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TUBMAN GETS HAPPY
NOTE FROM CONVERSE
President Pell Writes of Au
gusta Girls "Their Spirit Be
Asset For Any School."
CONVSttSC COLLEGE.
Robl. P. Pell. ITaaldent.
Spartanburg. H. C.
Principal T 14. Garrett,
Tubtnan High School. Auguata. O*.
Hv Daar Mr. Garrett: It qartaln
ly I* moat gratifying to hoar that
your experience* at Converse were
■o satisfactory. I nnty hop* that
some day we may have thoae won
derful baaketball players her* with
u*. for, apart from their *kni In ih#
gam*. I think thai their spirit would
be a aplendld jaael for any arhrrol.
To go straight to a thing and do It
promptly and artistically i* on* of
Ihe moat deairutj * result* of educa
tion. We *\on enjoy defeat at the
hand* of such girl*, and »* wish to
assure all of yen of a warm wel
mma wbanevat you .an come to **•
us. Respect fully
RORT. P. PElele
The shove 1* » copy of * letter Just
received which shows the eplendld im
pression the Tubman girls made at Cnn
verae. "We even enjoy defeat at (h<*
hende of aiich girls" Thle certainly
•peak* well for U»e friendliness and con
eidet at on shown by the baaketball team
—vlctore and Hot boaster*.
II waa one of the primal nhjeeta of
Mr Osrreil, ae haa hren elated before,
to have the Ttibmnn girls. In Inking eueh
trip* to college* aw*y from the city, get
a touch of college if* —an Insight or what
many of them are shortly to experience.
And this Inalght could he gotten In no
olher way than through a personal vlelt.
A hnaketball game afforded Just the op
portunity. 'nien In addition to the en
joyment the girls got out of the eport
the trip was of an educational value to
them.
Grammar School Boys’
Athletic Test Comes
Off Here on April 14
The general announcement 1* made
by Mupcrlndendent Kvene that on April
lttli, 4 p. m at the Richmond Academy
grounde the "Athletic Hedge Contest"
tor the Atlenta Constitution's priae will
b« he d. %
A* brunae-allver medal will ha given
every Tlh or Bth grade grammar school
boy aho comes up to the foduwing teat.
I.—Run ltki yat da In 14 seconds
) J\ mp islanding Inoad) ti feat, (
luc lira
I—Chin the lair ala (*> times
The madula will be given through
Prof Jon b Stewart. University of
C'aorg a, Athena. G* . and the name* of
oil eucreaaful applicant* are to he pub
lished in the Constitution.
A sltnllir teal wilt be held htrs on tha
Annuul Field Day In May
The Little Red
Schoolhouse
/T OUGHT to bo pretty well under
stood by this time that the one-room
rural district school beloved of our
grandfather* la inoatly a scandfloua in
stitution. The typical teacher la a sin
just out of normal school, much under
paid. sometimes overworked and some
- timer with only half a doaen pupils of
assorted sees.
A Vermont report covering thirty-two
eucli schools shows that In three years
j there were one hundred and seventeen
different teachers, of whom- on an
t«iv*ra*e—more than half served leas
than two terms.
A great majority of these sehoots arc
.pooly housed and hardly equipped at all
—Just a bar.- t.ttle room with a desk. .1
.rostrum, a blackboard and a polaonoua
csstlron stove That efficient Instruc
jtion esn be had under such conditions
Is put of the question.
