STUDY-AND WIN

by John Vernon Jewett '07. Published by the author, 1946, 115 pages,$2.00.

The author, (A.B. Dartmouth, Ed.M. Harvard, 1928) has been successively a teacher, supervisor, vocational counselor and principal in the schools of Brookline, Mass. The volume is addressed to the student who has finished his elementary school training and is ready to begin a high school career.

The theme sentence for the first half of the book (which is headed You Can Learn) is: How shall I work that I may get my lessons QUICKLY (chapter 2), SAFELY (chapter 3) and SURELY (chapter 4).

Mr. Jewett gives his young readers sound precepts and rules for mastering unpleasant and difficult mental tasks. His 5th chapter is entitled STOP, THINK AND CHECK! which is excellent advice, but is not wholly consistent with what has gone before, as the previous chapters are seemingly written for students who, without thinking, must lean on rules and formulae.

The second half of the work is entitled Definite Study Requirements, divided into Your Preparation, Your Companions, Your Class, Your Study Room, Your Studies, Your Examinations, Your Teachers, Your Marks, Your School Activities, etc.

It is assumed that the average high school student's studies shall be the Latin, Mathematics, etc., that used to be prescribed for entrance by practically all colleges in 1900, and which are still required by some die-hard institutions that neither teach nor practice Educational Psychology.

However, as many Brookline graduates doubtless still enter such colleges, Mr. Jewett has done an excellent bit of work in guiding these young proteges.