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The most valuable gift of the year being several large foreign photographs, which have been framed, and will soon be hung on the Library walls. For this gift the Library is indebted to Mr. Adams.
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LINCOLN PUBLIC LIBRARY
ACCESSIONS TO THE LINCOLN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR 1910. BIOGRAPHY.
Baldwin, W. President of the Boston Young Men's Christ- tian Union, 1868-1907; President Emeritus, July 1, 1907 to June 8, 1909. (Biographical sketch )
*631.5
Benson, Arthur, Editor. Letters of Queen Victoria: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. 3 vols. · Brooks, John Graham. An American citizen: Life of William H. Baldwin, Jr. *631.3
632.16
Brown, Abram English. A memorial of A. E. Brown 631.6
Earland, Ada. Ruskin and his circle
632.17
Eggleston, George Cary. Recollections of a varied life. .
631.1
Emerson, Edward Waldo, and Forbes, W. E. Editors. . Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2 vols. . Evans, Robley D. An Admiral's log .
636.1
636.4
Fuller, Thomas E. The Right Honorable Cecil John Rhodes ..
631.2
Gilchrist, Beth Bradford. Life of Mary Lyon
636.3
Harland, Marion. Autobiography; Story of a long life
534.19
Hodges, William Romaine. Carl Wimar: A biography
*631.8
Jefferson, Eugenie Paul. Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . 632.14
Jewett, Sophia. God's troubador: Story of St. Francis of Assissi 633.19
Marcosson, Isaac F. Autobiography of a clown 631.4
Milmine, Georgine. Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy, and the history of Christian Science 632.6
Pennell, E. R. and J. Life of J. M. Whistler. 2 vols. 631.9
White, Andrew Dickson. Seven great statesmen in the war of humanity with unreason 631.10
Winter, William. Other days being chronicles and memories of the stage .
632.15
Villard, Oswald Garrison. John Brown: 1800-1859. A biography fifty years after . ·
631.11
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss. Record of the dedication of the Statute of Major-Genernl Nathaniel P. Banks, September 16, 1908 *631.7
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HISTORY.
Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt: From the earliest times to the Persian conquest . 352.5
Eggleston, George Cary. History of the Confederate war; its causes and its conduct; a narrative and critical history. 2 vols. 352.6 .
Hart, Albert Bushnell and others. Decisive battles of America 356.11
McMaster, John Bach. History of the people of the United States 314.15
Paxson, Frederic Logan. Last American frontier 352.7
Trevellyan, George Macaulay. Garabaldi and the Thousand 353.15
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
Clarke, Helen Archibald. Browning's Italy; a study of Ital- ian life and art in Browning 433.22
Longfellow's country 433.21
Crawford, Mary Caroline. The story of the city and its people during the nineteenth century 441.24
Day, E. Hermitage. Oberammergau and the Passion Play 441.17 Franck, Harry A. A vagabond journey around the world: A narrative of personal experience, illustrated with more than one hundred photographs 441.16
Furlong, Charles Wellington. Gateway to the Sahara: Observations and experiences in Tripoli 433.23
Grenfell, Wilfred T. and others. Labrador: The country and its people
416.30
Hart, Albert Bushnell. The Southern South
441.22
Hedin, Sven. Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet. 2 vols.
441.13
Holder, Charles Frederick. Recreations of a sportsman on the Pacific coast 441.21
Howells, William Dean. Seven English cities
444.20
Johnson, Clifton. Picturesque St. Lawrence
437.10
Mahaffy, J. P. Rambles and studies in Greece
437.9
Marden, Philip Sanford. Travels in Spain
435.26
Mills, Enos A. Wild life on the Rockies
416.29
Palmer, Frederick. Central America and her problems; an account of a journey from the Rio Grande to Panama, with introductory chapter on Mexico and her relations to her neighbors 441.15
Peary, Robert E. North Pole; its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Arctic Club; with an introd- duction by Theodore Roosevelt . 441.18
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Roosevelt, Theodore. African game trials; an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter- naturalist 441.19
Tearle, Christian. Rambles with an American 441.20
Viaud, J. (Pierre Loti.) Egypt. Translated from French by W. P. Baines
441.14
Winter, William. Shakespeare's England
SCIENCE, USEFUL ARTS, ETC.
