THE PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL. Volume LXIII. That which makes a good Constitution must keep it, viz: men of wisdom and virtue: N. C. SCHAEFFER, EDITOR. Published at Lancaster by Thomas H. Burrowes from January, 1852, to 1870; by J. P. Wickersham and LANCASTER, PA. J. P. MCCASKEY, PUBLISHER 1914 AT'S "WHAT 66 JUN 3 1937 LIBRARY Walker fund HAT'S THE USE?" is the common saying with boys in regard to hard, distasteful studies. They mean to do something in life far different from anything that will require their dull, dry studies to be brought into play. But, leaving out of the question the mental discipline got from them, which is, after all, the main object of study, these very things may be turned to excellent account in after years. "My teacher made me study surveying, twenty five years ago," said a gentleman, who had lately lost his property; and now I am glad of it, for I can get a good situation by this means, and a high salary." A certain French king used to regret, with great bitterness, the deficiency of his education, when surrounded by men of learning and the highest culture. He reproached the memory of those who had been so indulgent of his idleness, and said, with bitter sarcasm, "Was there not birch enough in the forests of Fontainebleu?" Better a sharp strict master, who insists upon thoroughness in all you undertake, than a frivolous, superficial one, who permits you to slide over your lessons in an easy way, which you will regret with like bitterness in later years. Is it also desirable that our schools shall give our children eyes to see everywhere the million beauties and utilities with which the Creator has surrounded us, ears to hear, and souls to enjoy the harmonies that nature's great orchestra is ever playing, ability to utilize the forces of nature enfolded in which we live, to make the earth bloom with exquisite flowers and opulent with rich harvests—in fine, is it desirable that our schools shall make a race of men and women quicker of eye, stronger in mental grasp, and more unflinching in moral purpose than any that has preceded us? Or are we the ultimate? Did our parents give us the measure of our duty to our children in what they did for us? "ALL roads lead to Rome;" so all lines to educational improvement converge into one central object-the Teacher. The importance of other elements that go to make up a good school may be, and often are, overestimated. Not so with the teacher. The teacher is, indeed, the school. How to secure to every school a teacher who understands and loves his work,-this is the supreme educational problem at all times and in every place. It is a comparatively easy matter to build good school houses, and make a judicious choice of text books, and draw up a rational and sound scheme of instruction; but to furnish such teachers as are needed is a very different thing-Philbrick. "All the Days of My Life," A. E. Barr, 155 "America" and The Star Spangled Banner, Lewis E. Harley, 167 Among the Old Letter Writers, Robert B. Risk, 302 Arbor Day Proclamation of Governor Brumbaugh, 470 Arbor Day in Potter County, 555 Are You Educated? 554 Arithmetic, 299 Army Schoolmaster, The: The Deeper Wisdom Gained from Life," 119 Assessment and Collection of Taxes, 138 "Backed Out," 13 Back to the Classics, 20 "Back to the Soil," 182 Balkan Commission, The, 78 Barricaded Against Gary, A. E. Winship, III Battles, The Higher, Phillips Brooks, 551 Begging for $12,000 a Year, 67 Best Teachers in the County. A Character Sketch, C. M. Drake, 114 Beyond the Gates of Pain, 60 Bide a Wee and Dinna Fret (Poem), 253 Biological Teaching: Exact Facts of Science, John M. Macfarlane, 507 Bird and Beast, 288 "Blind Alley" in Education: Schools of London, F. S. Edmonds, 192 Blowing Out the Boy's Brains, Franklin K. Matthews, 294 Boss Teacher, The, 108 Boy Scouts, Chas. W. Eliot, 193 Boy Who Commended Himself, 526 Breakfast Table Talk, John Todd, 251 Brumbaugh on Pennsylvania, 314 Business Administration of School District, Wm. Dick, 422 By Way of Suggestion, 261 Carson School for Girls, 429 Causes of General European War, 82 Child on the Street, James H. Blenk, 208 City and Borough Superintendents: Thirtyfifth Annual Session of the Department at Harrisburg. The Salary Question, C. F. Hoban, 