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SCHOOL AND COLLEGE NEWS.
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IDEAS.
TALK BY MEYER BLOOMFIELD,
Director of Boston Bureau—Many
School Mew Hear AddrrM On the
Need of Proper Trnininß of Boya.
Meyer Bloomfield, director of the oca*
tk-ual bureau of Boston, addressed the
Headmasters' club at its regular meeting
at Cooley’s hotel in this city Saturday on
vocational training and the work which
the vocational bureau is doing throughout
the state to advance it. The address was
one of the most important given before
the club of late and a large number of the
principals of schools throughout the west
ern part of the state were present. Nearly
HO members of the club attended, beside
a large number of the members of the
Grammar masters' club of the Connecti
cut valley, members of the Connecticut
Valley Bound Table of school superin
tendents and other invited guests. The
members of the club and invited guests
had dinner at 12.30. after which there was
a short business session at which routine
business only was transacted. William C.
Hill, principal of the central high school,
and secretary of the Headmasters' club,
presided at the meeting and introduced
the speaker.
The subject of Mr Bloomfield's address
was “Vocational guidance.'* He told at
length the need of vocational training in
the schools and described in detail the
purposes of the vocational bureau. The
subject was of great interest to the large
number who heard him. and especially so
because it will be taken up for future
discussion by the members of the club.
Following the address, an open discussion
of the subject was held in which almost
every member present joined. The discus
sion mainly related to facts brought out
by Mr Bloomfield in his account of the
work of the vocational bureau and va
rious methods of vocational work.
Mr Bloomfield's Address.
In opening his address the speaker em
phasized the necessity of training the
boy along vocational lines. He urged a
better understanding of conditions which
surround the average boy at home and the
advisability of training the boy along
lines which would make his years at school
as profitable as possible. He said in part:
The widespread interest in the subject
of bridging the transition from school to
work by means of organized education
al and vocational information, indi
cates a dissatisfaction with the existing
situation. At the time of life when most
in need of experienced guidance a vast
number of boys and girls leave our schools
and take the plunge into working life.
'lbero are kindly teachers, of course,
■whose counsel has helped to careers of
service und honor: there are homes which
still shape the lives of their children and
guide their steps into the paths of service
and success.
But no one who knows how arduous are
the professional duties of the teacher, the
difficulties and the struggles of the bread
winners in our cosmopolitan centers of
population, and the technical complexities
of modern business and manufacture, with
their specializations and subdivisions, can
believe that the ehanee advice and help
that may be given by a kindly parent,
teacher or busy man of affairs, is adequate
to the problem as we now see it.
Conncqaencefl of Failure.
What arc the consequences of our fail
ure to provide the needed service at the
transition period? Tens of thousands leave
school as soon as the working papers are
granted by the authorities: they drop out.
not because they need tn; they hunt a job
that pays the most, not one they are fit
for. nor will prepare for. These children
don't know if they are getting the work
they want to do. they are not on the way
to their life career. They are gambling
in their own future. The employer does
not get the kind of boy who can serve him
best, who will stay, who will care. The
complaint is a familiar one. The parents
do not know what is happening to their
children, nor where they will come out
two or three years heme. They don't tell
their boys what they should he: the boys
tell them, if the parent is so fortunate as
to enjoy that much of their confidence.
What attracts these boys to the job?
All kinds of reasons—except the one vital
one—that in this particular work is the
promise of their best future development
and success. A want "ad." the suggestion
of a comrade, or a street acquaintance,
and popular rumor.
Now. those who study the field of em
ployment know that the occupations which
ate most developing for a young person
often pay beginners, if anything, a frac
tion of the wages which do those that
hold out liffle or no future at all. We
know, too. that many parents would sac
rifice even more than they do could they
he shown that more schooling, more train
ing or more patience will give the boys a
better start in life. This information is
not common property. The result is that
thousands begin a restless career of ad
venture from job to job. and at IS or 20.
when the responsibilities of manhood
should begin, they are out upon the streets
discouraged, unfit and unemployed.
Will anyone question that this army of
idle tint! undeveloped youngsters is the
logical feeder of that other army daily
before the courts—young men from 18 to
2.5, arrested for felonies of various kinds?
This state of affairs represents sheer eco
nomic loss, and because largely preventa
ble is a social crime.
Vocational Guidance.
Now. the friends of vocational guidance
are seeking to organize the service so
much needed by the parents, teachers,
young people and the business man. Some
foolish and some other untenable notions
have been imagined with reference to what
vocational guidance proposes to do. Be
cause the very idea of such guidance is
attractive in itself, because it so easily
appeals to the most responsive elements in
human nature, and because it must, in the
nature of things, lend itself to the’wiles
of the unworthy and ill-equipped, we have
endeavored to hold fast to the dictates of
common sense and hard realities.
In the first place we do not believe that
it is the business of any person to tell an
other what he should be—to make a voca
tional decision for another, least of all
foj an'immature youngster. What we do
believe is that we cun reduce the present
waste by knowing tie facts and by bring
ing those facts home simply, clearly, judi
cially and effectively to those in whose
hands decision lies—the parents ami the
children. We further believe that the col
lecting. analyzing and diffusing this voca
tional information is of so special and
difficult a nature that special qualifications
ure needed in the person dealing with it
and who should be backed by a proper or
ganization representing the varied interests
of the community. -
The public school is the logical starting
point for the work of vocational guidance.
