sirable that they be given a psychological diagnosis. The plan has worked well at the Parental School for a number of

years.

Arrangement has been made that in the standard evening high schools the laboratory sciences be taught in 1924, beginning September, three hours each evening, and that the schedule of salaries for teachers of these subjects be $6.50, $7.00, and $7.50 per evening, according to their year on the regular evening school salary schedule.

Standard high school classes in academic subjects can complete one day high school semester credit in one eveningschool semester, but laboratory science classes require additional time in the evening to complete in one semester, work equivalent to a semester's work in a day

school.

It should be of interest to teachers and

pupils in the schools of Chicago to know that a class in lip reading was organized in the Parker High School in February, 1923. The class is under the direction of Miss Annah S. Taylor, who for many years has taught in the deaf-oral depart

ment in the Parker Practice School. At present there are eight pupils enrolled, of whom four are congenitally deaf. These four pupils have been taught to talk and read lips. Of the others, two lost their hearing when they were in the fifth and sixth grades. These can speak well but need training in lip reading which they receive in this class. The last two have only recently been transferred from Englewood High School, where on account of impaired hearing they found difficulty in keeping up with their class. These pupils are now being trained in lip reading. They spend one hour a day under Miss Taylor's instruction and the rest of the time in regular classes with hearing children. This class was designed primarily for the partially deaf, of whom there are many in the schools of Chicago, and therefore this notice is called to the

The Avalon Park Branch One of the Warren School has been made an indeWarren School will now be known as pendent school, and Branch Two of the Branch One of the Avalon School. The two schools are two and seven-eighths miles apart. Both territories are growing lems in each demand the full time of the very rapidly, and the community probprincipal.

mal College, who desires name supA graduate of a recent class of the Norpressed, has expressed in these lines her impression of the Afternoon Double Di

vision:

ated under student government. Under student government the executive power lies in the hands of every member of this organization. Through the section chairmen, who are the representatives to the Council, any student can place the needs or desires before the Council, which in turn will take the necessary steps to carry out desires and fill needs.

The governing power shall be vested in a Council which is composed of the chairman of each section, the president of each class, and a faculty advisory board. The Council has the power to act in all matters provided for in the Constitution and in other matters which shall be brought to its attention. The Council will provide committees for social hour, new students, book exchange, publicity and charities.

in an accredited normal school, and (c) Not less than forty months of teach

ing experience as a regularly assigned

teacher in graded schools.

(All who are assigned under classification B shall be assigned at the minimum rating for Elementary Teachers.)

The above provisions shall take effect for the examinations in December, 1924, and thereafter.

The usual semi-annual examinations will be given on June 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1924, for certificates and Normal Entrance as follows:

HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATES

Physics.
Spanish.
Zoology.
Phonography.
Blacksmithing.

ELEMENTARY CERTIFICATES

Elementary Grade Teachers.

Elementary Manual Training, including printing.

Elementary Physical Education. Elementary Limited Physical Educa

tion.

NORMAL ENTRANCE

Preliminary and Final.

Ten thousand color prints are being made by the Art Institute of the great portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart,now hanging in the Art Institute. They will be sold at one dollar each and the proceeds used toward the purchase of the painting in order that Chicago may own this splendid work of art. It is more than a work of art. It is a pictorial monument of a great and noble man, an inspiration in patriotism, and a rock upon which our vision may rest in genuine security. So this great painting should belong to the people and it should be hung permanently in the Art Institute, where all may receive the message it carries. The color print now being made will be a faithful reproduction of the original, and the rich and beautiful coloring of the painting will be carried accurately into

the reproduction. The price has been placed at one dollar and the money thus received will go into the fund toward the purchase of the original painting. Send one dollar to The Art Institute of Chicago, Washington Fund, and you will receive a copy of this great painting as soon as it comes from the press.

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The children of Chicago, and in fact all children who visit its galleries, will find a room especially fitted up for them at the Art Institute. It was formally opened on Thursday, March 27. The Women's Clubs of Chicago and other organizations have taken an active part in raising funds. for this gallery, and the recent generous gift of fifty thousand dollars made by Mr.

and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester assured

its success. The gallery is No. 1 on the main floor, in the southeast corner of the building, formerly occupied by the Egyptian and Assyrian collections.

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SCHEDULED FOR THE ART INSTITUTE

April 14-June 1-Paintings by John Singer Sargent.

