›ite the protests of the til some better plan is found for keeping Teachers college has received $20,000 'ts are elevating and week schools up to grade and for the from the Treasury Department in return e people. The school- elimination of bad teaching. The scheme for the inheritance tax collected upon a on Sundays and as the of college entrance examination is alto- bequest of $200,000 made to the college there is no reason why gether a matter of temporary expediency. by Mrs. Carolyn S. Macy. The tax took utilized for the public It tests merely the candidate's store of $20,000 away, but as a result of the learning and to some extent his ability to amendment recently made by Congress use it. It does not measure his intellec- the full amount has been returned. It tual desires, his moral strength, or his has not been decided whether the money will be applied to the endowment fund or whether it will go toward raising the sum of $440,000 which must be obtained before Mr. Rockefeller's recent gift of $500,000 becomes available.

f male supervisor of or boys' classes is to be rd of education in the

al engineering depart-
ege will begin work on
lirection of Charles P.
itional instructors.
of fine arts of Pratt
an exhibition of land-
aits by Robert Henri
an. 31. Mr. Henri has
s residence after spend-
Paris, Italy, and Spain.
t the Salon and Champs
his exhibits being pur-
ich government for the
embourg.

1 an old building at 569
illiamsburg, used as a
. 17, during the after-
c. 17.

little girls, ranging in o eleven years,. in the at the time. The fire started, and altho the great headway, the he street in safety. A y averted thru the cool

rs.

f many of the girls, e, ran to the schoolhysterically until they at their children were e to the building will

rofessor of drawing in sity, has retired from will do some little present, as professor

æsthetic tastes."

Teachers Fight By-Law.

$40,000 for Kindergarten.

Mr. Ira Leo Bamberger, a former member of the board of education, has been engaged by the Brooklyn Teachers' Association and the Brooklyn Class Teachers' Organization to bring suit to restrain the board from putting New York Kindergarten Association, it At the twelfth annual meeting of the into operation a by-law passed last June was announced that John D. Archbold, which provides for re-examination for had given $40,000 for the endowment promotion. It is alleged that the new of a kindergarten in memory of his rule violates license A, of Brooklyn, and daughter, Mrs. Frances Dana Walcott. license 2, of New York city, issued prior to June. These two licenses entitle the holder to teach in all the upper grades of a grammar school.

The rule provides that to be eligible two years of the school course applicants for promotion to any grade in the last must pass an examination and be placed on an eligible list from which appointments will be made.

It is contended that the rule is contrary to the charter and that the city superintendent and the board of education have no right to accomplish by indirection that which cannot be obtained by law.

Temperance Instruction.

President Hamilton W. Mabie said that there are 150 kindergartens in the public schools, and that twenty-two of them are directed and supported by the association.

Columbia university, and Richard Watson
Dr. James H. Canfield, librarian of
Gilder spoke briefly, extolling the value
of the kindergarten system of education.

Recent Deaths.

Miss Louise Brisbin Dunn, a tutor in the department of botany, of Barnard college, died on December 18. She was graduated from Barnard in 1897 with the degree of A.B. and in 1899 she received the degree of A.M. from Columbia university.

The New York State Central Committee on scientific temperance instruction in public schools has made an inves- Mrs. Charles K. Adams, the widow of tigation of the complaints, by the State former president Adams, of Wisconsin Science Teachers' Association, concern- state university, died recently. The uniing the system of teaching physiology versity will benefit heavily according to and hygiene in the public schools. The the provisions contained in her will. gist of the report is as follows:

There is no contradiction, as has been claimed, between the facts of physiology as taught in the universities and medical schools and those taught in the public schools. The theory of Professor Atchools are having con- water that alcohol, in small quantities, y in securing coal. can be used like sugar, starch, and fat resorted to a half-day for generating heat and muscular power, s have been obliged to according to this investigation, is neither il more coal could be "upheld by science nor by tendent Simmons says experience. common The attitude of the -gh on the docks, but teachers is nothing but a "specious plea raw it cannot be pro- for moderate drinking," and their argument for itis dangerous and fallacious.

nations.

ssell, of Teachers colore the High School tion, on December 13, he Value of Examinan part:

The report states that the parents are generally enthusiastic concerning the study of hygiene. Most of them believe that this study leads their children to take better care of themselves, by insisting on proper ventilation, objecting to bad water, and commenting on the evils of improper eating and cold draughts. This teaching certainly leads children to resist more strongly the temptations of tobacco and drink, appealing to their self respect and making bad habits abhorrent to them.

