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REFERENCE LIST—MAY 1913 201
Snedden, David Samuel. 370.1 S67
Problem of vocational education. 1910.
Sums up the arguments for vocational education, and considers the types, the question
of support, and the relation to manual training and to cultural education.
Talbert, Ernest Lynn. 331.3 T15
Opportunities in school and industry for children of the stockyard
district; an investigation carried on under the direction of the Board of
the University of Chicago settlement. [1912.] (Study of Chicago's
stockyards community, no.l.)
Will be of interest also in other cities. One section (p.41-53) considers "Some
phases of the problem of vocational direction" and the summary (p.60-62) gives in concise
form "some essentials of vocational direction."
United States—Labor bureau. r 331 U25an v.25
Annual report (25th), 1910.
Devoted to industrial education in the United States. Outlines scope of various
classes of industrial schools and describes in detail many typical schools. Has good
chapter on vocational guidance, with full account of what is being done in this direction
in Boston and New York.
United States—Labor bureau. r 331 U25b v.13
Bulletin. Nov. 1906. v.13, p.681-780.
Conditions of entrance to the principal trades, by Walter L. Weyl and A. M.
Sakolski.
United States—Labor bureau. 331-3 U25
Conditions under which children leave school to go to work. 1910.
(61st cong. 2d sess. Senate. Doc. no.645.)
The same. (In its Report on condition of woman and child wageearners
in the United States, v.7.) r 331.4 U25r v.7
Weeks, Ruth Mary. 607 W42
The people's school; a study in vocational training. 1912.
Plea for elementary vocational education and for practical, democratic schools for
the plain man.
List for Pupils
Alden, Mrs Cynthia May (Westover). 396-5 A35
Women's ways of earning money. 1904.
Contains about 100 of these plans described in a sensible and entertaining manner.
American Library Association. r 020 A51
Training for librarianship, by the committee on training of the
American Library Association. 1907. (Library tracts, no.9.)
Gives briefly the reasons for training, how it may be obtained and the attractions
of the profession. A later (1913) pamphlet on the same subject has been published as
no.13 of the A. L. A. manual of library economy, call number r 020 A512. It contains
a list of library schools, with entrance requirements, tuition, etc.
8o8 B 43
Bennett, Arnold.
How to become an author; a practical guide. 1903.
Full of good sense and useful advice.
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.
x The young man and the world. 1906.
74 B46
Contents- The young man and the world.—The old home.—The college?—The
young man who goes; The young man who cannot go. — The new home.—The
young lawyer and his beginnings.—Public speaking.—The young man and the pulpit.—
Great things yet to be done.—Negative fundamentals.—The young man and the nation.—
The world and the young man.—The young man's second wind; or, Facing the world at
fifty. (