CVLTVRE SCHOOL ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL Central Park West and 63d St. ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN AND ELEMENTARY OPEN AIR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY AND NORMAL TRAINING DEPARTMENTS Central Park West and 63RD Street New York City Thirty-ninth Year— 1916-1917 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/ethicalculturescOOethi TABLE OF CONTENTS History and Aim of the School. 7 Board of Governors.10 Council. 10 Officers of Administration.11 Instructors.12 Departments: Kindergarten Department.15 Elementary School Department.15 Open Air Department.16 High School Department.17 Normal Training Department.18 Table of Studies.20 Equipment.22 Organization: Arrangement of Classes.27 Home-Work and Supervised Study.27 Reports.28 Parents’ Meeting.28 Visitors.29 Festivals.29 Assemblies.29 Health Regulations.30 Office Hours.30 School Hours ... 31 Luncheon.31 Students’ Organizations.31 Publications.32 Admission and Terms: Charges for Tuition . 33 Charges for Books and Material.34 Scholarships.34 Calendar.35 History and Aim of the School The School was established on January 2nd, 1878, as a Free Kindergarten, and upon this as a foundation the institution has gradually been erected. It was intended to contribute to the so¬ lution in the great social problems by means of a profound reforma¬ tion of the system of education. Its social and ethical outlook, which was its characteristic feature from the beginning, has become more and more salient in course of time. In the history of education, the School holds the place of hav¬ ing been the pioneer in introducing manual training as an integral and valuable part of elementary education, without reference to its special industrial uses, and solely for the sake of the general educational advantage to be derived from it. The attitude thus taken toward manual training has been sanctioned by the opinions of leading educators throughout the world, and this kind of instruc¬ tion has since been largely introduced into the schools of France, Germany, the United States, and other countries. The School has also given greater breadth and richness to its curriculum by adding, besides shop work, elementary art and sci¬ ence to the ordinary English branches. But its chief purpose, as stated above, has been an ethical one. It seeks to answer in a prac¬ tical way the question, To what end do we educate? It seeks to restore, at least so far as the elementary school and the high school are concerned, that unity which was once supplied by a com¬ mon religious creed, and which in our educational system generally is now lacking. 7 The end set up is a social, an ethical one. The means taken to attain this aim are: First , the inculcation of the democratic spirit. The School is not and will not be permitted to become a class school. The edu¬ cation of the rich apart and of the poor apart is an evil and an injury to both. Children of the rich and poor and of different races are to meet together and learn to respect one another, both in their work and in their play. Second , the awakening of serious intellectual interests and enthusiasms in order to counterbalance the pleasure-loving and self- indulgent tendencies which are fostered by the life of a great com¬ mercial city, and the inclination of academic communities to place undue emphasis on athletic sports. The School insists upon the conscientious performance of tasks, especially of home lessons. The attempt is made to combine the advantages of the new education with those of the old. While using the modern methods and devices for rendering the subject matter clear and stimulating, the School does not lose sight of the fact that each subject of study should require persistent effort. Every subject, however skillfully taught, offers abundant oppor¬ tunities for the sturdy discipline of hard work and uninviting drudgery. The highest art of the teacher lies in the discovery and use of these opportunities. The successful combination of the new education, with its emphasis on interest, and the old, with its stress on intellectual labor, is the earnest endeavor of this School. While striving to avoid the error of laying excessive stress on physical training and athletics, the School endeavors to give these departments the attention which is their full due. The department of physical training seeks to correct bodily defects; to promote the general health, and symmetrical development; to tone the muscles and the nervous system to greater vigor, and to secure grace and 8 rhythm in movement. The School encourages athletic contests of several types, including basket ball, tennis, and base ball. Physi¬ cal education in this School is not an end in itself, but, as in the case of every other department of work, is entirely secondary to the ethical purposes of the institution. Third , the awakening of the spirit of social service by en¬ listing the interest of the students in the work of the settlements and neighborhood houses with which the School is in touch. Fourth , the building up of a largely humanitarian and ideal purpose by placing at the focus of the entire educational scheme toward which all lines converge the idea of human progress; by teaching in outline the main steps of progress in science, industry, politics, etc.; and by inspiring the student with the earnest desire to take his place in the ranks and to contribute, so far as in him lies, towards the realization of a more perfect future. Direct moral instruction is also given, and this is in charge of Prof. Adler and Dr. Elliott. But moral instruction is only one factor and by no means the only or principal one upon which re¬ liance is placed in developing the student’s character. The chief source of influence is the school environment itself, the school spirit, and in defining this perhaps the most adequate brief account would be to say that the School is intended to combine the advan¬ tages of a modern city day school with the peculiar excellencies of the best type of boarding school. 9 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mr. Robert B. Hirsch, Chairman Dr. Felix Adler, Ex officio Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman, Ex officio Mr. Joseph Plaut, Ex officio Mr. Emil Berolzheimer Dr. John L. Elliott Mr. B. Edmund David Mr. A. L. Gutman Mrs. Miriam Sutro Price Mr. Leo G. Rosenblatt Mr. Franklin C. Lewis, Ex officio Mr. Herbert A. Wolff, Rep. Alumni COUNCIL Dr. Felix Adler Mr. Robert B. Hirsch Mrs. Miriam Sutro Price (Representing the Board of Governors) Mr. Stanley Ries Mrs. Henry Neumann (Representing the Alumni Association) Mrs. George Semken (Representing Kindergarten Alumnae Assn.) Mr. Franklin C. Lewis Dr. Henry A. Kelly Miss Metta L. Persons Miss Jessica E. Beers Miss Anna Gillingham Miss Matilda Auerbach Dr. William E. Bohn Mr. Thatcher Clark Dr. John L. Elliott • IO Mr. John B. Eyster Miss Susan B. Franklin Miss Mabel R. Goodlander Mr. Willys P. Kent Mr. Augustus Kloc,k Miss Charlotte L. Macintosh Miss Sarah M. Mott Miss Emma Mueden Dr. David S. Muzzey Miss Marie R. Perrin Mr. Albert D. Pinkham Mr. Arthur W. Richards Mrs. Eleanor P. Stark Miss Bessie W. Stillman Mr. Charles B. Walsh Miss Irene Weir Miss Florence E. Winchell OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION Dr. Felix Adler, Rector Franklin C. Lewis, Superintendent Henry A. Kelly, Principal of High School Department (Including Grade VIII) Metta L. Persons, Principal of Elementary Department (Grades I-VII) Jessica E. Beers, Principal of Kindergarten and Normal Training Dept. Anna Gillingham, Principal Open Air Department Matilde Kitzinger, Financial Secretary Helen Cox Gilchrist, Registrar INSTRUCTORS (The following names are arranged in order of their appointment) Henry A. Kelly, Biology *Marie R. Perrin, Domestic Art Matilda Auerbach, Mathematics in High School John Lovejoy Elliott, Ethics Arthur W. Richards, Manual Training David S. Muzzey, History Sarah M. Mott, in charge of Grade I B Mabel R. Goodlander, in charge of Grade II A Emma Mueden, in charge of Grade VIII A; Festivals; English Susan B. Franklin, in charge of Class Delta; Latin, Greek Albert D. Pinicham, Gymnastics, Athletics Eleanor P. Stark, in charge of Grade VII A; English Charlotte L. Macintosh, in charge of Kindergarten; Children’s Literature; Story Telling Mabel T. Burnham, in charge of VIII B Ethel C. Bratton, in charge of Grade VI A Alice M. Paine, in charge of Grade V A ♦Charles B. Walsh, in charge of Class Gamma B and C; Mathematics ♦Mary G. Allerton, Gymnastics, Dancing James McKinney, Shop Work Blanche L. Birc.h, Kindergarten Normal Hand Work; Songs and Games Willys P. Kent, Music Augustus Klock, Chemistry, Physics William E. Bohn, in charge of Class Beta B and C; English Thatcher Clark, French Laura E. Clements, in charge of Grade IV B Henry Neumann, English, History of Education ♦Sabbatical leave, 1916-17. Rosa E. Miller, Fine Arts May L. Brown, Accompanist in Gymnasium Ella C. Greene, in charge of Class Alpha A; Latin Clara J. Seller, in charge of Grade III B Irene Weir, Fine Arts Elmira E. Dickinson, in charge of Grade I A Anna Gillingham, Open Air Department Anna M. Kellogg, Open Air Department Angie L. Purinton, in charge of Grade IV A Isabel Smith, in charge of Grade V B Bessie W. Stillman, Open Air Department Louise Weckman, German R. C. Willard, in charge of Class Alpha B; History Louise S. Atkinson, The Conservation of the School and the Home Alys E. Bentley, Music and Rhythm Myrtle B. Boice, Nature Study Sara Feiertag, German Patty S. Hill, Kindergarten Program and Methods of Teaching Mary S. Horton, in charge of Grade II B Florence A. Marsh, Music Lucy H. Mitchell, in charge of Grade VII B M. Ethel Murphy, in charge of Gamma A ; Mathematics Elsie V. E. Pearl, Assistant in Kindergarten Maude E. Rehbein, Accompanist in Gymnasium Caroline