worker. The ideal secondary school, having organized its activities along lines that offer a perpetual play to the basic functions of the mind as well as to the qualities of character, should be prepared to furnish the university with a truthful estimate of each of its graduates. Present standards, founded on the ability of the candidate to memorize information, the far from providing a safe test for social efficiency.

The secondary school so conceived would prepare at the same time for life and for the university. It is by preparing for life that the secondary school would prepare for the university. It is by giving all boys and girls the opportunity to develop to the fullest extent the qualities that are of most worth in life that the secondary school on the other hand would prepare for life and comply with the everincreasing demands of democracy. All pupils would be given the opportunity to develop within the limit of their individual capacities. Work calculated to bring out the mental qualities that are most useful in the battles of life should be the price of permanence in the school and the condition of promotion through it, as it is the price of permanence and promotion in society.

Automatically the secondary school would provide the university with an élite worthy of the privilege of becoming social leaders.

In conclusion, the secondary school should establish its curriculum on the basis of an organization of the intellectual and moral activities on whose development real education rests.

The mere fulfillment of such activities according to each one's ability should be the only factor in determining the permanence of pupils in school. This condition would automatically make secondary education a right to any boy or girl, and a duty of the State to confer upon all boys and girls.

The range of activities in the secondary school should be sufficiently wide to afford an easy path for all pupils, according to their individual temperaments and vocations.

Normal schools and pedagogical departments should map out a correlated program of educational activities throughout primary and secondary schools. After such a plan has been successfully tried, a joint conference of educators from secondary and higher institutions should devise a new system of rating the merits of the graduates from the secondary schools based on a functional and qualitative estimate of the education previously received by the candidate.

The central idea of such a plan would be the organization of a comprehensive program of research and constructive work in language, number, science, and literature, to be performed by the pupils in primary and high schools. Such operations would increase in complexity through the grades and would cover all "subjects," the

mere teaching of which is the aim of the educational machinery of to-day. It is hard to conceive of a more fruitful task for normal schools than the discussion of this problem, with a view to agreeing upon an organic program of post-kindergarten "occupations" which should be both highly educational in their performance and yielding the kind and the amount of information demanded by modern life.

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389. American school peace league. Year book, 1914-1915. 165 p. 8°. (Mrs. F. F. Andrews, secretary, 405 Marlborough street, Boston, Mass.)

Contains: 1. Fannie F. Andrews: The American school peace league and the European war, p. 9-18. 2. Lewis Rockow: The opportunity and duty of the schools in the International peace movement, p. 132-46.

390. Lake Mohonk conference on the Indian and other dependent peoples. Report of the thirty-third annual conference . . . October 20-22, 1915. Lake Mohonk, Published by the Lake Mohonk conference on the Indian and other dependent peoples, 1915. 200 p. 8°. (H. C. Phillips, secretary, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.)

Contains: 1. F. L. Crone: The education of a people-America's work in the Philippines, p. 82-87. 2. H. L. Kern: The schools and courts of Porto Rico, p. 166-69; Discussion, p. 169-73. 391. National education association of the United States. Journal of proceedings and addresses of the fifty-third annual meeting and international congress on education, held at Oakland, Cal., August 16-27, 1915. Ann Arbor,

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