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I may add that the native schools work straight on all through the year from March to the middle of November, though with a different arrangement of the hours.-I am, yours truly, J. E. GREEN. Belgrano Day School, Zapiola 2010, Buenos Ayres. October 31, 1920. LOCAL WAR RECORDS. To the Editors of The Journal of Education and School World. SIRS, We venture to invite your valued co-operation in a work of national importance. At the request of the British Editorial Board for the Economic and Social History and Survey of the War Period, which has been undertaken by the Carnegie Endowment, the British Academy Rerecently convened a Conference on Local War Records. presentative historians, archivists, economists, and delegates of local societies attended, and the following resolution was passed unanimously: "In the opinion of this Conference it is necessary that local records relating to the war period, and other records not the property of the Crown relating to the same period, should be examined with a view to selection for preservation; that such documents as are to be preserved should be duly catalogued and classified by local societies or representative local committees; and that a committee be appointed to consider the questions arising from the present Conference, and to take such steps as may be deemed necessary for giving effect to this resolution." The Committee appointed under the resolution is taking steps to promote and organize throughout the country the selection and preservation of local war records, and the various local organizations will be approached shortly by the Committee with a view to their co-operation in this matter. Meanwhile, in accordance with the views urged by many speakers at the Conference, the Committee, as an interim measure, appeals to all bodies and individuals concerned to stay for the moment the destruction of local war records of every description, however unimportant they may at the moment appear to be, for in practice any one of these documents may prove to be of the utmost value for local and general history. Until, therefore, it is possible to undertake their examination and selection for preservation, it is of the greatest importance that none should be destroyed. The Committee is communicating with local societies and organizations in this sense, and we hope that you will assist this appeal by giving publicity to this letter in your columns.-Yours faithfully, Signed: W. Beveridge (Chairman of Local War Records Committee). SALARIES FOR FROEBELIAN TEACHERS. To the Editors of The Journal of Education and School World. DEAR SIRS,—In answer to the widespread expression of disappointment among Froebelian teachers as to their position as non-graduates in the scales of salaries recently published by the Standing Joint Committee, the Council of the Froebel Society desires to inform its members that it forwarded the following resolution to the above Committee :-"That Froebelian teachers having the Higher Certificate of the National Froebel Union, after a course of study and training extending for three years in an approved institution or institutions, should be placed on the same scale as Pass graduates without training in teaching." 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There is much truth in the correction, since throughout our wide Commonwealth, a federation that rings about the globe, we have numerous professors of languages no longer spoken, numerous masters of those philosophies that have guided, but never ruled, our conduct in the past, and very few professors specially concerned with the study of the world on which we live. Yet I still prefer the hopeful outlook; geography is no longer the mere list of place-names and the tracing of political boundaries that were deemed sufficient twenty years ago. The teachers themselves, in the midst of a crowded curriculum, have imported the globe into the classroom, and have restored maps to their true position as pictures of some portion of the earth. The humanist educators of the sixteenth century, to whom we owe so much of our present systems, looked on these delineations as a record of past achievement and a promise of adventure in areas yet uncharted and unknown. In things geographical there was the soul of all the fledgling sciences, ready to beat their wings in the fresh Atlantic air. The turning point for geography came when Columbus, derided at the Council of Salamanca, found a friend in Isabella la Católica of Castile. We may be sure that it was not his charts nor his mathematical reasoning that attracted the woman in the queen; it was the spirit of the man-the spirit of the age, if you will-ready to risk all for new knowledge of the earth. This new knowledge permeates all the thought and literature of the years that broke the feudal bonds. Columbus reached the West Indies in 1492, and the new world" con 66 * Presidential address to the Irish Geographical Association, Dublin, June 18, 1920 (illustrated by the lantern). |