Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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78 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. books as the teachers in these rooms may from time to time require. All teachers should be permitted to take out on special teachers' cards practically as many books as they may need. Of course it is understood that teachers, under this arrrangement, would not de- sire to take out all the latest novels. As professors in a college or university arc privileged to use as many books from the university library as they desire, so the teachers in the public schools should be given the same privileges in the public pupils received all their instruction exclusively from the text-book. Collateral reading was un- known. Now pupils are encouraged to find in- formation from whatever source it is derivable. To aid them in the search for this information, the library should open to them all its resources. An old institution, without constant watchfulness, may find itself growing oblivious to the needs of the young mind. For this reason, the library should be especially open to the suggestions of high school pupils and should purchase, as a general DELIVERY ROOM OK PUBLIC LIBRARY. library. Professors also recommend for purchase such books as are needed in their various depart- ments, and these books are purchased by the libra- rian for the professors’ use. In the same manner, all teachers should recommend to the librarian the l ooks that arc needed for their special use, and the librarian should purchase these books whenever they are recommended. The same rule that applies to the teachers of the public schools should, under certain restrictions, apply to the pupils of the high schools. Formerly rule, all the books they ask for along the lines of their current study. The. Somerville public library now has a special school librarian, Miss Edith li. Hayes, who will always be ready to consider any suggestions made to her, either by the teachers or the pupils of the public schools. Her time is at the disposal of the schools, and it is hoped that her department may furnish a bond of closer co-operation between these two educational agencies. Sam Walter Foss

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SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. 77 THE LIBRARY AND THE SCHOOLS The public library and the public schools are educational twins, and should treat each other like brothers. Until comparatively recent years these two in- stitutions never knew they were twins and treated each other as aliens and strangers. The public library in a city like Somerville should sustain much the same relation to the public schools shall always be an ex-officio member of the board of library trustees, and the librarian or the president of the library board of trustees shall be an ex-officio member of the school committee. All this would enable each of these co-ordinate de- partments of education to learn of the needs and the equipments of the other, and help them to work with less creaking of the machinery, and more di- SOMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. schools as a college library sustains to the various departments of a college. The schools and the library together form a great municipal university. The relations between the library and the schools are close: but there arc special ways in which these relations may be made closer. I hope the time will come when, in all cities exceeding fifty thousand inhabitants, the superintendent of rectly for each other's benefit. This would put these two important educational departments, to a certain extent, under one management and make a greater unity of effort possible. A perfectly well-equipped public library (few public libraries are perfectly well-equipped) should supply every schoolroom in its city with special libraries suitable to its grades, containing as many

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. 79 New Members of the S. H. L. Faculty. Miss A. Florence Moulton, recently appointed secretary and librarian in the Latin School, was a teacher in the High School at Haverhill. Mass., in the departments of Latin and history. Formerly MISS A. FLORENCE MOULTON. she taught Latin in Chelsea High School. Miss Moulton is a native of Portsmouth. X. 11.. gradu- ated from Dover High School, and attended the State Normal School at Salem. Mass. MISS BESSIE D. DAVIS. Miss Bessie D. Davis, who has lately been made secretary to the E. H. S., was born in Somerville, and attended its public schools. A graduate of the Latin High School in the class of t)5, she entered Radcliffe College, and was graduated from there in 1S99, with the degree of A. B. Since leaving col- lege, she has been assistant principal and teacher oi languages in the High School at Chatham, X. Y. She has also taught at the State Industrial School, Lancaster. Mass. Her many friends will be pleased to learn of her new appointment. George Winburn Earle, who has been elected to the head of the department of chemistry, corner from the Classical and High School of Salem. Mass., where he had charge of the departments o! physics and chemistry. Mr. Earle has had an ex- perience of over ten years in science teaching, and foi several years before his appointment at Salem he was principal of the Hitchcock Free Academy at Brimfield. Mass. While Mr. Earle is an enthusiast in his own do MR. GEORGE WINBURN EARLE. partment, and expects to make the teaching ol chemistry his life’s work, he takes a great interest in electricity, and has made considerable research with Hertzian waves,” and experimented wit!» wireless telegraphy between different cities. Mr. Earle is a native of the state of Maine, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and has done pos. graduate work at Harvard and at Clark University. ---------------------------------------- “Young man. asked the proprietor of the store, “how can vou afford to dress so elaborately and ex- pensively on the salary we pay you?” I can't.” gloomily answered the salesman; “I ought to have more salary.”—Chicago Tribune.