M. Riker, Fine Arts Rhoda H. Todd, in charge of Grade VI B Florence E. Winchell, Domestic Science Augustus Zanzig, Music Margaret Adler, Ethics Arthur E. Baggs, Pottery 13 Ruth Eddy, Fine Arts Marian W. Edsall, Assistant in Domestic Art and Domestic Science Helga R. Mortenson, Open Air Department Marion D. Paine, in charge of Grade III A Olive Hedenberg, Gymnastics, Dancing Jessica E. Beers, Frcebelian Literature; Psychology; Education in Infancy and Childhood; Aims and Principles of Primary Instruction Charlotte G. Garrison, Assistant to Miss Hill Alberta M. Newton, Latin Harriet Strong Wilson, in charge of VI A John B. Eyster, German John R. Rosenberry, Manual Training Alice M. Woods, Accountant Maude H. Low, Secretary to Superintendent Charlotte Gabay, Secretary to High School Principal Hazel Dryfus, Secretary to Elementary School Principal. May Schloss, Secretary to Principal of Normal Training Department May F. Rafferty, Stenographer Ethel E. Rockwell, Librarian Gene Vance, Supplies Charlotte E. McCormick, Telephone Operator David Beck, M. D., Medical Adviser Ruth E. Birdsall, School Nurse John Lavery, Chief Engineer Oscar Kindel, Janitor Dan Field, House Carpenter Katherine V. Geoghegan, Director Lunch Room 4 Departments KINDERGARTEN DEPARTMENT The kindergarten forms a link between the home and the school and is designed for children of five and six years of age. It takes advantage of the instincts and interests of this period and through the play activities aids in the development of good habits of feeling, thinking, and doing. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT The Elementary Department comprises seven grades. It cov¬ ers the period during which the child obtains an acquaintance with the elements of the civilization into which he is born and acquires the habits necessary for him to participate successfully in the life about him. This is also the age during which he becomes familiar with the materials and terminology of the subjects which later will be worked out in more logical form. Over and above all this, the aim is to develop creative power, interest in the world about him, and habits and ideals of social service. The course of study of this School is broad in its scope in order to embrace the varied interests of modern life. It therefore includes moral instruction, manual training, art, nature study, music, and gymnastics, as well as the more common subjects of mathe¬ matics, English, geography, and history. Care is taken to provide sufficient training in the formal aspects of all of these subjects. The study of German is begun in the fifth grade. The School com- *5 bines the advantages of the class teachers and special teachers. The former co-ordinate and supervise all the work of the grades, while the latter bring to the class the rich knowledge and en¬ thusiasm of the specialist. Care is taken to avoid bringing the younger children into con¬ tact with too many teachers and to give the class teacher the oppor¬ tunity to be the dominating influence in the grade. OPEN AIR DEPARTMENT This department of the School was inaugurated in the fall of 1912 upon a plan somewhat different from that employed by the greater number of outdoor schools. No child suffering from a con¬ tagious disease is accepted and a large number of the children are altogether robust. If the fresh air is beneficial to the child in ill health, certainly it cannot do other than develop a higher degree of strength in those already sturdy. The open air department rep¬ resents an effort to afford children the opportunity to do their work out of doors without waiting to earn the privilege through illness. The department comprises Grades V, VI and VII, work in English, history, geography, mathematics, shop work and domestic art being parallel to that of the corresponding grades indoors. Art and nature study are optional, and there is a daily chorus. The two classes that have been graduated from this depart¬ ment into the eighth grade indoors are maintaining a high stan¬ dard of scholarship. The hours are from 9 until 3. The long school day affords opportunity for much vigorous exercise and play and enables the teachers to alternate work and recreation in almost ideal fashion. 