Evening star., 1938-09-18
INCREASES MADE
IN c. j. FACULTY
School of Education Adds
8-Course for Degree
Emphasizes Practical.


Eight educators, including q group
Of oficials from the District public
schools, have been appointed to the
faculty Of the George Washington
School Of Education to assist with
doctorh studies in the field.
These new adjunct professors are
Sidney Bartlett Hall, superintendent
of public instruction Of Virginia; VIII
liam Carson Ryan, president Of the
Progressive Education Association and
member of the staff OF the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching; Thomas Warrington Co.'S
ling, assistant superintendent Of
schools of the District; Chester VIM
field Holmes, assistant superintendent
Of schools in the District; Julia
Letheld Hahn, supervising principal
Of the third division of the District
public schools: Maris Marion Proffit,
specialist in industrial education of
the United States Once of Education;
Benjamin Franklin Kyker of the
United States once of Education and
Meredith Chester Wilson, principal
agriculturalist In charge Of extension
studies, United States Department of
Agriculture.
Practical Trend Emphasized.
The program for the masters degree
In education likewise is undergoing
certain changes According to James
Harold Fox, newly appointed dean of
the School of Education. the work will
be made more specific; not In the
sense Of narrow specialization, but
rather in bearing more upon practi-
cal problems and less upon educa-
tional theory.
In furtherance of the policy Of
emphasizing clinical approach to
the study Of education, members Of
the resident faculty will be Joined by
active workers in the field in giving
a number of the courses. Thus, Miss
A. Grace Lind, supervising principal
of the fifth division of the District
public schools. has been named as
sociate in education and will assist
Dean Fox and DR.. Ruth Emma Coyner
of the faculty in giving the seminar
in administration of elementary edu-
cation.
Miss Mary Alice Adams, principal
of the Montebello Demonstration
School of the Baltimore public school
system. has been appointed associate
in education, and together with Robert
Wendell Eaves. principal of the Thom-
son Elementary School of Washing
ton, will assist DR.. Coyner in giving
the second semester. the seminar in
elementary education in the inter-
mediate grades.
DR.. Holmes to Assist.
Dr. Holmes will join with Dean Fox
to give the course in the administra,-
ton and supervision Of secondary edu-
cation. Mr. Kyker will give the course
in business education: materials and
methods in the teaching of type
writing, shorthand and related office
practice. The course in prevention
and correction of reading difficulties
will be given by Jane Frost Hilder,
who is in active charge of this work
in the Washington public schools.
The schedule Of courses in education
for the first semester includes, In ad-
dition to those mentioned, the follow.
ing:
Provost William Carl Ruediger's
seminars in educational classics and
philosophy of education; seminars in
origins Of American education and the
curriculum, under Prof. William Cul-
len French; research problems, under
Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou; the
junior and senior high school and a
seminar in secondary education, by
Dean Fox; methods of teaching, given
by DR.. Coyner; proseminar In Or
ganization Of the school program,
under Birch Bayh, director Of health
and physical education of the District
public schools, and in-service research
and thesis given by the staff.