Promotional Examination in Chicago, Substitute for 617 Schools Needed, More State Normal James M. Greenwood 448 337 376 153 557 672 432 Promotions, High School Pupils, Troublesome-Charles E. Quebec, Educational Conditions in Read, Knowing How to Recognition of Teachers' Work by Their Pupils-Helen L. Cohen Recommendations, Schoolmen's Regents, Buffalo and the Reorganization for New Jersey-J. Fairbanks Report, Teachers College Requirements in Mathematics, Col- 96 Schools of East Orange, N. J. 64 Schools, Public or Private 161 Schools Then and Now, Our-James Klock 232 Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate-Wm. Morris Davis 12 Shallow, Edward B., Supt. 112 Three-cent Fare for School Children 405 Tifft, Henry N., Speaks to Girls 24 Tongue, Study of One's Mother Too Many Normal Schools 62 Towle, Harry F.-Requirements in Latin and Greek 490 210 523 466 59 591 12 Schools, West Virginia Summer Science, Applied, Reversal of Methods 138 in 176 44 Trade Schools, President Eliot on Trade Unions, Teachers in Trades in Public Schools, Education for the Mechanical-Thomas M. Balliet 358 89 611 370 Scott, Colin A.- Training in Initia623 tive 318 Truant and How to Educate Him, The-Thomas H. McQueary 503 Trusts and Unions vs. Trade Schools Tuberculosis in Chicago, Fighting 6 127 96 Sectional School Boards: Character Turner, John M.-C. P. Cary 666 485 Type Models, The Use and Abuse of -Frederick W. Coburn 136 46 384 Types, The Battle of-Arthur Gilman 593 Unconventional School, An 502 189 University Study in the United States and England, Cost of—L. R. Klemm 147 6 Shear, S. R.-Mary Downer Shearer's Reply, Dr. 59 57 81 Shelby, Florence E.-Seven Secrets of Success with English Classes Shower Baths in Public Schools Shroy, John L.-The Sectional School Boards, Character and Importance of Their Work 135 Vizetelly, Frank H.-Summering in Bermuda 378 48 Shroy, John L.-Those Old Questions 448 466 Sipe, Susan B.-School Gardening 150 at Washington 502 Roncovieri, Alfred-California's Invitation to the N. E. A. 318 Small Town in Education, The-Robert Bruce 589 Roosevelt, President, to Washington Teachers Rural School Conferences-J. W. Spencer Russia's Czarina Rural School, The New-Supt. Rapp 376 Song Festival by Children in the PubRussian Unthrift 93 lic Schools in Washington, D. C. 152 South, The Summer School of the 527 Washington, New Light on 145 14 419 680 347 Salaries and Expenses, Teachers' Salaries at Western Reserve Salaries for Oswego, Larger 422 Speech, Schoolmastering the 188 Spell, How I Learned to-Supt. J. 230 M. Greenwood 107 Women on School Boards 211 Salaries Go Up Salaries in California, Teachers' Salaries Raised in Columbus 428 Yocum's Tribute, Supt. 670 Yalden, J. Ernest G.-Industrial Ed Salary Campaign, The Next Step in Dr. Sachs' School for Girls, New York city, whose course of study, particularly in English, has attracted wide-spread and favorable attention for years, has just introduced " Masterpieces of Greek Literature" as a text. At a recent meeting of the Catholic RAILWAY Board of Education in the Archdiocese of JAMES F. McCULLOUGH TEACHERS' AGENCY BUILDING EXCHICAGE New York it was voted to authorize the use of "Ireland's Story" thruout the schools of this archdiocese and to mention the book in the report of the two superintendents of schools. It was also adopted in the spring as a reference book in the public schools of New York city. Miss Bryant, the author of "How to Tell Stories to Children," has recently concluded lecture and story-telling en gagements in Minneapolis, and at the THE ALBERT TEACHERS' AGENCY C. J. ALBERT, Manager 378 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, III. Normal schools in Moorhead and Winona, The Macmillan Company announce for immediate issue a book on "Physical FISHER TEACHERS ACENCY A. G. FISHER, Prop. Optics, by Prof. Robert W. Wood of LONG EXPERIENCE, PROMPT, RELIABLE. The Any reference to the progress made by the public schools of Nebraska is of peculiar interest to the writer As a boy he lived in a district in the southwestern! part of the state that was too poor to hire a teacher or build a school-house. There were only six or seven children of school age in the district and that is probably the reason the authorities did not think it worth while to provide instruction. district, however, was the home of the county superintendent, and being a very wise woman, allowed one of the boys, a youth of sixteen, to conduct a school one winter in a hastily constructed room made out of sod. The dirt floor was covered by a few rough planks, the benches were made out of waste lumber and the walls were decorated with dead grass that still clung dejectedly to the slabs of sod. Soon several of the scholars caught up with the teacher in the rudiments, and the school closed. These few weeks covered the period of instruction received by the writer during the seven years of his pioneer life in Nebraska. Not far distant from the county in which this poor district was located is the county of Nuckolls now under the superintendency of W. T. Bottenfield who has given us, thru The Nelson Gazette a glimpse of his work and the progress being made in his schools. This was 120 TREMONT ST., BOSTON WE ARE MORE THAN PLEASED WITH THEM Said of ESTERBROOK'S PENS ESTERBROOK & COT Slant, Modified Slant, Vertical. The special reason, their easy writing qualities. Ask Stationer. 26 John Street, New York Works: Camden, N. J. |