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1416. Sneath, E. Hershey. Religious training in the school and home; a manual for teachers and parents; by E. Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, and Henry Hallam Tweedy. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. 341 p. 12°.

1417. Winchester, Benjamin S. Religious education and democracy. New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon press, 1917. 293 p. 12o.

1418. Yale, Caroline A. Religious instruction. American annals of the deaf, 62:344-52, September 1917.

The problem which confronts those who are responsible for the religious instruction of the deaf child.

MANUAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

1419. Bean, C. Homer. Psychological factors in vocational education. cational review, 54: 148-63, September 1917.

Edu

Says that vocational education, if successfully introduced, will test every subject of instruction, and will eradicate every item that does not readily align itself with the purpose of the new culture, with the great end of all real education, adaptation.

1420. Kreuzpointner, Paul. Corporation schools and their aims. American school board journal, 55: 30, 80, September 1917.

1421. Lange, Alexis F. New wine in new bottles. Manual training magazine, 19:9-12, September 1917.

Address presented at the Manual arts section of the California teachers' association.

The education of children for social efficiency by reshaping traditional arrangements to meet the new needs of vocational education.

1422. National society for the promotion of industrial education. War demands for industrial training. New York city, August 1917. 40 p. 8°. CONTENTS. The situation.-Responsibility of the industries for training needed workers. What some industrial plants are doing in emergency training.The contribution industrial schools can make for emergency training.-Industrial schools and the branches of military service.-What some industrial and technical schools are doing for emergency training.-Items of interest.

Presents conclusions developed at a conference of state administrators of industrial schools, labor representatives, and employers, held at Mechanics institute, New York, July 13-14, 1917.

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE.

1423. American association of public employment offices. Proceedings of the fourth annual meeting . . . Buffalo, N. Y., July 20 and 21, 1916. Washington, Government printing office, 1917. 92 p. 8°. (U. S. Bureau of labor statistics. Employment and unemployment series, no. 6.)

Contains: 1. A. E. Dodd: Vocational education and juvenile placement departments, p. 46-51. 2. W. W. Zurbrick: Vocational guidance as a public-school function, p. 52-55. 3. Rachel Gallagher: Vocational guidance and the juvenile placement work of a public labor exchange, p. 56-58. 4. G. D. Halsey: Cooperation between employers and the schools in vocational guidance, p. 59-66.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION, HOME ECONOMICS.

1424. Goddard, H. N. Results achieved in secondary agriculture and methods pursued in actual practice. Wisconsin journal of education,

49: 185-92, September 1917.

1425. Roger, Maurice. Les écoliers et la production agricole. Revue pédagogique, 70: 565-95, June 1917.

Gives the administration and results of the agricultural work of the French school children.

1426. Talbot, Anna Hedges. Red cross work in New York public schools.

Outlook, 117: 14, September 5, 1917.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.

1427. Burgess, Elizabeth. Conditions which will aid the instructor to render her best service. American journal of nursing, 17: 1182-87, September 1917.

Read at the twentieth annual convention of the American nurses' association, May 1, 1917.

The value of an instructor of nurses and the conditions that are conducive to the best service.

1428. Hicks, Frederick C. The teaching of legal bibliography. Educational review, 54: 164-76, September 1917.

Raises questions for discussion on the administration and problems of teaching legal bibliography.

1429. Morris, George M. Wentworth institute: its part in training army engineers. Manual training magazine. 19: 4-8, September 1917.

Describes the recent work of Wentworth institute, Boston, Mass., which affords an example of the adaptation of a trade school's resources to the needs of war in training men for engineering service in the army.

1430. Strong, Anne Hervey. Teaching problems of public health instructors. American journal of nursing, 17: 1188-92, September 1917.

Read at the twentieth annual convention of the American nurses' association, May 1, 1917.

1431. Suhrie, Ambrose L. Teaching in the hospital and the public health service. American journal of nursing, 17: 1176-82, September 1917.

Read at the twentieth annual convention of the American nurses' association, May 1, 1917.

How nurses may become more effective teachers in all public and private relations and how they may so master the principles of educational psychology and acquire the technique of good teaching as to increase their resourcefulness, etc.

CIVIC EDUCATION.

1432. Dawson, Edgar. A political generalization. History teacher's magazine, 8: 222-26, September 1917.

Suggests a method of treating the subject of organization of administration in an elementary course in government for college students.

1433. Lewis, Mabel R., comp. Practical training for public service: a bibliog raphy. Public servant, 2: 225-36, June-September 1917.

