OCTOBER, 1932

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ROM THE Pan American Union

in Washington, the headquarters of the international organization maintained by 21 American republics for the development of better understanding, friendly intercourse, commerce and peace among Nations, there come regularly many publications useful to teachers.

Of great interest to young people of the United States should be "Stories of the Nations" which comprise several hundred "little works on big subjects." Important information on each of 21 American republics is included in this publication, covering facts on large cities, commercial commodities, ports, harbors, and sightseeing in general. Each story is written in popular style.

Similar booklets on history, education, forestry, treaties, finance, archaeology, social welfare, and other topics are also available.

CLASSROOM "MOVIE" HANDICAPS MORE THAN ONE THIRD of 629 teachers who use motion pictures and regard them as helpful classroom aids, reported as a major difficulty in their use the fact that it is not usually possible for teachers to make sufficient detailed study of a film to get the maximum value from its use.

Rapidity of film movement, swiftness of change from point to point, and the expansive content often leads to inaccurate and unsuccessful pupil recall, about one half of the teachers said.

Many others stated that expense of films and difficulty of projection prevent a wider use of educational films in the classroom.

J. O. Malott, commercial education specialist of the Federal Office of Education, reports this information from a study of the Department of Commerce and the Office of Education on the administration of film service in the public schools. For further information on this study address: E. I. Way, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.

FOR THE BLIND

UPON REQUEST of the Library of Congress, the United States Bureau of Standards has been making a study of Braille papers to be used in books for the blind. A special requirement of paper for this purpose is that the embossed points forming the printed characters must have sufficient resistance to crushing and yet not feel harsh to the sensitive fingers of the blind.

Viajando Por Los Estados Unidos (Seeing The United States) is especially useful to the student of Spanish. The Bulletin, published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, three different magazines each covering its special field, show month-tomonth progress of Latin American Republics and bring to readers specific activities of governmental and private interests in the Americas.

Largely of a political and technical nature are The Conference Series of publications which relate to the various conferences of American Republics. Six have been held during the past 42 years. The seventh will convene at Montevideo, Uruguay, in December, 1933.

To order publications mentioned or to obtain price lists of publications address: Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.WM. A. REID, Foreign Trade Adviser.

PUBLICATIONS REPRICED Two POPULAR Office of Education publications have been reduced in price, the Superintendent of Documents announces. They are: "Self-Help for College Students" Bulletin 1929 No. 2, now 15 cents per copy; and "Scholarships and Fellowships, Grants Available in U. S. Colleges and Universities," Bulletin 1931, No. 15, now 15 cents per copy. Both of these bulletins have had a wide distribution during the past year.

The Office of Education's "best-seller," "Classroom Weight Records" are now $3 per hundred, instead of $2 per hundred. The single copy price will remain at 5 cents. The price for Health Education Poster No. 4, "Weight, Height, Age Tables for Boys and Girls," is $2 per hundred; that of the "Record of Growth," $1.50 per hundred.

FAMILY QUARTET GRADUATE TO THE FAMILY of James O. Engleman, president of Kent State College, Kent, Ohio, belongs the distinction of father and three sons receiving degrees from four different institutions in one year. ident Engleman took the Ph. D., at Ohio State University in the summer of 1932; his son Buryl took the A. M. at Northwestern University, and Edward the same degree at Indiana State Teachers College. Philip took the A. B. at the institution over which his father presides.

Dr. Engleman was director of the Field Service Division of the National Education Association a few years ago, resigning to return to school administration.

"COMMERCIAL RADIO ADVERTISING" is the title of a report recently issued by the Federal Radio Commission in response to Senate Resolution No. 129 instructing the commission to make a survey of the allocation and use of radic facilities for commercial and educational purposes.

The report contains much interesting information about our broadcasting system.

Although a number of defects are discussed, it is, as a whole, an able defense of our present broadcasting system. Further information regarding this report may be obtained by addressing the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

The fourth season of the American School of the Air will begin Monday, Oct. 24 at 2.30 p. m., E. S. T., over the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Dr. Walter Damrosch began the fifth season of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour, Friday morning, October 14, at 11 o'clock, E. S. T., over the NBC network.

Prof. T. M. Beaird, of the University of Oklahoma, is chairman of a special committee of the Association of College and University Broadcasting Stations, which is making a study of various ways in which educational broadcasting stations can exchange programs. This committee should render a splendid service to educational broadcasting stations.

the bright child in the grades and in high

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HAT ARE the occupations of college women? How much do they earn? Do college women marry? Who pays for their education? Why do women students drop out of college?