Mrs. Mary C. Goucher, founder of the Women's college, of Baltimore, one of the leading colleges of the South for young women, died in Baltimore on December 19. She was the wife of the Rev. Dr. John F. Goucher, the president of the college, thru whom she spent large sums to endow the institution.

Judge Alexander Martin, dean of the law department of Missouri university, died, on December 15, at his home in Columbia, Mo. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and of Harvard university and he had a wide reputation as a writer on legal subjects.

Death of Miss Fernald.

Friends of Rev. James C. Fernald will be grieved to learn of the sudden death on December 18, at his home in West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., of must have a place in his eldest daughter, Mary G. She was a struction. Instruction young woman of the highest promise and when the extent and of the loveliest Christian character. She arner's knowledge is was a graduate of the art department of pod. Examinations of Pratt institute, Brooklyn, had been often desirable for the supervisor of art in the schools of Cedar eacher and the pupil. In reply to the teachers suggestions Rapids, Iowa, where she won excepations are given by for improving the law, the report de- tional success, and had begun with the e school or school sys- clares that the law should not be modified brightest prospects her work in a like the purpose of instruc- so as to give the teachers more freedom situation in the schools of Westfield, N. J. s by those outside the in their way of imparting knowledge; Ambitious and deeply conscientious, she when given for the pur- that authors of text-books now have undertook an amount of work that overng a pupil's ability to adequate freedom in the arrangement of taxed her strength, so that in spite of all ely new course of in- temperance matter; that there is no that care and skill could do, the young educational value for evidence to show the necessity of the life failed. A wide circle of loving not be secured equally lower grade pupils having possession of friends sympathize with the sorrowing s reprehensible way. text-books, and that the teachers were family in their sad bereavement. But , however, are practi- wrong when they said a pupil entered the beautiful Christian life of the earnest

several subject, much as

-poration Kenyon L. Butterfield, instructor in
of Tech- rural sociology at the University of
of Lynn, Michigan, has accepted the position of
or of ap- president of the Rhode Island State Col-
lege of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts,
at Kingston, R. I.
rofessor- Professor W. O. Atwater, of Wesleyan
standing university, has been allowed $5,000, by
the Carnegie institute at Washington,
for the prosecution of inquiries with the
respiration calorimeter. The special ob-
Arizona, ject is the study of the relation of oxygen
lent pro- to the anmial economy.
will give

- of the

-h times ay seem ourse of lar sys

Schoolmasters Preparing for
N. E. A.

The Massachusetts Schoolmasters'
cosmog- Club had a dinner at Hotel Brunswick on
December 14, having for discussion the
tional Association in July.
coming meeting of The National Educa-

an Reyn in the

President Eliot spoke particularly upon the size of the coming meeting, and has been called upon the various teachers of the the Har- vicinity to aid in entertaining the twelve thousand, or more, who would be visitors in the city. Particularly will it depend upon the lady teachers to see that they are properly and carefully lodged.

arriet F. chers in

trude F.

The executors of the estate of the late
Robert C. Billings announce that, in ac-
cordance with the terms of his will, they
and educational institutions. The latter
will distribute $1,000,000 among charitable
institutions benefited are:

ley college, Tuskegee institute, Lincoln
Bates college, Berea college, Welles-
university, Cumberland, Tenn.; Fisk uni-
versity, Atlanta university, Fairmount
college, Wichita, Kan.; Mayesville, (S.
C.) institute; Meadville Theological sem-
inary, Phillips Exeter academy, Hackley
school, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Abbot acad-
emy, Andover.