May 1-June 1-(1) Thirty-seventh Annual Chicago Architectural Exhibition. (2) Twenty-second Annual Exhibition of Applied Arts.

May 7-July 1-Exhibition of the English Society of Wood-engravers.

June 10-July 1-Exhibition of Work by Students of the Art Institute School.

SUNDAY CONCERTS

Concerts are given in Fullerton Hall every Sunday afternoon at 3 and 4:15 o'clock. George Dasch, Conductor. Admission 15 cents.

Principals in the elementary schools are to be allowed to order such books and magazines that they may wish for supplementary reading, subject to the approval of the Superintendent of Schools. The high schools have been allowed to order supplementary material on this basis for a number of years. The results have been entirely satisfactory. This method will enable the schools to have

access to new material without specific authority from the Board of Education. At present lists for approval are submitted to the Board once or twice a year, with the result that the schools are compelled to wait a year before such material is available.-(From Board of Education Proceedings, March 12, 1924.)

ELECTIONS AND TRANSFERS

Charles C. Krauskopf, Principal of the Lawson School, elected District Superintendent to fill vacancy caused by the death of the late District Superintendent John A. Long.

Daniel F. O'Hearn, transferred from the principalship of the Mason School to the principalship of the Lawson School.

Ernest E. Cole, transferred from the principalship of the Earle School to the principalship of the Trumbull School to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Helen R. Ryan.

Mrs. Eleanor D. Tracy, teacher in the of Assistant to the Principal of the Mark Graham School, elected to the position

Sheridan School.

Recommended that Ella C. Hoskins be

elected to the position of Assistant to the Principal of the Hibbard Elementary School.

The proposed policy in reference to junior high schools (adopted March 29, 1924, at a special meeting of the Principals' Club):

I. The Chicago Principals' Club approves, on educational grounds, the grouping together of grades 7, 8, and 9 as a distinct educational unit with the same course of study for these grades, wherever housed.

II. Chicago should develop its own program for Junior High Schools.

III. Inasmuch as a definite plan has not been worked out for Chicago, the Chicago Principals' Club recommends that a number of experiments should be carried on along the lines suggested below:

(a) The organization of a number of intermediate schools of three years.

consisting of grades 7, 8, and 9, housed, organized, and administered as a separate unit of the school system.

(b) The organization of a number of schools on the basis of 9 grades in which grades 7, 8, and 9 shall be segregated and administered as an independent unit of the school.

IV. Adequate preparation should be made before any general reorganization of our schools is attempted; care should be exercised so that the many good features of our present system are not disregarded or lost.

V. It is urged that whenever experiments are made, full support should be given to those conducting the experiment so that the highest degree of success may be achieved.

Peter C. Hansen.

The first "Girls' Week" to be celebrated in the United States is in progress as this issue of the JOURNAL goes to press. It appears to be a notable achievement of co-operative effort with neither much experience nor much money to support it. School women, women's clubs, business women's organizations, social welfare agencies have joined forces to effect a city-wide expression of interest and pride in the city's girls. Loyal backing came from the mayor and the superintendent of schools, whose greetings to the girls were broadcasted early in the month. Mrs. Dever and other prominent women gave wholehearted aid in speaking and planning. A "Woman's Rally" in Studebaker Theatre on April 5, presided over by Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, brought the foremost women of all professions and occupations among them Jane Addams, Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, Judge Bartelme, Mme. Fanny Blumfield-Zeisler, Mrs. Kel

logg Fairbank, Jeannette Rankin, Mrs. W. S. Hefferan. Miss Grace Temple of the Board of Education is honorary chairman. A number of interesting events are marking the week-notably the Symphony Concert for the girls on Wednesday, April 23, and the great processional and reception at the Art Institute on Thursday. Throughout the week large numbers of organizations, civic, social, and business, keep open house for girls and young women. Special exhibits, visiting tours, and entertainments are offered by the large stores, the park houses, the Post Office, the Public Library and its branches, and the Chicago Historical Society.

A girl

A CHALLENGE By Ruth R. Pearson

What is there we can say

Of wisdom or of lore

To her who sees life shining,
And so near?

Words have no color to compare
With those she traces

On city skies and in the mud of lanes.
She tends

Her hidden dreams, more rare

Than visions snared and organized,
Committee-wise, by us.

There is no music sweeter than the clear, far cry
Of love.

Her world is fair. Then what have we to say?

Wars touch her lightly, and the dusks of living.