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EDUCATIONAL NEWS, a ........ houses when the schools are in session. We have just as much occasion to keep the sentiment of national patriotism PUBLISHED WEEKIS alive and active as France has and when it can be done at BY THL such a trifling expense in time and money and at the same EDUCATIONAL NEWS COMPANY, time afford such pleasure to the young in doing it, who shall say no? These thoughts were brought afresh to Philadelphia, Pa. my attention on reading that Juring a recent trip to this country the Earl of Meath was so impressed with the disCONTENTS. COMMUNICATIONS: play of the Stars and Stripes on many of our school houses THE FLAG ON EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL HOUSE............291 that he has donated fifty pounds to the London School THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY 291 Board for the purchase of flags for their school houses. It DOES EDUCATION PAY ?....... 292 was further remarked that the Earl was not a mere enthuAN OLD THING UNDER A NEW NAME. ... 203 siast, but an observing man of judgment, for he noticed THE MORNING TALK....... .294 while in this country, that some school boards wished to IN THE COUNTRY SCHOOL .... 294 teach a divided patriotism by flying various flags along TEACHERS' TRIUMPH IN BERLIN .295 EDITORIAL: with the Stars and Stripes; therefore the Earl made his gift EDITORIAL NOTES.......... 296 subject to the condition that only the Union Jack should be PERSONAL ITEMS... ..297 used. The School Board accepted the gift with such AINTS.. ....... ....298 hearty approval and such sympathy for the patriotic purEDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE..... .. 299 pose that they made an appropriation of an additional sum QUERY COLUMN...... ..301 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC, to aid in teaching love of country by means of the national .302 flag. It is said that the great German statesman, Bismarck, Original and Selected. only a few years ago declared that the strength of America was, not in its marvelous wealth, but in the vivid enthuFor the EDUCATIONAL NEWS, siasm of the people for their country: The Stars and THE FLAG ON EVERY SCHOOL HOUSE. Stripes floating gracefully on every American school house would be a silent teacher for the thousands of foreigners of On every suitable occasion within the last four or five all climes and languages that flock to our shores annually; years I have advocated the idea of having the Stars and for the "Star Spangled Banner'' speaks a universal lanStripes float over every public school while the school is in guage. session, thus signifying that the American forts are garri- No country on the face of the globe to-day has such a soned and the soldiers are on duty. It is a pretty idea to heterogeneous mass of humanity to mold and transform inhave a national flag in every school room, but how much to citizens as this nation has, and hence the necessity of a grander and how much more inspiring it would be to have central spot in every community from which rays of paa color guard to fling the beautiful banner to the breeze triotism for "The land of the free and the home of the every morning at the opening of the session and to take it brave," may stream forth. in it the close of the session. I have read somewhere that Col. Balch of New York City has done much in his flag the national colors fly over all French national school salute for the pupils and incidentally for the parents. Who a |