16 HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT (Including Eighth Grade) Although the eighth grade covers a period of transition from the elementary grades to the high school, it comes under the di¬ rection of the latter and is practically classified as the first of a five years’ high school course. The reason for this is that the work of the grade is preparatory for high school in its nature. Algebra, adapted to the age of the students, frequently classed as high school work, is given in this year. A general course in Science, work in English literature, and a modern language given in the eighth grade furnish a most helpful introduction to the subsequent four year high school course. The School undertakes to prepare for any college and also for professional schools, and will seek to encourage the lengthening of the high school course. It will also keep in mind the needs of those of its students who are destined for a commercial or industrial career. With its completely equipped shops and laboratories, the School is able to give an exceptionally adequate training to stu¬ dents preparing for higher technical institutions and for mechanical pursuits. Definite effort is made at the beginning of the third year of the high school to differentiate the courses so as to meet the needs and desires of the students. A concrete illustration of this is found in the art department. Students particularly gifted in art are given a special course during the last two years in the high school which centers about the art work and gives the point of view from which the other studies are approached. The course includes history, English, languages, science, and art. Ten hours a week approxi¬ mately are given to art. There is a credit system of requirements for graduation (see 17 special sheet entitled “Requirements for Graduation” for details). Although such an arrangement permits a reasonable latitude of elec¬ tion, the course must include English,—including literature, com¬ position, and oral English—history, mathematics, science, ethics, foreign language, physical training, music and choice in fine arts, domestic art, domestic science, and manual training. A student’s course of study for each year must be approved by the principal. The athletics of the high school have received no inconsider¬ able impetus from the Athletic Field (see special statement, p. 23). Self-government in the high school gives the students an op¬ portunity to learn self-control; teaches them a sense of responsi¬ bility for their younger school-mates, and permits them to make their first mistakes under the helpful supervision of their teachers. This mode of discipline also tends to elicit the natural leaders in the student body, and is in the direction of character-building, which is an important function of the School. The following organiza¬ tions are doing active work: Boys’ Athletic Association, Girls’ Recreation League; the Council; Inklings Board. As in the case of other departments, the high school is a part of the Larger Unit, the School as a whole, and is separated only for administrative purposes. In fact, every effort is made to keep unbroken, from the first grade through the last year of the high school, the continuity of subject-matter, instruction, and school life. NORMAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT Up to the present the work in this department has been chiefly confined to fitting kindergarteners to their vocation. In September, 1916, a class for the training of primary teachers will be begun. In a well organized kindergarten and primary department, under the 18 supervision of experienced teachers, excellent opportunities are af¬ forded for observation and practice. The Manual Training Department also prepares students for teaching. The shop work in the School, extending from the kin¬ dergarten through the high school, affords an unusual opportunity for observation and practice work. The course of study in the different years in this department will be found on a separate sheet, page 21. *9 TABLE. OF 5TUDIE.5 *Gymn. work on Athletic Field in Spring and Fall. °Optional in Open Air Dept. ♦Physical Training work on Athletic Field in Spring and Fall. Special circulars for these departments and courses of study will be furnished on application Equipment THE BUILDING The building in which the School is domiciled is situated at Central Park West and 63 rd Street. In planning this building the best recent examples of school architecture and equipment received the most careful attention, and the attempt was made to construct a modern schoolhouse which, while simple in exterior and avoiding luxurious appointments within, should give ample scope and play to the complex factors that enter into modern education. The School is supplied with science laboratories, manual training shops, art studios, rooms especially fitted up for domestic science and art, a commodious library, an ethics room, a gymnasium, roof garden, and a lunch room. GYMNASIUM AND OUTDOOR LIFE A gymnasium with shower baths, running track, and adequate equipment furnishes opportunity for indoor work under the super¬ vision of a trained director. Provision is made for physical ex¬ aminations and special corrective work. A roof garden and an interior court, with the advantages af¬ forded by Central Park, furnish opportunity for outdoor rec¬ reation and games. In addition to this, field excursions are un¬ dertaken in connection with the nature study, history, and other departments; cross-country tramps are made to points at a dis¬ tance. The athletic associations, consisting of groups working in 22 baseball, basket ball, and