e gifts are ontinually helping to place the institun a position of greater usefulness. New Buildings. m glad to be able to say that thru the kindness of is, funds have been provided for several much ›d buildings. The beautiful Carnegie library, red to in my last report, has been completed and was ally opened in April. Rockefeller hall, to contain for young men, also referred to in my last report, process of erection and will be completed within a nonths. Work is also under way upon the office ing and the two bath houses, all three of which ings were given by friends who will not allow their s to be puolished. The same friends who provided le building of the bath houses have also given the y to erect an appropriate memorial gate at the ene to the grounds, to be known as "The Lincoln An. 8. Collis P. Huntington has provided the money for rection of a large and convenient building to be n as "The Collis P. Huntington Memorial building." building is to be used for class-room work. friend has given the money for the erection of a itory for our young women, and the means have been provided for a much needed extension of the r-Armstrong Memorial Trades building, as well as he erection of several small cottages for teachers. new horse barn, given by Mr. Morris K. Jesup, of York, has been completed during the year. I these buildings have been long needed, and our has been much restricted and hampered for want em. Now that we have them we can show our tude in no better way than by turning them into highest form of service for our country and our er. Training in Agriculture. re and more it is to be the policy of the institution phasize training in all forms of agriculture-makhis the basis for most of the other industrial work. e are two reasons why the number of those who graduated from the agricultural department in the has not been so large as will be the case in the fuFirst, the fact that we have been compelled to y ourselves so largely during the past years of the l's history in getting under shelter. This, of e, has naturally emphasized the building and mecal trades. The second reason is that we have o overcome the intense prejudice existing among eople against paying attention to any form of agrire. The feeling has been expressed in most cases the race had been on the farms of the South for undred and fifty years and that an educated man d not become a farmer. But this idea has been t wholly overcome, so much so that in the future all be able to turn out a much larger number than ofore of men skilled in agriculture. Industrial Education. I review the history of this institution nothing is striking than the change which has taken place s section of the South among the people of my with reference to their feeling toward industrial tion as entertained at the time when the Hampton ute was started in Virginia. What was true with d to Hampton is equally true regarding the Tuskenstitute. When this institution was established alk of the colored people, and especially those who eceived som education, were opposed to any form ustrial training and expressed their opposition by and acts. I am glad to say that this feeling has t completely d sappeared, so much so that we are Students receive training in The Wing on Carpentry, blacksmithing, printing, wheelwrighting, t nessmaking, carriage trimming, painting, machine founding, shoemaking, brick masonry, plastering, bri making, sawmilling, tinning, tailoring, mechanical, ar tectural and freehand drawing, electrical and steam gineering, canning, plain sewing, dressmaking, milline cooking, laundering, housekeeping, mattressmaki basketry, nurse training, agriculture, dairying, hortic ture, and stock-raising. You will get some idea of the volume of the indust work accomplished by the students when I add th since my last report, they have made 2,128,000 bri alone. Along with the gradual growth in numbers and portance of the industries has gone the development academic and religious education. The spiritual tra ing of our students is in no sense neglected. During the present year a committee, composed of g tlemen representing the London school board, has visi us for the purpose of inspecting and studying What the School Needs. methods. Among our most urgent needs at present are: adequate endowment fund. This fund is now much small. Scholarships each of $50 a year to pay the tuition one student, ($200 enables a student to complete four years' course and $1,000 endows a perman scholarship). $25,000 for a dining-room and kitchen. $10,000 for a better equipment of the industrial partment. $10,000 for an addition to Alabama Hall. Our Aim. All things considered, we have great cause for rej ing in the year's work. It shall be our aim in the future to continually s to make the work of the school, thru its graduates, the very highest service to both races in the Sou The dying words of the late General Wade Hampt "God bless all my people in the South, white a black," should be the prayer which, without ceasing, should breathe into all the work of our school. