Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1927 — Page 19

DEC. 31, 1927.

GROWTH MADE BY SCHOOLS IN INDIANAPOLIS Two High Buildings Erected and Many Expanded; More Courses Offered. BY MURRAY A. DALMAN Director of Reraroh. Inrlianapoll* I’ublte School* The growth of a school city can readily he shown by numbers enrolled. by value of property, by number of teachers, by number of class rooms added and in other ways; but the educational growth improvement which is Just as steady and vastly more important can not be so readily shown. This has been a successful year. Two new high schools have gone into service, a third Is nearing completion and plans for additional facilities at another are being formulated. Additions have been completed to several elementary schools, two new buildings, 37 and 42, have been placed in service and another. No. 85, will be ready for occupancy In January. Plans for future additions and buildings are under way so that the plan of providing proper housing for all the children may not be Interrupted. With the increase of facilities, more and more emphasis could be placed on educational development and the results are beginning to appear. Music Makes Progress Music department lias witnessed a steady growth in several lines of activity. Instrumental classes in both elementary and high schools

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have increased in number and efficiency. A most gratifying outgrowth of these classes in the elementary schools has been the organization of a number of school orchestras. Indianapolis high schools entered between 300 and 400 pupils in the all-State chorus and all-State orchestra at Indianapolis for the State Teachers Association convention in October. They are planning to send representatives to the national chorus and orchestra, which will play for the music supervisors’ national conference in Chicago. April 16-20. The OrlofT Trio is playing a recital of music memory selections in aU schools sponsored by the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers. The Teachers’ Chorus, under the leadership of Ernest G. Hesser, director of music, is in its sixth season. The chorus will present a public program in March with Paul Althouse, tenor, as assisting artist. A public school hour, stressing music activities in the schools, and including short talks by members of the educational staff, will be broadcast from Station WFBM every Friday night beginning Jan. 6. Art Interest Increases Pupils are so happy in their art work that, if permitted, they come early and stay late to carry out art problems. They are finding that art means neatness and order in all their school work and that the principles of good design and harmonious color can be applied to home and civic problems. By starting a drive for better handwriting, Indianapolis is giving proper recognition to one of the three educational graces, reading, writing and arithmetic. Only in recent years have psychologists and educators turned their attention to the principles of

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habit formation as applied to handwriting. Emphasis is placed on writing as routine expression and not as drill work. The material is specially adapted to the grades in which it is given. The principal aim in teaching writing is to develop a ready means of expression which shall be acquired as naturally and with as little strain as possible on the part of the child and which shall meet the demand of legibility on the part of the reader. Domestic Science For the past two decades the idea that education is a part of life itself and not a mere preparation for life, has been steadily gaining in favor in the educational world. Therefore, in teaching foods and cookery, we turn to the activities of the home for real problems. In clothing and textile work, as In most school subjects, the principles taught remain much the same from year to year; but emphasis of these principles changes as habits and needs of the community change. Some years ago chief work of these classes was sewing, because the making of garments was the phase of clothing work that girls most needed. Today the making of garments is only a part of the work. In addition to the sewing the girl is taught some of the principles of color, line and workmanship that will help her in choosing ready-to-wear garments. It is also necessary that she have some knowledge of how’ materials are made in order to judge the relative quality and cost of ready-to-wear garments or materials.

Social Service Offered The social service department was organized to meet problems created by the compulsory education law. This law has brought into school many children who would not have appeared otherwise and has kept in school many others who would have dropped out after a short stay. This brought to the school anew problem. The law requires every child between the ages of 7 and 16 to attend school regularly. The one exception applies to those children whose parents are financially unable to send them to high school. This is, of course, the group who can least afford to forego the advantages of an education. Some exceptions should be made in the cases of children unable to advance in school, but no child should lose his educational opportunity because of pov-

INDIANA UNIVERSITY More Than a Century of — SERVICE TO THE STATE 1 Q /IQQ Ci.. J i Registered in Campus and Extension 1 Oj*tOO OtllUeillS Classes the Past Year. 250,000 Hoosiers Anm J a ! ly th * Unihealth, in scientific investigation and research, and in extension work covering many fields of human progress. RESULTS—THAT KEEP ON COUNTING! „ Indiana University’s Divisions AT BLOOMINGTON: College of Arts and Sciences School of Medicine (First Year) Graduate School Schoo , of Music School of Education . School of Law School of Dentistry (First Year) School of Commerce and Finance Extension Division (H’dq’rters) AT INDIANAPOLIS: School of Medicine (Last three School of Dentistry (Last three years) years) Training School for Nurses Extension Center For catalogue and bulletins, address The Registrar, Indiana University, Bloomington

“LOOKING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACKWARD” 1927 was a great “Purdue Year,” and the University looks back with some degree of pride on its work for the people of Indiana through: i Increased enrollment numbering above 4,000. Direct help given more than 1,200,000 residents of the State during the year through its agricultural and engineering extension departments and experiment stations. And the visits of more than 10,000 persons to the campus for special instruction within the year. 1928 will be a still greater “Purdue Year,” and the University looks forward with confidence to increasing its usefulness to the people of our State. Purdue and Progress Go Hand in Hand Courses in Agriculture, Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Science, Home Economics and Pharmacy. Write for Catalog PURDUE UNIVERSITY Lafayette, Ind.

