Your college graduates will succeed

you.

May the pleasant intercourse between us be continued; the great distance is bridged over by your visits, letters, books, and now, since you have added another link by sending your speaking likenesses, you are nearer to many who ought to know you well.

In the name of my country people, especially of the German kindergartners, I thank you heartily, and personally I accept your generous gift as a token of spiritual friendship and kind feelings towards myself.

I am, dear friends,

Yours gratefully and sincerely,
ELEONORE HEERWART.

Of special significance to the kindergarten movement is the fact that for the first time a kindergarten department was included in the program of the American Institute of Instruction. Wholly unsolicited by kindergarten advocates, a two days' session was assigned to this new department by that body at its seventyfourth annual meeting, which was held at Bethlehem, N. H., from July 5 to July 8.

This recognition and generous share in the program this summer is due to one man, the president of the American Institute of Instruction, Charles A. Keyes, superintendent of schools in Hartford, Ct., who is a firm believer in kindergartens and is anxious to use all the influence at his command to gain for them recogni

tion as an

indispensable part of the

public school system. Very wisely Mr. Keyes appointed Miss Lucy Wheelock of Boston president of this new section, now made a

permanent department of the insti

tute.

No one has a more intelligent grasp of the subject and the kindergarten cause no wiser advocate than she.

With a view to gaining added public recognition of the fact that kindergartens are as well established as any department in education and worthy of as much consideration as any when it is necessary to economize, she had planned her program. The first session was devoted to the general subject: The Kindergarten of To-day, divided as follows:

Its Critics-Miss Nora Atwood of the Providence Normal School reviewed all articles and books which have been written in the way of suggestion and criticism during the past five years and attempted to show concisely what these criticisms have been, on what grounds they have been made, how they are being met by kindergartners and how they should be met. Its Practice Miss Rosemary

opportunity of sending across the Atlantic a tangible sign of recognition for services rendered to the same cause which you have at heart. The advantage I have is the greater length of time-fifty years-while you have wider experience and ample means to do the same work in a shorter space of years.

I accept the handsome volumes with your photographs in Froebel's name, for he is the originator of our mutual work and intercourse. Take him away, and we should not know each other, never would we have heard of each other. There is no System of Education which has bound nations together as Froebel's has done. He is right in naming his book The Education of Man, which you know so well by translation, because he appeals to all mankind which must be lifted up to a high standard of culture; he in particular appeals to womanhood by his mother book, since through mothers and their representatives he enters into the wants and claims of the young generations who must be raised to a high place of human dignity; he speaks to Childhood itself in all parts of the world, and he supplies it with the most natural means of developing their faculties and of satisfying their nature, thus we see he thinks of mankind in its various stages of life, and thus he could reach with his system the distant lands and unite the workers in spite of land and water. We recognize the spirit in it,—the methods may vary according to the different habits and degrees of civilization. We therefore find kinder

gartens in North and South America, in Europe, India, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and there we find ' not only tunes, words, gifts and occupations, but also the deeper idea: the child-the future man-must be lifted up from the earthly to the heavenly, from the sense impressions to spiritual enjoyments.

While our opportunities are more limited, you in the United States can take hold of many nationalities without difference of color and creed; you see in every child the future citizen who must be useful to the state. And while you carry on Froebel's work on a large scale, how gladly would I name all the workers between the Pacific and the Atlantic and from Canada to the West Indies, who have so gracefully recognized the smaller services rendered near the home of the originator where the source of the large stream may be traced.

Several times Froebel turned his thoughts to America. Even in the last winter of his life he wrote to his wife's brother about going there, but the answer did not reach him; it was wisely denied and arranged differently-his spirit traveled instead; there were pioneers for spreading his work, and many of you are inspired by those whose names are still honored by us. You see the spirit lives above circumstances, above time and distance, and that may give us hope that ultimately it will conquer over all kinds of difficulties. Let us go on working while we can, not lose hope and energy; let us train a generation of young workers who keep high the standard of true education.

Your college graduates will succeed

you.

May the pleasant intercourse between us be continued; the great distance is bridged over by your visits, letters, books, and now, since you have added another link by sending your speaking likenesses, you are nearer to many who ought to know you well.

In the name of my country people, especially of the German kindergartners, I thank you heartily, and personally I accept your generous gift as a token of spiritual friendship and kind feelings towards myself.

I am, dear friends,

Yours gratefully and sincerely,
ELEONORE HEERWART.

Of special significance to the kindergarten movement is the fact that for the first time a kindergarten department was included in the program of the American Institute of Instruction. Wholly unsolicited by kindergarten advocates, a two days' session was assigned to this new department by that body at its seventyfourth annual meeting, which was held at Bethlehem, N. H., from July 5 to July 8.

This recognition and generous share in the program this summer is due to one man, the president of the American Institute of Instruction, Charles A. Keyes, superintendent of schools in Hartford, Ct., who is a firm believer in kindergartens and is anxious to use all the influence at his command to gain for them recognition as an indispensable part of the public school system.

Very wisely Mr. Keyes appointed Miss Lucy Wheelock of Boston president of this new section, now made a

permanent department of the insti

tute.