Here the child is under daily observation,
and the problems of the family make them
selves known in countless ways. < fur
pioposition is that just as we have added
to the school service the nurse, physician,
play supervisor ami other agencies of en
lightened modern demand, we need to sup
plement the teacher's insights in the char
acter and attainments of her pupils by the
practical eo-operation of a vocational coun
selor in touch with the demands, the con
ditions and the opportunities of the world
•if work, in touch with the intimate de
tails of the families in a particular school
neghborhood, and working hand in hand
with the teacher, parent and later with
the employer in investing to the utmost the
boy’s training and possibilities.
The Boston Vocation Burean.
Mr Bloomfield then described the Bos
ton vocation bureau which was organize I
three years ago. In the first year it
formulated its principles. It was estab
lished at the civic service house and soon
added centers of work at the women’s
educational union and the Boston Young
Men's Christian association. Throughout
this formative period the. work of the
bureau was personal, dealing with boys
and girls and young men and women, with
sound advice and help toward choosing
the right occupation tn life. Its watch
ward has been "Find thyself.” The main
activities .of the bureau may be grouped
under these headings: Office conference and
a’dvising. research and publication de
partment. co-operation with the Boston
school system, the training course for
counselors, affiliation with the Boston
home and school association, the wom
en's municipal league and the girls’ trade
education league, the Harvard summer
school course. A vocational reference
library and education information.
The’ original purpose of the work has
been in advising the many individuals who
have come to the bureau for consultation.
Sometimes it has been teachers interested
in the future welfare of their pupils,
sometimes civic workers who have met
cases of great need for counsel in direct
ing life’s energies; again it has been
parents seeking expert advice for their
children as they leave school: most often
lias it been boys and young men. and
young women, too. who have come ask
ing for information upon occupations and
help to seo their way to choose wisely
at the outset. Placement has beet? sec
ondary or incidental, resulting in a con
siderable number of cases front the
bureau’s acquaintance with the field of oc
cupations.
By vote of the school board the bureau
entered into definite relationship with the
Boston school system, and a school voca
tional committee of six masters was
established. A system of vocational record
cards was established for elementary
schools and for high schools. This sys
tem showed the parents' plan for the
pupil, the especial ability of the pupil
in some line, bis physique and finally his
own plan in life, whether to enter a
trade, profession or business. Teaching
thus became more personal, and con
sequently more helpful, from the voca
tional standpoint, to the individual boy
or giirl.
The Boston vocation bureau has become
a central bureau of information upon all
vocational opportunities, and the first
large constructive step of the bureau was
taken by the establishment in the Boston
school system of the course for counselors.
One hundred and seventeen vocational
counselors were officially appointed from
the public school teachers, one or two in a
school, to become trained advisers of chil
dren in that school. Teachers from neigh
boring towns and cities, and civic and so
cial workers, joined this group. Addresses
were given upon various occupations for
beys and girls by superintendents of fac
tories, shops and ‘stores, and by teachers,
economists or others of expert knowledge
in various fields.
Briefly, in summary: The vocational bu
reau is advising with the people who come
to its offices for consultation as to voca
tions. choice nnd educational training: in
co-operation with the Boston school author
ities it has established the peculiarly im
portant'training course for counselors, and
has led the way for a .large vocational
movement in the schools themselves: by
affiliation it has found strong allies in
thred organizations well fitted to deal with
special features of the great, general prob
lem; if has conducted a vocational train
ing course in a great university; it is
conducting an investigation of ownpa
tions open to boys and young men: its vo
cational books are consulted by educators
and laymen; in its offices has been gath
ered a store of information from the world
of industry, commerce and the professions:
its help is extending in city, state and na
tion.
ALPHA DELTA PHI CONVENTION.
Big Greek Letter Fraternity to Have
Session* Here and at Amherst This
Week.
Alpha Delta Phi is one of the oldest and
most powerful of all college Greek letter
fraternities in the United States, and its
national convention this week which is to be
held in Springfield and Amherst on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this
week, will bring together a noteworthy
gathering of men. The fraternity was
founded at Hamilton college in Clinton,
N. Y.. in 1832, and the convention which
is to be hold here is the 80th annual con
vention of the members. It is to be held
with the Amherst chapter, which was the
fourth chapter of the fraternity to be
foundel iu the country, and commemorates
the 75th anniversary of tbe founding of
that chapter in 1837. The larger part of
the convention activities will be held in
this city, as the large gathering of dele
gates can be better av ommodated here,
and the Hotel Kimball will be the center
point for the convention and its guests.
The men in charge of the committee on
convention arrangements are Collin Arm
strong. Amherst. ’77. chairman of the
alumni committee, and Benjamin Rath
bun. Amherst, 1912, chairman of the un
dergraduate committee. Three delegates
from each of the 2.5 chapters will attend,
and elaborate preparations for the enter
tainment of these and others of the fra
ternity’s present enrolment of 10.090 ac
tive and graduate members, have been
made.
