course work and special lectures. The teaching faculty includes, among others, the following: Prof. E. L. Thorndike of Columbia University, the national authority in psychology and education, will be assisted by Prof. Raymond Franzen of the University of California in giving courses in psychology and education. Professor Thorndike's tests and measurements of mentality represent the foremost work done in psychology in recent years. He is an authority known to every teacher. Prof. Thomas D. Wood, who, in addition to being head of the department of physical and health education of Columbia University, is chairman of the joint committee on health education of the National Education Association and the American Medical Association. He is the undoubted authority in America in his field of work. He will be assisted by Dr. R. C. McLain, supervisor of health in the schools of Detroit, considered the most advanced city in America in the application of principles of health in its schools as well as in many other municipal achievements. Dr. Emmett D. Angell of Wisconsin University, and also lecturer at Harvard and Yale, will give two courses of six weeks duration in recreational leadership. Dr. Angell is the author of many of the games which we play and will be especially attractive to church recreational leaders, Boy Scout leaders, teachers and physical education directors in schools and colleges. He is pronounced the most eminent leader in America in recreation and play. He is also a distinguished coach of track, football and basketball, and the author of texts upon sports which are used extensively in colleges and high schools. Feeling that students and teachers of science would be especially attracted to the West, in the summer particularly, the College has selected the American leaders in geology, paleontology, botany and zoology, to constitute its scientific staff for the summer of 1924. These are Prof. Eliot Blackwelder of Stanford in geology and paleontology, who will be assisted by Prof. R. S. Knappen of the University of Kansas. Prof. Henry C. Cowles of the University of Chicago in botany, and Prof. W. C. Allee of the same institution in zoology. President Atwood of Clark University, who is considered the leading geologist of America by many, himself, upon being consulted in the matter, put Blackwelder at the head of the list. Cowles is America's greatest ecological botanist, and Allee, according to his colleagues, the leader in field study in zoology. The courses in the three basic subjects to be given by these great leaders of American science should attract teachers and students from throughout the nation. Prof. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University, discoverer of two of the vitamines, the national authority in human nutrition of adult and child, will give two courses and probably a seminar in addition for advanced teachers of health and home economics, and for doctors. One of his courses is being planned for those with only a general education. Prof. E. C. Branson of the University of North Carolina, who is now in Europe conducting special investigations in rural life, will conduct courses in rural sociology. His publications and books on rural problems are considered authoritative throughout America. Teachers and students of history in colleges and high schools will be especially pleased to learn that the College has secured the services of Prof. Frederick J. Turner, head of the department of history of Harvard, to give the courses in history during the summer session. He will be assisted by Prof. Frederick Merk of the same institution. Professor Turner is often referred to by his colleagues as the "Prince of American Historians." He is the recognized authority upon Western history. The courses he will give at the College will cover the Utah, California and Oregon pioneer movements, in addition to which one course will deal with a phase of general American history. Prof. Turner is retiring this year as head of the department at Harvard, and the 'courses at the Utah Agricultural College, according to his present plans, will be the last active teaching he will do. The College and Utah are especially honored in his coming to the State. Prof. Turner and Dr. Merk will give the courses as they are given at Harvard. Possibly opportunity will be presented during the summer for visits by Prof. Turner and his classes to historic points in the West, including a pilgrimage over the old "Mormon" trail. The teachers mentioned above are to give courses as well as certain special lectures. In addition to those, the College has secured for lecture engagements of approximately one week each, the following eminent leaders of American thought: David Starr Jordan, president emeritus of Stanford University; Liberty Hyde Bailey of Cornell University, the greatest American teacher in agriculture and rural life; Professor John Adams of the University of London, who is pronounced by Prof. Thorndike one of the three leading psychologists of England; Professor E. A. Steiner, one of America's