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EDUCATION AND 
 CO-OPERATION 
 
 IN 
 
 CINCINNATI 
 
 A Directory of the Educational Institutions, City 
 Departments, and Public and Private Institu- 
 tions of Cincinnati, With Their Methods 
 of Co-operation in Training Men and 
 Women for Service 
 
L903 
 
 'OdsCs 
 
 D. of D. 
 DEC F~ 1915 
 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 
 
 A Municipal University Devoted to the Advance- 
 ment of Liberal and Technical Learning and to the 
 Service of the City and the People of Cincinnati. 
 
 The University comprises the following 
 departments : 
 
 McMicken College of Liberal oct. 15, 1915 
 
 Arts, with Evening Classes 1511 
 
 College for Teachers 428 
 
 Graduate School 145 
 
 College of Engineering 477 
 
 College of Medicine 91 
 
 College of Commerce 198 
 
 School of Household Arts 43 
 
 iVstronomical Observatory, Library, 
 Gymnasium and Athletic Field 
 
 Gross Total 2893 
 
 Twice Counted 349 
 
 Net Total 2544 
 
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McMICKEN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL 
 ARTS 
 
 The faculty consists of seventeen pro- 
 fessors, six associate professors, fourteen 
 assistant professors and twenty-five in- 
 structors. 
 
 Tuition is free to regular students who 
 are residents of Cincinnati. 
 
 DRIVEWAY IN FRONT OF McMICKEN HALL 
 
 This College is open both day and 
 evening in order that all classes of citizens 
 may have the opportunity to obtain a 
 college education. External courses are 
 given for the benefit of teachers and audi- 
 tors in the branch libraries and high 
 schools in various parts of the city. 
 
 This College co-operates with the city 
 in the following ways: 
 
The Department of Biology assists in 
 directing school gardens in the public 
 schools, co-operates with the Zoological 
 Garden, and conducts a bird reserve. 
 The Department of Social Science co- 
 operates with the Union Bethel, Asso- 
 ciated Charities. Anti-Tuberculosis League 
 and the City Hospital. The Department 
 of Political vScience conducts a Municipal 
 Reference Bureau in the city hall in co- 
 operation with the city council. The 
 Bureau collects and supplies information 
 for the use of council and city officials. 
 The Department of Psychology directs a 
 psychological clinic, trains school psy- 
 chologists, and tests mentally deficient 
 children by request of their parents and 
 teachers; it co-operates with the princi- 
 pals, medical inspectors and teachers in 
 the schools. 
 
 COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS 
 
 The faculty consists of eight professors, 
 one associate professor, seven assistant 
 professors and five instructors. 
 
 Tuition is free to residents of Cincinnati 
 and to teachers in the Cincinnati public 
 schools. 
 
 The College for Teachers, under the 
 joint management of the University and 
 the Board of Education, trains teachers 
 for the schools and prepares merit lists for 
 their appointment and promotion. It co- 
 operates with the Kindergarten Training 
 School, and with the Art Academv, bv 
 
training their students to become teachers. 
 Its own students do their practice teach- 
 ing in various public schools designated 
 for this purpose. The Professor of Ele- 
 mentary Education and his staff assist 
 the Superintendent in the work of the 
 elementary schools, while the Professor 
 
 FRONT VIEW OF McMICKEN HALL 
 
 of Secondary Education assists him in the 
 secondary schools, and accredits all schools 
 preparing students for the University. 
 This College provides afternoon and 
 Saturday classes for teachers and con- 
 ducts conference seminars in professional 
 subjects. It has assisted in training 810 
 out of about 1450 teachers in the public 
 schools. 
 
BURNET WOODS LAKE 
 
 GRADUATE SCHOOL 
 
 The faculty consists of twenty-three 
 professors, six associate professors, four- 
 teen assistant professors and six instruct- 
 ors. 
 
 The Graduate School comprises twenty- 
 one departments in which ample facilities 
 are given for graduate instruction and 
 research. 
 
 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 
 
 The faculty consists of thirteen pro- 
 fessors, four associate professors, eleven 
 assistant professors and eighteen instruct- 
 ors. 
 