Allen, Grant. Evolution in Italian Art 142.27
Angell, Emmett Dunn. Play: Comprising games for the Kindergarten, playground, school-room, and college; how to coach and play girl's basket ball, etc. 131.4
Bancroft, Jessie H. Games
134.30
Caffin, Charles H. Story of Dutch painting .
141.15
Fernhow, Bernard E. Care of trees: In lawn, street, and park; with a list of trees and shrubs for decora- tive use 141.17
Garrison, Elisha Ely. Accounting every business man should know 141.14
Godfrey, Hollis. Health of the City
131.6
Green, Olive. How to cook vegetables
137.21
Hill, Janet Mackenzie. Cooking for two: A handbook for young housekeepers 137.17
Jordan, Whitman Howard. Feeding of animals
137.20
Lyon, D. Everett. How to keep bees for profit
141.18
Miles, Manly. Stock breeding; a practical treatise on the laws of development and heredity to the im- provement and breeding of domestic animals *214 4
Roberts, Isaac Phillips. Fertility of the land: Summary sketch of the relationship of farm practise to the maintaining and increasing of the produc- tivity of the soil
137.18
The horse
137.19
Schofield, Alfred T. How to keep fit: An unconventional manual 137.22
Sedgwick, Mabel Cabot. The garden month by month: Describing the appearance, color, dates of bloom, height and cultivation of all desirable, hardy herbaceous perenials for the formal or wild garden, with additional lists of aquatics, vines, ferns, etc. 141.16
Serviss, Garrett P. Curiosities of the sky
141.13
Thomas, J. Arthur. Darwinism and human life 131.5
Thoreau. Notes on New England birds
131.3
441.23
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RELIGION. PHILOSOPHY.
Begbie, Harold. Twice born men; a clinic in regeneration; a footnote in narrative to Professor William James' "Varieties in religious experiences" 1125.18 Chapman, Edward Mortimer. English literature in account with religion 1132.4
Eliot, Charles W. Durable satisfactions of life
1132.9
Howells, W. D. and others. In after days: Thoughts on the future life 1132.7 ·
James, William. Pragmatism; a new name for some old ways of thinking 1132.6
King, Henry Churchill. The ethics of Jesus 1132.5
Munsterberg, Hugo. Eternal life .
1125.19
Rowland, Eleanor Harris. The right to believe
1122.15
Students and the present missionary crisis :
Addresses delivered before the Sixth International Conven- tion of the Students' Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Rochester, New York, Dec. 29, 1909, to January 2, 1910 . 1132.8
FICTION.
Arnim, Mary Anette (Beauchamp ) grafin von. The cara-
vaners
757.17
Atherton, Gertrude. Bell in the fog; and other stories Tower of Ivory
758.15
Bacheller, Irving. The master
758.11
Barclay, Florence L. The rosary
756.7
Bell, J. J. Wullie McWattie's master
757.19
Booth, Edward C. The doctor's lass
756.3
Borrow, George. Lavengro
757.18
Brainerd, Eleanor. Personal conduct of Belinda
757.10
Brown, Alice. Country neighbors
758.14
Chambers, Robert E. Ailsa Paige .
756.12
Churchill, Winston. A modern chronicle
717.27
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain. ) Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven 758.17
Connor, Ralph. The foreignor
758.12
Conrad, Joseph. The secret agent
716.29
Crawford, F. Marion. The undesirable governess
717.28
Davis, Richard Harding. Once upon a time
757.15
De La Pasture, Mrs. Henry. The tyrant
758.1
De Morgan, William. An affair of dishonor It never can happen again .