The program for the convention will
culminate with the banquet at the Hotel
Kimball on Friday night. Benjamin Ide
Wheeler, president of the fraternity and
president of California university, will act
as toastmaster, and President Harris, '66,
an alumnus of the Amherst chapter and
the newly-resigned president of the college,
will lie the first speaker. Following him
Rev Dr George Sayles Bishop, 'SB, of
East Orange, N. J., will read a poem com
posed for this occasion, “The Message of
the Hour" —“Spes Magna Affiilsit." Dr
Bishop is an eloquent figure in the fra
ternity, and is famous for his powerful
Greek song, "Kaire, Alpha Delta Phi,”
still used as the invocation of the frater
nity.
Rushßhees. president of Rochester uni
versity, will discuss “Tlie function of the
fraternity in contemporary college life.”
President Rhees is a prominent speaker
in Rochester, both in the college and in
the political life of the city, and is espe
cially known to Amherst men because of
Laving been favorably urged as next pres
ident of the college. He will be followed
by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge. 'B9, pro
fessor of philosophy at Columbia univer
sity. who will speak on “Seventy-five years
of Alpha Delta Phi in Amherst.” Charles
X. Whitman. '9O, district attorney of New
York city, will le the final speaker, and
will take for his subjet. "The civic re
sponsibility of Alpha Delta Phi.”
OBERLIN COLLEGE.
According to custom, the spring trip of
the college glee club will be taken in the
East this year. During the Christmas
vacation the club traveled over 3900 miles
through the West. On this trip the club
will give concerts in Pennsylvania. New
York and Massachusetts. In Pittsburg
the concert will be given under the aus
pices of the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation. .
Secretary George M. Jones is issuing
the college catalog in an edition of 7500
copies. He announces a change in the
policy of previous years in that for the
year 1911-12, but one edition of the entire
catalog will be printed. Formerly two
editions were issued, one in the early part
of the winter and one in the summer, in
place of the second edition there will be
printed in June, a short bulletin, including
new courses and announcements of special
interest, regarding the opening of the year
in September,
THE SPRING FIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1912.
SMITH COLLEGE BASXET3AII,
SENIORS win from juniors.
Exciting Contest With the Usual Ac
company:^ exit of SongJ and Fun—
The College Team Announced.
The long anticipated annual basketball
game between the juniors and the seniors
at Smith college last week Wednes
day resulted in a score of 29
to 14 iu favor of the seniors.
As early as 2 o’clock the lines began to
form. The students and guests holding
"let-in-early” tickets entered by the
Green-street door of the "gym.” the even
classes by the door nearest Dickinson
house, and the odd classes by * the door
nearest the library. In accordance with
the usual custom the west side of the
gymnasium was reserved for the odd
classes, the east side for the evens. The
1913 decorations were of green and yel
low. and on the even side the purple
waved mid triumph, as is its usual cus
tom. The singing began as soon as the
students had entered the building. Amy
Waterbury. 1912. of Oriskany. N. Y.. the
college song leader, led the senior sing
ing. and Katherine Perry 1913. of Reeds
burg, Wis., the junior singing.
The 1913 class animal, vaunted so
proudly by the juniors, is the Bander-
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senior class basketball team at smith college.
snatch of "Alice in Wonderland ’ fame,
usually represented as a. nondescript four
legged beast of no particular anatomical t
characteristics except his enormous feet. ■
Just before the game was called Miss
Mary Frances Pierce, 1912. ut‘ Dayton,
0.. walked into the middle of the floor
and raised an umbrella labeled "Turn
Tum-Tum” over her head. She wore
large placards bearing the one word,
"Tree.” While the spectators were won
dering just what so strange a perform
ance might mean, from out of his corner
emerged a huge Baudersnatch. and curi
ously inspected the tree. At the same
time, bold in his armor of red and purple,
and inspired by the presence of his long
pasteboard sword, the "beamish boy.
encouraged by his elderly adviser, ad
vanced to combat with the beast. Around
the tree they dodged, but at last the Ban
dersnatch. overcome by terror, and real
izing no doubt that the attack was in
spired by bis ever-dreaded foe. the purple,
unicorn of 1912, stood still and allowed t
the very diminutive "beamish boy" to
fetch a step-ladder, climb up beside him
and saw off his head. The youthful con
queror, Miss Louise Wood. 1912. of St
Louis, Mo., was received by his guardian.
Miss Ruth Cooper. 1912. of Northamp
ton. with the classic words. "And hast
thou slain the Bandersnatch? conic to my
arms, my beamish boy.”
The class of 1913 then dashed upon the
floor bearing two large signs, suggestive
of the recent child welfare exhibit, the
first announcing “Odd’’ welfare exhibit.
Every time the light flashes an "odd”
scores. Every time the light flashes an
“even” dies. Both lights were flashing con
tinually. The second screen bore the? sad
inscription. "Even farewell exhibit. Posi
tively last appearance,” a reminder that
this was 1912’s last game. The “even”
mascot was little May Corbett in a red
and white dress, and almost covered by
two huge hearts.
The game started promptly at 3 p. m.
Within one minute after the ball was in
play the juniors scored on a foul, and the
joy on the odd side knew no bounds.
Tnen 1912 got busy and be^an to get- in
some of the remarkable passing for which
it is famous, and soon evened the score
with a goal from a foul, and then shoved
it ahead by 1 two quick baskets from the
field. From then until the end of the
game, though there were several exciting
moments during the first half, when one
basket would have tied the score, the final
result was not in doubt. The whole game
was swift and sure, and unmarred by
frequent fouls or fumbles. The long, ac
curate passing of the senior team was a
surprise ami delight, even to its own
stanch supporters, who compared it with
pride to the wonderful team of 1910. The
line-up was as follows: —
Seniors-Homes, Helen Hulbert of Spring
field. Mary Nickerson of Winchester, Isabel
Dwight of Evanston. III.; centers, Susan
Phelps of Kenilworth. 111.. Elizabeth Wilson
of Gorham, Me.. Dorothy Marcus of Mont
elalr, N. J.; guards. Ruth Paine of Boston.
