Mary Rumrill, June '89, teaching at San Pablo.

Elmer Cave, Jan. '90, teaching at San Ramon.

Alice Joslyn, May '87, teaching at San Ramon.

Mary McHarry, Dec. '83, teaching at Port Costa.

Mary Tyrell, June '90, is teaching in Durant school, Oakland.

Miss A. Hughes, June '89, is teaching the Mistletoe school, Shasta Co.

Miss Emelie Bergen, Jan '91, is teaching in Berkeley.

Miss Jensen, June '91, is teaching in Hinchica District, Sonoma Co.

Miss Eva Senf, June '90, is teaching in Eureka District, Lake Co.

Anna C. Thompson, May '83, is teaching in Monterey Co., near Jolon.

Miss M. Grey, Jan. '90, is teaching in an outlying district in Ventura Co.

Minnie L. Mackay, June '89, is now teaching at Braly District, Santa Clara Co.

Fred L. Arbogast, May '88, is principal of the schools in North Bloomfield, Cal.

Carrie A. Lee, June '89, has returned. to her school near Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo Co.

Miss C. Boyer, Jan. '91, has secured. the position of principal in the Reedley school.

Miss M. E. Gregory, Jnne '90, is engaged to teach the Canright District school near Rio Vista, Solano Co.

Miss Francis Lentzinger, Jan. '90, is teaching her second term in the Aukum District, El Dorado Co.

Miss Jennie Fay, June '90, has been substituting in the Sacramento public. school, since May '91.

Miss R. Bailey, Dec. '88, has taught the fourth grade of the Livermore public school ever since graduating.

Julia L. Hauck, March 1875, is teaching in Paris. She is also while there learning the French language.

Irving Glen, January '90, expects to enter the University of Oregon at Eugene, in September.

Lizzie F. Waltenbaugh, June '91, has been teaching since July 27th in Rosedale district near Sunol, Alameda Co.

Miss Maggie McConnell, June '91, is teaching in the Ellis District, Monterey Co. Her school commenced August 3rd.

Miss Emma Stephens, May '88, commenced the third year of teaching as primary teacher of the Hamilton District school.

Miss Sue Hickman, Christmas class '88, will open her school in Sacramento, September 21st. She closed school June 19th, at Clipper Cap, Placer Co.

Miss B. McAllister, May '88, has begun her second year's teaching in San Rafael. She taught in Oregon before taking this school.

Miss O. Jarvis, June '89, has given up teaching. She was married April 11th, to E. E. Edmondson. They are temporarily settled in San Francisco.

Hattie A. Church, June '91, is teaching in Truckee, Cal. Her school, of which she has charge of the Primary Department, opened August 17, 1891.

Miss Estelle Farrington, Jan. '91, is teaching in Rockville District, Solano Co. Before securing this school, she taught three months in San Luis Obispo Co.

Wm. A. Kirkwood, May '82, is serving his second term as School Superintendent of Contra Costa County. He makes an efficient officer.

Miss C. R. Wittenmyer, formerly a member of Contra Costa Board of Education, and Principal of Martinez High School has accepted a position in Mills College,

The Pacific Coast Teacher

A Magazine devoted to the Educational Interests of the Pacific Coast.

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SALUTATORY.

Volume 1, number 1, marks a period in the life of every magazine when, in accordance with an honored custom,

women who teach in the common schools of our State, and especially of that large body of teachers who are graduates of the San Jose State Normal School, this magazine was established.

Our school is admittedly one of the greatest Normal Schools in America. Its fame has spread far and wide, and its graduates are found, here and there, from the Rockies to the Islands in the midPacific.

The Alumni Association of our School has long felt the need of an organ through which this large and rapidly increasing body of teachers could be easily reached. Time has proved the truth that a knowledge of the Normal and its progress is necessary for the perpetuation of interest in the school and a feel

and aims of its future are publicly announced.

Passing over the general truths, that education can never have too many allies, that learning can never become too cosmopolitan, we shall speak only of those more immediate facts which have given rise to THE PACIFIC COAST TEACHER.

That the progress of education in California is phenomenal, is a truism. Men are still living who had reached years of maturity before these hills and valleys were awakened by the tones of the public school bell. What a panorama of progress have our pioneers beheld! Twenty-four years ago was instituted that free public school system which now offers, to him who has the will, a way from the gutter, if need be, to and through the University.

