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iy i | THE DAILY BULLETIN Vol 3. College Station, Texas, Thursday, March 25, 1920. 8 Number 150 TEACHERS NEEDED IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION WORK A. and M. Has Best Facilities for Training Teachers Interested in Taking up the Work. The third year of the operation of the Smith-Hughes Act is nearing a close. The unusual demand for ag- ricultural products has increased the interest in scientific production. There has been a rapid growth in the de- mand for vocational agriculture in the schools. A complex of influences has prevented the supply of trained teachers from keeping pace with the demand. Every state is bidding for men trained and adapted for teaching vocational agriculture. Teaching vocational agriculture is one of the most attractive positions in the public school. It is a man’s job and appeals to red-blooded men who are not afraid of responsibility. The work is highly practical, for the teacher supervises the home project work of the pupil and thus is closely associated with the farming opera- tions. It demands the exacting test of production. Will the teaching function in actual production and managerial ability? The community work of the teacher resembles that of a county demonstration agent. The result of efficient teaching of voca- tional agriculture is the teacher writ large in the community. Money Talks. Money is not the only consideration in choosing a calling. Men are will- ing to refuse high salaries and ac- cept lower salaries because of other factors to be considered. However, when the salaries of teachers of vo- cational agriculture are compared with those of other teachers, with like preparation, experience and per- sonality, the advantage is strongly in favor of the teacher of agriculture. This is made possible because of the Federal and State aid that is grant- ed. Graduate Study is Essential. The field of vocational agriculture is relatively new and is bristling with new and unsolved problems. Clear thinking and careful observation are required. It is possible to train a teacher of agriculture in four years of college work if the subject matter is carefully selected. In most cases so much time has been spent in learn- ing what to teach that the prospec- tive teacher failed to learn how to teach. This mistake is being avoided in the agricultural colleges by adopt- ing teacher-training curricula con- taining a well-rounded course in ag- riculture and the fundamentals of the science and art of teaching. But to undertake the more respon- sible positions in supervision and in teacher-training, it is essential to make a much more extensive study of educational principles and prac- tices. Agriculture , and education constitute a field too broad to be (Continued on Page 4) $130,000 BOUNTY FOR ONE PLAYER CARDINAL SQUAD John J. McGraw Offered Branch Rickey the of This Amoun: for Rogers Hornsby Equivalent If you owned a baseball club and a rival club owner offered you the equivalent of $130,000 in cash for one of your players, would you turn down the offer? Branch Rickey, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, received such an offer during the winter and turned it down. The club that offered this fortune was the New York Giants and the player sought was Rogers Hornsby, the sen- sational young slugging second base- man of the Cardinals, who will ap- pear in the St. Louis lineup against the Philiadelphia Athletics when they appear at College Station, Tex as, on March 29th, 1920. Because the New York Giants were beaten out in the 1919 pennant race by the Cincinnati Reds, Mana- ger John J. McGraw, of the New York Club, has set out to rebuild his team. The man he most sought was Hornsby. So eager was he to pro- cure the young St. Louis star that he made the following offer to Rickey: $70,000 in cash and four players on the New York Club. The New York Club placed a cash valuation of $60,- 000 on the four players who were to be turned over to the St Louis Club. This made the equivalent of $130,- 000 that was offered to the Cardinals for Hornsby. Incidentally, this is a greater amount of money than the New York Yankees paid for ‘“Babe’” Ruth, the former Boston Red Sox Slugger. According to reports, the New York Club cave $125,000 to the Boston Club gave $125,000 to the Boston the Giants were willing to pay the equivalent of $130,000 for Hornsby and would have probably given more in cash if Rickey would have listen- ed to a proposition. Manager Rickey refused to con- sider the transfer of Hornsby from St. Louis to New York. He is out to build up a winner of St. Louis and he realized that the disposal of Hornsby would not be a move in the right direction. Had Rickey given any encouragement to the New York Club in its efforts to snare Hornsby from the Cardinals, it is believed that McGraw and his fellow club owners would not have stopped at the $130,- 000 offer. Had Rickey asked $150.