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1754. Zimmers, P. J. The training of pupils in right habits of study through the proper conduct of the class period. Wisconsin journal of education, 48:245– 53, November 1916.

Gives the effects of two years concerted action of all the teachers of Manitowoc, Wis., to train pupils in proper habits of study.

SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE.

1755. Baker, N. R. City school architecture. Educational exchange, 31:22, 24, December 1916.

Gives important points to be observed in constructing new schoolhouses.

1756. Hollister, Horace Adelbert. The planning and construction of high-school buildings; issued from the High school visitor's office, University of Illinois, for the guidance of school boards and those interested in high school construction. Urbana, The University of Illinois [1916] 70 p. incl. illus., plates, plans. 8°. (University of Illinois bulletin. vol. xiv, no. 8. October 23, 1916)

1757. Oberholtzer, E. E. Tulsa unit school system. Journal of education, 84:56869, December 7, 1916.

Tells of the advantages of the unit system of school architecture as used in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

SCHOOL HYGIENE AND SANITATION.

1758. King, John T. Education and health. Maryland medical journal, 59:287–92, December 1916.

Discusses at length the sanitary supervision of schools.

1759. Priestman, Austin. The work of the school medical officer. Political quarterly (London) no. 8:55-78, September 1916.

SEX EDUCATION.

1760. Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus. Sex-education; a series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life. New York, The Macmillan company, 1916. 251 p. front. (port.) 12°.

"Some books for sex-education": p. 238-47.

1761. Burgess, William. The child's right to sex instruction. Religious education, 11:499-503, December 1916.

Takes up first the objections to the instruction of children in sexual hygiene, and then when and how sex instruction should be given. A list of books on sex instruction for mothers, parents, school teachers, boys and girls is appended.

1762. Exner, M. J. Sex education and the high school age. Religious education, 11:487-98, December 1916.

Gives results from studies of college students which show the urgency of constructive sexeducation at the beginning of high-school age.

PHYSICAL TRAINING.

1763. Johnson, C. E. The educational opportunity of the physical-training teacher. Mind and body, 23:337-43, December 1916.

Commencement address at the Sargent school for physical education, May 1916.

1764. Philippe, Jean. Pour l'enseignement de la gymnastique. Revue pédagogique, 68:213-37, September 1916.

The author discusses two questions, how to obtain the attention of pupils so that the most profit may be obtained from gymnastic exercises, and what exercise will best accomplish this purpose.

1765. Shields, Thomas Edward. Physical education. Catholic educational review, 12:424–34, December 1916.

1766. Williams, Jesse Feiring. Proposals for preparedness in physical education. American physical education review, 21:451-61, November 1916.

Read at the 23d annual convention of the American physical education association, Cincinnati, April 21, 1916.

SOCIAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION.

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1767. National conference of charities and correction. Proceedings the forty-third annual session held in Indianapolis, Ind., May 10-17, 1916. Chicago, Ill., The Hildman printing co., 1916. 713 p. 8°.

Contains: 1. Taliaferro Clark: The school as a factor in the mental hygiene of rural communities, p. 215-23. 2. J. M. McCallie: Dangers of classifying as feeble-minded children who are merely backward, p. 257-63. 3. G. S. Bliss: The danger of classifying as merely backward children who are feeble-minded, p. 263-66. 4. Ada M. Fitts: How to fill the gap between the special class and the institution, p. 292–300. 5. H. W. Nudd: The Gary plan and its social bearings, p. 559-66. 6. M. P. Adams: The schools of children's societies as experiment stations, p. 568-76. 7. J. W. Latimer: The juvenile court in its relation to public education, p. 576-83. 8. J. J. Gascoyne: How can the probation officer best help the teacher? p. 583-85. 9. Jane F. Culbert: Visiting teachers and their activities, p. 592-98. 10. Taliaferro Clark: The physical care of rural school children, p. 599-605. 11. Ethel de Long: The school as a community center, p. 608-14. 1768. Aronovici, Carol. The social survey. Philadelphia, The Harper press, 1916. 255 p. 12°.

At head of title: Bureau for social research of the Seybert institution.

1769. Arvold, Alfred G. The soul and the soil. Playground, 10:324-33, December 1916.

Address given at the Recreation congress, Grand Rapids, Mich., October 2-6, 1916.

The need of social recreation in rural communities and the work of the Little country theatre in the development of community life.

1770. Holden, Percy G. Community clubs and their work. Normal instructor and primary plans, 26:29, 75, January 1917.

"In this article on Community clubs, Prof. Holden looks to the schoolhouse as the center of influence."

1771. Yerkes, Robert M. Educational and psychological aspects of racial wellbeing. Journal of delinquency, 1:243-49, November 1916.

Says that racial well being or eugenical progress must be achieved primarily through educational effort; education must be more highly individualized with respect to treatment, etc.

