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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1900. 



WE had printed on the NEWS mailing envelopes for last 

 month the words " PLEASE DO NOT FOLD," but were 

 compelled to cut them out by the Post Office authorities. 

 This month we have pasted slips over them, as unfortunately 

 our mailing envelopes have been printed in advance for the 

 entire year. If your copy of the NEWS is neatly folded into 

 halves and any plates ruined you have no redress and must 

 grin and bear it, as " Uncle Sam " prefers to have it that way. 



SCIENCE IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS. 



To the Editor of the Leader : 



Why should pupils be compelled to study the anatomy of bugs and 

 small animals in the high schools? It is of no use whatever, unless one 

 is going to be a scientist or an explorer. Girls are not supposed to be 

 either, and yet the girls have to study with the boys in the same rooms. 

 It makes them feel out of place, and besides, what use is it in after life? 

 Can not some more useful study, for instance, French, be substituted for 

 it? Most of the pupils have a natural abhorrence of bugs and other small 

 animals, and when they are dead it makes it next to impossible to handle 

 them. Also, the teachers allow the bugs to lie on the tables day after 

 day, which breeds disease among the pupils. Why do they allow it ? Win- 

 do they compel the pupils to study something they detest? Those who 

 dislike it dread the hour during which they must pull the legs off of harm- 

 less animals. If the Board of Education thinks science is a necessary 

 study to one's education, why do they not make it an extra study like 



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