Evening star., 1909-03-15

sors or high school teachers would take
their places in Prussia. The American
teacher was to give informal instruction
In English for two hours day to stu
dents who were prepared to receive such
instruction. and the Germans who came
to the United States would do the same.
Both teachers would talk with their pu-
pills about affairs in their own country,
the school regulations and methods or In
structi0n, the ideas and customs OF the
people and other matters Of interest. The
exchange was expected to serve much
wider purpose than that OF mere inst:uc-
ton however. A gymnasium teacher from
Germany, serving for a year as mem
Der of the faculty of high school or
aca DENY IN this country, would both gam
and communicate new conceptions OK
Worn and suggest new ideals and meth
DDS and II IS scarcely possible that an
aler. American could spend a semester
or a year In a good Prussian gymnasium
without returning to his work greatly
strengthened by the experience.
Prussian teachers who come to the
United States under this system Of ex-
change receive their regular pay and ex-
penses of travel from their government,
and an allowance of 500 month Or so
for board and lodgings from the high
school or college in this country to which
they are attached There is no provision
for paying the expenses Or salary of an
American teacher in Germany. except
such may be made between the lndl-
Viduals and the trustees or boards Of edu-
cation under which they are working at
home, but II is believed that the ad-
vantageS are so great that many Ameri-
can teachers should he willing to make
the financial sacrifice necessary to pay
their expenses, particularly as the Prus-
sian government allows them sum sum
cient to meet the cost of modest living
Hopes Not Justified.
The first years experience 19O0 has not
justified the hopes and expectations of
those who were interested in the arrange
ment. Seven Prussian professors came
to the United States last fail. and have
been teaching all winter at Yale Univer-
s:ty, University High School. Chicago;
Boston High School. Boston Tech. Phil
lips Exeter Academy Clarke College
Worcester. and the Horace Mann School
New York, while Howard w. Church of
Yale. Hermann c. Henderson of the State
Normal School Of Milwaukee, Frederick
d. Green of Detroit University School,
Frederick w. Oswald of the University
of Wisconsin, Harry V. Smith. superin-
tendent Of schools at Waterloo, New
York; William a. Averll OF the High
school of Charleston. H.. James A.
Campbell of the University of Kansas,
and Lyman G. Smith of the Boston School
of Commerce. were sent to Hamburg.
Frankfurt. Cassel, kiel konigsbers and
other German educational canters. where
they are still engaged In teaching.
DIR. Henry S. Prichett, president of the
Carnegie Foundation. who has charge of
these arrangements. tells me that the next
assignment of teachers will be made in
June 1899, for the semester beginning OH
the 1st of October following. and that
American teachers who desire to make
an exchange, and colleges, academies and
high schools which desire to secure the
services of German professor for the
year 1&3-l0 should apply at once to
him at the Carnegie Foundation, New
York city.