putterings 492 < 493 > 494 index
no time for puttering, spluttering, or fluttering; nor hoodlum nor Bolshevist
Discipline Takes Care of Itself
A rural school vitalized by rotation eliminates necessity for discpline; eliminates truancy and tardiness; eliminates idleness and thriftlessness; eliminates the rube and the dude; eliminates the hoodlum and the Bolshevist.
This is the time for seeing, thinking, and doing big things. This is no time for puttering, spluttering, or fluttering. Small things must look smaller and big things bigger.
The school is for children, not children for school; books are for children, not children for books...
The school vitalized by rotation makes every child natural; no child is artificial; every child is on the National highway; no child is stuck in the mud; every child is encouraged to use his sling with pebbles; no child is put into Saul’s armor.
— Dr. A. E. Winship, Vitalization Through Rotation. International Harvester Company / Agricultural Extension Department, P. G. Holden, Director
(1919) : 8-9
Harvard copy/scan (via google books) : link
same (via hathitrust) : link
a slim (27 page) promotional booklet, in a series published by IHC. title page lists these sections —
What Vitalized Agriculture Did For One School, by W. Clyde Johnson.
Education in Action, By P. G. Holden.
Vitalizing Agriculture, By Helen Holden.
Vitalized Agriculture Vitalizes Teachers and Community, By T. J. Walker.
Bringing the School Into the Home, By Lura P. Markley.
What One Teacher Did.
—
- Albert Edward Winship (1845-1933), educationist, journalist
wikipedia : link - Perry Greeley Holden (1865-1959), agronomist, “corn evangelist,” later director of International Harvester’s agricultural extension department
wikipedia : link
Perry G. Holden gives collection to MSC Library (“nearly 80 volumes, including 16 newspaper scrapbooks, 64 smaller scrap books and historical data on corn, Iowa and vitalized agriculture; six boxes of pamphlets and correspondence and other evidence of a long career as an agricultural educator”)
The Record (Michigan State College alumni magazine; August 1, 1950) : 14 : link (pdf) - Helen Holden (Besemer), Michigan State College ’25
(pictured) candling eggs (Wisconsin Historical Society) : link 
Lura P. Markley of the International Harvester Company Helping Children Make a Survey of Weeds
in “How Vitalized Agriculture Works in Nodaway County Missouri,” IHC Bulletins 5 (1919), U Wisconsin copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link