Margaret Wood of Glen Ridge. N. J., Ruth
Elliot of Brighton.
Juniors* Homes, Beatrice Darling of Cam
bridge. Constance Fowler of Springfield.
Ruth Otis of Bethlehem, Pa.: centers, ‘Emily
Smith of Toledo. ().. Inez Tiedeman of Sa
vanoah, Ga.. Marion Drury of Northampton;
guards: Katherine Richards of East Orange.
N. J.. Rachel Whidden of West Newton.
Margaret Moore of Chicago, HI.
This junior-senior game had been eager
ly anticipated by both classes, by the
juniors because they' hoped to repeat their
21 to 20 victory of two years ago over
the seniors, and by the seniors because
they were determined to show the juniors
that what 1912 had done on big game day
in 1910 they could accomplish once more
and with interest, nnd because it would be
the last game which 1912 would play as
undergraduates of sSmith college. The
final score proved the strength of their de
termination.
JUNIOR FROLIC AT SMITH.
Gymnasium Fitted t'p Like a Steamer
With an Extensive Passenger Liat
—An Evening of Fun.
The annual junior frolic was held Satur
day night in the alumnae gymnasium at
Smith college. For many years it has
been the custom of the junior class to set
apart one evening soon after midyear’s,
and for that one night they forget all
about work and relax into nonsense. The
general scheme this year was the good
ship Bandersnatch returning from En
gland with a passenger list more varied
than usual. Rockefeller. Carnegie and
beautiful and dandified members of the
"400” rubbed elbows with the steerage.
The gymnasium walls were covered with
white canvas hung at intervals with guar
anteed life preservers. Tlie running track
made an excellent upper deck. The main
deck was divided into the most up-to-date
rooms for the convenience and comfort
of the voyagers, whose intellectual wants
were supplied by a circulating library and
to whose physical condition nurses ami
doctors attended with the utmost skill
ami dispatch. The middle class of society
was well represented. There were the
farmer and his wife, and the little farm
ers who had just been "seeing K^ropc.”
There was a group of suffragets, just like
the pictures one sees of them, and they
acted just as the newspapers say they
act, too. displaying their placards and
tlieir tracts and spreading their opinions
like the real article.
The steerage passengers were of as
many varied nationalities and dispositions
and costumes as steerage passengers usual
ly are„ A large delegation from the "four
hundreiV mimoiiaires. famous beauties,
handsome men and the usual number of
I mischievous small boys swarmed the deck
which industrious Bailors insisted upon
swabbing.
The acts of the different groups of
junto’s were announced by the wireless
operator from the lop of tbe mast. Law
re“ee house gave a most amusing Lew
Dockstuder minstrel show, wit!: al! the ae
compenying solos, dames, jokes and local
hits. The costumes of the actors were
appreciated both for their color and tit.
The library act was a lever hit upon re
cent fiction. A junior tired from her
struggle with examinations desired some
thing to read, something rather light. At
her.command came forth from the shelves,
each with a clever sneech, "The Common
Law," “Queed.” "The Rosary," “The
Mistress of Shenstone" and "The Iron
Woman."
Between the acts there were disturb
auces of various sorts, the suffragets held
a meeting, addressed• by Mrs Spankhurst,
and the ship's band promenaded about and
rendered choice musical selections upon
tissue paper and combs. The steerage
passengers, who had beard that Smith
was to be run on the co-operative plan,
were instructed in various phases of col
lege etiquot. the before breakfast back
buttoning, head line, correct pointing in
esthetic dancing, quick attention in gym
nasium, putting on overshoes without
leaning against the wall and other little
points about which nil college students
should know. Minute instructions con
cerning them all were given.
The “DarnUm and Daily” circus of the
Chapin house juniors might well have been
called the best show on land as well as
on sea, for it lacked nothing in talent or
artistic finish, neither acrobats, tight-rope
walkers, arithmetical seals, equestriennes
or most wonderful of all, “iron-jawed
ladies.” The Albright house juniors pre
sented a clever opera, seemingly combined
from everything that anyone had ever seen
or heard. Their musical efforts nnd their
acting kept the audience in spasms of
laughter. The customs offichrs of Hatfield
house inspected the baggage of the pas
sengers in the usual heartrending fashion,
and found many dutiable articles, but all
the culprits declared that'whnt they had
done had been done for the million-dollar
fund. The fun broke up at about 9.30.
PROMOTIONS IN THE FACULTY.
Decided at Meeting; of the Trustees
ou Saturday.