CHILD WELFARE.

1772. DuShane, Donald. The children of needy parents and the public schools. Educator-journal, 17:189-91, December 1916.

The writer tells of investigations which he has made which show that retardation and elimination of school children is caused mostly by the economic and social status of the parents. Retarded children are largely from the homes of laboring men. Children of common laborers have very little chance to complete the seventh grade and almost no chance to go further than through the ninth grade.

1773. Nelson, Oscar F. Child labor and education. Illinois teacher, 5:66-68, December 1916.

Quoted from the twenty-third annual report of the chief factory inspector of Illinois.
The views of an officer entirely outside of the teaching profession.

1774. United States. Department of labor. Children's bureau. List of references on child labor, compiled under the direction of H. H. B. Meyer . . . with the assistance of Laura A. Thompson. Washington, Government printing office, 1916. 161 p. 8°. (Industrial series no. 3. Bureau publication no. 18.)

1775. Webb, Sidney. The coming educational revolution: half-time for adolescents. Contemporary review, 110:584-93, November 1916.

A plea for half-time instruction for adolescents after the war. Conditions in England reviewed. Discusses the "industrial parasitism" of industries to which the nation allows a wrong use of boy-labor, whether in the substitution of boys for men, or in occupations of the "blind-alley" kind.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

1776. Educational aspects of school credit for extramural Bible study. Religious education, 11:518-25, December 1916.

The problem is stated by H. A. Hollister (1) from the standpoint of the school, and (2) from the standpoint of the church. The subject is then discussed by R. L. Kelly, Mr. Windham, V. P. Squires, and Lester J. Bradner.

1777. Hayes, Ernest H. The child in the midst; a guide to new Sunday school methods. London, F. & E. Stoneham, ltd., 1916. 148 p. front., diagrs. 12°. 1778. Reville, John C. Another La Salle. America, 16:189–90, December 2, 1916. Brother James Dominic Burke and his educational achievements in the schools at Cork, Ireland.

1779. Squires, Vernon P. Credit for religion. Why ask the state to give school credits for religious instruction? Religious education, 11:512-17, December 1916.

In summing up the writer says that he asks the state to give school credits for religious and Biblical instruction because the subject is entitled to such recognition, because such recognition will be helpful to both church and state, and because in so doing he believes he is acting in accordance with the spirit of our laws and institutions and assisting in a real and vital way in the great task of educating our youth in things worth while.

MANUAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

1780. Bennett, Charles A. Manual arts in the Ravenna township school. Manual training magazine, 18:150-56, December 1916.

Illustrated article showing the work being done in Ravenna, Ohio, township school.

1781. Dean, Arthur Davis. Factors entering into a state program of vocational education. Manual training magazine, 18:129-34, December 1916.

"From an address given at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Rutgers college, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 12, 1916."

1782. Fleagle, Fred K. Trade instruction. Educational review, 52:456–63, December 1916.

A plea for more democracy in education; industrial education in its various phases. Recommends a system of trade instruction. Work of the junior high school in facilitating vocational education.

1783. Haas, Louis J. A new vocation-diversional occupation. Industrial-arts magazine, 5:516-21, December 1916.

The work in diversional occupation as carried on in the Bloomingdale hospital, White Plains, N. Y. Various occupations suitable to the patients are taught. Gives method of presentation of different occupations.

1784. Hall, Frank. Manual training in town and city schools. West Virginia school journal and educator, 45:287-88, December 1916.

A brief sketch of the manual training work at Keyser, West Virginia, showing the socializing influence of the course and also the direct value of the skill acquired in manual training.

1785. Johnson, Dallas D. The administration of vocational education. Manual training magazine, 18:134-36, December 1916.

Contains a plan for administration of vocational education. Each feature represented in the scheme is in successful operation, but the writer is not aware of the existence of all of the features in any one particular school system in the United States.

1786. Lewis, E. E. What is vocational education? Midland schools, 31:110-14, December 1916.

Includes the definition of vocational education; evolution of vocations; early vocational schools; distinction between general, liberal, specific, and vocational education; revised conception of a liberal education; distinction between prevocational and vocational education; and motivation and vocational education.

1787. Loeb, Max. The radical movement in education. Survey, 37:272-73, December 9, 1916.

Discusses vocational education. Says that it suffers from the danger of over-emphasis; that it is difficult to maintain the proper balance between the vocational and cultural studies. 1788. Salade, Robert F. Teaching apprentices the art of printing. Industrialarts magazine, 5:527-30, December 1916.

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE.

1789. Harris, Franklin Stewart. The young man and his vocation. Boston, R. G. Badger [1916] 204 p. 12°.

1790. Hendrick, Burton J. Fitting the man to the job. Harper's magazine, 134:64-70, December 1916.

Vocational guidance in great industrial plants.

