ESTABLISHED 1869 TEN MONTHS OF HARD USAGE Will Be Given Every Text Book in Your Schools Obtain FULL SERVICE from them by PROTECTING, HOLDEN BOOK COVERS THE ONLY ONE-PIECE, DURABLE, WATER THE HOLDEN PATENT BOOK COVER COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, MILES C. HOLDEN, President MASSACHUSETTS gan in 1899 with "Milton's Minor Poems," and included Shakespeare's complete works in the "Cambridge Poets" series, the Tudor Shakespeare and a number of Shakespeare's plays in separate volumes. Other editions were a series of "Types of English Literature" beginning in 1907, "The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists" in 1911 and "Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Ffteenth Centuries," in 1916. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been president of the New England Association of Teachers of English and of the Scottish Historical Society of North America and vice-president of the American Folk-Lore Society, and of the Modern Language Association of America. In 1912 he had an active part in the national ference on uniform requirements in English. con GLOUCESTER. Superintendent Tillman M. Haines, for the last four years head of the Rockland schools, has been elected superintendent here at a salary of $2,300. Superintendent Brooks resigned to enter the army service. AMHERST. An unusual program in every particular, breadth, thoroughness and quality, has been arranged for the fifth annual convention of the American Pageant Association, at Amherst, September 7 and 8, by invitation of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The officers of Teachers Wanted $100 to $150 Month All teachers should try the United States Government examinations to be held throughout the entire country during the fall. The nositions to be filled pay from $1,200 to $1,800; have short hours and annual vacations, with full pay. Those interested should write immediately to Franklin Institute, Department G220, Rochester, N. Y., for schedule showing all examination dates and places and large descriptive book, showing the positions obtainable and giving many sample ex2mination questions, which will be sent free of charge. NEW YORK. In spite of the war the registration in the School of Commerce, New York University, shows an increase of 145 students over registration for the same period last year. Contrary also to expectations there are fewer women than last year. BUFFALO. A Buffalo teacher, arrested with other suffragettes for picketing in front of the White House, will be dismissed as a teacher of domestic science in the Buffalo public schools, if Dr. Henry P. Emerson, superintendent of education, has his way. "It is no credit to the city to have on its payroll a teacher who persists in insulting the President of the United States," Superintendent Emerson said. The board authorized the superintendent to prefer charges against her for being absent from her duties with out leave. NEW JERSEY. HOBOKEN. The board of education of this city, which has a large German population, has voted to discontinue teaching of the Germ a language in the public schools. SOUTHERN STATES. OKLAHOMA. MUSKOGEE. An additional building is being erected at the state school for the blind and the school will be in position to accommodate forty new pupils. The school is maintained not only for the benefit of children who are totally blind, but also for those who have some vision, but who cannot attend the public schools by reason of defective sight. con INDIANAPOLIS. After sideration of a large number of prominent educators, the school board selected E. U. Graff, superintendent at Omaha, for head of the local schools. Mr. Graff is a graduate of Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago. His salary is $6,000. A number of classes at the Arsenal Technical High School will begin work at 7.15 in order that the pupils may be released early in the day for home work. FORT WAYNE. Superintendent J. N. Study, one of the older superintendents of the state, died suddenly a few days ago. MONTICELLO. Harry E. Elder has been chosen superintendent of the city schools to succeed J. M. Leffel, who resigned to accept a similar place in Warsaw. Mr. Elder was principal of the high school last year. MOORESVILLE. Superintendent Dixon has been re-elected for three years at an increase in salary. ILLINOIS. CHICAGO. Students at the Hyde Park High School for their first lesson of the fall term in English were handed copies of President Wilson's reply to the peace proposals of Pope Benedict XV. They will use as their SPRINGFIELD. State Superin * SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ❤ EMERSON College of Oratory HENRY LAURENCE SOUTHWICK, President The largest school of Oratory, Literature and Pedagogy in America. It aims tendent F. G. Blair speaks to Illinois educators in a letter just published, to develop in the student a knowledge of his own powers in expression whether as a creative thinker or an interpreter. A beautiful new building. Summer as follows:"War disturbs all human organiza- sessions. Catalogue and full information on application to tions. All are members of one body and a shock to any part of that body is a shock to the whole body, but some parts may feel it more keenly HARRY SEYMOUR ROSS, Dean BOSTON, MASS. INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART and suffer longer from it than others, institutions. Of all our social insti INUTE