s; Social Life; Industries
and Occupations; Spanish Women; Art and Literature; Spain To-day.

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A New York club has this study in Conservation: Water Power, the History
of Its Development; State Laws; Reclamation of Arid Lands; Government
Dams; The Laws of Water Rights; Our Fisheries; Our Forests; Forestry
Service; Our Mineral Wealth; Conditions in Mining Districts; Laws of
Mining; Conservation of Human Energy; Labor Laws; Protection of
Workers; Compensation; Abandoned Farms; Scientific Farming; Life Saving
Service; Government Lands; Homestead Claims.

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A delightful year book has the title "Studies in English History," with
this program: Life Among the Early Saxons; Alfred the Great; The Norman
Conquest and Its Influences; Edward the Third and Chivalry; Chaucer and
His Tales; The Wars of the Roses; Henry the Eighth and the Reformation;
The Glory of Elizabeth's Reign; Puritans and Cavaliers; Oliver Cromwell
and His Times; The Romance of the Stuarts; William of Orange, Queen
Anne, and the Literature of the Times; Art of Reynolds and Gainsborough;
The Romantic Movement in Literature; The Reform Bill of 1832 and the
Rise of Democracy; The Age of Victoria; Life and Society; English
Essayists and Novelists.

The charm of this study lay not only in the subjects given, but in the
readings which illuminated each monthly program, chosen from the best
literature bearing on the general subject.

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A teachers' club has a program with no definite title, but with a
certain geographical and historic value, and at the same time deals with
subjects in which the members take a professional interest. Each meeting
begins with a roll call answered sometimes by description of unique
customs in different countries, and sometimes by anecdotes of famous
people, and often by epigrams, or selections from poems of the season.
Some of the subjects studied are: Changing China; The Possibilities of
Labrador; Persia; The Passing of Korea; Tripoli the Mysterious;
Abyssinia of To-day, and The Balkan States. The topics of special
interest to the teacher: The Montessori Method; The Binet Tests for the
Feeble-Minded; The Status of the Teacher; Systematic Study in the
Elementary Schools; The Teaching of Arithmetic.

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One excellent program sent by an Ohio club is on a unique plan. There
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