There was an important meeting of the
board of trustees Saturday afternoon. The
gift of $200,000 from the general educa
tion board to the college was accepted,
and a full report of the campaign was
made. The budget for the pext fiscal year
was presented and adopted. In addition
to the usual reappointment of faculty and
staff the following promotions were made:
Elizabeth Kemper Adams. Ph. D., from
associate professor of philosophy and edu
cation to professor ,of education; Amy
Ixiuise Barbour. I’h. D., from instructor
to associate iirofessof, of Greek; Margaret
Bradshaw, Ph. D. from instructor to as
sociate professor of English language and
literature: Agnes Hunt. Ph. I)., from in
structor to associate professor of history;
John C. Hildt. Ph. D„ from instructor
to associate professor of history; Aida
Agnes Heine. A. M„ from instructor to
associate professor of geology: Helen
Choate. A. M„ from assistant to instruc
tor in botany; Anna Adele Chenot, Ph.
8.. from assistant to instructor in French:
Esther Lowerthal. I’ll. D.. from assistant
to instructor, in sociology; Teresa Booth
Maley, from, assistant to instructor in
physical training. In connection with the
promotion of Miss Adams the work in
education was separated from the depart
ment of philosophy and made into a new
department. The departments of hygiene
nnd physical training were merged under
the name of Ilie depnrtmnt of physical
education and hygiene.
The board of trustees of the college
have appointed an official photographer un
der the supervision of the president. She
will have exclusive control of buildings
anil grounds of the college. Gwing to
complications in the past when it has been
impossible to get satisfactory photographs
of academic processions it has seemed
wise to the board to take this step. Miss
Katherine C. McClellan. a graduate of
Smith with the class of 1882, has been ap
pointed official photographer.
The alumnae who have visited college
during the. past week are Sara Sugennan.
1911. Marjorie Browning. 1911. Edna
Hodgman. 1911. Eleanor Goddard. 1911,
Gladys Mcgie, 1911. Audrey Mallett,
1911. Gertrude Pearson, 1911. Helen Mil
ler. 1911. Frames Damon Swift. 1908,
Kate Morris. Cone. 1879. Lucia Clapp
Noyes. 1881. Ethel Kenyon Loomis, 1907,
Emily Davis. 1909. Vesta Crocker. 1909,
Florence Haws. 1908. Ethel Updike
Magna, 1900, Ada Loomis Comstock,
1897, Caroline Mitchell Bacon. 1911, Mar
garet Hatfield. 1909, Mrs William Bald
win. 1887.
Caps and Gowns Voted Down.
The result of the vote by ballot for com
mencement drosses showed a two-thirds
majority in favor of. white against caps
and gowns. Of the entire class about 300
voted, the number for white gowns being
212. against 100 for caps and gowns.
ON SKIS AND SNOWSHOES.
Close Contests Admired by Large
Gathering of Visitors nt Dartmouth.
Specia l Dispatch to The Republican.
Hanover. N. 11.. Saturday, Feb. 17.
With the final ski jumps, ski sprints
and snowshoe races, the biggest gala week
of the Dartmouth outing chib came to a
close this afternoon. A large gathering of
fair visitors ami students were assembled
on the golf links to witness the ski nnd
snowshoe races. Both sets of races ".ere
eloely contested and not until ,he last 19
yards were the winners sure of their
places.
The cross-country races yesterday re
sulted in Cobb taking first in tnc ski event
and Day in the snowshoe. Only by a nar
row margin did Cobb finish ahead rs his
freshman opponent. Bache-Wiig. who made
a grand spurt at the home stretch. Day,
191 J, rambled away from the Imr.ch in his
event end easily won. 8o fiercely did
Baihc-Wiig and Cobb fight for first lion
o s m the ski event that the honorj were
finally even. Bache-Wiig won on the toss
•P. hut graciously yielded the cun te bis
senior opponent. Haskell and Holway tied
in rile snowshoe dash. Holwa* won on
the toss-up.
. Tlie work of “Ty” Cobb and "Dick”
Bowler in the senior ski event thrilled the
many fair visitors and every eye was
strained to watch them leap into the air
for fine jumps. "Dick" Bowler is the 12-
years-old sou of Dr Bowler, and jumped
4.5 feet, which is only three fleet behind
the winner. Fred Harris, fattier nnd for
mer president of the outing club, was in
town and gave a wonderful exhibition of
ski jumping, making 00 feet several times.
CLARKE SCHOOL REFORTS.
Year ut Frogress at Institution for
Deaf—Principal’s 3Sth Anni versary.
The annual report of S. D. Drury, treas
urer of the Clarke school for
the deaf, at Northampton, shows
ar. income of $64,34”, all of which
was expended. The sources of income
were the, following: From the state on
account of Massachusetts beneficiaries.
$35,086; from the income fund. $13,912;
from private pupils. $9750; from normal
department account. $1552. The principal
of the school. Miss Caroline A. Yale, com
pleted with the elose of the last whom
year 25 years of service in her present
position, la recognition of this anniver
sary the trustees adopted and placed upon
the records the following resolution:—
The corporators of the Clarke school wish
to put on record their appreciation of the
work of Miss Yale as a teacher ami for -a
years the principal of the Clarke school- 1 hey
recognize that it Is largely due Io her pres
ence that this school has come to the present
position of leadership among schools for the
deaf In this country. They appreciate her
many years of faithful labor: her wisdom in
administration; her skill In teaching: her
scholarship which has brought recognition
both within nnd without her profession. 1 hey
recognize niso that her eminent success has
been due no less to qualities of Intellect than
to n kindly heart, an earnest purpose, and a
Christian devotion of life to the highest ends.
They hope that many years of honored ami
useful labor will crown her already rich life.
