The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
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with undated interest the proposition
put forward by Thomas l.. Burt recently
in the Independent, namely, that the
schools should be open all the year round.
Sundays and the few public holidays
alone excepted Mr.. Burt's idea is that
this would leave about 300 school days.
which would vary in length of session
from three hours in summer to five or six
in winter. He says that no educator Will
deny that this distribution of school time
would enable the pupils to cover more
ground and make much create pr ogress
than under the existing plan. One of the
principal objects gained would be, in his
opinion. to keep the children of the
streets in the summer time and 10 make
their development steady and continuous.
The fact that most parents are glad TO
send their children TO summer schools is
regarded as favorable He proposes TO
make the pay of the teachers accordingly
higher" in money and not in holidays
and vacations. He argues, further, that
short hours, Saturday and Sunday holt
days and long vacations, INSTEAD of pro-
ducing the habit of study among teachers
probably increases laziness.'' According
to this proposal, no teacher would teach
all day, but two or even three should
occupy the same room during successive
sessions.
In the revised course of study which
has been adopted for the public schools of
Boston. says the School Journal. Eng
lish has been made the central feature.
Arithmetic has been simplifed, and made
practical i'm its relation 40 practical life.
In geography stress Is laid upon human
life. commerce and industry. Commercial
geography is given n prominent place.
More time is given to spelling than be-
fore Physical training has been almost
revolutionized. Hygiene has been given
precedence over physiology. Weight is
given TO knowledge of the health of the
home and the community. Beginning with
elementary personal hygiene, pupils are
taught correctness in food. exercise. pos
ture. sleep and habits. In the next grades
personal hygiene, that teaches how to
make the body beautiful, strong and
graceful. has place. In the seventh grades
comes. for the first time, little physiol-
ogy +; then more personal hygiene, together
with home hygiene. In the eighth grade
attention is given to public hygiene.
Under the guidance of Principal Glib
son of the Agassiz school, Boston. the
boys OF the sixth grade are devoting five
hours a week to practical industrial work,
at present being engaged in making paste
board boxes. but later to advance 10 wood
and metal work. The course extends over
three years. and the object is to give
the boys practical apprentice work in
various trades. The time taken in the
making of every article will be noted and
the record of the workers thus kept before
them.
Eleven teaching fellowships have been
established at the University of Kansas
for graduates of special merit. Each fell
lowship entities the holder to S265, AMI
be is obliged to teach not more than
seven hours a week. The remainder of
the time is to be devoted to investigation
leading to an advanced degree.
Announcement is made that Columbia
university has received an Anonymous
gife of 100000 to establish in memory of
the late Henry Bergh foundation to in
culcate a spirit of kindness and consid-
Grafton toward the lower animals.
A semi-oficial Endorsement of Esper-
anto as an international language has
been given by the College de France of
Paris. at n recent general congress, repre-
senting 80 learned societies. 1t having
been proposed 10 study the various inter
national languages and TO adopt the best.
the congress selected Esperanto, owing to
its relative perfection and extensive use.
Prominent professional and club women
are taking issue with the recent opinion
advanced by the president of Harvard to
the effect that higher educa ton in future
must recognize the fact that the majority
of women take up the occupation of
training children, the married ones as
mothers and many of the others for the
mothers. He said that this normal oc-
cupation of women had not been duly rec
ognized because il had not been regarded
as an intellectual pursuit. whereas in
fact it was the most intellectual occupa-
ton in the world. calling always for great
moral and carefully trained mental pow
ers.
President Winston of North Carolina
State university is reported to be dis
appointed with the results of his recent
advice 10 the freshmen and sophomores TO
light like men in the OPEN rather than
underclass men engaged in series of
hazing. Taking him at his word, the un-
derclass men engaged in a series of brawls
or PUSHES on the college campus, in which
several students were seriously hurt.
Glass hostilities were intensified, rather
than lessened, and hazing was not aban-
doned.
The trustees of the Catholic univer-
sity at Washington has voted to send TO
the Pope. declaring its adhesion to the re-
cent encyclical on modernism