Spelling in Universities. Indian Education. The s a strong movement among give too much time to social functions tories, and art and commercial rooms. ards in the West to prevent and too little to their studies. The board A reading room and a large library are ttending entertainments during of education took this matter up and among the progressive features. In some places this is only published an order which amounted to an building is to be heated and ventilated by ed while in others it is actually abolition of the fraternities. The pupils the fan system and lighted by electricity. One school board goes so far are now prepared to walk out of school bid teachers being out after unless the order is rescinded. cept on Friday and Saturday These nights are excepted as no sessions on the next day. her Education Notes. ontest with sophomores two of the freshman class of Heidelversity, Tiffin, Ohio, were shot ber 20. A crowd of freshmen steal a team belonging to some es. They were caught and a vas used on them with the retwo were badly hurt. ITY, IA.-The worst class-fight tory of the State university oc1 November 21, and raged all everal students were injured; to the extent of $700 was desnd the local police force was ht started at a freshman dance ophomores bombarding the hall siles, including eggs; the doors ken down and much costly furas destroyed. Policemen tried ere in the struggle but were f by medical students with the evolvers. Several shots were it is believed that no one was eral students were severely hurt and missiles. culty will undoubtedly investi The standard of spelling at ten seats of learning, according to the Chicago Evening Post, is as follows: Of bad spellers Princeton has a percentage of ten; University of Minnesota, thirty; University of Illinois, twenty; the spelling standard at Cornell is "high"; at Columbia's Schools of Applied Science, "atrocious"; at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the percentage of bad spellers is "large"; at Brown University it is not so large as in the entering class of Northwestern; at Yale the standard is "high," and at Wesleyan and the University of Michigan it is "fair.” More Room Needed. Northwestern university is looking about for some expedient to meet the attendance problem, for the university has reached the limits of its present capacity. Unless fees are raised or an additional endowment secured the attendance will have to be checked. The increase in registration over a year ago is something over twenty per cent. in all the depart ments. Winchester's New School. The contract for a new $110,000 high school at Winchester, Mass., has been recently awarded. It will be a model The annual report of Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent of Indian education, states that there has been a marked advance in industrial training in the schools under her charge. The course of study prescribed has materially assisted Indian youth in learning agriculture as a means of self-support, while the girls have benefited by the class-room curriculum, which fits them for the duties and responsibilities of the home. The report makes a plea for improved and better equipped day schools attended by both races. The enrollment in Indian schools for 1902 was 28,610. Miss Reel particularly refers to the gradual disappearance of the so-called "blanket Indian" and the general improvement in the conditions of the race. Object to Indian Schools. A number of Indian tribes in the West will try to persuade Congress to call a halt on the further extension of the nonreservation school system. The Santee, Sioux, and Omahas have petitioned the Nebraska delegation to get the secretary of the interior to make a ruling to allow them to send their children to the common district schools of the state. The head men declare that under the present system their children do not gain the independence and self-reliance that they should acquire, and if educated with per Month in Addition to Your y can easily be made by acting as my cornt and using your spare time in accordamy suggestions. Coupon is good for $5.00. For his coupon I will send you (transportarges prepaid by me) a $5.00 reversible . S. and World, 47x67 inches in size, with my school pens or a gallon of best guark, as preferred (either of which is worth his exceedingly liberal offer s made to the goods. 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SELF CULTURE FOR TEACHERS It is a pleasure to us to put in the hands of earnest, ambitious teachers the unique magazine = 61 E. 9th Street, New York OBADEds will confer a favor by mentioning THE SCHOOL JOURNAL when com Speakers. away with the reservation schools and Plains. The president of the association considerably reduce the attendance at the was Supt. J. A. Ferrell, of Sedan. ■very Valuable. non-reservation schools. The saving to the general government would be a large nan, who repre- one, and it is not unlikely that the comcturing concern missioner of Indian affairs and Secretary al and southern Hitchcock will favor a trial of the plan ving regarding suggested. says: catarrh of the h for several s Catarrh TabLike everything a package and Here and There. LINCOLN, NEB.