The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-10-09


faculty should resign"
The time to stop such savagery is
when it first begins and before il
reaches the fighting stage.
When class feeling grows tense
enough to attract attention, making
it necessary to guard the class EN-.
blems, colors, flags, or whatever they
may be, every intelligent person must
know it has become detrimental to the
best interests of the school, and this
is true whether it is a grammar school
or a university.
This is the time for good citizens
and tax payers who wish the best re-
turn for the money invested to use
their influence with the thoughtless
against continuance of the nonsense.
If not willing to aid in this way, then
they should go away off and keep quiet
while the school authorities settle the
difficulty.
Certainly the people of Iowa, not
withstanding the wealth of the state,
have no money to waste in a continu-
ance of such scenes at our university.
The report of the Forty-Seventh An
nual session of the State Teachers
Association recently issued by the
State Department contains matter of
more than usual interest and value.
1t is sent to all enrolled members of
the association and is a manual no
wide-awake teacher can afford to be
without.
All those schools that threw out
the spelling book and undertook to
teach spelling incidentally or by word
lists failed, and for the same reason
that grammar, arithmetic, geography
and other branches cannot be taught
incidentally as the pupil or the class
read Robinson Crusoe" or any SINH.
lar work. 1t is an independent study
and as such should be pursued
Supt. |. NJ. Greenwood.
Athletics.
The September Midland Schools
is called THE Athletic Number" most
of the pages having been filled with
discussions of various phases of high
school and college athletics.
A majority of the writer's favor foot
bail and other games in vogue at the
present time. These of the opposite
views seem to miss a leading objec'
zion, as we view it, viz: That only q
few Of the most lusty fellows are given
chance to increase their physical
powers in the pleasant and delicate
exercises of the gridircn,.
No one will dispute the Importance
of proper physical exercise and plenty
of it, too, for growing boys and girls
but we promise to be more enthusias
tic on the subject when all the pupils
of a school will, some how or other
have share in the athletics.
One of the writer's suggested the
wood pile as a sure and safe remedy
for weak muscles. Well, we believe
in that, too, or it's equivalent, but the
average boy would prefer exercise
much harder in some other form and
we think it is really best to vary the
program and mix in something called
play along with the work.
AS a believer in the Gospel OF
Work" however, whether in the school
or out of it, we drop the suggestion
that there are in every community
a number of boys and girls who would
be vastly benefited by some good
healthy exercise about the house OF
store a portion of each day. Respon
sibility in the doing of some regular
task is a great help to boy, leading
at length to habits of industry and
self helpfulness. Young people, SC
trained, are not apt to get in much
mischief and when play time comes
are in a condition to enjoy the fun tC
the highest degree.
THE tendency of educational activ
ity in the United States seems to be
toward the attainment of every END
which can render children better fitted
to be useful members of the commun
ity, more capable at once of acquiring
knowledge and of applying it, cleaner
and more wholesome in habits, strong
er and more shapely in bodies, anC
with all their powers and faculties
fully developed. Nothing promises t.
be a greater help to the progress o.
the United States than the care be
slowed upon the training of her flu
ture citizens. London Times.
Manual Training in Iowa City Schools
In the Iowa City schools manua
training is taught to all boys from
the fifth to the eighth grade; in the
grades the work is compulsory for al
| hnuc In the hiph school the work l.