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Among the Magazines 17 t Miss Pennell goes on, and as she ss her logic weakens, until she actually its the following amazing words: 'Teachers advocate the adoption of the vies in schools that lessons may amuse j pupil's eye instead of exercising the pil's mind. The old-fashioned teacher ieved that the end of education was teach the pupil how to think. But dern progress has carried us far be- nd that ancient superstition, and chil- en, whose intelligence has been already dermined by the movies out of school, \ to be further debauched by them in lat should be hours of study."(!!!) The first nine words state an unques- ned fact—but the rest of the para- aph is unadulterated piffle. The ascrip- n of such a purpose to the teachers is, course, unspeakably silly, but it was equately prepared for by Miss Pennell's nception of the "movies," enunciated at z beginning, as an unmitigated curse, un- anging and unchangeable, as-it-was-in- e- beginning-is- now -and- ever -shall-be >rt of thing. Obviously, the ordinary motion picture we now know to be dan- gerous in the theater would produce the same results in a school, but we know of no rational being still at liberty who could possibly be inveigled into thinking of such a transfer. To close her article fittingly, Miss Pen- nell becomes utterly lyrical: "It took centuries to develop the art of the painter and illustrator and today we throw it to the camera. It took centuries to develop the art of the dramatist and actor, and today we waste it on the films. It took centuries to develop the art of education and today we strive to turn it into play. The small minority, however desperately it may cling to art and thought, will have but a meagre chance against the large majority hurrying along the shortest cut to that Earthly Paradise where no alphabet need be mastered for no one will read, where art and thought will be remembered only as the sad fol- lies of the sad generations who lived be- fore the blessing of the movies had fallen upon mankind." Quod Erat Damnandum. Announcement he March number will contain— Some Psychological and Pedagogical Aspects of Visual Education I Matilde Castro, Professor of Education at Bryn Mawr and director of the Phebe Anne Thorne Model School. : is the kind of scholarly and critical analysis, free from all promotional intent, lat is so much needed in this new field. (Further mention of this article ppears on page 6.) Epic Possibilities of the Film y Marion F. Lanphier, of the English department of The University of Chicago. 'his article will analyze the shortcomings of some recent productions and point ut future values of the film for stories of epic character.