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Show ORAL EDITORS IN SCHOOLS. They have introduced In the Girls' Technical High School of New York, a hows feature which is proving populnr. There are four editors, girls chosen from among the pupils, who arc expected expect-ed to have charge of the foreign, the domestic, do-mestic, the local, and the general news and topics of the day. They master in their own way the contents of the morning papers, and at the opening of school, each editor gives orally her summary of the news and thought in her department; there are critics who stand at the back of the room and ask the editors to speak louder If their yolces arc too low. and who commend or note defects In the work of the editors ed-itors If they find occasion. It is said to. be a popular fealurb of the day's exercises, , bringing the whole school Into contact with the events of the times, and also In cultivating the faculties, alertness, ease, and accuracy of expression and power of grasp of subjects, on the part of the editors. To obtain theest results of this training, train-ing, we should think that tho editors ought to be changed frequently, so as to pass around the benefits of the training. train-ing. Tho critics, also, occupy a commanding com-manding position, and must be even better posted than the editors, If possible. pos-sible. But the whole has a look that js good; it seems as If it could, under proper oversight, be advantageously Introduced In-troduced In other schools throughout the country. |