278. Weet, Herbert S. A junior high school. School review, 24: 142-51, February

Describes work of the junior high school of Rochester, N. Y. A paper read before the Convocation of the University of the state of New York, at Albany, October 22, 1915.

279. Wood, Will C. The opportunities of the high school. Sierra educational news, 12: 18-22, January 1916.

The high school situation in California.

TEACHERS: TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS.

280. American association of university professors. Report of the committee of the American association of university professors on academic freedom and academic tenure. School and society, 3: 109-21, January 22, 1916.

E. R. A. Seligman, chairman.

281. Blakely, Paul B. In defense of the teacher. America, 14: 429-30, February 12, 1916.

The writer says that for a stipend fully equal to that of the street-cleaners in our most advanced cities, our grammar-school teachers devote themselves, often nobly and unselfishly, to the trying work of teaching the young idea to do a great many things besides shoot. Wielding almost as much influence on general school policy as the janitor, in the eyes of the public she is the first and last cause of whatever apparent shortcomings or positive absurdities may be detected in our magnificent system of education.

282. Coulter, John G. The training of elementary science teachers. School review, 24: 26-36, January 1916.

Lays down the general principle that training in "the method of high school courses that approximate administrative equivalence with lower college courses should be given by the teachers of such equivalent college courses."

283. Kellogg, Royal S. Teachers cottages, by R. S. Kellogg (in cooperation with the U. S. Bureau of education) Chicago, Ill., The National lumber manufacturers association, 1916. 58 p. illus. 8°.

"Many of the reports upon teachers' cottages in the various states were comp. by Mr. J. C. Muerman, specialist in rural education." p. 4.

284. Kingsbury, Laura M. Equal salaries for men and women teachers. Education, 36: 389–94, February 1916.

Discusses the question from the viewpoint of efficiency and economics. A plea for equal salaries. 285. McCabe, David A. Issues involved in some recent dismissals of university professors. Princeton alumni weekly, 16: 417-19, February 9, 1916.

Conditions at the University of Utah-The Nearing case at the University of Pennsylvania. 286. Miller, Frederick. Teachers' unions at work. American teacher, 5:19-23, February 1916.

Advocates a teachers' union for New York city. Tells of the work of the National union of teachers of England.

287. North, Lila Ver Planck. Teachers as participators in school planning and school administration. Boston, Mass., School-voters' league, 1915. 75 p. 8°.

Contains: 1. Common opinions on the teachers' share in school management. 2. Methods by which teachers assist in forming school plans. 3. Teachers' clubs as factors in school administration. 4. Facts and forecasts.

288. O'Neill, J. M. The professional outlook. Quarterly journal of public speaking, 2: 52-63, January 1916.

President's address before the first annual convention of the National association of the academic teachers of public speaking, held at Chicago, November 1915.

289. Rowland, Albert Lindsay. The rating of teachers. Current education, 20: 35-38, February 1916.

290. Arnett, Trevor. College finance. [Chicago] Board of education of the Northern Baptist convention, 1915. 11 p. 8°.

291. Burg, John C. University registration statistics. Science, n. s. 43: 87-92, January 21, 1916.

Omitting the enrollments in the summer session, the universities showing the largest gains for 1915 are Pennsylvania (916), Minnesota (739), Pittsburgh (594), Ohio state (502), New York (438), Chicago (437), Illinois (374), California (363), Missouri (361), Cincinnati (334), Cornell (314), Michigan (299), Columbia (290), Nebraska (288), Harvard (274), Iowa state (255), Northwestern (208), and Indiana (201).

292. Capen, Samuel P. Report of a survey of the University of Oregon, made by the United States Bureau of education, September 1915. Salem, Oreg., State printing department, 1915. 28 p. 8°. (University of Oregon bulletin. n. s. vol. xiii, no. 4. December 1915)

293. Delannoy, Paul. L'université de Louvain; conférences données au Collège de France en février 1915. Paris, A. Picard, 1915. 229 p. illus. 12°. 294. Hadley, Arthur T. The university and the nation. Yale alumni weekly, 25: 585-86, February 4, 1916.

An abstract of an address at the annual dinner of the Northeastern New York alumni association at Albany, January 25, 1916.

President Hadley says that Yale's aim has always been to prepare men for public service and that the form of public service needed to-day is public service in the defense of country.

295. Harper, W. A. Colleges and citizenship. Education, 36: 374-80, February 1916.

College men should help to form wholesome public opinion and stand ready to serve the state heroically.

296. Heilbrunn, Ludwig. Die gründung der Universität Frankfurt a. M. Frankfurt a. M. J. Baer & co., 1915. 233 p. 8°.

297. Keyes, Charles. Why Johns Hopkins is great among American universities. Johns Hopkins alumni magazine, 4: 100-109, January 1916.