756.4
758.9
Doubleday, Roman. Red house on Rowan Street
757.9
Du Bois, Mary Constance. Lass of the Silver Sword . 758.4
758.23
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Eggleston, George Cary. A Carolina Cavalier: A romance of the American Revolution 716.27
Foote, Mary Halleck. Royal Americans . 757.14
French, Alice (Octave Thanet. ) By inheritance
757.6
Garland, Hamlin. Cavanagh; forest ranger, a romance of the mountain West
721.20
Gilman, Bradley. A son of the desert
758.8
Green, Anna Katharine. The amethyst box
*758.25
The Leavenworth case
*758.22
Haggard, H. Rider. Ayesha
*758.19
The brethren
*758.20
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'urbervilles
758.7
Herrick, Robert. Life for a life
757.13
Johnson, Owen. The varmint
756.11
Kelly, Myra. Little aliens .
716.28
King, Basil. The wild olive
756.2
Lagerlof, Selma. Girl from the Marsh Croft
757.7
Lane, Elinor Macartney. The apple tree cottage
756.14
Lane, Mrs. John. According to Maria
717.26
Lee, Jennette. Happy Island: A new "Uncle William" story
757.12
Lincoln, Joseph C. The depot master
757.4
Locke, William J. Simon the jester
757.3
Maartens, Maarten. Price of Lis Doris .
758.3
Marriott, Charles. Genevia
*758.24
Martin, Helen Reimensnyder. The crossways
756.6
Mason, A. E. W. At the Villa Rose
756.5
Meredith, George. Celt and Saxon .
756.10
Montgomery, L. H. Kilmeny of the orchard .
757.2
Morris, Gouveneur. Voice in the rice 757.11
*758.18
Nicholson, Meredith. House of a thousand candles Lords of high decision .
758.2
Orcy, Baroness. Gates of Kamt
*757.1
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Oath of Allegiance and other stories
758.16
Porter, Sidney (O. Henry, pseud. ) Strictly business; more stories of the four million Whirligigs
717.29
757.16
Ramè, Louisa De La ("Ouida""' ) Under two flags
756.9
Ray, Anna Chapin. Over the quichsands
758.13
Rider, Henry Milner. The twisted foot .
757.5
Robins, Elizabeth. The Florentine frame
758.5
Royle, Edwin Milton. The silent call
756.1
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. Franklin Winslow Kane
721.17
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. Fly on the wheel
*758.21
Tracy, Louis. Captain of the Kansas
721.19
Viaud, J. (Pierre Loti, pseud. ) An Iceland fisherman *Indicates the book was a gift.
756.13
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Ward, Mrs. Humphrey. Lady Merton, colonist
917.25
Watts, Mary S. Nathan Burke 716.30
Wells, H. G. History of Mr. Polly 757.8
Wister, Mrs. A. L., Translator. The lonely house 721.18
Worth, Nicholas. The Southerner MISCELLANEOUS.
758.6
Churchill, W. Liberalism and the social problem
1331.5
Du Bois, Paul. The influence of the mind on the body
1331.7
Fillebrown, C. B. The A. B. C. of taxation
*1537.4
George, William R. The Junior Republic; its history and ideals 1331,6
Gulick, Luther H. Mind and work
1337.8
Krehbiel, Henry Edward. A book of Operas; their histories, their plots, and their music .
1316.11
Mabie, Hamilton W. Book of Christmas
1316.12
Melvin, Memorial. Sleepy Hollow cemetery: Concord, Massachusetts; a brother's tribute: Exercises at dedication *1537.2
Lawrence, Sir Edwin Durning. Bacon is Shakespeare
1537.3
Leupp, F. The Indian and his problem .
1325.28
Munsterberg, Hugo. American problems: From the point of view of a psychologist
1531.2
Proceedings of a Conference of Governors; in the White House, Washington, D. C. , May 13-15, 1908 . *1531.1 Sangster, Margaret E. Fairest girlhood 1331.3
Spears, John R. Story of the American Merchant Marine
1331.4
Stratton-Porter, Gene. Birde of the Bible
1316.13
Tucker, William Jewett. Personal power; counsels to college men
1525.26
Public mindedness; an aspect of citizenship . considered in various addresses given while President of Dartmouth College 1331.2
Songs sung at a dinner given by J. Waldo Smith and C. L. Harrison to the Commissioners and Staff of Board of Water Supply at Terrace Garden, N. Y., City Dec. 10, 1910 *1436.4
Van Dyke, Henry. Spirit of America 1337.7
Washington, Booker. Story of the negro. 2 vols.
