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NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [15:5— May, 1919 



Every teacher who aspires to teach Nature-study or Elementary 

 Science should read the address written by President Daniel R. 

 Hodgdon of the Newark College of Technology, delivered before 

 the winter meeting of the N. E. A. which is printed in full in "The 

 General Science Quarterly," January number. We quote a para- 

 graph which every nature-study teacher will surely read and 

 endorse : 



"With the world in which we live full of vital, useful, and inter- 

 esting things, it is a surprising and sad thing that many of the 

 people, and especially teachers, go through this world and die with- 

 out seeing the beautiful and interesting things we find about us. It 

 takes very little effort on the part of any teacher to open the eyes 

 of his pupils to the things which will function throughout the pupil's 

 entire life. A surprising fact and one which is lamentable, is that 

 too many of us as teachers in scientific subjects go through the 

 world with a pair of scientific spectacles which have been stained 

 the color of abstract facts, in order to filter out the rays of the 

 beautiful, interesting, and the vital science facts of the world that 

 surrounds us." 



The bird fountain memorial to Julia Davis Meyers in the Cemetery at 

 Savannah. Ga. 



