The New Spirit . and upsets the student. Paul Monroe of Teachers Col-lege tells us that no examinations should be given below the sixth grade and that theseshould last only forty minutes. He also stresses good sanitary conditions of the roomused, and questions that test ability and power of straight forward thinking. The Normal College follows a plan that greatly eliminates the bad effects offormal examinations. A wholesome attitude toward them is created by placing lessstress on them and more on the actual class work. Examination grades have a value ofonly one third in the general average of
The New Spirit . and upsets the student. Paul Monroe of Teachers Col-lege tells us that no examinations should be given below the sixth grade and that theseshould last only forty minutes. He also stresses good sanitary conditions of the roomused, and questions that test ability and power of straight forward thinking. The Normal College follows a plan that greatly eliminates the bad effects offormal examinations. A wholesome attitude toward them is created by placing lessstress on them and more on the actual class work. Examination grades have a value ofonly one third in the general average of the terms work. Stress is also minimized byallowing for the test only the time of one recitation period. Frequent written class tests are of the same nature as the final ones, thusmaking the student free from undue excitement regarding the final tests. Any rural teacher can follow this plan in a modified way and attain far betterresults than come from long, technical, nerve-racking examinations. OLIVE SPICER. 40. NORA STEVENS Clay County flaBfrur 0 Jlnttenre nn Bfygt^ttF T >HE recognition of the natural cause and develop-ment of disease has been one of the greatesttriumphs, not merely of pathology, but intel-ligence. It has done more to diminish that dread ofthe unknown than any other advance made in moderntimes. It adds to our courage and power of protec-tion in many ways; first of all by revealing to us thecause of disease, usually some careless habit on thepart of some individual or community; and the nextby proving to us that nearly all diseases have a defi-nite beginning and a definite end and are of them-selves self-limiting, either by exhaustion and loss ofvirulence on the part of their cause or by the resistingpower of the body. In early times it was the general belief ofthose who did not accept as literal the Biblical ac-count of the Creation of the world that many forms of life could arise without genealo-gy. This theory or idea is generally spoken of as the theory
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