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PARENT-TEACHER MEETING | 
Tuomas CurLEY TELLS MEMBERS OF 
Gary SystEM oF PLAY-WoRK- 
StTupy. 
Thomas Curley of Waltham, the 
father of the school playground in 
Massachusetts, told the members of 
the Parent-Teacher association some- 
thing of the benefits of the Gary sys- 
tem of play-work-study at a well at- 
tended meeting in Price school hall, 
Manchester, last evening. 
“The Gary system is not new,” 
said Mr. Curley. “It is a revival of 
the best school system New England 
ever had—the old country district 
school. There never has been and | 
doubt if there ever will be a genera- 
tion of men like those who went out 
from the old New England district 
schools. After they were I2 years 
old they only had three months of 
school a year. I got the benefits of 
the Gary system when I was attend- 
ing district school and used to play 
‘hookey.’ Then I would hang around 
the blacksmith shop nearby and _ fol- 
low out that natural instinct which 
every boy has—the instinct of con- 
struction. Repress that instinct in a 
boy and it will break out in the in- 
stinct. of destruction. No time in 
my life did me so much good as those 
jours I stole from school to gratify 
that instinct of construction. 
“The old idea of education was that 
‘Knowledge is power.’ The new idea 
is the building of character by the 
formation of habits to do right. The 
Gary system is ten years old. Gary 
was built in a day, almost. It was a 
big sandy area on which nothing will 
erow except scrub oak. Soil must be 
brought in to raise any other form of 
vegetation. Gary is the home of the 
Illinois Steel Co. Nine-tenths of the 
people are workmen and 52 percent 
of them are immigrants. It was a 
new town untrammeled by traditions. 
When the system was started there 
was not a school-room to accommo- 
date the number of pupils. To a 
1o-room school an auditorium, gym- 
nasium and playground were added. 
The schools are open from 8 o’clock 
in the morning until 10 o'clock at 
night and the pupils attend eight 
hours a day and six days a week. 
Domestic science classes meet in the 
basement; shops which give a child 
an opportunity to see the working of 
every trade are run in certain rooms. 
There is no effort made to teach him 
a trade, but to give him an oppor- 
tunity to do things. The schools are 
operated 10 months in the year at a 
per capita cost of $38 as against a $50 
per capita cost for educating your 
children in New England.” 
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Nov. 17, 1916. 
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Manchester, Mass. 
Mr. Curley explained the working 
of some of the departments as he had 
cbserved it. The teachers teach only 
one subject, the pupils passing from 
room to room for the various studies. 
Everything is practical, arithmetic 
for instance is learned in a store or 
the shop where actual measurements 
are worked out as problems. No 
marks are given the pupils and no 
examinations are held, but each child 
is pushed forward according to his 
individual ability. There is a 12-year 
course with no break between the 
preliminary grades and the _ high 
school. One hour each day is spent 
in the auditorium, one hour is allow- 
ed for the child to go to church for 
religious instruction and one hour is 
allowed for luncheon. The balance 
is divided among the class rooms, 
shops and gymnasium. 
Mr. Curley predicted that the Gary 
system would come into vogue in 
Massachusetts in time and_ every- 
where else as well. ‘Massachusetts 
will probably be the last to adopt the 
system,” he said, “for we are over- 
ridden with education. Our col- 
leges will be in the way. When a 
man goes to college he thinks he 
knowns all about education, but he 
doesn’t unless he knowns child life. 
We must not be bound by the col- 
leges, but must go to the child to de- 
termine his needs. We have made a 
wonderful improvement in our schools 
in the past 10 years and will even- 
tually adopt the Gary system in some 
torm or other.” 
Misses Helen Cheever, Pauline 
Semons and Emily Ferriera sang a 
delightful trio at the opening of the 
meeting and another pleasing selec- 
tion following the address. Miss 
Helen Knight was accompanist. 
It was voted to renew the subscrip- 
tion of the association to the Child 
Welfare magazine. The following 
committee was appointed by the presi- 
dent, Mrs. Seddie Follett, to arrange 
for a public entertainment during the 
coming winter: Mrs. Nellie Rogers, 
Mrs. John Connors, Oscar F. Ray- 
mond, Mrs. D. T. Beaton, Mrs. -J. C. 
Mackin and Mrs, Edward F, Height, 
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““‘WaR BRIDEs.”’ 
“War Brides,” the first production 
by Herbert Brenon Film Corporation 
for Selznick Pictures, will be seen at 
the Globe Theatre on next week, be- 
ginning Monday, Nov. 2oth. 
This photodrama will introduce to 
moving picture patrons a new star, 
Nazimova. Well known on the stage, 
she is now making her debut on the 
screen in a film version of the play, 
by Marion Craig Wentworth, in 
which she made a sensational success 
in vaudeville. She had refused all 
others until she saw “A Daughter of 
the Gods,” which Brenon wrote and 
directed, and was so charmed by the 
work that she signed a contract to 
appear under his direction. 
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Central sq. adv, 
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of Tappan, 17 Bridge st., Manches- 
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Every man’s task is his life pre- 
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