Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-10

NEW YORK, June 1O.-The report
recently submitted to the New York
High School Teachers Association
by its Committee on Secondary Edu'
cation discloses peculiar state of
affairs in connection with the enroll.
ment Of pupils in three of the high
schools of the city. The matter is
considered so serious that it will be
made the subject of careful investi-
CATION. According to this report
three of the city's high schools, the
Morris High School. enrolling boys
and girls, the Boys High School of
Brooklyn and the Girls High school
Of Brooklyn, have lost three thousand
Of their pupils during the year from
February, 1910, to January, 1911.
The committee which submitted
the report tried to ascertain the rea.
sons for the dropping out of so large
a number of pupils and, in most cas-
es, was successful. 1t appears that
more than one.third of the pupils
who dropped out during the year did
so because they either would not or
could not keep up in their studies.
Failures in from one to four of the
subjects we're responsible for their
leaving the schools. For the loss of
the pupils who did not drop out be-
cause they had failed, a number Of
causes were found to be responsible.
Poverty of the parents, aggravated
probably by hard times, lack of work
and the high cost Of living, was re-
sponsible in a large number of cases.
Illness incident principally to puber-
ty and to malnutrition was another
important factor in causing the drop
ping out Of many pupils. Several
hundred pupils left school simply be-
cause they wanted to become wage
earners and enter business life. The
report strongly intimates that de-
fects in the school system, injudi-
cious arrangement Of the curriculum
and the lack of teachers not only cap
able in their respective subjects but
also in sympathy with their pupils,
were also among the contributory
causes.
The Bronx Geological Garden occu-
pies a rather unique position among
similar institutions in the country. 1t
is the only one which is conducted
after circus fashion and
has a regular press agent whose in
genuity Is not surpassed by that of
other men in his profession. OF
course, there are always happenings
in large geological garden, which
make good and interesting reading, |
but the press agent Of the Bronx
Zoo does not altogether depend upon
the natural crop of events in his do
main. In selecting material for his |
literary productions he shows the |
most pronounced sensationalism and |
in celebrating the suggestions of his |
Freakish imagination he does not al
low himself to be limited by such
trivial matters as natural laws or SCI
entific facts.
One Of the latest productions of
the Zoo press agents deserves a place
IF honor among the most daring
works Of fiction. According to his
:ory the nightly bowling of the
wolves, audible for more than a mile,
vas source of great annoyance to
he residents in the vicinity Of the;
Zoo. To muzle the wolves seemed
lnfeasible to tie management and it
vas decided to try some other plan.
1t the suggestion of the head keepeA
} phonograph was installed close to
he enclosure Of the wolves and every
light 1t was kept going, reeling of
queaky replicas Of songs and oper-
tic arias "as sung by tie greatest
myers Of the world" According to
he press agents story the wolves
lstened quietly, almost rapturously,