great lecturers on social problems and applied Christianity; and Dean Shailer Matthews of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Dr. A. E. Winship will lecture for three days during the session. He is nationally known as the editor of the Journal of Education of Boston. Dean Matthews will lecture on the life of Christ and the social significance of the Savior's message. No men stand higher than these in achievement within their lines of activity and in educational influence which they have had upon their generation. Other additions to the faculty undoubtedly will be announced later, although care has been exercised to secure only the great figures in the scientific and educational world for this first session. This list of authorities is the most eminent group ever assembled in a single summer school in America. Not only our teachers and students in colleges and universities and teachers in the public schools, but business and professional men and women have here an extraordinary opportunity for study and recreation. There is more than educational interest in the visit to Utah of these great American teachers. They themselves and those who come with them will have an opportunity to get acquainted with our State and the West. Plans are already well under way for the second session of the summer school to be held in 1925. It is felt that the National Summer School will grow in volume from year to year. Why may not Logan, nestled in its wonderful valley, become the summer Mecca for the great philosophers, scientists and social leaders of the nation? Why may not Utah's State College, situated on its lofty eminence in the very heart of the Rocky Mountains, be the inspiring center for the dissemination of the most profound thought of our time. These valleys have served and are serving lofty purposes in the promulgation of truth. They were fashioned for just such great enterprise. To the Bluebird Little bit of the sky's fair blue, Little Bluebird, I love you! EVELYN FLEBBE (age 9). Book Reviews We acknowledge the receipt of the following books for review in EDUCATION, and wish we had space adequately to review them otherwise than by merely mentioning titles, authors and publishers: FROM THE MACMILLAN COMPANY: How We Are Fed. A geographical reader. James Franklin Chamberlain. Actual Business Correspondence. P. H. Deffendall. La France et Les Francais. M. S. Pargment; Preface by M. L. A. Constans. Varied Occupations in Weaving. Louisa Walker. Memorandum on the Teaching of English. Issued by the Incorporated Public School Publicity. Harlan C. Hines, Ph. D. and Robinson G. Jones. Reader and Guide for New Americans. Books One and Two. A. W. Castle. Industrial History. Harry B. Smith. The Problem of Armaments. Arthur Guy Enok. The Story of Human Progress. I. Preliminary Edition. L. C. Marshall. ALSO: The Home and Church Tithing. Rev. Jas. T. Gaskill. A. B. Caldwell Co. Supervised Study Speller. W. F. Tidyman, M. A., Ph. D. World Book Company. The Silent Reading Hour. First, Second and Third Readers. Guy Thomas Buswell and W. H. Wheeler. Wheeler Publishing Company, Chicago. Negro School Attendance in Delaware. Richard Watson Cooper and Hermann Cooper. University of Delaware Press. Then and Now in Education. 1845: 1923. Otis W. Caldwell and Stuart A. Courtis. The World Book Company. Food Planning and Preparation. food study, with recipe book. Mabel T. Wellman. A junior course in FROM D. APPLETON COMPANY: Supervision and the Improvement of Teaching. William H. Burton, A. M. Methods in Elementary English. Nell J. Young and Frederick W. Memmott. Chemistry in Everyday Life. Charles Gilpin Cook, Ph. D. Education for Moral Growth. Henry Neumann, Ph. D. United States History. Archer Butler Hulbert. Doubleday, Page & Co. When Fates Decree. A Play for Students of Vergil. Grant Hyde Code. The B. J. Brimmer Company, Publishers, Boston. Writing and Rewriting. George Carver, William S. Maulsby and Thomas A. Knott, The University of Iowa. The Student's Spelling Aid. Ray Van Vort. Charles E. Merrill Company. Un Jeune Legionnaire. Albert Erlande. Edited by Victor E. Francois, El Final De Norma. Novela por D. Pedro A. de Alarcon. Edited by Workaday English. By Stella Stewart Center, A. M. The Century Co. FROM D. C. HEATH & CO.: The Community and the Citizen. Arthur W. Dunn. Revised Edition. Citizenship. W. H. Hadow. Oxford University Press. Ethics and Citizenship. John W. Wayland. The McClure Company, Inc. These are among the best books upon a subject which is coming to be esteemed one of the most interesting and important of the curriculum. THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY. By James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran. Longmans, Green and Co. Price $1.48. This new book is happy in the inclusion of the essential matters that concern the home, school and civil community. It is quite up-to-date and will reveal to the student many important and interesting things in his own environment-making him at once more intelligent, more observing, more patriotic and more useful. |