And there Is leas and less excuse for
(the typical one-room, ungraded rural
district school Our grandfathers could
have that or nothing ill their day the
t nearest town was ten miles or more
sway and the road all but impaaaabio
half th# year. /
Now— all over the Middle Weet at
1 least — there are few rural districts that
| are not within easy haul cf a Tillage
graded school: still fewer thst might
1 not have a fairly equipped graded school
within easy- haul by consolidating the
districts. Already In some localltes a
wagon to bring In the cmmirv children
la as much a part of the educational
equipment as the traditional blackboard
Itself
Like some other poor Institutions the
little red eohoolhous- subsists maltilv on
prejudice and mere Inertia If educat
ing children ta worth all this effort, to
give them tolerably efficient teaching ir
worth all thla effort, to give them tol
erably efficient teaching la worth just a
little more effort —Saturday Kventng
Post
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Forty-seven Whitehall St. Atlanta, Georgia
WITH THE AUGUSTA SCHOOLS
TEACHERS’ CLUB
DISCUSS PLAN
OF CRAIG
CHILDREN
Backward Scholars Should Be
Classed to Themselves. They
Sav —Plan Could Be Put Into
Operation in Auqusta With
Little or No Additional Ex-
Dense
At the lm»t regular monthly meeting
of the Teachers* Club of Richmond
county, held at the Tubman High
Hchool, the program for the afternoon
wu "Open Air Herceitlon for Teach
ere." a euhject that waa ably handled
by Mlaa Kthcl Young and Mias Pauline
Radford.
A new feature haa been recently Intro
duced Into the club- dlacuaaiona of local
educational problems. For this purpose
a ape rial committee la eleced, wl)lch
has charge <>f all qeaafloaa auhmltted
for discussion. The problem discussed
at the last meeting was "Maximum and
Minimum grading, and the best way
to handle backward pupils." The dis
cussion waa the Uveat that haa been
hebi glace tha dab waa founded, and
was participated In by a large num
ber of the members. In brief, the
ground covered was as follows:
In Classifying Children.
In dasslfylng children, some atten
tion should-** paid to their working
. apa* iti. V* hftfc a child of
working/mind may In the end accomp
lish aa much as or more than the child
of quit k-working brain, yet he neoes
,i er to do it it is tl ■
fore unjust to both classes of pupils
to put them Into the same cluaa where
they must be Assigned the same work
to be done In the same length of time,
it im unjust to the quicker child, be
cause held hack to accommodate the
slower pupil.the work soon palls, and
ns he has not enough to do to keep his
mind Interested and occupied, he gets
Into mischief, or falls Into bad h&blta
of thinking It is unjust to the slower
child, because being able to keep up
only with the greatest difficulty, or
not being able to keep up at all, he
becomes discouraged and self-distrust
ful. and fulls.
The plan proposed by those who fa
vored a maximum and minimum sys
tem was am follows:
That ns soon us the working capac
ity of h class Is determined, that class
bo divided Into two sections: One In
cluding those who can easily accomp
lish the work of the grade, and the
other of those who find It difficult to
do so. The standard of promotion Is
to be limited to the actual amount of
preparation necessary to do the work
of the nex grade. The pupils of the
mtnitinum grade will probably barely
meet the iwtsstng requirement, but It
Is believed that a far larger number
of backward children will win promo
tion under this system than under that
now In force. Under the present sys
tem a chihl who falls to make his
grade In one year Is required to do tha
work of the same grade a second year,
hut If, at the end of the second year,
ha still falls of promotion, he Is passed
anyway, since there Is no other place
for hln This has become so thorough
ly understood, that many pupils who
fall to make their grade, simply Idle
through the second year, conscious
that they will he promoted at the end
of the year. The mlechtef or such a
system Is apparent. If a child cannot
do the work of the lower grade by what
sleight of hand can he possibly accom
plish that of the higher, for which
the lower is a prerequisite? Almost na
great an evil Is lo keep a child more
than two years In the same grade, as
Is occasionally done, for If he has not
done the work In two years he will
never do It It has become a tread mill
task, loathsome to him. The advo
cates of the new system propose, that
pupils who fall to do the work of uny
one grade the second year, be placed In
a class especially prepared for ex
ceptional children, where the course Is
adapted for those who do not take to
the education planned for the average
child, and where less of academic work
will he given, and the child's produc
tive powers will he particularly train
ed.
No Additional Expense.
It Is believed by the advocates of the
new system that hy adaptation and
modification, the plan might he put In
to operation with very little If any ad
ditional expense to the Board, with
the result of a vast gain to the chil
dren. and a lessening of the waste of
energy on She psrf of teachers. It was
brought out, during the dlacuslon.
that some Individual experiments rs
this kind hnd been made from time to
time. In the several schools, with suf
ficient success to venture to enoour
rgi confidence In its general effi
cacy.