 The College of Engineering offers four- 
 year regular courses and five-year co- 
 operative courses in civil, mechanical, 
 electrical, chemical and metallurgical en- 
 
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gineerinor. In the co-operative courses, 
 shop practice is given in alternate two- 
 week periods during the eleven months 
 session. In seventy-eight manufacturing 
 plants, construction companies, railroads 
 and city departments, students receive 
 regular wages for shop work. ■ 
 
 The Bureau of City Tests connected 
 with this College analyzes, examines and 
 investigates all materials submitted to it 
 by the College or the purchasing agent of 
 the city. 
 
 The Engineering College co-operates 
 with the engineering, waterworks, street, 
 sewer and bridge departments of the city, 
 in teaching and research work; and with 
 the traction company, three railroad com- 
 panies, the gas company and the tele- 
 phone company. 
 
 COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 
 
 The faculty consists of thirty-nine pro- 
 fessors, seven associate professors, three 
 adjunct professors, eighteen assistant pro- 
 fessors, eight lecturers, demonstrators, and 
 assistant demonstrators, fifty-three clinical 
 instructors and eight assistant clinical 
 instructors. 
 
 The College of Medicine conducts the 
 laboratory and museum of the Pathologic 
 Institute of the City Hospital, and makes 
 the diagnostic tests and examinations for 
 all the hospitals and institutions of the 
 city. The College maintains a dispensar3% 
 with eight clinics, which serves 20,000 
 
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patients each year. The obstetric chnic 
 co-operates with the Maternity Society; 
 the orthopaedic chnic treats children and 
 adults and assists patients in _ securing 
 instruments and braces which will enable 
 them to return to active life. The 
 children's clinic maintains four branch 
 stations and distributes milk, clothing and 
 other supplies for infants of destitute 
 
 
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 families. The CoUege co-operates with 
 the Board of Health in teaching and re- 
 search. The School of Nursing and 
 Health of the General Hospital is con- 
 ducted in connection with the Medical 
 CoUege, the faculty giving the scientific 
 instruction. It co-operates with the 
 School of Household Arts of the Univer- 
 sity. 
 
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The Cincinnati General Hospital, lo- 
 cated on Burnet Avenue, contains 8v50 
 beds and covers twenty-seven acres with 
 twenty-four btiildings. Included in it are 
 contagious wards, a Nurses' Training 
 School for 120 ntirses, a Pathologic Insti- 
 tute, and a disinfecting plant which does 
 all the disinfecting for the city of Cincin- 
 nati, as well as for the Hospital. Other 
 hospitals co-operating with the College 
 of Medicine are: the Jewish Hospital, 
 located opposite the General Hospital; 
 the Good Samaritan Hospital, on Clifton 
 Avenue north of the Universit}^ ; and the 
 German Deaconess Hospital, also ad- 
 jacent to the University. These hospitals, 
 "together with the Episcopal Hospital for 
 Children, and the Bethesda and Christ 
 Hospitals, have a total of 2,000 beds. 
 
 COLLEGE OF COMMERCE 
 
 The faculty consists of three professors, 
 one instructor, and eight lecturers. 
 
 The College of Commerce conducts late 
 afternoon and evening classes for persons 
 occupied during the day. It co-operates 
 with the Chamber of Commerce and the 
 banks in collecting statistics and reports. 
 
 SCHOOL OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS 
 
 The faculty consists of one professor, 
 one assistant professor and one instructor. 
 
 The School of Household Arts co-oper- 
 ates with the public schools, the asylums, 
 
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man}^ public institutions and the School 
 of Nursing and Health of the General 
 HospitaL 
 
 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY 
 
 The Observatory has a director, two 
 assistants and one computer. It is chiefly 
 engaged in research, but maintains a 
 
 THE OBSERVATORY 
 
 teaching department in a separate build- 
 ing, and also furnishes accurate time, 
 magnetic declination, geographical co- 
 ordinates, etc., to the city, railroads and 
 engineers. It issues a popular bulletin. 
 The first weather map in this country was 
 issued at this Observatory in 1869 by 
 Professor Cleveland Abbe, director, who 
 afterwards founded the United States 
 Weather Bureau. 
 
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 
 
 The staff is composed of a librarian and 
 three assistants. 
 
 The University Library contains 100,000 
 bound volumes. It occupies a separate 
 building which also hovises the library of 
 the Ohio Historical and Philosophical 
 Society, 25,000 volumes, and furnishes a 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 
 
 seminar room to the Department of Latin. 
 It co-operates with the Cincinnati Public 
 Library and branches, 500,000 volumes, 
 the Mercantile Library, the Lloyd Library 
 and Museum, and the libraries of the 
 Astronomical Observatory, the College of 
 Medicine, the Hospital, the Art Museum, 
 Lane Theological Seminary and the Col- 
 lege of Music. 
 