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal New York's Educational Institutions. New York is one of the most liberal of states in viding for the education of its sons and daught This is shown in an article in the November Pearse which has this to say of the institutions of higher e cation in the state: "A Board of Regents (the Regents of the Univer of the State of New York), created in 1784, has gene supervision of higher education in the state, guard against humbug in the granting of what usually is derstood under the term of collegiate or university grees. Columbia university, founded as Kings lege in 1754, and now superbly situated on Morni side Heights, New York city, is an educational in tution second to none in the United States. Barn college for women is connected with the univers Columbia may be said to draw its students from alc the world. 66 Another institution of which New York may 1 be proud, since it was opened only as lately as 1 to £7,900, inclusive of the £1,000 granted in 1880. Allowances were also made for apparatus and a sum of £2,000 per annum granted for evening classes in arts. In 1893 the state government endowment amounted to £13,000 and the special grants to £5,695. Since that year the state aid has been largely reduced and in 1898 the endowment was £9,000, while the special grants totalled £2,200. Forestry. Among many other New York may be mentioned keepsie, the first amply ened female college, and known in the higher education of Schenectady; Hamilton colversity of New York in New r Morse conducted many of cally working out the problem Syracuse university, and the The Chautauquan Assembly, summer at Chautauqua Lake and with far-reaching results. d has been the model for some es. In its comprehensiveness he idea as it originated and e Chautauquan authorities is American invention in pedaPolytechnic of Troy and the 3 and Sciences also should be ian University. Principally out of the endowment for evening classes a system of extension lectures to non-matriculants was commenced in 1886, first in the metropolis and afterwards in the country districts; later on it was extended to the neighboring state of Queensland. Many donations have been made to the university, representing a total of £60,000, exclusive of prizes which have become exhausted by award, and irrespective of increases in value. In addition a sum, £30,000, was left by Mr. Thomas Fisher for a library, and £6,000 was given by Sir William Macleay for a curatorship of the Natural History Museum, presented by him to the university, and for which the state government has erected a suitable building. ity education in Australia is he movement commenced in If a century ago when, accordment statistician, Mr. WentE, presented a petition to the com certain shareholders of a nas Sydney college praying select committee of the House ns of carrying on the instituuth of the colony the means the higher branches of litera There have also been bequests of property other than money to the estimated value of £51,000 up to the present time. Above all, Mr. John Henry Challis left his residuary estate to the university, subject to certain annuities. In December, 1890, the trustees handed over to the university the major part of the Australian portion of the estate, consisting of £199,362 in investments and £3,228 cash balance. Under this bequest the senate have created new chairs in law, modern literature, history, logic, and mental philosophy, anatomy, engineering, and biology, to which has been given the testator's ointed and, after a few weeks' its report, recommending the sity with a permanent endowm out of the state revenue, a Mr. Wentworth in accordance sed in consequence of the late8.0 the bill, which was based f University college, London, . Wentworth, and, after some dments, was passed, receiving 1st of October of that year. n for "defraying the stipends science, and art." and for adre being no provision made for 1. Power was, however, given degrees after examination in as in arts. name. During 1896 Mr. P. N. Russell, of London (formerly of Sydney), devoted £50,000 to the purpose of endowing a school of engineering. The teaching staff consists of fourteen professors, twenty-seven lecturers, and eight demonstrators. The subjects over which professo.s preside are Greek, Latin, mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology and physical geography, physiology, anatomy, engineering, modern literature, logic and mental philosophy, biology, law, and history. The lecturers deal with geology and physical geography, metallurgy, Latin, modern literature, mathematics, architecture, surveying, mining, mechanical engineering and drawing, principles and practice of medicine, principles and practice of surgery, midwifery, diseases of women, materia medica and therapeutics, pathology, medical jurisprudence and public health, clinical medicine, clinical surgery, psychological medicine, ophthalmic medicine and surgery, equity, probate, bankruptcy, and