-PARENT-TEACHER MEETING 
Bic Arrenpance at First Mrrtinc 
ro Hear Grorce E, Davis, PRIN- 
cipal, Lynn Enciisn Hicu. 
YHOSE Business Is It?” was the 
_  ** title of a talk given to the 
_ Parent-Teacher association in Price 
school hall, Manchester, on Wednes- 
day evening by George A. Davis. 
principal of Lynn English High 
The audience, which attend- 
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school. 
ed the meeting, completely filled the 
hall. : z 
_. “There is no duty today as great as 
passing on the culture, refinement and 
experience of the present generation 
to the next generation,’ said Mr. 
- Davis. “That, I believe, is the pur- 
pose of our association. 
modern institution. 
the home were here first; that is 
where education began. In the days 
before the coming to America of the 
white man the needs of the Indian 
boy were primitive and his education 
was limited in instruction in building 
a fire, constructing a shelter and mak- 
ing a bow and arrow. Even in the 
early colonial days the educational 
needs of the youth were slight, a 
knowledge of the use of a few tools, 
a little knowledge of agriculture, etc., 
being sufficient. When life became 
more complex the need of the school 
became apparent. Our country has 
wade great strides industrially and 
great cities have sprung up. The fac- 
tory has supplanted the home as the 
center of industry and the spinning 
wheel has gone out of use. In the 
same way the school has usurped the 
The family and 
function of the home in the work of 
education. Even the church has 
___ passed over to the school some of its 
4 tem under fire. 
functions. Education ‘is a big busi- 
ness. 
“Now, with our life growing more 
complex we find our educational sys- 
We wonder if our 
schools are as efficient as they should 
be. Education is changing. There 
are even new words which we did not 
, have 25 years-ago. If you had asked 
a man 25 years ago what the object 
of education was he would probably 
have answered you truthfully, accord- 
a ing to the standards of that day, ‘to 
impart learning.’ Today we define 
the purpose of education as the pre- 
paration of people to live. The school 
is ‘a time and labor saving device to 
prepare the future citizen for the 
complex problems of life.’ Today 
we teach salesmanship, sewing and 
cooking in our schools. What would 
they have thought of that 25 years 
ago. Today the trend is toward teach- 
ing things we will actually use in 
of many of these changes. 
“The school is comparatively a 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
everyday life. We hear a great deal 
these days of educational ‘fads.’ I 
do not mean to say that there are no 
fads in education, but many times 
people fail to realize the purpose of 
the new subjects in the curriculum. 
Now comes the question of the need 
Are they 
of value? Take physical training. 
The boy who worked on the farm, 
years ago did not need physical train- 
ing in school.» Gym. practice would 
have meant hard work to him; but 
the boy in the crowded city needs 
exercise, which he cannot get except 
in the gymnasium. 
“Recent surveys in New York vil- 
lages show that one-half of 90,000 
schoo! children had defective vision; 
10,000 had eye trouble of some kind: 
5,000 had defective hearing and 10,- 
000 were mouth-breathers. The ‘ma- 
jority of children between five, and 
twelve have defective teeth. Dr. 
Osler says that defective teeth kill as 
many people annually as does alcohol. 
100,000 school children die annually 
in the United States and half of the 
deaths are preventable. I know we 
have medical inspection in our Massa- 
chusetts schools, but I mention these 
conditions so you may think of them 
when tempted to criticise some mod- 
ern school methods that may seem 
like ‘fads.’ ‘ 
“T have mentioned some of the 
changed conditions in education and 
some of the needs. Now, whose busi- 
ness is it that the needs be filled? 
Who must look after the health of 
the pupil, who must be responsible 
for his moral training? It is our busi- 
ness together. Not the home alone— 
not the school alone; but home and 
school cooperating can do most for 
the next generation.” 
Mrs. Duncan T. Beaton gave her 
impressions of the state convention in 
Worcester in the course of which she 
said that the Manchester association 
was to be congratulated upon having 
a superintendent of schools who takes 
such a keen interest in the work of 
bringing the parents and teachers to- 
gether. 
Miss Lena Jones, delegate to the 
Worcester convention, read a com- 
prehensive report of the doings of the 
convention with interesting sidelights 
on some of the incidents. 5 
Misses Lila McEachern and Mary 
Knight played a piano duet and 
Misses Myrtle Lethbridge and Janet 
Height sang “The End of a Perfect 
Day,” both duets being heartily ap- 
preciated. 
An invitation from the Manchester 
Woman’s club was read by the secre- 
tary and acceptance voted. The mem- 
bers were asked to be guests of the 
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club at the next meeting, Nov. 7, when 
Miss Bertha E. Mahony, director of 
the Bookshop for Boys and Girls, will 
speak on “Children’s Reading.” 
Refreshments were served follow- 
ing the address. 
Diep IN VERMONT—WaAS A NATIVE 
oF MANCHESTER 
George Crowell, who died in Brat- 
tleboro, Vt., last Saturday, at the age 
of 82 years, was a native of Manches- 
ter, a son of Nathaniel Crowell. Ed- 
ward Crowell of Manchester is a 
nephew. The Boston Sunday Globe 
printed the following account: 
“Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 14~-George 
Crowell, aged 82, who was owner of 
the Brattleboro water system, died to- 
day. He had lived here since 1863, 
and became widely known as_ the 
publisher of the Household, being the 
pioneer in America in publishing a 
paper devoted exclusive to the inter- 
ests of the home. It attained a wide 
circulation and was sold in 1890 to 
U.K. Pettingill and W. N. Hartshorn 
of Boston and moved to that city. 
“In 1882 Mr. Crowell built the 
Chestnut Hill Reservoir and a few 
years ago the Pleasant Valley Reser- 
voir, the two constituting a fine water 
supply. He established a public park 
30 years ago, and soon afterwards 
built a house for fresh-air children 
from New York, accommodating par- 
ties of 50 or more at a time. 
“For a long time he was president 
of the Carpenter Company, organ 
manufacturers, and formerly he was 
at the head of the Brattleboro Jelly 
Company. His residence, Linden- 
hurst; was one of the finest in this 
part of the State. He was once the 
Prohibition nominee for Lieutenant 
Governor. 
“Mr. Crowell was born in Man- 
chester, Mass., a son of Nathaniel 
Crowell, but went in his boyhood to 
Concord, N. H., and enlised there in 
tue 16th New Hampshire Regiment. 
In 1875 he married Miss Mary Spen- 
cer of Brattleboro, who survives with 
three children: Christie B., superin- 
tendent of the water system; Miss 
Esther, who lives at home, and Robert 
V., in the employ. of the Government 
in the Panama Canal zone.” 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
The floormen won eight out of fif- 
teen games in the first round of the 
pitch tournament between the past 
commanders and the floormen of Col. 
Woodbury Camp, S. of V., in G. A. 
R. hall on Tuesday evening. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
_Teacher—What must we do before 
our sins can be forgiven? 
Walter—We must sin, 
