p. 10 | Training the Boy by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 23, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 37.

Training the Boy

By Editor

"Training the Boy." By William A. McKeever, professor of philosophy, Kansas State Agricultural College, author of "Farm Boys and Girls." Illustrated. Price $1.50 net. The Macmillan Company, New York.

We have published, from time to time, extracts from the little pamphlets which Professor McKeever has issued regarding the life and habits of the boy. He has been putting forth earnest effort for the training of the boys of America. He feels that as much effort ought to be put forth for that as in fighting a fruit-tree blight. Some states are appropriating two hundred thousand for such a purpose as that, and yet the cigaret blight is withering up two hundred thousand of the boys in the same state. The work is divided into five parts, twenty-four chapters. Part 1 deals with Industrial Training; Part 2, Social Training; Part 3, Habit Training; Part 4, Vocational Training; Part 5, Service Training. The book contains thirty-five plates of illustrations. It has some very excellent diagrams regarding the evils of wrong habits, especially along the line of drink and tobacco. It is packed full of most excellent suggestions to teachers and parents. The strict Biblical Christian will not always agree with Professor McKeever, or with his religious views; but we do not know how any one could peruse the book without receiving some very excellent helps in the work of training the boy.