The educational record of the province of Quebec, 1 janvier 1936, Janvier - Mars

[" DUCATIONAL RECORD THE OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC (Published Quarterly) Old Series, Vol.LV.No.1.Vol.X, No.1.New Series, JANUARY - FEBRUARY \u2014 M ARCH, 1936 SPECIAL ARTICLES A FINE BIOGRAPHY McGILL ILLUSTRATED LECTURES UNIVERSITY AND ECONOMICS REPORT PENSION COMMISSION MINUTES OF PROTESTANT COMMI EL\\OTHÈQUE NATIONALE QUEBEC, QUE.6 MAR i704 THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH PRINT i + 53 as sat SET ses ass es = ee ii ee cms pe i gon wa + Tera ei pa ee, Ses oe mr rate ESS 3 pe 5G rite Sri 5 = Da SE ELE > Srey Co amici en SE ry EEE ES ss ty 5 me os a SES = B- Ben Vas OR IRN = fe.= = g à yoy remote a THE EDUCATIONAL RECORD À quarterly journal in the interests of the Protestant Schools of the Province of Quebec, and the Medium through which the Proceedings of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Education are communicated, the Committee being responsible only for what appears in its Minutes and Official Announcements.Old Series, Vol.LV, No.1.Subscription, $1.00 per annum.New Series, Vol.X, No.1.January \u2014 February \u2014 March, 1936.J.C.SUTHERLAND, Editor and Publisher.ENP I al?RY EA, ir Pe WEN jk yz NRA IMPORTANT / ANNOUNCEMENT WE HAVE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION OF The Far Horizons Reader General Editor.D.J.Dickie, Ph.D.Primer\u2014Play Out of Doors.PA Price 50 cents Book 1\u2014Happy Holidays.Price 55 cents Book 2\u2014Bearsand Things.Price 65 cents Book 3\u2014The King\u2019s Wish.Price 65 cents Book 4\u2014Enchanted Paths.Price 70 cents Book 5\u2014Ships of Araby.Price 75 cents Book 6\u2014Hearts\u2019 High.Price 80 cents This fine set of supplementary reading books is featured by the special emphasis upon social studies, and by their value as study readers to be used by the pupils for select reading without too much aid from the teacher.À prospectus will be sent upon application from, J.M.DENT & SONS, (Canada), LIMITED 224 BLOOR STREET WEST TORONTO Gt Quy rr, du cic lei elena , f Eddi ies ne og il If} {i ht Ag CE ini D Le 1, prit It Ahi Hi > Gp { ly ool i LA fis ti Ht ae ne D ii de iit i a Ha i j : i! | | ; i : i fi ; dl oy | i ht : | i Hl Hi hh i gy Hide ; hi! ON Ht ait iH hy ÿ fs fis fh bt! 1 ie LL te i £10) A J] Ht, Bt Et Fi : : ; : his ht i it ÿ Qi A hv +8 GOOD BOOKS for Commercial Classes @ The Gregg series of texts includes up-to-date textbooks and teaching materials for all commercial subjects.@ Complete catalogue and free examination copies of any books in which you are interested will be submitted on request.The Gregg 57 Bloor Street, West Publishing Company Toronto, Ontario Story-Time Books Fairy Tales Folk Tales Nature Stories Town Life Country Life Adventure A series of supplementary readers of varied interest for pupils of Grades I to IV.Attractively bound and illustrated.64-80 pages.15c each 88-128 pages 18c each Write for a complete list of titles.H Little Canadian Story Each book has eight silhouette illustrations and the type is bold and clear.Suitable for Grades I and II.When Dora Ran Away F'airies in the Woods Ralph and Tinker Jimmie Anna\u2019s Adventure Each Book 10 cents H Introductory Reading Practice Very simple 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striking.The width of scope of the series is indicated by the titles of the volumes of which it is composed.While diversity of interest has been the publishers\u2019 aim, the books have in common high quality and definite originality.Though the theme of some of the books is more juvenile than others, the appeal of all is for readers of all ages.LIST OF THE VOLUMES Charmed Lives.\u2014By Stanley Rogers.In this volume the author of \u2018Tales of a Traveller\u2019 brings together a collection of thrilling, eerie, and humorous incidents from various parts of the world.The Golden Goat.\u2014By Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell.This delightful story owes something to history and something to fairyland.The scene is Provence in the days of Good King René.Bundle\u2019s Belongings.\u2014By M.E.Rotton.\u201cBundle\u201d is the pet name of the youngest of a family of children living at the seaside.The story tells of their exploits and adventures in a fine open- air atmosphere, with plenty of fun.The River School.\u2014By A.W.Seymour.School scraps, rags, and exploits, told with unconscious humour by a lively and enterprising member of the Fourth Form.The House in the Lane.\u2014By P.Friend Naylor.The characters are English children, whose doings and sayings, fun, friendship and quarrels are recorded with cheerful insight and sympathy.A story full of country lore and atmosphere.Tales of a Traveller.\u2014By Stanley Rogers.The writer, who is also the illustrator, looks back over an adventurous and roving life and describes some of its most interesting and exciting]episodes in a vivid and forthright manner.Tindertoken School.\u2014By W.R.Henderson.A book for laughter.There never was or could be a school like \u201cTinder- token\u201d, but what fun for boys and masters if there were.A Book of Girls\u2019 Stories.\u2014By Four Famous Writers.This carefully chosen and illustrated collection consists of tales of school and adventure by four very well known writers\u2014Natalie Joan, Margaret Middleton, Winifred Peck, and Evelyn Smith.All these stories have not only literary merit but \u201cgo\u201d Great Stories for Boys and Girls.\u2014Selected and edited by Dorothy King.There \u201cGreat Stories\u2019 have been collected from a large variety of sources, from the past and from the present, and make a thoroughly representative anthology, as entertaining as valuable.BLACKIE & SON (Canada) LIMITED 55 YORK STREET, TORONTO, 2 CONTENTS Editorial Notes The Baltic to the Mediterranean Inspector Certificate Examination À Fine Biography Book Notices McGill Illustrated Lectures Hints on the Teaching of French\u2014Miss Tanner Reports of Inspectors Annual Report of Assistant Supervisor of French Map of Richelieu Valley Canada 1936 National Council of Education 3 International Magna Carta Day Association, Inc Map of Greater Part of New Brunswick E Reduced Fares for Summer Schools, 1936 Report of Pension Commission Minutes of Protestant Committee DI A 3 stats iat ack ns A 4 À a ih Di.en Pre ; oN : B De a pi A ÿ 1 a ; A nn A mn \u2018HR tr a on A4 hy! i 4 A 5 Hl 4 if Ah 1 H ÿ 1 ht als sé Hi J ; J i Ki i Ha 7 LU Aa A A ite pe 4 A À ; A i a RT RRR EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES The death of King George the Fifth in January was received \u2018throughout the Empire with sadness and sympathy for the Royal Family and by widespread recollection of his many noble qualities of mind and heart.Not less sincere was the satisfaction expressed at the accession of his eldest son as King Edward the Fighth.It is significant of the two events that neither change gave occasion to fear or menace to the world at large.The Empire still believes in government under constitutional monarchy, and the rest of the world knows that that principle is safe in British hands.The time is suitable for the lesson of the events to be impressed upon the minds of the pupils.By a typographical oversight the name of the Charny school and the name of the teacher, Mrs.Alice Leval- lée, were omitted from inspector Me- Cutcheon\u2019s report of the winners of the Strathcona prizes in 1934-35.It is the more regrettable because of the fact that the Charny school is not only an admirable one but is and has been heroically supported many years chiefly by voluntary subscriptions.The asses- sable valuation is very small and the owners of real estate few in number.Hence the school lives by civic spirit.The death of the late H.A.Honey- man, Inspector of the Protestant elementary schools ot the counties of Gati- neau, Pontiac and part of Papineau, is deeply regretted.A former high sehool principal and inspector for twenty- eight years, he had earned the good-will of the teachers and school boards of his wide district of inspection.During many years he walked from school to school as a health exercise, a habit like that of Sir William Dawson who, when appointed Superintendent of Education in Nova Scotia some ninety years ago, walked from school to school throughout that province, incidentally studying its geology.Mr.Honeyman, as an ardent botanist, doubtless observed the plant life in his walks in spring and To his family the Educational Record extends its sincerest sym- autumn.pathy. Et pa AE a sd At EDUCATIONAL RECORD THE BALTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Among the wars of Napoleon the First was that in which he crushed and humiliated the Kingdom of Prussia (1806).Almost immediately there arose a German patriot, the rich and cultivated Baron von Stein, who devoted himself to the rehabilitation of the country.In education, in industrial progress and in moral outlook the Prussian people advanced greatly and acquired a world respect which only began to weaken when the policy of Bismarck some fifty years later threatened world peace.We are here concerned chiefly with a prophecy which Baron von Stein made over a hundred years ago and which was fulfilled in 1871.His prophecy was that the various independent states of Germany would become united and that the various small states and powers of Italy would likewise become united.The German Empire arose in 1871 and the Kingdom of Italy in its completeness at the same time.Von Stein also held that the united Germany and the united Italy would together form a Mittel Europa which would be the balance (Gleich- gewicht) against the preponderance (Uebergewicht) of France.As Austria in von Stein\u2019s time was a German country he assumed that it would form part of the great united Germany, and that Germany (including - Austria) then being next door to Italy, together they would form the central wedge from the Baltic to the Mediterranean separating the eastern from the western countries of Europe.But the absorption of Austria did not suit the later Bismarck.If there was to be a German Empire and a German Emperor it must be his own Wilhelm, King of Prussia and grandfather of the Hohenzollern Emperor who retired to Holland in 1918.The story of Bismarck\u2019s plan has been often told and need only be summarized here.The Emperor of Austria was Francis Joseph, who would be the rival for the proposed new imperial crown of a Greater Germany.Hence, in 1864 Bismarck proposed to Francis Joseph that the two countries, Prussia and Austria, take Sleswick-Holstein from Denmark and then divide the booty.A war of two weeks was all that was necessary to take the Danish territory.When this was accomplished the Emperor Francis Joseph looked for his share of the territory.Bismarck dallied purposely and finally in 1866 proposed to the Austrian Emperor that he accept a money settlement.This was an insult to Francis Joseph, who had the highest conceptions of \u2018his imperial dignity, and words led to the very war that Bismarck wanted.In six weeks Austria was beaten and thrown out of any possible union with a proposed united Germany.The next step was, of course, the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, which gave birth to united Germany (without Austria) and the Hohenzollern king of Prussia was crowned as German Emperor at Versailles.That bit of history is needed for a grasp of some of the possibilities in the present situation in Europe, and another bit of history will be needed very shortly.RRR TY 9 THE BALTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN What is the situation in Europe which is disturbing the world?It looks innocent enough.Three nations, Germany, Italy and Japan want expansion of territory in the form of colonies or otherwise.It looks easy enough to many people who suggest that the League of Nations should be able to satisfy their wants.But it is not quite so easy as that.The three nations want what they do want and not what other peoples might be generous enough to offer.Hence - they have armed to the teeth and are determined to help themselves.Italy, under Mussolini, has embarked on the task of taking Ethiopia from the Ethiopians and Japan is carving up large parts of China and is threatening large areas in Russia.Germany has made no direct move, but is feverishly preparing for an enormous advance when the time comes for her to move.That will probably be as soon as Russia has her hands full in the East against Japan.Germany will then follow the policy that she has always followed, particularly since the eighteenth century when the young King Frederick the Great struck from within at Silesia.The long story onward need not be repeated.Germany has always felt the need of \u201celbow room\u201d and has struck from within outward.Hence, when Russia is busy with Japan it is altogether probable that Germany will attack the small Baltic states and the German parts of Poland, while southward it may not be necessary for her to attack Austria.The Nazis in Austria are already making the possibility of union with Germany more or less of a certainty.Then, as Italy now borders on Austria, there is all the greater possibility of a Mittel Europa wedge consisting of Germany and Italy.The well known desire of Mussolini to hold the Adriatic territory of Yugo-Slavia would make this wedge all the firmer, if consummated.This article began with a prophecy of over a hundred years ago, which was partly fulfilled in 1870-71, and we have continued with presenting possibilities, but they are to be regarded only as possibilities which may be otherwise controlled by other world combinations.It is already announced, for instance, that Russia charges Germany and Japan with just such a plan as is described above and has undertaken a vast expansion of her armaments in order to be able to meet conditions East and West at the same time.But what we wish to emphasize is that History\u2014the study of History\u2014 affords the best ground for the understanding of current events.We have spoken of the German policy of expansion from within.That policy largely derives from the characteristics of the Hohenzollerns.The first Hohenzollern known to history was a younger son named Conrad who in 1070, four years after William the Conqueror went to England, left the family castle of Hohenzollern and crossed the mountains to seek his fortune.It is only in the ten volumes of Carlyle\u2019s Frederick the Great that the full story can be read, but it is a wonderful one.There were some very able and excellent men among the descendents of that Conrad who started out 866 years ago on his travels.The King of Prussia who was crowned Emperor in 1871 was a good man, and was tricked into war with France against his will by Bismarck, who altered a telegram from the King.In the first six centuries of the Hohenzollern family there was a steady rise in position and in wealth.The family was \u2018acquisitive\u2019 to use the modern word.The head of the family in 1415 was the Burggraf Friedrick VI.He had money, > 10 EDUCATIONAL RECORD and in 1411 the Emperor Sigismund, always hard up for money, borrowed from Burggraf 100,000 gulden, giving therefor a mortgage on the Mark of Brandenburg.