298. Lange, Alexis P. The junior college, with special reference to California. Educational administration and supervision, 2: 1-8, January 1916.

Treats of the development of the junior college and some of its problems.

299. Lippincott, Horace Mather. George Washington and the University of Pennsylvania. Alumni register (University of Pennsylvania) 18: 356-83, February 1916.

300. Pickard, John. Message of art for the collegian. American magazine of art, 7: 144-49, February 1916.

A paper read at the sixth annual convention of the American federation of arts, Washington,
D. C., May 1915.

In conclusion, the writer says that "the fundamental error, the great defect of our present system of higher education is that it . . . fails adequately to provide for the artistic side of man's nature." 301. Rodman, Walter Sheldon. The University of Virginia. Bulletin of the Society for the promotion of engineering education, 6: 303-14, January 1916.

A descriptive article of the University of Virginia.

302. Wilbur, Ray Lyman. Inaugural address of the president of Leland Stanford junior university. School and society, 3: 181-86, February 5, 1916.

Read at the installation exercises on January 22, 1916.

Leland Stanford junior university and its place among universities.

303. Woolbert, Charles H. The organization of departments of speech science in universities. Quarterly journal of public speaking, 2: 64–77 January 1916.

Discusses first, the need of separation of speech science from the department of English, second, the organization of a department of speech science, and third, the place of speech science as an academic discipline.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION.

304. Brooks, E. C. By what standard may a school board know the efficiency of the superintendent? North Carolina education, 10: 3-4, February 1916.

The board may measure the efficiency of a superintendent by finding out "if the teacher's records show a minimum number of repeaters and a thoughtful provision for the exceptional children, if the course of study is functioning in the community as well as in the individual child, and if the attitude of the teacher as a whole toward the educational life of the community is good."

305. Brown, John Franklin. State publication of school books. New York, The Macmillan company [1915] 52 p. 12°.

Contains significant information concerning the experience of California, Georgia, and Kansas with the state publication of school books.

306. California. State normal school, San Francisco. In re Every child, a minor, vs. Lockstep schooling; a suit in equity . . . Data of results, methods

and costs of operating schools by individual instruction. Comp. by Frederic Burk, president San Francisco state normal. [San Francisco? California state printing office, 1915] 72 p. 4°. (Monograph C)

307. Cates, E. E. Supervision must supervise. Education, 36: 352-67, February 1916.

Gives requirements for a model superintendent.

308. Cubberley, Ellwood P. Public school administration. Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin company [1916] xviii, 479 p. diagrs. 12°. (Riverside textbooks in education, ed. by E. P. Cubberley)

This book undertakes "to state the fundamental principles underlying the proper organization and administration of public education in the United States; to state briefly the historical evolution of the principal administrative officers and problems; and to point out what seem to be the most probable lines of future evolution."

309. Garrison, Noel H. State uniformity in high school text books. Sierra educational news, 12: 26-30, January 1916.

The writer says that high school texts can be furnished free without being made uniform and without being furnished by the state. He thinks the printing of uniform high school texts is not only unpedagogical and uneconomical but is without precedent, and that the number of copies of the different text books required would make it impossible for the state to print them.

310. Hanus, Paul H. Town and city school reports, more particularly superintendents' reports. School and society, 3:145-55, 186-98, January 29, February 5, 1916.

Address of the vice-president and chairman of Section L, Education, American association for the advancement of science, Columbus, O., December 1915.

This study covers 26 reports from 25 cities and towns in all sections of the United States. A table is given classifying the contents of school reports for these towns and cities. The writer says that "Town and city school reports are at present vague in purpose, and miscellaneous in subjectmatter... they fail to reach the great majority of the people."

311. Hartwell, S. O. Statement of organization in Kalamazoo (Mich.) public schools. Elementary school journal, 16: 316-23, February 1916.

Since 1902 Kalamazoo has had one or more departmental schools resembling the junior highschool arrangement. In 1914 grades 7 and 8 were placed on the departmental plan. The first six grades of the elementary schools are now regarded as a unit and for "the regular work, so called, are under the direction of one supervisor. The plan of organization has some features adopted from the grade arrangement used in Gary, Ind." To be continued.

312. Sanders, Frederic W. The reorganization of our schools. Some educational postulates and practical suggestions as to the organization of schools. Boston, The Palmer company [1915] xi, 120 p. 12°.

The writer's general plan of organizing schools has "the psycho-physical development as the basis of classification, with constant opportunity for readjustment, with a minimum of work for the less gifted, with much individual work within the classes, and with the possibility for outside work in cultivation of a special interest throughout the school course."

313. Feddersen, Lucy A. Supervised study in the mathematics department of the University of Wyoming high school. Wyoming school journal, 12: 175-80, February 1916.

314. Johnston, C. H. What is curriculum differentiation? Educational administration and supervision, 2: 49-57, January 1916.

Editorial.