company law, law of procedure (including evidence and pleading), law of status, civil obligations and crimes. There are also tutors in medicine and surgery, and a tutor to the female students. The demonstrators are appointed in chemistry, physiology, anatomy, biology, geology and physical geography, and physics. be strictly undenominational, hibited any religious test for or to any office, or for parvantages or privileges. In 1858 ed, declaring that the degrees , law, and medicine should be distinctions of merit and be cedence, and consideration in ally as if they had been conversity. t of the university stood at .880, when £1,000 was added , but in 1877 a bequest of the g about £300 a year, enabled hair of chemistry and experito the first of which geology ere attached. In 1882 a fur From the foundation of the university to the end of 1901, 1,977 degrees of various kinds have been conferred, the highest number bestowed in any one year being 123 in 1894. The receipts from all sources in 1901 amounted to £25,766, and the expenditure to a little more. There is a women's college, also several denominational colleges, affiliated with the university, the fine pile of buildings constituting which occupies an elevated position in a park of 133 acres at the further end of the city. The number of students attending the various lectures in 1901 was 657. JOHN PLUMMER. Sydney, Australia. admission examinations and the Germany. S, MASS.-At a meeting of the Teachers' Association lately held, owing officers were elected: Presi. A. Arnold, principal of Renfrew vice-president, Mr. F. H. Carpencretary-treasurer, Miss N. E. Mc. and as an executive committee to the above officers, Mr. F. A. Bag1 Miss C. M. Richmond. The asn is doing good work, and welthe co-operation of all teachers of rict to further this work. MEDFORD.-The engineering school of Tufts college has made such progress within the last few years as to call for a general rearrangement of the program and the addition of several new men. Prof. Frank G. Wren has been made professor of mathematics and has been given the entire charge of the department in the school, thus relieving Prof. Benjamin G. Brown of this part of his work and enHAVEN, CONN.-The New Eng- abling him to confine himself entirely to sociation of Colleges and Prepar- the college department. Professor Wren hools at their last meeting. Oct. has been on the faculty for eight years and ted the following officers: Presi- has had a large experience as a teacher. Clmer H. Capen, Tufts college; Mr. Harry G. Chase, a graduate of the sident, W. M. Gallagher, Thayer college in 1894. and the secretary, has been y, South Braintree, Mass.; secre- made assistant in physics. ay Greene Huling, Cambridge hool. find that the distinguished scholar wh now associated with them as the col president will also add to the power of university. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge dwelt He also congratulated the university ticularly upon the responsibility of we: the state as well upon securing so f scholar and eminent a publicist as the of the department. These men of nence upon the faculty are possible cause Mr. Clark felt the responsibility came to him thru his wealth, and met that responsibility by the large dowment of this latest addition to Massachusetts colleges. President Wright outlined the polic his administration. The college of with seventy nine students as fresti of whom forty-six are residents of Wor ter. The plan of the college is ne New England since the group systen studies has been adopted, whereby believed a student can accomplish as m od. Harvard in the four years has in three years as in four by the old m quired fifty one units; the new colleg to grant the degree of A.B. at fifty. believed that this plan will secure all benefits of the elective system whil same time avoiding some of its defects President Wright also emphasized relation of the college to the public. should be accomplished in fitting for zenship, in short, in developing the Cl tian gentleman. And yet the col should be sought by the student for own sake, that an enlarged view may c to all the relations of life. Thus the d impress of the silent, subtile influenc the college life becomes the most powe element in the development of the dent. A New Woman's College. Simmons college, Boston's young NEW HAVEN, CONN.-There are about fifty students enrolled altogether in the RVILLE, MASS.-Mr. Geo. E. Yale School of Forestry. An anonymous , who has been the master of the friend has given money for the equipment ad school for twenty-five years, of a physical laboratory for testing the educational institution for women, n granted a year's leave of absence strengths of timber and for other investiunt of ill health. Mr. J. Shennan gations. Prof. J. L. Toumey has greatly Ison has been elected temporary enriched the herbarium from his own col in his place. lection made eight years ago in Mexico and the Southwest. formally opened. Mrs. Sarah Louise hold is the president. 