A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO The Science, Art, Philosophy and FRANK HERBERT PALMER, A. M., Editor VOLUME XLVI BOSTON THE PALMER COMPANY 120 BOYLSTON STREET 1926 CONTENTS Agassiz and the Poets. H. G. Good . Algebra in the Junior High Schools. John J. Birch American Diplomatic History, Place of in the Curriculum. Louis 170 American Notes-Editorial 55, 122, 188, 255, 319, 380, 439, 508; 568, 632 Babbitt Junior and the Small College. H. Guest Business and the English Teacher. J. Milner Dorey 58, 126, 193, 259, 323, 384, 484, 514, 573, 637 Chemistry Laboratory, and Scientific Thinking. W. G. Bowers Current Events, Vitalizing Instruction in. R. S. Kimball English Grammar and Foreign Language Failures. Ernest R. Caverly 612 Extra-Curricular Activities, Social Basis of. A. E. Holch. Greek Life, Our Knowledge of. Lewis F. Anderson High School Counselor, The. Impressions of. Elsie J. Grover History Teaching and Personality. Samuel M. Levin Idealism and Pragmatism in Education. Emma L. Antz Ideas, Putting Them into the Pupils' Heads. Margaret Schlauch. Law Observance, Study of in Secondary Schools. R. F. Nyman Literature, Why, then, Teach it? Carl J. Weber. Luther, Martin. Evolution of as a Reformer. William R. Lingo. Macbeth, Religious Implications of. Rev. J. H. Benner. Mathematics in Pre-Vocational Schools. Olive Nolan Modern Ideas, Origin of. Charles H. Douglas. Money, Why not Teach the Value of? J. E. Bullard Moral Teaching, Shall it be Camouflaged? Harold Saxe Tuttle . New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools: Fortieth Annual Meeting of. Discussions of following subjects: Individualization of Instructions in Elementary Schools, by Charles L. Spain, Deputy Superintendent of Schools, Detroit Ditto in Secondary Schools. Alexander J. Stoddard, Superin- tendent of Schools, Bronxville, N. Y. . Ditto in Colleges. Dean Herbert E. Hawkes. Columbia College, Special Honor System in Smith College. Eleanor S. Duckett Report on College Entrance Requirements. Dean Otis Randall . Peace, Teaching it in the Schools. Ralph B. Guinness Personality and History Teaching. Samuel L. Levin . University, A Modern, Thoughts about. John L. Patterson Vacation, Effect of on Mental Ability of Children. Mildred V. W. EDUCATION Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature Teaching Them to be Lawless STEPHEN G. RICH, ESSEX FELLS, NEW JERSEY. No. I THESE OR the past thirty years the changes that have been going on in our American public schools F have been so continual and so greatly involved with the changes in the civilization that they serve, that it has seemed the part of the most reactionary sort of Toryism to find fault with the new tendencies. Until within the period since the World War, there were so few adults who had been educated in the schools of the newer sort that any judgment as to their qualities and as to the character of the schools that produced them was bound to be prematurenot to say misleading. Now, on the contrary, we have a population numbering millions, including not only young men and young women, but those approaching and even already entered into middle age, that show the effects of modern schooling. It is possible and useful to examine these people and the schools that turned them out, in order to appraise fairly justly the methods and the results of modern education. In 1924 attention was drawn to the possible failures in modern education by the crime of Loeb and Leopold in Chicago. In the public mind, the blame for this crime did not fall upon our educational system as a whole, nor on the ele |