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The remainder of the afternoon was taken up with suggestions 

 and discussions concerning the field trips for the fall months. At 

 the close several interesting reports on observations, made during 

 the summer vacation, were given. 



The officers for 19 14-19 15 are as follows: President, Mr. W. 

 J. Stevens, Field School; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss. Carolyn 

 Lefferty, Harris Teachers College; Director, Mr. H. C. Drayer, 

 Jackson School; Executive Committee: Mr. J. A. Drushel, 

 Harris Teachers College; Miss. Estelle Windhorst, Ashland 

 School. • 



The Chicago Examiner recently conducted a competition for 

 twenty Scholarships for which it supplied the funds. The com- 

 petitors were from the high school graduates of Chicago and Cook 

 Count}^ Illinois, and the competition was open to all such. The 

 Scholarship Committee was composed of Miss. Gertrude E. 

 English, representing Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Superintendent 

 of Schools of Chicago; Dean Willard E. Hotchkiss, of North- 

 western University; Mr. Walter A. Payne, Recorder of the 

 University of Chicago, and Edward J. Tobm, Superintendent of 

 Schools of Cook County. The successful contestants are now 

 attending University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, and Cornell University. 



"This number of the journal is issued with many misgivings. 

 Unlike its predecessors, it will meet with chill reception and its 

 leaves will be turned over with listless fingers. This is a time of 

 stirring events and great issues, and nature-study has a remote 

 sound, barely arresting attention. It seems trivial to concern 

 one's self with the potting of bulbs and setting of butterflies, when 

 the fate of nations is in the balance and the terrors of war hold our 

 mind spell-bound. What excuse have we for playing with trifles 

 and sending out a journal that contains no reference to the war in 

 its pages? 



"We believe that we also serve our country who care for the com- 

 ing generations, and our way for caring for them is now to put our 

 shoulder to the wheel of education and push with ever greater 

 might. The task is heavy in these days of tense waiting, of excite- 

 ment and of dark shadow — but they are also days of restraint, con- 

 trol and courage. Since nature-study is part of our school work, 

 we continue to attend to it, and because it presents to its votaries 



