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A Monthly Magazine

DEVOTED TO

THE SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

OF EDUCATION.

FRANK H. KASSON, EDITOR.
FRANK H. PALMER, ASSOCIATE Editor.

VOLUME XX.

SEPTEMBER, 1899, -JUNE, 1900.

BOSTON

KASSON AND PALMER

50 BROMFIELD STREET

1900

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Anglo-Saxon," Changed Significance of. Frederick William Chapman

Arithmetical Progression. President F. B. Gault

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Boy, What will he become? F. D. Evans.
Browning Letters. Elizabeth Porter Gould

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College Requirements in English. Maud Elmer Kingsley, A.M.
Colleges, Problems Confronting. A Symposium. Presidents Wm. J.
Tucker, Arthur T. Hadley, Charles F. Thwing, Franklin Carter
and John H. Barrows

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College Women and Matrimony. Dean George E. Gardner

Columbine. (Poem.) Frederick Manley

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Corporal Punishment in Massachusetts Schools. Frank H. Palmer,

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Pictures, The Interpretation of. Franklin B. Sawvel
Poe and the Raven. Miss Della Courson.

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Principle, Place of, in Instruction. Frank P. Bachman
Professional Improvement. A. W. Edson

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Professional Spirit of Teachers. Supt. C. B. Gilbert
Public School System of Chicago.

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E. Benjamin Andrews, LL.D.,

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Sympathy in the High School Teacher. B. B. Sciurus
Teacher, Is He a Proletarian? Mrs. Wm. D. Cabell
Teachers' Retirement Fund, Boston. Alfred Bunker
Teacher, The. W Scott, A.M..

Temperance Instruction. Hon. Henry Sabin

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Through Education to Independence. M. Anagnos.

Turner's Approach to Venice. (Poem.) Helen Cary Chadwick
University of American Life. Rev. A. D. Mayo, LL.D

War. (Poem.) E. W. Dutcher

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Women, Education of, in the Orient. Mary Mills Patrick, Ph D).

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EDUCATION

DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND

LITERATURE OF EDUCATION.

VOL. XX.

SEPTEMBER, 1899.

No. 1.

THE SUPERINTENDENT-A DICTATOR OR LEADER,

THE

WHICH?

HON. HENRY SABIN, DES MOINES, IOWA.

HE present trend of the times is to lodge in the hands of the city superintendent almost supreme power in strictly educational affairs, and to separate his office from the business or administrative functions of the board. This scheme finds many advocates, particularly in the larger cities. In imitation, in many small towns and cities the superintendent asks to be allowed to exercise the same powers. He claims the right to appoint and dismiss teachers at his own pleasure; to select and change text-books without any interference of school authorities; and to arrange courses of studies as seems to him best. In short,

He is monarch of all he surveys;
His right there is none to dispute.

This is done under pretense of removing the schools from the control of local politicians, who use the appointing power to further their own designs. The experiment remains to be tested whether it is wise to intrust so much absolute power into the hands of one man. It is generally a wise maxim, especially in a democracy, to distribute power and limit, if not divide, responsibility. It may well be questioned whether the administration of school matters affords an exception to this general rule.

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