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Show HEADS MODERN SCHOOL Jt -- " JjV lliilftpllilp iMiiiiliiBi A new school, which will be put Intc operation next fall and run in connec tlon with the teachers' college of Co lumbia university, New York, wll eschew most of the things that now characterize the elementary and sec ondary education of children and teacl only "practical" subjects. The general education board, found ed and endowed by John D. Rockefel ler, hns $35,000,000 at its disposal t devote to the new scheme of educat ing children from six to nineteen year: of age. The new school will have n formal discipline nud tench as llttli mathematics and grammar as possible The so-called "culture" subjects wil be tabooed and stress will be lal upon those subjects which will fit tin student for his life's work. Oils W. Caldwell, now head of tin , department of natural sciences in tin Rchnol of education of (he Unlverslt; of Chicago, will be the director of tin modern s'.'hool. |