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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1917)
r i 's , ill !l . 1 l f. ! , i' u ' i It iH - : ! pi , t ' ? ',1 s THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 30, 1917. Lincoln's Colleges and Schools Are Famous Union College f 5 rvv ' Coiitev Umierd "Lincoln as a Center of, Education" By Miss Sarah P. Muir of the Lincoln Public Schools All Nebraska knows Lincoln as an educational center because here is lo cated the State university, and in or near Lincoln numerous other col leges. Nebraska probably does not know at first hand much about the secondary school systerft in Lincoln. Indeed the city of Lincoln itself is only beginning to be aware that the schools of Lincoln are rapidly taking rank among the finest 4n the United States. Superintendent Fred M. Hunter and the men and women working with him have made so wide and critical a study of school prob lems that the best ideas of the coun try have been brought to bear upon .the school system of Lincoln. Many of the buildings which house the pupils are still inadequate, but the Board of Education stands pledged to a building policy which will steadily replace old structures. Two splendid buildings, however, stand as models of school architecture the Bancroft junior high and prevocational school and the new high school building. The Bancroft building contains an au ditorium and gymnasium; boys' shop where instruction is given in wood work, printing, electric wiring and concrete work; a housekeeping suite, sewing and fitting rooms, domestic science kitchen, beside the more usual features of ordinary high school building. Modern Building. The new high school building located at Twenty-second and . J streets offers every facility needed to a thoroughly cosmopolitan high school. The wide campus, of fifteen acres, already begins to show. how landscape gardening and practical utility can be combined. Hockey fields and tennis courts figure at the south, a foot ball practice field at the north, and the future athletic field with grandstand at the west. This year, however, in accordance with the spirit of service which the war situa tion demands, all of the west field and most of the north have been planted to corn, beans, potatoes and a variety of other vegetables, under direction of Mr. Slothower of the Department of Agriculture. The building itself, surrounded by a alight, terrace,, is a splendid three-story structure, cover ing more than an acre. It is built of brick, in the simple, dignified lines which characterize the finest school buildings of the country. Some of the most interesting features within are the wide corridors unmarred by lockers, the well arranged auditorium seating 1,400, the pool and showers adjoining the gymnasiums, tne cate teria which daily caters to 800 stu dents, the manual training, domestic science and art rooms, adequate locker rooms, stiff rooms for the an nual and for the weekly school paper, One of the great problems con fronting the schools all over the country today is how to keep the boys and the girls in school. Two chief means have been used in the Lincoln schools to effect this; one, the bridging of the gap between eighth grade and high school by means of the junior high schools; the other, byMhe introduction from kin dergarten through the tweitth graae of attractive and practical courses which will induce boys and girls to continue their studies and to grad uate. Vocational work and vocational guidance have done much to awaken the vouiik citizens of Lincoln to their opportunities and possibilities. Changes at School. The past year lias seen radical changes in Lincoln high school. Jesse H. Newlon. the principal, has brought to bear upon nign scnooi anairs Keen insieht. practical common sense, and wide studv of 1 ieh school problems. Early in the year he appointej com mittees of taculty members to 6tuay the most urgent need- of the high school. Committees on curriculums and constants after much investiga tion presented reports which have re suited in the makim over and modern izinir of the curriculums. The follow ing are now open to students: A uni versity preparatory curriculum, i general curriculum, and hve voca tional curriculums: i.amelv. the com mercial, the fine arts, the household arts, the mechanic arts, and the mu sic. All of these curriculums are so arranged that every student will have some taste of those essentials without which a boy or girl is cheated of his educational rights. Some extremely attractive courses have been intro duced into all curriculums. In most departments heads have been created. Under their guidance much has been done in revising and articulating the courses. In the Eng lish department a thorough study ot curriculums from the most progres sive schools m the country has been made, and has result' in numerous changes. Some courses offered for the first time next year are news writing, reading and speakinp. mod ern plays and play writing, extensive study ot Shakespeare s plays: and American liter-ture. In all courses greater stress is to be placed upon oral English, reading aloud, letter writing. A "better English week" will be a new feature introduced to point out to the student the value of good English whatever may be their future career, and some means of attaining it. Committees Help Out. Other committees which have made valuable contributions this year are the committee on organiza tion, the 'committee on student af fairs, and committee cn assemblies. 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