A History of the First Decade of the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction in Schools and Colleges of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; In Three Parts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... from leading educational institutions, State, county, and city superintendents of schools; the introduction of the study into many schools where it had never before been taught; and convictions that in some cases influenced the teaching for a whole State. Correspondence. "With the development of the work has come a vast increase of correspondence. During the great campaigns tens of thousands of letters per year go and come, in addition to the great daily mail from everywhere, touching every phase of the department work. This correspondence is carefully systematized. Our letter books show a reply to every letter, postal or scrap received. While the number of secretaries who aid in this has varied with the exigencies, this kind of help has always been inadequate to the demand, because of lack of means. A Course Of Study. To answer the oft recurring question of how to find a place for this study in the regular school course, how much to teach each year, in what grades to teach it orally, and in what grades with text-books, a carefully graded course of study in this branch has been prepared, covering all these points and containing also a full list of all our endorsed textbooks. It also shows the grades or classes in both graded and ungraded schools to which the various books are adapted. Of this schedule at least eight editions of 10,000 each have been printed and circulated; it has been approved by educators and adopted by school boards in various parts of the country. 1890. Four New States, --Thirty-one In All, --And All The TerriTories, --And A Campaign For Enforcement. The legislatures of the new States, Washington, Montana, North and South Dakota have this year, either adopted the National temperance education law, under which they lived as territories, or...