In token of their appreciation they wish to
place these minutes on the records and to
present her with a written copy as an ex
pression of their grateful appreciation ami
personal esteem.
The annual report of the principal shows
that the number of pupils was 144, of
whom 19 girls and 30 boys were in the
primary department, 18 girls and 33 boys m
the intermedia tedepartmentand 21 girls ami
23 boys in the grammar school. Of the
whole number of pupils in the school tit
the opening of the year 45 were under 10
years of age, 79 were between 10 and 15
and 20 were above 15. Seventy-three had
been connected with the school under five
years. 64 from five to 10 years and seven
had been in the school over 10 years. The
number of pupils from Massachusetts was
103; from Vermont. S; from New Hamp
shire, 6; from outside of New England.
27. Miss Helene J. Palatides. who was
at the Clarke school two years, has opened
a school for the deaf in Athens, and Miss
Philadelpbetis, formerly of the Clarke
school, has opened a school for the deaf
in Marsovan. Six of the former pupils
of the Clarke school have been pursuing
courses in high schools, and two have
graduated from high school with honor.
One of the graduates of the Clarke school
is a student in Mount Holyoke college,
ami one of the boys who graduated from
the Clarke school is a student in a west
ern Atollego.
The report of President Franklin Carter
says that 10 members of the normal class
received certificates within the past year
and obtained positions in various schools
for the deaf. President Carter's report
says further: We are now erecting a
building provided by the generosity of
Mrs Gardiner Greene Hubbard for the
better accommodation of teachers and
pupils, two-thirds of whom are supported
by the state of Massachusetts. For the
erection of this building the stun of $50.-
000 was bequeathed and the state pupils
are to have the advantages secured by its
completion. The interest on $50,000 at 5
per cent is $2500, of which two-thirds or
$1666. may be regarded as a new annual
gift to the state. This fact suggests anew
the question fhether the state should not
assume the entire annual cost to the
school of each of its wards.
There can lie no question that the edu
cation of the deaf by the oral method
must be expensive. The small number of
pupils that one teacher can instruct nnd
the need of supervisors to encourage the
use of speech outside of school hours will
always require a large number of workers.
Beyond this, the expenses of living have
enormously increased in late years. The
school has never been able to save a suffi
cient amount to make it easy to introduce
the improvements in equipment which
skilful teaching always discovers as de
sirable.
The report of President Carter speaks
in high terms of the achievements of A.
Lincoln Fechheimer. who graduated from
Clarke school in 1891 and is now suc
cessfully engaged in the profession of
architecture. He is the architect of Hub
bard hall, now in process of erection at
the school. After graduating from Clarke
school Mr Fechheimer graduated from a
technical school in Cincinnati, the school
of mines at Columbia university and
L’Ecble des Beaux Arts in Paris, from
which he received a gold medal.
A GOOD COLLEGE STORY.
‘•The Courage of the Commonplace”
and Its Teaching.
"The Courage of the Commonplace,” by
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, author
of "The Perfect Tribute,” is a novelet,
now published by Scribners in separate
form in a small volume, which is not only
interesting in itself for the average reader
who likes a story which combines dra
matic. incident, character development, and
sentiment, but is admirable as a healthy
touie—unlike some tonics it is pleasant in
the taking—for thd college Student. It
deals primarily with .the secret society
question, more or less of a constant prob
lem at all universities and colleges, but
it sets forward, in a fashion bold enough
and attractive enough to appeal strongly
to the mind of the college boy, that the
real business of cbHege life is the forma
tion of character, tlmt defeat may be
turned into victory and that the very fail
ure to obtain college honors, which to
many a boy is so bitter an ordeal, may be
come the very making of his true man
hood.
The story is of Yale life and not inap
propriately so. although its message and
moral are for the undergraduates of a
hundred other universities and colleges.
It happens, through long tradition and the
spectacular method of announcing the hon
ors which in the minds of the undergrad
uates are the highest in the college world,
that the society system at the New Ha
ven university is more famous than that
at any other. Yet while conditions at New
Haven may differ somewhat in degree, as
in the intensity of feeling, they do not dif
fer in kind from those which obtain else
where. Students of other alma maters
have taken the tragedies of their mimic
world too seriously and begun life embit
tered and shaken in self-confidence as n
result 6f haring failed in their college am
bitions. No better antidote for such a
mistaken outlook could be offered than rhe
story of Johnny McClean, who wns
“thrown down" in tl)e student's slang,
on tap day at New Haven, and who began
from tlmt moment to make good, not in
any vengeful spirit of merely showing
those who had passed him by tlmt they
had made a mistake but rather in frank
and wholesome recognition that ft was up
to him to prove his quality.
AMHERST COLLEGE.
X 914 MEN SEE SABRINA.
Even Classmen Journey to Albany in
Honor of Goddess.
The odd classmen awoke from unsuspect
ing sleep last week Wednesday to find that
the entire class of 1914 and a good many
members of 1912 had quietly slipped away
during the night to parts unknown, there
to hold their biennial “Sabi'inu” banquet.
In chapel there was the usual excitement
occasioned by the absence of the sopho
mores. At the close of the service the
seniors who had not seen tit to attend the
bamjuet. started the old Sabrina song, “All
hail to thee. Sabrina, dear.” to be drowned
out by the shouting of the odd classmen.