In this system of education, the most popular, and therefore most important factor is the public school, for in this we find the surest prophecy of the future. In the interests of the many men and

also true that teachers—as others—take no interest in anything after they cease to derive either social or intellectual benefit therefrom.

Prompted by this knowledge, the Alumni Association established a Reading Circle in 1887 somewhat on the plan of Chautauqua. Although many entered into the work with enthusiasm, it was the opinion of the members of the Alumni Association at their last regular meeting that the purpose for which the Circle was designed could be best subserved by a method which would materialize in a journal or magazine. This, then, is the PACIFIC COAST inspiration of the

TEACHER. And we hope that our ambition is not inflated when we say that we believe the "times are ripe," and that the graduates and students of our school will justify the enterprise.

To mirror the ambitions and the achievements of our Alma Mater; to publish a monthly that will be welcomed as an argosy of good things by all our fellow teachers and others interested in

education; to bring graduates and students into close and pleasant relationship, in a happy and informal way; to make, in a word, a magazine to at once rest and instruct: This is our aim.

Thus far we have met with hearty encouragements from the Faculty of the Normal School, from graduates and students, and also from other friends of education. We feel that much has been entrusted to our charge, and, to the end that THE PACIFIC COAST TEACHER may do justice to its ambition, we ask the cooperation, by voice and pen, of our fellow teachers and of those who soon will be.

The Alameda County Institute.

The Alameda County Institute which closed its labors on the 18th inst. was

pronounced by the prominent educators present, one of the best ever held in the State and universally by the teachers, the best ever held in the county.

The success of the institute was due to the able corps of instructors and lecturers, to the faithful attendance of the teachers but especially to the efficient and untiring efforts of County Supt. Geo. W. Frick, who certainly deserves the thanks of his teachers for the rich educational feast he provided for them. Over 400 teachers were present, about fifty of that number being graduates of the San Jose S. N. S. On account of the large number, the teachers were classified into five sections; half the day was spent in section-work and the remainder in general session. The corps of instructors and lecturers included several popular and well-known educators. Dr. David S. Jordon gave a very interesting description of the Passion-play as seen by him in Europe. The lecture was illustrated by a number of photographic lantern slides showing views of the va

rious characters and scenes of the play.

Earl Barnes, Prof. of the History and Art of Education at the Stanford University, talked to the different sections upon Methods and psychological subjects.

Eli F. Brown, formerly connected with the public schools of Ohio and Indiana and author of several books on physiology and hygiene, gave interesting talks upon physiology and upon the childmind,

Alex. E. Frye, City Supt. of San Bernardino presented the subject of Geography in all its aspects.

In addition to the above were papers by county teachers and talks by Supt. Anderson, Prof. Kellogg of the U. C. and Prof. Childs of the S. N. S.

This institute was a very profitable one, one that will do much toward dispersing the somewhat popular idea that a teachers' institute is a "teachers' picnic." The teachers who were faithful in attendance and attention went home filled with fresh thoughts, with mind. kindled with new enthusiasm, and with an earnest resolve to work harder and better in the future.

We present a few points from our note book that may be of general interest:

The old way to prepare one's self for teaching was to study some scheme of metaphysics and evolve a method; the new way is to study the child and evolve a method.

The keynote to educational advance is to study, study something, study to some purpose and for some object.

G. Stanley Hall made a series of experiments in the primary schools of Boston and found that eighty per cent of the pupils had never seen a bee, fifty per cent had never seen a cow and twenty per cent believed that stockings grew upon bushes. Remember this when you teach primary reading!

We study children to discover the nature, powers and abilities of the average child so that we may arrange a course of study and devise methods to suit the nature, powers and abilities of the average child. Earl Barnes.

The child is the centre of the school. Acts determine character and character determines destiny.

Subjects presented to the child should not be too many-it confuses; they should not be too long-it is tiresome; they should not be too often-it is monotonous; they should not be too hardit discourages.

The acquisition of knowledge depends upon attention, attention depends upon interest and interest upon the motivesutility, emulation, pleasure, conquest, duty and imitation.-Eli F. Brown.

The essence of Delsarte-The outer or

physical part of man should faithfully portray or express the inner or mental part.-Fannie Ward.

The greatest mountain systems of the earth may be conceived to form a sort of horse shoe with one end at Cape Horn and the other at the Cape of Good Hope. The inside of the horse shoe slopes gently to the Atlantic and Acrtic oceans; the outside, slopes abruptly to the Pacific and Indian oceans. Inside the horseshoe are the lesser slopes. Upon the slopes thus formed depend the rainfall; rainfall modifies climate; climate and rainfall determine flora, and flora is an index of the animals and races of men; races, with their different forms of government and religion, are thus traced to regions having natural boundaries.

