Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Text-Books Found Improper. [ARTICLE]

Text-Books Found Improper.

The school board of Somerville, Mass., has made the discovery that text-books on physiology and hygiene used in the schools are indecent and corrupting in the hands of scholars. At its meeting Tuesday night the following order was adopted: “That in the primary and grammar schoo s instruction in physiology and hygiene be entirely oral, and that hereafter a single text-book be furnished for the use of teachers only, and it is hereby also ordered that instruction be regarding the proper care of the body, rather than the structural formaticn.” Mr. Sanborn, who offered the order, said that a number of parents had objected to the use of the books by the children.