INDEX

Agricultural education, establishment of, in city schools,[156], [314]
home-project work,[321]
relation of, to farm-cadet service,[322]
Agricultural labor, resolutions of New York State Board of Regents in regard to,[95]
shortage of,[136]
farm-garden permits for,[159]
release of schoolboys for,[161]-[163]
justification for employment of boys for,[164]
German women and children in,[236], [242], [243]
English children in farm work,[236]-[240]
organizing boys for,[246]-[256]
example of distribution of,[255]-[256]
social significance of boys in,[270]-[271]
age distinctions of boys,[274]
types of farm employers,[280]-[282]
Attendance laws, abrogating of, in England,[135]
types of action possible in regard to,[138]-[139]
action of various states in regard to,[140]-[143]
lessons to be learned from England,[144]-[146]
modification of,[155]
changes in New York State,[157]-[159]
enlistment for farm service in New York State and relation to,[160]-[161]
relaxing, for agricultural work,[237]-[239]
constructive policy in amending,[309]
Aviation schools,[98]
Blind, the, reëducating,[211]-[213], [215]
Boy Scouts,[87], [130], [140], [172], [306], [309], [328]
Camp Fire Girls,[328]
Canada, convalescent homes for disabled soldiers in,[215]
work of Military Hospitals Commission in,[228]-[231]
boys for farm work in,[247]
Census, agricultural, by schools of New York State,[24], [277]
school principal may direct,[312]
Claxton, P. P.,[92], [146]-[150]
Colleges, continuance of, during war time,[80]-[83], [92]
spirit of mobilization of,[83]-[86]
war-emergency courses in,[86]-[90], [96]-[103]
maintenance of academic status of,[91], [93]-[94]
field of service for departments of psychology in,[101]-[103]
contribution of geological departments of,[105]
effect of war on curricula of,[111]
demand for graduates of,[147]-[148]
Commercial schools, indefiniteness of aim in,[316]-[317]
short-unit and part-time courses in,[317]
Community canning clubs. See Conservation of food
Conservation of food, need of,[25]-[28]
saving of waste in New York City,[29]-[31]
Columbia lectures on,[87]-[88]
canning clubs,[125]-[127], [320]
drying and evaporating,[126]-[127], [320]
county superintendents' duties,[326]
Continuation schools, enacting of laws for,[155]
Council for National Defense,[94], [96], [315]
Cripples, reëducating the,[211]-[233]
Democracy, teaching of,[149]-[150]
making safe for the world,[326]
leisure necessary for,[329]
Disabled soldiers, reëducating the,[211]-[233]
Domestic arts, new spirit of teaching,[118]
criticism of existing teaching of,[192]
improvements in teaching,[193]-[194]
Thrift Club,[321]
Domestic science, new spirit of teaching,[119]
teaching adults,[122], [319]
traveling kitchens,[124]
demonstration train,[124]
war recipes,[319]
home cadets,[321]
Education, effect of war on,[113]-[114]
equal opportunity for,[327]
socialized,[327]
vocational guidance in,[327]
for subnormals and cripples,[328].
See also Colleges, Commercial Schools, Schools, etc.
Employment of children, care exercised in,[146]
out of school hours,[149]
divergent points of view in regard to,[150]-[151]
recognizing work impulses in,[151]-[152]
occupational study of a group of boys,[186]-[190]
"blind-alley occupations,"[190]-[191]
waste of boy power,[191]
England's schools, use of buildings in war,[18]-[20]
as distributing agencies for information,[23]-[24]
compiling of National Register by,[24]
open days for parents,[28]
traveling kitchens in,[29], [124]
thrift teaching in,[31]-[32]
training semiskilled workers in,[59]-[60], [66], [75]-[76]
productive work of technical schools,[60]-[61]
courses in cantonments,[101]-[102]
garden work as substitute for manual training in,[121]-[122]
short courses in cookery in,[123]
training cooks for army,[128]
furnishing meals to children in,[129]
furnishing soldiers' kits and hospital equipment,[132]-[134]
abrogating attendance laws,[135], [137]-[138]
restricting labor of school children,[144]-[146]
children for farm work,[236]-[240]
plans for supervision of schoolboy farm labor,[240]-[242]
reorganization of,[304]
Evening schools, trade-extension work in,[72]
training of foremen in,[316]
Farm cadets, organization of, in New York State,[172]
reason for organizing,[234]-[245]
plan for use of,[246], [272]-[274]
rearrangement of school program for,[247]-[248], [313]-[314]
wages of,[249], [250], [253], [261], [262], [265], [267], [278]
agreements and contracts,[251]-[252], [279]-[280], [282]-[287]
New York State plan,[253]-[254]
physical examination,[264], [274]-[275]
enlistment blanks,[276]
Farm-labor camps, explanation of,[245]
Massachusetts plan,[248]-[253]
agreements and contracts,[251]-[252], [265]
illustration of different types of,[256]-[261]
food cost and preparation,[258], [295]-[297]
menus,[259]
recreation,[260], [297]
wages,[261], [262], [265], [267]-[269]
labor distribution,[261]-[262], [266]-[268]
personal equipment,[262], [292]
camp equipment,[262], [264], [268]
illustration of training type,[263]-[266]
agricultural instruction in,[267], [297]-[299]
flying-squadron type,[267]-[268], [302]-[303]
leadership,[273], [287]-[292]
sanitation,[295]
definitions of various types,[298]-[303]
Federal Board of Vocational Education,[54]-[55], [314]-[315]
France, reëducation of disabled soldiers in,[214]-[225]
French schools, use of buildings in war,[20]-[21]
war financing helped by teachers of,[39]-[40]
teaching the meaning of the war in,[41], [44]-[46]
changing aspects of, due to war,[41], [51]-[52]
sewing for soldiers in,[133]