tennis, meet the needs of students along these lines. THE ATHLETIC FIELD The School has taken a lease on a plot of ground extending from Lenox to Seventh Avenues and from 147th to 148th Streets. This large playground has been improved until it now has four tennis courts, two large basket ball courts, four hand ball courts, and a magnificent baseball diamond and bleachers. The large field can be used for football, soccer or hockey. A section of the field which is alloted to the elementary grades is equipped with six swings, five large see-saw frames and a playground slide. The ground has all the facilities for track and field athletics. The Eighth Avenue R. R. Company runs special cars from the School to the field and children of the elementary grades may return to the School under the supervision of a teacher. During the spring and fall the organized work at the field, under the instruction of the physical directors and assistants, takes the place of the gymnastic work of the School for all pupils above the third grade. This outdoor work is offering great opportuni¬ ties to the boys and girls in the way of organized play and the play¬ ground is a great boon to the New York boys and girls who are privileged to use it. LIBRARY The School has a collection of about nine thousand five hun¬ dred volumes, a characteristic feature of which is its collection of festival material. This consists of books, pamphlets, photographs, posters, and programs. Most of the departments involved in festi¬ val performances, including those of literature, music, costuming, dancing, etc., are represented. 23 In connection with the kindergarten normal course a good collection of educational books and of kindergarten stories is main¬ tained. Beginning this year, also, a course of instruction in the use of the library has been given by the librarian. The fifth, sixth, and seventh grades of the elementary school have been instructed in the make-up of books, the care of them, the use of the dictionary, and some of the more important reference works. The seventh grade pupils have been taught the use of the card index and the classification of books. High school pupils have been given general instructions designed to enable them to find materials quickly in this or any other library. This sort of work will be carried on systematically in the future. SHOPS The Mechanics’ Art Department is equipped to meet the needs of the various departments of the School. There are shops for bench wood work, machine wood work, forging and moulding, machine metal work, a stock room with machinery, and an office and conference room. They are equipped with representative mod¬ ern mechanics’ tools and machinery. The light and ventilation in the shops are of the same standard as in the class rooms. STUDIOS The Fine Arts Department has three well-equipped rooms, one of which is especially designed for clay modelling. The depart¬ ment has a growing collection of casts, still life, photographs and lantern slides of art works, and books on art topics. LABORATORIES The attention given to nature study and to laboratory lessons 24 in connection with geography in the lower classes makes necessary a special nature study laboratory, which is used also by the student teachers in their training. Besides this, there are laboratories for the classes in biology, physics, and chemistry, with thorough equip¬ ment for both elementary and advanced work. GREENHOUSE On the roof of the adjoining building, a greenhouse has been erected. There the pupils have practical experience in planting, potting, pollination, and the general care of flowers and vegetables. Hyacinths, tulips, sweet peas, daffodils, lillies, lillies of the val¬ ley, petunias, nasturtiums, fresia, tomatoes, beans, lettuce, radishes have been successfully raised from the seed and bulbs. DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND ART ROOMS On the second floor are the rooms given over to domestic sci¬ ence. Immediately above are those devoted to domestic art. One of the rooms in each department is equipped for the younger chil¬ dren and one for the special work of the older girls. HOUSEHOLD ARTS COURSE In October, 1915, the School rented an apartment at 5 West 65th Street. The selection, decorating and furnishing afforded most valuable household arts work and the use of the apartment as a special laboratory for various classes has proved a great satis¬ faction. Four teachers of the School have made the apartment their home. 2 5 LUNCH ROOM The lunch room on the roof, overlooking Central Park, is a bright and cheerful room. This room, where pupils and teachers eat together in orderly fashion, is designed to preserve the atmosphere of friendliness which prevades our School and add to the esprit de corps of the student body. 26 Organization ARRANGEMENT OF CLASSES The School seeks to avoid the evils arising on the one hand from classes that are too large, and on the other