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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 



Edited by ALICE HALL WALTER 



Address all communications relative to the work of this depart- 

 ment to the editor, at 53 Arlington Avenue, Providence, R. I. 



METHODS OF WORK 



The first reply to some of the inquiries made in the last issue may be found 

 in the November number of The Nature-Study Review, where the following 

 "News Note" appears: "The cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena have taken a 

 most progressive step in the appointment of special supervisors of nature- 

 study, school-gardening and agriculture in the elementary schools. Los 

 Angeles has secured the services of Mr. C. F. Palmer, formerly head of the 

 Department of Agriculture in Gardena Agricultural High School. He will act 

 as chief supervisor. Under him there will be a half dozen special supervisors, 

 some of whom have already been appointed. Pasadena has already appointed 

 Miss Charlotte Hoak special supervisor in this work, and may possibly appoint 

 another special supervisor during the year." 



In Washington, D. C, the class of 1912 in Normal School No. i, after a 

 successful and inspiring course in real outdoor nature-study work, conceived 

 the happy idea of leasing a plot of wild land within accessible distance to the 

 school, although well out in the country, and erecting a small bungalow thereon 

 for the use of nature-study classes from the school, the entire proprietorship 

 of which is to be passed over to the school after a term of years. 



Miss Mary Wheeler, the principal of one of the best known private schools 

 for girls in the East, has recently purchased a farm of seventy-eight acres, 

 including a comfortable house and barns in the country some five miles east 

 of the regular school-buildings in Providence, and on this farm opportunity 

 will be given for horticulture, agriculture, landscape-gardening, domestic 

 science and nature-study, besides sports and outdoor recreations. "The 

 addition of the farm to the equipment of Miss Wheeler's School has two dis- 

 tinct advantages: It is an answer to an increasing demand, as yet httle met, for 

 a private school in which girls can specialize in agricultural work, both theo- 

 retical and practical; and it combines the desirable features of a city and a 

 country school." 



The Hartford Bird Study Club of Connecticut has combined in its program 

 for the coming year some of the most attractive and helpful methods of study- 

 ing birds; and, moreover, it has done this in such a way that all sorts of people 

 ought to be reached. Descriptive talks on the structure and identitication of 

 birds, stereopticon lectures dealing with particular and practical subjects, 

 which should interest not only bird-students and teachers, but also the public 



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