- 000 in cash or players, it is believed that the New York Club would have closed the deal immediately. Hornsby is one of the greatest sluggers that has entered in the big league in several years. He hits a ball as hard as any man in the Na- tion League according to opposing players, and is one of the most dangerous men in the game to be at bat when his teammates are on bases. Despite the fact that he got off to a poor start last spring, he came with MEETING OF THE PUBLIC SPEAKING ASSN. POSTPONED Members From all Classes Will be Taken in at This Meeting Next Tuesday Night. Public Speaking Association meet- ing postponed until Tuesday night. The Public Speaking Association must not be confused with the Col- lege Debating Club. The following are the charter mem- bers of the Public Speaking Associa- tion: R. B. Goodman, E. E. McQuillen, H. F. Jonas, P. G. Becker, D. V. Schu- hart, C. F. Boulden, C. C. Todd, Al- bert Adkison, C. A. Castillo, A. L. Randoll, F. L. Bertschler, E. C. Ze- garra, Frank Bruneman, A. H. Young- man, R. A. Harris. Members from all classes will be taken in at the meeting next Tues- day night. The advantages of the association are that it promotes personal effi- ciency in thinking, observation, abil- ity of both expression and impress- ion, and, in general, ability to ana- lize problems. Aside from the personal advantages the Public Speaking Association is a worthy organization for A. and M. College. At the last meeting there was some warm discussion in the Blanket Tax system. A debate is being planned on the timely and interesting sub- ject of, “Resolved that A. and M. College Should Have Four Years Compulsory Military Training.” The membership committee is com- posed of Goodman, Boulden and Har- ris and it is the desire of the com- mittee to secure a live, effective mem- bership. a rush after the half way point had been reached. Some unofficial av- erages at the close of the season, gave the National League batting championship to Hornsby, while others declared that Ed Roush, the Cincinnati outfielder, had beaten Hornsby for this prize. It was not until the National League official averages had been announced that it was definitely learned that Roush had nosed out Hornsby. However, the margin in favor of Roush was the narrow one of three points, Roush finishing with a batting .average of .321, while Hornsby’s average was .318. In Hornsby local fans will have an opportunity of seeing one of the greatest young players in the game. He is only 25 years old and as he is a youngster of excellent habits, he should remain a star in the National League for ten more years. Hornsby is a right handed hitter, played with the Denison, Texas, team before joining the Cardinals in 1915. He is married and makes his home during the "winter in Fort Worth, Texas. THE CONFERENCE OF ENGINEERING TEACHERS HELD The Best Methods of Conducting Recitations is Subject of Discus- sion for Afternoon The Engineering Teachers’ Con- ference, composed of all College teachers who conduct classes of engi- neering students held its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:10 in the Civil Engineering Building. Chairman J. C. Nagle presided at the meeting. The subject of discussion for the afternoon was, “Methods of Con- ducting Recitations,” and was pre- sented by Professors W. A. Stone, J. W. Mitchell and R. D. Brackett. Professor Stone led the discussion. He talked from an outline which he had prepared on the blackboard. In the beginning he made three assumptions which he said were the fundamentals of a recitation; first, all students are in college to learn the subjects they are taking; second, they will do as little work as pos- sible in order to pass; third; they do not know how to study the material they are to learn. As reasons for these assumptions he gave: his observations and ex- periences as a student; his experi- ence as a teacher here; the state- ments of other teachers; the confes- sions of the students; and the fact that when most teachers become stu- dents they are given to criticism of the methods used by their teachers, ete. He defined the recitation under the heads of: responsibilities of; some laws of teaching; some methods of instruction; the five formal steps; and the art of questioning. The responsibilities of a recitation are to learn what the students know and do not know, to learn whether the students have used correct methods of study, ete., to guide the student in correct thinking, to prove to the student that it is worth his while to come to college—his Col- lege—to take this course, to make the student feel that he has honest- ly failed or passed, to keep up col- lege standards in class work, con- vince yourself that good work is be- ing done, to secure the proper dis- tribution of grades so as to prove to yourself and others that college standards are being maintained in your department, and that you are a good or an excellent teacher. Some laws of teaching are: the law of sense-perception, motor re- action, apperception, Self-activity, aim, induction, deduction, interest and attention, habit-forming. Some methods of instruction were: report method, topical method, con- versational or development methods, question and answer method, drill or memory type, mixture of above. “The lecture method”, he said, “may be used to give information to a large body of students when no other method can be used, because
