HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Mrs. Jenness-Miller MANY years ago when a student in the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, I. heard Mrs. Jenness-Miller talk on artistic and...
...This is America's opportunity," declares Commissioner Claxton...
...As they proceeded from New York, they told what things they were seeing on the route, how they passed through the Panama Canal, what kind of fish and birds they saw, how as they gradually went north the climate changed, etc...
...Learning Through Play Ey PETER W. DYKEMA Lecturer on Festivals, University of Wisconsin "OH, WHAT can we do today...
...When I read of the stir Mrs...
...Yet I hesitated a moment before I rang the bell of her handsome residence on Sheridan Circle...
...When everything had been made ready, Peter and Johnny embarked in their imaginary craft or, if the fun was to reach its height, a soap box was made to do duty for the good ship...
...Then the class offered suggestions...
...the home, in the school, on the play-ground, at a picnic or in the many other places where children are, been at a loss for an answer...
...Students from the western coast of South America will find it alluringly convenient to go via the Canal to educational centers in the United States...
...Johnny, bound Alaska for us...
...No one need be a 'bundle of nerves' who understands how to make nerves serve instead of ruling...
...This idea can be applied, not only in the school room, but in the home...
...And as we sat in the drawing room discussing many subjects of mutual interest, I could not but marvel at her superb physical, mental, and spiritual balance,—what she calls Triune Development...
...The present war would never have occurred had crowbars, spades, pitchforks, golf clubs and paving blocks been the only weapons at hand...
...But they are in the hands of a few policemen, paid by the whole community, instead of being in the possession of the citizens...
...Many foreign students are already coming to us, many more will come as the result, direct and indirect, of present events...
...They are going to be explorers and must have food, clothing, and a complete outfit for this long journey...
...It is for such occasions and for many others when children are to be taught so that they will be radiantly happy and deeply impressed, that the dramatic method of teaching, lately acclaimed as an old method newly introduced, is intended...
...It would not mean merely fun, but it would mean that Alaska had become something tangible, something real, a place of great interest which the child would be anxious to read and know something about...
...I recall her as a beautiful woman with fine presence and, oh, such lovely gowns...
...As I entered the hall I caught a glimpse of her at the head of the stairs...
...We give warlike princes these frightfully dangerous playthings — and then wonder that they use them...
...and I look forward to the next twenty-five years for my best achievement...
...The bulletin will be printed in several languages...
...Mary, what bodies of water would you pass through before reaching Alaska if you were to start from New York...
...The policemen use them under the common authority, according to definitely understood rales...
...Arrived in Alaska, they made use of all their reading and general knowledge to describe in a vivid way the people, their method of living, points of interest, exciting adventures, and the like...
...Now, supposing the teacher had said: "This morning the whole class is going to help Johnny and Peter get ready for a trip to Alaska...
...no one need suffer loss of vital force and decay of faculties or grow old, with the inexhaustible energy of the Universe to draw upon for renewal of every part, organ, and function,'' says Mrs...
...Jenness-Miller talk on artistic and hygienic dress...
...Besides books on her philosophy, she has written fiction...
...Foreign Students and the United States CONVINCED that one of the results of the present European war will be to interest foreign students in opportunities for education in the United States, Dr...
...Clubs and guns did not go out of fashion when law came to the cow towns of the West and the mining camps of the Rockies...
...that awful hoop skirts, for instance, will never again be the rage...
...I feel the school-girl thrill over again thinking about them...
...Her address was a revelation to young girls and could not fail to influence their lives thereafter...
...Thousands of students who have been attending universities in Europe will be obliged to look elsewhere for higher education, not only this year, but perhaps for years to come...
...Many a former desperado, when law had come to the mountains or the plains, has found his anger rising and his hand moving instinctively toward his holster...
...P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, has authorized the immediate preparation and publication of a special bulletin describing, for the use of foreign students, the facilities for professional and collegiate study in higher institutions of learning in this country...
