TRAINING SCHOOL One main object of the Training School is for observation and practice teaching of college students who intend making teaching a profession . This work is being done under exper ienced teachers. "Train up a child in Lhe way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it," a re words of the world's wisest man. The Primary Department is heeding this ~age advice by giving specia l attention to the Bible and by personal application of the lessons learned . As an introduction to geog raphy and history the children have studied the American Indian. the Eskimo. the Japanese, the Dutch and other neighbors. The sa nd table is used extensively in this work. Original poems, stories and plays have received special attention. Arithmetic work books have been enjoyed by the third grade. Besides the regular work the chi ld ren have a lesson in art twice a Attention is given to musical appreciation and si nging. The Song-OPhone orchestra is again at work. The Primary Department had six weeks summer term following the regular school year of 1926. Special work was given in the cool basement room and airy gymna s ium, whi ch afforded a very pleasant envi ronment. Tn the Intermediate Department. aside from the regular Bible study, the child ren have visited the crowned heads of chief nations from ancient Egypt to the present; they have reveled in the tales of Shakespeare and enjoyed the delightful haunts of Sherwood Forest with bold Robin Hood; th ey have scaled the towers of many an ancient cast le and behe ld its sleepi ng princess; they have gone with Beowulf to the depths of the g loomy lak e and watched him slay the monster. They have also learned that the Alps of Switzerland have made of its people an artistic yet th rifty yeomanry, and that the struggle against the sea made of Holland the "Land of Pluck". Thus the child is learning to li ve in the fullest sense while bui lding a foundation for hi s future work in li fe. Th e Grammar Department is accompli shing many things that will ena bl e its members to cope with situations to be met in actual experience. The girls are interested students in home economics and some have proven them"elves to be cleve r li t tle housewives. The boys are studying a practical cou r se of biology in agr iculture. Each chi ld is learning to master his own language. Through an especia ll y orga nized reading circle the students a re becoming acquainted with the work of the best poets, novelists, and essayists of America and England. They are leaming to si ng and to app reciate good mu s ic. But far greater a ncl of importance acove all these, each one is learning about hi s God th rough the st udy and di scuss ion of Hi s Word daily. The purpose of this department is to teach each member the esse ntials of happiness by giving him a basis for t he ri ght kind of learninglearning that will go on and g row after the text has been closed ancl forgotten. "Cooperation" is the sloga n of the th ree departments of the Training School.
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