52. Why is this guidance less marked at the present day than formerly? 53. In what special lines has the current of modern thought influenced theological education? 54. What notable interest has the general public in the extent and thoroughness of legal education? 55. What line of progress is at present most noticeable in regard to preparation for the profession of law? 56. In what respect has the medical profession allowed itself to take the lowest rank educationally? 57. How does technological education differ from and in what particulars does it resemble professional edution? 58. What was the distinctive nature of the earliest industrial schools organized in this country? 59. What has been the greatest advance made within the last quarter of a century in the nature of this class of schools? 60. What are the two opposing views as to the proper purpose of manual training schools? 61. What relation should the public schools bear to the several classes of professional and technological schools? Pages 243 to 272. 62. In what manner is education preventive of crime? 63. Aside from the charitable view, what is the economic argument for the care and education of the mentally unfortunate classes? 64. Through whose efforts and from what beginning was the first institution in America for the instruction of deaf-mutes founded? 65. What are the two characteristic methods of deaf-mute instruction in speaking and reading? 66. By whom was the instruction of the blind introduced into the United States? 67. What do you know of Dr. Howe's efforts and success in the case of Laura Bridgman ? 68. How much is being done in this country for the instruction of feeble-minded children? 69. What three distinct lines of training are essential in the reformatory schools? 70. What have been the chief steps of progress in providing for education among the Indians? 71. What classes of private schools seem necessary in relation with the public schools? 72. What marked difference between the Catholic Church and the other denominations in the matter of denominational schools? 73. What is the argument for evening schools, and what classes of evening schools should be maintained? Pages 272 to 307. 74. What chief causes have led to the establishment in recent years of museums of art and science? 75. What educational ends do such museums serve in their relation to the general public? museum 76. To what extent or in what manner may 77. In what does the educational value of organized clubs or societies lie? 78. When and whence came the idea in this country of the organized reading circle? 79. What was the immediate purpose of the first reading circle organized in this country? 80. What are the characteristics of the Chautauqua organization? 81. How have the professional needs of teachers in these respects been provided for? 82. What service have the various learned societies rendered in the advance of general education? 83. How may the work of our schools be adjusted to the opportunities for later study supplied by the pubic libraries? Pages 307 to 325. 84. Upon what principle would you base an argument for national aid to the State public-school systems? 85. What special educational demands has the General Government been called to meet? 86. What names have been most prominently associated with the successive steps in the establishment of the National Bureau of Education? 87. What are the two chief functions of the Bureau of Education? 88. Would you deem it desirable that any supervisory authority over the State systems should be possessed by the National Bureau ? 89. What remarkable fact is connected with the fund for establishing the Smithsonian Institution? 90. What were the plans most prominently urged for using the Smithson bequest? 91. What is the present chief function of the Smithsonian Institution? 92. How has the United States Coast Survey work been productive of general scientific progress? 93. Under what Government organizations have the advances in our geographical and geological knowledge been chiefly made? 94. For what chief purpose was the bureau, now the Department of Agriculture, organized? 95. Besides those of the National Bureau of Education, what publications of the national Government are of highest general educational value? Pages 326 to 385. 96. By what right may the State justly require the attendance upon schools of those who are of school age? 97. What have been the chief obstacles to the due enforcement of compulsory attendance laws? 98. What has been the general order of development of the system of gradation in public schools? 99. To what extent should the kindergarten be adopted as a part of the public-school system? 100. Upon what grounds is the public high school justly supported by general taxation ? 101. Should the course of study of the public high school be organized essentially as completing a public school course, or as preparatory to the higher course of college education? 102. How does the public provision for education in the Southern States now compare with that of two dec ades ago? 103. What has been the specific work accomplished by each of the four women whose names are most prominently identified with the early provisions for the higher education of women in the United States? 104. How does women's work in the colleges now compare with that of men? 105. From your study of this work upon the history of education in the United States, what do you con sider the line of our greatest progress? INDEX. Abbott, Benjamin, 72. Academia Virginiensis et Oxonien- Academic studies in normal schools, 136. Academies, endowment of, 72; in Adams, C. K., in Michigan Univer- Agassiz, Mrs. Elizabeth, President Alaska, education in, 262. American Association for the Ad- logical Society, 256; Geographical Ante-war period in the South, 348. Army Medical Museum, 273. Artillery school at Fortress Monroe, 239. Art, museums of, 272; normal Associates of Cooper Union, 290. Bache, Prof. A. D., Superintendent |