Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891

located at Los Angeles. It might have been better to have had you communicate directly with Hon. Wallace Nash, Corvallis, Oregon, the gentleman to whom I am making application. Am getting along nicely with my work in the Summer School. Can send you some Florideae Fucaceae, Ulva, etc. if you wish a supply. Cordially, A. J. McClatchie Compton, Calif.

Compton, Calif., 8/3 '91

Dr. C. E. Bessey, Dear friend: The Sec'y of the Oregon Ag College replies that Mr. Nioses Craig, a graduate of the Ohio State Univ., was elected botanist the day before my application arrived. I did not know anything about what my chances were, but was determined to "leave no stone unturned" and to do the turning as quickly as possible I am very anx-

ious to get into biological work of some kind as soon as possible; but don't know what my chances will be on the coast. I think if I had known of the Oregon vacancy early, with your influence to help me, I might have stood some chance of getting the place. I thank you very much for sending what would have been so helpful a testimonial so promptly. Cordially, A. J. McClatchie

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

SUMMER SCHOOL

FOR TEACHERS

Santa Monica, California

July 6, 1891. • • THIRD YEAR. • • Aug. 14, 1891

1. School of Methods 2. Academic Department

E. P. ROWELL A. W. PLUMMER

MANAGERS

INSTRUCTORS AND LECTURERS

MR. WILL S. MONROE, Supt. Schools, Pasadena, Cal. MR. C. H. KEYES, Supt. Schools, Riverside, Cal. MRS. J. POWELL RICK, Director of Music, San Diego, Cal. MRS. N. D. MAYHEW, Supervisor of Kindergartens, Los Angeles. MR. C. C. SWOFFORD, Director of Manual Training, Hanna College. MR. A. W. PLUMMER, Principal of Schools, Rosedale, Cal. MR. E. P. ROWELL, Principal of Schools, Santa Monica, Cal. MR. L. P. LAWSON, Instructor in Penmanship, Los Angeles. MISS HELEN MAR BENNETT, Teacher of Delsarte System of Gymnastics, Los Angeles. PROF. JOHN DICKINSON, Lecturer.

-------------------------- "Absence from Labor is Not Neat."

"Absence from Labor is Not Rest."

SCHOOL OF METHODS

July 6 to July 24

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE- Supt. Monroe.

Sept. Monroe will give five talks on Elementary Science as the basis of language, drawing and from study, with special reference to plants, animals and minerals. There will be several lessons in the mounting of plants, dissection of animals and analysis of minerals. He will also give two lessons in history, with special reference to the teaching of this subject y means of supplementary reading.

PEDAGOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY- Supt. Keyes.

Supt. Keyes will give fifteen talks on the following topics: Psychology and its Relations to Pedagogics; The Mind and its Faculties, How Studied; Sermation and Perception; The Senses, Methods of Devel opment; Conception, its Relation to Education; Abstraction and Nature Study; Attention, the [Thesis] of Power; Judgment and its Cultivation; Association and its Laws; Memory, its laws and Improvement; The Reasoning Power and its Development; Imag nation and its Claim for Attention; The Emotions and their Rela tions to Education; Desire and Education; The Will.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY- Supt. Monroe.

Supt. Monroe will also give a series of three talks on Methods of Teach ing Geography and several lessons in Sand Modelling and the making of Salt, Putty and Paper-Maché Maps.

DRAWING- Mr. C. C. Swofford.

1. Mr. Swofford will consider position, pencil-holding, drawing of lines, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and circles. 2. Estimating, viewing objects, representation in three views of rectang ular forms. 3. Working drawings, projections, sections, planes, elevations. 4. Circles, elliptical forms, [ovoid] vase forms. 5. Foreshortening and representation of forms in all positions, isometric drawing. 6. [Plotting] forms, conventionalizing, etc. 7. Ornamentation, [quatrefell], units of design, spirals, etc. 8. Shake and Shadows. 9. Perception, linear and aerial. 10. Application of form slowly and geometrical drawing to pictorial representation

ARITHMETIC- Mr. A. W. Plummer.

Mr. Plummer will consider each topics as the following: What Shall It Do for the Pupil? How Shall It Be Done? Notation and Numera tion; Fundamental Operations; Analysis; Factoring; Greatest Common Divisor; L. C. M.; Conciliation; Fractions, Decimals and Short Methods; Percentage, Proportion, involution and Evolu tion, [Meneration.]

KINDERGARTEN- Mrs. Nora D. Mayhew. [Frochel's] Gifts and Occupations. 1st Gift- (Halls) Form, Movement, Color. 2nd Gift- Sphere, Cylinder and Cube. 3rd Gift- Divided Cube. Paper folding, Sewing, Weaving, Paper-cutting, [Press] Work, Modelling.

MUSIC- Mrs. J. Powell Rice.

Mrs. Rice will drill upon some perception, developed by colors and unusual signs. She will give attention to development of [rope] work. Transpositions as taught in primary and grammar schools; How to use children's voices; How to develop part-singing; Tonic Sol-Fa.

CIVICS AND HISTORY- E. P. Rowell. Object of Government; Its Need; Its Relation to the People and their duty to it; Its Divisons and their Relationship.

PENMANSHIP- Mr. L. B. Lawson.

PHYSICAL CULTURE- Miss Helen Mar Bennett. Miss Bennett will give a special course to all who desire in the Delsarte system of Gymnastics.

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT

July 6 to Aug. 14

PHYSIOLOGY, ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, PHYSICS, BOT ANY AND ENTOMOLOGY- A. W. Plummer.

ARITHMETIC, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, GRAMMAR AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT- E. P. Rowell.