Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-02
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open-air schools, arranged after Ger
man and American models, have been
instituted at Barcelona, Spain.
Education, detection CONTROL =
should be the Watchwords OF the cam
paien against tuberculosis. according
to the Chicago tuberculosis Institute.
So important has domestic science
instruction become in Germany that
a special Domestic Science Dictiona-
ry' has been issued for the use of
teachers and others interested in edu-
cation for the home.
No more free maps. School teachers
who wish the ocean charts published
by Tie [. $. Hydrogra phic Office will
hereafter have TO subscribe for them
al ten cents a copy. The Pilot Chart
is published monthly for the North At
lantic. North Pacific, and Indian
Oceans, quarterly for the South Allan
tie and south Pacific Oceans
The pressing need for uniformity in
State school reports is emphasized
enew by the United States Bureau of
Education in recent bulletin on city
and country schools. The Bureau urges
scnool officers to adopt as rapidly as
B'coIbIc TIE sNtntlt StllsuQlt ana ublt-
nitions of terms approved by the De-
partment of superintendent of the
National Education Association.
The Philippine government, through
its bureau of education, has taken an
important step in the industrial de-
Velopment of the people of the Islands.
BY establishing the School of House
hold Industries at Manila. the govern
ment hopes to introduce into the homes
several industries which will add ma
teriaily TO the income of thousands OF
families. Several hundred women from
all parts of the Philippines receive in
struetion in special industries at the
school. After finishing the course they
return to their native towns and teach
other women to make at home things
for which there is a market, Embroid-
cry and lace making are receiving
first attention, since the government
sees most direct commercial advant-
ages in these two arts.
THE laboratory method applied to
the teaching of law not unfairly de-
seribes the experiment of the Catho-
lie University of Washington, D. c.,
where a real court room, with all the
appurtenances, desks, railing jury box.
witness stand, etc, has been fitted up
for holding moot courts. Attendance
upon court is compulsory for all stu
dents in the Law school. The presid-
ing judge is member of the faculty.
but most of the officers of the court
are students in the school.
Yale in China" the collegiate school
and hospital in Changsha, Human
Province, China, intends to have its
buildings representative of the best in
western civilization. Particular at
teution is paid to hygienic and sani-
tary arrangements Among sugges-
tions that are receiving careful con-
sideration is one from the United
States Bureau of Education. Experts in
the bureau have urged that the boys
dormit4ry be equipped throughout with
outdoor sleeping rooms. 1t is declared
that in this way the school will not
emily be able to get 10 per cent. more
work out of the boys than it would
otherwise. but lit will proclaim to the
Chinese youth and 10 the world at
large the value of fresh air
Educators and parents who are scep-
teal Of the value of examination marks
Will draw encouragement from the ex-
pertinent recently conducted by Supt.
Harry l.. Eby of Alliance, Ohio An
arithmetic test was given in the eighth
grade, and MIR. Eby sent one of the pa =
pers to all the teachers in his system,
with 4 request that they grade it as
if it We're of a pupil in their own
classes. The resulting percentages
ranged from 40 to 49, In the eighth
grade alone, where uniformity might
have been expected, four teachers
marked the pa1sr So rs. 50 and 80 re-
spectively. In other words, one teach
er WOULD have failed the pupil out
right; a second estimated him as only
fair; and two others considered him
practically in the 80 class