A feature of the coming meeting of the American Historical Association in New York will be an exhibit, at Teachers’ College, of special aids to visualization in the teaching of history. The exhibit will consist of casts, models, pictures, historical albums, visualization charts, maps, plans, and other similar material, and of such apparatus as the stereoscope, the ordinary lantern, the “reflectroscope,” the “microscope,” and the motion picture lantern. The interesting and inexpensive models found in Germany and the French and German charts and albums will have a prominent place. A few types of recent foreign text-books will also be included. In the main, only such aids as are now actually available for school use will be shown. The names of dealers and the cost of material will in each case be indicated. The aim of the exhibit is to answer as specifically as possible the questions usually asked by teachers who feel the need of greater emphasis upon this aspect of historical instruction. NEW YORK SYLLABUS IN CIVICS. A revision of the New York State Syllabus in Civics is under way, in charge of a committee consisting of Dr. William Fairley, of the High School of Commerce, Brooklyn; Superintendent Frank D. Boynton, of Ithaca, and Principal John L. Tildsley, of the De Witt Clinton High School. RATINGS IN HISTORY. The following figures are taken from the Secretary’s Report of the June, 1909, examinations of the College Entrance Board: KEY: A: Number of Candidates B: % Ratings 90-100 C: % Ratings 75-89 D: % Ratings 60-74 E: % Ratings 50-59 F: % Ratings 40-49 G: % Ratings 0-39 H: % Ratings 40-100 I: % Ratings 50-100 J: % Ratings 60-100 ------------------------------------------------------------------- A B C D E F G H I J ------------------------------------------------------------------- HISTORY a. Ancient 784 0.4 7.5 33.1 12.0 17.8 29.2 41.0 53.0 70.8 b. Medieval & Modern 39 0.0 2.6 17.9 12.8 10.3 56.4 20.5 33.3 43.6 c. English 394 0.8 7.3 31.7 10.9 16.8 32.5 39.8 50.8 67.5 d. American 544 1.8 8.3 28.7 11.0 18.2 32.0 38.8 49.8 68.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1711 0.9 7.6 31.0 11.5 17.5 31.4 39.6 51.0 68.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the New England History Teachers’ Association was held in Boston on Saturday, October 16, 1909, Professor W. B. Munro, of Harvard, presiding. The Massachusetts Historical Society again generously placed at the Association’s disposal Ellis Hall and its rich and interesting collections. The subject of the morning session was “The Extent to Which Teachers Should Emphasize the Ethical Side in History Teaching.” The phase of the subject selected by Professor Henry Jones Ford, of Princeton University, was “Militarism and the Peace Movement.”