Prof. William H. Kilpatrick and Superintendent A. J. Stoddard of Providence went through the ordeal of repeating their speeches to three jam-packed sessions one scheduled and two overflow gatherings on a very hot morning. It was hard to believe that this was the same organization that met in Washington that unforgettable superheated June week in 1934 when the Capitol's climate left a great convention gasping for air. In Denver the N. E. A. stepped out vigorously; an organization on the march toward greater goals. Not fumes of acrimony, but the reassuring smoke of the pipe of peace rose from the convention. The troublesome issue of what the N. E. A. should do about academic freedom has been settled. As recently as February the department of superintendence, while voting for the principle of academic freedom, declined to provide machinery to support the principle. But at Denver the delegates voted almost unanimously to (1) combat legislation against freedom in teaching, (2) investigate discharge cases, (3) assist teachers discharged for exercising academic freedom, and (4) to cooperate with other organizations fighting for academic freedom. Now there is nothing to do but wait for the first case. Not many candidates for public office receive both the Republican and Democratic nominations. That is the record of Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Iowa, who, at Denver, was voted president of the National Education Association. Miss Samuelson is also unofficial superintendent of schools of Flower Island. An untangled legal snarl made Flower Island a non-States-land in the Missouri River, between Iowa and Nebraska. To this island moved hardpressed Iowa families who wished to avoid going on relief. Due to persistent efforts of Miss Samuelson, these families were provided with FERA teachers for their children. It is a fascinating story which Miss Samuelson has promised for SCHOOL LIFE one of these days. To Miss Samuelson the Office of Education extends greetings and good wishes for a successful administration. A subtle but very important change is taking place in the N. E. A. Growth of local teachers' associations has provided a becoming more and more influential in the nursery for teacher leadership which is summer meeting. This development raises interesting questions: What if the summer meeting and the February department of superintendence meeting disagree? Is the N. E. A. responsible to teachers first or to citizens? Etc. The Joint Commission on the Emergency in Education, which has rendered such excellent service, spun the final thread of its cocoon and then at once emerged as the committee on educational policies. In working on short time emergency policies it discovered the urgent need of long time policies for education. There were no And many Panels are the vogue. less than six in one evening. more scattered through the sessions. Panels bring new faces and new names to the platform. But some N. E. A. panels provided ample illustration of Commissioner Studebaker's observation that forum leading is a profession to be learned. If the N. E. A. is going in for panel discussions it should draw its panel leaders from a panel of expert panel leaders. One big blank spot marked the convention. There were no exhibits. Denver had no place to house exhibits. Just before the convention opened the National Youth Administration story broke. Formal opinion on it was expressed in the following resolution: "The National Education Association commends President Roosevelt for creat ing the National Youth Administration, and for allocating $50,000,000 to assist needy youths, and records its wish that the money allocated be expended under the direction of the United States Commissioner of Education." Briefly the N. E. A. also resolved: (1) For $500,000,000 Federal aid to education; (2) praise for C. C. C., especially education program by Office of Education; (3) academic freedom; (4) democracy is best; (5) $10,000 to promote teacher tenure; (6) restoration of kindergartens; (7) opposition to compulsory military training; (8) more recreation programs; (9) passage of child labor amendment; (10) William T. Harris centennial tribute; (11) continuance of N. E. A. reorganization work. W. D. BOUTWELL The Colleges The Bankhead-Jones Act became effective June 29, 1935 to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of landgrant colleges. Congress has authorized to be appropriated the sum of $9,980,000 for 1935-36 increasing in 1939-40 to $19,480,000. There are three phases to the act: (1) Agricultural research supervised by the Department of Agriculture, $1,000,000 in 1935-36; (2) cooperative extension supervised by the Department of Agriculture, $8,000,000 in 1935-36; and (3) extension of Morrill-Nelson funds, supervised by the Department of the Interior, $980,000 in 1935–36. Funds for research must be matched by the States, but no offset is required for cooperative extension or Morrill-Nelson extensions. All land-grant colleges and universities participate in the first phase, and all except those in Puerto Rico and Alaska share in the latter two phases. Employment of college graduates.