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GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD 
 
 The staff is composed of a director and 
 two assistants. 
 
 The gymnasium co-operates with the 
 public high schools, the Playground Asso- 
 
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 ciation, the Boy Scout Association and 
 other associations for the promotion of 
 physical education. 
 
 MUSEUMS 
 
 The University Museum co-operates 
 with the Cincinnati Natural History 
 Society and with the Art Museum in 
 Eden Park. 
 
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INSTITUTIONS AFFILIATED WITH 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 Cincinnati Law School 
 
 This school is the present day represent- 
 ative of the Cincinnati Cohege, founded 
 in 1819, and has its separate trustees and 
 endowment. Requires one year of aca- 
 demic work after the high school for 
 entrance to the three-year course in law. 
 The Legal Aid Society, an organization of 
 the alumni and students of this College, 
 gives legal advice and assistance to the 
 poor. 
 
 Location: Ninth St., near Race. 
 
 Lane Theological Seminary 
 
 Chartered in 1829; has educated many 
 ministers for protestant denominations. 
 Dr. L^^man Beecher was one of its early 
 professors. In 1832, Katherine Beecher 
 and her sister founded a school here for 
 the higher education of women, in which 
 household arts were taught. This was 
 some five years before Mary Lyon began 
 her work at Mt. Holyoke. Professor 
 Calvin E. Stowe, serving in this institu- 
 tion, established in Cincinnati a "College 
 for Teachers." This was, however, more 
 of a teacher's institute than a professional 
 school. 
 
 Location: Gilbert Ave., between Yale Ave. 
 
 and Chapel St., Walnut Hills. 
 
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Hebrew Union College 
 
 This College, opened in 1875, trains 
 rabbis for Jewish congregations. Has a 
 faculty of eight professors and several in- 
 structors. The course covers nine years, 
 four of which are spent at the University 
 of Cincinnati. It has a library of 50,000 
 volumes. 
 
 Location: Clifton Ave., north of the 
 University. 
 
 Art Museum and School 
 
 This School is conducted by the Cin- 
 cinnati Art Museum Association which 
 
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was organized in 1880. One building is 
 devoted to the art collection and another 
 to the School. Drawing, painting, model- 
 ing, wood carving and china painting are 
 taught. The Art Academy co-operates 
 with the Teachers College of the Univer- 
 sity and with the public high schools in the 
 training of art teachers. 
 
 Location: Eden Park. 
 
 Kindergarten Training School 
 
 This School was organized in 1880; it 
 has done remarkable work in introducing 
 kindergartens into the Cincinnati public 
 schools, and in training kindergartners to 
 teach in them. The Teachers College of 
 the University gives the theoretical in- 
 struction and the School the practical 
 training. After the kindergartens were 
 established, they were in time taken over 
 by the Board of Education. This is one 
 of the most interesting and unique ex- 
 amples of co-operation in Cincinnati. 
 Location: Linton St., Vernonville. 
 
 Public Library of Cincinnati 
 
 This Library serves the whole of Hamil- 
 ton County. It consists of the main 
 library, nine branches housed in separate 
 buildings, thirteen smaller branches lo- 
 cated in rented houses, and twenty-two 
 deposit stations in post offices and stores. 
 The branch library buildings contain club 
 rooms and auditoriums available for the 
 
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University External Courses and public 
 lectures generally. Traveling libraries are 
 sent to settlements, factories, telephone 
 exchanges and the smaller institutions. 
 The interests of school children are looked 
 after by a separate department. The 
 Library co-operates with the public schools 
 
 EMERY AUDITORIUM 
 
 and the University in training library 
 workers and in giving lectures. 
 
 Location: Vine St., between Sixth and 
 Seventh . 
 
 Other libraries are the Young Men's 
 Mercantile Library, located at 414 Walnut 
 Street, and the Lloyd Library and Mu- 
 seum, devoted to botany, materia medica 
 and pharmacy, located at Court and Plum 
 Streets. Connected with the latter is a 
 museum of mycology and a herbarium. 
 
