. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . story andspurious patriotism that has been so potent in bringing on the war inEurope. On August 20, the Council of State Departments of Education helda meeting in the ballroom of the Auditorium, under the chairmanship ofDr. Thomas E. Finegan, Deputy Commissioner of Education of New subjects considered were: Lines of Cooperation Between the NationalCommissioner of Education a
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . story andspurious patriotism that has been so potent in bringing on the war inEurope. On August 20, the Council of State Departments of Education helda meeting in the ballroom of the Auditorium, under the chairmanship ofDr. Thomas E. Finegan, Deputy Commissioner of Education of New subjects considered were: Lines of Cooperation Between the NationalCommissioner of Education and the Heads of State Departments, discussedby Hon. P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, andHon. T. H. Harris, State Superintendent of Louisiana; The Method ofExchanging Teachers Among Widely Separated Sections of the Country,bv Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of West Virginia; and TheRelation Between State Superintendents and State Institutions of HigherLearning, by Hon. William Orr, Deputy State Commissioner of Educationof Massachusetts. Whether or not sex hygiene should be taught in the public schools wasa pressing question just then, and Thomas M. Balliet, Dean of the School. WHAT SHALL THE WORLD BE TAUGHT? 79 of Education, University of New York, took, occasion to utter warningson the subject. It was a problem for educators to study, he contended,but the time for action was not yet. The motive was the preservation ofhealth and right moral living, and instruction should not be dogmatic butbased on scientific facts. A problem of the time was that of the teaching of general morality andreligion. A prize of $1,000 had been offered for the best essay on a practicalmethod of introducing such teaching into the schools, and the award wasannounced at this convention. The contest was won by Charles E. Rugh,Professor of Moral Education in the Department of Pedagogy at theUniversity of California, in a field of 432 contestants. The example of France in the
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