À year or so later the Emperor borrowed another 50,000 gulden from the Burggraf, and then meeting him in 1415 at the Council of Constance, said \u201cGive me another 250,000 gulden and I will give you the whole territory\u201d.The bargain was accepted.In 1417 the Burgraf became an Electoral Prince of the Holy Roman Empire under the name of Friedrick I.(The Emperor Sigismund was the one who somewhat sympathised with the view of John Huss of Bohemia, gave him a \u201c\u201csafe-conduct\u201d to the Council of Constance, went back on it and allowed Huss to be burned at the stake for heresy.) The Mark of Brandenburg was a comparatively small area, but under the Hohenzollerns it expanded, by purchase and otherwise, into the Kingdom of Prussia, the first King being Friedrich III in 1701.He was grandfather of Frederick the Great.Carlyle had good grounds for considering the steady expansion of the Hohenzollerns in wealth and territory\u2014 \u201calways on the growing hand\u201d, as he called it\u2014as due to \u201cgood husbandry\u201d, and certainly the recovery of Prussia after the Seven Years\u2019 War, in which the greater part of Europe was armed against Frederick the Great, was an economic miracle.But the economic world of the eighteenth century was not that of the highly industrialized world of the twentieth century, and a disturbing feature of the present situation is that Italy, which only recently obtained any position as an industrial country, should attack Ethiopia when the economic benefits to be obtained from the conquest are so problematical.The suspicion is natural that the Italian gesture is only part of a plan in which Hitler's Germany will take its part for the establishment of a Mittel-Europa extending from the Baltic to the Mediterranean.The Baron von Stein, who was a great and humane statesman, had no thought of such a menace to European peace in his prophecy.He was confronted with the terrible ambitions of Napoleon on the one side and on the other with the disunited small countries which only years later became Germany and Italy, and from which, in Napoléon\u2019s time, no united action could then be obtained.In the complicated world situation one thing is plain.Great Britain is intelligently alert for eventualities while seeking general security.In Germany the one encouraging sign is the resistance that Protestants and Catholics alike are offering to the official paganized cult.It may prove the awakening to sanity.J.C.8S.ed a PP POI PROC EPP INSPECTOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION SCHOOL INSPECTOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION An Examination Certificate for the Inspectors\u2019 Certificate is to be held on March 28th, 1936, in the Administrative Building of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners at Montreal, 3460 McTavish Street, commencing at 9 a.m.and 2 p.m.Inspector Brady will act as Invigilator.W.P.PERCIVAL A FINE BIOGRAPHY Sir Walter Scott.1771-1832.By John Buchan.382 pages.Price $1.25.Toronto: Longmans, Green & Company.In all the public addresses to Lord Tweedsmuir, on his arrival in Canada as our present Governor General, appreciative references were made to the reputation he had enjoyed in the Mother Country, in Canada, and in the English speaking world in general as an author.And in those references stress was laid not only on the popularity of the novels of John Buchan, but also on his skill as a biographer.In the interest of culture, and in the interest of history itself, good biographies hold a valuable place, and it will usually be found that people who are indifferent to the good ones had their taste diverted by being obliged, when young, to read very dry ones.In English literature, first rate biography began in the eighteenth century with Boswell\u2019s Life of Dr.Johnson.The nineteenth century was particularly rich in biographies, literary, political and social.Sir Walter Scott was particularly fortunate in having the memories of his life written by his gifted son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, but that seven-volume work is now only consulted by the experts, a one-volume condensation being the chief one found in most private libraries.The present life of Sir Walter Scott was published in Great Britain in 1932, the centenary of Sir Walter\u2019s death, and the Canadian edition appears appropriately enough in the year of the author\u2019s installation as Governor General.The first quality of this book to be mentioned is its readableness from beginning to end.The author is absolutely at home in the Scott environment and in love with it, but this fact has not prevented him from exercising the critical faculty.We have the real Sir Walter portrayed enthusiastically, but not blindly.The man and his works stand out clearly, nobly and heroically, but if the hero 12 EDUCATIONAL RECORD sacrificed all his later years to pay off the debts incurred by the printers and publishers, he is not absolved from blame on his own part.He had discounted the future too much in the building of Abbotsford, in the purchase of additional land and, for a lawyer, was decidedly reckless in the agreements he had made with the printers.Then, too, we are permitted to see why Scott, like Homer, sometimes nods in his writings.But a great figure, in personal character and in literature, remains.The story of the bankruptcy of the Ballantynes and of Constable is told with fulness.Sir Walter Scott made mistakes in his business relations, but he atoned for them by enormous reparatory work which undoubtedly ended his days too early.The story should be read here fully for the forming of a right judgment.His poetical works and his historical novels are rightly dealt with in chronological order, and the appraisement of their qualities is made clearer by the statement of the conditions under which they were produced.Their quality is unequal, and the author affords the critical guidance for the reader who may be rereading Scott and desires to find him at his best.Not all readers on this side of the water will appreciate the humour of Scott or that of the Scots dialect in his novels, but this feature receives a setting in this biography which will interpret him to many of another origin.Considering the popularity of Scott\u2019s work in European countries in his own time, any dialectical difficulties cannot be much of a bar.Our author says (p.335) \u2014 \u201cThe appeal of Scott to his own age was immediate and universal, and his .influence on his contemporaries and successors was as great as Byron\u2019s and more enduring.The literature of every civilized country bears witness to it.In France Alfred de Vigny, Mérimée, Dumas, Balzac and Victor Hugo drew from him their first inspiration; in Germany and Italy he was the patron of a new school of romance, Manzoni was his disciple, and the reading of Quentin Durward made Ranke an historian; he was the earliest master of the Russian Dostoevsky; in Spain he had a host of imitators, and he was the acknowledged source of the eager romanticism out of which Catalan nationalism sprang; in Scandinavia, Tegnér and Almquist and Runeberg were his followers, and so different a writer as Strindberg confessed that before he approached an historical subject he steeped himself in Scott.He has been translated in every tongue, and no English writer save Shakespeare is so continuously reprinted in so many lands.\u201d As for his influence in Germany the name of Gustave Freytag should be added.Freytag was poet, dramatist, novelist and historian.His series of German historical novels under the general name of \u201cDie Ahnen\u201d, the ancestors, was confessedly inspired by the Waverley novels.Speaking of Scott as a man our author said: \u2014 \u201cThe strong wine of genius too often cracks and flaws the containing vessel.The mind revolts against the body, the subconscious against the conscious, and ta TE Te de et ti AN A Te EST Lu et QU CE OU OUT A LA ROR 13 A FINE BIOGRAPHY there is an expense of spirit in a waste of fears and frustrations.But just as there was no strife or sedition in Scott\u2019s intellectual powers, so there were no fissures in his character.Carlyle spoke truth when he said that a sounder piece of British manhood was not put together in that eighteenth century of Time\u201d.We close this brief review of a work which should have a wide reception in Canada with the closing words of the book: \u201cHe seems to me the greatest, because the most representative, of Scotsmen, since in his mind and character he sums up more fully than any other the idiomatic qualities of his countrymen and translates them into a universal tongue.John Knox gave his land the Reformation, an inestimable but a perilous gift, which led to high spiritual exaltations, but also to much blood and tears.By itself it was a forcing-house to produce monstrous growths, and it required to be freshened by the sun and winds of the common world.Burns, with a Greek freedom in his soul, gave Scotland her own French Revolution, burned up much folly with the fires of poetry, and reconciled in a common humanity ancient warring elements in the national life.Scott completed what the eighteenth- century philosophers had begun and gave her her own Renaissance.He is, with Burns, her great liberator and reconciler.He saved his land from the narrow rootless gentility and the barren utilitarianism of the illuminated; he gave her confidence by reopening to her the past; and he blended into one living tradition many things which the shallow had despised and the dull had forgotten.Gently he led her back to nature and the old simplicities.His mission was that of Hosea the prophet: \u2014\u2018Behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.And I will give her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth\u201d.J.C.S. EDUCATIONAL RECORD BOOK NOTICES Progressive Exercises in Practical Geography, Book IV, Eurasia.By C.B.Thurston, B.Sc., F.R.G.S.With map outlines.32 pages.Price 30 cents.London: Edward Arnold.Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co.This is the fourth of a series of practical exercises for the pupils to enable them to obtain a better understanding of the fundamental facts of geography.This book is intended for fourth-year pupils, but is suitable also in grades five or six.Legendary Beasts.62 pages.Illustrated.Robin Hood.64 pages.Illustrated.Saints and Animals.64 pages.II- lustrated.These three booklets, forming part of the \u2018Heritage Story Books\u201d, published by Longmans, Green & Co., Toronto, form very readable matter for the early grades.They were arranged by A.G.Hughes, B.Sc., Ph.D., M.Fd,, and the pictures are by Winifred Town- shend.The price is 25 cents each.Healthy Living: A Hygiene Reader for the Primary Course.By Elsie M.Clubb, M.D., B.S.(Lond.) and M.A.Malan, B.A., with illustrations.203 pages.Price $1.10.Toronto: Long- mans, Green & Co.Dr.Chubb is Medical Inspector of Schools, Cape Province (S.A.), and Mrs.Malan was formerly principal of the Girl\u2019s High School at Robertson, Cape Province.The book is a decidedly practical one, and rightly reverts to those elements of anatomy and physiology which were not neglected in the early books on health, and which make the reasons for hygienic advice necessary.Training for Citizenship.By Sir Ernest Simon, M.A., and Eva M.Hubbard, M.A.48 pages.Price 30 cents.Toronto: Oxford University Press.This is more than a general discussion of the necessity for training in citizenship.It is issued under the auspices of the Association for Education in Citizenship, and prepared by the higher officers for a very definite purpose which we summarize as follows:\u2014 Democracy has failed in recent years in some of its high ideals, and there is a turning of many people towards \u201cauthoritarian\u201d ideas, such as Fascism and Hitlerism.But the authors point out that the position of people in democratic countries is still infinitely better than that of people in authoritarian countries; that freedom is still worth while, and that through definite aims, principles and methods Education for citizenship is the best hope for higher results in democracy.Aids and Hints on English.By V.H.Collins, M.A.45 pages.Price 30 cents.Toronto: Oxford University Press.Any book or booklet on correct English issued by the Oxford University ia mine mm ae Press may be regarded as a safe guide.Mr.Collins has been Examiner in English Language and Literature for School Certificate (England) and other examinations for over ten years, and has marked the work of many thousands of candidates.In this small book he has compiled most useful directions in regard to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, phrases, essay writing, précis and literature papers.We recommend these \u201cAids and Hints\u201d to teachers, as they not only deal with the mistakes our own Examiners are constantly obliged to repart, but also give the reasons for the right forms.The suggestions given in regard to the writing of examination papers are excellent, and the author quotes A.C.Hilton\u2019s parody, The Vulture and the Husbandman\u201d, They answered everything they could, And wrote with all their might, But, though they wrote it all by rote, They did not write it right.My Work Book in Phonics.By Jessie E.R.Fisher, 64 pages.Price 45 cents.Toronto: J.M.Dent & Sons, Limited.This is the third of the Dent series of \u201cTraining Through Occupation\u201d.Intended to supplement practically the usual preliminary work in ear\u2014and speech\u2014training exercises in Phonics.Introductory Science.By J.A.\u2018Lauwerys, B.Sc., A.I.C.Part III.I- lustrated.144 pages.Price 45 cents.London: Edward Arnold.Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co.Ltd.This third part deals with the weight and pressure of fluids, chemistry of BOOK NOTICES 15 combustion, earth, chalk, minerals, and metals, mechanics, electricity, magnetism and biology.Very clearly written.New Testament Stories Retold.By Margaret McCrea.143 pages.Price 75 cents.Toronto: Moyer School Su- plies, Limited.Instructively retold in the light of modern knowledge and excavation in the East.The Teacher's Guide to Intelligence and Other Psychological Testing.By E.P.Allen Hunt and Percival Smith.Foreword by P.D.Innes.94 pages.London: Evans Brothers.Toronto: Moyer School Supplies, Limited.This book is by two specialists of the City of Birmingham Education Committee, and Dr.Innes is the Chief Education Officer of that city, and represents the results of large exper- lence.We notice with pleasure that the book \u2018\u2018points out the very real danger of the misuse of psychological tests,\u201d and describes the methods which should be applied.Canadian Headmaster.By Watson Kirkconnell.A Brief Biography of Thomas Allison Kirkconnell, 1862- 1934, With a Foreword by W.J.Alexander, Ph.D., LL.D.With portrait 156 pages.Toronto: Clarke Irwin & Company, Limited.This is an inspiring story of a Canadian boy whose only schooling was the elementary, but who by personal efforts attained Queen\u2019s graduation, had a 16 EDUCATIONAL RECORD splendid record as headmaster of Ontario high schools and who was honored by Toronto university with the degree of LL.D.A man of character decidedly and of kindly instincts, and whose success as a teacher was due to his wide study and reading in science, mathematics and literature\u2014the teacher who by constant self culture could bring forth from the treasury things new and old.We commend the book to thoughtful teachers.Steps to Reading.By Nellie Dale, with Pictures by Walter Crane.16 pages.Price eleven pence.London: George Philip & Son, Limited.Attractive pre-primer matter.The Holy Land: The Land, The People And Their Work.By E.M.Sanders, B.A.