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Natural History Society of Cincinnati 
 
 Founded in 1870. It holds meetings 
 once a month, publishes a bulletin, has a 
 large museum, and circulates collections 
 of birds, insects and minerals through the 
 schools. 
 
 Location: Broadway and Arch St. 
 
 Cincinnati Zoological Garden 
 
 The Zoological Garden, opened in 1895, 
 comprises sixty acres of hill and dale. It 
 co-operates actively with the public schools 
 and the University in the study of natural 
 history. Trees, as well as the cages, are 
 labelled with both the scientific and popu- 
 lar names. Children are brought to the 
 Zoological Garden regularly for study. 
 This Garden furnishes much valuable 
 material to the various departments of 
 the Universitv. 
 
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PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF 
 CINCINNATI 
 
 Offices of Public Schools, City Hall, Third Floor. 
 
 Office of Business Manager, Board of Education 
 Building, 511 W. Court St. 
 
 Administration 
 
 Board of Education, composed of seven 
 members elected at large for four years, 
 administers the elementary schools ; Union 
 Board of High Schools, composed of four- 
 teen members, administers the high schools ; 
 the seven members of the Board of Edu- 
 cation and seven others appointed by the 
 Court of Common Pleas act as trustees 
 for the Woodward and Hughes funds. 
 
 Executive Departments 
 
 Department of Instruction headed by 
 the Superintendent of vSchools who is 
 elected by the Board of Education for a 
 maximum term of five years; Department 
 of Business headed by the business mana- 
 ager; Department of Finance headed by 
 the clerk of the two Boards. 
 
 Appointment and Promotion of Teachers 
 
 Appointments and promotions of all 
 teachers and supervisors are made by the 
 Superintendent of Schools, subject to 
 confirmation by the Board, from merit 
 lists based upon personality, scholarship, 
 professional preparation and successful 
 
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experience. The listing of candidates for 
 elementary school positions is in charge of 
 the Professor of Elementary Education in 
 
 the College for Teachers. 
 
 candidates for high school 
 
 charge of the Professor 
 
 Education in the College 
 
 The listing of candidates 
 
 ships and assistant principalships is m 
 
 charge of the Assistant Superintendent. 
 
 The listing of 
 positions is in 
 of Secondary 
 for Teachers, 
 for principal- 
 
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ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL 
 SYSTEM 
 
 (Table from the Cincinnati Book, Pages 14-15) 
 
 I. College for Teachers (Organized 
 1905) 
 
 II. High Schools: 
 
 A. Academic Courses: 
 
 (a) General Course (Established 1847) 
 
 (b) Classical Course (Established 1847) 
 
 (c) Manual Training Course (Estab- 
 lished 1906) 
 
 (d) Domestic Science Course fEstab- 
 hshed 1906) 
 
 B. Technical Courses: 
 
 (<?) Commercial Course (Established 
 
 1910) 
 (/) Boys' Co-Operative Course (Es- 
 
 taWished 1910) 
 (g) Girls' Co-Operative Course (Es- 
 tablished 1910) 
 (h) Art Course (Established 1910) 
 (i) Music Course (Established 1910) 
 (?) Agricultural Course (Organized 
 
 1914) 
 (k) Pharmacy Course (Organizedl915) 
 (/) Printing Course (Organized 1915) 
 
 C. The "Six-and-Six" Course (Organized 
 
 1913) 
 
 III. Elementary Schools: 
 
 1. General Elementary Schools (Organ- 
 ized 1828) 
 
 2. Special Elementary vSchools: 
 
 (a) Oral School for the Deaf (Organ- 
 ized 1888) 
 
 (b) School for the Blind (Organized 
 1905) 
 
 (r) Schools for Foreigners (Organized 
 1906) 
 
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(d) Boys' wSpecial School (Organized 
 1907) 
 
 (e) Schools for Mental Defectives (Or- 
 ganized 1907) 
 
 (/) Schools for Retarded Pupils (Or- 
 ganized 1908) 
 
 (g) Continuation School for Appren- 
 tices (Organized 1909) 
 
 (h) Schools for Exceptionally Bright 
 Pupils (Organized 1910) 
 
 (i) Elementary Industrial Schools 
 (Organized 1911) 
 
 (?) Compulsory Continuation Schools 
 (Organized" 1911) 
 
 (k) Open-Air Schools (Organized 1912) 
 
 (/) School for Stammerers (Organized 
 1912) 
 