1316.10
POETRY. DRAMA.
Adams, Charles Follen. Yawcob Strauss; and other poems *1436.10
Cooke, John. Dublin book of Irish verse . Hornbrooke, Francis Bickford. Ring and the book by Robert Browning. An interpretation 1436.9
1436.6
. Kipling, Rudyard. Collected verse .
1436.8
*Indicates the book was a gift.
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Moses, Montrose J. Passion Play of Oberammergau . 1436.11
Noyes, Alfred. The enchanted island: and other poems 1436.7
Peabody, Josephine Preston. The piper . 1436.5
Quiller-Couch, A. T. Oxford book of English verse 1426.18
Swinburne, A. C. Poetical works . 1426.19
Taylor, Bayard. Poetical works
1426.17
JUVENILE.
Austin, Oscar Phelps. Uncle Sam's secrets: A story of 1221.26
national affairs for the youth of the nation
Ellis, Katharine Ruth. Wide awake girls at College 1237.27
Finnemore, John. India 1238.13
Japan 1238.14
Hodges, George. Garden of Eden: Stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament 842.1
Kelly, R. Talbot. Burma. (Peeps at many lands )
1238.12
Egypt. (Peeps at many lands. ) 1238.11
Kingsley, Charles. The Heroes; or Greek fairy tales 1231.23
Kipling, Rudyard. Rewards and fairies
1237.26
Lagerlof, Selma. Christ legends
842.10
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
842.11
Lang, Andrew Editor. Tales of the Round Table
1221.24
Lang, Mrs. Red book of heroes
842.3
Long, William J. Wood folk at school
1231.21
McDonald, Etta Blaisdell and Dalrymple, J. Kathleen in
Ireland. (Little people everywhere ) 842.7
Manuel in Mexico 842.5
Rafael in Italy
842.6
Ume San in Japan
842.4
Marshall, H. E. Child's English literature 1221.22
Monroe, Mrs. Lewis B. Story of our country 1231.22
Osazi, Theodora. Warriors of old Japan; and other stories 1216.15
Ray, Anna Chapin. Sidney; Her Senior year
834.23
Renninger, Elizabeth D. Story of Rustem; and other Persian hero tales . 1221.23
Richards, Laura E. Florence Nightingale; the angel of the Crimea 842.8
Rogers, Julia Ellen. Trees every child should know
842.13
Schwartz, Julia Augusta. Wonderful little lives.
842.9
Selous, Edmund. Romance of the animal world; interesting descriptions of the strange and curious in natural history 842.2
Stimson, F. J. (pseud. ) King Noanett 1231.23
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Tappan, Eva March. Old ballards in prose
1238.15
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird's golden year 842.12
Wells, Carolyn. Rainy day diversions
1221.25
Yale, Elsie Duncan. When mother lets us give a party
1231.20
PERIODICALS. REFERENCE. PAMPHLETS.
Atlantic Monthly . Vols. 99, 100
Century illustrated monthly Magazine
Vols. 77, 78
Harper's monthly Vols. 118, 119
Massachusetts. Seventy-third annual report of the Board of Education, Jan., 1910. *Ref. R. R.
Report of the Commission on the cost of living, 1910 *Ref.
Massachusetts. Agriculture. Small fruits and berries. Boston, 1910. (Bulletin, No. 4. ) *Pan. B. 6m
Fort Jefferson, and its Commander *Pan. B. 6.9m Woods, Henry Ernest. Woods family of Groton *Pan. B. 6.12m *Indicates the book was a gift.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1910
COL
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
EDWARD E. BRADLEY, Chairman, Term expires1912 EDWARD R. FARRAR, Secretary, 1913
HENRY E. WARNER, 1911
Superintendent of Schools. C. S. LYMAN.
Supervisor of Drawing and Manual Training. WALTER F. BRACKET.
Supervisor of Cooking and Sewing. MRS. IRVING SMITH.
Supervisor of Music. MRS. HARRIET J. BARTLETT.
