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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1916
Page
13
The Sewing Circle of the Boston Post offers domestic guidance for women on home management, marriage, and parenting. Readers share problems about keeping a house, finances, and child care, with responses urging forgiveness, budgeting tips, and practical caregiving.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, outlines serious defects in American secondary education in a pamphlet for the General Education Board. He urges laboratory work manual training and more focus on music and drawing to correct glaring deficiencies.
Dr. Eliot argues US high schools neglect training of the senses and practical skills. He urges more hands on work in drawing carpentry music sewing and cooking plus expanded study of observation based sciences including chemistry physics biology and geography.
The text urges in city schools a practical manual training to fit boys for various trades and insists on substantial music education for sight singing and reading music. It also calls for extensive drawing, both freehand and mechanical, and for pupils to work in gardens and experimental plots individually and cooperatively.
Mrs Johanna Desmond aged 50 of 410 Market Street Brighton collapsed while boarding a South Boston car at Dudley street terminal lower loop last night at 6 30 and died after being taken to City Hospital. Her three year old granddaughter Helen also of 410 Market Street Brighton was present in the crowd.
The whaling bark Alice Knowles from New Bedford reports two crewmen killed in an encounter with a whale off the African coast. The mate Antonio T. Pina and sailor Fidily Cecelia died when the whale struck the small boat. Other sailors were saved by a fellow boat.
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