With

1434. Moore, Harry H. The youth and the nation; a guide to service. an introduction by Samuel McCune Lindsay. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. 179 p. illus.

12o.

"An attempt to arouse a wholesome interest among young men and older boys of college and high school age in modern social evils, to show them how men have combated these evils, and to suggest Vocational opportunities in the warfare against them."

1435. Robinson, Frederick B. The New York idea. School and society, 6: 218-21, August 25, 1917.

Read at the third annual conference, National university extension association, Pittsburgh, April 11, 1917.

The New York idea of training persons already in the public service through the cooperation of the city's college and the city's government.

1436. Wile, Ira S. Civics in the schools.

tember 15, 1917.

School and society, 6:311-16, Sep

Read May 28, 1917, at Conference on civics under auspices of the Civic club of New York.

SCHOOLS FOR MAIMED SOLDIERS.

1437. McMurtrie, Douglas C. The war cripple. New York, Division of intelligence and publicity of Columbia university, 1917. 28 p. 16". (Columbia war papers, series I, no. 17)

EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

1438. Women's intercollegiate association for student government. Proceedings of the conference . . . tenth annual meeting, Mount Holyoke college, November 17-18, 1916. 35 p. 8o.

Contains: 1. Quiet regulations.-2. Dormitory regulations.-3. Penalties.-4. Student representation on matters of curriculum.-5. Methods of raising funds.— 6. Publicity.-7. The honor system.-8. Social life.-9. Possibilities of future expansion of student government.

1439. Charter, Lena M. Science for girls. West Virginia school journal and educator, 46: 143-44, September 1917.

Inquiries into the particular aim of the science course for the high school girl. 1440. Dearborn, George V. N. College girls and marriage. School and society, 6: 143-44, August 4, 1917.

A reply to Roswell H. Johnson's remarks in School and society for June 9, 1917, on Prof. Laura E. Lockwood's article "College women as wives and mothers."

1441. Orne, Harriet. Should a college girl think? Independent, 91: 394-97, September 8, 1917.

The second article in "The gap between two generations."

1442. Tuttle, Margaretta. College and marriage. Good housekeeping, 65: 36-37, 141, 142, 145, 146, 149, 150, September 1917. Reasons for sending a girl to college.

NEGRO EDUCATION.

1443. Edwards, Thomas J.

Helping negro boys in Virginia. Southern work

man, 46: 490-99, September 1917. illus.

Excerpts from address delivered before the Virginia conference of charities and correction, Staunton, Va., 1917, on the work of the Negro reformatory at Broadneck farm, Hanover county, Va.

1444. Hemphill, J. C. Problems of negro education.

206: 436-45, September 1917.

North American review,

Discusses the report of Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones of the Bureau of education on negro education.

EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN.

1445. Convention of American instructors of the deaf. Papers at the twenty-first meeting, June 29-July 3, 1917. American annals of the deaf, 62: 275-364, September 1917.

of the deaf, p.

Contains: 1. A. L. E. Crouter: The training of teachers 293-304. 2. E. H. Currier: The why of the military, p. 305-7. 3. S. G. Davidson: Some observations on language methods, p. 308-20. 4. J. D. Wright: The partially deaf child, p. 321-29. 5. Hannah L. Mathews: Physical education for the deaf, p. 330-36. 6. C. R. Ely: Gallaudet college and vocational training, p. 337-43. 7. Martha E. Bruhn: The Müller-Walle method of lip-reading,

p. 353-64.

1446. Anderson, V. V. A comparative study of feeble-mindedness and pyschopathic personality among offenders in court. Boston medical journal, 177: 210-13, August 16, 1917.

Writer makes a comparison of feeble-mindedness and psychopathic personality under six main heads: 1. Grade reached in school; 2. Industrial efficiency.; 3. Number of arrests; 4. Probation; 5. Penal treatment; 6. Mentality.

1447. Burt, Cyril L. Educative convalescence. Child (London) 7:557-64, August 1917. illus.

Describes the work of the Heritage craft schools for cripples at Chailey, Sussex, England.

1448. Derrick, Calvin.

1917. illus.

Self-government. Survey, 38:473-79, September 1,

A successful experiment in self-government at the Ione reformatory, Ione, Cal., otherwise known as the Preston school of industry.

1449. Lane, Winthrop D. quency in war-time.

Fifth article of series.

Making the war safe for childhood. V.-Delin-
Survey, 38: 451-54, August 25,. 1917.

For earlier installments see Survey for August 4 and 11.

