A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO The Science, Art, Philosophy and FRANK HERBERT PALMER, Editor VOLUME XXXIV BOSTON THE PALMER COMPANY 120 BOYLSTON STREET 1914 CONTENTS Adieu. (Poem.) Minnie E. Hays Agave, To a Blooming. (Poem.) Stokley S. Fisher 80 American Notes-Editorial 53, 121, 181, 261, 328, 388, 459, 532, 591, 653 Artist, To an. (Poem.) Minnie E. Hays 61, 129, 191, 269, 335, 398, 467, 539, 598, 660 College and Religious Education, The. Wallace N. Stearns College, Measurements of Efficiency in. Abbott L. Lowell . College, What Does it Cost to Build a? Wallace N. Stearns 646 615 Compulsory Education Laws and Retardation and Elimination in our Public Schools. Charles A. Ellwood Dramatics and Public Speaking in the High School. J. Milnor Debating, Group Systems in Interscholastic. Dwight Everett Education, Cultural, Oliver H. Howe Education, The Organization of. Frederic W. Sanders 217 273, 373, 428, 522, 561 Efficiency of Instruction, Is Scientific Accuracy Possible in the English Teachers, The Training of. Report of New England As- English, The Advance Movement of Teachers of. James Fleming Hosic Examination Questions. Maud E. Kingsley: 301 Grammar, Mental Value of the Study of. Margaret Alton High School, A Solution for Public Speaking in. C. T. Mauller High School Fallacies, Three Popular. James L. McConaughy . 421 162 367 History, College Entrance Requirements in. Wm. MacDonald History, Examinations, The Giving of. J. Madison Gathany History in the Elementary Schools. Samuel Burnett Howe History, Teaching of in the Secondary Schools. E. E. Cates History Teaching, The Reconstruction of. J. Madison Gathany History, The Teaching and Study of from a Teacher's Point of Pictures, Efficiency in Teaching by. Horace G. Brown Poetry, Problems in the School Reading of. Christobel Abbott Politics, Teaching Practical, in our Schools. J. Madison Gathany Questionnaires, The Union High School. J. Edgar Coover Reading Bogey, Vanquishing the. Martha J. Mitchell. Reading of Poetry, Problems in the School. Christobel Abbott Reading, Teaching the Beginning of. Laura Emily Mau . Recitation as a Factor in Producing Social Efficiency. L. E. Taft Reconstruction of History Teaching, The. J. Madison Gathany Religious Education and the College. Wallace N. Stearns Roman National Characteristics. John E. Granrud . Schoolboy, The Creed of an American. Marion Frances Brown Secondary Schools, The Need of Better Preparation of Teachers Secondary School Teachers, Aims and Standards for Preparation Sex Hygiene, Practical Suggestions for the Teaching of. Snow-Bound, A Development Lesson on. C. R. Martin Social Center, Educational Extension through the Rural. Henry Social Center, The Rural Church as a. Henry S. Curtis Speaking, Public, in High Schools. J. Milnor Dorey Speaking, A Solution for in the High School. C. T. Mauller. Speech in Children, Impediments of, How to Overcome Them. Spelling, A Review of the Pedagogical Studies in the Teaching of. Spell, Learning to. Fannie Wilder Brown Theme Writing. George Wyllys Benedict Tito, The Unresisting. Gilbert Cosulich Trigonometry, What is? A Latham Baker Vocational Education for Girls. Edith M. Tuttle 1 Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature VOL. XXXIV. of Education SEPTEMBER, 1913 No. I A Review of the Pedagogical Studies in the Teaching of Spelling D BY MARY A. GRUPE, ELLENSBURG, WASHINGTON. ESPITE the fact that a few far-seeing men have, from the early years of the eighteenth century, inveighed against the dominance of spelling and the "cruel drudgery" it entailed upon the learner, the subject remained an independent discipline far into the nineteenth century. To be able to spell was the criterion whereby to judge the educated man and so ingrained did this become in the popular mind that even to this day our grandfathers, nay our fathers, dubiously shake their heads because spelling no longer occupies a conspicuous place on the schoolroom program and because, as they insist, the rising generation cannot spell. In 1905 an unexpected discovery of some old examination papers at Springfield, Mass., furnished almost conclusive evidence that although more time used to be devoted to the subject, the boys and girls of 1846 did not spell as well as the boys and girls of the same age today. This old examination consisted of twenty rather difficult words, such as evanescent, feignedly, and chirography, and was given to eighty-five high school pupils, most of whom were in the second year. Only 15 obtained as high as 70%, 23 missed 17 or more words; nine had one right, and two had none. Just 40% of all the words were correctly spelled. The same test was given in 1905 to 245 ninth grade Springfield pupils with the result that 51.2% of all the words were spelled correctly. The high school of 1846 was in good condition, more |