The Colleges Music in the Colleges T HE YEAR 1867 marks the begin- United States. In that year the certs and recitals for all college students, often including local citizens. To mention only a few extra-class activities: The Allegheny Singers (Allegheny College, Pa.) are rehearsing for their winter and spring concerts. The group is composed of 40 young men and women, most of them with no previous experience or training, yet they thrill large audiences with their excellent renditions. The Mundy Worlds Fair Jubilee Octet recently appeared at Wayne University (Mich.). The student assembly of the First steps in the forward movement The extension department of the University of Kentucky supervised a program in which more than 500 boys and girls of the fifth to eighth grades of Kentucky rural schools were guests of the university. Rural music contests were planned and conducted by the instructor in music. The lecture course bureau of the University of Kansas has placed all of the talent available for the 1935-36 season serving about 200 communities. At least 700 other communities would participate. Next year the bureau is outlining a popular-priced course to include music, lectures, educational and entertainment features at popular prices. Washington State College's "fight song" by the director of the college band has been accepted by high schools in a number of Western States. The $50,000 carillon of the University of Michigan will be housed in the new Burton Memorial Campanile which will also house a number of music studios and will serve as the nucleus of the proposed School of Music Building. The Student Symphony Orchestra of Pennsylvania State College has attained full instrumentation with the addition of 28 new members. The 50-piece R. O. T. C. band of the University of Vermont is a feature at the football games. Williams College (Mass.) has received an endowment by Paul Whiteman for the first museum of modern American music to be accessible to musicians to aid in the art of arranging, radio broadcasting, composing, and playing modern American music. As a part of the Wisconsin School of the Air, more than 5,000 boys and girls join in singing at the command of the professor over the radio. New Publication The American State and Higher Education by Alexander Brody, prepared for the American Council on Education (1935) presents higher education as a function of government and shows the political factors which affect its administration; and analyzes the political and legal conditions which underlie the creation, support, and administration of State institutions for higher education in the United States. Constitutional and statutory provisions relating to higher education and the judicial cases decided thereunder in the several States have been selected, arranged, and presented with a view to acquaint the student of education, as well as the student of government, with the pattern of legal control of higher education in the United States. State activity in higher education through the medium of organized government involves, first, the problem of formulating sound social policy, and second, the problem of implementing these policies by law. Land-Grant Institutions, 1935 United States Office of Education Circular 149, the preliminary report on land-grant institutions, is available free upon request. This study reveals that 2,626 more students were enrolled in agriculture in 1934-35 than in the previous year. More students than ever before were enrolled in veterinary medicine. The 2,455 students in forestry represent nearly twice as mary students as were enrolled the previous year; influence of the national forestry projects is plainly evident in enrollments. The number of girls enrolled in home economics courses has fallen off greatly during the depression, but 1934-35 enrollments represent an increase of 858 over the previous year. Although 1930-31 is the peak year for students in engineering courses, there were 2,667 more men taking engineering in 1934-35 than in the previous year. WALTER J. GREENLEAF SCHOOL LIFE December 1935 Electrifying Education DR. W. S. BITTNER, Secretary of the National University Extension Association, reports that 20 out of 57 universities and colleges responding to a questionnaire sent out by him indicate that they maintain a motion-picture service for approximately 5,000 schools and other organizations. Nine other universities contemplate establishing a film service. A total of 8,989 motion-picture reels are reported by the 20 institutions maintaining film libraries. The Federal Communications Commission recently announced the membership of the Federal Radio Education Committee, of which Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education, is chairman. As stated by Judge Eugene O. Sykes of the Commission, it is the sincere belief of the Commission that the hearings, conferences, and constructive thought and experience given to this subject have produced a situation whereby within the present broadcast structure the educators on the one hand and the broadcasters on the other can combine forces which will: 1. Eliminate controversy and misunderstanding between groups of educators and between the industry and educators. 2. Promote actual cooperative arrangements between educators and broadcasters on national, regional, and local bases. Suggestions intended to aid the committee in realizing its objectives should be sent to Commissioner Studebaker. The National Safety Council, 1 Park Avenue, New York, has some excellent new visual aids in safety education. The University of Michigan announces that Dr. Joseph E. Maddy's radio music courses for band and orchestra instruments are being broadcast over Station WMAQ, Chicago, as well as over Station WJR, Detroit. Thousands of Michigan boys and girls have learned to play musical instruments from these free courses in the past and it is gratifying, indeed, to see this service extended to other States. Teachers desiring to be kept informed regarding forthcoming educational broad Kansas City, Mo., public schools are giving a radio program each week. These programs feature (1) an address (6 minutes) by some staff member or school official in order to acquaint the people of Kansas City with the work of the schools and the needs of the schools; (2) a program of music or public speaking by pupils of the Kansas City public schools. This is in order that the citizens of Kansas City may enjoy some of the splendid programs prepared by the pupils in their regular school work. The broadcast is on Tuesday of each week, 5:30-5:45 p. m., over WDAF. In 1936 for Education TO PROMOTE education in the United States, Federal funds to the amount shown below will be spent through the Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior. To the right are figures showing amounts flowing CLINE M. KOON directly to the States. Next are figures showing