BOOKS RECEIVED: PRIMARY GAMES TO TEACH PHONETICS. Beckley-Cardy Co. Anna Eliza Sample. CHARACTER BUILDING IN A DEMOCRACY. Walter Scott Ahearn. Macmillan Company. PICKWICK PAPERS. Charles Dickens. D. G. Crawford, editor. Macmillan's Pocket Classics. THE WAYS OF THE MIND. Henry Foster Adams. A simple and accurate treatment of a difficult subject, for people and classes. Charles Scribner's Sons. LONGMANS' ABBREVIATED FRENCH TEXTS. Junior: L'Histoire D'un Casse-Noisette (Dumas); La Petite Fadette (Sands); Zadig ou La Destinee (Voltaire); Le Lac De Gers et Le Col D'Anterne (Topffer). The first, Junior; the others, Middle. Longmans, Green & Co. UNIT COSTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Prepared by the American Council on Education (Washington, D. C.). Macmillan. THE KELPIES. By Etta Austin Blaisdell. Illustrated by Clara A. Fitts. School Edition. Little, Brown and Company. Very attractive "Reader" for those who have just begun to read. WE AND OUR HEALTH. Book III. E. George Payne. Illustrated by Mabel L. Jones. The American Viewpoint Society, Inc. THE FOUNDATION OF HEALTH. William B. Sharp, S.M., M.D., Ph.D. A manual of personal hygiene for students. Illustrated. Price $2.50. Lee & Febiger, Philadelphia. EFFECTIVE FRENCH FOR BEGINNERS. By James L. Barker. Charles Scribner's Sons. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PRESCHOOL CHILD. Baldwin and Stecher. Appleton and Co. EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISION. Charles E. Scott, A.M. Bruce Pub. Co. (Milwaukee). AN INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK OF CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION. Longmans, Green and Company. $2.50 net. PREHISTORIC MAN. By Mary E. Boyle. Illustrated. Little, Brown and Co. An excellent informational book for supplementary reading. STATISTICAL TABLES FOR STUDENTS IN EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY. The University of Chicago Press. Of interest to actual and would-be experts in Psychology and Mathematics. LA HERMANA SAN SULPICIO. By Armando Palacio Valdes; edited with Notes, Direct-Method Exercises and Vocabulary by John M. Pittaro. Price $1.00. It is a good story and it gives an interesting and vivid impression of Spanish life. From E. P. Dutton & Company: EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE IN THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL. Edited by Caroline Pratt; with a record of Group Seven by Lula Wright. $2.50. THE DECROLY CLASS. By Amelie Hamaide. An inspiring record of the results of the individual method of teaching and training. From The Dial Press: HOW TO SEE MODERN PICTURES. By Ralph M. Pearson. Illustrated. Price $2.50. From The University of the State of New York: TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, for year ending July 31, 1923. From The Catholic Education Press, Washington, D. C.: RELIGIOUS OUTLINES FOR COLLEGES. Course I. The Catholic Ideal of Life. By John M. Cooper, D.D. From The Oxford University Press: EURIPIDES, HECUBA. J. T. Sheppard, Litt.D. Introduction and Notes. Price 90 cents. From Harcourt, Brace and Company: SHORT STORIES. Edited by H. C. Schweikert. Upwards of 500 pages of choice stories by well known authors. For the English classes in high schools and colleges. From The American Viewpoint Society, Inc.: WE AND OUR HEALTH. Book 1. By E. George Payne, Ph.D. Illustrated by Mabel L. Jon. From Chester H. Sipe, A.B. (Pittsburgh, Pa.), and written by him. MOUNT VERNON AND THE WASHINGTONS. A handbook on the ancestry and family of Washington, and the history of his home. From The Bruce Publishing Company. PAPER CRAFT PROBLEMS. Miss S. E. E. Hammond. 228 pages. $2.35. Develops the foundation principles of book-binding, box-making, gift novelties, etc. Covers problems from the primary grades through the junior high school. Fully and admirably illustrated. From D. Appleton and Company. THE WORLD. Volume Three. By James Fairgrieve, M.A. and Ernest Young, B.Sc. Another attractive number of this series. It makes world history and experience vivid and interesting. It combines geographical and historical facts and experiences, and teaches the arts of silent reading and oral composition. Fully up to date and suggestively illustrated. The Manual Arts Press publishes THE BOY AND HIS VOCATION, by John Irving Sowers. $1.50. It is packed full of wholesome counsel and suggestion from cover to cover. It shows most convincingly the irreparable mistake that a boy makes in leaving school anywhere short of a High School course. From G. P. Putnam's Sons we have WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE. Each WHO is named in large, black-face type, making the book easy to use in searching for information about any Bible character. Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education VOL. XLVI. MARCH, 1926 No. 7 Program of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, December, 1925 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The fortieth annual meeting of the Association will be held in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston University, on Friday and Saturday, December 4th and 5th, 1925. Jacob Sleeper Hall is on Boylston Street, next to the Boston Public Library. On Friday evening at half after six, a dinner in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Association will be served at the Hotel Vendome. The Hotel Vendome is on Commonwealth Avenue, two blocks from Boston University. The guests of honor will be the past presidents of the Association. The fee for the dinner will be two dollars and a half. Reservations may be made by addressing the secretary. To insure a place, such word must be received not later than Thursday, December 3rd, and the sender must agree to be responsible. If the request is received not later than December 3rd and is accompanied by the remittance, the fee will be two dollars. In that case tickets will be mailed immediately or, if the time is not sufficient, they will be delivered Friday evening at the Hotel Vendome. Checks should be made payable to the secretary. Guests are invited. In all cases where the remitance is received later than December 3rd, the fee will be two dollars and a half. To insure the receipt of the remittance by mail, the postmark should be not later than December 1st. Proposals of new members should reach the secretary before the close of the first session. WALTER BALLOU JACOBS, Secretary, ERNEST GRANGER HAPGOOD, President. Brown University, Providence, R. I., PROGRAM FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 4. 3.00-Individualized Instruction. Elementary Schools: Charles L. Spain, Deputy Superintendent of Schools, Detroit, Mich. Secondary Schools: Alexander J. Stoddard, Superintendent of Schools, Bronxville, N. Y. Colleges: Herbert E. Hawkes, Dean Columbia College, New York City. Discussion. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4. FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY DINNER. 6.00-Dinner and Reception at the Hotel Vendome. Dress informal. Social half-hour, 6.00 to 6.30. The Guests of Honor will be all living Past-Presidents of the Association, nearly all of whom expect to be present: Charles E. Fay, 1886-1888; Charles W. Eliot, 1898-1900; William H. P. Faunce, 1908-1910; Ernest Carroll Moore, 1913-1914; Mary Emma Woolley, 1914-1915; Alfred Ernest Stearns, 1915-1916; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1916-1917; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, 1917-1918; Horace Dutton Taft, 19181919; Lemuel Herbert Murlin, 1919-1920; James Arthur Tufts, 1920-1921; George Daniel Olds, 1921-1922; Clement Collester Hyde, 1922-1923; Anna Jane McKeag, 1923-1924. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5. Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston University. BUSINESS MEETING. Friends of the Association and those interested in the topics discussed, are invited to be present. The session will begin promptly. 9.00-Business Meeting. 1. Report of Executive Committee and Election of New Members. 2. Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. 3. Reports of the Nominating Committee and Election of Officers. 4. Report of Delegates to College Entrance Examination Board. 9.30-Honors Courses in American Colleges. Frank Aydelotte, President Swarthmore College. 10.00-Report of the Joint Committee on College Entrance Requirements. Dean Otis E. Randall, Chairman. Discussion. Report of the Committee on Standards for Colleges. Discussion. COMMITTEE ON COLLEGE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS. (FOR THE COLLEGES) Dean Otis Everett Randall, Brown University (Chairman); Professor Robert N. Corwin, Yale University; Frances Louise Knapp, Secretary of the Board of Admission, Wellesley College; Dean Craven Laycock, Dartmouth College; President George Daniel Olds, Amherst College; Henry Pennypacker, Chairman of the Board of Admission, Harvard University; Dean Florence Purington, Mount Holyoke College. (FOR THE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS) Professor Jesse Buttrick Davis, Boston University (Chairman); Head Master John A. Avery, High School, Somerville, Mass.; Principal Francis Leonard Bacon, Newton High School, Newtonville, Mass.; Principal Howard Conant, High School, Holyoke, Mass.; Principal Hal Roscoe Eaton, High School, Manchester, N. H.; Principal Louis Palmer Slade, Public High School, New Britain, Conn.; Head Master James E. Thomas, Dorchester High School, Mass. COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS FOR COLLEGES. President Kenneth C. M. Sills, Bowdoin College (Chairman); Payson Smith, Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts; Dean Frank George Wren, Tufts College; Professor Arthur Herbert Wilde, Boston University; Headmaster Thornton Jenkins, High School, Malden, Mass. OFFICERS, 1924-1925. President-Ernest Granger Hapgood. Vice-Presidents-Ernest Martin Hopkins, William Colver Hill. Executive Committee (with the preceding)-Mabel Homer Cummings, Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, Albert Barrett Meredith, Hal Roscoe Eaton, Ada Louise Comstock. Delegates to the College Entrance Examination Board-Clement Collester Hyde, term expires 1925; Shirley Kendrick Kerns, term expires 1926; Florence Bigelow, term expires 1927; William Colver Hill, term expires 1928. PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE ASSOCIATION. Anna Jane McKeag, 1923-1924; Clement Collester Hyde, 1922-1923; George Daniel Olds, 1921-1922; James Arthur Tufts, 1920-1921; Lemuel Herbert Murlin, 1919-1920; Horace Dutton Taft, 1918-1919; Ellen Fitz |