THE OMAHA SUNDAY BKK: FEBRUARY 25. 1917.
13 A
GERMANIZING THE
BRITISH SCHOOLS
Tendency in England Today is
Toward Practical, Not
Classical Education.
LLOYD GEORGE FAVOES IT
(Corraapondenc of The Associated Prsa)
London, Feb. 7. War has laid a
heavy hand on education in Europe,
and its effects are felt here not only
in the complete derangement of the
present educational system, but in the
prospect of far-reaching changes after
the war. The basis of thes prospec
tive changes is the modernizing of ed
ucation, making it more practical for
coping with every-day business affairs
of life, after the American and Ger
man methods. This, in turn, has pre
cipitated a heated controversy over
whether the English school system
is to be "Germanized." Premier
Lloyd George's recent choice of Prof
Fisher, head of Sheffield university,
as minister of education was one of
the steps to get a practical educator
in charge of affairs while the changes
were working out.
The present effect of the war on
education is shown in the reduction
of the great universities of Oxford
and Cambridge to mere shadows of
their former extent. Instead of hav
ing about 7,000 to 10,000 students,
they are now reduced to the dimen
sions of small schools, with about 500
each. There is the same reduction
to mere shadows in the extensive sys
tem of universities and technical
schools throughout the country, at
London, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manches
ier and all the great cities. All the
able-bodied students have gone to the
war, and even those not able-bodied
are engaged on research work in mu
nitions, aeronautics, aviation, wireless
telegraphy and map-making for the
government.
The public schools have been simi
larly affected, particularly in the
teaching staffs, about 25,000 school
teachers having been taken from the
regular establishments to join the
army. The scholars in the secondary
schools have also suffered marked
losses, as the top-form boys have fal
len within the military age. Even
the elementary schools have felt their
share of the effects, in the loss of
teachers, the military occupation of
over 1,000 schools as hospitals, bar
racks, etc.; the displacement of 110,
000 pupils by this military occupation
of schools; the taking in of 25,000
refugee Belgian children, and the sub
stitution of women for men as teach
ers. One school has a woman teacher
for the first time in sixty years. An
other large school has fifty-seven
women teachers.
Courses in War.
Even the courses of study are ma
terially changed to a war basis. In
one locality there are courses on the
western front, the eastern front, the
Balkans, the war in the air and naval
operations. In another locality war
loans, war taxes and similar subjects
are discussed. Letters from relatives
at the front are regularly read before
the classes, as 95 per cent of the pupils
have relations at the front. , Much
of the composition is on war sub
jects. Geography of the. countries at
war has been greatly stimulated; also
the history of the Balkan and other
countries of which little had been
known. At one school the boys have
constructed a sand map 20x13 feet of
Flanders, the Dardanelles and the
Trentino front in Italy.
It is at the great universities, how
ever, that the greatest change has oc
curred. At Oxford, which is a uni
versity grouping of twenty-two
schools, Balliol has furnished 690 sol
diers and has had 87 killed; Oriel fur
nished 540, 97 killed; Magdalen fur.
nished 725, 106 killed; Trinity fur
nished 630, 86 killed; Christ Church
furnished 1,075, 113 killed; St. John's
furnished 485, 59 killed; University
furnished 554, 88 killed; Queen's fur
nished 403, 42 killed; Corpus Christ!
furnished 240, 44 killed.
Cambridge shows the same large
representation at the front and heavy
death lists. Up to the beginning of
this year Cambridge had furnished
13.138 men at the front, of which
1.403 had been killed, 1,945 wounded.
213 missing or prisoners. Victoria
crosses have gone to five Cambridge
men and eight Oxford men, while
many other crosses, honors and for
eign decorations have gone to the men
of both institutions.
As a result of the depletion of the
universities, foreign students are
about alt, that remain. The Oxford
cricket team, for instance, is made
up of about ten Americana and two
or three students from India. At
Trinity only four British students re
main, these begin exempt from ser
vice for one cause or another; at St.
John's nine; at Wadham five; and
similar depletion all along. The
American Rhodes scholars go on as
usual, however, with little or no
change in courses, although the whole
maimer of college life has changed.
The academic uniform has given place
to khaki, and undergraudates attend
courses and teachers give lectures in
khaki. Owing to the restrictions on
night lighting, some of the schools
have given up their traditional even
ing services. The work people around
the universities also are all changed,
all the men servants having gone to
war and .women having taken their
places for the first time as bedmakers
and in the kitchens and butteries.
Keble has introduced seventeen
women.
No Athletics.
In athletics, for which the univer
sities were famous, there is prac
tically a complete suspension. Few
of the colleges were able to keep up
foot ball or hockey teams. Rowing
has similarly been demoralized, ana
none of the famous old eights could
be kept together. By combining.
Magdalen. St. John's, University and
New College managed to ship two
four-oared . crews which have taken
part in some local contests. . Track
teams have been completely given up.
About the only outward evidence of
athletics has been the drilling of
squads of university recruits pre
paratory to their leaving for the front.
Civil Service Shows
Big Losses in the
Philippine Isles
(Corraapondenee of The Aieoc1nte.il Preci.)
Manila, Jan. 30. While every bu
reau of the Philippine government has
suffered in the last six months since
the passage of the law which enables
the American civil service employe
of more than six years' standing to
retire on a small pension extending
over three years, the bureau of agri
culture reports the heaviest loss from
resignations and retirements. Fully
50 per cent of the Americans in this
important bureau, have left the gov
ernment service.
