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Download full textCurtis, Henry S. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
In the past 10 years the play movement has illuminated the educational value of play. The old-time school yard, with its limited space and its restrictive traditions, is entirely unsuited to the new uses demanded by the new ideals, and there is going on everywhere a reconstruction of theory and practice to meet the new requirements. As in all…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Playgrounds, Educational Environment, Forestry
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
Scores of millions of dollars are spent annually in the United States for new school buildings. With this large. expenditure has come a general desire that schoolhouses shall be usable, healthful, comfortable, and beautiful. Educators and architects have united in devising plans for school buildings. This bureau has published a valuable bulletin…
Descriptors: Architecture, Sanitation, School Construction, Educational Facilities Design
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
Girard College was founded and endowed by Stephen Girard, mariner and merchant, a native of France, who came to Philadelphia in 1776. After a long life of service to his adopted city, State, and country, he died in 1831, leaving the bulk of his estate in trust to the city of Philadelphia for the erection and maintenance of what is now known as…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Services, Physical Health, Males
Flannagan, Roy K. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
In January, 1913, Ennion U. William, M. D., commissioner of health of Virginia; Hon. Joseph D. Eggleston, retiring superintendent of public instruction; R. C. Stearns, his successor; and W. H. Heck, Ph. D., professor of education in the University of Virginia, projected an intensive survey of the white and colored schools and school children of…
Descriptors: Water, Inspection, School Buildings, Lighting
Cook, William A. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
With the increase of population, the lengthening of the school life of children, and the consolidation of small into large schools, often with many hundreds of children in one building, the care of the health of children while in school becomes correspondingly more important. Since the health of school children depends to a large extent on the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Compulsory Education
Ryan, W. Carson, Jr. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The Fourth International Congress of School Hygiene, held at Buffalo, New York, August 25-30, was a notable event in the progress of health supervision as a part of public education. Because of its importance, the author was detailed to attend this conference and prepare a report of it. This report contains three parts: (1) An introduction giving…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Architecture, Accident Prevention, Sex Education
