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Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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natur-ally flock foremployment. New Yorkduring thelast ten yearshas droppedfrom theeighth to thefourteenth rank in the scale of literacy; Illinoisfrom the sixth to the fifteenth; and Pennsylva-nia from the sixteenth to the twentieth. Butnevertheless, there is great hope that these, ourmost populous states, will not consequently suffermore severely from the drink curse, becauseeach has a strong temperance education law insuccessful operation, and the Christian andtemperance people of all three of these states,New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, are vigorouslyopposing any attempts to weaken these laws ortheir enforcement in any way, while they areespecially watchful to secure the best results inthe lower grades. Connecticut has dropped in the scale of lit-eracy from the fifth to the seventh place, andthat state has, alas, small reason to hope thatthe temperance question will not correspondinglysuffer within its borders, for it has weakened itstemperance education law, taking all legal re-
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Old stone church still standing in Sulgrave, England, the ancestral home of the Washington family. quirement of the study from the primary grades,which excludes 15 per cent of the entire num-ber entering school, and making no legal pro-vision for systematic text-book instruction inthe subject until the sixth grade, too late toreach the largest number. AN UNAMERICAN IDEA A man connected with the administration ofpublic instruction in one of the thirteen originalstates recently said, Temperance physiology,thoroughly studied in the lower grades of schoolwill educate the masses. The same studyconfined to the higher grades will educate thecoming leaders of thought, the influential peopleof the future. Which will be the more benefi-cial ? I am inclined to think the latter methodwill be the better. Why not provide forthe thoroughprogressivestudy of thisbranch by allpupils in allgrades ? Iasked. Thatis what thelaw requires.Thus not onlya select few,but the mass-es, the sover-eign people,will

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