431. The Grading of Pupils, George E. Zerfoos, 433. Waste or By-product from Our Elementary Schools, F. W. Wright, 435. Efficiency Tests as Applied to the Work of Public Schools, I. B. Bush, 439. Committees, 435. Officers, 441. Closer Supervision, Thomas A. Bock, 447 Compass Station, The, 298 Compensations of a Teacher of English, Alice M. Dunbar, 3 Concentrate on Essentals, I. H. Witherspoon, 428 Conquered the Plumber, 6 Conquest of the Air, 24 Conservation of Child, A. C. Rothermel, 515 County Superintendents' Department: Twelfth Cub Pilot in Education, J. M. Greenwood, 248. Curse of War, The, 535 Daily Round, The, 555 Directors' Department of Pennsylvania State Educational Association: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Session at Harrisburg, 379. Address of Welcome, S. J. M. McCarrol. Response, J. N. Rhodes, 379. What's the Matter with the Public Schools? C. S. Foos, 381. President's Address: Administration of School Affairs, Harry A. Boyer, 387. Our Needs in Rural Education, Charles Albert, 389. Address of Governor Brumbaugh: Enthusiastic Ovation, 393. School Architecture: Illustrated Lecture, J. George Becht, 394. Representing the State Teachers' League, M. Virginia Black, 394. The School Director in the Work, J. P. McCaskey, 397. A Graphic Story of Prison Reform, S. M. Smucker, 403. A Peace Day View of War, Nathan C. Schaeffer, 409. Secretaries of School Boards: Address of President of Association, 420. Secretary as Business Manager of District, W. J. Flynn, 421. Business Administration of School District, Wm. Dick, 422. Committees Appointed, 386 Secretaries' Association, 393. Officers for Next Year, 418. Question Box, 413. Report of Legislative Committee, 416. Report of Necrology Committee, 417. Resolutions Adopted, 417. Members in Attendance, 418. Officers of Secretaries' Association, 422. Committees, 426. Secretaries in Attendance, 426. "Don't Moralize," 80 Drink Must Go from Navy, 15 Dull Boy, The, A. E. Winship, 19 Editorial Department: School Houses, 38. Institutes, 39. Appropriation, 39. Secretaries Organized, 40. New Volume, Peace Day, 41. Latin as a Practical Study, 42. New School of Education, 43. National Association, 44. Insanity, 84. Stranded Men Teachers, 84. Teaching of English, 85. Promoting by Merit, 86. Journal on Reading Tables, 86. West Point, 187. "Pennsylvania the Keystone," 88. Firebrands, 89. Jacob Riis, 90. Death of Dr. Greenwood, 128. Training Course for Teachers, 130. Permanent Tenure Law for Teachers, 131. Moral Education, 133. Death of Supt. John Morrow, 133. Death of General McCaskey, 132. Start the Term Right, Good for the Schools, 134. The Assessment and Collection of Taxes, 135. Fall Arbor Day Circular, 173. Dr. J. M. Greenwood, 177. The Minnesota School System, 179. School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 180. "Fathers' Clubs," Industrial Conference, 181. Back to the Soil, 182. Program for One-Room Schools, 183. Hershey School Building, 218. Woman TeacherAdviser, 219. Corn Growing Clubs, 219. Keeping Faith, 221. Governor Brumbaugh, 221. State Educational Association: Coming Meeting at Harrisburg, 222. Figures From Annual Report: Statistical Statement, Interesting Record of Our School Administration, 222. Over the Field, 225. Dictionary in School, 227. The Vermont Survey, 227. State Education Association: SixtyFifth Meeting at Harrisburg; Program of General Sessions, Departments and Round Tables, 266. To School Directors, 269. Over the Field, 270. Newell Dwight Hillis, 272. Helen Keller, 272. State Association of School Directors, 309. State Educational Association at Harrisburg, 309. Brumbaugh on Pennsylvania, 314. The Music at Dunmore, 313. Over the Field, 314. At State College, 315. Outhouses and Indecency, 316. Increase of School Debt, 316. "Nothing Divided by One," Swimming at Princeton, 373. Bryant to Sunday School, 374. High Grade Official, 375. Humane Teaching, 374. Reading Vocational Council, 376. Arbor Day Proclamation, 470. School Men's Week, Trees, Our Forty-ninth Year, Inspecting School Systems, 471. Final Report of Treasurer, 472. The State Flower: 66 The White Flower of a Blameless Life," 472. William Uhler Hensel, 473. Hon. Henry Houck, 556. School Legislation, 560. The Red Book, 561. John Birkinbine, 561. To School Directors, 