125 young wor were enrolled the first day, some from tant points, others from adjoining to and cities, and the majority belonging the city. CY. MASS.-Mr. Stacy B. Southas resigned his position as assis- Mr. H. K. Turner, 1,007 Paddock build- The courses are professional, collegi the high school, and Mr. Walter ing, Boston, has charge of the New Eng- and special the first two leading to gra nt has been elected his successor. land school business of the Berlin Photo- ation and requiring four years for Florence Gamacke, also of the graph Company. This company is having completion, and the third being ope a large demand for works of the higher those who can give only a portion of t hool, has resigned. This vacancy class for school decoration. It is their time to the work of the college. already existing, have been filled aim to introduce only such works as will election of Misses Martha F. satisfy the demands of art. and Catherine W. Hall. vacancy in the Willard school, by the resignation of Prin. Ches Other courses will be household ed omies, secretarial course, library cou science preparatory to medicine, scie Colonel Wright's Installation. preparatory to teaching, science prep WORCESTER.-The collegiate depart- tory to nursing. In addition, the cop Wilbur to accept a mastership in ment of Clark university opened on Octo- tion is contemplating opening courses 1. has been filled by the election of ber 9, with the inauguration of Pres. Car- applied art, horticulture. and agricult Igar N. Copeland who has been roll D. Wright. The delegates and profes. An advanced course of one year ho al of the Center school, Bridge- sors of the university, about fifty in all, hold economics will be offered to gra marched to the gymnasium in academic ates of colleges and to such others as costume and took seats on the platform. present an equivalent preparation or Then Bishop Vinton conducted devotional perience. exercises. BRIDGE, MASS.-It is probable that new courses will be adopted at the d summer school for next year, and ere will be more continuity in the > that a connected plan may be fol ut. plaster casts of German works of iired lately by Prof. Kuno Francke ving and the Germanic museum opened this month. Senator George F. Hoar spoke for the trustees and outlined the plan of the college with its relation to the university already in operation for advanced instruction and research. While Mr. Clark wished the university to begin its work in research in physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology, yet he had from the first a strong hope of the foundation of a college department which might prepare students for the more advanced work, and at One of the most interesting the same time train young men for citizen3 of the work in the institute is the ship. The work of the college is now ON, MASS.-The freshman class in ssachusetts Institute of Technol. nbers 511, an increase of 115 over .r. inaugurated to carry out this event nuumana President Harper announced to the dents of the University of Chicago t before the end of the year, he hoped the plans for a great school of technol would be fully worked out. CARLISLE, PENN.-Mr. Davids Eckets died on October 10. at the age eighty. He had taught in the schools Carlisle for nearly sixty years, and a years ago was placed, on account of on the supernumerary list filling vacan at odd times for the regular teachers. 382 THE SCHOOL JOURNAL In and Around New York City. The regular meeting of the New York Educational Council will be held at New York university, Washington Square, on Saturday, October 18, at 10.30 A. M. "A Voice from the Past," is the subject of a paper by Dr. William L. Felter. of Brook fyn, to be followed by a discussion and the usual lunch at Hotel Albert. October 18, 1902 and to distribute the coal they would use among the poor. "Children cannot be Dr. R. Tombo, Sr., of Barnard college, They will die of pneumonia." The mayor sent from warm schools to cold homes. will open a class in practical German, intended for students who have a reading informed President Burlingham of a cableknowledge of the language, and some un- gram from Wales offering to deliver 100derstanding of spoken German. This is 000 tons of coal at $9 a ton The board intended as an extension course, and will will order the whole amount. be held from 9 to 10.30 A. M., at Teachers college, and will consist of topics disand education. cussed in German from literature, history, Dr. Leopold Bahlsen, of Berlin, special lecturer for the present year in Teachers college, will give two courses of lectures on the theory and practice of teaching French and German in secondary schools. a French the lectures and discussions will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays at 3.30 P. M., and in German at 10.30 on Saturdays. The courses are open to any persons not attending at Teachers college on payment of the usual fee for either. It will be shown how to teach pupils the practical use of a foreign language, and will introduce