expenditures for auditing these accounts and promotion of American education. On the left you will find, briefly stated, what this expenditure is for: New Government Aids For Teachers Order free publications and other free aids listed from agencies issuing them. Request only cost publications from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., enclosing remittance [check or money order] at time of ordering. Publications How to Have the Home You Want. 24 p. (Federal Housing Administration.) Free. The first section of this booklet deals with the financing of new home construction, with the purchase of new homes, and with the refinancing of existing home mortgages. The second deals with home modernization, repair, and alteration. (Home economics; Civics.) Light and Power for the Farm. 13 p. (Rural Electrification Administration.) Free. A pamphlet giving a brief, simple explanation of the aims and methods of operation of the REA and instructions for preliminary steps to initiate a project. (Civics; Economics; Home economics; Agriculture; Electrical engineering.) Library of Congress Classification-Class P-PJ-PM. 246 p. (Library of Congress.) 60 cents. Librarians: Classification scheme for languages and literature of Asia, Africa, Oceania, America, mixed languages, and artificial languages is now available. (Library science.) Summary of Mortality from Automobile Accidents, 4-week period ending Sept. 28, 1935. 4 p. (Bureau of the Census.) Free. Reports on automobile accidents from 86 large cities. Most of the deaths were the result of accidents which occurred within the corporate limits of the city. (Safety education.) Instructions for Airway Meteorological Service. 142 p., illus. (Weather Bu reau, Circular N, Aerological Division.) 25 cents. Specific instructions for making, transmitting, and recording airway weather observations. Contains 41 illustrations among which are a number of exceptional ones of cloud formations. (Meteorology; Aviation.) First Annual Report of the Central Statistical Board. 50 P. (Central Statistical Board.) 10 cents. Foreign Radio Broadcasting Services. 30 p. (Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.) 25 cents. A list of such stations by country, locality, call, wave length, frequency, and power. (Geography; Com merce.) Preparation and Use of Weather Maps at Sea. (Weather 48 p., maps, charts. Bureau, Circular R.) 10 cents. Contents: Weather as a factor in navigation; the ship's weather observations, the radio weather message and its uses; radio weather bulletins; preparation of weather maps; weather types; tropical storms; drawing inferences from the weather map. (Civics; Navigation; Science.) Rural Planning-The Village. 40 p., illus. (Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 1441.) 5 cents. Answers the following questions: Why should villages be planned? Who should initiate the planning? Where should responsibility for action and accomplishment lie? How can cooperation effect desirable results? Should plans include the future? What will they cost, how can they be financed, and what difficulties will be encountered? (Agricultural economics; Civics.) International Traffic in Arms. 19 p. (Department of State, Publication No. 787.) 15 cents. Laws and regulations administered by the Secretary of State governing the international traffic in arms, ammunition, and implements of war. (International law; Economics; Commerce.) The Southern Alaska Range. 101 p., illus., maps. (Geological Survey, Bulletin 862.) 70 cents. Data on the geography, geology, and mineral resources of this area. Also gives a short résumé of previous explorations and surveys of this part of Alaska. Two folded maps in colors are to be found in a pocket at the back of the bulletin. (History; Geography; Geo ogy; Mineralogy.) Minerals Yearbook, 1935. 1200 p. (Bureau of Mines.) $2. A library of current developments in the mineral industry in one volume. A survey of gold and silver mining and markets, detailed State mining reviews, current trends in coal and oil, analysis of the extent of business recovery for various mineral groups. 75 chapters, 59 contributors, 129 illustrations. (Economics; Mineralogy.) Planting and Care of Lawns. 18 p., illus. (Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 1677.) 5 cents. Rainfall Intensity Frequency Data. 68 p., charts. (Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 204.) 10 cents. A study of the frequency at which excessive rates of precipitation occur in different sections of the United States, and the intensity and duration of those rates. (Agricultural engineering; Geography; Nature study.) Price lists (Free from the Superintendent of Documents): Laws-Federal and State, opinions of Attorney General, Decisions of courts, No. 10; Birds and wild animals, No. 39; Agricultural chemistry and soils and fertilizers, No. 46; Maps, No. 53. Complete story of the production and use of nickel. The story opens more than half a mile below the earth's surface where nickel ore is mined, loaded into cars, hauled to the bottom of the shaft, and crushed. Scenes showing spectacular operations of drawing the slag and tapping a cupola furnace as well as electrolytic refining and casting are presented. The film ends with several scenes showing how nickel is utilized in industry, in sports, and in the home. The Making of a Safe Miner. 2-reel, silent. Size: both 16 and 35 mm. Includes many scenes depicting the operation of a large coal mine. The action of the film hinges on the story of a capable but careless miner who later becomes converted to carefulness and safety-mindedness through personal experience in a mine disaster. A number of scenes show a U. S. Bureau of Mines rescue team in action and illustrate the necessity of first-aid training and mine rescue work for those engaged in the industry. The staff of the Office of Education in the United States Department of the Interior is constantly engaged Agricultural education: J. A. LINKE, chief. C. H. LANE, agent, north Atlantic region. R. D. MALTBY, agent, southern region. JAMES H. PEARSON, agent, central region. W. T. SPANTON, agent, western region. H. O. SARGENT, special agent for Negro schools. FRANK W. LATHROP, research specialist. JOHN B. MCCLELLAND, specialist in part-time and evening schools. W. A. Ross, specialist in subject matter. H. B. SWANSON, specialist in teacher training. Trade and industrial education: FRANK CUSHMAN, chief. G. A. MCGARVEY, agent, north Atlantic region. C. E. RAKESTRAW, agent, southern region. R. V. BILLINGTON, agent, central region. JAMES R. COXEN, agent, western region. special agent. Mrs. A. L. BURDICK, special agent, women and girls. R. W. HAMBROOK, special agent. N. B. GILES, special agent. Research and statistical: JOHN CUMMINGS, chief. C. M. ARTHUR, research specialist. Educational consultant: C. F. KLINEFELTER. Vocational rehabilitation service, District of Columbia: |