57. Thorndike, E.L. _The Elimination of Pupils from School_, U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 4, 1907, p. 10. 58. Farrington, F.E. _French Secondary Schools_, p. 124. 59. Inglis, A. _Principles of Secondary Education_, p. 669. 60. Committee of N.E.A. _Vocational Secondary Education_, U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin No. 21, 1916, p. 58. 61. Breslich, E.R. _Supervised Study as Supplementary Instruction, Thirteenth Yearbook_, p. 43. 62. Minnick, J.H. "The Supervised Study of Mathematics," _School Review_, 21-670. 63. Wiener, W. "Home Study Reform," _School Review_, 20-526. 64. Colvin, S.S. _An Introduction to High School Teaching_, p. 366. 65. Brown, J.S. _School and Home Education_, February, 1915, p. 207. 66. Reavis, W.C. "Supervised Study," in Parker's _Methods of Teaching in the High School_, p. 398. VITA FRANCIS PAUL OBRIEN was born at Overton, Pa., November 12, 1885. He received his early education in the village school of Overton, Pa., and graduated from the high school at Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1904. He was a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908. He was a graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1915 to 1918, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in Education in 1916. During 1908-09 he was high school teacher of science and history at South River, N.J.; 1909-10, principal of the high school, and 1910-15 superintendent of schools at South River, N.J. He received honors and held offices in college as follows: Competitive prize scholarship at Lafayette College, and junior oratorical prize at the same college, 1907; officer in college debating club, 1907-1908; vice-president of Y.M.C.A., Teachers College, 1907; member of Columbia chapter, Phi Delta Kappa, 1917. End of Project Gutenberg's The High School Failures, by Francis P. Obrien