Coast lines should present pictures to the child.-Alex. E. Frye.

Don't constantly say to your pupils, "Keep your eyes on your book." No person can study and not remove their eyes from their book.-Dr. Pardee,

The closing afternoon of the Alameda County Institute's work was full of significance to all the teachers of the State, considering the fact that over 400 teachers of our second largest county took action adverse to our present state series of text books.

The resolution was read immediately after the informal yet thoughtful addresses of Prof. Martin Kellogg, Prin. C. W. Childs, and J. W. Anderson. At first it was rejected. A discussion lasting an hour followed, which ended after “motions" "substitutes," points of order, amendments, and amendments to amendments, in taking the original resolution from the table and passing it almost unanimously.

Among the leading opponents of the series was Professor Dunbar, of Durant school, Oakland; who spoke of them as imperfectly compiled and as having been foisted on the State by politicians. "You know they are not adequate for the purposes of teaching," he said, "and you have often said so. You now have a chance to vote against them, and do it or forever after hold your peace."

Professor Garlick, on the other hand, thought the language in the resolutions was too strongly expressed and he wanted it modified. It was not done, however, and the affirmative vote endorsing the resolutions was passed by a good-sized majority.

The resolutions were introduced by Professor Chandler and the condemnatory one read as follows:

Resolved, That we condemn the present series of State text books as unsuited to the use of the schools.

The other ones referring to the books were as follows:

WHEREAS, It is the sense of the teachers of Alameda County as represented in this institute, that the text books of the State series are utterly unsuited to the wants of the schools of the State; and

WHEREAS, It seems important to have some prompt and energetic action taken as soon as possible to secure the replacement of the present series by one that will meet the wants of the schools, therefore be it

Resolved, That a committee of seven, to include the County Superintendent and the various City Superintendents of the county, be appointed by the County Superintendent to obtain an expression of sentiment, and if possible to secure similar action in all the other counties of the State to the end that a strong memorial be presented to the next Legislature praying for such action on its part as will afford teachers, and fulfill a relief from the present onerous and impracticable series.

ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY.

Read before the Alameda County Institute, September 19th.

The importance of the study of geometry in general can hardly be overestimated, either from an industrial standpoint -since it forms the basis of all technical education and trains simultaneously the eye and the hand, or from a psychological point of view-developing as it does the perceptive faculties, the judgment, and the reasoning powers.

So much do all the sciences depend upon geometry, that the inscription over the door of a modern "Temple of Science" might well be the one which some 2300 years ago was engraved above the door of the academy of the greatest teacher of Greece, the philosopher Plato.

It was, "Let no one who is unacquainted with geometry enter here. Thus recognizing it as the first of sciences, and as the proper introduction to the higher philosophy. This is an age of sharp competition. The great continental governments, realizing that national preeminence and even permanancy--will be determined more and more by industrial supremacy, and giving their workmen technical educacation as the best means of attaining this end.

It must be borne in mind that, in numbers, the class of mechanics is rapidly increasing as compared with the entire

population. Also that manufactures are increasing in comparative importance.

The improvement of the quality and consequent advance in the prices of our manufactures (which will enable the manufacturer to obtain the same amount of money with more satisfactory results to his business than if he glutted the market with a quantity of his manufactures at the expense of their quality) this improvement will depend very much. upon the skill of his workmen.

It becomes evident, therefore, that we must give our workmen technical instruction.

Now the great majority of our pupils never enter the high school, and still fewer the university.

Since, then, a knowledge of geometrical construction and the principles of elementary geometry forms the basis of a technical education, it follows that this science should be taught in the grammar schools for the practical benefit of this number who will go no further, as well as for the intellectual advantage of those who may receive a higher education.

The boy who has learned to make the simple geometrical constructions with applications drawn to scale and the properties of triangles, of polygons in general, and the circle, aside from the benefits he has derived in the training of his eye, his hand, his judgment, and his reasoning powers, has working material quite as valuable as tools and the knowledge how to use them.

SCOPE OF THE WORK.

Such constructions as the bisection of lines and angles, the use of the protractor in drawing angles of any degree and the measurement of angles (here let me say that the necessary instruments are the ruler, compasses and protractor), the erection of perpendiculars, drawing parallel lines, drawing to scale and laying