Treats of the attitudes of eight classes of educators toward curriculum differentiation, the confusion of terms, the bearing of these terms upon the curriculum differentiation issue, etc.

315. Kennedy, John. The Batavia system and the education of school children. Child (London) 6: 188-92, January 1916.

A plea for the Batavia system.

316. Wilson, H. B. Motivated school work. Atlantic educational journal, 11: 231-37, January 1916.

Successful classroom methods employed to vitalize the common school subjects.

SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE.

317. Ayres, Leonard Porter and Ayres, May. School buildings and equipment. Cleveland, O., The Survey committee of the Cleveland foundation, 1916. 117 p. illus. 12°. (Cleveland foundation. Publications. 2)

One of the 25 sections of the report of the educational survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey committee of the Cleveland foundation in 1915.

318. Modern school houses. Part II. Illustrating and describing recent examples of school house design executed in the United States. New York, The American architect, 1915. 80 p. 169 plates. fo.

Part I of this work was published in 1910.

SCHOOL HYGIENE AND SANITATION.

319. André, A. E. La cure d'air par la mutualité scolaire. Revue pédagogique, n. s. 67: 37-49, July 1915.

Advocates preventive work by the "mutualités scolaires" as well as remedial work.

320. Manny, Frank A. A scale for marking nutrition. School and society, 3: 123-24, January 22, 1916.

A scale adopted by the Bureau of child hygiene for the examination of all children in New York city public and parochial schools.

321. Sandiford, Peter. Health and education: the new emphasis. Child (London) 6: 178-87, January 1916.

Describes the various factors in the new health movement; agencies in the conservation of childhood, etc.

322. Simmons, Guy A. Health service in Hendrix college. Bulletin of the Board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, 5: 192-200, February 1916.

Medical inspection in colleges, especially in Hendrix college, and a brief list of references on the subject.

PHYSICAL TRAINING.

323. Bray, W. J. The school's responsibility for physical efficiency. Journal of education, 83: 117-20, February 3, 1916.

324. McKenzie, Robert Tait. Exercise in education and medicine. 2d ed., thoroughly rev. Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders company, 1915. 585 p. illus. 8°.

PLAY AND PLAYGROUNDS.

325. Nutt, Hubert W. Play and its place in education. Teacher's journal, 15: 241-46, 279-85, December 1915, January 1916.

Part 1 is devoted to the physical aspects of play and part 2 to the intellectual aspects.

326. Sies, Alice Corbin. Problems in sensory-motor education involving the selection of play materials and apparatus for small children. Kindergarten and first grade, 1: 49-55, February 1916.

Gives a list of play materials used in the School of childhood, University of Pittsburgh, and a brief description of the uses to which each piece of apparatus may be put.

327. A year's work of the Playground and recreation association of America. Helping cities to use the free time of the children and of the men and women in building a better civilization. May 1, 1914, through April 30, 1915. Playground, 9:369– 427, February 1916.

Pages 400 to 423 contain a list of "What cities 'played' last year and how."

SOCIAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION.

328. Burgess, E. W. The social survey-a field for constructive service by departments of sociology. American journal of sociology, 21: 492-500, January 1916. What can be accomplished by the sociological departments of colleges and universities in the social surveys of communities.

329. Rural school messenger, vol. 5, no. 5, January 1916. (The community center) Contains: 1. L. B. Sipple: Community efficiency: the story of a Missouri community, p. 90-99. 2. Mark Burrows: The school plant as a social center, p. 100-106.

CHILD WELFARE.

330. Tobey, S. B. Relation of the school in regard to child welfare. Wisconsin journal of education, 48: 6-8, January 1916. ̧

331. U. S. Children's bureau. Child labor legislation in the United States, by Helen L. Sumner and Ella A. Merritt. Washington, Government printing office, 1915. 1131 p. 2 fold. tables. 8°. (Industrial series no. 1. Bureau publication no. 10)

"All child labor legislation in force on October 1, 1915, in the states and outlying possessions of the United States is brought together in this compilation, which is divided into two parts-first, a comparative tabular analysis of the most important legal provisions; and, second, the text of laws by states".

MORAL EDUCATION.

332. Carr, Ernest P. What shall we teach? Education, 36: 381-85, February 1916.

Lays emphasis on the formation of character as the basis of all education.

333. Watkins, Dwight E. Oratory and the building of character. Education, 36: 347-56, February 1916.

Writer says that the practice of oratory develops concentrated attention and dominant personality. It is dynamic in nature, and is of incalculable service in the development of character.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

334. Brown, Arle A. The week-day church schools of Gary, Indiana. A report of an investigation. Religious education, 11: 5-19, February 1916.

Gives a brief history of the Gary plan of religious instruction, and then gives the curriculum, methods of instruction, grading, etc., in the church schools and the attitude of the local churches toward the plan.