Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Nov 1937, p. 24

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AM, K. MESTJIANI Rwg Chalag Rpelrfrgf Our New Phoe Number 5051 il u5ai utii I mttustration to stand in loco parernts, ii.this e ssary. AdWwser Systffm Mnost Unuu Perhaps the outstanding, service, as, judged by those who know New'Trier welJ, as the system ot adviser-s main- tainied by the school. For snany years the school lias been singled out for favorable comment because of this con- Scions effort to give its pupils con- sistent hielp throughi advisers. This staff' as made up of men and women teachers who are assigned to given groups of be- tWeen thirty and forty pupils each whom tbey wiil hav~ie in special charge during the four years of higb school work. M.Nen advisers are assignied to*boys and wvomen to girls. These members of the faculty are the essential contact between* the pupila and the rest of the school organization and between the school ,a sm as 0 ssme~h#. iAn c4m ang from physical, to mental disabilities. A number of years ago the school authori- ties decided that, even though such pupils. in one sense were flot equipped, to enter high school, nevertheless it was the obligation of the high school tço adjust tbem. Therefore special courses were establisbed to accomplish this end, andl now it is the usual thing for such pupils to be able to graduate in normal timne with their better previously equip- ped companions. Dean Emerltus Stout, of Northwestern university told the writer that this Work was, one of the most outstanding, actornplishments in the entire field -of Ameriaa educatioxi. New Trier is one of thirty scbools participatîng in a study sponsored by the committee on the relation betveen, te 'of the:ci Iccuves lit public.,sbeakîtti. music, fine arts- and, practical arts. Onte should.flot get the ipressi(»I thteither typie of experimental work malces participnts self-conscious, on the one ha"md id inferiority or on the other of sw*i)rio)rity. The problems, both of th-~ indi%-idua1s andl of the schoIas, à wb~.are there and ýthe faculty. SPe- St() nicet the nolms ssimp.lv d«uitig itt, best for ail cowcerfied., Adj ustanent for Large Middle Crofps But. what about the large group iii between the extremnes. with ail their <if- féring, taâtes, intcrests and ahilities. I, New Trier conscious of iiese- varying. problemns? To.give. an ia of *t1is con-ý sciousness, ît may be citedl that iii the course of Ainerican History alonc tlice 1 are five different, levels of the st,,dv you An Architect Contractor Carpenter Elecuican *New Shades Carpets Cleaned Interior becorator New Kitchen Cabinets Electric Fixtures Venetian Blinds Applied Floor'Covering - Upholsterer tmple of the efforts made hy both the higb school entary schools sending Trier rnay be indicated god ance End.) r a deituîtc (1 l)y thlis ie oit lite ly; a third i -givenir't

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