teachers to the best ideas of French and German life and culture, literature, and history. Gen. Alexander S. Webb has resigned his position as head of the College of the City of New York. He has for thirtythree years filled this post. There have been several applications for the presidency. Gen. Webb is a graduate of West Point with the class of 55. He fought with the army of the Potomac, was wounded at Gettysburg, and later fought in the battle of the Wilderness, and was retired at his own request in 1870. Plans for five new buildings are practically complete, and will soon be made public. The Male Teachers' Association is de sirous of bringing together all men interested in public education in New York, and with this end in view have arranged a series of four dinners for the third SaturDr. Ludwig B. Bernstein, instructor in day night of October, November, January, De Witt Clinton high school, has published and March. Tickets for the course and a strong and comprehensive plea for modother information can be obtained of L. ern languages in the elementary schools. M. Burdick, 467 West 164th street. At He takes up the arguments adduced by the the first dinner, October 18, Mayor Seth abolitionists one by one, and answers Low, Supt. W H. Maxwell, and Dr. Isaac H. Stout, or some member of his staff of state institute instructors will be the speakers. them in a clear and scholarly way, bring- The examination for license No. I will Charles B. J. Snyder, superintendent of hereafter be stricter in conformity with buildings, has instructed the department the growing needs of practical ability. engineer to be ready to report to him on In addition, therefore, to the regular pro- the use of oil for the heating of schools. fessional questions heretofore set, there It would not seem that a shortage of coal will be an oral examination, as a test of for school purposes is absolutely to be the ability to teach music, sewing, physi- feared, but this precaution has been taken cal culture, drawing, and manual training. to avoid any such occurrence. The tests in these subjects, which are the A course of lectures will be given durspecial branches of the course of study, ing the coming winter, at the New York will be strictly practical in character and Trade school, that should prove very usedesigned rather to determine the teacher's ful to journeymen steam engineers, and ability to sew, etc., than to find what she most attractive and instructive to others, can write about sewing The professional These lectures will be given every two examination will be unchanged in charac- weeks, beginning on Wednesday evening ducted by Arthur A. Hamerschlag, the Oct. 22, at 8:15 P. M. They will be conprice for the season being very reasonable. For information apply to the school, First ter. This follows, as a necessity, from the newer character of the training schools, which demand thoro instruction in these branches. avenue, 67th and 68th streets. Miss Alice M. Abbott, a teacher in the Oak Side public school, has been nominated by acclamation by the Democratic convention for the position of school commissioner in Westchester county. Prin, Chas. Hаske P. S. a, Brooklyn, Who will succeed Dr. Edson as a district superintendent in New York city. Dr. Albert Shiels, principal of Grammar School No. 40, borough of Manhattan, is working out an experiment in grading which will enable a large proportion of pupils to complete the present work of the grammar grades in a considerably shorter time than is usually consumed, without leaving gaps. His plan permits the bright children to go on as rapidly as they are able, and allows the slower children all the time they need without sending them back to spend half a year in going over a grade the second time. The plan may be illustrated by taking a grade which Dr. Shiels designates as 5b-" 64 The "5" means pupils of the fifth year grade. The "b means the work properly belonging to the second half of the fifth Owing to the death of Mr. J. H. Twacht- Seven new scholarships of $100 a year year. man there will be a change in the after- each have been given to Cooper Union. The "-" means that the pupils of this noon classes of the Art Students' League, They will be known as the O'Rourke, grade have not yet completed the work of in Antique and Painting. The afternoon Landy, and Hewitt Eightieth Birthday the first half of the fifth year, but that class in Antique will be taken by Mr. scholarships, the latter being given by they will try to do that work in two and a George W. Breck, and the portrait and Jacob H. Schiff. The free classes at the half months instead of five and will then painting class by Mr. Frank Du Mona. institute have begun with very large at- go on and complete, in the remaining two tendances, both in the day and evening and a half months if possible, the work regularly belonging to the second half of the fifth year. Thus they will gain onehalf of a year. if it sees fit. sessions. Some will, some will not. And here comes a second important