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Visual Instruction Bureau Prepares
Additional Instructional Aids for Schools

In Kansas and elsewhere the coming
of September means the return of school
days, and in the Bureau of Visual In-
struction at the University of Kansas it
means the opening of another year to
be spent serving the visual education
needs of many schools.

That these visual instruction needs
are increasing in scope and number is
“aore apparent each year, which is an-
other way of saying that more teachers,
~inérintendents and school boards are
realizing the excellent services that
visual aids can give and are making such
instructional helps an integral part of
their school systems.

The Bureau at Kansas University is
well equipped to assist any school or
other institution with its visual instruc-
tion program and to provide the visual
aids desired. Many requests are filled
each year from its extensive motion
picture library of both silent and sound
films and from the glass slide library.

While the rental of motion pictures
makes up a large part of the business of
the Bureau of Visual Instruction, the
glass slide service is an important part
of the work and the use of glass slide
sets for classroom teaching is extensive.
More than 200 slide sets covering a wide
range of subject matter are available.
With every set ordered, a lecture is
sent which contains information for
general background and for each par-
ticular slide. From these notes the
teacher may select material for ‘class-
room discussion and study.

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The library is improved and enlarged
each year by revision of sets already
owned and by purchase of new slides
arranged into sets. The following four
sets reproduced from “The Pageani of
America,” published by the Yale Uni-
versity Press, are now ready for use.

“The Advancing Bronte” —a series of
seven maps showing the expansion of the

United States from 1790 to.1900, drawn

for the Pageant of America by Gregor

Noetzel, American Geographical Society.

“Art in America’’—a set of 33 slides show-

ing the works of 31 American artists, in-

cluding such men as Copley, Stuart, Sar-
gent, La Farge, Taft, and Saint-Gaudens
in painting, etching, stained-glass art,

and _— seulpture. “Communication”? — 15

slides tracing the development of com-

munication 'from picture-writing to the
wireless of Marconi, and ‘Indians of

America’’—showing various _ types of

dress, dwellings,. and activities of the

aboriginal Americans, along with a map

indicating the distribution | of the early
tribes.

Additional sets which have been ac-
quired recently cover a variety,of sub-
jects which will be found helpful in

 

many fields of primary and secondary
school work.

“Coal and Oil” gives a brief descrip-
tion of those industries with 9 slides on
coal and 5 on oil. “Constitution and
New Government” depicts incidents in
the early life of our repuviic. These

two sets are also from the Pageant of |-

America series.

“The Frontier Woman” pictures some
of the hardships of life on the early Vir-
ginia and 'Tennessee frontiers, with
views of a fort, a settler’s cabin, and
some early leaders. How the-people of
vatious sections of Germany are dressed
is shown in “German Costumes.” The
sets on “Goethe” and “Wagner” present
interesting notes from the lives of Ger-
many’s great poet and conipose, re-
spectively. -

The series of “Maps” indludes” the
world, the hemispheres, the continents,
Mexico, Itaiy, the United States, and
several sections of the United States.
The handling of ocean freight is de-
scribed in the set of that title. “Ply-
wood” illustrates the manufacture and
application of that product. “Safety
First” demonstrates rules of safety for
school children on the streets and play-
grounds. “Swiss Schools and Homes”
presents scenes of life in Switzerland.
How water is brought from great dis-
tances to our large cities is eaplamed in
“Water via Aqueducts.”

Further particulars-concerning these
slides and other visual aids may be had
from the Bureau of Visual Instruction,
Extension Division.

 

List of Entertainment

_ Material Assembled

A supplement, listing titles lately
added to the existing stock’ of plays,
readings, and miscellaneous entertain-
ment material is now available from
the Bureau of General Information,
University of Kansas Extension Division.

Approximately four hundred plays
of various types are listed. These are
classified in a convenient manner. A
few of the three-act and many of the
one-act plays are in collections, but
the major portion of these may be bor-
rowed separately.

The Readings section of the supple-
ment lists a number cf cuttings which
have been made for the student inter-

ested in contest, assembly, or miscel-.

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laneous entertainment. A few readings
have been added for grade schools.

Original sketches of hand-tinted cos-
tume plates now number forty-eight.
Twelve plates represent well-known
of fantasy, each sketch
showing some type of costume as influ-
enced by history. The thirty-six plates
showing American costiime, are di-
vided into decades from the early
seventeen hundreds to ee carer mine
teen hundreds.

Books and leaflets on Puppce bad
Marioncies have been added. These
cover every. phese of the puppet pro-
ject. from- mechanical construction of
the doil to the written: play with in-
struction for its production. Many of
these books are profusely illustrated.

Short radio plays are being added
from time to time. T
these plays are of an educational na-
ture and make interesting program
material even where radio facilities are
not available.

Numerous pamphlets dealing with
various phases of the Speech Aris ere
now available. These, of course, are for
loans,- but--since the majority may be
procured free of charge from the pub-
lisher, .it is’ well; for: the, director to;
procure the loan; make -his selection,
then. secure: the ‘desired pamphlets
needed for a handy and helpful “Ver-
tice] File” for the school- library.

Pamphlets in the shove mentioned
collection deal with the following sub-
jec’s: contests, costume, lighting; pan-
tomime, play-writing, production, roy-.

-alty questions, scenery, stage craft,.and

organization for drama _ interests,

Copies of the Schocl and Community
Drama: Service bulletin, and its supple-
ment are free. Other materials men-_|
tioned in!'the above article are avail-|
able for loans.

 

World's Champion to Lecture

Glenn Cunningham, world’s greatest
miler and one of the most amazing
performers in athletic history, has been
added to the lecture staff of the Uni-
versity of Kansas Lecture Course Bu-
reau. Recently awarded his doctor’s
degree in Physical Education by New
York University and one of the most
consistent athletes in American. col-
legiate annals, the Kansas, flier’s per-
sonal story should be a source of great
inspiration to high. school boys.

He will -use for his lecture subjects

this. winter: “Running Around the
World”; “Fit to. Win”; “Can You Take
It?”; “Athletics and Life”; and hee

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