1450. Lundberg, Emma O. A social study of mental defectives in New Castle county, Delaware. Washington, Government printing office, 1917. 38p. 8°. (U. S. Children's bureau. Dependent, defective and delinquent classes series no. 3)

1451. McCready, E. Bosworth. Physical and mental variations in school children, or, Paedology and its relation to pedagogy. Education, 38: 1-13, September 1917.

1452. Taft, Jessie. Fortifying the child against mental disease. American education, 21:12-17, September 1917.

What the teacher can do to avert mental disaster in her pupils.

The oral method of education of the deaf. Volta

1453. Tillinghast, E. S.
review, 19: 457-62, September 1917.

Read at the Portland, Oreg., meeting of the National education association,
July, 1917.

1454. Wright, John D. The partially deaf child: a school problem. Volta review, 19: 449-52, September 1917.

Read at the twenty-first meeting of the Convention of American instructors of the deaf, Hartford, Conn., June 29 to July 4, 1917.

EDUCATION EXTENSION.

1455. Bogardus, Emory S. The night school and the adult immigrant, Western journal of education, 23: 2-3, August 1917.

A study of 140 representative adult immigrants in the night schools of the city of Los Angeles.

LIBRARIES AND READING.

New

12°.

1456. Bostwick, Arthur E. The American public library. New ed. York and London, D. Appleton and company, 1917. 396p. illus. 1457. Brown, Walter L. The changing public. School and society, 6:1-6, July 7, 1917.

Also in Library journal, 42: 587-91, August, 1917: in part in Public libraries, 22: 299-301, October 1917.

Presidential address before the American library association, Louisville, June 22, 1917.

The public library and its work.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION: RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

1458. Agricultural and mechanical colleges, 1915-16; by Benjamin F. Andrews. Washington, 1917. 47p. (Circular)

1459. Bibliography of school lunches; comp. by Lucy Condell.

1917. 25p. (Circular)

Washington,

1460. The Conference on training for foreign service called by the Commissioner of education of the United States and held in the city of Washington, December 31, 1915. By Glen Levin Swiggett. Washington, 1917. 67p. (Bulletin, 1917, no. 37)

1461. Current practice in city school administration; by W. S. Deffenbaugh. Washington, 1917. 98p. (Bulletin, 1917, no. 8)

1462. Demand for vocational education in the countries at war; by Anna Tolman Smith. Washington, 1917. 16p. (Bulletin, 1917, no. 36)

1463. Higher technical education in foreign countries. Standards and scope. Prepared by Anna Tolman Smith and W. S. Jesien. Washington, 1917. 121p. plates. (Bulletin, 1917, no. 11)

1464. History of public school education in Delaware; by Stephen B. Weeks. Washington, 1917. 181p. (Bulletin, 1917, no. 18)

1465. Home economics teaching under present economic conditions. Washington, 1917. 11p. (Circular, September 5, 1917)

1466. Lessons in community and national life. Washington, 1917. 3 pamphlets. (Community leaflet, nos. 1-3)

No. 1. Section A-Designed for use in the upper classes of the high school. Lesson A-1. Some fundamental aspects of social organization. 32p.

No. 2. Section B-Designed for use in the upper grades of elementary schools and the first year of the high school. Lesson B-1. The effect of war on commerce in nitrate. 32p.

No. 3. Section C-Designed for use in the intermediate grades. Lesson C-1. The war and aeroplanes. 32p.

1467. Medical inspection of schools in Great Britain; by E. L. Roberts. Washington, 1917. 69p. illus. (Bulletin, 1916, no. 49)

1468. Opportunities for history teachers. The lessons of the great war in the classroom. By the National board for historical service. Washington, 1917. 22p. (Teachers' leaflet no. 1)

1469. Organizing kindergartens in city school systems. Washington, 1917. 5p. (Kindergarten education circular, 1917, no. 2)

1470. School extension statistics; by Clarence Arthur Perry. Washington, 1917. 30p. (Bulletin, 1917, no. 30)

Wash

1471. The work of American colleges and universities during the war. Contribution of higher institutions to the war and to reconstruction. ington, 1917. 6p. (Circular no. 4, August 30, 1917)

1472. The work of American colleges and universities during the war.

Report

of a joint conference of the education section of the Committee on engineering and education of the advisory commission of the Council of national defense and a Commission representing the universities of Canada, held at Washington, July 3 and 4, 1917. Washington, 1917. 6p. (Higher education circular, 1917, no. 3)

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