The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-16

| "Teach the facts about your home city
in the public schools" urges the BUREAU
of Municipal Research, New York City
Having introduced medical inspection
in 1872, Elmira, N. Y, claims to have
been the first American city TO adopt
health supervision of school children.
The equivalent of one school year for
more than 400 children is lost because
of contact with minor contagious dis.
eases, according to figures recently COM
piled for Pittsburg.
| In order to furnish high-class enter
tainment to communities in their states,
the University of Wisconsin, Mimi, and
North Dakota have banded together for
| lyceum service.
On the theory that healthy children
should have the fresh air benefits usual
| ly reserved for the sickly, Superintend-
ent Wheatley, of Middletown, Conn,
has introduced a modified open-window
plan throughout his entire school sys-
| tenn.
The Junior high school at Grand Rap.
ids, Mich, consisting of pupils of the
9TH, Sth, and 9th grades, has grown in
two years from a school of 430 pupils
and Is teachers to one of S51 pupils and
SO teachers. More boys and girls have
stayed in school under the new plan.
The model school at Bryn Mawr, Pa,
at the entrance to the college, has been
made an open-air school. Only the dress
ingroom and laboratories will be indoors.
There will be separate, one-story, out
of-door elass-rooms facing full south.
Each classroom opens on large uncov-
cred platform Sx36 feet, whichh will be
used for the gymnastics and siestas that
are part of open-air school work.
A ship building slip is maintained in
connection with the high school at San
Pedro, CAL, where, under the practical
instruction of a nautical architect, the
students learn how to build boat,
make and place the engine, and launch
and run the craft. Glasses in boat build
ing and marine commerce make trips to
the wharves and aboard ship to study
ship-construction, engine-action, and the
character of the eargoes. Shipping law
is also part of the course.
Night schools OF cosmopolitan character
are by no means confined to congested
centers in the east. At Gallup, McKin-
ley county, New Mexico, the following
nationalities were represented in a re-
Gently established evening school:
American, Spanish, Slovenian, Italian,
Servian, Austrian, German, French, Dan
ish, Swedish, Irish, Scotch, English, and
Cherokee Indian. Twenty-Five different
occupations were represented. In ages
the pupils ranged from Is to 90. Many
of them desired the ordinary elementary
branches, but there was also a strong
demand for such subjects as bookkeep-
ing, shorthand, typewriting, Spanish,
mechanical and architectural drawing.
Foreign universities are now receiving
some of the large private benefactions
for which they have long envied Ameri-
can institutions. Cambridge university
has recently received $450,000 for gen
eral purposes, and $4,000 for a chair of
astrophysics; Bristol university has had
gift of 100000 from one donor, $780,
600 from another, and $4,000 from two
others; Glasgow has been willed $50, 900
for research lecturship in medicine and
$4,000 from three other benefactors;
and Leeds has an anonymous gift of
$4,000 for the erection of school of
agriculture. In Germany, S2,0oO,00O has
been subscribed for Transforming the
scientific institute at Frankfort
Main into a university, and the Univer-
sity of Hamburg is TO start with an en-
dowment of s6,25O,O0O. In the case of
Hamburg, however, the money has been
entirely appropriated by the city.