These and many other educational, personal, and occupational questions constantly being asked by and about the college woman of to-day, are answered in "After College-What?", a publication of the Institute of Women's Professional Relations, North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, N. C.

The study of 6,665 land-grant college women is based upon data gathered by the Federal Office of Education in its recent survey of land-grant colleges and universities, and covers the period from 1889 to 1922.

Teaching is the most popular occupation of female college graduates. Many also follow vocations in libraries, health work, commercial fields, and in branches of home economics.

The median salary of all college women included in the study is $1,655 per year; $1,640 for teaching; $2,078 for executive positions in business; $1,992 for home economics trained women in occupations

other than teaching; $1,746 for those in fine arts and related fields; $1,691 in all types of professional work, and $1,533 in all types of business.

More of the land-grant college women than women from other types of colleges marry, the study discloses. Of all gainfully employed, nearly 20 per cent are married; about 14 per cent of the teachers and approximately 28 per cent of those in all other occupations.

Sixty-one per cent of all married women graduates have children, and of these more teachers have become mothers than women in all other occupations.

Married teachers earn a median salary less than that of single teachers, and more of the married women are in elementary teaching than single women, who teach mainly in senior high school and college.

"Drop-outs" were ascribed chiefly to finances, health, and change of mind, most occurring during the first or second college year. More than half who withdrew were reported to be without paid occupations, and married. Those with degrees showed a distinct advantage in earning power over those who withdrew and never obtained a degree.

HAVE YOU READ?

Drawing by Erwin H. Austin, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.

By Sabra W. Vought
Librarian, Office of Education

THAT THE AIM of the graduate school should be "to foster prospective great scholars" not to train or educate them, but "to incite to ardent exploration" in an untrodden path perceived by the imagination of the explorers, is the text of an article by President Lowell, of Harvard, in the Atlantic Monthly for August. He discusses "Universities, graduate schools, and colleges,' comparing American, English, and German institutions.

In a brilliant and thought-provoking article in Progressive Education for April, George S. Counts attacks the problem "Dare progressive education be progressive?" He wonders "whether our progressive schools, handicapped as they are by the clientele which they serve and the intellectualistic approach to life which they embrace, can become progressive in

the discussion. "The public library in American life" is discussed in School and Society for September 3 by President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina. He shows that the library has been an important factor in the development of civilization and in the enrichment of individual human life, and that now in a time of depression it helps the entire community. "The future of radio in education" with special emphasis on its aid in vocational guidance, is discussed by William John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Education, in Texas Outlook for September. While education by radio is most successful in those subjects "which especially require ear training" as music, history, geography, literature, and languages, as yet little progress has been made and he says "it will probably be five or ten years before we can tell exactly what we want." An interesting and appreciative account of Tom Skeyhill, the Blind Anzac, who was the friend of Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Bernard Shaw, and who wrote and spoke thrillingly about Sergeant Alvin York, appears in Michigan Education Journal for September. The author is John Jay of Hamtramck. The National Survey of Secondary Education, a 3-year study directed by the Office of Education, was completed in June. The North Central Association Quarterly for September contains a symposium on the subject. Dr. L. V. Koos, associate director of the survey, explains the methods employed and briefly summarizes the findings. Supplementing this are several articles which discuss the various aspects of the survey in its relation to the curriculum. The League of Nations' Institute of Intellectual Cooperation began in April the publication of a new monthly called Information Bulletin (Address: 40 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.). It aims to cover the activities of the organization in the fields of art, literature, science, education, etc., and is the only periodical publication of the Institute which is issued in English.

The trends of modern education in the various countries of the world are discussed in the League Script (Minnesota Teachers League) for April-June. The North Central Association Quarterly appeared in a new dress with the beginning of its seventh volume in June. The new format is pleasing to the eye, while the cost to individual teachers has been considerably reduced. The June issue of Understanding the Child is devoted to the problem of training the bright child. Some of the subjects considered are: "What is the bright child?" "The bright child as a school problem," "Guidance of

opens this fall at Teachers College, Columbia University, for the preparation of teachers, appears in the Journal of Education for September 5. The author, Agnes Snyder, discusses the plans and purpose of the new enterprise. An interesting description of Soro Academy "an old school rich in traditions" which is now the largest State boarding school in Denmark, appears in the American-Scandinavian Review for August-September. Under the title "A royal school democratized" H. G. Olrik describes this venerable school which was founded in 1586 and still flourishes as a boarding school open to any Danish boy.