1 was discovered later in the day that
the Sabrina men had journeyed to Albany,
N. Y.. by :i special train, which left Am
herst in the small hours of Wednesday
morning. The banquet Was held Wednes
day night at the Keeler hotel and the 1914
men were given the first sight of the Sa
brina. safe from interruption by the mem
bers of the odd classes.
STRAW VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.
The Forum Gives Taft n Good Lead,
With Roosevelt Second mid Wilson
Third.
The Amherst Forum in chape! Friday
morning took a straw vote on the next
president of the United States. The re
sults were: Taft. 109: Roosevelt. 73; Wil
son, 5(); Harmon, 7; La Follette, 4;
Bryan. 4; Clark, 2; Debs. 2; and several
scattering single votes.
The Senior Hop at Amherst.
Amherst college's fifth annual senior hop
was held Saturday afternoon and evening
in College hall, and was one of the most
successful social functions the college has
witnessed iu several years. About 60
couples were in attendance. Dancing be
gun at 3.30 p. in., after -a half-hour con
<ert program, and continued until 10 p. m.
Special cars conveyed many of the guests
to and from Northampton, while several
house parties were arranged at fraternity
houses for those coming from a greater
distance.
BASKETBALL SEASON OPENS.
Two Interesting: Contests at Mutant
Holyoke.
The basketball season opened last week
Wednesday, when the first games of the
year were played at 3 o'clock in the gym
nasium. There are perhaps no events
which arouse greater college spirit than
these games, and the interest with which
they are awaited is even surpassed by
the great enthusiasm which is expressed
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(Captain of Mount Holyoke college senior
basketball team.]
on the occasion. The games Wednesday
were between the sister classes, the seniors
playing against the sophomores, and the
juniors agianst the freshmen. Although
these first ones are in themselves not quite
as exciting as the later ones, the fact that
they open the season, and also that the
mascots are displayed only at these games,
makes them quite as interesting.
The seniors won easily against , the
sophomores by a score of 55 to 8. The
juniors were matched against the freshmen
in quite the same degree, for they won by
a score of 54 to 8. At the end of the
first half the seniors had 21 points in their
favor, and the juniors had 34 points. On
the 11)12’ team Jeannette Simmons, Bernice
Hodges and Marion Pease did especially
good work. In spite of the sophomore
score, the team played well considering the
amount of training which they have had in
comparison with the seniors. Rebecca
Thompson did her usual good work on
the junior team, and was ably assisted by
Marjorie Smith. Mary Ashley Cheek and
Ina Atwood also deserve mention. The
freshmen team showed promise of accom
plishing much in the future.
MENTAL HYGIENE CAMPAIGN.
New York Committee Trying to Raine
$200,000 for Permanent Endow
ment.
After three-years’ work in perfecting
plans the national committee for mental
hygiene announced its full organization
nt its annual meeting in New York Sat
urday and outlined its proposal to con
duct a systematic campaign throughout
tlie United States for mental hygiene. It
is tlie first , movement of such dimensions
undertaken in any country, so far as
known. It is announced that an unnamed
benefactor had given $50,000 to be avail
able at once and that the gift would be
doubled Inter if from other sources the
committee can raise $200,000 toward' a
permanent endowment.
The work provided for by the gift an
nounced is to be begun at once in the
form of a survey of the national field, to
be made by a special subcommittee of
which Dr William L. Russell, superintend
ent of Bloomingdale hospital, is chairman.
Dr Thomas \V. Salmon of the puited
States public health and marine hospital
service will be in charge of the active
work of the survey. The national com
mittee has opened headquarters nt 50
Union square. New Y’ork, ami from there
will direct efforts to improve conditions
affecting the insane, as well ns the edu
cation of the sane on subjects of mental
disorders, their known causes, prevention
and cure.
The officers elected include: President,
Dr Lewellyn F. Barker of Johns Hop
kins university; treasurer, Otto T. Ban
nurd of New York; chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, Dr George Blumer,
dean of the Yale medical school; chair
man of the finance committee. Prof Rus-
I sell H. Chittenden, director of Sheffield
scientific school, Yale university; seere
tarv, Clifford W. Beers. Among the mem
bers of the national committee are nearly
n dozen university presidents, many more
other lenders in education und civic move-
nients and a score of prominent specialists
in nervous and mental diseases.
SPEAKER WAS FAR AWAY.
President Hadley iu New Huven Ad
dreaHcs Vale Alumni nt ChleuKo.
President Arthur T. Hudley of Yale
figured in a somewhat unusnal departure
from the ordinary method of afterdinner
speaking when seated in his home in
New Ila veil Saturday night and sur
ronnded by members of his family, lie de
livered an address by telephone to the
members of the Vale alumni nssoeigtion
of Chicago. 1900 miles away-. Direct con
nection wits made from President Had
leys house to the Hotel Blackstone in
Chicago, where the Yale nlnmiii were
fathered, and after delivering the speech
Mr Hadley said that everything worked
smoothly.
In his address President Hadley won
dered in n humorous vein, whether the
innovation was going to revolutionize col
lege organization, and whether it would
not mean that afterdinner ^peakers might
hereafter he called upon to deliver ad
dresses on the same evening to audiences
in widely separated cities.
Pluu Playgrounds at V ale.
