Our Mute Educators
Cronin, James T.
218 THE COMMONWEAL June 26, 1929 OUR MUTE EDUCATORS By JAMES T. CRONIN VOICE
TRAINING
for ARTISTS TEACHERS CLERGYMEN PUBLIC SPEAKERS STUDENTS Coaching in Concert, Opera and...
...Of this total, thirty-six are articles in the single Catholic educational periodical listed...
...Compelled to tax my speaking voice ex- cessively, I soon found myself unable to speak...
...25 I Psychology...
...If school population num-bers were to be made the basis, the Catholic deficit in each of the foregoing items would be more than doubled...
...Sullivan's scientific knowledge of the voice, and his genius as a teacher not only corrected my faulty voice production, but improved my speaking and sing- ing voice tremendously...
...The following five educational subjects, for example, do per- mit and perhaps require special treatment in Catholic periodi- cals...
...The Digest in its bibliographies revised to July, I928, lists ninety-one periodicals...
...NORBERT ENGELS...
...But once I saw a tree Stand out against the moon...
...DANIEL SULLIVAN Associate Instructor Studios--132 West 74th Street, New York City T HE Official Catholic Year Book for I928 reports a stu-dent increase of 27 percent and a teacher increase of 5:1 percent in Catholic schools of all grades since I92o...
...This is a Volsteadian per-centage of one-half of I percent...
...and the wind Rustled their black silk vestments...
...bridges the gap between nursery rhymes and high school poetry...
...Objection may be made that an expectancy of 9 percent is unduly high because many educational topics, such as the techniques of the tool subjects, do not require special Catholic treatment...
...Written in accordance with modem his- torical research, adapted to the work called for by college entrance examinations, with thoroughly up- to-date bibliographies, excellent illustrations, numer-ous maps, a foreword by the rector of the Catholic University, The American Nation is an outstanding historical textbook...
...SISTER ANNA LOUISE, POETRY FOR JUNIOR STUDENTS Compiled to introduce elementary pupils to that idealism which poetry supplies and to acquaint them with classic poetry...
...A few minutes of arithmetic lend force to the foregoing figures...
...20 o Teacher training...
...In all the schools of this country under both public and private auspices in I926 there were about 27,372,000 stu- dents...
...I I I Educational aims and functions...
...PURCELL, THE AMERICAN NATION A new high school history by the Associate Pro- fessor of History of the Catholic University of America...
...1.7 " Substantial articles in Catholic periodicals to total substantial articles...
...81 " Substantial articles...
...Granting that this expectancy may be excessive June 26, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 219 for this and other reasons, nevertheless an analysis of the sub- jects treated in the magazine articles shows much to be desired...
...Unfortunately there has not been a proportionate increase in the articulate profes- sional interest which manifests itself in current literature...
...Has the lives of men who have in one way or other influenced our history from Viking days to the present...
...MSGR...
...The Digest also attempts to give a rough estimate of the quality of the articles in its bibliographies...
...I thought it was A man with shaggy hair who thundered At a crouching multitude, and wildly flung His arms up to the moody sky...
...During the same period 1,6o8 new buildings have been added to the system...
...Curriculum construction, special classes, professional education--these, also, are subjects which have been treated inadequately in Catholic educational maga- zines during 1928...
...Presumably there has been a correspondingly large development in professional equipment...
...The substantiation of this statement is the purpose of the following brief survey of educational periodical literature for the year I928...
...The bibliographies of the Digest from March, I928, to April, I929, inclusive, cover the magazine issues for the year I928...
...Each book in the series is a complete workbook and textbook, delightfully illustrated...
...Consistency of comparison de-manded rigid adherence to the Digest's lists...
...In this category are included eleven of the thirty-six articles in the single Catholic periodical to which reference has just been made...
...I have seen other trees Like ghosts upon a misty battlefield, Their leafy shoulders swaying as though They moaned the Death Gregorian...
...THE ALPHA ARITHMETICS By the Supervisory Staff of the Summit Experi- mental School, Cincinnati...
...The figures which follow are based upon the Loyola Educational Digest, edited by Austin G. Schmidt, S.J...
...The great majority of these are edu-cational magazines, in the general and special fields...
...Fall Term will begin October 14th Write for particulars DR...
