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Excerpt from Civic Science in the CommunityChildren's interests in science. In the midst of such a life as this our children are growing up. Science beckons to them from every side. In every device used at home for comfort and better living, science speaks. The telephone and telegraph, the trolley and the automobile, the airplane and submarine, have all become part and parcel of their daily lives. Many of the common things of science which dir...

Excerpt from Teachers' Manual to Accompany New Civic Biology IT was Huxley who compared the life of an organism to a whirlpool, the particles of which were constantly changing. A similar analogy may be made with reference to the contents of a course in Civic Biology of the present day. Not only is the content of the course continually changing, but also the methods by which the contents are taught are in a state of flux. The alert teacher is ...

Excerpt from My Own Science Problems Education in a Changing World. Great changes in educational methods and objectives have recently taken place. The growth of the junior high school is an experiment in education brought about through a desire on the part of educators to integrate the work of the elementary school with that of the high school. The growing emphasis on secondary education has forced these changes in organization. Along with th...

Excerpt from Civic Science in the Community Man's place in relation to science. - Living things, man included, live in an environment which is made up of certain definite factors, and with these factors living things react and interact. Some of these factors are materials - things, other factors are forces. The ultimate result of the complex we call life is the interaction of the materials and forces with the living things on the earth. Man, ...

Excerpt from A History of the Work in the Washington, D. C., District: War Work Council, From July 1st, 1917, to July 1st, 1919 It is hoped that this outline, inadequate and perhaps inaccurate as it is, will be of some permanent value as a beginning on which to superimpose data which will make a full report of the work of the Washington District. I wish to make acknowledgment to William Knowles Cooper, George T. Hastings, Ralph K. Hickok and...