(London), Senior Geography Lecturer at the Furzedown Training College.With a coloured map, an outline map and illustrations.Two parts in one.68 pages.Price two shillings and sixpence.Philip & Son, Ltd.London: George This is the most interesting and instructive book on the Holy Land, for the younger pupils, that we have ever What Adam Smith and Thomson are for adults, this book is for children and is certain to give them a seen.new interest in the geography and tho people of Palestine. tic.MeGILL ILLUSTRATED LECTURES McGILL UNIVERSITY Illustrated Lectures 3459 McTavish Street, Montreal Hours: 5-6 p.m.(Address all correspondence as above) The conditions upon which sets of slides and lectures are loaned are as follows: \u2014 Sets of lantern slides and accompanying lectures are loaned without charge by the University.2.A deposit of $5.00 must be made before the slides are loaned.Loss or breakage will be deducted prior to return of deposit.The deposit less any deduction will be returned two days after return of slides.3.110 volt lanterns may be borrowed at a rental of $2.00 per 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EDUCATIONAL RECORD ILLUSTRATED LECTURES Geography and Travel: A.À.À.À.À.A.À.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.PPPPPPPPPPPPRPEH EH #4 ml pd pl ped ed Su 5 a WHO SON SF 9 #5 9WH Across Canada by C.P.R.Alberta Canada-Agricultural lands and development Canada-Coast to Coast Canadian scenery and recreation The New Northwest and the Arctic Islands The newer commercial Canada Pulp and paper industry of Canada Quebec The Rockies and the West Coast The St.Lawrence River | Saskatchewan Africa The British Empire Czecho-Slovakia Devon and Dartmoor or Lorna Doone and Westward Ho! (2 lectures, same set of slides) (withdrawn) .India.Part 1.(Past and Present) India.Part 2.(Its people and its ways) Jamaica Mesopotamia Nassau North England and the Midlands Paris South and West England Modern Turkey China (In preparation) Labrador (Not available for the present) Canadian Indians (In preparation) Anatolia-Ancient and Modern History: SEES EESESEYE SRW = ed HA = wh =o 15.Science: C.C.2.1.© 0 NS oa wo iE MeGILL ILLUSTRATED LECTURES 19 Canadian History.Part 1.Part 2.Part 3.Part 4.Part 5.££ $< [as cc [43 $c (AS [14 (Indians and Early (Life) (Industry and Commerce) (War, Rebellion and Invasion) (Early Discovery) (Great Events of Men) The spacious days of good Queen Bess Quebec\u2014Past and Present Other Days in Canada Some Men and Events in Canadian History Romances of Canadian History On the Track of Cartier The Viking Empire The History of the Canadian Pacific Canada\u2014One generation ago France\u2014History Astronomy Story of the Great Lakes Natural History: D.0906 A Birds of North America Canadian animals Canadian wild flowers Landscape gardening Mosquitoes Religious Study: E.1.The Bible E.2.Life of St.Paul EDUCATIONAL RECORD HINTS ON THE TEACHING OF FRENCH The omission of accents in our pupils\u2019 written work, and their apparent ignorance of the effect of accents upon the sound of the vowel e, are so general, that it cannot be superfluous to call the attention of teachers to this important question.Were the phonetic script to replace the present system of writing, a knowledge of accents and of their effect would not be required, but inasmuch as the sound known as \u201ce muet\u201d is modified by means of accents, or by its position with regard to consonants, all who are interested in French, whether as learners or as teachers of the language, must know certain facts regarding accents.By far the most frequently used accents are those known as \u201caccent aigu\u201d (6) and \u201cl\u2019accent grave\u201d (è); these change the sound of the \u201ce muet\u201d, causing it to become sounded\u2014closed, or open.The \u2018\u201ce muet is extremely frequent in French words: it is the vowel e, without accent or sound, found at the end of syllables.Thus, je donne (here are two examples of the \u201ce muet\u201d); note that they occur at the end of words.In: nous appelons, the \u2018e muet\u201d is found at the end of the second syllable: it has no accent, and very little sound.It would therefore be a mistake to say: appelons, as though that \u2018\u201ce muet\u201d were sounded like the English \u201ce\u201d in \u201clet\u201d; nor should it be sounded like the sound heard in the English, \u201cEh\u201d.Compare the following sounds: me, mé; ce, cé; me, mè; de, dè, dé; be, bè, bé; fe, fè, fé; ne, nè, né, ne, etc.(Practise until you are sure of the difference in sound which is produced by these accents).Compare the incorrect with the correct forms \u2014 bebe, bébé; cafe, café; sante, santé; parle (correct in some cases) with parlé; la mere, la mère; le pere, le père; ete, été; charite, charité; j\u2019ecris, j'écris, alle, allé; ete, ete.This is a valuable exercise in ear training and it should be practised by the teacher until she herself has acquired a sense of the value of accents.When it has been fully realized that the sound of \u201ce muet\u201d is changed by means of these two accents, proceed to show that the open sound of \u201ce\u201d (as in English \u201cmet, let, debt) is obtainable in one of two ways: \u2014 1st: By means of the accent grave (&) as shown above; 2nd: by putting that \u201ce muet\u201d\u2019 elsewhere than at the end of the syllable.How is this done?Frequently by doubling the consonant which follows the \u201ce muet\u201d; thus: appelant, but: j'appelle; jetant, but: je jette.Compare:\u2014ce, cet; me, mettre; pe, per (first syllable of perdu); se, sel; celui, celle.The sound of the \u201ce muet\u201d has been rendered open, and it has therefore been pronounced more audibly, because of its change of position from the end of the syllable (where it is always mute), to a new position, between two consonants.In that position the sound is usually that of à (English: let), although it must be noted that the letter \u2018\u201cr\u201d\u201d has a tendency to close the \u2018\u2018e muet\u201d, so that the sound of \u201cé\u2019\u201d\u2019 results (somewhat like the English: eh): parler; donner; fermer, etc.But: amer (open, sound of è); fier (open); cher, and a few others.Note the feminine of the above adjectives: amer, amère; fier, fière, cher, chère.Compare the sound of cher, with chere\u2014 why is it not permissible to write the feminine form of that word, cher (open), HINTS ON THE TEACHING OF FRENCH 21 without the \u201caccent grave\u201d, chere?Because two \u201ce muets\u201d would follow each other, at the end of syllables.Hence, one of them is made to keep its open sound (as found, because of its position, in cher) by the use of the \u201caccent grave\u201d, and we therefore write: chère; père, mère, amère, fière.Exercise: Pronounce the following words, and account for the presence or absence of accents:\u2014 la mer, la mère; je jette; jeter; tu jettes; appeler, tu appelles; appelant; la cuisinière (without that grave accent the word would be pronounced: la cuisineer)!; la prière (without an accent, la preer)!; lever; levez; lève; levant; levé; aller; allé; allez.Finally, the \u2018\u2018accent grave\u201d may be placed over the vowels: a, and u, to mark a distinction, to the eye only, between certain words of the same sound.This accent does not in any way modify the sound of the a, or of theu.Compare: la (article) with 14 (adverb); mur (noun) with mûr (adj.); sur, sûr; ou, où; du, dû.Teach: il a mal à la tête.The word \u2018\u201c\u2018tête\u201d recalls the fact that an accent, known as the \u2018\u2018accent circonflexe\u201d, is found in words which have lost an \u201cs\u201d (which is frequently found in the English word), or lost certain letters which were present in old French.La bête (beast); la forêt (forest); l\u2019île (island).It changes an \u201ce muet\u201d into an \u201ce ouvert\u201d, as does the \u201caccent grave,\u201d and lengthens the sound of the vowel \u201co\u201d.Pupils have entirely too much trouble with the \u2018\u201ccédille\u201d: teach that it softens the sound of the letter \u2018\u2018c\u2019\u2019 before: a, o,u.Le cadeau (k), le caractère (k) (why the presence of the accent grave)?but: le français (s); la leçon (s); le garçon (s); le soupçon (s).In the word: commencer, we have the two sounds of \u201cc¢\u201d (k.s); note: vous commencez, but, nous commençons.Arouse interest in the question of accents by calling attention to their presence: attempt to classify the reasons why accents must appear: remember, it is the \u201c\u201ce\u201d that causes all the trouble! Remember, too, that the letters m and n produce nasalization, so that the sound of e is changed to that heard in \u201caunt\u201d.Thus: me, mé, mé; me, em (as in emmener); ne, entrer; dans, dent; entier; entière, ete.In dictation exercises, the omission of accents is so serious a blunder that one whole mark should be deducted from the value which is assigned to correct work; similarly in compositions.Suggestions regarding the essentials in French for grades IX, X and XI.Grade IX (1) Practice in sounds, by means of special exercises as outlined above and by reading aloud from the text-books.(2) Repetition: Memorizing of simple class-room directions and conversational phrases.See circular sent from the Department.Simple dramatic work: cardinal and ordinal numbers (for oral work).(3) Simple dictations on points raised during the lesson: stress the following points: agreement of adjectives; gender of nouns, agreement of past participles: such as: perdu, perdue, perdues, perdus, to be treated as adjectives: ma plume est belle\u2014est petite, est perdue.Plurals, feminines. EDUCATIONAL RECORD (4) Grammar\u2014Articles: their combination with a and de.Omission of article:\u2014in negative sentences (j'ai de la crème, mais je n\u2019ai pas de lait).Note: retention of article when a contrast is made: J\u2019ai des pommes, mais je n\u2019ai pas des oranges: omission in expressions like: un peu de, beaucoup de, trop de, assez de: J\u2019ai des pommes, vous avez trop de pommes.Exception: Bien des: Bien des fois cet homme a faim.(5) Possessive and demonstrative adjectives.(6) Personal pronouns (as subject, as direct object, and as indirect object).IMPORTANT.Frequent oral drills: insist upon SPEED and see that you obtain it! Je lui donne; je les lui donne; nous les leur donnons; nous les leur avons donnés; je ne le vois pas, je ne l\u2019ai pas vu; l\u2019avez-vous vu ?ne l\u2019avez-vous pas vu?Quand le lui avez-vous dit?Qu\u2019est-ce que vous lui avez dit?Quand me parlerez-vous?Dites-le; ne le dites pas, etc.(7) Knowledge of formation of tenses: primitive tenses (prendre, prenant, pris; je prends, je pris).To these always add the future: je prendrai.Drill on: \u2014le présent de l\u2019indicatif; l\u2019imparfait (passé continu); le parfait; le futur; le présent du conditionnel; l\u2019impératif.Oral knowledge of the present subjunctive of: avoir, être; faire; savoir; aller; lire; prendre; s\u2019asseoir; se lever; se coucher; se dépêcher; dire.Teach: il faut que je sois à la gare demain matin; il faut que nous allions à l\u2019école ce soir; il faut que je prenne mes livres, etc.Imperative of the above verbs, and of others of frequent use.Teach the imperative thus: prendre; prenant; prends, prenons, prenez; voir; voyant; vois, voyons, Voyez.(8) Simple examples of reported (indirect) speech: faites votre devoir: vous me dites de faire mon devoir; allez à l\u2019école: vous me dites d\u2019aller à l\u2019école.Ordre de prendre une plume: prenez votre plume.Ordre de lire un livre: lisez un livre.Ordre de vous lever: levez-vous! (9) \u201cSi\u201d clauses: (a) Si j'ai faim demain, je mangerai (futurity); (b) Si J'avais faim, je mangerais (contrary to fact); (ce) Si j'ai faim, je mange (customary action\u2014habit).(10) \u201cQuand\u201d clauses: Quand j\u2019ai faim, je mange; quand j'aurai faim, je mangerai (note the two futures); quand il avait faim, il mangeait.Quand il fera beau, j'irai me promener.OMIT from grammatical study: Dent\u2019s: articles 61, 62, pp.32, 33.Grade X (Revision of grade IX work is implied).Further study of vocabulary, idiomatic constructions, every-day French; drill on the use of accents, by means of reading and writing.Easy dramatic work introducing every-day French (greetings; expressions of feeling: avoir chaud, faim, froid, etc; faire chaud, froid, beau, etc. \u2014 .HINTS ON THE TEACHING OF FRENCH : 23 (2) Simple dictation as a basis for the teaching of grammar, with emphasis upon the following points: (a) c\u2019est, and il est; il y a and depuis; je viens de followed by an infinitive; Je vais likewise followed by an infinitive; expressing a recent past and an Immediate future, respectively: je viens de m\u2019asseoir: je vais m\u2019asseoir; sequence of tenses (this includes a review and further practice of \u201csi\u201d and \u201cquand\u201d clauses).Drill upon this type of sentence: \u2014Sentences containing two verbs, the action expressed by the perfect, the attendant circumstance by the imperfect: Quand je me suis levé (action) il pleuvait (action which began before se lever, recalling a circumstance).Quand j'ai ouvert mon livre, je I\u2019ai lu (two actions of equal importance, same tense in both cases); il avait faim quand il a mangé; which is the action, which the circumstance?ete., etc.(3) Memorization of short sentences, illustrative of certain principles.Thus: il y a longtemps que je vous attends (il y a): la cloche sonne depuis dix minutes; il fait froid en automne; on dit qu\u2019il chante très bien; est-il parti ?pas que je sache, etc, etc.(4) Attention drawn to the use of the \u201cpassé historique\u201d in narrative and literary style, as opposed to the use of the perfect in conversational style.Use of subjunctive following (a) \u201cil faut que\u201d and certain impersonal verbs expressing necessity, probability; (b) certain conjunctions: quoique, bien que; afin que, pour que; (c) certains verbs expressing joy, regret, fear.desire (espérer.to hope, is an exception, being followed by the indicative): compare: j'ai peur qu\u2019il (ne) vienne; j'espère qu\u2019il viendra.Contrast the use of the indicative in English, with the use of the present subjunctive in French.I am sorry that he is dead: je regrette qu\u2019il soit mort; I am afraid that it will rain: je crains qu\u2019il (ne) pleuve; he is glad that you have come: il est content que vous soyez venu.Do not stress the imperfect sub- junctive\u2014call attention to its use in the readers, as it occurs.