1791. Jaeger, F. E. H. Vocational guidance. Business educator, 22:30, November 1916.

A plan that has been put in operation in the East side high school, Newark, New Jersey. 1792. Maverick, Lewis A. Teaching the child to select his work. School and society, 4:781-83, November 18, 1916.

Recommends a scheme of advice by professional psychologists and advisers for students who are about to select their courses in either the high school or the university. The writer says that the present system of having "advisers" as found in many high schools and universities is a joke. The pupil should be given detailed advice as to the requirements of the different vocations, but above all things the decision should be left to the child.

1793. Reed, Anna Y. Vocational guidance report 1913-1916. Seattle, Wash., Pub. by the Board of school directors, 1916. 118 p. 12°. (Vocational publication no. 2)

Contains: Sec. I. Aims, methods and organization of vocational guidance. Sec. II. Curriculum suggestions. Sec. III. Report of the vocational and attendance department, 1915-1916.

1794. Seitz, Don C. Training for the newspaper trade. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company [1916] 163 p. illus. 12°. (Lippincott's training series)

Other volumes in this series are, Training of a forester, by Gifford Pinchot; Training for the stage, by Arthur Hornblow; Training for the street railway business, by C. B. Fairchild.

HOME ECONOMICS.

1795. Alabama home economics association. Proceedings of the second annual conference . . . January 27-29, 1916. Montevallo, Ala., Alabama girls technical institute, 1916. 37 p. 8°. (Alabama girls technical institute bulletin, vol. 10, no. 2, October 1916)

Contains: 1. Zebulon Judd: Home economics in the new and socialized curriculum, p. 8-14. 2. Mary S. Woolman: Vocational phases of household arts education, p. 14-17. 3. What has been done in home economics in Alabama during nineteen hundred and fifteen? p. 18-22. 4. Mary S. Woolman: Survey of household economics in the high school, p. 28-31. 5. Mrs. W. L. Murdoch: The principal needs of the children of Alabama and how they can best be met, p. 32-34.

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

1796. Egbert, James C. The service of business schools at the close of the great war. Better schools, 2:187-90, October 1916.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.

1797. Columbia alumni news, vol. 8, no. 11, December 8, 1916. (The Columbia law school)

Contains: 1. Edmund Wetmore: The Law school during the Civil war, p. 235. 2. H. F. Stone: The Columbia law school of to-day, p. 236–39. 3. F. M. Burdick: The Columbia law review, p. 243-44. 4. J. P. Carter: Kent hall and the moot courts, p. 245-47. 5. F. C. Hicks: The Columbia law library, 1915-1916, p. 248-51. 6. Where law school students come from: Table of American colleges which send men to the law school, p. 253.

1798. Harbarger, Sada A. Theme subjects for engineering students. English journal, 5:620-32, November 1916.

1799. Mann, C. R. Report of progress in the study of engineering education. Bulletin of the Society for the promotion of engineering education, 7:125-44, November 1916.

Discusses first, the historical background; second, the professional demand; and third, the work of the schools.

Also in Columbia university quarterly, 19:56-73, December 1916.

CIVIC EDUCATION.

1800. Burgoon, A. L. Civil government and citizenship. Wyoming school journal, 13:80-85, November 1916.

The writer says that if the nation at large is to enter upon a civic awakening, and the majority is to take part in the betterment movement, it behooves the public school world to develop a course in civics which in a measure will correspond to the college courses in political and social science. Gives some suggestions for a course in civics that aims at the awakening of the civic conscience.

1801. Hamlin, Myra Swayer. Relating education to life. School, 28:136–37, December 7, 1916.

The work of the Horace Mann school-Training coming citizens in their own environment— Why Arnold Bennett was surprised and delighted with this school.

1802. Hill, Edward E. Dynamic civics. How the child in our schools may be taught power in citizenship. Survey, 37:270-72, December 9, 1916.

"Dynamic civics," says the writer, "lays emphasis upon the work of government rather than the details of its machinery." It endeavors "to find out as many points of actual contact with social activities as is possible, to substitute whenever practicable first-hand knowledge and experience for the text-book, lectures, and outlines."

1803. Robbins, Edwin Clyde. A practical application of the social sciences. School and society, 4:845–50, December 2, 1916.

Outlines the salient features of a comprehensive and far-reaching plan for a better preparation of the people of Oregon, both in and out of the University of Oregon, for the duties of citizenship. 1804. Schiff, Mortimer L. Educational preparedness. School and society, 4: 799-805, November 25, 1916.

An address before the Association of urban universities at the College of the City of New York on November 15, 1916.

Improvements or changes that should be made in our educational system along the lines of training for public service, particularly in regard to commercial training.

EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

1805. Haller, William.

December 1916.

Alien essences.

Columbia university quarterly, 19:44–55,

Deals with the perplexities of a young man attempting to teach women, his attitude toward them, and how to treat them.

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