MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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Educators Everywhere Express Appreciation of Mooseheart
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One of Dr. Hart’s “Conversations With Six
very interesting and will be of service as an example outside of the institution which you are starting.”
Guido H. Marx, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California.:	“You have a unique problem and oppor-
tunity.”
Charlotte R. Thorn, Principal, Calhoun Colored School, Alabama :	“The copy of your Academic
Course of Study has been received and it is a book full of most valuable suggestions and will be most
deeply apreciated.”
t E. C. Elliot, .Chancellor, University of Montana:
“It has been a profitable pleasure to examine the MOOSEHEART publication accompanying your letter of February 25th. The Course of Study has been worked out in useful and interesting detail. One is convinced that the educational authorities made an effective adaptation of the modern principles of education to solve the distinctive problem of MOOSEHEART.”
Men and women in places of responsibility, expect great things of the new school.
Frank H. Flower, Director, Vocational School, Atlantic City:	“Your letter is very interesting and
MOOSEHEART, in caring for 1000 young people, is doing work that cannot be measured by words. My wishes are that its future success will be greater than the anticipation of those who hold its interest dearest.”
A. C. Monahan, Director National Catholic Welfare Council, Washington,:	“I have known of
MOOSEHEART for some time and have been much interested in it.”
Anna R. Reed, Assistant to Director General. U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.,:	“It
is a great encouragement to know that men with your experience and interests are giving time and energy so freely to such movements as MOOSEHEART. Mr. Filbey has often said, that he felt that this particular piece of work was one of the most meritorious in the entire country, and as time goes on, we have hoped to be able to do something through our department to assist in its problems.”
Charles F. Warner, Principal Technical High School, Springfield, Massachussetts:	“I wish I
might give you some suggestions that would be helpful, for it seems to me that the principle to which MOOSEHEART is dedicated is right. It is certainly in line with the work that I have been trying to do nearly all my life—i. e., to give an education and at the same time the fundamentals of a trade for boys and of the vocation of home-making for girls.”
S. E. Davis, President, State Normal College, Montana:	“My reaction to your general proposi-
tion is very favorable. You mention the fact that you will in no wise compete with public institutions. This is the least of the professional troubles in the United States. What we need is to get more people into the teaching work—more real people, and if you furnish a few dozens, a few hundreds, or even a few thousands, all those seriously concerned with education would be very happy.”
Chancellor Elliott, University of Montana:	“I
have the impression that MOOSEHEART represents an educational enterprise of far-reaching influence. I am hoping to be able to make a visit to the institution whenever I may have a spare day in the neighborhood of Chicago.”
L. D. Crain, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado:
“I want to commend you and your organization on the step you have taken in providing this means of training young men under your guidance.”
W. L. Kuser, Superintendent, Iowa Training School for Boys, Iowa:	“I am delighted with the
slogan of your institution, “For every child, a high school education and a trade.” It is a grand idea and I hope some day our public schools and people in general, may come to a full realization of this very important matter.
“Another good idea in vogue in MOOSEHEART is that of forty-seven or forty-eight weeks of school a year.”
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By PROFESSOR ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Harvard University--------Mooseheart Governor
of visiting there sometime during the year. I could see a part of the buildings from our train and know something of the character of the soil and farms in that locality. I consider that you have an opportunity for some of the best demonstrations of applied work that there are in this country.”
Adelaide S. Taylor, Federal Agent Home Economics Education:	“I have been very much interest-
ed in the work at MOOSEHEART and have thought each time I visited the State of Illinois, that I should find time to visit MOOSEHEART, and I am still anticipating that privilege.”
C. H. Kerman, National Orphans’ Home, Tiffin, Ohio:	“MOOSEHEART is a wonderful place. The
more I study it, the more I see to admire.”
(From letter to H. H. Hart)
“The School that Trains For Life,” has friends in all parts of the Union.
Helen R. Hildreth, Director, Girls’ Trade School, Worcester, Massachussetts:	“It is interesting to
note the systematic way in which the Governors of Mooseheart are attacking the problem of this phase of Vocational Education. It is a rather unique problem and certainly needs wise handling.”
John B. Coleman, Director, La Cross Vocational Schools, La Crosse, Wis.:	“You have a mighty in-
teresting program to follow providing you make a special study of Vocational Education. I am pleased to note that MOOSEHEART has awakened to the fact that they should establish a permanent system of Vocational Education in the school. I have been favorably impressed in the past with exhibitions that I have seen.”
Herbert A. Dallas, Division of University Extension, Massachussetts:	“I am interested also in
the aim of this institution which I understand intends a high school education and a trade for every child.”