-A number of colleges report that the present outlook for employment is the brightest it has been in 4 years. A few large corporations are once again beginning to send representatives to the campuses to select students and many smaller organizations with no definite recruiting programs are known to have openings. Cornell University reports 50 percent of the June graduating class placed, and estimates that an additional 30 percent will be placed by September; foresters are reported in demand and agricultural and civil engineering students are needed to some extent; salaries appear to be about the same as last year, ranging from $80 to $150 per month. In the University of Southern California the employment service has had the best year since its organization in 1928. Thirty percent of Columbia's graduating class was employed by June. University of South Carolina has been successful in placing a large number of graduates, including all civil engineers. Every member of the Washington State College graduating class of the department of dairy husbandry (15) was placed within 2 weeks after graduation; likewise the school of pharmacy for several years has placed more than 85 percent of the students upon graduation. Many colleges, however, were not as successful in placing high percentages of their graduates, and it is doubtful if isolated reports are generally comparable "placed" does not always mean "employed". Rutgers University, N. J.-During 1934– 35 a total of $38,435 was earned by students assigned to F. E. R. A. projects, most of which was used to pay college tuition. Student services to community and State agencies in New Jersey involved salary remunerations of $3,050; agencies benefited were the Community Chest, Neighborhood House, Y. M. C. A., Y. M. H. A., Community House, and the State's Big Brother and Big Sister Federation. percent for men. The university budget for 1935-36 of $7,877,550, an increase of $800,000 over 1934-35, has been approved by the regents; no blanket restoration of reduced salaries will come from the increase, but the difference will be largely spent to rehabilitate several departments whose activities were materially curtailed during the past few years. Pennsylvania State College.-Four extension centers, DuBois, Hazleton, Fayette located at Uniontown and Schuykill located at Pottsville, will be provided for undergraduate instruction in 1935-36. They are conducted for the benefit of students equipped to continue their education in college but who are unable to leave their home communities. The college "does not guarantee to operate a center for more than 1 year at a time, for the extension undergraduate center must be regarded only as a temporary unit of instruction designed to meet a temporary need." WALTER J. GREENLEAF Cornell University, N. Y.-The voices of vanishing birds will now be perma- 14th Yearbook nently preserved in the archives of Cornell University since the Cornell-American Museum of Natural History ornithological expedition has returned with about 10 miles of motion-picture sound film. Since February the expedition has recorded with motion-picture cameras and sound apparatus the habits and songs of many vanishing species of birds of the South and West. University of Kansas.-After paying interest on its stadium bonds, and cutting the principal of the bonds from $162,000 to $150,000, the Kansas University Physi THE Fourteenth Yearbook of the Department of Elementary School Principals of the National Education Association is now available, at $2 a copy, from the N. E. A. headquarters office, 1201 Sixteenth Street, NW., Washington, D. C. The yearbook this year deals with those types of school activities which often have been considered extracurricular, but which are now coming into their own as essential parts of the curriculum. cal Education Association had a net profit★ Free upon Request on last year's operations of $4.38. Football returned $24,073 over costs; basketball $3,142, and tennis $18. Losses of $5,000 were felt in track sports, $614, in wrestling, and $111 in swimming. The university stadium, seating 38,000, and representing an investment of $640,000, cost $4,249 for general upkeep. University of Texas.-Between 5,000 and 6,000 persons are enrolled in evening classes in the oil industry training school being conducted throughout the State by the industrial teacher training bureau of the university division of extension, in cooperation with the American Petroleum Institute and the State department of industrial education. University of Michigan.