(5) Stress spelling of \u2014dites, faites; la lecon, cette, le francais, anglais, l\u2019Angleterre; call attention to accents, to presence of cedillas, to the introdue- tion of an \u201ce\u201d to soften the sound of consonant \u201cg\u201d before a, 0, u; (nous mangeons; en mangeant; le reçu).(6) Reflexive verbs\u2014especially the imperative, with its accompanying pronoun object: léve-toi; levons-nous, levez-vous.Drill: Vous me dites de me lever; vous m\u2019avez dit de me lever; vous m\u2019avez dit de ne pas me lever; m\u2019avez-vous dit de me lever ?m\u2019a-t-il dit de me lever ?Quand il me dit de me lever, il faut que je me lève; quand il m\u2019a dit de me lever, il a fallu que je me lève; s\u2019il me dit de me lever, je me lève; s\u2019il me disait de me lever, je me lèverais, il faudrait que je me lève, etc.Similarly:\u2014I lui dit de se lever (drill on the following tenses\u2014 perfect, future; preceded by \u201cil faut\u201d)\u2014il lui dit qu\u2019il faut qu\u2019il se lève; il lui dira qu\u2019il faudra qu\u2019il se lève (alternative construction, more euphonious: il lui dit qu\u2019il lui faudra se lever), etc.conan dr a dc der RE A ; KN i pe By! 3 ol] A a i BR iH 3 EDUCATIONAL RECORD (7) Memorization of a few sentences to illustrate the use of prepositions: frequent attention called to Dent\u2019s 157, 158, pp.72, 73.Do not give this arid stuff for memorization, however! Comprehension and memorization of sentences in paragraph 160, p.74.(8) All pronouns as well as all adjectives; comparison of adjectives and adverbs.(9) Study of texts; short compositions, one every other week.The fair copy might be handed in to the teacher the week following the presentation of the original exercise.Keep these compositions short, and encourage the introduction of expressions which have been memorized.(10) A few exercises in retranslation: I got up late this morning and I was late at school (je me suis levé tard ce matin et suis arrivé en retard à l\u2019école) ; it\u2019s a blue-eyed man who said so (c\u2019est un homme aux yeux bleus qui a dit cela (qui l\u2019a dit); it is now half-past twelve, and dinner is ready (il est maintenant midi et demi et le diner est servi).I am very cold for it is a cold day (J'ai bien froid parce qu\u2019il fait froid aujourd\u2019hui), etc.Grade XI Keep the preceding requirements in mind: review thereof.More extensive use of the subjunctive (present only); dramatic exercises involving practical every-day use of French (greetings, remarks on weather, on one\u2019s feelings; easy questions\u2014où, combien, comment, quand, pourquoi); drill on pronunciation, simple dictation.(2) Sentences illustrating use of infinitives without prepositions, with a, with de; contrast with English (to wait for: attendre); to look at (regarder); to need (avoir besoin de), etc.(3) Daily ORAL DRILL (position of pronouns; use of tenses); give home assignments in ORAL FRENCH of from five to ten minutes\u2019 duration\u2014observe the progress of those who practise the exercises which you give, their fast- developing ease, fluency, and accuracy.(4) Composition assignments; histoires à reproduire.(5) Sequence of tenses, daily exercises thereon, oral, preferably.USE FRENCH when teaching your lesson: pupils will thus hear the language for a few minutes daily: do not, however, hesitate to give the meaning in English of words or expressions which appear beyond the comprehension of the class, but CONTINUE IN FRENCH.It is a habit worth cultivating.The next article, should teachers express their desire for more information than is to be found in Berthon\u2019s Grammar, will contain exercises on the use of \u201cdevoir\u201d \u201cfalloir\u201d; any points offering difficulty will be gladly dealt with, upon request to the Editor.LEA E.TANNER. REPORTS OF INSPECTORS 25 REPORT OF Mr.J.C.SUTHERLAND, INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF PROTESTANT SCHOOLS To the Superintendent of Education, Sir, I have the honour to submit, in accordance with your instructions, a summary of the reports of the Protestant School Inspectors of the Province, including a statistical summary of the whole, and an outline of conditions reported by the Inspectors.STATISTICAL SUMMARY 1934-35 1.\u2014Nwumber of school municipalities: a) Under control of commissioners b) Under control of trustees 2.\u2014 Number of schools: a) Elementary b) Intermediate ¢) High Schools d) Subsidized independent institutions e) Non-subsidized independent institutions 8.Number of teachers: a) Male teachers b) Female teachers 4.\u2014Number of children of school age: (census) (According to secretary- treasurer\u2019s reports): a) Boys from 5 and 6 yrs.| 4,206|Girls from 5 and 7 yrs.] 5,085 b) Boys from 7 to 13 pst.| 21,415/Girls from 7 to 13 pst.| 20,805 c) Boys from 14 and 15 yrs.| 12,388|Girls from 14 and 15 yrs.| 12,715 d) Boys from 16 to 17 pst.| 7,406|Girls from 16 and 17 yrs.6 \u2014Number of pupils enrolled: a) In the elementary schools b) In the intermediate schools c) In the high schools d) In the subsidized independent institutions e) In the non-subsidized independent institutions 26 EDUCATIONAL RECORD 6 \u2014Classificatior of pupils: 9,254 8,106 In Grade 3 5,052 In Grade 4 8,782 In Grade 5 8,894 In Grade 6 9,373 In Grade 7 11,894 In Grade 8 4,704 3,427 2,456 1,281 73,703] 73,703 With your permission I have again omitted statistics in regard to the average salaries of teachers and average attendance of pupils as both would be averages of non-comparable averages from widely differing parts of the Province.However, the statements of the Inspectors in respect to these data will be given in the following summary.The classification of the schools is also omitted as the Inspectors\u2019 Reports appear complete in the Educational Record.Inspector W.H.Brady reported that the average salaries of male teachers in elementary (urban) schools was $1,846.97 and of female teachers in urban elementary schools $1,103.62 and in rural schools $373.57.The average salaries both urban and rural, had decreased 10 per cent in 1934-35 as compared with the previous year.The majority of the schools were open the required ten months, but seven were open nine months, three for eight months and one small school five months.The average attendance was 87.5 per cent.Inspector S.V.Cattermull, whose chief territory is the whole of the Gaspé peninsula, reported that all his schools were open in 1934-35, two having been closed the previous year.The term was ten months in nearly all.The average salary of female teachers in the elementary schools, $369.00, had suffered a further reduction of 11 per cent over the previous year.One consequence of the reduction was that forty per cent of the teachers in his inspectorate were teaching in their home schools.On the other hand, Inspector Cattermull states: \u201cIt is a regrettable fact that teachers, who could never be adequately remunerated for their labours and devotion, are hired at bargain prices by the school boards.Enrolment showed an increase on the previous year but average attendance was lowered to 80 per cent.Inspector H.A.Honeyman reported the average salaries of the male teachers in the elementary schools at $363.75 and of the female teachers at $428.00.He reported that in a few school municipalities the salaries had been raised and this had increased the average.The work in the schools had been very satisfactory during 1934-35.Average attendance was 73.1 per cent. cn, escorte AO US da MU LT OO CE CAR NE TE A UE TUNER OUR A MT 0 REPORTS OF INSPECTORS 27 E Inspector J.H.Hunter reported the average salary of male teachers in elementary schools at $360.00, and that of female teachers at $393.00 in rural schools and $1,152.00 in urban schools, including the City of Sherbrooke.The average attendance was 83.5 per cent.Inspector Rev.Lewis J.King reported increases in the average salary over the previous year.It advanced from $382.00 to $395.00 for rural elementary schools and from $1,094 to $1,103.00 in urban elementary schools.Average attendance was 79 per cent.Inspector King stated that \u201cTeachers are improving every year.More are giving excellent service and there are fewer failures.Some are doing good work in difficult situations and with little outward reward\u201d.Out of his 72 schools, however, only forty-four had the full period of ten months.Six boards had a period of nine months, seven had one of eight months, two of seven months, and one of five months.Inspector O.F.McCutcheon reported the average salary of male teachers in rural elementary schools at $285.00 and of female teachers at $340.40.He observed, according to advertisements in the spring that where the salaries had been exceptionally low, slight advances had been made, but asked for further effort in that direction.Average attendance was 79 per cent.Inspector Rev.F.W, Mitchell of the Magdalen Islands reported the average salary of the six teachers (female) as $305.00.Average attendance was low, 4 owing to widespread epidemic of measles.Two old schools were replaced by 5 new ones during the year at the expense of the Government.i Inspector Edward Snow, in charge of the thirteen independent subsidized | Protestant Schools in the Quebec Labrador, reported male and female teachers À receiving fifty dollars per month, but for periods varying from nine to three ; months.A number of the teachers are volunteers for the work.Inspector H.D.Wells reported the average salary for male teachers in the 3 elementary schools at $390.00 and for female teachers at $386.00, a decrease of five dollars from the previous year.Average attendance was 80.1 per cent.4 Inspector E.S.Giles, reporting for all the high schools, which are visited É by him, and for all the intermediate schools, which are visited by Inspector Ri | Billings, states the average salary for male teachers in the intermediate schools i at $1,129.00 and in high schools at $2,313.00, and the female teachers at $696.00 fi | in the intermediate schools and in high schools at $1,231.00.A The following table, prepared by Inspector Giles, exhibits the decreases in PE average salary and the percentage of decrease during three years: É Average Salaries Percentage rE Teachers 1932-33 1933-34 1934-35 of decrease BE Male in High Schools.$2629 $2520 $2363 10 | Male in Inter.Schools.$1540 $1226 $1129 27 » Female in High Schools.$1353 $1318 $1231 9 Female in Inter.Schools.$ 809 $ 720 $ 696 14 RO al a a EE eh EDUCATIONAL RECORD Yet, in spite of these decreases in salary, there was an advance in the qualification of teachers.\u201cThe number of teachers in high schools holding elementary or advanced elementary diplomas in 1933-1934 was 104 whereas in 1934-35 this number decreased to 80, of whom 25 held advanced elementary diplomas.Many boards now engage only teachers with Intermediate or High school diplomas.\u201cIn the last two years there has been a decrease of fifteen per cent in the number of teachers with elementary diplomas in the Intermediate schools.In 1934-35, 148 of 238 teachers held either high school or intermediate diplomas.\u201cIn brief, teachers in secondary schools are better trained than was the case a few years ago and are obtained at considerably lower salaries.Schools have become more efficient at a decreased cost in the majority of municipalities.\u201d It is pleasant to record from the reports of the Inspectors that the value of the autumn conferences is so appreciated that teachers attend them at their own expense.The Professional Library, maintained at the Department, is also well patronized by the rural teachers, and the Red Cross work in the schools continues to be praised.Yours respectfully, J.C.SUTHERLAND, Inspector-General of Protestant Schools. REPORTS OF INSPECTORS INSPECTOR MITCHELL To the Superintendent of Education, Sir, order of merit.I have the honour to submit my annual report comprising: I.The Statistical summary of my inspection district; II.General remarks on the working of the Education Act in the same district; III.The classification of municipalities in the Roe STATISTICAL SUMMARY 1.\u2014Number of school municipalities: a) Under control of commissioners.ccovuvernn.b) Under control of trustees.TES © 66 00 ses 4 8 us ese se sate Et ee ee ee ae aes en.+000 08 060001 00 1 1 0 0 00 00 0 0 8 1 6 6 0 0 6 0 0 00 00 8 000 0 \".8.\u2014Number of teachers: a) Male teachers.ieee eee ® ee vse see es es su 8s se ws ees sae aes ese Es eee see © 8 0 5% e008 a1 as ue es ss tees estes eres 4.\u2014Average salaries in the schools under control: b) Female teachers.\u2014In elementary schools.5.\u2014Number of children of school age: (census) (according to secretary- treasurers\u2019 reports).a) Boys from 5 to 7 years 22| Girls from 5 to 7 years| 26.b) Boys from 7 to 14 years 80| Girls from 7 to 14 years| 78.c) Boys from 14 to 16 years 19 Girls from 14 to 16 years| 16.d) Boysfrom 16 to 18 years 21 Girls from 16 to 18 years| 10.© 9 65 4008 0 0 sae se ee sss ss ee ss es ae tau 6.\u2014Number of pupils enrolled: a) In the elementary schools.ouiueerunnnni.0.7.\u2014Average attendance: (in percentage) a) In the elementary schools.oounrnneennnn 8.\u2014Classification of pupils: Primer.In Grade 1 In Grade 2 In Grade 3 In Grade 4 In Grade 5 In Grade 6 In Grade 7.0.1.LL ii a aa aa In Grade 8.1000000005 0000 00 00 0 0 50 00 00 6 0000 te 001090000100 000 6 6 0000 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 00 0 0 0 6 80 6 0 0 6 0 60000 0 ee 053100000000 0 00600 300 06 00 0 5 60 08 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 0 0 00000 0 TOR LSE tse Tse ss es ss ee sees aes ass sees ee ses eee sectes 13 0 00000 07 00 0000 66 3 000 5: 0 6 000 4 000 00006 va.e 00300000 000000 0 0 26 00 03 6 6 00 00 0 0.00 64 0 0 0 6 0 00 000 6 STM SSS tases ses te tess Ete es tees ee sea arse eases TPP EP ste ss ss ee Pees ss 4s Ese 0 0 0 0000 000 $305 $305 158 35 31 144.5 144.5 .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.esse EDUCATIONAL RECORD My district covers the Protestant schools of the Magdalen Islands.On leaving the district I take this opportunity of thanking the Department in general and the Superintendent in particular for their kindness and keen interest in educational matters on these Islands.All schools this year have suffered in their work through widespread epidemics of measles and scarlet fever.This greatly affected the average attendance, which was far from good.In spite of this, the work was on the whole fair.New schools have been completed at Grosse Ile, and at Grand Entry» thanks to the assistance of the Department of Education.The school Boards have been fortunate in securing teachers with diplomas and teaching experience.Very good.\u2014Grindstone.Good.\u2014Old Harry.Entry Island.Fair.