Teachers. Lincoln Grammar Grades VII-VIII. CARRIE B. CHAPIN.
Lincoln Grammar Grades V-VI. LILLIAN M. SHAW.
Lincoln Primary Grades III-IV. ALICE M. CLIFFORD.
Lincoln Primary Grades I-II. HATTIE B. HEATH.
South Primary Grades I-II-III. GERTRUDE BROOKS.
Truant Officer. JAMES T. LAIRD.
Janitors. Lincoln. EDWARD BANNON.
South. EDMUND R. DAVIS.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Year 1910-19II.
We submit herewith the reports of the Superintendent and the School Physician, and the usual tables of statis- tics.
The schools have had a prosperous year. We believe that the work of the teachers in every department is being carried on in a faithful and successful way. We regret the necessity of making a change of teachers in two school rooms in the middle of the year, especially as we should have been glad to retain much longer the teachers we lost. We count as a very valuable thing the cumulative influence of a good teacher. In order to retain in the service of the Town those teachers who approve themselves to be such, we believe that it would be the part of wisdom for the Town to enable us to pay somewhat larger salaries than we are now able to do. We believe that there is no expenditure of money by which a quicker and a more far-reaching. return is made to the community than in this way.
EDWARD E. BRADLEY, EDWARD R. FARRAR, HENRY E. WARNER, School Committee.
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Superintendent's Report.
To the School Committee of the Town of Lincoln :-
In presenting my fourth annual report, I am glad to say that we have had a prosperous year and have made gains along several lines.
Courses of Study.
We have spent so much time and effort trying to im- prove the work of the primary grades, that the pupils are entering the grammar grades better prepared than ever before. With the new methods it takes less time to teach the little folks to read, yet their reading is better and more expressive, and their power to gain new words is greatly increased. Beautiful gems of literature have been memorized and a goodly number of children's songs thoroughly learned. These songs and poems not only add much happiness to the children's school days, but will be a source of great pleasure to them in the future. At the same time their memories and voices are being well trained. Many stories from literature, history and geography are read and told, thus preparing the way for a later study of these subjects. The children learn enough from these stories to make the grammar school work fuller and better. From their nature lessons and their garden work they learn better to appreciate nature's work, to have more sympathy for animals, and to observe and understand the simpler phenomena and laws of nature. In arithmetic we try to have the primary children master the four fundamental processes with
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some very simple work in small fractions, little problems in every day weights and measures, and buying and sell- ing problems which come naturally within their reach. With this foundatuon the grammar grades receive the children and can work them along rapidly and well.
Of course we always have throughout the schools some pupils who are a great and trying problem to each teacher. For one cause or another these children fail to understand the work or to get the full amount pre- scribed. But as they pass along from grade to grade they are absorbing what they are capable of and are often obtaining a better education than their recitations would indicate. They are certainly receiving a training in regularity and punctuality, and gaining habits of attention and of regular application to work.
There are children who are not scholarly and never will be; their minds do not grasp the abstract; they need the concrete; they express themselves in action. Al- though such children will never become deep thinkers, many of them are capable of developing into useful men and women and valuable citizens. In the past the schools have done very little for such children; much that was taught they could not grasp; they had no interest in the rules of grammar and the abstract prob- lems in mathematics; much of the school work simply chaffed them. The old courses of study had little for them, even the "three R's", they learned laboriously and after much prodding from teacher and parents.
In recent years we have realized that our public schools owed much to these children and that our courses of study must be broadened and developed along lines that would appeal to them and meet their needs. Home and community conditions have so changed, that children of to-day get' very little training of the kind that they need for modern life outside the school. The school curriculum, then, must be so changed as to supply the
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needs of these children, at the same time many others who are more scholarly will benefit by these larger op- portunities, and the community in years to come will reap a large harvest in better workers and more intelli- gent citizens.
The new State Board of Education and its Commis- sioners are working persistently for these improvements. During the past year, under the authority of the Legis- lature, they have been investigating agricultural edu- cation, and making plans for an increased amount of industrial training in the public schools. The Com- missioners are also having conferences with the town superintendents to get in touch with rural conditions, and they intend later to issue a course of study for rural schools. In the next few years much new legislation along educational lines may be looked for, and our schools must be ready to take up these requirements.
