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Show JSjBIaekboard in the Open-djhool-House. Note the St f the dd Ho0(L prjjPEN little girls, each ten ' K?S olt1' aie now being jBned into "super-women" at dliwr College, just, outside of tfPgMWa, Pa. Each of the little jJHj6 normal au American child PjjjJjMposslblc to find. The fifteen illlwjwill live for seven years In jgjfjKnir as many hours out of iiIJBb twenty-four as possible, they are dressed like little Tueir Summer costume ''iKbeen plcked out yet but Ifc ahy as the Winter cos-jMBkwarm. cos-jMBkwarm. Their school house 1 HtW&S pavilion on the college Is made up almost entirely jJJBpws. These windows are ilpgMy in bad weather, and then ?JBrear fifteen or twenty more WljHp.of ten will enter the school, "2K8ame number each succeed-J5B succeed-J5B ' Seven years from now the SmftMs will go luto Bryn Jlawr gtT.'roper, and then will begin a 'C3Kco"inilsslonH which will show r!3m: much more apt, better de--.aftinore IntellSgcnt these open-chlUlren open-chlUlren are than those The Interesting Newest Educational Experiment That Is Designed to Turn Out Perfect College Girls of Seventeen After Seven Years9 ' Schooling in the Open Air who have entered the college under conditions of environment now commonly com-monly prevailing. Educators all over the country are watching the progress of this In-tereetlng In-tereetlng and to-be-long-contlnued experiment. ex-periment. Naturally, into it outers something of eugenics, and it was because of this that each girl child admitted had to meet a very high physical and mental standard. Studies, exercises, play and method of living have been framed with the full view of maintaining normality and of effecting, if possible, what may be called super-normality. At the same time the originators have aimed at attaining the very first wasteless education ever offered in the United States. This Is effected by correlation of studies really, an Interlocking training. For Instance, English, history and geography are nil taught together as closely related parte of one subject. French Is taught by a combination of the Montessorl and phonetic methods, with reading, writing and speaking at -the same time. In the second year Latin will be begun on similar methods, and Greek or German will be started in the fourth year. Everywhere Every-where possible studies have been combined, so that what Tinder existing methods takes three or four distinct mental "motions" can .be accomplished accom-plished In one. In some of the more advanced German Ger-man schools mathematics and drawing draw-ing are taught In a manner which makes each subject supplement nnd explain the other, and this method will be used in the model school. The principles of design will include the proportions of tho geometrical circle and angle, fraction and percentage. 9 The -work in science will begin with the study of air, earth and water, with illustration of various points by means of the many scientific toys that have been designed abroad to make clear to children the fundamental fundamen-tal conception of physics. Rhythmic gymnnstlcs are taught by an instructor from the .Tacquo: Dnlcrozc School at Hellerau, Germany, Ger-many, the pioneer of the new system. A few years of such training make the students extraordinarily apt in composing music. Basket ball, folk dauciug, tennis and all healthful sports are an essential essen-tial part of tho curriculum, as is drawing, modelling In clay and aesthetic development. It has been said that th" little ;iris will live out of 'doors Mich ,ueir school. As this kind o Hfp Making Up Their Own Beds on the Lawn for a Winter Afternoon Nap. The children are first instructed In time, or rhythm, conception by movements of the hands and feet Later this Is developed into im-ns im-ns possible. Their dormitory is really an open-air structure, ns much so as promptu dance expression of music. Copyright, 1014, makes good appetites, meals nre frequent. fre-quent. After early breakfast there is a light luncheon at 10:!K), a "good, square" hot meal at 12:30, another luncheon at 2:30. After this the little lit-tle glrlo all bring their cots out upon the lawn, make their own beds and by the Stju: Company. Great Britain I ;. fp' pHjlV . Pir.: " J t WSSWl II,. wat."'C s MSmLi A Little Future "Super-Woman" Leading a Class in the Open-Air School. The Dresses Are jH Heavy Blanketings, Made Eskimo Style. take a nap. Gymnastic exercises are all done in their bare feet on a specially spe-cially prepared floor. Education is continuous that is, there are no "mental jumps or educational edu-cational shocks." One week's instruction in-struction leads harmoniously into the next. The cost of -the course Is low, $100 the first year and mounting to $170 during the last. The present class all come from most excellent families, fami-lies, many of tlsem people of wealth. Three families have moved to Bryn Mawr from distant parts of the country coun-try so they can be near their little girls during the seven years' experiment experi-ment It is believed that these girls, without with-out being bookworms or grinds, will be unusually woll prepared for col-lego col-lego life, and that coincidentally they will be so educated in the art of right enjoyment, without waste of time on tluhta HoDorvod. either work or plaj that Is, without unsuccessful effort in either direction direc-tion that they will achieve nn unusual un-usual capacity and resource for enjoying en-joying life. It i3 believed that they will be given giv-en rather unusual opportunities to achieve all the impulses toward cultured cul-tured department, Imparted in such a way that it will be of far more than ornamental value, so that those girls who decide to go In for professional profes-sional life will find themselves well prepared for it, and so that none of the girls will be overtrained in any way, despite the really exceptional measure of their attainments. Although all the pupils were selected select-ed especially because they met all the test of normal children, being neither dunces nor geniuses, good teaching here, as elsewhere, will mako allowances allow-ances for temperament. Careful training train-ing in psychology afforded teachers who work in this school will help jH them toward effectiveness In dealing ;H with different temperaments. jH Careful physical training beginning jH at the early age of ten will produce jH girls capable of standing with little jH wear and tear the strain of acquiring jf higher education when their time iH comes for it; girls trained in tho JH open air will be more teachable and J more retentive and investigative than girls who spend their school-room jH lives in impure, indoors air and sur- H roundings wiiich are generally un- H hygienic. Gilbert If. Chesterton, the well- H known English essayist, has com- jf plained that the present trend of so- H clcty is to neglect the children of H well-to-do or independent families H nnd to give poor children all the jH benefit of educational progress. The jH Bryn Mawr experiment aims to do. H away with this reproach. ;H |