\u2014 Grosse Isle No.1.I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, F.W.MITCHELL, Inspector. ANNUAL REPORT OF ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR OF FRENCH 31 ANNUAL REPORT 1934-1935 OF ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR OF FRENCH [Pp I have the honour to submit my annual report of supervision of the subject of French in the High Schools where there are no French Specialists, and in the Intermediate Schools for the scholastic year 1934-35.General Remarks: All High Schools without French Specialists and the Intermediate Schools were visited once during the year, while a second visit was made to as many schools as possible, especially to those where the French work was poor and those experiencing any special difficulty with the presentation of this subject.Number of schools visited include: Seventeen High Schools and Seventy- one Intermediate Schools.The three following schools were visited by Miss Tanner: Joliette, and Rouyn Intermediate Schools and Noranda High School.It is much to be regretted that, owing to the vast territory to be covered, it is impossible to visit all schools a second time.Some schools visited early in the term are rated according to the work being done at that time, without being given the opportunity of showing what progress has been made during the year.For this reason, I feel that sometimes the schools, where the subject of French presents most difficulties, are not always receiving as much attention and supervision as is needed.However, I have endeavoured to overcome this difficulty by varying my plan so that those schools visited early in the term one year would be visited later the following year.To further remedy this situation, 1 propose ,with your permission, to visit early in the term next year, schools where the subject of French presents most difficulty, making a special effort to return to these schools a second time, while other schools, where the French work has been satisfactory and steadily improving, will be visited only once late in the term.This is the first year that Oral French Examinations have been conducted in the Grades Ten of Intermediate Schools and in the two senior classes of the High Schools without French Specialists.This examination was given to the Grade Ten classes of the following schools: Intermediate Schools: Rawdon, Mansonville, Drummondville, Montreal North; High Schools: Thetford Mines, Kenogami, Megantic.No Oral French Examination was given in the Grade Eleven classes in these schools this year as it seemed advisable to commence with the Grade Ten classes and these pupils will then be prepared to carry on this Oral work the following year in the Grade Eleven classes.Although it took a little extra time to conduct these examinations, still I feel that the time was well spent and that ultimately teachers and pupils will come to realize more and more the practical value of some knowledge of spoken French. 32 EDUCATIONAL RECORD The Oral French Work: (a) The Immediate Outlook: It is gratifying to be able to state that teachers who are teaching the subject of French in Intermediate and High Schools without French Specialists A continue, in increasing numbers, to take extra French lessons at Summer courses and elsewhere, in order to become more efficient in this subject.This is most encouraging and these teachers deserve much priase for their efforts.Oral French, on the whole, is receiving more careful attention each year, although there is still some negligence in the use of the \u2018\u201cTeachers\u2019 Manuals\u201d, which serve as a guide in giving the Oral work.The pronunciation has perhaps improved a little, but pupils, for the most part, continue to read and to answer oral questions much too slowly.Slow, hesitant answers are still too frequently accepted.The combination of classes for Oral work has been very effectively worked out in a few schools, while the interchange of teacher in order that the work would be under the direction of the most competent French teacher in the school, has been most successful in promoting better results.Good results are again evident in the use of the gender of nouns in the elementary grades.On the whole, the Oral work does show some improvement, but results, although on the upward trend, still leave much to be desired.(b) Future Needs: 1.The use of more material i.e.pictures, objects, etc., would promote more interest in the French lessons.2.More drill and attention should be given to Oral reading and pronunciation.Classes should be combined as often as possible for this work.3.Pupils must learn to speak more quickly.Frequent repetition of \u201cpattern sentences\u2019 will help pupils to gain confidence in their ability to express themselves in French.4.There should be an interchange of teachers wherever possible so that the Oral French, especially, would be under the direction of the most competent teacher of French in the school.5.In schools where there are several classes together, classes should be combined as much as possible for the following: In junior classes: (a) drill exercises in pronunciation (b) oral reading (c) gender of nouns (d) agreement of adjectives (e) simple verbs, affirmatively negatively especially the verbs \u201cavoir\u201d \u2018\u2018étre\u201d (f) the construction of simple sentences with given words ANNUAL REPORT OF ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR OF FRENCH 33 It is good training for pupils to begin early to do their own thinking and to construct their own sentences instead of always answering questions, where part of the answer is usually given.In higher classes: (a) review lessons based on elementary principles (b) review lessons based on elementary principles (b) verbs, affirmatively and negatively, with special drill on the perfect tenses in the negative (c) the use of pronouns (d) direct and indirect speech (e) oral sentence construction beginning with simple sentences based on some chosen topic or interesting picture (f) short oral composition or one minute speeches The French Written Work: (4) The Immediate Outlook: Some improvement is to be noted in the appearance of exercises books.Pupils seem to be taking more pride in their writing and exercise work each year.The Written Work, however, does not show any special progress but continues to be fair as a general rule.There is still some evidence of a general weakness in the knowledge of the fundamental principles of each grade\u2019s work.The main reason for this lack of progress is due, I think, to the fact that thorougness is not always insisted upon in the exercise work and its corrections.(b) Future Needs: 1.\u201cThoroughness\u201d should be the keynote to all written work.2.More careful supervision of the written work in exercise books is necessary, especially in the correction of work.3.Neater exercise work, in some cases, would promote better work.4.The importance of the use of accents should be repeatedly stressed.5.The French Dictation should be based on detached sentences, involving the use of grammatical rules and vocabulary of each grade respectively.Too frequently this work is a question of memory instead of the application of rules.6.Special drill should be given on the essentials of each year\u2019s work.7.In review lessons, new exercises should be given instead of using repeatedly the same exercises given in the pupils text book.8.In the senior classes, more oral preparation would help to improve the French Composition work.9.The use of tenses requires more attention in all classes.MARION ALICE SMITH, IT CTE Ny FI I ET TN CO IC HT EDUCATIONAL RECORD MAP OF PART OF RICHELIEU VALLEY That part of the historic Richelieu Valley which extends from a few miles above Chambly Basin and includes the canal of that name, continuing south to below the City of St.Johns and taking in the country between St.Cesaire on the east and Laprairie on the west, has recently been mapped by the Geographical Section of the Department of National Defence ,using air photographs taken by the Royal Canadian Air Force, together with data secured by other means.The name given to the new map sheet is \u201cSt.Johns\u201d, and it is one of more than 1000 maps of different parts of Canada that are distributed by the Topographical and Air Survey Bureau, Department of the Interior, as listed in its catalogue of publications which is supplied to applicants without charge.A study of the subject shows that the area covered by the new map is rich in historical interest.The Richelieu River, discovered by Champlain in 1609, was at different times also known as the Iroquois, the Chambly, and the Sorel River, before it acquired its present name.For many years its water bore the birch bark canoes of Indian war parties and as a protection against the Iroquois, the French in 1665 decided to construct a chain of forts along the river and in this way Forts Chambly, Sorel, and Ste.Therese came into being.Fort Chambly was built by Jacques de Chambly, a captain of the Carignan Regiment; Fort Sorel by Pierre de Sorel, a captain of the same regiment, and Fort Ste.Therese by M.de Salieres.The massive stone walls of Fort Chambly have been repaired and where necessary restored by the National Parks Branch.Department of the Interior, so that they may be preserved for the benefit and enjoyment of Canadians and tourists from other countries.Memorials have also been erected by the Department to mark the sites of Forts Sorel and Ste.Therese; also Fort St.Jean, constructed in 1748; Fort Laprairie, built in 1687; the Second Battle of Laprairie in 1691; the Chambly Canal begun in 1831 and completed in 1843; and one of the terminals of the first railway built in Canada, which opéned for traffic in 1836 over a line constructed of wooden rails between St.Johns and Laprairie.The village of Chambly, one of the important centres of population shown on the map, is situated twenty-one miles east of Montreal on an expansion of the Richelieu river known as Chambly Basin, within close proximity to which water-power installations furnish electrical energy to the surrounding territory.The town of Marieville appears on the map about seven miles east of Chambly, while the city of St.Johns is shown to the south on the Richelieu river.Opposite St.Johns, on the other side of the river, is the town of Iberville.By means of canals along the course of the Richelieu, water transportation is carried on between points on the St.Lawrence and New York city, via Lake Champlain and the Hudson river.In the rural districts throughout the area mapped, the location of houses, barns, schools, cheese-factories, mills, quarries, and sand or gravel pits is shown, the fact that the map was prepared on so large a scale as one mile to an inch making it possible to provide such details.Along the water route, locks, dams bridges, fords, ferries, and lighthouses are indicated, while information regarding the depth of water at certain points is also supplied in fathoms. we cite a MAP OF RICHELIEU VALLEY 35 Figures showing the elevation above sea level appear on the map, while contour lines give more general information regrading the land forms in the various localities.A key to the different classes of information is furnished in both French and English, and there is also an index of the sheets published of other districts within reasonable radius.The \u201cSt.Johns\u201d map is 30 by 24 inches in size and copies may be obtained at a cost of 25 cents on application to the Surveyor General Department of the Interior, Ottawa.Educational institutions throughout the district covered by the new map may.however, secure one copy free of charge for the official use of the school, if application is made by the teacher or principal of the school.CANADA 1936 DOMINION BUREAU OF STATISTICS Ottawa, Canada.The Dominion Bureau of Statistics announces the publication of the 1936 edition of the Official Handbook of Canada.The Handbook describes the present economic condition of the Dominion in nineteen chapters, dealing with all phases of the country\u2019s economic organization, and statistics are brought up to the latest possible moment.The text is accompanied by a wealth of pertinent illustrative matter, which adds to the interest of the subjects treated.Preceding the frontispiece are five .pages of matter, in photogravure, bearing on the Vimy Memorial which is to be officially unveiled on July 26th, 1936; the frontispiece itself is a reproduction of an excellent photograph of the Governor-General, the Lord Tweedsmuir, and carries a message from His Excellency to the people of Canada.In an appendix are given the recently published official figures of the voters on the lists and the votes polled, along with the names and addresses of all Members of the House of Commons elected at the Eighteenth General Election.October 14, 1935.The text and page illustrations are printed in tone and there is a folded lithographed insert showing the \u201cTen Greater Cities of Canada\u2019 and their satellite communities.The price of the publication is 25 cents per copy.which charge covers merely the cost of paper and actual press work.A special price concession has been authorized in the case of teachers, bona fide students, and ministers of religion, since past experience has shown that considerable use has been made of this publication for educational purposes, and it is the policy of the Minister to encourage such use.To such individuals, therefore, the price is set at 10 cents for one copy.Postage stamps are not acceptable, and applications must be accompanied by a postal note or by the appropriate coin enclosed between two squares of thin cardboard gnmmed together at the edges.Applications should be addressed to the King\u2019s Printer, Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa, Canada, and since the supply is strictly limited for both the 25-cent and 10- cent classes, early application is suggested.Rtas HORE Gr SO a LE US SRI EUR UL SSE uals ite, EDUCATIONAL RECORD NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION Introduction of the weekly Broadcast Series \u201cCHRISTIANITY AND CIVILISATION: A CHALLENGE TO DEFEATISM\u201d by the Rt.Rev.Richard Roberts, D.D., Moderator of the United Church in Canada, on January 15th, 1936, from 6:00 to 6:15 p.m.over Station CRCT, by courtesy of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.Christianity at Work in the World The series of broadcasts which begins this evening is intended to tell in brief outline what Christianity has done for mankind in the nineteen hundred years of its history.The greater part of the story cannot be told, for it has gone unrecorded.What is has done for the individual soul, face to face with the brokenness of life or with its own moral defeats and failures, is a tale no man can tell; and it still goes on.In any case, that aspect of the achievement of Christianity does not enter into the scope of these broadcasts.We are concerned in this entreprise only with the broader, more general aspects of its contribution to the good and well-being of man.For most