HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPARTMENT.

The pupils in this department now number 89,- an increase which presumably is due to the establishment of a three years' course, for, as the industrial character of education in general becomes more recognized, specialization of function needs to be persistently thorough. Proficiency in household arts now means adaptation to the needs of daily living, as home nursing and bookkeeping, household decoration and sanitation, cookery and bacteriology supplement each other.

NEEDS OF THE SCHOOL.

The growth of the normal school, the present number of its pupils being an enrollment of 261, makes more than ever imperative the need of a new practice school building. It is hoped that the Legislature will grant such a modest appropriation for a new practice school on land already belonging to the State, adjacent to its present buildings, that we shall not be compelled much longer to have 50 pupils in one small room. The school committee of Framingham is willing to do all it can to forward the erection of a separate school building for the use of the practice department of the school.

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LECTURES.

Mr. Frederic L. Burnham gave two lectures. Hon. George H. Martin spoke on Change in Educational Aims and Methods; " Mr. John T. Prince on "Educational Processes." Miss Emily Paulson lectured on "The Handicapped Child;" Miss Kate Brownlee on "The Moral Training of Children." Mrs. Christabel Kidder gave the reading of "The Winter's Tale." Mr. Edward Howe Forbush spoke on "The Care and Protection of Birds;" Mrs. K. G. Wells on "Manners and Morals." Mr. A. T. Kempton gave an illustrated lecture on "Hiawatha." The glee club of the school gave a concert; and under the direction of Miss Bennett a unique May day festival was held.

GIFTS.

The school received from Miss Julia A. Sprague several books and magazines for the library and reading room, and from

Miss Susan Minns of Boston five large framed photographs of unusual excellence. Mrs. K. G. Wells also sent framed pictures. Bronze tablets, to mark the various portraits hanging in the school of its past principals, and to indicate their services to it, were purchased with money contributed for this purpose by the class of 1907. The class of 1908 presented a catalpa tree and planted it, and also gave a generous sum of money towards some gift for the school.

STATISTICS.

1. Number of pupils admitted September, 1907, 137. Number who graduated June, 1908, 61; of this number, 55 graduated from the regular two years' course, and 6 from the department of household arts. Whole number of pupils for the year 1907-08, 247. They are divided as follows: seniors, 70; middle juniors household arts, 30; juniors, 147; total, 247.

2. Average age of pupils admitted September, 1907, 18 years, 10

months.

3. Occupations of parents: mechanics, 36; merchants, 27; farmers, 23; teamsters, 6; superintendents of industries, 10; gardeners, 3; commercial travellers, clergymen, watchmen, dyers, 2 each; treasurer, stable keeper, dentist, laundryman, printer, editor, plumber, butcher, brickmaker, shipper, lawyer, brewmaster, engineer, warehouseman, doctor, assessor, barber, sea captain, pilot, junk dealer, ranchman, real estate, insurance agent, postmaster, 1 each.

4. Residences of 137 pupils admitted September, 1907; Massachusetts, by counties: Franklin, 4; Hampshire, 1; Hampden, 6; Worcester, 23; Suffolk, 7; Middlesex, 61; Norfolk, 20; Bristol, 4; Plymouth, 5; Essex, 3; total, 134. From other States: Maine, 1; New Hampshire, 2; total, 3. From Massachusetts, 134; from other States, 3; total, 137.

KATE GANNETT WELLS,
THOMAS B. FITZPATRICK,

Board of Visitors.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, HYANNIS.

W. A. BALDWIN,

ANNIE S. CROWELL,

HANNAH M. HARRIS,
JULIA A. HAYNES,
MINERVA A. LAING,
CHARLES H. MORRILL,
EDMUND F. SAWYER,

A. MONROE STOWE,
ANNIE H. CHADWICK,
HARRIET C. MOORE,
MARY GREGG,
SARAH S. FORD,

IDA E. FINLEY,

W. A. BALDWIN, PRINCIPAL.

INSTRUCTORS IN THE NORMAL SCHOOL.

Psychology, pedagogy, history of education. Physical training, physiology, advanced geometry.

English, history.

Biology, mathematics.

Chemistry, mineralogy, drawing.

Geography, manual training, physics.
Vocal music.

INSTRUCTORS IN THE TRAINING SCHOOL.

Principal, eighth and ninth grades.
Sixth and seventh grades.

Fifth and sixth grades.

Fourth grade.

Second and third grades.

