hope and promise the intrinsic value of which must wait the test of many years of doubtful trial. It will be immediately evident in a more intelligent attempt at selection of suitable work-in a more purposeful and determined devotion to that work, and in a keener sense of the mutual dependence of individuals in a civilized society.

Several of our schools have endeavored to accomplish this end with their pupils by taking classes into local industrial or commercial institutions and discussing with the pupils the industrial, economic, and social questions which were suggested by these excursions. These experiences have all given evidence of an aroused interest and of a capacity to profit by the lessons they contained. An experimental study with a group of grade boys from the Wyman School was made during the year by Dr. E. George Payne of the Harris Teachers College faculty. His report of the work contains so many instructive suggestions of the possibility of practical service to pupils that I think it best to quote here a large part of it:

About the middle of December, 1910, we began a systematic visitation of some of the factories of the city with a limited number of boys. We have continued the visits at regular intervals of once a week, with few exceptions, since that time. In addition to the visits, we have devoted about an hour each week, either before or after the visit, to the discussion of problems arising in connection with the industries visited. These problems, as we shall later see, were largely geographical and social; that is, we studied the industrial, the commercial, and the social problems growing out of the development of the special industry visited, in so far as the attainment of the boys and the purpose of the whole experiment permitted. The interest in the study has been keen, and the effort put forth on the part of the boys to continue the study has indicated a genuine interest on their part. The discussion of questions has likewise been very satisfactory, and would have done credit to a class of high school boys in civics or economics. There has been a spontaneity, enthusiasm, frankness, and sincerity in all discussions that afforded one a touch with the real boy and a knowledge of his ideals that could scarcely by gotten under ordinary conditions. At the same time special study and reports have been undertaken and worked out voluntarily by the boys with such zeal as to be inspiring.

In this experiment the plants selected for visitation had to be chosen under certain retrictions which need not prevail in other cases. The

hope and promise the intrinsic value of which must wait the test of many years of doubtful trial. It will be immediately evident in a more intelligent attempt at selection of suitable work—in a more purposeful and determined devotion to that work, and in a keener sense of the mutual dependence of individuals in a civilized society.

Several of our schools have endeavored to accomplish this end with their pupils by taking classes into local industrial or commercial institutions and discussing with the pupils the industrial, economic, and social questions which were suggested by these excursions. These experiences have all given evidence of an aroused interest and of a capacity to profit by the lessons they contained. An experimental study with a group of grade boys from the Wyman School was made during the year by Dr. E. George Payne of the Harris Teachers College faculty. His report of the work contains so many instructive suggestions of the possibility of practical service to pupils that I think it best to quote here a large part of it:

About the middle of December, 1910, we began a systematic visitation of some of the factories of the city with a limited number of boys. We have continued the visits at regular intervals of once a week, with few exceptions, since that time. In addition to the visits, we have devoted about an hour each week, either before or after the visit, to the discussion of problems arising in connection with the industries visited. These problems, as we shall later see, were largely geographical and social; that is, we studied the industrial, the commercial, and the social problems growing out of the development of the special industry visited, in so far as the attainment of the boys and the purpose of the whole experiment permitted. The interest in the study has been keen, and the effort put forth on the part of the boys to continue the study has indicated a genuine interest on their part. The discussion of questions has likewise been very satisfactory, and would have done credit to a class of high school boys in civics or economics. There has been a spontaneity, enthusiasm, frankness, and sincerity in all discussions that afforded one a touch with the real boy and a knowledge of his ideals that could scarcely by gotten under ordinary conditions. At the same time special study and reports have been undertaken and worked out voluntarily by the boys with such zeal as to be inspiring.

In this experiment the plants selected for visitation had to be chosen under certain retrictions which need not prevail in other cases. The