7,500 School Children Will Help in City's Great “Spring Cleaning" Campaign
BEGINNING NEXT WEDNESDAY, APRIL Ist
In a constructive series of nrtbies
which th's well-known inveatlgstor :a
writing for pictorial le v 4 * ghe tads
why she thinks our public schools are no?
nil that they should be we quota the fob
- v «.f the publisher.
In arithmetic J would have the begin
ner count up to f»fty, by ones uni twos,
handling objects !•» *l<* this At m s
school at Atlantic City we find bench
pehhics Invaluable for this purpose
much mors so than an abacus, as the
child may keep his own store and use
ihem nt iny time. Hometlmes we ill
go to the bead? and use them there. Out
of threw or similar objects, the chill
builds his tables At the end of two
months he should be able to count for
ward nod backward to fifty by ones And
twos and threes know the varloug mul
tiplication tallies to fifty; be Able to find
fractional parts to twenty, and so well
that he can recite them. lie will not
have written arithmetic. A pencil is a
good tool* but the mind Is still better.
The longer the time that arithmetical
processes can be kep mental, the great
er the Mhility to compute will be.
The child of eight will have no teg:-
books. He will have no desk and bench;
but <* chair that Is adjusted to his
height and later, when he needs It. a
table. He will not be requited to "f* rni
In line;" there will be no lines. He will
not lie Asked to **Bl t with his hands
New Course in Reading For Next
Five Years is Just Announced
Special Committee of Teacher b, of Which Miss Ethel Parka
Was Chairman, Carefully Selects List of Books For Use.
Course Adopted is Fine One.
Below ip given a ropy of tha ap
prove*! course of reading for tha city
white public achooip, made for five
years, effective at tho opening of the
It 14-15 session. Tha liat of book a given
herewith waa carefully selected by a
committee of tcachera chosen from the
city schools by Superintendent Kvana.
The Committee.
The committee consisted of Mlaa Wthel
Parke, chairman; Mlaaea II I* Young,
Joale Gow, Mabel Abernathey, Cecile
Durban, Clara Wallace, Joule Bodekor,
Mattie Pournelle, Flewellyn Goodrich,
Ruby Tommlns and Eleanor Goodrich.
All teachers in nped of euppltmentary
reading will report to their principals
making selections from the list appoint
ed for their grades
New Course In Reading.
The new course In reading Just an
nounced Is as follows
First Veer.
Aldtne Primer.
Aldltie First Reader
lYactical First Reader.
Hhort Stories for l.tttle Folk*.
Second Veer.
Aldlne Second Reader
l'rsclleal Second Reader.
Robinson Crusoe Header (Cowles.)
Fifty Famous Fables iMrMurry.)
Third Year.
Aldlne Third Resder
Practical Third HeudeV.
Great Ajuvr cons for Uttle Americana
Fifty Fiumuis Siorlea (Baldwin.l
Fout-.h Year.
Graded Idtemture Reader. Book Fair
Good Books Better Than Text Books
(By Miss Elia Frances Lynch)
(Cotirto*. of Pictorial Itevlew Apr. 191t>
In English use the Autobiography of
Henjamlu Franklin nn.l make It a text
book from which many nuTnls may be
drawn. This In the bunds of a good
teacher can be the hart* for talka on
»a»tc. expenditure and economy tn prac
tical matter*, on gas. coal, food*, etc.
The "Silk* and Satin*" proverb will
give opportunity for sensible talk* on
sensible clothing, and on the vital mat
ter of living within one * Income Such
work will require a toucher of experi
ence. judgment and much wisdom, such
teacher* a* we sorely need. Fine char
acter* In literature and In history
should be set before the children Great
Sroblem* of community good, should be
scusae.l Informally, the need for clean
streets, for protection agamst contagion,
the proper disposal of house w aste A*
these children have had a thorough
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
Public School Examinations Unfair?
Ella Frances Lynch Oives Reasons Why She Thinks So.
