RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Through tho generosity of a resident in California, the National Education Association of the United States, representing 700,000 State School teachers, recently offered a prize of. 1000 dollars for the best essay on "The essential place of Religion in Education, with an outline of a plan for introducing religions teaching into the public schools." Four hundred and thirty-two essays w'ere received. The board of judges consisted of two superintendents of schools, a college professor, the principal of the Teachers' Institute of the Hebrew College, Cincinatti, and the editor of the "Catholic Education Review." Tlie prize was awarded to Professor R-ugh, of the University of California. The association is printing a monograph containing this essay and four others, to which honourable mention was given and a synopsis of tho good points mentioned in tho other essays.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 11
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140RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 11
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