Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
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The sand bin, the slide, the giant
stride, the horizontal bar, indoor
baseball diamonds (for boys and for
| girls), courts for volley ball and teth-
er ball, running track and jumping
pit, and a skating rink where the
climate permits; these are some of
the desirable features Of an up.to-
date school playground, as planned
by Mr.. Henry s. Curtis in a bulletin
just issued by the United States
Bureau of Education. Mr.. Curtis
shows how the attitude OF the public
has changed in the last ten years.
since the great play movement burst
upon us. The typical school play
| ground used to be as bare and for.
bidding as a prison; the modern spir-
1t requires that it shall be roomy,
inviting, we'll cared for, open at all
times to the children, and equipped
with everysafe means for enjoyable,
! profitable play.
George Peabody College for the
Training of Teachers, at Nashville,
Tennessee, is attracting wide atten-
ton in it's effort to raise a million
| dollars for it's endowment fund. The
college is conspicuous for its high
aim. Believing that "the most ur-
gent educational need of the South is
trained leadership" it seeks to fur
nish that leadership. 1t seeks to do
for teaching in the South what Har-
ward and Johns Hopkins have done
for medicine, and what Teachers Col
lege of New York has done for teach
ing" The amount needed for the
new undertaking is $1,500,0O0 and
the trustees of the Peabody fund
have offered $4,000 provided the
| college will raise the million.
A striking instance of the prevail
ing cosmopolitan of American life is
afforded by the German Presbyter-
ian Theological School OF the North.
west, where a group OF students
showed the following represent
ed: Jew, Bohemian, Mexican, Ger
man, Slovak, Russian, Japanese. The
basis of the work of the school is
German; a thoroughly equipped b.
hemian curse parallels the German
course; and the sciences and mathe-
mates are taught in English; while
other languages are taught as re-
CURED.
in Rome, in the time of the Re-
public, Ga days in every year were
devoted to public festivals recognized
by law. The American Republic haA
| not reached such a number of holt
days, but its schools surpassed ii
long ago." says the current report Of
| the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton. The document points out, how
ever, that there is now a wholesome
trend away from the custom of grant
ing an overabundance of school holi.
days.
1--WE find widespread within the
college, as in the community, the doc
trine of intellectual socialism, de-
sire to earn only those things by
| which one can minister Immediately
to the needs of the many" declares
bulletin (1912, No. 14), just issued
by the United States Bureau Of Ed
ucation." Devotion to science is
looked upon as selfish in an age
marked at once by s%elfishness and a
quickened conscience"
The Importance Of rest periods in
school work and of as much fresh air
as possible is emphasized by recent
scientific Investigations, which have
shown that the condition of the blood
corpuscles in children is far less fav-
orabe after mental exertion in school
than alter hard physical effort.
Italy is transforming her state re-
formatories into institutions that
shall be shoots, rather than prisons.
To emphasize this enlightened atti-
tude the authorities are naming the
institutions thus ~reorganized after
prominent educators.
The first German school to have a
moving picture machine as a regular
part of its equipment is in Thuringia.
The apparatus will he used mainly
in geography and nature study.
England has 20,757 elementary pub
lie schools with $4,000 900 pupils. The
1912 budget for education is $72 ,000,-
900, Of which 81, 100000 is for teach
ers' old age pensions.
TWenty-one German universities
had 57,415 students in the winter SEM
ester 1912, as compared with S..
1922 in the preceding semester.
Nearly 5000 students from foreign
countries studied at American insti-
tutions Of higher learning in 1911.
HIBERNIANs AT BRIDGEPORT.
Special to The Tribune.
Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 21:-The
sixteenth biennial convention Of the
Ancient Order Of Hibernians of Con
necticut began in this city today and
will continue over tomorrow The visi-