Courtesy Pictorial Review, April, ltll.
the hands will lie too busy to
be folded He will neeti btic disciplin
ing as Its will ho very busy. Hs will
have no marks, no averages, no reports,
no reviews, no examinations.
Examinations are the itmst unjust 3rd
unfair exaction placed upon , a pubV.e
school pupil. They demand a knowl
edge of trivial detail that Is unimpor
tant in Itself, and of little value. If any.
In mentd discipline Capacity f«/r unre
lated material Is very limited In the
ordinary human being and all of It Is
needed for vital Information. Examina
tions are emphasised to a degree that
puts an acute nervous strain upon any
but ft thoroughly Indifferent pupil; too.
they are planned to come at the end of
the school year when the pupil Is tired
and feels the need of a vucaton. If a
test were needed, the test of what re
mained As the year's instruction upon
the return to school In September, would
be the most enlighten ng one.
These attempts to measure develop
ment have n humorous aspect. A young
girl wlieni I knew was absent two weeks
from her class on account of Illness. Her
report card for the month following
showed h mark of seventy for spelling
Heretofore It had been o?ie hundred, and
th«» gin could not remainMf having
missed a word. Her father asked for
an explanation and ths teacher obliging-
Hans Anderson’* Fairy Tales
Stories of Ancient Greeks (Shaw )
Stories of American Ufa and Adven
ture (Baldwin.)
Fifth Ytar.
Graded T.lterature Readers, Book Five.
Young Maroonera.
Hwtss Family (Robinson.)
Arabian Nights.
Htory of Robin Hood.
Old Horse Stories (Hradish.)
Sixth Year.
King Arthur Stories.
Story of Little Nell Held!.
CLEANING VP
The schools are welcoming the general movement to
clean up inside and out, and move all the dust and soil of
the winter months. Our schools are already reasonably
clean, but there never was anything so clean that it did
not need to be kept so every day. The schools are easily
soiled; dust, chalk, the tramp of many feet, soot, the con
stant sweeping, the high walls and many windows, make it
difficult to keep a school room clean. The floors are
oiled to keep down the dust and the janitors are sup
ply with brooms and cloths to sweep and wipe.
But a general house-cleaning, every now and then,
with a window washing, paint scouring, yard sweeping
and raking, flower planting, is a most desirable thing.
The schools will join the town in a “clean-up festival,” a
carnival of cleanliness. Nothing helps goodness like ap
pearances. Looking clean goes along with being clesn,
and a man who looks dirty is dirty. A housekeeper is
known by the house she keeps, and a school teacher is
known by the school room she keeps. A clean, dainty,
decorated school room may not make a good teacher, but
it generally indicates one.
Young: Marooncm
Tanglewood Tale*.
Seventh Year.
I.nnib'a Tale* from Shukenpeare.
Plckenn* rhriHtnm* Stories.
Hound the World in 80 Days.
Ivsnhoe.
The Numbers Stove nnd the Dog; of
Flanders.
Eighth Grade.
Church’s Stories of the Old World.
David Copper field.
Dickens’ Christmas Stories.
Note:—Short storlf* and poems will
also be supplied after the above list Is
exhausted.
SUPERINTENDENT EVANS
IS OUT OF THE CITY
——4 —
Superintendent l.nwton U Evans of
tin- schools left Augusta Thursday for
Nashville, Trim., where he will he gone
for several days on school business.
training In literature they can take It In
stiff doses and enjoy It. "The Mer
chant of Venice," "The Tale of Two
Cities.'' "Kvaueeltne if they have not
already had this great poem, may he
mentioned as examples Tit* spelling
lesson and ihs use of the dictionary will
In this year, and In every other, occupy
a good part of the time given to Eng
lish. The child can use a dictionary
before the sge of ten years.
On* hour a day should be given to
eaeh of taro groat subjects. English ana
mathematic* One hour dally may mao
be given to history, and geography, and
this should Include mip drawing, neatly
and exactly done ns much for the train
ing In workmanship as for ths purposs
of fastening the fact* tn the memory.