OF reconstruct Our It is wise statesmanship and sound tutions education is the slowest and But to with aca 120 Claremont Avenue FRANK DAMROSCH, Director It is to the teachers and the century. If education is to play is Special Course for Supervisors institutions in such that "Therefore, while placing the interests of the nation in the war above all others, let all in authority use their power to conserve in every possible way the interests of our educational institutions. tions. our "It is altogether fitting and proper IOWA. IOWA CITY. Clarence M. Case MISSOURI, a that our schools and colleges should has been appointed associate profes; STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WILbe the centres of active, intelligent sor in the newly created School of patriotism, and that their teaching Commerce of the State University. should result in a quick and complete readiness of both teachers and students to prove their faith and conviotion by any service or sacrifice reST. LOUIS. Philip W. A. Cox has quired at the front. But, however been assigned the opportunity of dewilling they may be to render such veloping an ideal junior high school. service, is it acting in the best in- St. Louis always grapples with terests of the nation to accept it? Of problem devotedly and scientifically course if it becomes necessary every as she will again demonstrate. schoolhouse and college building will The St. Louis schools enrolled 81,be given out freely for hospital and 464 on the opening day, an increase arsenal, every teacher who will be of 1,276 over the enrollment of the accepted, and every student will be first day last year. Even in the high found in the lines of our defence. schools, where it was expected there But is it in the best interests of the would be a decrease on account of nation that such service be accepted the war, there was an increase of 207. until dire necessity demand it? Does The public school system here now not our best interest in this war as includes: One teacher's college, six well as in the reconstruction which high schools, one junior high school, will follow it, require that our edu- 114 elementary schools, two open-air cation system shall not become de- schools, one school for deaf children, moralized? Instead of closing our eight special schools and 168 kinderschoolrooms and laboratories 1S it gartens. The teaching corps of these not better, even as a war policy, to schools consists of 2,538 principa.s wider their open opportunities? and teachers. While some of the modern scientific The junior high school is one of methods of warfare seem more brutal the new features this year. It has and barbaric than those of primitive enrolled 1,070 seventh, eighth and times, the only way to stop such mis- ninth grade pupils. It is understood application of scientific knowledge is that if this school is a success, a suffiby more scientific knowledge. Our cient number of others of the same young men and women should be en- grade will be established to cover the couraged to finish their courses. Our whole city. nation does not want raw, unfinished products of any kind either on its fighting lines or in its factories. TEACHERS' AGENCIES. Application for the fellowship for the academic year 1917-1918 should be made at once. The next THE FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES academic year will open September Boston, Mass., 2-A Park Street Portland, Ore., 514 Journal Bldg. Birmingham, Ala., 809 Title Bldg. years and went to New York as secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. A year or two ago he was chosen head of the Dunwoody Institute. The American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, organized with President Wilson's approval, is composed of the nation's labor leaders, and having as its double purpose the crushing of disloyalty and the solidifying of labor in the war for democracy, elected as its leader Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. The outstanding provisions in the declaration of principles include:Suppression of disloyalists and pro-German propagandists. Solidification of labor behind the government. Conscription of wealth as well as of men. Heavy taxes on incomes, profits and land values. excess Government control of industries in case of labor disputes. Action against speculative interests which enhance prices of necessaries of life. Insurance for soldiers and sailors. Endorsement of President Wilson's decision not to permit the war to be made an excuse for lowering labor standards. Declaring that wage earners must have a voice in determining conditions under which they give service; must be represented in councils conducting the war and at peace negotiations. The overshadowing issue is preservation of democracy. Either democracy will endure and men will be free or autocracy will triumph and the race will be enslaved. To compromise now would be to sow seed for a bloodier war. Mr. Gompers was elected presiIdent of the alliance amid an outburst of applause. "I am profoundly responsive to the honor and opportunity," he said. "My whole life has been consecrated to being of service to my fellow men." "It is a big movement,' parting word of delegates. "In ninety days American labor will have crushed the disloyalists and will have A GOOD was the Business Opportunity A man acquainted with the school book business, who has a small capital, can make an advantageous connection with a well established house that has a good future. ADDRESS: PUBLISHERS Care JOURNAL OF EDUCATION a clear field in its noble battle for SOUTHWESTERN STATES. CALIFORNIA. LOS ANGELES. There are 2,800 teachers, day and evening schools, 80,000 pupils, 56,000 elementary, 17,000 high, 7,000 evening schools. Los Angeles has an increase of 1,800 acres of home-school gardens this year and 1,800 elementary school pupils are doing regular garden work. Girl Scout Fellowship [For graduate study in Teachers Announcement is made that Na- Three points will be considered 1. The scholastic standing of the applicant; preference will be given to a graduate of a standard college. 