people, Christianity has been almost wholly identified with the Church as they have seen it; and it has been the misfortune of the Church that it has rarely cut an impressive figure in the eyes of its contemporaries.Its professions have been so far ahead of its performances, its ideals so much more exalted than the individuals who constitute it, that it has always seemed to be fair game for the cynic and the worldly wise.But the Church has had to do its work in the world through the very intractable medium of raw human nature and in the teeth of its stubborn resistance.It is only when due allowance is made for this handicap that it is possible to pass a fair judgment on the achievement of Christianity.But even at that its achievement has been extraordinary.There is no part of human life that it has not touched for good.To mention the names of Palestrina and Bach is to remind ourselves of the decisive part Christianity has played in the development of modern music.The immediate precursors of our Universities were Christian foundations.To recall the Clapham Sect is to recall also what the Church has done for the abolition of slavery.The origin of our hospitals is to be traced to the early Christian ages; and the public care of the destitute and the underprivileged is an undertaking which the civil authority.learned and took over from the Church.The influence of Christianity has been throughout the centuries the most powerful factor in the humanising of social relationships; and the name of Shaftesbury is itself enough to suggest how much Christianity did in the last century to temper the raw power released by the industrial revolution of the previous century.It is certainly true that we have yet a far way to go before the values and ends for which Christianity necessarily stands are fully realised.In one sense, they can never be fully realised in time and space.For it is of the very essence of the Christian outlook that no sooner is one end reached than another and a nobler comes in sight.But something of this strange and moving story, so far as it has gone, you will hear in the broadcasts that are to follow. a iy MALES US LAH E SSS tadaices NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION 37 ] Now, it is pertinent to ask,\u2014What is the secret of this achievement?To begin with, let it be said that this achievement, as I have described it in part, and as it will be described to you more fully in the broadcasts to come, is really to be regarded as a by-product, or at least a secondary product.The main product of Christianity is a particular kind of human person.That is what it was born to do\u2014to bring forth a new kind of man, to transform raw human nature into a different thing.The achievements of Christianity in the world are in fact the achievements of these transformed persons, even though they were only partly transformed.They have been the leaven which has leavened the lump.But human nature is both personal and social.We are so made that we never become our whole selves except in and through another.The new kind of man in order to grow to his full stature has need of an appropriate society; and so the Church came into being\u2014to provide him with the fellowship in which 9 he might rise to the fullness of personality, and also with an organ in and through E which he could express his new life and communicate it to others.The Church ' was meant to be the nucleus and the organ of a redeemed human society as wide as the world and as enduring as time.It is true that the Church has only very partially fulfilled this aspect of its historical mission.When it should have continued to be a living unity, it has been broken into fragments\u2014and by perpetuating its divisions has proved itself disloyal to the divine purpose.But this once more brings us up against the intractability of raw human nature, of which g there remains far too much in the best of us.However there are certain things to which this new kind of man and his N society have borne clear witness in the world, both by precept and by practice.The first of these things is the supreme worth of man as man.The Christian ; view is that human personality is the ultimate value in this world.Jesus, ki you remember, laid it down that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.That was the Magna Charta of manhood.If a hallowed religious institution is to be regarded as subordinate to human need and human possibility, then everything else in the world is subordinate to the same end.Not only the Sabbath, but the State, the School, the Workshop, the Market place were made for man and not man for them.A man is to be treated as an end in himself, and not as a means to any other end.And from this a great deal follows: for instance, that every living soul has a prescriptive right to a chance to grow into the fullest possible human thing it is in him to be; and again, that slavery is a sin, for no man must be unwillingly subordinated to the pleasure or the profit of another.You may take it that this principle has been the most active factor in the development of the democratic idea; and it is the rock upon which dictatorship and the totalitarian state are bound soon or late to go shipwreck.It also involves the further principle that the aim of human and supremely of Christian effort in the world is ever more and fuller life for more and more people.\u201cI came\u201d, said Jesus, \u201cthat they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly\u201d, that men\u2019s lives might be full of the earthly trinity of goodness, truth and beauty.It follows from this that the matter of personal relations is one upon which Christianity has a good deal to say: yet it actually says it all in one word\u2014 Love, which has a specific meaning in the New Testament.We usually think of 38 EDUCATIONAL RECORD Love as an emotional excitement provoked in us by the people who attract us\u2014 something we can\u2019t help.But according to Jesus, Love is a Duty\u2014\u201cThou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself\u201d.It is something within our choice and power\u2014an affair of the will.* We sometimes say we cannot love the people we do not like.But Jesus says that they are the very people whom we should love.\u201cLove your enemies\u201d, He said.And His doctrine is that we should so love our enemies as to convert them into friends.Perhaps the best definition of love is that of the late Professor Rauschenbusch: It is, he said, \u201cno flickering or wayward emotion.but the energy of a steadfast will bent on creating fellowship\u201d.And its logic leads us to the faith that it is a part of our task in this world to create a fellowship that knows no barriers of caste or colour or country.Here you have probably the first Christian duty\u2014to create and to foster fellowship without respect of persons.And here you have besides the main principle of distinction between right and wrong.What binds men together is right; what puts them at odds with one another is wrong.Integrity is right, and falsehood is wrong, because when men cease to trust one another they fall apart.Compassion and forbearance are right, for they express and create fellowship; hatred, contempt and cruelty are wrong because they destroy fellowship.It hardly needs to be pointed out that as a natural consequence, all forms of war and conflict are uncongenial to Christianity.I have said enough to start the ball rolling: and that is all I am required to do.But I think that you will find these two Christian doctrines\u2014the sanctity of Personality and the Sovereignty of Love\u2014coming in as the recurring motifs of this series of broadcasts.Suffer me to conclude by saying that those who have persuaded themselves that Christianity is a back number are profoundly mistaken.Christianity is still young in the world.We do not know how long ago man of the modern type emerged in this world: Man\u2019s history is known to us only during a period of some six thousand years.But that period elapsed between his first appearance and the time at which he was able to leave behind him some few materials for history, we can only guess.The Chellean Man, as he is called, who is the oldest man who has left implements of his own making behind him is said by some anthropologists to have lived some 300,000 years ago.In that perspective, Christianity is a latecomer on the scene and Jesus is our contemporary.When the War broke out it was said that Christianity had been tried and found wanting: To which Mr.Chesterton replied, \u201cNo, it has been found difficult; and it has not been tried\u201d.But all the same the beginning of the War saw a very remarkable circumstance.For the first time in history, all the belligerent nations produced elaborate justification for their participation in the War.Never before had they considered such apologies necessary.Clearly Jesus Christ has become the conscience of the world.He is on His way to being the Will of the World as well. \u2018 INTERNATIONAL MAGNA CARTA DAY ASSOCIATION, INC.39 INTERNATIONAL MAGNA CARTA DAY ASSOCIATION, INC.PROGRESS FOR 1935 To Our Supporters and Friends: Our progress in 1935 has been very gratifying and justifies our looking forward to greater progress in 1936.| Churches.\u2014A number of Bishops in the Episcopal Church in this country, Canada, Newfoundland, and Great Britain made the movement a diocesan one, and this of course is the finest type of support.Many churches of other denominations also observed Magna Carta Sunday.Letters.\u2014Personal letters showing the warmest sympathy have come to us from Bishop Deane of Aberdeen; Bishop David of Liverpool; the new Lord \u2018High Chancellor of England, Viscount Hailsham; Sir Malcolm Campbell, the Speed King, and other leaders.These letters mean much.Schools.\u2014Education authorities in Australia, New Zealand, and Newfoundland are supporting us in a splendidly helpful way by taking the movement up with their teachers.This they have been doing for several years.In Canada several Directors of Education are also forwarding the movement.A very strong statement of continugd development of our work in Australia has just been received from a high school authority there.To the extent that if we can win the schools our movement is a success.Press.\u2014 Very gratifying support has come to our work in 1935.Proclamations.\u2014The governor of Virginia and South Carolina issued Proclamations asking their people to observe Magna Carta Day.Unit Membership.\u2014This branch of our work is making progress, but as yet very slowly.Egypt-Sudan.\u2014Bishop Gwynne sent word of the Magna Carta Day dinner held yearly in May.This example of his practical enthusiasm for our work will no doubt be followed in other countries.South Africa.\u2014Dr.F.G.Cawston, our National President, writes of the great interest displayed, and we have important cooperation in the Dominion.Cartoon.\u2014The celebrated Canadian cartoonist, A.C.Racey, Esq., of the Montreal Daily Star published in June the first cartoon of our movement representing The Seven English-Speaking Nations by means of seven figures.Mats of the Cartoon are being distributed widely.That with \u201cThe Processional of the Seven Nations\u201d has given us a great deal of valuable publicity.JUST A WORD FOR 1936 Two of the largest churches in Canada will observe Magna Carta Sunday.A theological Seminary in Manitoba and a provincial Ministerial Conference have taken up the movement.Faithfully yours, J.W.Hamilton. EDUCATIONAL RECORD MAP OF GREATER PART OF NEW BRUNSWICK ISSUED BY FEDERAL BUREAU Covering as it does the southern and central parts of the province of New Brunswick, also portions of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the new Fredericton-Moncton sheet of the National Topographic Series, issued by the Topographical and Air Survey Bureau of the Department of the Interior, provides a comprehensive map of about three-quarters of the province, with its coastal and inland fishing waters, hunting districts, extensive coast-line and other interesting features.The authentic history of New Brunswick dates back to 1534, when Jacques Cartier first sighted its shores and landed about 35 miles from the mouth of the Miramichi river.It was not until 1603-04 however that the territory was further explored, at which date Samuel de Champlain discovered the province\u2019s leading inland waterway, naming it the \u201cSaint John\u201d river.New Brunswick comprises an area of about 28,000 square miles.To the north, south, and east, it is washed by.the Atlantic and it has a coast-line of approximately 600 miles, indented with deep bays and fine harbours.The province was originally covered with forest and the greater part of it still remains so.The forests are interspersed with lakes and the country is covered with a network of rivers.The scenery is both picturesque and varied.From northwest to southeast, the majestic Saint John river flows for over 400 miles through a fertile and delightful country, famed for its productiveness and beauty.The lower part of the Saint John valley from Fredericton, the provincial capital, to the sea was the part first settled by the United Empire Loyalists whose descendants form the bulk of the present population of the valley.On the opposite side of the river from the capital, is an Indian village which marks the spot where the French and English each had a fort in the earliest times.At the river\u2019s mouth is the city of Saint John with its harbour, one of the largest and finest on the continent.Here also are the famous \u201creversing\u201d falls, where the flow of water and the \u201cfall\u201d is in one direction when the tide is going out, and the reverse when it is coming in.New Brunswick is a veritable hunter\u2019s paradise due to the abundance of moose, deer, bear and other species of game.All game is rigidly protected and the open season covers a limited period.Several game refuges consisting of many hundred square miles of territory, where almost every species of game animal roams unmolested, have been established in the interior of the province and are shown clearly on the map.New Brunswick possesses some of the finest salmon streams in the world, and has many trout-fishing waters.The network of waterways makes access to the hunting and fishing grounds comparatively easy. RELL Ldn rise ra AS dure dodo te en Statics MAP OF GREATER PART OF NEW BRUNSWICK 41 The information shown on the new Fredericton-Moncton map will be found useful to students of the physical geography of the province, the sportsman, and the general public, as it contains many classes of interesting and valuable information.The particulars regarding main highways and their route numbers; also secondary and other roads, together with the mileage to leading places, outside the boundaries of the area covered in the map but within reasonable travelling distance, are of great value to motorists.All cities, towns, villages and rural post-offices are shown clearly, likewise county and parish boundaries, railways, and ferries.A further interesting feature is the providing of information as to the elevations above sea level throughout the province, by means of different shades of colour.The map is 34\u201d by 24\u201d in size.and has been prepared on a scale of eight miles to one inch.It may be obtained at a nominal charge, in three different 3 forms.The regular edition is in the customary map sheet style, while the \u201cfolder\u201d edition contains a ready reference index, by means of which the locating of places shown on the map is simplified.Copies are also available mounted on linen.Application for the map should be made to the Surveyor General, Department of the Interior, Ottawa.REDUCED FARES FOR SUMMER SCHOOLS, 1936 The Canadian Passenger Association announces the following reduced fares for teachers attending Summer Schools conducted by universities and colleges E during 1936.