-Supt. C. H. Gordon has been appointed instructor in geology and geography in the University of Nebraska. Dr. Gordon retains his position at the head of the city schools and will, for the present, carry one course in petrology and during the spring semester one in geography, the latter designed especially for teachers or those having teaching in view. In addition to this work he will also, during the spring semester, repeat his course of lectures on school supervision and management given last year. The Northeast Manual Training school of Philadelphia is giving its fifth annual series of lectures this winter. The purpose of the series is to place before the public the broader aims of culture of the school and to offer something enjoyable and instructive. The series includes lectures on Quebec, Tennyson, and "School Life in History.' At the South Central Missouri Teachers' Association held at Ava, Douglas County, Meetings to Come. The fourteenth semi-annual meeting of the New Jersey High School Teachers' Association will be held in the assembly room of the public library building of Newark, N. J., on December 5 and 6. 66 Among the speakers will be Pres. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton university; Eugene R. Smith, of Montclair, on High School Mathematics"; Prof. Paul H. Hanus, of Harvard university, on "The Qualifications and Training of High School Teachers and Principals," and C. J. Majory, of Newton, on "State Supervision of High Schools." Ensign William L. Varnum, U. S. N., has been appointed executive officer of the Massachusetts nautical training ship the immediate Enterprise. For the past four years Mr. still more to Varnum has been on duty in the compass several weeks' office of the bureau of equipment. sings in a boys' Brown university is to erect a memonent churches, rial tower ninety feet high, twenty-five with hoarseness feet broad at the base, and containing a on my return chime of bells to strike the hours for him a few of academic purposes. It will be called the ›rning when he Bajnottie Memorial Clock Tower. ness. He was , removing all es and making ry pleasant to public speak Prof. G. C. Caldwell, the first professor appointed after Cornell was founded, has resigned as head of the chemistry department in the university. Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., has received a gift of $50,000 to equip an astronomical observatory. Prin. I. W. Travell, of Plainfield, is president of the association, and Cornelia The Value of Charcoal. Few People Know How Useful It Is In Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient disinfectant and purifier in nature, but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the better; it is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system. Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking, or after eating onions and other odorous vegetables. Charcoal effectually clears and improves the complexion, it whitens the teeth, and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic. It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; it disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh. All druggists sell charcoal in one form Longmans, Green & Company are or another, but probably the best charreceiving favorable comments in connec- coal and the most for the money is in tion with the last four additions to their Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges; they are English classics for high schools. They composed of the finest powdered Willow are Scott's "Lady of the Lake," edited charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics ers who used by Prof. George Rice Carpenter, of Colum- in tablet form or rather in the form of inent Detroit bia university; Irving's "Life of Gold- large, pleasant-tasting lozenges, the art's Catarrh smith," by Louis B. Semple, of the Brook- charcoal being mixed with honey. ine shape dur- lyn Commercial high school; Tennyson's er, and that he Idylls of a King, by Garett and Lyne use of cheap ette, and "Passing of Arthur, Launcelot, e advice of his and Elaine" by Sophie C. Hart, of Wellesined so much ley college. o render their The importance of the Philippines is ts are large constantly being brought to our attention. composed of Silver, Burdett & Company have in e Red Gum, press a geography devoted exclusively to 1 by druggists these new acquisitions of ours. It is the or full treat- first book which gives a scientific geographical knowledge of these islands. d and mucous The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health, better complexion, sweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is that no possible harm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary great benefit. A Buffalo physician in speaking of the benefits of charcoal, says: "I advise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the complexion and purify the breath, mouth, and throat; I also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, and altho in some sense a patent preparation, yet I believe I get more and better charcoal in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges than in any of the ordinary charcoal The School Journal od for December. BEAUTIFUL IMPORTED hina Tea Set oilet Set, or Parlor Lamp, or , or Watch and many other les too numerous to mention, E, with a club order of 20 lbs. r New Crop, 60c. Tea, or bs. Baking Powder, 45c. . This advertisement MUST >mpany order. You will have ouble in getting orders among neighbors and friends for 20 of our celebrated goods. 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