rick г. нansell, third ry, and J. Wilson Hart,

ing about the city and they visited Harper & hem, after which lunch present were: "Mark ck Bangs, Robert W. land, Ernest Ingersoll, len Sears, Edward W. on, Charles H. Haswell, 1.

oved their New York rth avenue, where they er building.

moted Mr. William J. as been an employe of and for the past fifteen England agency.

Teachers Series (Dean nced by the publishers, It is on The Teaching ry and the Secondary - in the Woman's cols doubtless will prove volume on Latin and ol, of Cornell.

have just announced ity of their works in ir present production. y has been steady for med proportions that scription. New buildis firm, the largest of organized system, an ment.

ny will shortly erect a 1, Va. The new plant eet and a depth of one basement. Mr. E. C. s new quarters he will aper warehouse in the

have installed only the latest and most approved machinery.
There is such an increasing demand for their ink in common
bottles that the company have added a complete line of
common cork goods in wide-mouthed squat-cylinder bottles
which, owing to their broad base, are not easily capsized.

h holds eight pencils is customers on applicavice of this nature will

The entire stock and good will of the dramatic publishing business heretofore conducted by Harold Roorbach at 132 Nassau street, New York, has been purchased by Dick & Fitzgerald who are now prepared to execute orders for all plays, theatrical supplies, and so forth hitherto advertised in Mr. Roorbach's catalog.

putting up a five-story
Syracuse. The struc-
y for the manufactur-
that the Union Type-
the enterprise, altho
of Lyman C. Smith.
ch was capitalized in
ites purchasing a site
ng the novelties of the
revolutionize the con-
y keys, each of which

Benj. H. Sanborn & Company, of Boston, have purchased the entire list of text-books of Thomas R. Shewell & Company who retire from business.

entative of the Dixon ed a large duck farm, in improving it. He

Heath's Home and School Classics have become so wellknown and so universally used that a reference catalog seems appropriate for the teacher's desk. In the one which Heath has published for the purpose of giving special attention to his classics, brief notes of each number will aid the teacher in her selection of supplementary reading. Accompanying the explanatory pages are short endorsements of the press and of educators all over the United States.

ock for breeding purof the finest farms of

y is noted for the relishment. Mr. A. A. tarted on a Western k trade in his line of ge orders for this pop

A. W. Baker & Company, manufacturers of school and kindergarten supplies, and New England headquarters of Peckham, Little & Company and Potter, Putnam & Company, have removed from 299 Washington street, Boston, to West Somerville, Mass., where they enjoy better accommodations than at the Hub.

Smith Premier Type

The students of Patterson's shorthand recently competed with 200 schools representing all the leading systems in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the verdict given by the board of examiners was that this system is the best in the United States and Canada. It claims useful proficiency in two weeks, and commercial and reporting proficiency in two to four months. Personal and mail instruction have been attended with the most gratifying results. Information may be obtained of the Patterson Institute, 153-155 La Salle street, Chicago.

Mr. F. G. Thorn will remain in charge of the New York office of the Standard Crayon Company for several months. He has just returned from an extended Western trip with a book full of heavy orders.

A new article which he is showing is the "Unique Companion" which has the shape of a thick but graceful foot rule with a sliding top and a hollow interior that is a receptacle for pencils, penholders, and so forth. This is sure to be a heavy seller among school goods buyers.

The Bookkeeping systems and the commercial arithmetic published by the Goodyear-Marshall Publishing Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are being used by schools in nearly every state in the Union. To accommodate their rapidly growing trade, they have recently established depositories with E. E. Babb & Co., Boston; The Baker & Taylor Co., New York; A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago; and Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch, San Francisco, who sell their books at the same prices as the publishers.

An Illegally Appointed Board.

The

Judge J. D. Ferrall, of the Elkhart, Ind., Circuit Court holds
the appointment of the Wakarusa school board illegal.
fight between the school board appointed, November 4, 1901,
by the town board of trustees of Wakarusa and Trustee Eby,
of Oliver township, grew out of the dissatisfaction of the
citizens of the town over the trustees' employment of Sanford
Willard, for many years a teacher in the district schools of the
county, as the successor of Wm. E. Meiller, of Goshen, who
died about a month after he began the new school year. Un-
able to induce Trustee Eby to revoke his contract with Mr.
Willard, and the latter declining to retire, the town board was
induced to appoint a school board, which took charge of the
schools at once, discharged Mr. Willard and hired another su-
perintendent.

