Lower coast gazette., 1914-02-21
Educational Notes.

Sons of farmers in Down and Antrim
Counties, Ireland, are named as thu
benefciaries of a recent educational be
quest of a million dollars.
Credit for Bible Study is given in thu
North Dakota high schools. Ahundret
students passed the State examination
last year.
Two carpenters and a plumber from
England have recently been travelling
in Belgium. They were awarded voca'
tional scholarships by which they are
investigating old and new methods q
house construction.
Many cities hesitate to start open al,
schools because Of the supposed ex.
pense, particularly of feeding. In
Green Bay, Wis, the cost of feeding
in the open air school has been found to
be only 5 l-3 cents per day, or SO ayear
for each child.
A one-year course in tanning has
been established in Pratt Institute,
BROOKLYN. N. Y. in cooperation with
the National Association of Tanners.
The course is for me- already employ
ed in the tanning industries or high
school students without practical ex-
perlence who wish to take up tanning.
In New Zealand all males are obliged
to do military drill from fourteen to
twenty-one years of age, and schools
are required to withhold scholarship
grants from any student who cannot
prove that he has complied with the
provision Of drill. Much opposition has
developed, especially among school men
according to the American Peace So
ciety.
AS indicating the educational work of
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, there are $4,000 girls and women
enrolled in III cities in day or evening
classes. Each Of 66 associations has
an enrolment of more than 100 stu
dents, several Of them registering from
1900 to 1000. In each of fourteen cities
over 500 students arc registered. Two
fifths of the girls are in day classes,
and the rest in evening classes. There
are q, 400 students in household arts.
Newly-ratura!ized immigrants in Los
Angeles, Cal. are instructed in the re-
sponsioilities of American citizenship
through the social center. "Recogni-
ton Day" services are held at the close
of each term Of school. Says the So
cial center report: "All the new citi-
gems who have received their second
papers within the six months are spec
tally invited to a banquet given by
prominent citizens as hosts. Later
there is a public meeting in the audi
forum. The program consists OF az
dresses by leading citizens, cities. coun-
ty and State officials; patriotic music.
motion pictures, and the ceremony Of
extending the right hand of citizenship.
ST. Paul Dispatch: 1t is rather jar
ring to the pride of US North Ameri.
cans, who talk so much about the illit-
eracy Of South Americans, to read that
thousands of Argentina school children
honored Colonel Roosevelt at Buenos
Aries by singing America" in Eng.
lish. How many American children
could sing the Argentina national hymn
in the. native tongue? The imposing
feat Of the Buenos Aries scss.ool chill.
dren only serves to illustrate the diff.
ference between the teaching of mod.
ern languages in American schools and
, the teaching Of those languages ir
foreign schools. In Europe ard to al
appearances, in South American coun.
tries, foreign languages r so taught
that the students somehow learn t.
speak them, but in the States there is
not a corporal's guard in any class who
learn to speak the modern LANGUAGES
they study.
The Bureau of Education in Manila
has issued q book entitled GOOD Mar.
ners and Right Conduct. for use in
Primary Grades" A large part OF the
volume is taken up with instructions to
the teachers, who arc told that they
must possess p~oliteness before try ne
to teach it.
eve are destroying the eyes of q
large number of school children by the
burden Of continuous near work Ia
which they are subjected" says Dr.. F.
Park Lewis, Of Buffalo. He suggests
as a remedy, in addition to the use Of
eyeglasses, reduction in the amount Of
work dependent upon the printed page.
Let US have more thinking and fewer
books, he declares.
There arc now about forty "physio-
logical clinics" in the United States,