The remaining hour daily will be given
to physics and chemistry ns Indicated, to
mechanical drawing, to natural sciences
ly exp! lined that although ths girl’s
spelling hud been one hundred during
her attendance at school, her absence
hud reduced the mark to seventy. There:
fore a g4»od speller became a poor spell
er becauo# she w«s n way from school for
two weeks’ Had she stayed away four
weeks, probably the report card by a
mark or xero, would have stated that
*h* rouM not *p*ll nt nil. although ac
tunity *h* could Spell every word In th*
year's text hook.
Development nan b* measured In just
on* wny. Kit tier h child Is living up to
his Hbllltle* or he I* not. If he I* not,
lie needs, not a lower mark, but the
stmulus or discipline. scrordlng to tn«
nature of ht* p»Vs'rial case, to mnks
him do the best he ran. And the elim
ination of marks, report* and exainlni
tior would actually so reduce the w*rk
of the teacher that she would havs
much more energy to put Into the real
teaching In making out thirty promo
tion cards, one teacher made over 21 005
records of standing*. In voder to .mow
whether a pupil had passed or not. *tvr
had to record 700 murk* of recitation*,
review*, and examinations. 8e did not
tell the number of hour* required for the
ta*k nor estimate the amount of energy
put Into It. hut It !* safe to say that
these hour* could havs been turned Into
quits a little teaching.
Think Sheep Stolen By
Men Who Operate By Auto
London.—Farmer! and sheep rais
ers of the fe'ussex district are con
vinced that the sheep stealing which
has recently depicted their stock is
blng carried on by a gang of thieves
who operate with motor cars. For the
past week armed guard* have pa
trolled the flocks at night, but the
Hheej) have been disappearing with
the same regularity. Many motor
parties pass through the region at
night and the owners of the flocks
have come to the conclusion that the
thieves mingle with the motorists
and while stopping on the road under
the pretext of mending a tire, smuggle
sheep into the cars and drive oft with
them. t
ANNA GOULD'S HUSBAND WINS.
Leipsic, Germany —The supreme
court today upheld the action of the
Duke He Tallyrand, husband of Anna
Gould, who In 1910, renounced his
rights to the crown fief of Fagitn In
Silesia In favor of his son, Prince Ja
son Howard of Sagan.
The Duke De Tallyrand’s German
creditors attacked the validity of the
transfer by which they were rendered
unahli to attach revenues of the fief.
r ■ *■■ 1
WON’T RECOGNIZE UNION.
Depew, N. Y.— Negotiations between
the Gould coupler works and its strik
ing employes were severed today by
Geo. \V. Hayden, general manager of
the plant, who said: "I have submit
ted a proposition to the men and they
may take it or leave It." .
The company declines to recogflize
the union.
—and to the subjects suggested by com
munity requirements, which may wen
Include alt the science taught.
The other half of the day should be
spent In active, useful employment.
Every town and city will have to solve
Its own particular employment problem.
In some cities, they have already don*
It, and .lone It well.
The boy <* girl who leaves school at
fourteen, should under this or some bet
ter rational system, possess the quali
ties of mind and character that we now
look for only In the college graduate.
He should know how to work, how to
study, how to concentrate. He should
be able to go on educating himself with
little If any help from outside, except tn
technical Instruction. He would. In so
far as It Is possible at the age of four
teen. be fitted in some measure to di
rect hts own destiny. Thus the school
would have fulfilled Its function.
MORE TIME TO
PRODUCTIVE
WORK; LESS
TOOT
“Schools Should Provide Some
Kind of Instruction For the
Children Through What is
Now. in Most Cities, a Long
Wasteful Vacation,” Says Dr.
Claxton
Washington—While denying extreme
statements attributed to him. Dr. P. P
Claxton, United Stales commissioner
of education, yesterday reiterated hi*
belief In continued school activity of
Home kind In summer months for most
children.