Included in the public bequests are
$100,000 to Harvard college, $100,000 to
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, $50,000 to the Institute of Technol-
ogy to found a "Billings Student Fund."
Any student receiving benefit is
hol and tobacco.
pected to abstain from the use of alco-

Bowdoin Library Building.

ex

BRUNSWICK, ME.-The new library building of Bowdoin college, the gift of Gen. Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, of New York, of the class of 1857, is nearly ready for occupancy, tho its dedication will be postponed until the next commencement. The main portion of the structure is 176 feet long and 46 wide, President Eliot also spoke of the plan with a tower 30 feet square and 100 feet l; Miss of making all addresses short, not to ex- in height rising from the center. This school; ceed half an hour at the most, since he portion contains an alumni room and a e Talbot does not think that it is in the power of lecture hall, with smaller rooms for periany man to speak upon a topic at greater odical rooms, faculty room, president , Conn., length to the profit of listeners. Then and registrar's offices, and recitation cided to he was perplexed with several questions rooms designed particularly for advanced all their of procedure. Should there be several instruction. In the rear at the center is fare. short speeches to follow the one main ad- a wing 90 feet by 46, with five floors for dress, or only a second of considerable a stack room. It contains 100 book rary of length? Upon this, as well as upon the cases with a capacity for 160,000 volumes. ceived a program itself, the speaker hoped for ad- The general plan of the building was heirs of vice from the teachers which should prove made by Prof. H. L. Koufman, the class of efficient assistance. librarian of Brown university.

UCTION TO BOTANY S

IAM C. STEVENS, University of Kansas

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BUFFALO, N. Y yet to be heard fr bazaar in aid of ment fund amount almost certain tha show an increase beyond this sum.

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At the convocation of the University of the Shawnee and Jefferson county There was a meeting_of the teachers of Chicago degrees were awarded to thirty-seven candidates for the bachelor's schools at Meriden, Kansas, on Decemdegree. Nine doctors and masters and ber 13.. Different educational subjects thirty-seven junior college students rewere discussed by teachers from two ceived the title of "associate." counties. This is the first time Shawnee county has united with any other county for a joint meeting and other meetings may be arranged between the two counties.

King Edward has just appointed Mr. Bury the Fellow of Trinity college, Dublin, as Regius professor of history at Cambridge, to succeed the late Lord Acton. Mr. Bury is known in America as the continuator of Gibbon's" Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

The University of Pennsylvania has awarded the Lucy Wharton Drexel medal to Prof. H. V. Hilprecht for his excavations at Nippur and his publications on the subject. The fund for the medals is $2,000, the income of which is to be expendended for medals to be awarded once a year for the best archeological excavations by an English-speaking

scholar.

Teachers' Association
nual session at Des
ember 30, 31, Janu- The London Chamber of Commerce
ng the addresses at the has for the past fifteen years been doing
ill be these: "Grades work not only of civic but also of national
inking in the Grades," and imperial importance by organizing
aeffer, superintendent and encouraging a more efficient educa-
tion of Pennsylvania; tional training for commercial life. Its
e Public Schools," by lectures and classes are so well attended
county superintendent, that the present accommodations have
ois; Oral Hygiene," been found inadequate.
n, of Iowa; and "The
f Children," by Dr.
nt, of Chicago univer-
ion will be divided into
partments for special

and secondary, county ementary, and gradedergarten.

the association are:
Eldred Shelton, In-
W. F. Barr, Des
G. W. Samson, Cedar

-With some sources om, the profits of the the Teachers' Retireto over $36,000. It is the final returns will of several thousands

high school building with thoroly equipped
Martinsburg, W. Va., is to have a new
laboratories for the study of chemistry,
physics, and botany.

According to the reports issued by the
New Jersey state board of education the
cost of running the schools of the state
last year exceeded $8,000,000.

ANNAPOLIS, MD.-The faculty of St. John's college have suspended eighteen students on account of the recent hazing and attack on a professor. Other students have left classes and bound themselves not to return until these punishments are remitted.

The high school at Glens Falls, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire, on December 17, and the property loss will exceed $40,000. All the library, school supplies, and apparatus were entirely destroyed.

Three hundred children are now without a place to continue their studies and the board of education has as yet made no plans for the future.

Stetson university at De Land, Florida, is the largest educational institution in the state and has a very fine library equipment.

A new library building is to be erected at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university by Mrs. Jane L. Stanford. She intends

Going to Bed Hungry.

It Is All Wrong and Man Is the Only
Creature That Does It.

The complete emptiness of the stomThe educational features of the Hawai- ach during sleep adds greatly to the ian exhibit at the St. Louis World's amount of emaciation, sleeplessness, and Fair is to be a historical exhibit. It is general weakness so often met with. desired to show the internal, moral, and There is a perpetual change of tissues in intellectual development of the people. the body, sleeping or waking, and the In order to show the progress of the supply of nourishment ought to be someschool system it is proposed to exhibit what continuous and food taken just bethe archeology of Hawaii and the prim-fore retiring adds more tissue than is deitive implements with which the Ha-stroyed, and increased weight and vigor waiians worked and cultivated the soil. is the result. Dr. W. T. Cathell says: "All animals except man eat before sleep and there is no reason in Nature why man should form the exception to the rule."