\u201cIn connection with summer schools conducted by recognized universities and colleges during 1936, the railways contemplate putting into effect reduction of fare and one-third on certificate plan, regardless of number in attendance, for teachers, pupils and their families, travelling from stations in Canadian Passenger Association, Eastern Lines territory, to summer schools conducted by universities or colleges located in Canada.Tickets at regular one-way first- class fare and standard convention certificates to be issued on the going trip during period of three days prior to opening date and first three days of the summer school (Sundays excluded in both cases.) Certificates, when properly signed by the principal or other authorized officer of the college, to be honored for tickets for the return journey at one-third of the regular one-way first-class fare, not more than three (3) days (Sundays excluded) after the close of the school, for continuous passage to destination.Validation by Special Agent not required.\u201d i 5 A A i Ih 8 2 Re.) Hl i ik Ii Be A A M et «Hl BX BY ul ks AA A > pit Ai RE BL oy | i EC gh Ba: A Ra al ot i | IRVIN EDUCATIONAL RECORD ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION OF THE PENSION FUND FOR OFFICERS OF PRIMARY EDUCATION Annual meeting held at Quebec, December 14 and 15, 1935.Present:\u2014The Honourable Cyrille F.Delâge, Superintendent of Education, Chairman; Mr.A.B.Charbonneau, Inspector of Schools, delegate of the Roman Catholic teachers in Montreal; Mr.Nérée Tremblay, professor at Laval Normal School, delegate of the Roman Catholic teachers in Quebec; Mr.J.M.Manning, Director of Studies of the Roman Catholic School Board of Montreal, delegate of the Catholic Alliance of Professors in Montreal; Mr.M.C.Hopkins, Principal of Fairmount School.Professor Sinclair Laird, Dean of the School for Teachers, Macdonald College, delegates of the Provincial Association of Protestant teachers Mr.Francois Paul Noél, Secretary, and Mr.Paul E.Delage, Assistant Secretary.The minutes of the last meeting were approved.The Secretary submitted the following report: Quebec, November 14, 1935.Mr.Superintendent, Members of the Administrative Commission of the Pension Fund for Officers of Primary Education.Gentlemen, The undersigned, Secretary of your Commission, has the honour to submit the report which follows: Statement showing the revenue and expenditure of the Pension Fund for the year 1934-35, also the capital.REVENUE Sum voted by the Legislature (Item 43 of the budget)$ 2,000 00 Grant from Government (R.S., 1925, ch.133, sec.542) 47,000.00 Interest on Capital (R.S., 1925, ch.133, secs.541, 543 and 554) 10,258 .38 Surplus from old Pension Fund (R.S., 1925, ch.133, Stoppage of 109, on grants to public schools (R.S., 1925, ch.133, sec.542) 62,500.00 Stoppages on salaries of teachers from grants payable to school municipalities (R.S., 1925, ce.133, secs.534, 542 and 549) 140,253.13 Stoppages on salaries of school inspectors (R.S., 1925, c.133, sees.534, 542 and 549).Stoppages on salaries of normal school professors (R.S., 1925, c.133, secs.534, 542 and 549).Stoppages paid directly by teachers (R.S., 1925, c.133, secs.534, 542 and 554).Deficit of the year.By the pensions.By re-imbursements.By expense of administration.CAPITAL ACCOUNT Amount of capital, July 1, 1934.Certified : Quebec, June 30, 1935.Name Caron, Eliza Davies, Nelson C Dion, Alice Aimée Fanning, Mary Gagnon, Perside Giroux, Azilda Girard, Marie Virginie Hudon, Marie Hart, Jane L REPORT OF PENSION COMMISSION PENSIONERS WHO DIED DURING THE YEAR 1935 Bertrand, M.Adélaïde Virginie.Bluteau, Léona.Bélanger, Marie Joséphine.Boutin, Séraphin.LL La ALL LL Campion, Margaret E.Cyr, Rose Anna.Deschesnes, Malvina.\u2026.111 1111 Ferland, Télesphore.11 110 FT ST es se ea ss see sass ss we ae ses es eee ese es fsa EG UHURU Le CE 2,303.64 66,089 .44 72,300.01 394,107.42 10,587.92 1,253.00 $ 108,948 205,167 .64 $ 205,167 (Signed) E.VEZINA, Provincial Auditor.$ 408,948.34 64 Annual Age Pension 74 8 280.80 58 179.00 79 230.06 69 578.30 81 266 .58 78 219.52 77 150.00 83 181.44 61 1,200.00 46 155.56 65 579.90 66 740.60 71 150.00 73 150.00 71 155.00 73 177.44 530.70 i ee eT eT id ea ea eC 44 EDUCATIONAL RECORD Levasseur, Héloise 150.00 Levasseur, Marie Louise.150.00 Létourneau, Alexina 150.00 Lapointe, Anne Agnès 150.00 Lumsden, Maggie : 205.26 Lavoie, Dina 150.00 Lafontaine, Hermina 219.28 Lapointe, Georgina 292.62 Ledoux, Lina 281.42 McGown, Mme.J.G.W 327.74 Marcotte, Marie Anne 150.00 Mulvena, Catherine ¢ 180.00 Monfette, Emilia 253.00 McGregor, Elizabeth 501.46 MacKay, Hattie Lily 457.90 Ouimet, Octave 185.00 Parsons, Siméon H 827.14 Roy, Malvina 185.00 Reith, T.B.1,200 00 Scott, Martha M 150.00 Silver, Herbert Joseph 1,200 00 Tremblay, Jean Baptiste 281.12 Tardif, Marie Louise Amanda 197.64 Taylor, Flora.1,200.00 Villiard, Elise 150.00 $ 15,119.48 Number of pensioners Average age Average pension Following your instructions, I have asked for further information about certain teachers who applied for pension.The chairman of your administrative commission has found the information obtained sufficiently satisfactory and their pensions have been paid to them: Name Pension Buchanan, Agnes Sophia 823.34 Lemieux, Auxilla 300.00 Beauchamp, Bernardine 272.80 Dufour, Eva .150.00 Charette.Emélia 300.00 Joly.Alba 251.62 The pensioners that you ordered at your last meeting to be notified that their pensions would be suspended from July, renew their applications this year and produce in their support medical certificates that you will have to examine. ot hit aa eo naan saan OE) Autonet corne ae consiste DR REPORT OF PENSION COMMISSION 45 AMENDMENTS The Lieutenant-Governor has approved the following amendments passed by the Assembly and the Legislative Council during their last Session: Section 2 of the Education Act (Revised Statutes, 1925, chapter 133), is amended by striking out the words: \u201cor in those subscribed by them or by the Government out of the funds voted for education\u201d, in the eighth and ninth lines of paragraph 13 thereof.Section 519 of the said law is amended by replacing the word \u201ctwenty\u201d, in the third line of the first paragraph, by the word \u201ctwenty-five\u201d.Section 520 of the said law, as amended by the act 17, George V, chapter 38, section 2, is again amended by replacing the first paragraph thereof by the following: 520.The pension of every officer of primary education shall be fixed at the sum obtained by multiplying two one-hundredths of his average salary, or, if he have taught for more than twenty-five years, then of his average salary for the twenty-five years, during which his salary was the highest, by the number of years of service up to thirty-five years.\u201d Sections 521, 522 and 523 of the said act are repealed.Section 524 of the said act is replaced by the following: \u201c524.For the purposes of this Part no pension shall be more than twelve hundred dollars per annum\u201d.Section 525 of the said act, as amended by the act 23 George V, chapter 53, section 2, is again amended : a.By replacing the word: \u201ctwenty\u201d, in the first line of the first paragraph thereof, by the word: \u201ctwenty-five\u201d; b.By replacing the word: \u201ctwenty\u201d, in the fourth line of the second paragraph thereof, by the word: \u201ctwenty-five\u2019\u2019.; c.By replacing the word: \u201cfifty\u201d, in the said fourth line of the said second pzragraph thereof, by the word: \u201cfifty-six\u201d; d.By replacing the word: \u201cten\u201d, in the first line of the third paragraph thereof, by the word: \u201cfifteen\u201d; e.By replacing the word: \u201ctwenty\u2019\u2019, in the said first line of the said third paragraph thereof, by the word: \u201ctwenty-five\u201d; f.By replacing the word: \u201cten\u201d, in the first line of the fourth paragraph thereof, by the word: \u201cfifteen\u201d.Section 528 of the said act is amended by replacing the word: \u201cJuly\u201d, in the sixth line of the second paragraph thereof, by the word: \u201cJanuary\u201d.Section 534 of the said act is amended by replacing the figures: \u201c1929\u201d, in the seventh line thereof, by the figures: \u201c1937\u201d.Section 542 of the said act, as amended by the act 23 George V, chapter 53, section 3, is replaced by the following: EDUCATIONAL RECORD \u201c542.The pension fund of officers of primary education shall be made up of: 1.A reduction of stoppage of three per cent, per annum, from the salary of every officer of primary education, as well as from that of every layman teaching without a diploma in schools of commissioners or trustees.Professors of music, drawing and other specialties, holding a diploma recognized by the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee of the Council of Education, who do not come under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, may pay into the pension fund of primary education the stoppage mentioned in the said paragraph and, in the event of such payment, the provisions of Part VIII of this act shall apply to them.The provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to have been in force since the establishing of the pension fund.2.A deduction of ten per cent, annually, from the public school fund.Section 544 of the said act is replaced by the following: \u201c544.The sums contemplated by section 542 shall be paid into the consolidated revenue fund.In the event of such sums being insufficient to meet the payment of the annual pensions, the Provincial Treasurer is authorized to pay out of the consolidated revenue fund the amounts necessary to complete such payment\u201d.Sections 535, 540, 545, 546 and 547 of the said act are repealed: Section 548 of the said act is replaced by the following: \u201c548.That portion of the pension fund established by the act passed on the 22nd of December, 1856 (19-20 Victoria, chapter 14, section 7) which shall, from time to time, be relieved, according to the provisions of the said act, by the death of pensioners, shall be paid into the consolidated revenue fund, and the pensions payable under such act shall be paid out of the said consolidated revenue fund\u201d.The said act is amended by adding thereto, after section 549 thereof, the following section: \u201c549.Every layman, with a diploma, teaching in a private school subsidized by the Government or by a school municipality, may pay the reduction or stoppage mentioned in the first paragraph of paragraph 1 of section 542 into the pension fund of primary education, provided that he obtains authorization from the Superintendent, to whom he must apply.The reduction or stoppage from his salary must be paid regularly, and on such payment the provisions of Part VIII of this act shall apply to him\u201d.Section 554 of the said act is amended : a.By striking out the words: \u201cafter resigning his office\u201d, in the first and second \u2018lines of the first paragraph thereof; b.By striking out the second, third and fourth paragraphs thereof.Section 555 of the said act is replaced by the following: REPORT OF PENSION COMMISSION 47 \u201c555.All claims for pensions must be made before the 15th of September of each year; pensions claimed after that date shall not be paid until the following year.(Form 22)\u201d.Section 556 of the said act is amended by inserting therein after the word: \u201cmunicipalities\u201d; in the third line thereof, the words: \u201cwho have complied with the provisions of section 554\u201d.Section 564 of the said act is amended : a.By striking out the word: \u201cthe\u201d, in the third line thereof; b.By adding thereto, after the word: \u201cProvince\u201d, in the fourth line thereof, the words: \u201cdesignated by the chairman of the administrative commission of the pension fund\u201d.Section 567 of the said act is amended: a.By striking out the words: \u201cbefore a justice of the peace, a notary or a Commissioner of the Superior Court\u201d, in the third and fourth lines thereof; b.By replacing the word: \u201clast\u201d in the sixth line thereof, by the word: \u201cfirst\u201d.The provisions of sections 2 and 6 of this act shall not apply to: a.The persons who were retired on pension, under the provisions of the Education Act, on or before January 1st, 1935; b.The persons who, prior to the 1st of January, 1935, discontinued teaching at 50 years of age after having taught for 20 years or more, which persons shall be entitled to their pensions at 56 years of age; c.The persons carrying on their functions of teaching at the date of January Ist, 1935, who are unable to complete 25 years of teaching before attaining the age of 65 years but who can complete at least 20 years of teaching before attaining such age, which persons shall be entitled to their pension after completing the said period of 20 years.The said sections 2 and 6 shall be deemed to have been in force since the 1st of January, 1935.The provisions of section 3 of this act shall apply to all persons already receiving a pension on the 1st of July, 1935, or who will thereafter receive a pension, under the Education Act.Sections 1, 3, 9, 10, 13 and 20 of this act shall come into force on the 1st of July, 1935, and the remaining sections of this act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.The whole respectfully submitted.The report of the Secretary was adopted. EDUCATIONAL RECORD The Commission authorized the Department of Education to pay the pension of all the pensioners over 56 years of age who have renewed or will have renewed their application and who have established or shall establish that they are entitled to it for the ending half-year and the next half-year.It authorized, also, for the same period the payment of the pension of pensioners under 56 years of age who have in addition produced a medical certificate.The Commission after having examined the medical certificates produced by pensioners who had been advised that their pensions would be withdrawn after the delay of one year judged that the certificates of the following pensioners were sufficiently satisfactory: Name Paradis, Léopoldine Desrosiers, Alexandrine Gamache, Marie Laura Gagnon, Marie Louise Martel, Marie Sylvia Julien, Albertine Roux, M.Eugénie Savignac, Blanche Ildéa Lambert, Albertine The Commission ordered that the pension of Miss Alice Dupont, 46 years of age, be refused counting from July 1, 1936 The Commission having taken cognizance of the medical certificates produced by pensioners who had been advised that their pensions would be withdrawn, counting from July 1st, 1935, considered the certificates of the following sufficiently satisfactory, and that their pensions should be paid to them: Name Pélissier, Amanda Therrien, Rose Ernestine Gagné, Georgianna (Mme Hector Bernier) Bertrand, Victoria (Mme Joseph Théberge) Leclerc, Marie Anna Davidson, Amy Beatrice Côté, Laura The Commission does not think it should change its decision made last year concerning the pensions of the following persons, and ordered that the payment of their pensions be discontinued, counting from July 1st, 1935: REPORT OF PENSION COMMISSION Name Dubois, J.Eulalie Gaucher, Donalda (Mme Adolphe Lagassé) Tremblay, Marie Cécile Gagnon, Zoé (Mme F.Lagacé) Girard, Marie Yvonne Houle, Marguerite Gagné, Marie Jeanne The Commission after having taken cognizance of the medical certificates produced by pensioners, who had been advised that their pensions would be withdrawn counting from July 1st, 1934, considered the certificates of the following satisfactory and that their pension should be paid to them: Name Beauvais, Elizabeth Choquette, Régina Lacharité, Marie Anne Nadeau, Adrienne Béliveau, Marie Anna Boudreau, Alma Provencal, Marie Louise Bérubé, Marie Jeanne The Commission does not think it should change its decision made last year concerning the pensions of the following persons whose pensions had been refused definitely: Name Laporte, Clara (Mme C.Laferriére) Carreau, Blanche The following pensioners should produce medical certificates fron Specialists : Name Age Bellefleur, Augustine (Mme H.Labelle).50 Joncas, Marie Ducharme, Alma (Mme I.Dubeau) Poirier, Tmelda Landry, Marie V.