“Do AMERICAN men and women realize that in five cities of our country alone there were during the last school term over 16,000 school children between the ages of eight and fourteen taken out of the public schools because their nervous systems were wrecked, and their minds were incapable of going on any further in the infernal cramming system which exists to-day in our schools?” inquires Edward Bok in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “And these 16,000 helpless little wrecks,” he continues, “are simply the children we know about. Conservative medical men who have given their lives to the study of children place the number whose health is shattered by over-study at more than 50,000 each year. It is putting the truth mildly to state that, of all American institutions, that which deals with the public education of our children is at once the most faulty, the most unintelligent, and the most cruel.”