PHILADELPHIA. August 21. —J
“Laziness" was termed the principal
vice of modern high school pupils and
■'frankness" their outstanding virtue
in a symposium on secondary educa
tion taken among teachers from 14
States, attending Summer sessions at
th< University of Pennsylvania.
Ninety-five per cent of the edu- i
cators noted, an increasing tendency to 1
shift too much of the burden of child
training from the home to the school, j
Half of the teachers declared there!
was too much parental devotion to I
outside interests, such as social activ- i
ities and politics.
The teachers likewise criticized
their own shortcomings. Many de
plore what they described as a dis
i position on the part of some members
of their profession to view it merely
;o- a "stepping stone."
• it the teachers experienced in both
•' tel city schools, 73 per cent
'• .d they found rural pupils more
el-dii i ' itul anxious to learn than
th- e in t h< chy. but only 43 per cent
txptes id a preference for rural
t> -> hing.
UNCLAIMED BANK RICHES.
JUtween 1? and 17 Million Dollars
Await an Owner.
J % eni tv i. t« <i> Mag.izin*.
Me; < tii.i;, 1 million dollars lies
t • 1 ' led if b ulks of the eight larg
ii,its oi the United States: l*e
pci , and 7 million dollars in those
o 1 N \\ York alone. Probably from
1 'o 17 million dollars, a sum greater
than tin lamed treasure of India, is
in tin banks of the country without
1, now n ow'Pel's.
