THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL Linguistics as a Required Subject in College and in High School An English Service System Group Collaboration: An Experiment in Playwriting at Beloit The Round Table No. 1 Charles Robert Gaston I Ella Heaton Pope 28 What Do You Make of This? To the Editor. Examination Papers. Dramatization of The Lady of the Lake. The Army as a Humanizing Agency. Editorial 42 51 52 61 62 The English Journal is published monthly from September to June at The University of Chicago Press, 5750 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Subscription price $2.50 per year; single copies 30 cents. Orders for service of less than a half-year will be charged at the single-copy rate. Postage is prepaid on all orders from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama Canal Zone, Republic of Panama, Hawaiian Islands, Phillippine Islands, Guam, Samoan Islands, Shanghai. Postage is charged extra as follows: For Canada, 25 cents on annual subscriptions (total $2.75). on single copies 3 cents (total 33 cents); for all other countries in the Postal Union, 45 cents on annual subscriptions (total $2.95), on single copies, 5 cents (total 35 cents). Patrons are requested to make all remittances by postal or express money orders or bank drafts. The following are authorized to quote the prices indicated: For the British Empire: The Cambridge University Press, Fetter Lane, London, E.C. 4. Yearly subrcriptions, including postage, 125. 2d. each; single copies, including postage, 1s. 6d. each. For Japan and Korea: The Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 11 to 16 Nihonbashi Tori Sanchome, Tokyo, Japan. Yearly subscriptions, including postage, Yen 6.00 each; single copies, including postage, Yen 0.75 each. For China: The Mission Book Company, 18 Peking Road, Shanghai. Yearly subscriptions, $2.50; single copies, 30 cents, or their equivalents in Chinese money. Postage extra if mailed direct outside of Shanghai, on yearly subscriptions 45 cents, on single copies 5 cents. Claims for missing numbers should be made within the month following the regular month of publication. The publishers expect to supply missing numbers free only when losses have been sustained in transit and when the reserve stock will permit. Deliveries are not guaranteed within the war zones of Europe, nor in other countries where transportation is disturbed by conditions incident to war. Correspondence from libraries and the trade should be addressed to The University of Chicago Press. All other communications should be addressed to the English Journal, 506 W. 69th Street, Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter February 11, 1913, at the post-office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. The principal of one of our successful normal colleges means two things when he speaks of the socialization of the English work. He means the socializing of the content of the work in composition, grammar, and literature and the socializing of the procedure in the classroom. He means (1) the fitting of the subject-matter of the English work closely into the present-day thoughts and lives of the students the relating of the English work closely to the community life, and (2) the conduct of the recitation largely by the students themselves, with the teacher as guide-the conduct of the recitation by a pupil as a member of an active social group. It would be folly to substitute devices for a principle or paraphernalia for an attitude, but it may not be futile to glance at certain simple illustrations of social activities in classroom procedure. Of course these are given only as illustrations. Progressive schools of the country, north, west, east, and south, can offer other kinds of illustrations of classroom social activities. As part of the student activity of the classroom, it is common for teachers to have a secretary's report of the preceding meeting read as the first number on the program at each meeting. The following report may give a partial idea of the range of student activity. In the report, the purpose of the instructor to get the students roused to personal activity while he remains in the background as |