GERRISH, CAROLYN M.-Secondary school composition, 126. 95. HANIPHY, JOSEPH A.-Juvenile courts, Happenings at the University of Utah, 537- Harvard and Germany, 539. HORRWITZ, ERNEST PHILIP-The place 412. Hunt's (Gaillard) The Department of Ideal (The Christian) in education: Methods of its attainment, 433. JACKSON, A. V. WILLIAMS-Soane's (E. B.) Grammar of the Kormanji or JOSEPH S. TAYLOR-Report on Gary (Ind.) schools, 510. Junior college, Standardizing the, 56. KING, HENRY C.-The Christian ideal KOCH, KATRINA-The development of Kultur, A definition of, 323; Culture Languages and the college preparatory Library problems in American uni- Literature of vocational education, A LUQUEER, FREDERIC L.-Self-account- MANNY, FRANK A.-Freeman's (Ar- Matters academic, Concerning some, Medicine in China, 535; (preventive) modern educational, 414; of its Military ideals (German university Modern (certain) educational methods, A side light on, 414; high school, tration of the public schools of New Moving picture (The) and the school, 204. New (A) form of outrage, 429; (A) New York City, The administration Notes and news: 106, 215, 317, 428, Notes on new books, 96, 213, 316, 423, 532. Notes on the building of a univer- sity, 217. Outline of a plan for use in the making Outrage, A new form of, 429. Paradox (The) of German university and military ideals, 266. PASSANO, L. M.-The woman peril: A reply, 407. Peril, The woman: A reply, 407. PIERCE, EDWIN HALL.-A side light PINE, JOHN B.-Notes on the building tional college, 445; (The) of San- Power and responsibility, Education Rejoinder (A): The woman peril, 409. Restraint (The) of our public schools, REUBEN, MILTON HAROLD.-An un- Reviews, 94, 212, 315, 420. Rural schools, Consolidation of, 320. Sanskrit in university education, The Schedules in educational institutions, School board (The) as a factor in Secondary education, Economy of time in, 20; school composition, 126. SNOW, LILLIAN M.-Outline of a plan for use in the making of schedules manji or Kurdish language, 420. Sound sense about colleges, 428. 312. Standardizing the junior college, 56. Students (college), Health of, 428. Supervision, Self-accounting in, 460. SWIFT, F. H.-The paradox of Ger- Teacher-mother (The) question in Teaching hygiene and preventive med- Teaching (The) of English and the Terminology, High school, 228. Two years, The vocabulary of, 191. Undergraduate's (An) view of college Universities (American), Library prob- University education, The place of WILGUS, JAMES A.-The teaching of Working youth in Germany, Welfare Years (two), The vocabulary of, 191. EDUCATIONAL REVIEW JANUARY 1915 I THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COURSE OF STUDY IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS At the meeting of the National Education Association in St. Paul, in July, 1914, an educated, well-informed and broad-minded gentleman, not connected with the schools, asked me somewhat abruptly if I believed in the fads which were now cumbering the course of study in the schools. I asked him what was his definition of a "fad." I then ventured to tell him that the first fads I knew anything about in connection with the elementary schools were the teaching of elementary arithmetic, writing and reading. He was greatly surprized that anyone at any time had had any doubt as to the wisdom of teaching these branches of an elementary education at public expense. A few days later a gentleman in my office characterized as infamous "the efforts of half-baked intellects to subvert and destroy the existing course of study in the elementary schools—a course of study which has been handed down to us as a sacred trust by our worthy forefathers." It occurred to me that an account of the growth and development of the elementary school, extracted from the old records and scattered fragmentary accounts, might have some value at this time when the course of study is a general subject of discussion. In an historical sketch of this character, to avoid diverging and distracting influences, it is manifestly easier to confine one's attention to a type-form. Such a type-form is found in the city of Boston; for Boston, I |