PROBLEMS, PROJECTS AND EXPERIMENTS IN BIOLOGY. 55 illustrations. 12mo, viii+106 pages. Cloth, 96 cents. By William H. Atwood, M.A., M.S., Milwaukee State Normal School. Published by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1912 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. An admirable little treatise, alluring the expert or the novice to make experiments with the subject, and showing him what should happen. The arrangement of the topics is excellent and the black-face type used by the printers in the initial words of each paragraph enable the reader to find what he wants and to get the gist of the matter and remember it. There are attractive illustrations throughout. THE COMMUNITY AND ITS HIGH SCHOOL. By Paul E. Belting, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Secondary Education, University of Illinois. D. C. Heath & Co. We wish that a copy of this book could be placed in the hands of every town official in every community of the land. The information and suggestions which it conveys, if read generally by parents and citizens, would greatly change the public sentiment and financial attitude of the people toward the school situation as it is in most towns and in many cities. The title of the book is that of its first chapter. Other chapters consider such subjects as the following: The School Board, its Chairman, the High School Principal and Teacher, the Dean of Girls, the Means of Improving the Educational and Professional Positions of High School Teachers now in Service, High School Discipline, Extra-curricular Activities, Morality as a Purpose of Secondary Education, etc., etc. This is a book that every community needs. The interests at stake are incalculable. HOW TO TEACH PHYSICS. By Rogers D. Rusk, Professor of Physics at Northwestern College. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. This volume belongs in the Lippincott's School Project Series. The author has defined the place of Physics in modern education and suggested many excellent common projects that can be worked out by students of the subject. The volume is one that High School students will find at once scientific and interesting. Experiments are suggested in electricity, light, sound, heat, energy. The chapter on the meaning of Physics studies the external world, the ether, the meaning of law, cause and effect. A chapter is devoted to apparatus and equipment. The student is given something to do as well as to study. POPULATION PROBLEMS. By Edward Byron Reuter, Ph.D., Associte Professor of Sociology in the University of Iowa. J. B. Lippincott Company. Various aspects of this most important matter are taken up and discussed in a masterly manner in this volume. It is pointed out that sparsely settled localities give us serious problems,-as great, in point of fact, as overcrowded regions or densely populated cities with their tenements and liability to the attacks of infectious diseases. Immigration, sex relationships, industrial relations, status of women, etc., are suggestively treated. The volume is full of information and practical instruction that will be of value to any one, especially to those at the head of affairs in our centers of trade and population. OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS. By Richard T. Ely, Thomas S. Adams, Max O. Lorenz and Allyn A. Young. The Macmillan Company. Fourth revised edition. The subject treated in this book develops so rapidly that new editions are periodically necessary. This particular text and reference book was given such a wide approval and adopted so generally that it is necessarily kept up to date by the publishers. It well deserves its place at the front, among text books on Economics. The World War and other historic happenings have created new economic conditions. The study of business cycles has become a science. In no sphere of human thought and activity have greater changes and more substantial progress taken place than in the sphere of economics. Federal and State taxes have made knowledge on this subject a necessity to every one. No book can be found that is better adapted to meet these needs, both theoretical and practical, than this one. And no young man or young women can be considered well educated without some careful study and instruction such as this book makes possible. THE VOICE OF CARLYLE. With an Introduction by Allen Rogers Benham. Editorial Notes by Henry Greenleaf Pearson. The Atlantic Monthly Publishing Company. This is another number of the "Atlantic Classics" series. It is well up to the high standard of this series and makes it possible for students and busy people of all ages to get a real "taste" of Carlyle without too great and laborious expenditure of effort. Many will find it a whetter of appetite and will go on with this thoughtful, original and stimulating thinker as he has expressed himself in his many published works. Vol. XLIV APRIL, 1924 1924 No. 8 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE OF EDUCATION The Social Status of the Schools of Calumet and Portage Townships. 457 Spelling. Josephine Weatherly. . 480 The Winged Victory (Poem). Mattie Wilma Stubbs. 485 Psychological Tests and Academic Salvage. Frank Herbert Palmer . 486 Idealists (Poem). Stokely S. Fisher. 490 Case Study of Ethical Standards for Public Schools. Walter Scott McNutt. 491 509 A National Summer School in the Heart of the Rocky Mountains. 512 To the Bluebird (Poem). Evelyn Flebbe. 515 Book Reviews. 517 BOSTON Published by THE PALMER COMPANY, 120 Boylston Street LONDON E. C.: WM. DAWSON & SONS. Ltd.. CANNON HOUSE, BREAMS BUILDINGS Price 40 Cents $4.00 a Year An appreciation of a great educator by a great novelist THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER Being the PLAIN ACCOUnt of the Life and BY H. G. WELLS Author of "JOan and Peter." The story of an Education, etc. F. W. Sanderson was an English schoolmaster who took a boys' school at Oundle at its lowest stage of mental dry rot and made it a force for social progress. . . . The boys at Oundle were still taught by eighteenth century classical methods when Sanderson came-the advances of science were frowned upon, the teachers knew nothing about boys or pedagogy. Sanderson came, a man full of vigor and new ideas, confronting an old-established school, an arrogant body of students, a hostile faculty and cold, hard town. He began to build on the idea of co-operation instead of competition, and tried to give his boys a feeling for social responsibility. It was hard, uphill work, but Sanderson was a man who labored mightily."-Chicago Daily News. The project method, as it is called in America, was a fundamental principle at Oundle. Here this is not a new ideal; our foremost leaders in education are preaching and teaching it constantly. But against a conservative English background, Sanderson's ideals stood out in startling relief. His exposition of his principles in this book and Mr. Wells' interpretation of them make a fresh, interesting, illuminating contribution to educational literature. Price, $1.50 THE MACMILLAN COMPANY New York Boston Chicago Atlanta Dallas San Francisco DUGATION Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education VOL. XLIV. APRIL, 1924 No. 8 The Social Status of the Schools of Calumet and Portage Townships PRINCIPAL ALBERT RENWICK, HUDSON, MICH. I. Introductory Remarks IRST of all-what do I mean by the designation social status? It would be a folly to attempt to F make any exact social evaluation of the school systems at this time, if such a thing can ever be done. Certain it is that I do not pretend to place Calumet and Portage Townships on a social scale of my own or anybody else's making. All that I pretend to do is to determine if the schools of Calumet and Portage Townships are keeping step with the present social trend of progressive school systems elsewhere. In how far, or in what instances, have the Calument and Portage systems recognized the changing spirit of the time? I do not overlook the fact that communities must look before they leap. They cannot blindly follow the leader (if they are communities accustomed to doing a little thinking on their own hook), and inaugurate changes in a will I, nill I, manner. No two communities are alike, and changes suited to one would quite likely not be suited to the other at |