562. Sixty-Fourth Volume, 563. Teachers' Professional Reading, 563. Schoolmen's Week, 564. Child Labor Bill, 565. State College, 566; Department of Superintendence, 567. Educational Interest of the Commonwealth: Eightieth Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania. State Board of Education. Professional Education. Wage Earners. Vocational Eduation. Industrial Education, etc., Nathan C. Schaeffer, 139. Educational Values, W. C. Bagley, 536 Educational Veneering, 76 Great Giver, The, 27 Great Refusal, The: Refusal to Accept Wisely the Supreme Gift of Life, 207 Great World's Fair at San Francisco, 426 Guidance and Help, 162 Happy at His Work, 244 Helen Keller: Recovery from Serious Illness, 520 Help Wisely Given, 296 High School Program of Studies: Constants and Electives, Katharine E. Puncheon, 477 Hints about Letter-Writing, 253 His Best Teacher, J. P. McCaskey, 256 Home and the School, Elizabeth Gilchrist, 485 How Shall We Get Professionally Trained How to Grip the Boy, Edwin Erle Sparks, 481 How to Keep Pupils in School until They Complete Course of Study, T. S. Davis, 459 How to Plant a Tree, 520 How to Reform the Schools, 372 Human Environment: People First, then Things, 101 Humane Teaching, 376 Importance of Rural Schools of Methods, Orton Lowe, 456 Increase of School Debt, 316 Industrial and Continuation Schools, Geo. W. Gerwig, 291 Industrial Education Conference, 181 Inside and Out, 297 Inspecting School Systems, 471 Items from Reports, 91, 229, 273, 319, 475, 522 Jacob A. Riis, 90 John Kellogg's Failure, 306 Keeping History Up to Date, S. H. Smith, 503 Keystone of Christian Missions: Bible Translations, Judson Smith, 198 Kingdom of Little Things, The, J. M. Greenwood, 149 Language Lesson, 286 Last Passenger Pigeon, 193 Latin as Practical Study, Thomas March, 42 Library and School House, 12 Life of Drudgery of our Country Mothers, W. E. Halbrook, 351 Life's Prizes Won as Dead Sea Fruit, 158 Little Belgium: Holds the Center of the Stage, Newell Dwight Hillis, 236 Little "Great" Lives, 217 Little Lessons from Life, 250 "Little Partners," Ralph P. Coleman, 168 "Little Scotch Granite ": Low on the Grade List at End of Term, 102 Lounsbury's Will, 260 Love's Chief Opposite: Not Hatred, but Egotism and Selfish Interests, 200 Menace of Drink, Charles W. Eliot, 64 Minnesota School System, 179 Moral Instinct, Development of, H. H. Shenk, 546 Moral Training in Schools, 13 Music Pages-All Together, Geo. F. Root, 92. Address of Chairman, James McIlroy, Jr., 463. Qualifications for Supervisors of Music in Public Schools, A. J. Fillmore, 463. Aims and Results of Teaching Music in Schools, Hollis B. Dann, 465. Resolutions, 464, 470. Officers, 470. My Method in Spelling, 77 My Note Book, J. Max Hark, 171 Needs in Rural Education, Charles Albert, 389 Newell Dwight Hillis, 272 Objects of Education, J. H. Snowden, 531 On Commencement Day, 528 On the Lusitania, 527 One-Room School Buildings: Advice and Suggestions to Directors, 262 One who Remained True, 70 Open Door of the School House: Community a Neighborhood, 151 Outhouses and Indecency, 316 Outside Reading of High School Pupils, Sylvia Hall, 509 Palace, The, 258 Paragraphs in Variety, 47, 231, 275 Parent's Visit, The, 285 Paternal Legacy, The, 161 Peace Day View of War, N. C. Schaeffer, 409 Peace Problem: Hundred Years of Peace, Nathan C. Schaeffer, 358 Pennsylvania at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 517 Pennsylvania Normal Schools, A. E. Winship, Pet's Composition, Helen Mathers, 284 Physical Equipment of the School, W. C. Bagley, 327 Place of English Grammar in High School, A. LeRoy Lightner, 508 Plan Book, The, 259 Play as Mental Stimulus, 155 Preparation and Improvement of Rural President's Address: Loss and Waste in School Work, Robert C. Shaw, 336 Private and Public Schools, Nathan C. Scheaffer, 205 Professional Training for Young Teachers, Frank Koehler, 450 Professor's Unexpected Visit, M. W. Fox, 6 Programme for One-Room Schools, 182 Proposed Act on Retirement of Teachers, J. Geo. Becht, 362 Protect the Birds, 521 Public School Class in Factory, 71 Pygmies of Africa, A. B. Lloyd, 24 Qualifications for Supervisors of Music in Public Schools, A. L. Fillmore, 463 Reading Vocational Council, 376 Relation of Mathematics to Science, E. C. |