...It is a by-product of the manufacture of Krupp guns and melinite and ironclads...
...Peter, tell us something about the Eskimaux, the kind of food they eat, their manner of dress, etc...
...Consider a typical example...
...We have now a supreme opportunity to demonstrate our capacity for intellectual leadership...
...And so no one gets hurt except the evil-doer...
...They told' what kind of provisions and clothing to take, how to pack them in the smallest space, and (if the teacher wanted to get in her arithmetic lesson in this connection they made an estimate as to the amount and kind of provisions, the distance of the journey, etc...
...We are tired of lessons, our play-things are broken, we have read all of our story books two or three times, there is nothing to go and see, and we don't know what to do...
...Apply this idea in a little different manner to reading classes in the school, dramatic incidents in history, in civics,, even in mathematics, and many other subjects and it is not hard to see that many topics which have heretofore had little interest for the children would become alive with possibilities...
...Her voice over the telephone had a rich, youthful quality...
...In the case of South America this student migration will be facilitated by the opportune opening of the Panama Canal...
...Within the last two decades the increase in opportunity for graduate study and research, and for professional and technical education has been very remarkable, much greater than most people even in America realize...
...Louis Republican THE problem of universal peace is not the very difficult one of taking away from the nations all desire to fight...
...But he has taken it out in hard words, because the holster was not there...
...Now what will they need...
...Whether the war continues three months or three years, our opportunities and obligations to take the lead in education and civilization will be the same, and America should respond by offering the best opportunity in the world for her own students and for those who may come from other countries...
...It is the much simpler one of taking away from them the means of fighting...
...Have you," in...
...They are there still...
...When will the world grow as sensible as the individual community...
...She has traveled extensively, and has always been interested in art...
...Think what a fascinating experience this would be for a child of eight or ten...
...World disarmament must leave weapons in the hands of the policeman—an international constabulary, under central command, to be used in enforcing order in case the social machinery in any part of the world should break down...
...If any dispassionate man will sit down and, beginning with the trouble about Bosnia and Herzegovina, try for the first time to think out the history of the past few years in Europe, minus ironclads, guns and forts, he will be astonished at the result...
...Summer hours can be made periods of intense enjoyment to the children by these play journeys—not only to Alaska, but to towns in our own land for which mother or father can supply first hand information, to coal mines, cotton fields, great factories, historic regions, etc...
...Every magazine article, every story, contains a play and hence a possibility for enjoyment and instruction if children are given a little skillful and sympathetic help...
...I thought how much she must have changed...
...The World Must Disarm From St...
...It was at a time when dress was particularly hideous,—unyielding corsets, tight basques, deforming bustles (ugh...
...Jenness-Miller has always been a believer in equal suffrage and has supported the movement with her ability and gifts...
...My work has been useful, but I have never regarded it as great," she said...
...Jenness-Miller does not hope to see women's dress standardized, but in spite of the absurdities and freaks of present-day fashion, she believes we are progressing...
...Did this sort of thing make Alaska an interesting, not to say a helpful, subject, or was it rather a very remote and rather unpleasant, memory to you...
...There was the same stately figure and queenly poise of the head that I remembered so well...
...skirts dragging the dirt of the streets...
...This distinguished woman has delivered eleven hundred lectures on physical culture and dress improvement in the United States and Canada...
...and that our artistic sense will not tolerate tightly compressed waists or other deformities of the human figure...
...Have you ever in school heard anything like this...
...The recent raising of standards and the better equipment of medical schools, the large endowments and appropriations for all forms of engineering, the marvelous growth of our colleges of agriculture, the development of colleges and schools of education, and the rapid increase in income of all the better colleges make it possible for this country to take the lead in education in a way that would have been impossible even at the beginning of the century...
...Have you ever heard anything like that,— mothers, fathers, and teachers...
...Jenness-Miller had made by her talk before the Chamber of Commerce for a greater Washington, I was moved to ask her for a personal interview...
Vol. 6 • October 1914 • No. 43