 3. Special Departments: 
 
 (a) German (Organized 1840) 
 
 (b) Penmanship (Organized 1841) 
 
 (c) Music (Organized 1844) 
 
 (d) Physical Training (Organized 1860) 
 
 (e) Drawing (Organized 1864) 
 
 (/) Manual Training (Organized 1905) 
 (g) Domestic vScience (Organized 1905) 
 
 IV. Kindergartens (Organized 1905) 
 
 V. Evening Schools (Organized 1840) 
 
 1. Evening Elementary Schools (Organ- 
 ized 1840, for boys; organized 1855, 
 for girls; discontinued 1883; re-organ- 
 ized 1892) 
 
 2. Evening High Schools: 
 
 (a) Academic (Organized 1856; dis- 
 continued 1883; re-organized 1904) 
 
 (b) Commercial (Organized 1907) 
 
 3. Evening Schools for Foreigners (Or- 
 ganized 1905) 
 
 4. Evening Industrial Schools (Organized 
 1906) 
 
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5. Evening Gymnastic Classes (Organ- 
 ized 1912) 
 
 6. Evening School for Stammerers (Or- 
 ganized 1912) 
 
 VI. Svimmer Schools: 
 
 1. Vacation Schools (Organized 1906) 
 
 2. Summer Academic — Elementarv and 
 High (Organized 1908) 
 
 3. Playgrounds (Organized 1909) 
 
 4. Gardening (Organized 1912) 
 
 VII. Social Centers (Organized 1913) 
 VIII. Vocation Bureau (Organized 1915) 
 
 The High Schools 
 
 Cincinnati has six high schools, the most 
 modern and largest of which are Hughes 
 and Woodward. These two schools are 
 cosmopolitan in type and offer a great 
 variety of work in both academic and 
 
 HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL 
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technical courses. Co-operative courses 
 (co-ordinating the school work with that of 
 the shop, office, store, art museum and 
 music conservatory) are in operation for 
 both boys and girls. Four-year courses 
 and special evening courses are offered. 
 
 Location of Hughes: Clifton Ave. and 
 McMillan St. 
 
 Location of Woodward: Sycamore and 
 Thirteenth Sts. 
 
 In the Madisonville High School, the 
 "six and six" organization is in force, and 
 "general science" is offered. 
 
 A new high school of elaborate con- 
 struction and unique educational facilities 
 is soon to be erected. It will be located 
 in the northeastern part of the city upon 
 a plot of ground covering twenty-six acres. 
 
 The Elementary Schools 
 
 Most of the elementary schools have the 
 eight grades and kindergarten, with ample 
 provision for instruction in German, 
 manual training, domestic science, music, 
 art and physical training. In certain 
 schools, by special adaptations of the 
 manual training and domestic science 
 work, pre- vocational education is given. 
 
 Schools of Interest to Visitors because 
 of Special Features 
 
 Dyer School — Upper grades, domestic 
 science, manual training, kindergarten. 
 
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gymnasium, showers, savings bank, oppor- 
 tunity classes (for retarded pupils), open 
 air school on roof. 
 
 Location: Baymiller St. at Gest. 
 
 Cars: Sixth St., Westwood, Clark St., or 
 College Hill. 
 
 Guilford School — All grades, domestic 
 science, manual training, kindergarten, 
 gymnasium, showers, plunge, orchestra, 
 dental clinic, open air room, roof play- 
 ground, pre-vocational classes, depart- 
 mental plan in seventh and eighth grades. 
 
 Location: Fourth, Iota and Arch Sts. 
 
 Cars: East End or Delta Ave. to Broadway, 
 then half block east. 
 
 Old Guilford School — Contains school 
 for mental defectives, vocation bureau, 
 work certificate office, placement office, 
 psychological laboratory, compulsory con- 
 tinuation classes. 
 
 Location: Sycamore St., between Fourth and 
 
 Fifth, a short walk from Fountain 
 
 Square. 
 
 Oyler School — All grades, domestic sci- 
 ence, manual training, kindergarten, gym- 
 nasium, pre-vocational classes. 
 
 Location: Burns and Stabler Sts. 
 
 Cars: Elberon, Sedamsville or Warsaw. 
 
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Peaslee School — All grades, domestic 
 science, manual training, kindergarten, 
 gymnasium, departmental plan in seventh 
 and eighth grades, oral school for deaf. 
 