H. L. Kent, Superintendent, Experiment Station, Kansas:	“It has been my pleasure to know some-
thing of the work being done at MOOSEHEART, and I have always had a very high regard for it. I am sure it must be a pleasure to have a hand in the organization of such an Institution.”
The Mooseheart Course of Academic Study, attracts the attention of many correspondents.
Home folks always know what a good place home is. The smell of the peonies in the front yard, the water dripping off the porch roof, the hot biscuits and honey for supper—are better than the Great White Way of Broadway, or the shade tents of Palm Beach. We Moosehearters have a strong honey instinct; we are sure that everything is always for the best of possible Moosehearts. We approve of our place and ways and prospects, by a unanimous, silent vote.
Like other shy and reserved people, we want the rest of the world to realize that we are on the right road, without our mentioning it. During the last few weeks a lively correspondence has gone on with educators and practical men and women all over the country, on the subject of Vocational Training. Many visitors and friends have expressed outside opinions of MOOSEHEART and the Mooseheart system of education.
What better topic for a conversation than these unasked and cordial statements of how our home-ways affect the minds of those eleswhere are having to do the same kind of thing. Let our well-wishers speak for themselves. First of all some of the many visitors.
L. W. Bartlett, Assistant Vocational Officer, San Francisco, writes :	“I was impressed with the good
work you are doing at that institution.”
W. C. Crawford, Principal of the Boston Trade School: “I have visited MOOSEHEART, and know what a wonderful place it is. _ I only' wish we had hundreds of such institutions scattered over the country.”
J. M. Frost, Superintendent of Industrial School for Boys, Lansing, Michigan, in the same, writes: “I have visited MOOSEHEART several times and am very much interested in what they are doing over there.”
F. L. Morse, Principal, Carter H. Harrison Technical School, Chicago, has caught the spirit of the place:	“I appreciate the courtesy of your letter to
me regarding the school at MOOSEHEART. I have had the pleasure of visiting the school upon two occasions, and can speak in the highest terms of its organization and work. I have visited many of the Educational and Trade Schools of the country, but have seen none which seemed to do a better piece of work in making all-around, happy and intelligent citizens.”
Wm. Ash, Director, Division of Practical Arts and Vocational Education, Philadelphia.:	“You are
having a fine opportunity to develop a scheme of education. The MOOSEHEART course of academic Study indicated that you are making some real contributions.”
Ernest Burnham, Department of Rural Education, State Normal, Kalamazoo, Michigan: “I thank you most heartily for calling my attention to the MOOSEHEART School and for sending me a copy of the academic course of study, which seems to me to be a splendid piece of work. I shall await with a good deal of interest the coming of the vocational course of study. The blending of these two courses of study, by state departments of public instruction as a guide for the work of the public schools, seems to be a major educational problem of the present day.”
Irving H. Hart, Director, Iowa State Teachers College:	“I have examined with interest the
MOOSEHEART Course of Academic Study which you very courteously placed in my hands. In my judgment this is a very excellent course of study, as courses of study go.”
F. J. Trinder, State Director, Vocational Education, Connecticut:	“A few years ago the writer
visited the school at MOOSEHEART and was very much interested in the development being made.
It would seem to me that MOOSEHEART would have a wonderful opportunity to give its pupils the kind of training best suited to that individual, thus making them self-supporting when they come out from the school to make their way in the world.”
Hobart H. Todd, Superintendent, State Agricultural and Industrial School, New York:	“The eq-
uipment and possibilities at MOOSEHEART are so much superior and extensive than can be found in any institution, that I question whether you will much matter that will be of material assistance to you from this source. On the other hand it would be quite profitable for institution people to visit MOOSEHEART, if they had the funds to carry out the ideas that they would take away with them as a result of such a visit.”
Others look forward to seeing MOOSEHEART in action. Among them:
L. S. Hawkins, Asst. Director Vocational Education, Washington:	“It has been a pleasure to read
the MOOSEHEART Course of Academic Study. I have been particularly interested in the method of weaving into the outline civics and citizenship studies. *	*	*	* pf the academic course of
study which you have so well outlined is interpreted by live teachers, I am sure that you have a good school.”
Thomas F. Kane, President, University of North Dakota: “The plans that you are directing are
C. R. Mann, Chairman, Advisory Board, War Plans, Washington:	“The Institution at MOOSE-
HEART has always interested us. We had relations with them during the war and are well acquainted with Mr. Havlik, who is one of their live teachers.”
J. A. Cunningham, Chairman, Non-Collegiate Courses, Iowa State College:	“I regret that time
did not permit me to visit the MOOSEHEART school while near Chicago. I talked, however, with the superintendent and hope to have the privilege