Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-16
EDUCATION

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Teach the facts about your home
city in the public schools" urges the
bureau of municipal research. New
York city.
Having introduced medical inspec-
ton 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 be-
cause Of contact with minor conta-
gious diseases, according to figures
recently compiled for Pittsburgh.
In order to furnish high class enter
tainment to communities in their
states. the universities of Wisconsin.
Minnesota INC North Dakota have
banded together for lyceum service.
On the theory that healthy children
should have the fresh air benefits
usually reserved for the sickly, Super
intendent Wheatly. Of Middletown.
Conn.,, las introduced a modified open
window plan throughout his entire
school system.
The Junior high school at Grand
Rapids, Mich. consisting of pupils of
the seventh, eighth and ninth grades.
has grown in two years from a school
of 43O pupils and Is teachers to one
of S51 pupils and 36 teachers. More
OOyS ana girls nave stayed IN SCnOOl
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 dressing room and laboratories
will be indoors. There will be seven
separate. one-story, out-of-doors class
rooms facing full south. Each class
room opens on a large uncovered plat
form sX36 feet. which will be used for
the gymnastics and siestas hat 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 a boat.
make and place the engine, and launch
and run the craft. Glasses in boat
building and marine make
trips to the wharves and aboard ship
to study approximation, ~engine-ac-
ton, and the character of the cargoes,
Shipping law is also part of tho
course.
Night schools Of cosmopolitan char
acter are by no means confined to
congested centers in the east. AZ
Gallup, Mckinley county. New Mex
leo. the following n%ationalities were
represented in a recently established
evening school: American, Spanish.
Slovenian, Italian, Servian, Austrian,
German. French. Danish. Swedish
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Indian. Twenty-Five different occupa-
ton were represented. In ages the
pupils ranged from Is to 62. Many OF
them desired the ordinary elementary
branches, but there are also a strong
demand for UGH subjects as bookkeep-
ing, shorthand. typewriting. Spanish,
mechanical and architectural drawing
Foreign universities are now receiv-
ing some Of the large private bene-
factions for which they have long en-
We'd American institutions. Cambridge
university has recently received $780,
900 for general purposes. and $4,000
for a chair of a~strophysics; Bristol
university has had a gift of 800. OOt
from M donor. $4,000 from another
and $750,000 from two others; Glas-
gov has been willed $4,000 for a re-
search lectureship In medicine
$1,000 from three other benefactors:
and Leeds has an anonymous gift OF
$4,000 for the erection Of a school OF
agriculture. In Germany, $4,000. 600 has
been subscribed for transforming the
scientific institutes at Fr~ankfort-am-
Main into a university. and the Uni-
versity of Hamburg is to start witt.
an endowment of $3.50. 900. In the
case Of Hamburg, however. the money
has been entirely appropriated by the
city.