school system is attempting in extension education for its boys and girls. VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE. 652. Horton, D. W. A plan for vocational guidance. School review, 23: 236-43, April 1915. Discusses the organization of vocational guidance as carried out in the Mishawaka high school, Indiana. Outlines a course of study for vocational work. 653. Reed, Mrs. Anna Y. Seattle children in school and in industry with recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the school system and for decreasing the social and economic waste incident to the employment of children 14 to 18 years of age. Seattle, Wash., Board of school directors, 1915. 103 p. 12°. Profitable vocations for girls. New York and Chicago, The 654. Weaver, Eli W. 655. and Byler, J. Frank. Profitable vocations for boys. New York and Chicago, The A. S. Barnes company, 1915. 282 p. 12o. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 656. Teversham, T. F. Experimental agriculture in rural secondary schools. School world, 17: 87-90, March 1915. Says that any science scheme for rural secondary schools must be experimental and inductive observation must precede fact. Pupils should not only be taught the principles of cultivation, of plant-growth and nutrition, etc., but that these principles must be practically administered. HOME ECONOMICS. 657. Cooley, Anna M. The Amy Schüssler apartment. Teachers college record, 16: 51-69, 153-72, January, March 1915. . Apartment where the older girls may have an opportunity to apply in a "home house" the instruction which they receive in the household arts laboratories at Speyer school. The March issue contains a tentative outline of the course of study in the household arts to be used in the seventh and eighth grades of Speyer school. 658. Whitcomb, Emeline Storm. The school luncheon. [Laramie, 1914] 15 p. 12°. (University of Wyoming bulletin. vol. XI, no. 2.) COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. 659. Eaton, Jeannette and Stevens, Bertha M. Commercial work and training for girls. New York, The Macmillan company, 1915. xviii, 289 p. 12o. Contains material prepared under the auspices of the Co-operative employment bureau for girls, Cleveland, Ohio. 660. Fowler, Nathaniel C., jr. A new method of imparting business education. Journal of education, 81: 345-48, April 1, 1915. Describes the demonstration form of imparting business information. Instead of telling people what business is, the writer shows them what business is by presenting in the form of a play the action of every department of business. The writer says that this form of imparting business education has already received the hearty co-operation of our leading educators and business men. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION. 661. American medical association. Council on medical education. Report of the eighth annual conference, Chicago, Ill., February 16, 1915. American medical association bulletin, 10: 221-325, March 15, 1915. (N. P. Colwell, secretary, 535 North Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill.) Contains: 1. N. P. Colwell: Eleven years' progress in medical education, p. 232–44. 2. V. C. Vaughan: A preliminary report on the reorganization of clinical teaching, p. 244-59; Discussion, p. 259-68. 3. G. E. Vincent: The university and higher degrees in medicine, p. 268-77. 4. M. J. Rosenau: Courses in degrees in public health work, p. 277-83; Discussion, p. 283-87. 5. H. D. Arnold: Report of the committee to investigate graduate medical instruction, p. 298-307; Discussion, p. 307-16. 662. Redlich, Josef. The common law and the case method in American university law schools. A report to the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching. New York city, 576 Fifth avenue [1914] xi, 84 p. 4°. (Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching. Bulletin no. 8.) An introductory bulletin to the Foundation's study of legal education in the United States, which is to involve not only an examination of existing law schools, but also of methods of instruction, of bar examinations, and of the relation of these matters to the quality of legal practice. 663. Talbot, Eugene S. The problem of dental education. Dental cosmos, 57: 424-28, April 1915. Outlines a course of study for dental schools. MILITARY TRAINING. 664. Schaeffer, Nathan C. and Finley, John H. Should our educational system include activities whose special purpose is preparation for war? Boston, American school peace league, 1915. 