This ruling will open the way for a suit for damages and

haustive research, has p which is as nearly perfe see. Nothing could be sanitary requirements u deep. By the use of t structure which is neces waves was obtained, an demands met. Eel-gras place of the carbon of p fore does not burn, or r vermin. It contains a s

pels moths and other i common felts used for d This Deadening "Quilt ally adopted by school a of the country. Two y pamphlet on school-hou graphs of a large numb had been used, and he ha more important building everyone interested in sc

rmined upon a vigord improving the naion, from the kinderand university. The education in ArgenHE SCHOOL JOURNAL k of Sarmiento, who, himself of the best 1, Horace Mann, and nce his day there has ave developed severnsion of agricultural udy to our own profhe growing belief in ular education as the ighest welfare is fur

for the construction

ildings in the city of s the proud name of a later number THE t length of the plans r education in Argen

JOURNAL'S recent uterference of the polithe election and retendents, the Educad, writes:

e from the intrusion of 1 than this country, and evil. It is even worse ere is a politician, and as er order largely monopoEs own ends, not only the iable to dismissal, whenhange of school officials blic school has much to rival ecclesiastical facpolitical rivals, and too wever, it is making headwhen it will be practi

thing of a reputation d"Ol. Pap's Flaxen," k Longfellow much of ame category. Longfor some years in the is verses. It will take to pull his monument will and who will not ut people will rememcal as, "I stood on the

ners ?

or that class of teachers do not care for the N. E. A.

The

complaint will continue until the remedy is applied. To-day
there is little to interest the average teacher. In many re-
spects the present condition of the N. E. A. is very satisfac-
tory, but in others it is not so satisfactory. Consequently,
until there are substantial changes in the plane, it is not wise
to expect much improvement in the actual affairs It has be-
come apparent that sooner or later an effective reorganiza-
tion, not "tinkering," not mere addition of departments must
be undertaken. I submit that this reorganization must seek
to secure the following advantages, viz. :

uthorities stopped the es who were obtaining appeared that a great ard-earned money ex-y $1 invested. Why they not supposed to e to have it paraded , silver, gold, and copmany people who will Look out for delusive

1. The N. E. A. must provide organs of expression for every important educational activity in the United States. It must magnify its influence by multiplying and defining its functions until they directly concern all of the half million teachers of our country.

2. It must be so organized that its various departments may affiliate conveniently and profitably with the great associations devoted to special lines of cultural progress.

3. It must distinguish its departments by defining their purposes, so that limiting the scope of each department it may encourage its activity.

4. It must promote the efficiency of departments by maintaining both far greater length of service in office than now prevails, and far larger definite membership in each department.

5. It must serve the cause of education by securing a constant succession of well-considered reports upon all forms of educational effort, in order that the formal culture of all our people may follow close upon the progress of the best, and in order that the existence of a profession of education may become universally known because of the frequency and the worth of published opinions of educational experts.

6. It must still further improve the great general sessions, the central and by far the most important feature.

7. It must cease to be in any degree an association of schools or of the heads of schools, and must become wholly a national society for the study of education, and for the promotion of our general educational welfare.

Without being prepared to defend any single detail, and fully aware that any one man is a mere item in any democratic organization, I propose a plan of reorganization as follows, vis.:

GENERAL SESSIONS. I. National Council; II. Superintendence; III. Colonies; IV. Defectives; V. Other Races; VI. Philosophy and Education; VII. Political Sciences; VIII. Humanities; IX. Sciences; X. Art; XI. Technical and Manual; XII. Music; XIII. Commercial; XIV. Physical; XV. Primary; XVI. Library XVII. Reform; XVIII. Legislation, Local, State and National.

Such a reorganization would scarcely change nine lines of work, viz.: General Sessions, National Council, Art, Music, Business, Physical Training, Science, Library, and Defectives. It extends three lines of work, viz.: Superinter dence, by adding to it School Administration, which unqestionably is educationally subordinate to it; Manual Training, by adding to

2. That in eac dent hold office for and the secretary officers constitute 3. That in each that shall be red the annual volum the work of any s and upon the pro ment.

4. That member now or previously ment, and that in t ship or membership 5. That for the work of the associa the departments th association itself.

A candid view of

to year, and even o ing, a program w thought on the par reached and passed lines. A new orde ficers and leaders a demanded also be number of our tea ent at the meetin educators. In any all who are concer resolutely to plan 1 it from within." THE SCHOOL ment toward a br National Educati committee of five another year or u

a carefully consid article is certainly