In Lincoln we have anticipated some of these changes and have worked towards these results, so that when the new laws are put in force, we shall find it easy to adapt our schools to the new conditions. At the same time we have not and shall not give up the best in the tra- ditional courses.
The Manuel Work.
The boys and girls of the fourth grades have worked with raffia and reed, weaving mats and baskets. The boys of the fifth and sixth grades have continued this work and woven carpet mats and hammocks, caned chairs, and have done some simple forms of woodwork.
Mr. Brackett says:
"There has been a very marked improvement in the sixth grade, the work being accurate, neat and with good idea of form expressed. This seems to be the effect of the training below that grade. The seventh and
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eighth grades have done considerable practical work this year. They have made and put up football goals, backstop for baseball, and have nearly completed and will put up goals for basket ball, and see-saws for the smaller children. They also have under construction a large, solid table for the cooking room and a kindergarten table for the lowest grade."
The older boys have been much interested in construct- ing the playground apparatus and have worked vigorous- ly and well.
It has been Mr. Brackett's aim to make the drawing aid the manual training and the sewing. Some pupils have made a number of useful articles and decorated them with their own designs.
The girls have continued their sewing, learning the various stitches and making a number of useful articles of clothing. The older pupils have learned to run the sewing machines. I think the girls have made the greatest advancement in cooking.
Mrs. Smith seems especially adapted to the teaching of this subject. The fifth grade girls have cooked a number of simple dishes, such as cocoa, oatmeal and other cereals, baked and boiled potatoes, milk toast, crisped crackers, scrambled eggs, baked corn, stewed tomatoes, and fried bacon. The highest class, consisting of grades VII and VIII, have cooked most of the above dishes and many others, including creamed salt fish, baked halibut, fishballs, potato balls, beef hash, baked spaghetti, mince meat and apple pie. They have made both white and brown bread, Indian gems and graham muffins. They preserved and sold a number of cans of pears and tomatoes. The day before Thanksgiving they prepared and ate a savory dinner of roast chicken, potatoes, squash, turnip, cranberry sauce and mince pie.
Mrs. Smith writes me:
"Pupils are taught to use the products of the farm in
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various wholesome ways and to can fruits. We should like for school use some of the surplus or unsaleable fruits and vegetables from Lincoln farms. Parents are urged to encourage the girls to cook at home, otherwise much of the benefit of the lessons is lost."
As I watch the boys and girls at work in these practical departments, I feel sure they are gaining much valuable training and useful knowledge and forming good habits.
Playgrounds.
Lincoln is fortunate in having large, well laid out grounds suitable for free and varied plays. When the apparatus, which Mr. Brackett and the boys have planned and made, is all set up, the children will enjoy healthy, vigorous games. This department of our schools is far more important than most people realize, for play occupies a large place in the development of every child. The following quotations from men who have studied the problem indicate the educational value of play:
"Playing, the child grows character there- fore there is nothing in the world range of schooling that is as educational."
-Jacob Riis.
"The universal impulse to play is a divinely ordered thing. If God gives the instinct, man ought to provide the playground." -Josiah Strong.
"The children begin their education when they begin to play; for play not only affords an outlet for their energy, and so supplies one great means of growth and training, but places them in social relation with their mates and in conscious contact with the world about them. The old games that have been played by gen- erations of children not only precede the training of the
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school and supplement it, but accomplish some results in the nature of the child which are beyond the reach of the school." -Hamilton Wright Mabie.
"The playgroung proves to be an economy to the city in that it lessens crime among children."
-Judge Ben B. Lindsay.
Garden Work.
Several classes at the Lincoln School made gardens on the school grounds during the spring term and grew flowers and a few early vegetables. The children enjoy working in these gardens and the plants grew well during term time.
Last spring we received from Professor Hart of the Massachusetts Agricultural College a large quantity of potatoes and corn to be given to the pupils and leaflets also, which gave minute instruction about planting and caring for both.
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