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erty. Funds for this purpose are provided by the Parent-Teachers’ Association, the Indianapolis Foundation, the Altrusa Club and by interested individuals. There is a need for closer relationship between the school and the home. The Parent-Teacher Associations have helped. The home visitor Is another means to this end. Formerly the teacher herself made these contacts, but increase in size of classes, the increase in the amount of work to be done and the semi-annual promotions make it impossible for the teacher to knowmuch, if anything, about the individual child from personal contact, with the home. With the opening of schools this fall an addition to School No. 72 of two ninety-minute manual training periods a week, half of which is spent in the print shop and the other half in —oodworking and mecahnical drawing. Practically all manual training centers in the city now have this double period schedule of work. In a number of grade school centers the equipment in woodworking shops has been supplemented to include facilities for teaching sheet metal work, ornamental concrete work and elementary electricity.

Cooperative Vocational Class A cooperative class for persons engaged in the plumbing trade was established recently. One afternoon a week employers release their employes without loss of pay, that they may go to school and study things particularly related to the plumbing trade. Plans for extending these cooperative classes into other fields had to be set aside for the present due to the limited budget. Illustrative materials used In the Indianapolis schools are handled through the educational museum. This material is produced by the museum and turned over to the teachers’ special library for distribution. In providing for the educational needs of children, certain special individuals appear for whom the adjustment from the regular curriculum must be so great that it can not be made in the regular class room by the regular teacher. Whenever a sufficient number of similar cases is found, a special curriculum group is formed. These groups are made necessary by physical and mental conditions. Schools of several types are included in this group: Fresh air, open window, for crippled children.

opportunity, prevocational, and schools for mental defect. It is rather hard to secure teachers for schools of this kind, because no institutions train for this work. Indianapolis has gone forward slowly, but steadily with this work adjusting the plan to suit conditions as they appear. Night Schools Indianapolis has always tried to meet the demand for adult education without any special campaign for enrollment. Schools are proposed in certain districts and advertised to open on a certain date. If the required number appear to enroll, the school is continued; if not. it is closed. Chief among the activities are classes in elementary academic work, English for foreigners, citizenship and Americanization classes. KEEN COMPETITION IN 1928 TRADE PREDICTED Leaders Believe Business to Hold to Peak of Last Year. NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Industry and business will enter the year 1928 facing one of the keenest periods of competition in our industrial history, but in general will hold almost to the peak of last year, according to the general opinion of manufacturers throughout the country, expressed in a symposium prepared by the National Association of Manufacturers and made public today. These men are either members of the association whose combined membership employs something more than three million workers, or are members of the Platform of American Industry Committee of One Hundred, which is preparing planks to be submitted to both the Republican and Democratic conventions the coming presidential campaign.

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LONDON TOPS PARIS CRASHES No. 3 Head—Sec- Puzzle More Killed, Hurt in Great Britain Than France. BY JOHN O’BRIEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 31.—Reckless as they are, the taxi chauffeurs of Paris cause less danger to person's lives than their comrades of London, who are reputed to be the safest and soundest drivers in the world. For the year 1926. street accidents caused by automobiles in France resulted In 2.160 deaths, while the figures for Ehgland for the same period were 4,015. In that year there were 901.000 automobiles in the French streets, while in England there were 984.000. Allowing for the difference in the number of vehicles, the percentage of deaths in France was 0.24 against 0.40 for England. According to an official report to the minister of the interior, the 2,160 accidents in 1926 wore due to Che following causes: Speeding, 752; failure to observe rules, 679; imprudence of the victims, 405; undetermined, 324. Traffic experts have been studying the problem of Paris streets for years. It is difficult to find a solu-

Butler University — lndianapolis Registration for Second Semester February 7, 1928 Instruction Begins February 8 Classes Organized for New Students ROBERT J. ALEY, President. New Plant at Fairview Under Construction For the remainder of this collegiate year, operations will he continued in the old plant at Irvington. For Further Information , Call or Write Office of Registrar—lß vington 0238. Downtown Business Office—llo4 Fletcher Trust Bldg. John W. Atherton, Financial Secretary.

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A SCHOOL of TRADITION and EXPERIENCE Teachers College of Indianapolis offers to students the advantage of specific training which is very practical, under direction of teachers devoted to an ideal. A personal interest is taken in each student. The college students secure thorough practical instruction and practice teaching, confidence in their ability to succeed. A first grade license is issued after two years’ work in elementary, grammar-grade, or kindergarten-primary courses. TEACHERS COLLEGE IS A STATE ACCREDITED STANDARD NORMAL SCHOOL, ideally located, and Indianapolis offers many practical and cultural advantages to students. TEACHERS COLLEGE of Indianapolis Write for Catalogue ALICE CORBIN SIES, President

tion owing to the enormous number of narrow streets and points at which sometimes half a dozen streets meet and cross, making the

Indiana State Normal School Terre Haute and Muncie Winter Term Jan. 2 —March 23, 1928 Spring Term March 26—June 15,1928 Mid-Spring Term May 7 —June 15, 1928 First Summer Term .. .June 18—July 21,1928 Second Summer Term. .July 23 —Aug. 25,1928 Your school for preparation Primary. Rural. Intermediate anc# High School Teachers, Superintendents. Principals. Supervisors > and Special Teachers. Libraries. Laboratories. Practice Schools, Gymnasiums. Athletic Fields. Commmercial. Industrial Arts, Home Economics Departments. Forty-eight weeks school each year. Courses Leading to Life Licenses Extension Work Including Correspondence Courses "WRITE FOR INFORMATION Linnaeus N. Hines, President, Terre Haute Lemuel A. Pittenger, President, Muncie.

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"safety Islands’’ in the center pli where scores of pedestrians are n.-*- •' rooned for a quarter of an hour t ; time.