A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO The Science, Art, Philosophy and FRANK HERBERT PALMER, Editor VOLUME XXXI SEPTEMBER, 1910-JUNE, 1911 BOSTON THE PALMER COMPANY 120 BOYLSTON STREET 1911 CONTENTS. 249 472 Art, History of as a College Discipline. T. Lindsey Blayney Biology, High School Course in. Arthur S. Dewing 63, 136, 206, 267, 349, 415, 490, 562, 634, 701 Business, College Training for. John M. Lathrop College Preparation; The College View. Alexander Meiklejohn College Stagecraft. Frank R. Arnold College Students, Self Help among. Clayton H. Ranck Conversational Method, The. Will Grant Chambers Correspondence Schools. Frank Herbert Palmer Curriculum, A Secondary School. B. F. Harding Elementary School Ideals. Katharine Woodward Huston English, Differentiation of the High School Course in. President English Essential Principles. Charles Swain Thomas 536 884 131 32 French Literary Anniversaries of 1911. Geography, Where lay the Emphasis in 519 108 423 High School Course in Biology. Arthur S. Dewing High Schools, Natural Science in. Frank P. Whitney 674 High School Students' Organizations. David E. Cloyd 17 High School Teachers, Certification of. David Snedden 335 370 Home and School. Superintendent J. M. Greenwood 170, 238, 390 Hygiene, School, Physiological Aspects of. George V. N. Dearborn Interest, Some Suggestions Concerning. Frank D. Blodgett Japanese Secondary Education. Sekiji Nishiyama Lengthening Days, The. (Poem) Julia H. May Literary Excellence, the Standard of. Manual Training, Course of Study in. Moral Training of Private-School Boys. National Education Association Notes Negroes, A great National Resource. Frank P. Chisholm Ode, An. (Poem) William A. McKeever Oral Composition. Emma M. Bolenius Private-School Boys, Moral Training of. Public Speaking. Oliver Van Wagnen Religious Freedom of the Schools. Mary H. Leonard Student Organizations in City High Schools. David E. Cloyd Sunday School Curriculum. William C. Ruediger Teacher's Attitude toward his Profession. Edwin C. Browne Teacher, Higher Recognition for the. Walter E. Ranger Teaching, Choosing it as a Profession. W. H. P. Faunce Thread, the Rotten. (Poem) Helen Cary Chadwick Vocational Training for Girls. Idabelle McGlauflin Vocational Training in Elementary Schools. Gustaf Larsson Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education VOL. XXXI SEPTEMBER, 1910 No. I Instruction of Exceptional Children in the New York City Public Schools ANDREW W. EDSON, ASSOCIATE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS I N all probability the most striking phase of modern education is the effort to educate and train children who are a little out of step with the masses. The problems to be worked out in the administration of the public school system in every large city are especially perplexing in New York City, owing to the rapidity of growth of the city, the congestion of population in certain quarters, and the many nationalities to be educated. In considering these problems, certain facts have had to be accepted and certain principles of action adopted. Among them are the following: education is the right of every childthe physically and mentally handicapped, the truant and delinquent, as well as the normal child; the state is under obligations to provide an education for all; special efforts should be directed toward making exceptional children happy, selfrespecting, and self-supporting; the cost of education is a productive expenditure of money rather than a charity; and it is economical as well as humanitarian to protect the helpless from want, the irresponsible from ignorance and vice, the family from an unusual burden, and the state from an increase of the helpless and criminal classes. The main reason for establishing classes in the public |