-With 4,029 students enrolled, the 1935 summer session at the university has increased 23.1 percent over last year and will be second only to 1931, when the institution had a peak attendance of 4,328 students. The gain is 29.9 percent for women and 19.5 THE following seven Good Reference bibliographies and circulars prepared in the Federal Office of Education, are available free, upon request: Good References on The School Auditorium, 6 pages. Bibliography No. 14. Good References on Secondary Education, Instruction, 14 pages, Bibliography No. 21. Good References on Discussion Meetings, Open Forums, Panels, and Conferences, 9 pages, Bibliography No. 30. Good References on The Junior College, 11 pages, Bibliography No. 31. Good References on Visual Aids in Education: Motion Pictures, Bibliography No. 32. Good References on Teaching Music in Elementary Schools, Bibliography No. 41. Financial Situation in Rural Schools and Small Independent School Districts, 1934-35, 24 pages, Circular No. 138. Educational Measures Before 1935 State Legislatures, 55 pages, Circular No. 140. Research and Investigations Reported by State Departments of Education and State Education Associations, 1934-35, 21 pages, Circular No. 141. Research and Investigations Reported by City School Systems, 1934-35, 33 pages, Circular No. 143. Meetings [Continued from page 7] Association of American Medical Colleges. Toronto, Canada, October 28-30. Association of American Universities. Ithaca, N. Y., October. Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. Lexington, Ky., November 18-20. Association of Modern Language Teachers of the Middle States and Maryland. Atlantic City, N. J., November 30. Association of Summer School Directors. October 19. College Conference on English in the Central Atlantic Eastern Association of College Deans and Advisers of National Association of Audubon Societies. New National Association of State Universities in the United States of America. Washington, D. C., November 20-22. National Conference of Juvenile Agencies. Atlanta, Ga., October 25-28. National Council of Teachers of English. Indianapolis, Ind., November 28-30. National Council on Schoolhouse Construction. Washington, D. C., October. National Interfraternity Conference. New York, National League of Compulsory Education Officials. The THE COVER DESIGN for this issue of SCHOOL LIFE is another prize drawing submitted to the Office of Education in the SCHOOL LIFE cover design contest. design, "Adult Education", was drawn by Helen Coe, School of Applied Arts, Uni versity of Cincinnati. The composite picture above shows designs receiving honorable mention, no. 1, by Mary V. Hennigan; no. 2 by Clark W. Lawrence, and no. 3 by Lois Slater. Competition in the University of Cincinnati School of Applied Arts was carried on under the direction of Jessie L. Paul, Professsor of Art Structure. Mr. Owen: A man who brought beauty and friendly assistance to many an outof-way one-room school, as well as to more fortunately located schools, died the other day: Mr. Frederick Owen, head of the Owen Publishing Co. His work and his magazine, The Instructor are being carried on by his daughters, Helen Mildred and Mary, who have already proved their ability in publishing. Study outlines: Fifteen study outlines and a manual are being published by the Office of Education for the Civilian Conservation Corps camps. These are short and easy courses prepared by a group of experts in vocational education. Other educators are welcome to use the outlines. Lack of workers: The United States could use 19,000 skilled mechanics at once, says the National Industrial Conference Board; the shortage will be more than 200,000 if business picks up. That means education which develops skill will pick up too. Bibliographers, editors, and scientists in practically all countries of the civilized world have accorded this manual an enthusiastic reception. Condensed for ready reference, only elementary rules and examples are given. Alphabets, rules for capitalization, syllabication, punctuation, abbreviations, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, months, days, seasons, and time, in 68 foreign languages and 21 American Indian languages. (Library science; Research.) Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States. 126 p., illus., maps. (Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Housing Division Bulletin No. 1.) The housing conditions in various large cities, citing the various surveys conducted by local and other agencies, coupled with a summary of the data secured. Summation of the results obtained in the real property inventory of 1934 conducted in 64 cities throughout the United States under the administration of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Closes with a discussion of the beneficial results of slum clearance and rehousing, citing particularly the success of a number of such undertakings in Great Britain. (Sociology; Civics; Public health.) Expenditure of Funds, Federal Emergency Relief Administration. 719 p., charts, maps. (74th Cong., 1st sess., S. Doc. No. 56.) Report of Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, on expenditures of certain funds, to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in response to Senate Resolution No. 115. (Civics; Sociology.) A Homestead and Hope. 24 p., illus. (Department of the Interior, Division of Subsistence Homesteads, Bulletin No. 1.) Contents: Authority; What a subsistence homestead is; The economic "Why", the housing "Why", the human "Why"; How-projects; Plans; Can nots; Homesteads; Purchase; Land, houses; Executive orders; List of new projects. (Civics; Sociology; Public health; Home economics; Industrial education.) Summaries of Studies on the Economic Status of Women. 