School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . l for an adjournment indoors but this is seldomnecessary, as even the most restless are influenced by the peace of Natureon a calm, bright day. The depths of the leafy green trees seem soothingto jangled nerves. This is a nice plan for the last session of the day, wheneveryone is restless and nervous, and the classes at that time are thosethat do not require the board or use of writing materials. This plan is-helpful to the nervous teacher whose nerves jangle out of tunebefore four oclock.—Normal Instructor. How to Measure in F
School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . l for an adjournment indoors but this is seldomnecessary, as even the most restless are influenced by the peace of Natureon a calm, bright day. The depths of the leafy green trees seem soothingto jangled nerves. This is a nice plan for the last session of the day, wheneveryone is restless and nervous, and the classes at that time are thosethat do not require the board or use of writing materials. This plan is-helpful to the nervous teacher whose nerves jangle out of tunebefore four oclock.—Normal Instructor. How to Measure in Freehand Drawing MRS. HELEN C. MAYBERRYNormal School, Stratford IN teaching drawing in a Normal School, one has some opportunityof judging the results of the work previously done in the Publicand High School courses, and the one thing that has struck me mostforcibly is that no person can draw, or hardly any one, though there areoccasional exceptions. The students are not sensitive to bad form,and have not the slightest idea how to make corrections except by the. Figure 1. vaguest kind of guess-work. They can tell all about measuring, fore-shortening, vanishing lines, but when it comes to the actual doing ofthe work, they never get anything the right shape. They may get itnearly so, perhaps, but it does not seem to have been the habit to workat a drawing until it is correct. The result of this habit of work is twofold; they have drawn care-lessly so long that they have lost the faculty of taking careful observa-tions; and second, they have lost interest, and will scarcely take the [ 228 ] HOW TO MEASURE IN FREEHAND DRAWING 229 trouble to try to improve. The whole field of Art has been covered, ina fashion, again and again, from the kindergarten up, design, shading,composition and life. There is nothing left, and the teacher who wouldtry to introduce academic methods is utterly beaten by the force ofhabit in the students, and I do not think it possible ever to reclaim thisground
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