factor in the scheme. The bright opes are not segregated by themselves, which would be unhealthful and the dull ones are not left without the stimulus of bright classmates to spur them on. Justice Gildersleeve has handed down his decision in the Supreme Court that a school teacher cannot claim pay from the The Rev. Dr. Huntington, of Grace board in case of illness. He holds that church. has offered the use of a portion of the deduction from salaries made on ac- the parish house, 415 E. Thirteenth street, count of absence is devoted to the teach- for school purposes gratis. This offer has ers' retirement fund, and that the board been accepted by the board, and will prohas the power to make these deductions vide between 300 and 400 sittings in a part of the city where they are much needed. Prof. A. McLouth has arranged very Washington Square, as well as the baseThe hall in the Judson Memorial, in interesting and effective courses in GerAt the close of the term this grade des. man to be given during the present college ment of the Mariners' Temple, near Chat: ignated as "5b" at the beginning, will year of New York university, beginning ham Square, have been offered free of divide up as follows: Oct. 11, at 10 A. M. These courses are the Rev. Edward Judson, pastor of the who have mastered the work will enter the charge, to the educational department, by (1) A certain per cent., perhaps a third, specially intended for teachers, and are divided into two parts. First, a course in Memorial Baptist church. President Bur- sixth year grade. the history of German literature, and next lingham has referred the matter to the ap- (2) A certain per cent. who have not a course in the methods of teaching mod-propriate committee, and has expressed completed the work satisfactorily, but who ern languages, which will include the his- the appreciation of the board of education will, probably, be able to do so by going tory and advantages and disadvantages of of the timely action of Mr. Judson. rapidly over it in two and a half months the "natural" phonetic, psychological, Before the board of aldermen, upon the with a class of bright children from a grammatical and reading methods. The presentation of a request by the board of grade below who have not yet had the Ottendorfer Germanic Library in connec- education for $100.000 for coal, John T. work. These two classes of children will tion with the university containing 10,500 McCall, while in favor of the appropria- form a grade designated "5b+." volumes on the German language and lit tion, said that if the coal strike is not seterature, offers excellent opportunities for tled before cold weather he would offer a ones who will have to go over the five (3) Yet another class will be the dull reading and investigation. resolution to close all the public schools, months' work of the second half of the སལ་ས o he can be transferred to a slower ithout having to be put back. And f a pupil in a class scheduled to ve months for a given amount of evelops ability to proceed faster he transferred to a more rapid class. hiels has the sympathetic co operf his teachers in making this exnt and there is every indication will be a success; but it is one that e three or four years for compleamount of work involved in the of the course of study for such a ay be imagined when every teacher ave her section of work so care ully that it will fit with the nicety of a into the complete whole. York a Center of Learning. Sun says rightly that there are achers of colleges and universities -York than in any other city of the and the city has come at length to strong men of the teaching profesIn pay and position, all things ered, professors here are not better n in other large cities. Indeed, ering the expense of living in New hey would be much worse off but liberal pension system that has dopted by the universities of the professors receive a salary of more ,000 a year, and many receive conly less Those below the rank of of department receive from $500 to a year. free in such a house attached to the lic schools. These funds are invested grounds of his rural college, he can hardly state, county, railroad, and other bor believe that he is expected to pay from and constitute a permanent er dowm $600 to $1,000 a year for a cramped apart of the educational institutions of the st meat of six or eight rooms well up-town. Fifty-four Years a Teacher. It is a pleasure to be able to speak of such a record as the following in the pro fessional ranks of the teachers: Mrs. Eliza J. Eveland, principal of the primary department of Public School 2 in Jersey City, has resigned after a life work of fiftyfour years in that city. Here and There. will be inaugurated as president of the Bible Barred from Schools. OMAHA, NEB.-The Supreme Court Nebraska has handed down a decis which will prevent the reading and stu ing of the Bible, the singing of hymns. the reciting of prayers in the pul schools of the state. The suit has b in the courts for several years, and brought by Daniel Freeman, of G county, who objected to his children tending a school where religious exerci are taught or practiced. The decis hinged solely on whether or not the e court holds they are both. The sect cises were religious and sectarian. 