from such as are too small. Classes of from twenty to thirty students, the larger group divided into two or three sections for studies like mathe¬ matics and language, which require closely connected work from year to year, seem to offer the happy mean. Smaller groups are made up from time to time, and occasionally a pupil is permitted to work by himself in some subject for a short period. The aim is to meet, as best we can, the needs of each individual, and the class system and all other devices are means to that end. Where, in exceptional cases, any private tutoring is neces¬ sary for a time, it is reduced to a minimum, and is done if possible by members of the school corps, as it will thus be closely related to the main work, and can be discontinued more easily when the need is past. Each group of thirty is in charge of a class teacher, who, brought into touch with every member of the class by a share in the teaching, has the special function of co-ordinating the efforts of all the various teachers and avoiding waste. HOME-WORK AND SUPERVISED STUDY Home-work is not necessarily home-study. The assignments in the earlier years more often consist in manual work, or the collecting of materials and information. Required home^study 27 gradually increases from year to year as the student is able to work more independently. Whenever a student shows the need, additional supervised study periods are arranged, and parents will be asked to make special provision that outside interests shall not interfere with this need. Work lost through absence should be made up as early as possible. A memorandum of lesson assignments can be secured from the registrar at any time. REPORTS Written reports are made to the parents of pupils four times a year. Special reports are sent at the request of parents. The School always welcomes letters from parents reporting the progress of pupils as seen from the home side, or raising prob¬ lems that need special consideration. Absence or tardiness must be explained by a written state¬ ment from the parent. Detention after school hours will be accounted for, on re¬ quest, by a card from the teacher stating the length of time and the cause of detention. PARENTS’ MEETINGS The Parents and Teachers Conference of the Ethical Culture School was instituted for the purpose of bringing the parents and the school into close and mutually helpful relations. This organi¬ zation is managed by an executive committee of parents and teachers, and holds several meetings a year which are devoted to the discussion of pressing school problems. Round Table confer¬ ences have been found valuable for the discussion of more inti- 28 mate problems. Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s book, “Mothers and Children” has been the topic of discussion. Dancing classes have been continued under the direction of Miss Alma B. Smith. VISITORS The work of the School has proved to be of interest to many who are engaged upon educational and other social problems. Visitors are welcome to the School any school day. Teachers must, however, be privileged to exclude all visitors at certain times and at such times we resort to the method of a notice on the door, “No Visitors.” FESTIVALS The School Festival is utilized in order to bring into relief the great heroes and events in history and the great seasonal changes of the calendar. The festivals and commemorations are developed as integral parts of the work of the School, being apportioned ap¬ propriately among the several grades so as to help rather than dis¬ turb their regular studies. The usual schedule of school festivals is as follows: All Souls’ Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Patriots’ Day, May Day, Class Day with minor presentations of works studied by the various grades. ASSEMBLIES An important feature of the School is the assembling of the students for the purpose of promoting a sense of the unity of the entire School, and for participation in entertainments provided by 2 9 some portion of the school or from the outside. This involves at various times the bringing together of two or three classes, of a whole department, or of the entire School. Especial opportunity is given for platform work in literary and musical interpretation. The various industries studied also are discussed, and their pro¬ cesses illustrated by pupils and others. Frequent use is made of the stereopticon. Frequently in the high school assembly, Dr. Felix Adler or one of his associates gives a twenty-minute talk on some prominent historical character or some person or event of current interest. HEALTH REGULATIONS A statement regarding the health of each child is required upon admission. Particular attention is given in the School to the ex¬ amination of sight and hearing; when defects are discovered, par¬ ents are advised to consult a specialist. To avoid the spread of any infectious disease, parents are ex¬ pected to keep children