The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1908-01-08
DR.. c. s. HALL
For FtQeGING
SCHOOL BOYS

Worcester, Jan. s.-"One OF tho evils
Of the effeminization Of the public
schools" said Dr.. G. Stanley Hall. pres
ident OF Clark university yesterday. lis
the sentimentalty that cannot tolerate
logging"
DIR. Hall has just returned from trip
through tho West, where he delivered
series Of lectures. in one OF which he
said the schools OF this country were
becoming "sissifed"
In an interview relative 20 why he
Thought women teachers tended TO efren-
inize the schoolboy. he said:
I'm my orinion the chief reason II
that boys, especially when they reach
their teens. need fathers influence and
authority. The progress OF civilization is
marked by an increasing differentiation
OF the sexes Savage women In their
bodily dimensions and psychic traits
were fnr more Ike men than the civilized
women OF today. II man is to become as
extinct as the dodo In the public schools
OF th's country increased manllness will
be hard to secure.
FAvORS FLOGGING NOW AND THEN
Boys need women teachers TO bring
out the best traits OF character In them,
but also need as many men teachers.
They need TO associate with girls, but at
the dawn OF their teens. always and
everywhere. even in the family, the sex
es ten6 TO draw apart, and each have
their own games and interests. This Is
necessary for the development OF the
highest qualities of each sex.
while | dcplore the old time custom
OF indiscr!minate hogging, II would be a
calamity 20 Danish it in all cases. or to
make 1t impossible. English school lit
erature Is full Of record Of radical moral
reforms, sometimes OF almost helpless
ads who are regenerated by a good hid
ing One OF the evils Of determination is
the sentimentality that cannot tolerate
logging.
"1wo years ago I was introduced In
one Of the London schools TO little lady
teacher who for 20 years had occasionally
fogged both boys and girls. She showed
the rattan the law prescribed and the
foggng book In which entries are made
OF every case. l wish the American
teachers could hear the stories of what
might almost be called moral conversion.
The superintendent OF the schools told
me that parents had never objected, and
they believed that the rod had great
deal to DO Win making England great.
WOMEN helped MORAL TONE.
"Statis.ics show that In some states
the percentage OF male teachers has
fallen below 10 per cent. The average
for the country as a whole is IS per
cent women. excluding the kindergsr-
tens where all teachers are women, and
including the high school, where the
percentage is evenly divided. I find that
many male teachers agree with me that
the influence upon them Of habitual and
almost exclusive association with women
teachers. especially where the men are
IN authority. is not entirely favorable TO
their development of the most robust
msscullnity.
"I agree that there ~ a vast improve
ment of moral tone that has come into
the schools through women's influence,
but the new movement that l find al
ready very strong in New York city and
state and throughout tthe West IL that
men be restored 10 tho schools in due
proportion.
mo one for moment wants 10 take
a step backward In the opportunities af-
forded TO women. but would rather give
them more But the feeling is that the
public high school must not be allowed
10 become a girls school The one great
need IN order TO retain and bring back
bows in the public school II more indus
trial and applied work. and for this men
teachers would do best"