That $700,000 will be needed for provid
ing playgrounds and equipment for the
same for the use of the Yale university un
dergraduate body was stated in a report of
the committee of 21 to the Yale corporation
nt its February meeting Monday. The
committee of 21 was selected by the alumni
advisory board to look into the general
question of the erection of a stadium or
coliseum for the athletic field to meet the
increased demand for seats at the annual
football games.
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL YEAR.
Annual Report of the Trustee*—•
Finance* and Enrolment,
The annual report of the. trustees of
Smith’s agricultural school at Northamp
ton shows that the total receipts
were $33,815, of which $11,384 came
from the Oliver Smith fund, $9743
from the state appropriation, $6972
from loans in anticipation of state aid,
$1390 from the equipment fund from the
city. SSO as gift for prizes from E. E.
Wood, $2365 from tuition. sllß6 from
products of the school and $414 from sun
dries. The expenditures left a balance of
$3. The principal items of expense were
the following: For supervision, $3229;
clerical work, $741; janitor, $827; station
ery. printing etc., $373; janitor supplies,
$137; freight, express, etc., $149; instruc
tion. $9954; payment of loan. $9800; ex
penses of farm, laboratory and shop,
$2000; furniture and apparatus, $3075.
The number of pupils was 132.
Director H. N. Loomis speaks in his
report of the part time method, under
which a pupil spends one week in the
shop and the following week in the school.
The trustees have appointed, the follow
ing advisors of departments: Household
arts, Mrs F. N. Look of Florence, Rev
Margaret B. Barnard of Rowe, Miss Kath
erine A. Maloney and Mrs E. H. Mensel;
mechanic art, Hugh McLeod of Hatfield,
H. W. Miller, 11. M. Schwartz and W.
A. Stevenson.
HAS WILD GUINEA PIGS.
Prof Castle of Harvard io Make In
terenting Mendellan Experiment*.
Prof W. E. Castle of the Bussey institu
tion and the museum of comparative zool
ogy of Harvard has just returned from
an expedition to Peru, where he went un
der the auspices of the Carnegie institu
tion. He went in search of the wild
guinea pig. the ultimate progenitor of the
domestic animal, which is so widely used
in biological and physiological investiga
tions. and especially in experimental work
on theoretical and practical questions of
heredity and breeding; and he was suc
cessful iu bringing back to Forest Hills
19 specimens. Some of them come from
Arequipa, in the neighborhood of the Har
vard astronomical station, from an alti
tude of 8(M10 feet, and others from, nearer
/ho coast, from an altitude of about 2000
feet.
The scientific interest and possibilities
of the expedition are very great, for if
these wild guinea pigs prove capable of
crossing with the domesticated animals, of
which there is little doubt, tbe experiments
in breeding should go far to settle ques
tions which lie at the foundation of the
new science of heredity. This science
dates from the rediscovery of Mendel's
law, nbout 1900, and it has already at
tained results of almost mathematical ex
actitude in various fields of breeding.
RAPS COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
Dr McCurdy of Train ins School
Thinks Moral Standards Need
Tonic.
Moral standards in college athletics aro
either indefinite or poorly observed, ac
cording to Dr J. H. McCurdy, director
of the Springfield training school, who ad
dressed the annual convention of the New
England recreation institute in Brookline
Friday. Dr McCurdy condemned the
practice of proselyting, which, he declared,
is widely resorted to for securing crack
preparatory school athletes for certain col
leges.
Citing instances to indicate a lack of
fair play, he said: ‘‘One person told me
the eoach ordered him to twist the lame
knee of the best football player. He re
fused, other players backed him up, and
the practice was stopped. The referee in
a prominent set of track games was
obliged to exclude from the field of play
both coaches, because they were encour
aging their boys to violate the rules of
the sport. A player was sent in last fall
to a football game with instructions to
stop the runs of a certain player, even
though it means a good penalty.”
Concert at Williamstown.
The combined musical clubs of Will
iams college, the glee, mandolin and banjo
clubs, gave a concert Saturday in Jesup
hall for the entertainment of the house
party guests, the event following the bas
ketball game with Brown. The program
was prepared especially for the occasion
and had many new numbers. It began
with the ' Royal Purple" and “Come fill
your glasses up.” two favorite songs of
the college, by the glee and mandolin
clubs, and was concluded with “The
Mountains," the college song by the com
bined clubs. Each of the clubs contrib
uted numbers and there were also a bass
solo by Winthrop Seeley, 1912. of Will
iamstown. a tenor solo by Charles H.
Shons. 1912. of Washingtonville. N. Y.,
and a reading by Wolcott Hubbell. 1912.
of Ellensburg. Wash. The program in al)
had 12 numbers.
The second woman to receive the offi
cial title of “professor” in Germany has
just been thus honored by the emperor.
She is Frau Lydia Kempner, formerly
Mme Rabiuowitsch. who was at one time
professor of bacteriology in the university
of Pennsylvania, alternating between her
work in America in the winter and her
work as assistant to Dr Koch in Germany
in the summer. Prof Kempner is a dis
tinguished botanist, an urdeht suffragist,
and the'fond mother of three Children.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell, the noted writer
on questions of national significance, was
the speaker ut the regular assembly ex
eriises in the chapel at Massachusetts
agricultural college at Amherst last week
Wednesday. She spoke on •Abraham Lin
coln," telling of incidents in the life of
the great man and applying his sterling
qualities to our national life to-day.