News Notes 



News Editor Cora A. Smith 

 817 Poplar St., Erie, Penn. 



Very pleasing reports reach us concerning the success attending 

 Professor Wm. P. Alexander in his new work of instructing and 

 conducting field classes in connection with the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences. Professor Alexander was formerly instructor in 

 Cornell University in Bee-keeping and in Farm Nature-Study and 

 has frequently contributed articles and poems to the Review. 



The Hawaii Educational Review is a most interesting and enter- 

 prising publication. Professor Vaughan McCaughey, Superinten- 

 dent of Public Instruction is the editor-in-chief and is helped by a 

 staff of active associate editors. The magazine is devoted whole- 

 heartedly to the task of helping and improving the schools of 

 Hawaii which seem to be very advanced and successful, judging by 

 their curriculum. 



The Hawaii Educational Review has this pointed motto across its 

 cover: Every legislator entitled to the honorable title of statesman 

 includes in his plans for legislation the highest practical education of 

 the people. 



The Fur-Bearing Animals of the U. S. and the Laws for 1920 

 relating to them is the subject of Farmers Bulletin, No. 1 165 of the 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. This is a very 

 important bulletin and should be in every school library in the land. 



The Recruit Educational Center at Camp Upton, N. Y., has 

 issued a series of booklets for teaching illiterate and foreigners in the 

 army how to read and write and incidentally teach much of history 

 and patriotism. The booklets are enlivened with some clever 

 cartoons illustrating the doughboy's difficulties in learning the 

 English language. 



"Teach if Cornered; Otherwise Let the Children Learn" is the 

 title of an article on teaching music in The California Blue Bulletin 

 of recent issue. This motto should be the slogan of the nature- 

 study teachers everywhere. This Bulletin is always filled with 

 many practical helps for the teachers of California and it is a pity 

 that it's circulation should not be more extended in the East. 



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