The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

periods OF study with renewed energy
after their exhilarating sports.
The courses OF study and the meth
DDS OF instruction offered by the boys
school will be the fru!t!on OF the years
OF experimentation AT the Horace Mann
School The teachers at the school will
all be experienced and able Instructors
for the school is founded not for protit
but for the perfection of a model
school.
All the teachers are men excepting Mrs
Elizabeth VI. Wheelock, who has had
twelve years OF experience In teaching in
the Horace Mann School Mrs. WheelocA
will have charge OF the instruction Of tn.
smaller boys and her course In geography
Will be on. OF the most novel and Interest,"
ing in the school. 1t will attempt 20 ex-
plain What ~ what In America" and
why II is The method employed Will
be the personally conducted tour through
the Continent Of North America. The
class will start from a certain city In a
given State and travel by rail TO another
city. At every junction the party will
halt ana find out where all the tracks go
To and whence they come. ~ each city
they Will stop and examine the things OF
historical, agricultural or industrial inter-
est This journey will be continued until
every Junction and city IN tn" United
states has been visited. The only text
BOOKS used In this class Will be railroad
reports. books on forestry and agriculture.
The boards OF trade and the railroads hav.
already s!gnifed their willingness to co..
operate in this work. Judging Of the
things done in this class and the popu-
larlty OF II at the Horace Mann school IL
ought to be one OF the most effective
courses In the new school.
English Is the one subject which will he
required to be taken through the six
forms. The primary object Will be To pass
the English entrance requirements. In
addition, however. the department Will
seek to cultivate in the student ability to
express his thoughts with clearness. force
and ease. To this end the student will do
composition In English throughout the six
forms. and the work In the fourth form
will consist entirely OF the writing of
themes. In addition the regular courses
in the drama. the periodical. the short
story and the novel will be continued as
heretofore. The English department OF the
Horace Mann School was one of the FIRST
Ia this country to attempt to teach the
drama the novel and the short story. be-
ginning not with the past and coming
down to the present but beginning with
the present and working back into the
past. This method has been SO success .ul
at the present school that II IL beyond the
experimental stage.
The work or the tutoring department is
directed toward those unusual or eNc.p-
tional boys who do not fit into the regular
classes at once upon entering the school
or for any reason seem unsuccessful in
holding their own In the regular class
room.
The work has been IN charge OF John
n. Neitz for the past eleven years and
may Justly begin To be considered beyond
the strictly experimental Stage.
The science work begins In the third
form with a required course In general
science This Is followed IN the fourth
form by a course In applied biology with
special emphasis on hygiene. Courses in
chemistry and physics are open to students
or the NTH and sixth forms respectively.
IL is well known that science instruction
In undergoing very rapid adjustment
under the impulse OF public demands and
the application of modern educational
principles. In the first two science courses.
the subject matter OF which Is not fixed
by collage entrance requirements, the
instruction will conform to these prin-
cples In point of subject matter and
method. This instruction will have then
these two very definite aims to give the
pupil body OF scientific facts and "A
training In method OF attacking boy life
problems.
What proves OF service to the boy in the
solution of his present problems Is equally
applicable to the solution OF future prob
lens. These courses will therefore not
look to- syllab or curricula for their ma
terial. but to boy life. And certainly boy
life is as rich in problems NJ that ~
the adult. Having real problem. one
Significant to the pupil, he will gather and
have an interest in gathering facts bear
Ing on his problem. and he may be willing
to do some thinking with these facts as
basis. all for the sake OF his problem
And this liz the only reason that any one
ever gathered facts or ever did any real
thinking. This IN not new principle