 Location: Woodward St., near Main. 
 
 Cars: Auburn Ave., Clifton- Ludlow or 
 McMicken-Main. 
 
 Rothenburg School — All grades, domestic 
 science, manual training, kindergarten, 
 gymnasium, showers, plunge, roof play- 
 ground, pre- vocational work, departmen- 
 tal plan in seventh and eighth grades. 
 
 Location: Main St. and E. Clifton Ave. 
 
 Cars: Clifton- Ludlow, McMicken-Main or 
 Third and Fifth. 
 
 Sands School — All grades, domestic sci- 
 ence, manual training, kindergarten, gym- 
 nasium, showers, plunges, school for 
 blind. 
 
 Location: Freeman Ave. and Poplar St. 
 
 Cars: Coleroin Ave. or Clark St. 
 
 Washinfjon School — All grades, domes- 
 tic science, manual training, kindergarten, 
 gymnasium, showers, dental clinic, mov- 
 ing picture apparatus, industrial classes, 
 departmental plan in fifth, sixth, seventh 
 and eighth grades. 
 
 Location: Hopple St., near Colerain Ave. 
 
 Cars: Colerain Ave. or Clark St. 
 
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Sixth District School — Grades one to 
 seven, kindergarten, gymnasium, showers, 
 dental clinic, special classes for foreigners, 
 medical clinic, lunch room. 
 
 Location: Elm and Odeon Sts. 
 
 Cars: Clifton-Elm, Colerain J{ve. or 
 McMicken- Elm . 
 
 Douglass School (For Colored Pupils) — 
 All grades, domestic science, manual 
 training, kindergarten, lunch room, branch 
 library, gymnasium, showers, pre-voca- 
 tional work. 
 
 Location: Alms Place and- Chapel St. 
 
 Car: Chapel St. 
 
 The New Bloom School — To be occu- 
 pied immediateh^ after the Thanksgiving 
 recess. Organized as a six-grade elemen- 
 tary school with a four-grade (grades 
 seven to ten) junior high school. Special 
 emphasis on pre-vocational industrial edu- 
 cation. 
 
 Location: Baymiller, Dayton and Bank Sts. 
 
 Cars: John St. or Colerain Ave. 
 
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ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL 
 ACTIVITIES 
 
 Home and School Gardens 
 
 Under a superintendent and assistant; 
 thirty-five teachers employed in 1914 to 
 care for home and school gardens of about 
 9,000 children; 4,850 certificates awarded 
 to children completing a satisfactory piece 
 of work. Garden exhibit held at the close 
 of each season; 1800 entries representing 
 1200 children competitors. 
 
 School Playgrounds 
 
 Twenty-four schools have fair equip- 
 ment, eight are fully equipped. School 
 playgrounds in co-operation with the 
 Park Department. (See Park Depart- 
 ment.) 
 
 FUBLIC PARK CONCERT 
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Social Centers 
 
 A good example at the Sands vSchool. 
 Center for boys and girls at the new 
 Guilford School. The Chase social center 
 is for later adolescents. The Lincoln and 
 Garfield social centers provide for com- 
 munity development, lectures and social 
 entertainments. Street boys meet four 
 nights a week in the gymnasium of the 
 Peaslee School. 
 
 Truancy Department 
 
 In charge of a chief truant officer and 
 five assistants. The work consists not 
 only in securing regular school attend- 
 ance, but in enforcing the child labor law; 
 the department co-operates with the Court 
 of Domestic Relations, which includes the 
 Juvenile Court, the Juvenile Protective 
 Association, and various charitable and 
 philanthropic societies. 
 
 Vocation Bureau 
 
 This Bureau examines children, issues 
 work certificates, co-operates in enforcing 
 the child labor law, and is making a 
 vocation survey of the industries of the 
 city. Office and laboratory for mental 
 and physical examinations in the old 
 Guilford School. The Bureau is at work 
 on a study of 1,000 working children who 
 have been examined from year to year for 
 four years. Industrial records are kept, 
 the homes of the children are visited, and 
 
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the results compared with the records of 
 a corresponding number of children re- 
 maining in school. This Bureau co- 
 operates with the Schmidlapp Bureau, a 
 private agency for studying the con- 
 ditions of the working girl. 
 