No one has a more intelligent grasp of the subject and the kindergarten cause no wiser advocate than she.

With a view to gaining added public recognition of the fact that kindergartens are as well established as any department in education and worthy of as much consideration as any when it is necessary to economize, she had planned her program. The first session was devoted to the general subject: The Kindergarten of To-day, divided as follows:

Its Critics-Miss Nora Atwood of the Providence Normal School reviewed all articles and books which have been written in the way of suggestion and criticism during the past five years and attempted to show concisely what these criticisms have been, on what grounds they have been made, how they are being met by kindergartners and how they should be met. Its Practice Miss Rosemary

Baum, supervisor of kindergartens, Utica, N. Y., considered this topic from the standpoint of a practical kindergartner of wide experience.

Its Results-Miss Bertha McConkey, supervisor of primary schools, Springfield, Mass., discussed from the standpoint of a primary teacher, and Mrs. J. L. Hughes of Toronto, Can., from a mother's point of view. That the discussion might not be one-sided, several prominent educators from normal schools and great centers of educational interest in New England were asked to take part.

The second day's session was given up to an attempt to show that kindergartners are not wholly unprogressive, as is so often claimed by critics, and Special Features of Kindergarten Work was considered. One of the most common criticisms has been that the laws of hygiene have been transgressed, that children have been kept in cramped positions for too long periods, and that the benefit of outdoor work has been ignored.

That the criticisms are not altogether just was shown by Miss Mar

garet C. Laidlaw, supervisor of kindergartens, Hartford, Ct., whose paper on School Gardens appears in this number. Mrs. S. S. Harriman considered the value of Walks and Excursions, and Miss Florence Scott of the Fitchburg Normal told of the excursions which she personally conducted.

Music and art work received due attention. Dr. Colin F. Scott of the Boston Normal School, formerly of Chicago and for several years associated with Colonel Parker in the famous Cook County Normal School, gave a paper on After the Kindergar ten What? speaking of the kindergarten training in its relation to school, life, and general development from the standpoint of a psychologist.

In addition to the program there were pleasant social attractions. Miss Wheelock and Miss Marie Shedlock of London chaperoned a party at The Uplands and gave a tea there July 8 after the session, to which many were invited, and Miss Shedlock, who has been dubbed "The Modern Fairy Godmother," delighted all with her quaintness.

department of the public schools of Rutland, Vt., for several years, will take a position at Providence, R. I., this year.

Miss L. P. Mackenzie has resigned

garten at the Central school, Brantford, Ont.

Miss Helen Finch, a graduate of the Fort Worth (Tex.) Kindergarten College, will have charge of a kindergarten at Shawnee, Okla.

Miss Sarah B. Lean, who has been kindergartner for the past year in the Ashley street and Franklin street kindergartens, Westfield, Mass., has resigned her position to take up kindergarten and first grade work in Haverhill. Miss Katherine A. Hillier, who graduated from the kindergarten department at the Westfield Normal School this year, will take her position.

Miss Emily H. Viets, acting supervisor of kindergartens at Detroit, Mich., has been appointed as supervisor for the coming year.

Miss Florence Lawson has resigned her position in the normal school at Los Angeles, Cal.

Mrs. Fannie Burnell, after twenty years of service at the head of the Wheelock mission kindergarten, Milwaukee, Wis., of which she was the founder, has been forced to retire on account of failing health, and Miss Agnes Lhuersen has been appointed as her successor. Miss Lhuersen received her training at the Fourth street kindergarten and has been teaching at Thorpe, Wis.

Miss Gertrude Billings of Greenfield, Mass., is to take a position as kindergartner at Dedham.

The parish of St. James, West Somerville, Mass., has arranged for a kindergarten next year. There will be a tuition of five cents a day. Miss

Babcock will be in charge, assisted by Miss Stewart.

The trustees of the state normal school, Cedar Falls, Ia., have voted to open a kindergarten training department this fall. Henrietta Gunn, a member of the faculty of the state normal at Warrensburg, Mo., was chosen supervisor of the kindergarten.

Miss Eva McConkey, who has had wide experience as a kindergartner and training teacher at North Adams, has been appointed by Principal Marcus White of the Connecticut State Normal School at New Britain to succeed Miss Alice O'Grady as principal of the kindergarten department. Miss McConkey will begin her duties at the opening of the school year in the fall. She will bring her own assistant, Miss Ella Washburn of Rochester, N. H., who has been teaching in Dedham.

The managers of the Day Nursery of Brockton, Mass., announce that Miss Harriet Cooper is to have charge of the kindergarten work in the nursery the coming year, a work which has been made possible by the gift of $100 from the Young Matrons' Club of the Universalist church.

There will be no supervisor appointed at Muncie, Ind., this year. Miss Lillian Mitchell, who has been. in the Avondale school, will begin her duties in the Jackson in September, and will be assisted by Misses Nellie Perkins, Nellie McClung, and Edith Wilson. Miss Inez Koerner, recently graduated from the training school at Indianapolis, will have charge of the Avondale school and