occupations might be called in to address the pupils and furnish
authoritative information. The questions debated should involve the
advisability of learning a trade and the choice of a trade, and the same
considerations with respect to the professions, the mercantile pursuits,
and so on. The pupils should be allowed to vote on the merits of each
question debated. By such a method, thinks Mr. Sears, the boys would
gain the valuable training which debating gives, would devote
considerable thought to the question of their future employment, would
acquire much information, and would get their parents more interested in
the matter than many of them are.

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(_New York Evening Post_)

GIRLS AND A CAMP

NOW IT IS THAT MANY COVEYS OF STUDENTS ARE HEADED TOWARD LAKE AND
MOUNTAIN--JUST HOW IT PAYS

With the sudden plunge into a muggy heat, more suggestive of July than
of the rare June weather of poets, there has begun the exodus of summer
camp folk, those men and women who add to the slender salary of the
teaching profession the additional income made by running camps for boys
and girls during the long vacation. They stretch, these camps, in
rapidly extending area from Canada through Maine and northern New
England, into the Adirondacks and the Alleghenies, and then across
toward the Northwest and the Rockies. It is quite safe to assert that
there is not a private school of importance that does not take under its
protection and support at least one such institution, while large