Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-05-31

Respectfully yours,
f. B. DYER,
Superintendent of Schools.
In the Boston Schools.
Extract from a circular letter to prin-
cipals of districts, by the board of SUI
perintendents of Boston public schools
reads
"On June 90 1910, the school COM
mittee passed an order directing the
board of superintendent to take such
steps as it deemed expedient to pro-
vide for the proper qualification of all
teachers in the Palmer system of
teaching penmanship. The board of
superintendent desires that the writ
| ing of the pupils in our schools shall
be brought up to the highest standard
lattainable and the adoption of uni
form system of penmanship through
out the city should facilitate progress
in this direction. Experience has con-
WINGED educators that the only way to
solve the penmanship problem is by
the logical, systematic training of the
teachers. Surely teachers cannot teach
successfully what they do not them
selves know"
| The board OF superintendent con-
fidently relies upon your cordial CO.
operation in securing the best posi-
ole results in improving the penman-
ship of the pupils in our public schools
and will gladly afford you every as
sistance in its power
Very truly yours,
| 1T. d. APOLLONIO"
A protest is heard from the North
|
students presented their theses in He
gible writing. Then and there a reso-
luton was offered by the dean of the
university to the effect: That In the
future any student presenting his
thesis in illegible writing would be re-
CURED to take course in penmanship
before receiving his diploma.
From the Mount Carmal Register"
| Illinois we read: Joliet merchants
and business men have complained that
many of the school graduates though
often versed in science and art, are
lacking in the ability to write legibly
and keep simple accounts"
We are interested because this news
item in one form or another goes the
whole round of the newspaper press of
the United States.
There are approximately $500 daily
newspapers in the United States, 16, 900
weeklies.
AT some time or some times during
the year it seems that each newspaper
prints an item showing that the school
graduates" of the particular locality
where the newspaper circulates and the
editor leads or follows public opinion
give occasion for the accusation: sThe
school graduates, though often versed
in sciences and art, are lacking in
ability to write legibly and spell cor
rectly."
Idaho was conservative in that she
followed the injunction:
BE not the first by whom the new
is tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside
New York City, Chicago. Boston, ST.
Louis. Detroit, Denver, many other
cities and smaller towns had already
demonstrated that muscular penman-
ship can be successfully taught in the
primary and grammar grades by the
Palmer method of presentation. owe
substitute the word Presentation for
Ipenmanship system, because the differ
ence of the success lies not in the let
ter forms, which are practically the
same as the Spencerian, which our
mothers and grandmothers learned) /;
but "a in simplified and attractive
pedagogy. (2) the insistence on the
mastery of the subject by the teacher
The one fact, that over $500 teachers
of the primary and elementary grades
have qualified in muscular writing, &C :
icording to the Palmer SYST EN- and have