Adriano Hernandez, t Filipino, the
director of the bureau, In published
statements denied that these resigna
tions have affected the efficiency of
the bureau. He states that for some
time past Filipinos have been acting
as assistants to the Americans who
have retired, thus gaining training to
take up the work the Amreicans leave.
Of the twenty-one divisions of the
bureau seven are now entirely in the
hands of Filipinos, while the remain
der have American chiefs with Fili
pino subordinates training to take
their places.
in one department that of the vet
erinarians the retirement of Ameri
cans has caused serious inconven
ience. Rinderpest has for years been
a dread cattle scourge in the islands.
Last year saw It reach a high mark
of fatality just when American vet
erinarians, already reduced in num
ber and crippled in their operations
by the small appropriation for their
work, were beginning to tire of the
service and take advantage of the
retirement law.
Unlike the other departments, there
are few Filipinos competent to take
up the work of the retiring veteri
narians. There is but one institu
tionthe University of the Philip
pineswhich teaches veterinary med-
HEE BETROTHAL TO MR.
! LOOMIS ANNOUNCED.
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Thoto by Heyn.
MISS MARTHA DALE.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Dale an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Martha, to Alexander C.
Loomis, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H.
Loomis.
Miss Dale is a graduate of Lasell
seminary near Boston and is one of
three sisters who have been very
popular socially. Her sisters are Mrs.
W. Kighter Wood and Mrs. Sidney
Smith, the latter now living in Hart
ford, Conn. Mr. Loomis is a Kansas
university graduate and a Sigma Chi
man. No date for the wedding has
been set.
icine; primitive farming methods in
vogue throughout the country make
private employment of veterinarians
rare and poorly paid and Filipino
youths aspire rather to the learned
professions than to those which de
mand something akin to manual labor.
So when the pinch of retiring vet
erinarians was felt the bureau, after
exhausting the local supply of com
petent men, had to appeal to the
United States for other veterinarians.
At best these are a poor substitute
for the trained men who are quitting
since it takes them fully a year to
learn the conditions with which they
have to cope in the field here.
Among the better known Ameri
cans who have recently left the bu
reau are D. R. Flack, an employe of
fifteen years' service, who goes to Pet
rograd to join the staff of the Amer
ican embassy there; John T. Zimmer,
entomologist, who joins the British
agricultural forces in l'apau, and M.
M. Saleeby, a fiber expert of the bu
reau since the inauguration of the
government standardization of hemp
ana kindred hbers. who resigned to
represent in the local field a New
York fiber importing company.
Death Lurks in
Bottle, but Boy
Does Not Worry
Harry Grossman, 12 years old, 509
South Thirteenth street, came in to
The Bee office with a forbidding look
ing spider in a bottle.
"It's a trantler," he 'said.
Which being interpreted means
"taranlula," that venomous big spider
that is sometimes found in bunches
of bananas.
Harry found the tarantula at Eight-
eentn and cnicago streets.
"It jumped at me twice," he said.
Then he got the bottle and some
sticks and herded the venomous thing
in to a place where it can't hurt any
one. The tarantula's bite can cause
the death of a man.
Give your Want Ad a chance to
make good. Run it in The Bee.
Still
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The disastrous fire of Friday morning
which completely destroyed our large estab
lishment on Douglas street makes necessary
this announcement of a
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outhlSf
1st National Bank Building
We will be pleased to see all having bus
iness transactions with the company and
those wishing to make payments, at this
address.
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Cause of Explosion
On Cruiser Tsukuba
Remains Mystery
lOneepuinlerue of Tin' AMOclnttMl Prs.l
Tokio, Jan. jU, Naval otlicers ridi
cule reports that the explosion on the
battleship-cruiser Tsukuba on Janu
ary 14 wa.i the work of German spies.
The Tsukuba sank soon after the ex
plosion and the revised estimate
shows that 157 seamen were killed
and that at least fifty injured.
Tile cause remains a mystery, but
is explained by a naal man as prob
ably due to spontaneous combustion
in the powder magazine. That there
was not a larger loss of life is due
to the fact that about half of the
crew were ashore at Yokostika, where
the warship was at anchor.
Captain Arima had just arrived on
hoard from shore when a tremendous
roar, which was heard many miles
away, and the ship was encased in
a pillar of smoke and flames. The
concussion blew a hole in the hull
through which the water rushed and
within a few minutes the ship began
to sink. There were 340 seamen and
a few officers on board at the time.
Many were killed outright and others
were blown into the sea.
Launches and cutters were dis
patched to the rescue. Divers who
made an investigation found many
dead men seated about the table in the
mess room. A number of sailors who
were on deck were blown into the air
and were crushed to death when they
fell again to the deck. The bodies of
sixty-two sailors were recovered from
the sea and it is believed that the rest
are lodged in the wreck of the ship.
The Tsukuba was the first large
warship to be built in home yards.. On
several occasions it had conveyed the
late emperor and emv-'tM during
naval maneuvers. The warship visited
America on the occasion of the
Jamestown exposition. It was re
garded as rather superannuated and
was lately used as a training ship of
naval gunnery.
Captain Aruna was saved. The pic
ture of the emperor, which hung in
the ofticers' room, was saved by Lieu
tenant Kukumoto. who rushed into
the apartment at considerable risk.
The ship's flag was also removed by
'" " .wii just as the vessel was
disappearing.
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