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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1926
Page
6
The report notes farm supervision and vocational agriculture classes for boys in Alabama as part of a promotional effort. It cites financial returns and per capita figures, while stressing conservation and resource instruction alongside part time work and spurred crops.
A letter from a young woman asks why she cannot attract men and whether beauty is worth sacrificing brains. The writer discusses the social pressures on flappers, the value of personality over looks, and suggests focusing on education, career, books, travel, and friendships for happiness.
Ohio high schools in cities over 2,000 population show 60 percent require physical education for all students. Athletic fields exist in 69 percent, playfields in 24 percent, PE teachers in 52 percent, and school coaches in 93 percent. Only 40 percent join intramural athletics. Exams are required for all pupils in 25 percent, and for athletes in 53 percent. A high school athletics commissioner has been appointed and state law sets 100 minutes weekly.
A mobile "traveling laboratory" health unit operates in the Los Angeles California school district. The auto unit, partitioned by curtains, provides medical, orthopedic, nose and throat, dental, eye exams and vision testing. It remains at each rural school until all children are examined and treated.
The University of Chicago will establish an advanced graduate school of librarianship funded by a 1 385 000 gift from the Carnegie Foundation. Courses will cover library architecture and building problems filing methods administration city relations to town book acquisition advanced classification cataloguing reference work and copyright law.
A new chair of church music will be established this fall at the Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston, funded by a $100,000 gift from the Carnegie Corporation. The department will include studies on ritual Hebrew music and the evolution of church music from early Christian times to today, with community singing taught as well.
About 250000 dollars is disbursed annually from the student loan fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Since 1873 the act began with 300 dollars, 84205 college students have been aided, and by June 30, 1922 a total of 3720520 dollars has been loaned. A significant share of church leaders and students benefited.
The Everett Massachusetts senior high school may extend to nine periods on Wednesdays to allow time for chorus orchestra and glee club work and lyceum and school council meetings. The principal foresees possible seven or eight periods daily in the future to meet life’s complexity and rising pupil activity.
The Department of Education of Massachusetts reports 95 201 students enrolled in university extension courses last year. Classes ran in 71 centers statewide with 80 407 enrolled. 4 704 were correspondence students. Since January 1916 the state records 186 069 persons enrolled in extension courses.
Rural education courses are taught in many state normal schools and teachers colleges. The Interior Department notes a decline since 1922 in high school offered programs, with five of 26 states dropping normal courses. In six states only a few high schools offer them, but some states maintain postgraduate programs in select schools.
Bloomsburg State Normal School of Pennsylvania produced an annual art project featuring a filmed presentation of Cinderella. The performance required outside work, took two months, used about 6000 feet of film, and cost around $2000 funded by proceeds from former art club plays. The film will be loaned free to educational institutions.
A short summer course for janitors and engineers was offered for the second time by Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley. It covered heating plans, plumbing, repairs, ventilation, fire prevention, sanitation, disinfection, cleaning materials, and building care, with visits to ten schools to observe best practices and moving pictures illustrating proper methods.
Washington reports a Masonic literary student tracing the earliest reference to the Great Architect in literature. The line appears in Marlowe's Edward I, entered in Stationers Hall Books in 1693, when Queen Isabella proclaims Thanked the heaven's Great Architect.
A Reading Freemasons gathering sent birthday greetings to King George. Buckingham Palace replied that the King received the message with pleasure on behalf of the royal household. An unrelated item notes a 12 year contract signed by fraternities and sororities for college cooperative ventures.
Alan O Neall 82, of Winston Salem N C has been appointed Deputy for the Grand Council Order of DeMolay in charge of Kansas state. He succeeds Thomas J Harkins of Asheville. He is a lawyer of distinction and active Masonry worker appointed by Judge Hevanags SF Bochaan of St Louis Grand Later Councilor.
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago offers free preparation for a Christian vocation with 85 buildings in central Chicago. Fall term begins in September and catalogs with blank applications are available on request. An employment bureau aids students in earning board and room, with evening classes for those with daytime trades or family duties.
Fragmentary report indicates about 13 million dollars spent on public education and nearly 10 thousand dollars voted by residents in special elections. The text notes parole activity and emphasizes citizen involvement in local finance decisions.
The Gallup Herald informs subscribers that expires with the indicated issue dates must renew immediately to continue receiving the paper. Renewals are needed to avoid missing issues as postwar price pressures rise and mailing lists are revised.
Mail trains timetable lists west and east bound trains with departure and arrival times. Star route services run through Alligon Ganado Gamerco Zuni Shiprock with daily or alternating service and special Tuesday Thursday Saturday dispatches.
Sixty nine public summer schools will operate in New York City this summer. Sixty elementary, three junior high, and six senior high schools will meet needs of students who failed to qualify for higher grades, advance bright pupils, or improve English. Seventeen play schools will offer recreation in congested sections.
In Himmelstadt on the Main, two girls report a Madonna vision seen in a white cloud, followed by a third woman making the same claim. The Bishop of Würzburg warns pilgrims of dangerous crowds and urges restraint while awaiting official investigation.
Quotes from multiple papers reflect social strains and sarcasm about farms, labor, and industry. Pittsburg Gazette-Times jokes about farmers, Detroit News questions operator independence after 45 years, and Dallas News laments Mexican labor’s impact on an American plant.
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