Night Oration (verse)
Engels, Norbert
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. The following five educational...
...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...
...Has the lives of men who have in one way or other influenced our history from Viking days to the present...
...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...
...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...
...I have seen other trees Like ghosts upon a misty battlefield, Their leafy shoulders swaying as though They moaned the Death Gregorian...
...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...
...Curriculum construction, special classes, professional education--these, also, are subjects which have been treated inadequately in Catholic educational maga- zines during 1928...
...I I I Educational aims and functions...
...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...
...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...
...PURCELL, THE AMERICAN NATION A new high school history by the Associate Pro- fessor of History of the Catholic University of America...
...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...
...Each book in the series is a complete workbook and textbook, delightfully illustrated...
...THE ALPHA ARITHMETICS By the Supervisory Staff of the Summit Experi- mental School, Cincinnati...
...The writer is aware that several articles of an educational nature have been published during the past year in non-educa- tional Catholic magazines...
...This is a Volsteadian per-centage of one-half of I percent...
...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...
...MODERN TEXTBOOKS LAWLER, BUILDERS OF AMERICA A new elementary history in biographical form for the fifth grade...
...The Series is beautifuUy illustrated in color, retains the valuable phonetic features and has an added feature of silent reading material...
...25 I Psychology...
...GINN AND COMPANY...
...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...
...The following five educational subjects, for example, do per- mit and perhaps require special treatment in Catholic periodi- cals...
...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...
...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 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...
...20 o Teacher training...
...A new series of arith- metics for grades one to six...
...23 2 Educational history...
...NORBERT ENGELS...
...bridges the gap between nursery rhymes and high school poetry...
...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...
...and the wind Rustled their black silk vestments...
...But once I saw a tree Stand out against the moon...
...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...
...Consistency of comparison de-manded rigid adherence to the Digest's lists...
Vol. 10 • June 1929 • No. 8