at home when there is any suspicion of serious illness. A note is required stating the reason for absence; and after illness or exposure to infection pupils are not admitted to their classes without a certificate from the Board of Health stating that the period of infection has expired. In case of infectious diseases, compulsory absence from school will be enforced in accordance with the regulations of the Board of Health. OFFICE HOURS The superintendent, principals, and teachers are occupied in the classrooms during the greater part of the school session. Per- 30 sons desiring to consult them should arrange for interviews in ad¬ vance. The office is open on school days from 8:30 to 5; and on Sat¬ urdays from 9 to 10. All financial matters should be taken directly to the financial secretary. Visitors and those desiring conferences, appointments, admission, and general information will please call for the registrar. SCHOOL HOURS Kindergarten . Grades . Grades III-VII . Grades VIII . Open Air Department High School . Normal Departments .9 :oo-i2 :oo .9:00-12130 .8:45- 1 :oo 8:55- 2:30 ,9:00- 3:00 8 : 55 - .... 9:30- 2:30 Pupils in the High School are dismissed according to individual programs. LUNCHEON Pupils and teachers can procure their mid-day meal at moderate rates. Cocoa, milk, soup, sandwiches, and warm lunches are served. STUDENTS' ORGANIZATIONS Alumni Association. Graduates of elementary school from 1887 to I 9 ° 3 i High School, 1904-1916. President: Richard A. Wolff (Class of 1910). 3 1 Alumnae Association. Graduates of Kindergarten Normal Training Department from 1888 to 1916. President: Henrietta S. Girdansky (Class of 1902). High School organizations are: Student Council Boys’ Athletic Association Girls’ Recreation League “Inklings” Board Dramatic Club Glee Club Mathematics Club Science Club Ethics Club Each class is allowed one party a year—Grade VIII and Class Alpha in the afternoon; Beta, Gamma, and Delta have evening parties. PUBLICATIONS The high school periodical “Inklings” is published three times a year. 32 Admission and Terms New students are admitted at the beginning of the school year and February first. Names of those desirous of entering at other times are placed on the waiting list. The retention of any pupil in the School is conditional upon faithful study and good behavior. The right is reserved to request the withdrawal of any pupil who for any cause is a detriment to his class. CHARGES FOR TUITION Kindergarten .$130.00 Grades I-II . 200.00 Grades III-IV . 230.00 Grades V-VI . 260.00 Grades VII-VIII . 280.00 Alpha-Beta . 310.00 Gamma-Delta . 330.00 Junior Normal . 125.00 Senior Normal . 135.00 Open Air School . 250.00 Patrons are held financially responsible for the entire school year, unless their children are enrolled after the first quarter. Tuition is payable in advance; three-fifths on October 1st and two-fifths on February 1st. Should the first installment of tuition 33 remain unpaid on February ist, or the second on June ist, the work of the student may be suspended until payment has been made, but such suspension shall in no wise be considered as a breach of the year’s contract for tuition fees. In the case of the graduating class no member will receive his diploma unless all school bills are paid in full. CHARGES FOR BOOKS AND MATERIALS Kindergarten . Grade I . Grades II-IV . Grades V-VIII, High School, Normal Training Dep’ts. .$ 5-00 .10.00 . 12.00 Itemized bills rendered. SCHOLARSHIPS The United Relief Works of the Society for Ethical Culture and a number of philanthropic friends of the School provide for a number of scholarships in the School each year. These scholar¬ ships are assigned to deserving applicants, and exempt the recipient from paying all or part of the annual tuition fee. These do not cover books and materials. Application cards should be filled out at the close of each year in case a renewal of scholarship is desired. Inquiries relating to admission, scholarships, terms, course of study, etc., should be made to FRANKLIN C. LEWIS, Superintendent. 34 Calendar for 1916-1917 September 12th and 13th, Tuesday and Wednesday. September 19th, Tuesday . . . November 7th, Tuesday . . . . November 29th, noon, Wednesday December 4th, Monday . . . . December 22nd, noon, Friday . . January 2nd, Tuesday. February 1st, Thursday . . . . February 12th, Monday . . . . February 22nd, Thursday . . . Entrance Examinations Recitations begin Election Day—Holiday Thanksgiving vacation begins Recitations begin Christmas vacation begins Recitations begin Second term begins Lincoln’s Birthday—Holiday Washington’s Birthday— Holiday Spring vacation begins Recitations begin School closes March 30th, Friday. April 9th, Monday.. / Candidates for college are expected to continue their work until the entrance examinations begin. All pupils should enter upon their work at the beginning of the session. TOBIAS A. WRIGHT PRESS, N. Y. MAY, 1918 3000 35