Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

agriculture into schools In most interest
Ing and practical way.
Mr.. James r. Dubois of the State Depart
ment, who made the address al the Frank
lin School on Wash.rgtenss birthday anni-
yersary, said: washington would phone,
If he could. from the other world to the
people of the present time that they are
guilty OF two neglects One. that at the
national capital there is no fitting statue to
Thomas Jefferson. the author of the Decla-
ration OF Independence, and two, the fall
ure of American citizens to know the
tsonal anthems. particularly The Star
Sriangled Banners''
The Franklin children proved to Mr. Du-
beifs that they at least know the verses of
the anthem. and without copies of the
words made the welktn ring.
10 provide tools for the working of the
new acre assigned by the Secretary of Agr-
culture for the use of the school children as
a garden reQufsftion to the amount of 800
has been presented and ordered by the
school board.
At the request of some of the seventh
grade teachers. Mr.. Thurston of the Busi-
ness High School has consented to talk to
the grade on the subject of Arithmetic
The first talk Will be given Thursday
March 15, at $3.50 pm, at Mr.. Thurston's
room in the Business High School. All
teachers of the grade are being urged to
avail themselves of this opportunity The
covered in series of talks There will be
no compensation.
number of valuable new machines were
recently presented to the Washington Col
lege of Engineering. They include an 500
ampere. four to eight volt multipolar gener-
ator, given by the Hanson & Van Wrinkle
Co., of Newark, N. J., Weston alternating
current voltmeter and ammeter and a 90
cycle, 11o-volt. 25-ampere motor generator,
the last being the gift of Mr.. Richard W.
Harlow.
The Hanson & Van Wrinkle generator has
been installed in DIR. N. Munroe Hopkins
electro-chemical laboratory, and will be en-
ployed for instruction and research In tbs
electro disposition of metals, an art of
which the Newark firm has made a Epe-
ciafty. Mr.. Harlow's motor generator Will
be used for similar work.
The two-ton refrigera ting plant presented
by the De la Fergne Company was received
few days ago and has been installed in
the. space designed for the WOODWORKING
ma chinery, under the gallery on the south
front of the Van Ness house. 1t is COM
pletely equipped and will be run by small
electric motor. In the same room the sew
fifteen horsepower Shepherd engine will
also he set up.
Room -, in the basement of the Van Ness
building, has been set apart for the exclus-
I've use of the mechanical engineering de-
partment. A line of shafting leads to the
room from across the hall, conveying The
fifteen horsepower motor in the shops
Samuel Hamilton of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, aid recently:
Education has a business side. Viewed
from that standpoint, it is a kind of joint
partnership. in which there are three part
ners-tke teacher, the parent and the direc-
tor Each contributes something to its sue
cess and participates to some extent in
the profits. Each has rights which should
be respected and duties which should be
performed And the greatest return in
profits comes from this business when each
knows his rights and will insist upon them,
and at the same time is willing to perform
his duties.
THE director is the business manager; he
controls the professional progress of the
school. He may be either a constructive
cause or a destructive force in education,
but not both.
Some of the ideal qualifications of the
director are high ideals in education, keen
perceptive power with which to discover
the defects in the schools when comparing
the actual with the ideal. He must have
good judgment with which to select and
inaugurate the necessary remedial agen-
cies that will help him to realize his ideals.
This is the day of fads and small tom
mage educational theorists have gotten far
out from the shore on the sea of pedagogy,
and, having lost their compass, are guess
ing the way to the desired haven
Prof Eugene Smiths lecture Friday at
the Central High School to the teachers
of the first nine divisions crowded the hall
with an enthusiastic audience.
Inc history of arithmetic was shown with
lantern slides. There were pictures show
ing the first trace of written mathematics
known op a bit of pottery of the first
dynasty OF Egypt; the oldest textbook on
mathematics eXtant, copy made In the
time of Moses from work dating back TO
300 b. c.; the Roman numerals as actual
ly used by medieval arithmeticians, and
the counters, or jetons. used for calculat-
ing before the Arabic numerals were
known. There were also illustrations
from the early manuscripts, written long
served In the Plimpton library in New
York, showing the early methods of null
tfplication and division, the style of arith-
metic that then appealed to teachers, the
awkward symbolism used and the nature
of the applications then valuable Some
of the pictures were taken from the Illus
trated manuscripts and early printed books,
work once judged to be important. The
pictures were, however merely a text
which offered points of departure for the
speaker to urge the teaching of modern
arithmetic. the substituting for obsolete
material those topics and chapters that
really represent the American life of to-
day that furnish as serious and valuable
themselves emphatically new He urged
the consideration of the American child's
needs and interests as opposed to the
needs of a boy going into business two
hundred years ago. calling attention to the
fact that we teach arithmetic to children
today while formerly IL was taught only
to young men. Altogether the address
justified the speakers assertion that the
history of education is itself the best
cpi n subject