 Mouth Hygiene 
 
 A good example of a dental clinic at the 
 new Guilford School. Over 100 schools 
 visited, 52,000 children examined and 
 44,000 treated in 1914. Talks to teachers 
 and pupils; co-operation with the free 
 dental clinic societv. 
 
 School Hygiene 
 
 Staff of sixteen physicians, fourteen 
 nurses, seven dentists and two clinical 
 assistants. Vaccination of school children 
 compulsory; medical inspection of teach- 
 ers and janitors in school buildings as well 
 as of children. Co-operates with the 
 Anti-Tuberculosis League, the Nursing 
 Service Committee of the American Red 
 Cross, the Fresh Air Society and the 
 Medical College of the University. Classes 
 in Woodward High School on home 
 nursing and first aid under the supervision 
 of the Nursing Service Committee as- 
 sisted by the School of Nursing and Health 
 of the Hospital. (See under Medical 
 College and Hospital.) 
 
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Little Mothers' League 
 
 This League is composed of 1200 girls 
 from the higher grades who are studying 
 the hygiene of the home and the care of 
 infants in co-operation with the Health 
 Department and the Domestic Science 
 Department of the schools. 
 
 A Bureau of Child Welfare examines 
 children under school age whose condition 
 might handicap them. It also co-operates 
 with the Board of Health, Children's 
 Clinic of the Medical College and the 
 Hospital. 
 
 PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN CINCINNATI 
 ACCREDITED TO THE UNIVER- 
 SITY OF CINCINNATI 
 
 Franklin School, 2833 May St., Walnut 
 Hills; University School, Blair Ave., 
 Avondale; Bartholomew-Clifton School, 
 504 Evanswood, Clifton; College Prepara- 
 tory School for Girls, Madison Road 
 opposite Fairfield Ave.; Oakhurst Col- 
 legiate School for Girls, 724 Oak St.; and 
 the Ohio Military Institute, 5553 Belmont 
 Ave., College Hih. These schools offer 
 courses valuable to teachers. 
 
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OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- 
 TIONS 
 
 Ohio Mechanics Institute 
 
 This Institute is located in a handsome 
 building at the corner of Walnut and 
 Canal Streets; established in 1829 to pro- 
 mote "the best interests of the mechanics, 
 
 MECHANICS INSTITUTE 
 
 manufacturers and artisans by the more 
 general diffusion of useful knowledge 
 among them." It has four departments, 
 namely, Institute of Applied Arts, the 
 Timothy C. Day Technical Library, 
 Emery Auditorium and the Industrial 
 Museum. The Institute of Applied Arts 
 has schools of mechanics and electricity, 
 architecture, industrial art and design, 
 chemistry, lithography, household arts 
 and science, and special trades. These 
 schools are open both day and evening. 
 
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College of Music of Cincinnati 
 
 This College, founded by Theodore 
 Thomas, adjoins Music Hall, of which it 
 is essentially a part. Both the College 
 building and Music Hall were built and 
 endowed by Mr. Reuben R. vSpringer and 
 
 MUSIC HALL 
 
 other benevolent citizens. The object of 
 the College is to "educate the student of 
 music upon a well-regulated and scientific 
 plan." It co-operates with the Board of 
 Education in training music supervisors 
 for the public schools. 
 
 Location: Elm St., adjoining Music Hall. 
 
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Conservatory of Music 
 
 This institution has for many years 
 worked in close co-operation with the 
 public schools of the city, and has pro- 
 vided musical programs for special occa- 
 sions in kindergartens, day and night 
 schools, and social centers. The genuine 
 desire of the people to hear good music is 
 proved by the large audiences attending 
 these concerts. 
 
 Location: Highland Ave. and Oak St. 
 
 Ohio College of Dental Surgery 
 
 This College, established in 1845, was 
 the first dental school in the AVest. 
 
 Location: Seventh and Mound Sts. 
 
 Eclectic Medical College 
 
 This College, founded in 1845, is the 
 oldest eclectic medical school in the 
 United States. 
 
 Location: 630 IF. Sixth St. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association 
 
 This Association conducts day and 
 evening classes in general educational, 
 vocational and professional subjects. It 
 gives courses in law, salesmanship and 
 advertising, and conducts an automobile 
 school. 
 
 Location: Seventh and Walnut Sts. 
 