1 of the state constitution bearing on subject forbids exercises by a teacher i public school in a school building school hours, and in the presence of pupils, consisting of the reading of F sages from the Bible, or in the singing songs and hymns, or offering prayers the Deity, in accordance with the d trines, beliefs, customs, or usages of tarian churches or religious organizatio Daniel Freeman, the complainant, is original homesteader of the Union, h ing taken out Homestead No. 1 m: years ago. Central Association of Physi Teachers. There is a regular program of study, and the following themes will be investi gated and discussed:-Imitation and Sug At a meeting of the physics teachers ite of these very moderate salaries gestion in Mental Development. Educa- about a dozen schools in the spring e constantly attracted from the tion thru Play, The Place of Tempera- 1902. a committee was appointed to as olleges and universities of other ment, The Feelings in Education, Habit tain the feasibility of organizing an as o the institutions of New York. in Education, Formal Education of the ciation among the teachers of physics come with the hope of promotion. Will, Sensory and Motor Training, The the Central States. The responses s are so low in the rural colleges Power of Attention and its Training. nearly five hundred circulars sent out w professorship of $5,000 a year in Last year proved very profitable, and it so heartily in favor of such an associat ork, despite the cost of living here, is earnestly desired that the sphere of in- that a meeting was held at Chicago, some men better off than the lower fluence should be enlarged. No teacher June 7, 1902, for the purpose of effectin I more moderate expense of living that is alive to educational possibilities formal organization. At this meeti ler places. ought to absent himself. There will be representatives from twenty-five scho too, there is a better opportunity three public lectures given during the being present a corstitution was adop ing something in outside work here year by some of the leading educators of and the following officers elected. the country or in smaller cities, the day. President, Chas. H. Smith, Hyde Pa ht be thought that a professor high school, Chicago. The total number of students at Stan Franklin Avres, Central high school, Kansas C Mo. outside work is usually writing of ford university is now 1.308, an increase First Vice-President, All the new buildings are being rushed to completion. as space is badly needed for lecture The huge dormitories are also rooms. Thirteen marble busts from Central high school. Detroit, Mich. Township high school, La Grange, Ill. Much enthusiasm was exhibited at in the last few years the great and library, at Palo Alto. They include Cicero, meeting and it was the firm belief of the libraries of New York have begun ict scholars, and rural professors ious to find employment here in orhave access to the opportunities fer for investigation. One such or accepted a very subordinate t a low salary in a New York instihot at all widely known, mainly bee wished to have access to the liof the city. e in authority encourage such men e to New York, and the libraries n to all genuine investigators. This of attraction is growing with great Galileo, Canova, Newton. Shakespeare, Pope, Ericsson, Longfellow, Grant, and Edison. present that great good would result fr such an organization. It was decided hold a meeting the Friday and Saturd Texas Forging Ahead. following Thanksgiving and also one d ing the spring vacation. The features GALVESTON, TEX.-Many cities in the meetings are to be (1) an address Texas have recently issued bonds for the an advanced teacher and investigator building of new schools, or the furthering the field of physics, (2) short papers a of educational work. Austin, Mineola, discussions on practical experiences Weimar, Forney, Timpson, Bridgeport, teaching, (3) visits to laboratories a Big Springs are to the front and represent manufacturing plants, (4) exhibitions an expenditure of nearly $100,000. A physics apparatus by dealers and ma county high school has been established facturers, (5) informal banquet, Frid in Harris county, being the first establish- evening. ment of this kind in the state. Dr. H. A. Shands, professor of English in the Southwestern university, at George town, has returned to his duties after a year spent at the Halle-Wittenberg university, in Germany. Preparations are already being ma of the Central States during Thanksgiv for a grand rally of the physics teach week, and all in that territory are quested to send in their applications membership at once to the secretary that they may be promptly acted upon Over forty-four per cent. of the teachers the executive committee. Secretary's |