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[N. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 813 



NOTES EEFEREED TO BY NUMBERS IN THE 

 TABULATION OP REPLIES 



1. Crosses out no before recognition and puts 

 possibly after f^=tn X a. 



2. " For large schools." 



3. " I think that teachers of physics need a 

 knowledge of the elements of all the sciences in 

 addition to the attainment in physics suggested 

 in the report. A knowledge of English seems to 

 me also essential." 



4. " I like the idea of a laboratory test. I 

 always give one myself in my classes." " It seems 

 to me that an elementary course in physics should 

 aim to give a student the power to understand 

 the numerous applications of the principles of 

 physics in his world. A list of such applications 

 might be more useful to a young teacher than a 

 list of the laboratory exercises he should have 

 done." 



5. " Men from technical schools or with such 

 training in accuracy at least as these give." 



6. " Well-paid boy of school." 



7. " While favoring a mechanical assistant, I 

 doubt very strongly the possibility of securing 

 such an assistant for public high schools. An 

 advanced or post-graduate pupil is frequently em- 

 ployed afternoons at a moderate wage and is very 

 helpful." 



8. " I should favor further reduction in the en- 

 trance requirement. While it is difficult to make 

 any suggestion for omission, the time devoted to 

 optics might possibly be reduced and in my 



opinion the subject of thermodynamics should be 

 excluded." 



9. "' The candidate, in my opinion, should have 

 a year of shop experience or some work where he 

 actually applies principles of physics. It seems 

 to me this would make him more valuable for 

 high-school work than an additional degree, repre- 

 senting work in pure physics at some college, 

 perhaps." 



10. " The assistant may well be a senior boy in 

 the high school who has been through the courses 

 in elementary physics or chemistry. We have 

 found such boys very efficient and they can easily 

 be taught to make many simple devices, if the 

 teacher has had a shop experience so he can direct 

 them. Such a boy can be hired here for ten cents 

 an hour." 



11. "The teacher should not be influenced by 

 the necessity for getting the pupils when they can 

 pass a college entrance examination to the extent 

 of making all the class prepare for college when 

 only a few will have the chance to go. He might 

 well teach a kind of physics that would be more 

 directly applicable to the locality where the stu- 

 dents will have to work when they leave school, 

 and in this sense, perhaps, the physics ought to 

 be applied physics, with special emphasis on the 

 local industries." 



12. " Except for graduates of technical schools." 

 ■ 13. " Found in my three years of college teach- 

 ing that no ' important distinction ' could be 

 made" [between those who had and those who 