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Schmidlapp Bureau for Women 
 and Girls 
 
 This Bureau was founded and endowed 
 with $250,000 by Mr. Jacob G. Schmid- 
 lapp. Its purpose, in the words of the 
 founder, is "to ennoble, to uplift and 
 to strengthen the lives of young women 
 who are compelled to be self-sup- 
 porting." Carrying out the beneficent 
 intentions of the founder, the Bureau 
 assists girls between the ages of fourteen 
 and twenty-five, residents of Hamilton 
 County, to get an education and fit them- 
 selves for service. It also has a placement 
 department whose aim is to fit the right 
 girl to the right place. The work of this 
 department is restricted to the industrial 
 field. The Bureau also co-operates with 
 the Bureau of Vocational vService of the 
 public school system. (See Vocation Bu- 
 reau.) 
 
 Location: Union Tnisi Buildinc. 
 
 Cincinnati Woman's Club 
 
 This Club has departments of art, 
 music, home economics, and education, 
 each having its own officers and time of 
 meeting; it also conducts a library and a 
 lecture department. 
 
 Location: 643 Oak St. 
 
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DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF 
 CINCINNATI 
 
 Parks and Playgrounds 
 
 The parks and playgrounds are ad- 
 ministered by a Park Commission of three 
 citizens appointed by the Mayor. A 
 comprehensive plan for the development 
 of the park and playground system in 
 
 WASHINGTON PARK 
 
 Cincinnati was made in 1906 by an expert 
 landscape architect, and this plan has 
 been followed in planning the purchase of 
 territory and the establishment of new 
 parks and playgrounds. The Park Com- 
 mission arranges for concerts in the parks, 
 modern equipment of playgrounds, im- 
 provement of roadways connecting parks, 
 and the reforesting of properties not in good 
 
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condition. The principal parks are Bur- 
 net Woods, Eden Park, Ault Park, Mt. 
 Echo Park and Mt. Storm Park. Model 
 playgrounds are the Hunt Street Play- 
 ground opposite Eden Park; the Sinton, 
 Sixth and Mound; Lytle Park, at the east 
 end of Fourth St., and In wood Park, on 
 upper Vine St., near Hollister. In 1915, 
 there were twenty-one park playgrounds 
 in operation. 
 
 Department of Charities and Corrections 
 
 The chief work of this department is in 
 connection with the following municipal 
 institutions: House of Refuge (Glendale 
 Farm for Boys and Opportunity Farm for 
 Girls), take Glendale car; City Infirmary 
 (Hart well) ; City Hospital — Social Service 
 Department, interesting display of handi- 
 craft work made by patients; Tuberculosis 
 vSanitorium (in course of construction. 
 Lick Run, Price Hill) ; Work House 
 (Colerain Ave.) ; Municipal Lodging and 
 Bath House (323 Hammond St.) 
 
 Fire Department 
 
 The Combination Fire House, Seventh 
 and Sycamore Sts., is a typical plant. 
 
 Police Department 
 
 A model police station is the Second 
 District Police Station, Broadway be- 
 tween Third and Fourth Sts. 
 
BRIDGE IN EDEN PARK 
 
 Waterworks Department 
 
 The chief waterworks are located at 
 California, Ohio. The pumping, settling 
 and filtration plants are models of their 
 kind and worth inspection. From the 
 plants the water comes down by gravity 
 to East End Avenue, where it is pumped 
 over the citv. 
 
 PRIVATE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
 
 A Council of Social Agencies has been 
 organized which is "a federation of the 
 charitable, civic, philanthropic and public 
 agencies of Greater Cincinnati." Eighty 
 agencies are represented in this Council. 
 Its purpose is "to promote efficiency in the 
 social work of Cincinnati." 
 
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The Associated Charities, 304 Broad- 
 way, maintains a labor yard for men and a 
 workroom for women. It also grants re- 
 lief in the homes of the applicants. 
 
 The Union Bethel Settlement, 501 E. 
 Third St., conducts a nursery, clinic, 
 sewing school, gymnasium classes, music 
 classes, clubs for boys, girls, men and 
 women. 
 
 Anna Louise Inn, Third and Lytic Sts., 
 is a hotel for self-supporting young women. 
 It is conducted under the auspices of the 
 Union Bethel. 
 
 The L. B. Harrison Hotel for Young 
 Men, 540 W. Seventh St., is a hotel for 
 young men between the ages of sixteen 
 and twentv-five. 
 
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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