Of the 16,034 teachers in the public schools of Indiana, 1,185 are graduates of of the tax money for colleges or universities, 1,274 of state of Chicago are suing normal schools, and 1,165 of private nored by a decision of a mal schools. The number that have had stand at the present no training above the common schools is of education has re- |2,718.

sleepless would take a light lunch of bread If people who are thin, nervous, and and milk or oatmeal and cream, and, at the same time, take a safe, harmless stomach remedy like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in order to aid the stomach in digesting it the result would be a surprising increase in weight, strength and general vigor. The only drawback has been that thin, nervous, dyspeptic people cannot digest and assimilate wholesome food at night or any other time. For such it is absolutely necessary to use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets because they will digest the food, no matter how weak the stomach may be, nourishing the body and resting the stomach at the same time.

Dr. Stevenson says: “I depend almost entirely upon Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in treating indigestion because it is not a quack nostrum and I know just what they contain, a combination of vegetable essences, pure pepsin, and they cure Dyspepsia and stomach troubles because they can't help but cure." Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by druggists everywhere at 50 cents per package. They are in lozenge form, pleasant to take, and contain nothing but pure pepsin, vegetable essences. and bismuth.

modern s been Genoa,

the in

According to the estimates presented to the legislature of Indiana, the Terre

gest all that is ordinarily taken into it.
It gets tired easily, and what it fails to
digest is wasted.

Among the signs of a weak stomach
are uneasiness after eating, fits of ner-
vous headache, and disagreeable belch-
ing.

"I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla at different times for stomach troubles, and a run down condition of the system, and have been greatly benefited by its use. I would not be without it in my family. I am troubled especially in summer with weak stomach and nausea and find Hood's Sarsaparilla invaluable." E. B. HICKMAN, W.Chester, Pa.

Haute Normal school is to receive $80,000 Hood's Sarsaparilla

for the ensuing year. Partisans of this
school are vigorously opposing a proposi-
tion for a second normal in the state.

The society for the aid of school chil-
nectady dren in Chicago has done an immense
a new
amount of work during the past year.
ased on
New suits have been distributed to 688
average urchins; shoes to 2,917, and undergar-
dollars ments to 2,186. Thus the entire city has
gained by the saving of 3,211 children
e forty- from the danger of becoming truants.
oreland
The trustees of Princeton university
have announced that $10,000 has been
received from Morris K. Jessup, of New
York, to be added to the present Morris
Jessup fund, which is devoted to the sup-
port of the library. They also announce
that $1,000 has been received from the
estate of the late Professer Humphreys
to establish a series of prizes in the Ger-
man department.

Dec. 15 e: State

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BrumAda, O.; Rapids, -f West of Caliof Philaof Ft. iggs, of

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WASHINGTON.-United States Minister Francis B. Loomis has brought a present from the king of Portugal to the library

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of Congress, consisting of "The Bulletin The Mutual Life Insur

Charles of Observations Made on the Royal
Yachts." This is a magnificently illus-

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of

are left trated work, embodying the results of ance Company New York
in addi- studies made by the king personally in a
a papers long term of years on the currents and

e of the several ed to the e will of

tides of the ocean and the inhabitants
thereof. It is regarded as one of the
most interesting and valuable scientific
publications of recent years.

ty, Ill., The Chautauquan for December con-
a union tains two strong contributions to the dis-
tion of cussion of rural problems. Graham
Taylor discusses "The Civic Function of
the Country Church," and Kenyon L.
raternity Butterfield writes of "The Federation of
y one of Rural Social Forces." An historical
ed. The sketch of "The Rise of the Russian Na-
hat they tion,'
and a travel paper on "The
to a hos- Crimea and the Caucasus," are interest-
will not ing contributions to current literature
about Russia. The subject of the nature

"Winter Birds and Liberty, study department is Among Fall Homes of Insects," by Alice G. Angus, on McCloskey, of Cornell. The number is d G. F. profusely illustrated and comports to ucator." the spirit of the season.

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