2. 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Schools in France Schools in caves, and, sometimes in rare instances, with pupils and teachers wearing gas masks, are extremes to which war-ridden France has gone to insure for every child "that heritage in which alone is the prophecy of an enduring nation," says an official report to the regents of the University of the State of New York, by Dr. John H. Finley, president of the University of the State of New York, and State Commissioner of Education, who recently returned from an educational mission in France, during which he studied the effect of the war on the French school system. While France has restricted the use of food, fuel and light; has discouraged travel; has mobilized every able-bodied man for defence she has not for one moment for'gotten her future defence, said President Finley. Women by thousands have taken the places of men teachers called to the front, many of whom, finally incapacitated for battle by wounds, have again returned to teach. President Finley especially sought the advice of France in meeting like conditions here. This advice, summed up, is, he said: "Do not let the needs of the hour, however heavily they fall upon the men and women of the day, permit neglect of the defences of tomor row. Sacrifice everything to bequeath the spirit that has made the institutions which we would preserve and enlarge in our children. France had no time to make plans for else than immediate defence. Her universities were at once virtually emptied of men, when some should have been held in order that they might give a more efficient service later." Dr. Finley urges the United States to take time to prepare against such exhaustion of technical skill and professional equipment. Except to make place for physical training in her schools, which is not yet generally prescribed or enforced, he says there is little change in the French curriculum. France, after an unsuccessful experiment fifteen years ago, withdrew military training from her public schools. While in France he took steps to bring about a closer co-operation between the universities of that. country and the United States. Child Labor Law The new Federal Child Labor Law took effect September 1. Now no hild under fourteen may be employed in any factory mill, workshop or cannery in the United States whose products are to be shipped in interstate commerce, and no child under sixteen in any mine or quarry. The working day of children fourteen and fifteen years of age in factories may not be longer than eight hours and they may not be employed between 7 P. M. and 6 A. M. The enforcement of the law has TEACHERS' AGENCIES CONFIDENCE PROVED strongly emphasized than usual this September, when army in stress of sudden vacancies at the opening of schools is more service demands are playing havoc with many school faculties. A Vermont superintendent writes on September 1: "I need an experienced man for principal of the new Junior High School at Montgomery Centre. Do not recommend a man unless you are convinced that he will mendation from you will be suffisubmit his credentials. A recomFrom East Rochester, N. Y., the principal of the high school writes: "Mr. -made personal application; his personality and your recommendation pleased So well that the Board elected him at $1000 on condition that he obtain his license He seems to be of man that I asked for and I am grateful to you for sending him. the kind Many similar letters received by every mail are gratifying evidence of the confidence schools place in our recommendation for SUDDEN VACANCIES. THE SCHOOL BULLETIN TEACHERS' AGENCY, C. W. BARDEEN, Manager. 315-321 East Washington Street, Syracuse, New York. accept, and you need not stop to IN STRESS OF cient guarantee. OUR BOOKLET been delegated by the Secretary of The Albert Teachers' Agency "TEACHING AS A BUSINESS" Labor to the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor, and the head of the new child-labor division of that bureau is Miss Grace Abbott of Chicago. Established 1885 623 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois with new chapters, suggestive letters, etc. Used as text in Schools of Education and Normal Schools. Free to any address the The Pratt Teachers' Agency As an aid to the Children's Bureau in the enforcement of child-labor law the women's committee of the Council of National Defence at Washington has just iswho sued an appeal to all women wish to help American youth in war-time, urging them to see that all children under fourteen are enrolled in school and asking them to forward to the women's committee information about their own community answering the simple questions three which the com mittee has prepared: 1. 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