Principal of primary pepartment, first grade.

TEACHERS.

There has been no change in the regular teaching force during the past year. Miss Edith S. Haskell, who substituted in history and literature during the spring term, did intelligent, strong work. In September Miss Hannah M. Harris returned to her work with renewed vigor and enthusiasm.

Miss Minerva A. Laing undertook her usual work after the summer vacation, expecting to continue through the year. After about four weeks of work it became apparent that she ought not to continue, and her physician ordered a rest and change. In view of ten years of faithful service in the school, Miss Laing was granted leave of absence for one year. A part of the work of Miss Laing is being done by other teachers, but for a part of the work a substitute will be secured.

PRINCIPAL BALDWIN IN EUROPE.

After seeing the school well started, Mr. Baldwin sailed Oct. 15, 1907, for Europe, returning June 20, 1908, in time

for the closing exercises and for the summer session. As was expected, the work of the school was not allowed to suffer during his absence. No new lines of work were attempted, but Mr. Morrill, the acting principal, with the help of the other members of the faculty, held loyally to the high standards which the school has ever tried to uphold. During the year Mr. Baldwin visited public schools in Liverpool, Chester, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Munich and Vollendam. He spent much time in investigating the training of teachers in England and Scotland, visiting all types of training colleges, university training classes and city training centers, and has incorporated the observations made in a report to the United States Commissioner of Education. He visited many schools for defectives in London, Liverpool and Edinburgh. He devoted considerable time to the continuation schools in Munich and Edinburgh. He several times visited the Robert Browning and Passmore Edwards settlements in London. He carefully inspected Dr. Campbell's famous Royal Institute for the Blind in London. He spent two days at Bedale School. He interviewed many prominent people who are interested in the Parents' Union movement, and visited Miss Mason's school at Ambleside, which is the headquarters for their literature, the model school and the school for the training of their teachers. He gave addresses before the Edinburgh Parents' Union, The London Child-study Association and many other educational organizations. He had conferences with educational leaders such as Dr. Sadler and Professor Finley of Manchester University, Superintendent Kerschensteiner and Dr. Reinland of Munich, Professor Schwartz of Geneva, Dr. Morgan of Edinburgh and Mr. J. C. Hudson of London. He reports that everywhere he found education moving forward, a hopeful spirit and a disposition to think of America as a land unfettered by traditions, believing in its public schools and willing to lavish unlimited amounts of money upon them, a land full of opportunity for doing leadership work. He returns feeling that the normal schools of Massachusetts have indeed a mission, not only for their own State, but for the world, and that the Hyannis school has only to continue quietly to develop along lines already started to do its share of this leadership work.

AN EUROPEAN ESTIMATE OF THE HYANNIS NORMAL SCHOOL.

The following quotation appeared in a recent issue of the Hyannis Patriot":

HYANNIS SCHOOLS TO THE FRONT.

"Moral Instruction and Training in Schools," in two volumes, has just been published in London. The book is a report of an international inquiry, which a meeting held in London in 1906, to consider the question of moral instruction and training in schools, instituted. The volumes include reports from the schools of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Germany, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Those interested in the Hyannis schools may be pleased and proud that in this report a chapter is devoted to the work of the Hyannis schools, by Principal William A. Baldwin of the State Normal School. This book brings out for consideration differences in opinion as to the way in which moral instruction may be most wisely given. In the introduction it says: "Among the different views of what is the right organization of the work of a school, two are in strong contrast at the present time. The first view lays especial stress upon a didactic power of the school; the second, upon the educated power of the activities of the school community. The first view finds its most characteristic expression in the teacher directing from his desk the intelligence and aspirations of the pupils who sit before him in the class room; the second is that of a more or less self-governing community, occupied with vital movement of all kinds, full of freedom and initiative in a great variety of tasks, selfexpressive, educatively practical, busy with the effort to accomplish certain things. This view has found its most persuasive advocate in Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University, and perhaps its most elaborate realization in the University Elementary School, Chicago, and the State Normal School at Hyannis, Mass.; and several other well-known schools in England, Denmark, Germany and the United States bear witness to the influence of the new doctrine."

These volumes show much of the vast work that is being done in the schools of the world that the children may be trained to lives of usefulness and happiness.

To be cited in this book, which will be read with interest and profit by educators the world over, is the broadest recognition which the Hyannis schools have yet received.

REPAIRS.

After eleven years of constant use for both winter and summer sessions, the buildings and furnishings begin to need more