...I am happy to recommend him unqualifiedly to students of the singing or of the speaking voice...
...Expressed in terms of percentages, the relative place of Catholic educational literature for x928 would be as follows: Catholic to total number of periodicals...
...A new series of arith- metics for grades one to six...
...218 THE COMMONWEAL June 26, 1929 OUR MUTE EDUCATORS By JAMES T. CRONIN VOICE TRAINING for ARTISTS TEACHERS CLERGYMEN PUBLIC SPEAKERS STUDENTS Coaching in Concert, Opera and Oratorio Repertoire RT...
...For instance, during the past year 156 articles have been published in the periodicals on Tests and Measurements ; of these, only one is in a Catholic magazine...
...Among the prominent artists of Dr...
...The Series is beautifuUy illustrated in color, retains the valuable phonetic features and has an added feature of silent reading material...
...A table of expectancy for current educational literature, based on student numbers, would reveal the following deficits in the Catholic column: Periodicals...
...In Catholic schools there were approximately 2,423,000 students or a little less than 9 percent of the grand total...
...High tribute is due this magazine that it is able to maintain a percentage of 31 of substantial articles, which is about the percentage maintained by the total of educational periodicals...
...The writer is aware that several articles of an educational nature have been published during the past year in non-educa- tional Catholic magazines...
...THE ROSARY READERS Written by Sister Mary Henry of the Dominican Order, they are the result of practical experience in parish schools, and follow the recommendations of the Twenty-Fourth Yearbook...
...I.I percent Articles in Catholic periodicals to total articles...
...In addition to the poverty of treatment of subjects which may need special consideration from the Catholic point of view, there is a similar lack of treatment of subjects which a healthy professional interest would contribute...
...Sullivan are GEORGES BAKLANOFF Chicago Civic Opera Company ALICE NIELSEN Formerly of the Metropolitan and Boston Opera Companies LYDIA LIPKOVSKA Imperial Opera Company, Petrograd REGINA SENZ Monte Carlo Grand Opera Company ELEANOR ELDERKIN Chicago Civic Opera Company Special Summer Classes now being conducted in New York studios until August 1st...
...23 2 Educational history...
...2o3 o Such subjects as the following have received no treatment in Catholic educational magazines for the year 1928: adminis- tration, junior high school, health and physical training, extra- curricular activities, social sciences and vocational guidance...
...1.8 " Are these percentages as high as reasonably may be ex-pected...
...THE NEW CORONA READERS In the new edition of the Corona Readers the first four volumes are written by the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
...88 percent Articles...
...DANIEL SULLIVAN Teacher of International Artists Associate Instructor of Singing to the College o[ NewRochelle MRS...
...The revised list contains only one Catholic educational periodical...
...MODERN TEXTBOOKS LAWLER, BUILDERS OF AMERICA A new elementary history in biographical form for the fifth grade...
...Approximately 2,05o magazine articles of an educa-tional nature are listed for this period...
...GINN AND COMPANY...
...The foregoing analyses indicate, in addition to a lack of articulate profes- sional interest, that the single Catholic educational periodical listed in the Digest is bearing an unfair burden...
...According to its judgment, the "relatively long and substantial articles" for I928 number 6o2...
...A search in the revised lists for the previous two years reveals that since then three Catholic educational periodicals have been omitted from the bibliographies...
...The Digest, it may be repeated, is the basis for the following analysis of substantial articles during 1928 on these five subjects : Subject Total Articles Catholic Religious and moral training...
...The writer assumes their elimination was due to the character of the Digest, i.e., "for students of the science of education...
...80 " Expectancy based on student numbers is approximate to ex-pectancy based on teacher numbers...
...From the view-point of Catholic influence, the most signifi- cant fact is that, to offset 2,o5o articles, substantial and other- wise, Catholic educational periodicals presented, during 1928, only eleven substantial articles...
...Night Oration I have seen trees at night Bending above the corn like tired reapers, Who, one by one, finish the last sheaf, Thinking of yellow lamps, the smell of beef And coffee, and warm feather beds...
...Daniel Sullivan as a teacher of voice...
...WILLIAM QUINN National Director, The Society lot the Propagation o] the Fdtb, says: "I feel I am doing a favor to every vocal student when I recommend Dr...
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