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Show SOMF NOTABLE OPINIONS ON CO EDUCATION. One of the most interesting topics of the day is undoubtedly co-education, and Demorest's Family Magazine, with characteristic enterprise, enter-prise, has set before its readers jn the October number a most excellent excel-lent symposium on this important question. The contributors to it are among the best known educa-cators educa-cators of the country and comprise such names as, David Starr Jordan Thomas S. Hastings, H. M. Mc-Cracken, Mc-Cracken, James M. Taylor, Charles H, Knox, Edmund P. Piatt and S. S. Packard. As all of these men have very decided opinions on the question and are authorities on educational matters, their vicw. cannot fail to be interesting. "Cadet Life at West Point" which appears in the same number is a well written and entertaining sketch of the life of a cadet from the time he enters West Point until he is a full-flegged soldier. Then read a ''A Failure in Dross Tieform," "How to Play a Guitar Without a Master." The contents of the magazine are further en lived by several notable fictions; the "Home Art" department tells of ''Work for October Evenings;" the ''Sanitarian" ''Sani-tarian" discusses "Comfortable Living;" ''Society Fads" and"Chat" are full of Interesting talk on lime? ly topics; and the other departments depart-ments of the magazine all contribute contri-bute lo keep this most excellent periodical up to its usual high standard. |