(Mme T.Lavoie) Fitzgerald, Mary Ann EDUCATIONAL RECORD The Administrative Commission accorded pensions for one year, counting from July 1st, 1935, to the following: Name Sambault, Marie Anne Gagnon, Marie Louise Martel, Emma Montminy, Marie Angélina Julien, Albertine Roux, M.Eugénie Lambert, Albertine Julien, Alexina Dufour, Eva The Commission after having examined the applications of officers who have abandoned teaching on account of age or ill health, their statements of services and certificates produced, accorded the following pensions: NEW PENSIONS ACCORDED Officers aged 56 years or more.Annual Name Pension Coursolle, Corinne (Mme J.Valliére) 5 150.00 Paulhus, Joseph Cyprien 797.00 Dormer, William Georges 1,059.80 Trempe, Zénon 339.96 Morin, Alphonse L.Donat 1,101 80 Beausoleil, Délia (Mme Siméon Rondeau) 150.00 O?\u2019Keefe, Daniel 1,200.00 Guérin, Zotique 838.10 Spinney, Frederick H 1,200.00 Wallace, Mabel Louise 1,159.20 Campbell, Margaret H.| 1,039.18 Christie, Theodora E 890.40 Séguin, Marie Corinne 279.62 Davis, Cora A 485.10 Blackwood, Jessie ; 607.60 Copland, Isabel M 1,033.20 Robert, Jeanne 377.72 Elmes, Bertha Estalla 676.80 Robertson, Beatrice Elizabeth.835.44 LeBel, Rose Delima 665.84 Rompré, Alice (Mme L.A.Lacroix) 160.36 Lafontaine, Rose E (Mme J.E.St.Georges) .| 150.00 $ 15,197.12 I REPORT OF PENSION COMMISSION 51 Officers less than 56 years of age: Annual Name Age Pension Farmer, Honoré.ii es 54 $ 778.96 Martineau, Marie Alice A.49 183 20 Renaud, Marie Alma.49 162.74 Egan, Enid.coo Lea Las e a es es eee ee 47 804 .32 Cellard, Eugénie.120000000004 eee eee see 45 150.00 Total.oot eee ee 82/079 .22 Carried forward.ci.8 15,197.12 Grand Total.covi i.8 17,276.34 Number of pensioners.ooiuii i.27 Average age.FR 58 AVErage Pension.o.oo a La Lana Lea a ane 636.16 The following officers will begin to receive their pensions at the age of 56: Name Âge Annual Pension Prouty, Annie E.(Mme.W.T.Godden).52 8 465.74 Cliche, Marie Evangéline.dl 150.00 Blanchet, Eva.LL aa AR a ee 51 172.20 Honey, Evelyn Maude.51 575.94 Grenier, M.Eudoxie (Mme Arthur Lalonde).31 191.62 The applications have been refused of Mr.J.A.Richard, Mrs.B.F.Olney, née Edith Crack, the Misses Augustine Drouin, Rosa Dionne and Marie Doréa Lamothe.Applications for Reimbursement of Stoppage accorded: Name Age Stoppages Lecomte, Emélie.61 8 46.75 DeSerres, Marie Anne.61 56.14 Miller, Eliza T.(Mme W.J.Stewart).56 218.24 Bice, Myrtle (Mrs.Ervine Burns).46 278 .58 Bouvier, Dolores.LL LL ae 45 83.03 Paquin, Noémi (Mme Jos.L.Plante).44 128.38 Dionne, Joséphine.\u2026.10100000 020 aa a aa 38 113.85 V0) RAR cui $ 924 87 danois Que a ua a cate RE RSC a n BE Qt } RL A Bit I fii: Re Hy i} uh In \\ i tab OEE A hb NL I CTR, 52 EDUCATIONAL RECORD The Commission demanded further information concerning the following persons: The Misses Maria Marguerite Coutu, Angéline Simoneau, Hermine Antonia Huneault and Bernadette Dumontier.The pensions of the following officers of primary education have been refused: The Misses Marie Arzélia Forcier, Marie Alice Michaud, Katie Annie Taylor, Alice Lyons, Marie Juliette LeBel, Marie Blanche LeBel, Léona Paul, Mme.Léopold Boisjoly, née Anna Mayer, Mme Eugéne Thibeault, née Marie, E.Bolduc, Mme.Charles Dubé, née Marie Rose Labrie, Mme.J.C.Bilodeau née Antonia Marquis, Mme.C.Deschesnes, née Marie Adéle Dubé and Mme A.Beaudry, née Marie A.Rivest.PARTICULARS CASES Dossier 2997-P.Mlle.Marie Louise Langlois submitted a new medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1934.Application again refused.» Dossier 3574-P.Mlle.Marie Louise Beaudet submitted a new medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused last year.Application again refused.Dossier 3439-P.Mlle.Marie Joséphine Joly submitted a new medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused last year.This certificate being considered sufficiently satisfactory her pension was granted.Dossier 3527-P.Mlle.Marie Louise Belzile submitted a specialist\u2019s certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1933.This certificate being considered sufficiently satisfactory, her pension was granted.Dossier 2730-P.Mile.Alice R.Duquette submitted a medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1934.This certificate being considered sufficiently satisfactory her pension was granted.Dossier 2363-P.Mlle.Eugénie Gagnon submitted a medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1934.This certificate being considered sufficiently satisfactory, her pension was granted.Dossier 1752-P.Mme Adélard Verville, née Myrsa Coutu , already a pensioner, submitted a medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1933 and last year.This certificate being considered sufficiently satisfactory, her pension was granted.Dossier 3043-P.Mlle.Marie Eva Fournier, already a pensioner, submitted a medical certiqcate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1933 and last year.This certificate being considered sufficiently satisfactory, her pension was granted. de Re Et On A OU LR Se REPORT OF PENSION COMMISSION 53 Dossier 1830-P.Mile.Albertine Gonthier submitted a medical certificate in support of her application for pension refused last year.Application granted.Dossier 3460-P.Mme.J.A.Caron, née Bernadette LeBlanc, submitted a new medical certificate in support of her application for reimbursement of stoppages.Application granted.Dossier 1776-P.Mme.Amédée Fortin, née Marie Alice Dubé,submitted two medical certificates in support of her application for pension, which had been refused last year.Application again refused.Dossier 2429-P.Agnes E.Oliver, already a pensioner, submitted a new medical certificate in support of her application for pension which had been refused in 1933 and last year.Application again refused.Dossier 3494-P.Mlle.Berthe Dupuis submitted a new medical certificates in support of her application for reimbursement of stoppages refused last year.Application again refused.Dossier 1271-P.Mme.Joseph Desmarais, née Eva Therrien, applied for pension but has not taught since 1919.Application refused.Dossier 3710-P.Mr.F.J.Abney Bacon died after having retired from teaching.He had paid the necessary amount to secure the half-pension for his wife.The pension was granted.Dossier 1289-G.Mlle Maud S.Loynachan submitted a medical certificate in support of her application for reimbursement of stoppages.Application granted.Dossier 8350-G.Mme.L.P.Poisson, née Blanche Cayer, applied for reimbursement of stoppages paid into the pension fund.This person had taught ten years.The members of the Commission being obliged to conform to the new provisions of the law concerning the Pension Fund, which specify that the reimbursement of stoppages can only be granted after 15 years of service, rejected this application.Dossier 3599-P.Mlle Alma Lebel to whom a pension was granted last «counting from July 1st, asked to withdraw her pension counting from the date when she gave up teaching, that is to say the month of February.Application granted.Dossier 3695-P.Mlle.Eva Landreville desired to pay the stoppages for { the year 1934-35 during which she taught at the School of Household Science + at St.Pie de Guire.; The members of the Administrative Commission after having taken cognizance of the dossier of Mlle Landreville considered this school as an independent 5 subsidized school and accepted the payment of stoppages from Mlle.Landre- Be ville.: Dossier 2167-P.Mlle Marie Anna Désilets applied for a pension, but she has only twenty years of service to her credit.The Commission being obliged to conform to the new provisions of the law concerning the Pension Fund which SANUS 54 EDUCATIONAL RECORD specify that every teacher, who wishes to obtain a pension, must have taught and paid the stoppages for 25 years, was obliged to refuse this application but accorded her the reimbursement of the stoppages that she had paid into the Pension Fund.Dossier 3539-P.The Administrative Commission again examined the dossier of Monsieur René Guenette, Director of the pedagogical review L\u2019\u2018\u201cEcole Canadienne\u201d who was teaching at the same time that he occupied this office.Monsieur Guénette should be considered as an officer of primary education and should pay the stoppages into the Pension Fund.The Administrative Commission unanimously adopted the following resolution: \u201cThat a sum of two hundred dollars should be put at the disposal of the Secretary of the Commission for the contingent expenses of the Pension Fund incurred during the year 1934-35.The Commission requested Mr.J.C.Miller, Inspector General of Primary Schools, to have the school inspectors see that the amendment to the School Law adopted by the Legislature in 1933, requiring the school commissioners to demand a satisfactory medical certificate from every lay person who wishes to take up teaching be rigorously observed.Dossier 5808-G.Mr.Georges Kowbel, who has taught more than twenty years in the Province and paid the stoppages to the Pension Fund and does not possess a diploma recognized by the Department of Education, asked for the reimbursement of his stoppages.Application granted.The members of the Commission recommended that an increase of salary of one hundred dollars be accorded to the Secretary and a similar increase to the Assistant Secretary, counting from July 1st, 1935.The Chairman having advised the members of the Commission that the delegates of the Association of the Catholic teachers of the Province of Quebec incorporated wished to meet them, the members consented to this request.After having taken cognizance of the resolution adopted by this Association, at its meeting on July 2, 1935, and after having listened to the delegates, the members of the Commission unanimously agreed that the question should be first submitted to the executive of this Province and that if the members of that executive deemed it advisable to consult them, they would have no objection in discussing with them the question submitted.And the session closed.(Signed) FRANCOIS PAUL NOEL (Signed) CYRILLE F.DELAGE Secretary Chairman TR MINUTES OF PROTESTANT COMMITTEE MINUTES OF PROTESTANT COMMITTEE Offices of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, Montreal, Aug.29th 1935 On which day was held a meeting of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Education.Present:\u2014Honourable Gordon W.Scott, M.L.C., in the chair; Howard Murray, Esq., O.B.E., Honourable W.S.Bullock, M.L.C., Milton L.Hersey, Esq., M.A.Sc., LL.D., A.K.Cameron, Esq., P.C.Duboyce, Esq., B.A., LL.B.W.O.Rothney, Esq., Ph.D., Malcolm T.Robb, Esq., G.W.Parmelee, Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., H.R.Cockfield, Esq., Dr.Leslie Pidgeon, W.L.Shurtleff, Esq., K.C., LL.D., Sinclair Laird, Esq., M.A., B.Phil., Miss Catherine I.Mackenzie, M.A., and the Secretary.Apologies for absence were received from Professor Derick, Dr.C.F.Delâge, Right Rev.Lennox Williams, D.D., Honourable R.F.Stockwell, and Judge Bond.Action was deferred concerning the nomination of an Associate member to replace the Honourable Gordon W.Scott.À letter of non-acceptance of election as Associate member of the Protestant Committee, owing to his many other pressing duties, was read from Dr.Charles W.Colby.On the motion of Mr.Murray, seconded by Mr.Cockfield, Dr.Colby\u2019s decision was accepted with regret.The Secretary read the announcement of the resignation of Dr.E.I.Rexford, due to advancing age, as a member of the Central Board of Examiners.The resignation was accepted with deep regret.Reports were presented on the work of the Summer Schools at Macdonald College, Bishop\u2019s University, the School for French Specialists in Montreal.and the Summer School in Physics.It was explained that the SummerSchool in Physics was canncelled after the first day\u2019s session owing to the insufficiency of registration. EDUCATIONAL RECORD The sub-committee on Superior Education Grants made the following recommendations which were adopted on the motion of Mr.P.C.Duboyce.The distribution of the funds in the statement of Revenues and Expenditures was approved.In addition, certain schools were recommended for additional, grants provided that certain improvements are carried out before June 1st 1936.Statement of Revenue and Expenditure, August, 1935.Final Report, adopted August 29th, 1935.REVENUE Voted by Legislature $ 75,000.00 Interest on Jesuits\u2019 Estate Settlement Fund 2,518.44 Interest on Marriage License Fund 1,400.00 Marriage License Fees (Net) 11,670.54 $ 90,588.98 FIXED CHARGES High School Leaving Examinations (Net) $ 1,529.18 Assistant Examiners, June Examinations 1,819.30 Printing Examination Papers, Etc Rent of School and Contingent Expenses 4,538.98 Available for Distribution 86,050.00 Do Ua A LENO ENE LE ee se ae Ones MINUTES OF PROTESTANT COMMITTEE 57 HIGH SCHOOLS Cul ® 2 Dm @ = 1934-35 El u25| 85 ESP ESS 78) 258 EE 2 NAME OF SCHOOL 58 §28| 25 6878 Ba É2 52 LE g Se 270) = = = = oo = = ae = esse = 5 = si ee im eo vee ae ES 5 ee aE = S ax hs 3 os ie \u2014 p ti - Fn Sot Le pr re mn mm ran - \u2014 a rm ert Ar pein - _ \u201c ' LL E "]