21 p. 8°. Addresses delivered before the Department of superintendence of the National education asso❤ ciation at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 24, 1915. EDUCATION OF WOMEN. 665. General federation of women's clubs. Twelfth biennial convention, June 9-19, 1914, Chicago, Ill. Official report, 1914. 635 p. 8°. (Mrs. Eugene Reilley, corresponding secretary, Charlotte, N. C.) Contains: 1. P. P. Claxton: The educational and cultural value of home economics, p. 243-51. 2. F. M. Leavitt: Vocational education and vocational guidance, p. 461-69. 3. Annie Davis: Vocational guidance in Chicago, p. 469-73. 666. Krause, Maria. Zur reform des oberlyzeums. Frauenbildung, 13: 505-21, 11. heft, 1914. Proposals for a reform of the higher girls' school (oberly zeum). The proposals include a revision of the course of study. NEGROES AND INDIANS. 667. Hall, Robert D. Student Y. M. C. A. work for Indians. Southern workman, 44: 234-38, April 1915. 668. Hill, W. B. Rural survey of Clarke county, Georgia, with special reference to the negroes. [Athens, Ga., 1915] 63 p. illus. 8°. (Bulletin of the Uni versity of Georgia, vol. 15, no. 3. Phelps-Stokes fellowship studies, no. 2.) ORIENTALS. 669. Kuo, Ping Wen. The Chinese system of public education. New York city, Teachers college, Columbia university, 1915. xii, 209 p. 8°. (Teachers college, Columbia university. Contributions to education, no. 64.) CONTENTS.-1. Origin of the ancient educational system.-2. Ancient educational system and its decadence.-3. Brief survey of the development of education during subsequent dynasties.4. Transition from traditional to modern education.-5. Construction of a modern educational system.-6. Reorganization of education under the Republic.-7. Present-day educational problems of national importance.-8. Summary and conclusions.-Appendix and Bibliography. This volume portrays the recent efforts of the Chinese to obtain a familiarity with Western learning, and also places in a clear light the stages in the long evolution of their native culture and educational system. The Introduction by Paul Monroe calls the book a contribution of great importance to the Western knowledge of Eastern conditions." 670. Rottach, Edmond. Les écoles libres d'enseignement secondaire au Japon. Éducation, 16: 416-26, December 1914. 671. Schneder, D. B. Mission schools and state education in Japan. Chinese recorder (Shanghai, China), 46: 164-69, March 1915. Advocates the advance of Christian education to the university grade. 672. Sec, Fong F. Government and mission education in China. Chinese recorder (Shanghai, China), 46: 158-64, March 1915. Welcomes the cooperation of mission schools with the Government. See also article by P. W. Kuo on same topic, p. 169. 673. Yui, David Z. T. Education and democracy in China. Chinese recorder (Shanghai, China), 46: 151-57, March 1915. Effect of mission schools and colleges in moral uplift. Says that one of the chief reasons for the success of Christian education is the excellent discipline maintained in the schools. DEFECTIVE AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. 674. Davis, Gwilym G. The education of crippled children. American journal of care for cripples, 2: 11-14, 1915. Presidential address before the American orthopedic association. Reprinted by permission from the American journal of orthopedic surgery, Philadelphia, 1914-1915. 675. Hutchinson, Woods. Children who never grow up. Good housekeeping magazine, 60: 421-26, April 1915. Discusses the cause, menace, and the cure of feeble-mindedness. Illustrated. 676. McMurtrie, Douglas C. Open air treatment for crippled children; the country home for convalescent children. American journal of care for cripples, 2:15-20, 1915. Describes the equipment and work of the Country home for convalescent children, located at Prince Crossing, Illinois. 677. Monro, Sarah J. A résumé of the rhythmic work in the Horace Mann school, Boston. Volta review, 17: 133–38, April 1915. Says that pupils gain a more natural use of the voice in inflection, greater volume of tone without undue force, and a more natural use of the speech organs. Rhythmic methods as applied to teaching the deaf. 678. Walmsley, H. R. How I taught my boy the truth. Volta review, 17: 123-31, April 1915. Early training of a child in scientific knowledge; sex problems, etc. 679. Worcester, Alice E. How shall my children be taught to pronounce at sight the words of our written language? Volta review, 17: 85-93, March 1915. An exposition of the phonetic reading method devised by the author. In a modified form this method is used in nearly all of the schools for the deaf in the United States. |