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...nation. Washington Gladden's sketch of the "Cosmopolis City Club" showing why and how the club was organized is an article of public interest, as are also further passages from the correspondence of General and Senator Sherman dealing with the war and a group of contributions relating to The Kindergarten Movement." In the series of "Notable Women" there is a sketch, with a portrait of Dorothea Dix, by Mary S. Robinson. Among the poets of the number are Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Louise Guiney and Louise Chandler Moulton...
...Stanford University, at Palo Alto, Cal. This means the loss to Indiana of her most distinguished educator. The salary attached to Mr. Jordan's new position is $10,000 with a residence. The university over which he is to preside will start, says Senator Stanford, with the kindergarten, and end with post-graduates from the highest course possible...
...tendency of men from colleges, especially from Harvard, is away from elementary instruction. Indeed, to enter this requires some special preparation and knowledge. The principles of good teaching remain the same from the kindergarten to the college. The difference is in the application of them. The ideal preparation for teaching would be a thorough college course, and then a year in a normal school. Every teacher should have some pursuit with which he may employ his outside time. The narrowing tendency of teaching is very great...
...That a return should now be threatened from the present system which those college officers best qualified to judge have pronounced a success, to the old one that has been tried and found wanting; that Harvard should deliberately retrace its steps, and from the university revert to the kindergarten, is a disappointment and a humiliation...
...sites for a university church, a memorial arch, buildings for the industrial department now under construction, libraries and museums, a botanic garden, four districts laid out in building lots suitable for detached dwellings and domestic gardens, with public ways directly communicating with the central university buildings, sites for a kindergarten, a primary school, an advanced school, and a school of industry and physical training, and a direct avenue between the central quadrangle and a proposed station of the Southern Pacific Railway, bordered by groves and promenades, with space in the wheelway for a double-track street railway...