part-time,[155]
normal schools' contribution to war service,[199]
Red Cross work,[208]
German schools, efficiency spirit of,[17], [104]
contribution to agricultural labor,[242]-[243]
conservation of natural resources in,[243]-[244]
industrial-efficiency idea in,[305]
History, teaching of,[46]-[47]
Industrial and trade schools, contribution of, to manufacturing needs,[60]
war-emergency courses in,[63], [314]-[315]
question of production in,[66]-[67]
readjustment in war time,[71]
open in summer,[72]-[73]
part-time classes in,[74]-[76]
teaching of hygiene in,[77]
producing farm-camp equipment,[252]
inventories of equipment,[315]
state study of possible war uses of,[315]
Junior Red Cross,[207], [209]-[210]
Labor, war demands for,[58]
industrial schools meeting shortage of,[61], [68]-[69]
one method of training,[61]-[64]
educative value of,[152]-[153]
Liberty Loan bonds, and the schools,[37]-[39], [311], [325]
Library, service of, in war time,[104]-[105]
Manual training, garden work in place of,[130]-[131]
war-service work in,[131]-[132], [317]-[319]
making Red Cross splints,[206], [317]
abandoning models,[318]
in connection with junior high schools,[319]
Military equivalents, recognition of, in New York State,[171], [305]
experience in England, France, and Germany,[173]
necessity of conscious service,[174], [177]-[180]
types of occupations having,[175]-[176]
"Moral Equivalent of War,"[176]
an example of, in agriculture,[181]-[185]
an example of, in industry,[186]-[189]
farm labor as a military equivalent,[254]
Military training, exemptions from,[165], [167]
compulsory in New York State,[166]
in high schools,[167]-[170]
including employed boys,[168], [170]-[171]
vocational training in relation to,[173]
adaptability of,[309]
"Moral Equivalent of War,"[176]
National Board for Historical Service,[46]
National Council of Defense,[94], [96], [315]
National Security League,[49]-[50], [140]
National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education,[64]
Naval schools, description of,[77]-[79]
Off-time classes, importance of,[72]
Part-time education, opportunity for,[74]-[75]
war-emergency courses in,[154]-[155]
enacting laws for,[155]
farm work and,[240]
as an economy measure,[308]-[309]
Patriotism, teaching meaning of the war,[42]
necessity for teaching,[42]-[44], [48]-[49]
topics in relation to,[50]-[51]
Physical training, compulsory in New York State,[166]
recommendations of New Jersey Commission in regard to,[167]-[170]
importance of, from military standpoint,[168]-[169]
advantages of, over military training,[309]
Posters, war,[129]-[130]
Practical arts, definition of,[116]
project plan of teaching,[117]-[118]
influence of war-service work on,[117]
Principal, war duties of,[33]-[34], [310]-[314]
Red Cross, work for, in schools,[194], [196]-[198], [311]
a state plan of school service to,[200]-[201]
use of knitting machines,[202]
work for, in Troy, N.Y.,[202]-[205]
making splints,[206]
Home Service division of,[207]-[208]
Junior Red Cross,[207], [209]-[210]
what can be done in schools for,[207]
reporting home conditions to,[308]
Reëducation, the problem of the physically handicapped,[211]-[213]
relation to federal insurance,[213]
a government problem,[214]
instruction for the blind in France,[215]
L'École Joffre,[216]-[219]
instruction in vocational subjects in France,[218]-[221], [224]-[225]
percentage capable of, in France,[222]
the problem in the United States,[225]-[228]
industrial accidents and,[232]
Roosevelt, Theodore,[11], [324]-[325]
Rural schools, agricultural labor under direction of,[153]-[154]
camp in connection with,[302]
School boards, in relation to war service,[306]-[307]
provisions of, for drafted teachers,[307]-[308]
organization of vocational courses by,[310]
planning for agriculture by,[310]
work of, for avoiding juvenile delinquency,[310]
School principals,[33]-[34], [310]-[314]
Schools, as distributing centers for pamphlets, etc.,[22], [311]
furnishing lunches to children in,[128]-[129], [308]
opportunity for poster work in,[129]-[130]
maintaining efficiency of,[146]
keeping children in,[147], [308]
postponement of construction work for,[149]
agricultural activities in rural,[153]
lengthening terms and hours of,[308].
See also Commercial schools, French schools, etc.
Smith-Hughes Bill,[54], [57]
Teachers, work of, in promoting French government loans,[39]-[40]
opportunities of, to teach history,[46]-[49]
New York State directions to,[119]-[121]
service of, on committees,[326]
war-service programs of,[326]
Technical institutes: war-service courses in Wentworth Institute, Boston,[106]-[107]
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,[107]-[108]
Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis,[108]-[111]
Thrift, necessity for,[31]-[33]
practice of, in England,[31]-[32], [36]-[37]
teaching of,[35]
campaign for,[311]
Thrift Club,[321]
Trade schools. See Industrial and trade schools
Traveling kitchens,[29], [124]
Unit courses, organization of,[73]-[74]
utility of,[306]
United States Boys' Working Reserve,[163]-[164], [322]-[324]
Vocational education, definition of,[53]
federal grants for,[54]-[55]
federal requirements of,[56]
adjustment of, to industrial needs,[59]
standardization of products,[195]
"safety-first" instruction in,[212]
opportunity for teachers in,[233]
influence of automatic machinery on,[329]
for distinct callings,[329]
War Savings certificates, in England,[36]-[37]
in the United States,[311]
Wilson, Woodrow,[1], [54], [72]-[73], [81]-[82], [209], [324]