20 p. (Women's Bureau, Bulletin No. 134.) 5 cents. List of selected references presented under the following headings: I. General summaries; II. Studies of the economic status of college women; III. Studies of the economic status of business and professional women; try; V. Studies of the economic status of women in all IV. Studies of the economic status of women in indus occupations-industrial, business, and professional. (Library science; Economics; Sociology.) Workers in Subjects Pertaining to Agriculture in State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 1934-35. 124 p. (Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Miscellaneous Publication No. 214.) 10 cents. Directory of persons directly engaged in teaching, research, or demonstration in agriculture and home economics in State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. (Agriculture; Library science; Home economics.) Light List, including fog signals, buoys, 372 p. (Lighthouse This list, published annually, describes all lighted aids to navigation and fog signals maintained by or under authority of the U. S. Department of Commerce in the Pacific, such as, primary seacoast lights, secondary lights, river, harbor, and other lights, unlighted fixed aids, lightships, and other floating aids. (Geography; Civics; Navigation.) Report of the United States National Museum, 1934. 109 p. (Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum.) 15 cents. Appropriations, collections, exploration and field work, assistance by C. W. A., educational work, visitors, library, publications, photographic laboratory, buildings and equipment, meetings and special exhibits, changes in organization and staff, and detailed reports on the collections of the departments of anthropology, biology, geology, and arts and industries and the division of history. List of accessions and museum publications. (Museums; Research.) Raising Reindeer in Alaska. 40 p. (Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 207.) 5 cents. Latest developments in studies of the Territory's grazing resources and the working out of improved methods of herd and range management being made by the Bureau of the Biological Survey in cooperation with the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines at the Reindeer Experiment Station, College, Alaska, and at substations at Nome, on Nunivak Island, and on the ranges. (Biology; Economics.) Price Lists (Free): Foods and cookingcanning, cold storage, home economics, No. 11; Publications of the U. S. Geological Survey-Geology and Water Supply, No. 15; Engineering and SurveyingLeveling, triangulation, latitude, geodesy, tides, terrestrial magnetism, No. 18; Army and Militia-Aviation and pensions, No. 19; The Public Domain-Public lands, conservation, and oil leases, No. 20; Transportation-Railroad and shipping programs, postal service, telegraphs, telephones, and Panama Canal, No. 25; Geography and Explorations-Natural wonders, scenery, and national parks, No. 35. (Government Printing Office.) Chart Broadcast Schedules of U. S. Naval Radio Stations transmitting time, weather, hydrography, and ice. (Hydrographic Office, U. S. Navy, Reprint from Hydrographic Bulletin No. 2385.) Free. Posters The National Park Service announces the publication of the following three new colored posters: A trumpeter swan in Yellowstone; an Indian poster of the Southwest; and one pertaining to the historical areas under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. Copies of these posters will be sent free of charge to interested travel clubs, tour bureaus, and similar organizations throughout the country. Requests should be addressed to the National Park Service, Washington, D. C. Maps Alaska. Size, 59 by 781⁄2 inches, in two sheets. Scale, 1 inch=23.7 miles. (Geological Survey.) $1. Printed in blue, buff, and black, with boundaries of judicial divisions in grayish olive. Shows location and names of the principal settlements, streams, glaciers, mountain ranges, islands, capes, peninsulas, bays, and inlets; also the location, names, and altitude of many individual peaks and volcanic craters. P. W. A. in Action. Size, 26 by 36 inches. (Public Works Administration.) Free. P. W. A. projects of greatest significance and effect in every part of the Nation have been portrayed on this map with explanations. Illustrates the variety of P. W. A. projects and the benefits they will bring. Suitable for display in schools, clubs, libraries, and community houses. Exhibits The Forest Service lends the following material for short periods free except for transportation charges from Washington and return: Colored Panels, large and small, dealing with timber growing, turpentining, farm forestry, forest fires, etfect of forest fires, also studies of growth and uses of various pines and hardwoods. Colored Enlargements, framed, on turpentining, planting, wildlife, scenery, natural reforestation, erosion, and lumbering. MARGARET F. RYAN |