"The schools should provide some
kind of Instruction for the children
through what is now. in most cities,
a long, wasteful vacation." declares
Dr. Claxton. He points out that school
takes at most 900 hours a year out of
6,110 waking hours—assuming 10 hours
of sleep for children every night; the
average child spends about 600 hours in
school and the remaining 4.510 waking
hours out of school. Dr. Claxton sug
gests that summer work last not long
er than four hours—from 7 or 8 o’clock
to 11 or 12 o'clock In the fofenoon.
School of the Future.
According to Dr. Claxton the school
of the future, both In summer and
winter, will give less time to Inten
sive school study of the ordinary type
—probably about three hours: and four
or five hours to productive work su
pervised by the school, done In shops,
outdoor gardens, or In the home.
"With this kind of an organization,’’
he declares. "It would be very easy
for children to do ordinary school work
Superintendent and Principals Want
Fewer Holidays in Augusta Schools
May Be Regular Session on Good Friday This Year. No
Action Will Be Taken Until Members of City Conference
Board Are Heard From.
An Inquiry has been made of the City
Conference Board by Superintendent L.
B. Evans and the several school princi
pals of the city regarding fewer holidays
In the Augusta public schools.
•'We are having too many holidays
now,” stated Superintendent Evans last
week. "The teachers think so, and the
parents think so, nnd if the conference
hoard acts favorably on our recommen
dations there will not be as many holi
days given our school children in the
future as before.”
GRAND—This Afternoon at 4 O’clock
LAST SUNDAY CONCERT
SENOR JOSE ANDONEGUI
and his'
ORCHESTRA
Np Admission Charged.
Grand—Tomorrow,Matinee and Evening
The Greatest Show on Earth,
“ZEIGFELD FOLLIES’’
Seats Selling Tomorrow.
Prices, Matinee and Evening:
$2.00 —$1.50—51.00 —50c
Grand—Saturday, Matinee and Evening
The Mirth-Provoking Comedy,
“BREWSTER’S MILLIONS”
The most enormously successful play of the
century. A laugh in every line.
Seats on sale Thursday.
Special Bargain Prices:
Matinee —Adults 50e, children 25c.
Evening—2sc, 35c, 50c. 75c, SI.OO.
SUNDAY. MARCH 29.
Edited By
h.J.S.
SUMMERVILLE SCHOOL
joihs'W’piiiii
Pupils of 3rd and 4th Grades
Are Organized Into “The
School City Club.”
The pupils of the third and fourth
grades of the Summerville school have
nrgs nixed a club which Is to be called
"The School City Club.”
The object of this organisation Is to
help children realise their own person'll
obligations as little cltlsens and to show
them their opportunities fig- rendering
civic service.
The motto of the club Is: "Pick It Up."
The president, Gene Greneker. state*
that all the members will gladly co
operate with the Board of Health, the
\yomsn * Club, and all who are Inter
ested In the "All Together for Clean
l*reml*e» and Clean Street*" program.
three hours a day, six days In the
week, through 11 calendar months In
the year, and at the same time con
tribute largely to their own support
by well-directed productive education
al work, either at home or In the
school, thus making it possible for the
great majority of children to remain
in school throughout the high-school
period.
Teachers and Vacation.
"The cost of adding the three months
of school would be comparatively lit
tle. There would be no cost for fu,\
the cost of attendance would be less,
and the addltonal cost for teachers
would not be In proportion to the
number of days added. Whatever may
be the terms of the contract, teachers
are In fact employed by the year.
Comparatively few of them tise the
vacation months In any profitable
way. An average addition of Il’OO to
the annual salary of city school teach
ers would require a total of less than
$10,000,000, or about three per cent of
the total annual cost of the schools.
For most teachers the additional
months would not be a hardship, es
pecially If the school days were short
ened. Certainly this Is true If teach
ers could be relieved of a large amount
of the unnecessary bookkeeping, re
port making, and examination reading
with which they are now brudened.”
If ths recon mendations of the super
intendent and jmincipals are catried out
school will continue in session on "Good
Friday" this year. Before, this has al
ways been one of the regular school
holidays.
However, no action will be taken until
all of the members of the City Confer
ence Board have been heard from. Mr.
Evans states that It will be known some
time this week whether Good Friday
will he declared a holiday.