TEACHERS' AGENCIES. THE FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES Boston, Mass., 2-A Park Street New York, N. Y., 156 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa., 549 Union Arcade Birmingham, Ala., 809 Title Bldg. Portland, Ore., 514 Journal Bldg. ciété de Géographie of Paris in recognition of his recent work, "The French in the Heart of America." What They Ask of Teachers Amsterdam, via London, June 16. newspaper, -The Berlin Socialist Vorwaerts, reprints a circular from the Prussian Minister of Education addressed to all school teachers in Germany warning them against "en MISS E. F. FOSTER, Manager MISS T. M. HASTINGS, Acting Manager emy agents in our midst trying to Reputation founded on twenty-seven years of successful experience. Established 1890 THE FICKETT TEACHER'S AGENCY Edward W. Fickett, Prop. Established 1885. astound the people, and gives by actual photographic reproduction the unsanitary, neglected, dilapidated condition of some schools. The pamphlet is an eloquent appeal for progress. SOUTHWESTERN STATES. CALIFORNIA. LOS ANGELES. When the Girls' Clubhouse of the Lincoln High School was dedicated this month there were official representatives from thirty-two high schools of Southern California present. Miss Ethel Percy Andrus has been unanimously elected principal of the Lincoln School at $3,300 salary. at182. Seven schools have day nurseries. For the month of April 3,623 children were cared for and of this number eighty per cent. are of nursery age. This means that the care of the children in the nursery permits their older sisters and brothers to attend school and allows their parents to obtain employment to maintain the integrity of the family. The daily average tendance at the nurseries is Nine nurses visit the schools regularly. Because of conditions in the foreign district the matter of proper bathing is emphasized and practiced in the schools. Mothers' classes are held in the afternoon in nine schools. Women attend who are unable to be present at night school work because of caring for children and home duties. Ten of the fourteen neighborhood schools keep their grounds open after school hours and utilize them for playgrounds. All of these schools specialize in manual work, which has very practical phases and which in many cases may be considered vocational. The schools furnish as much social life as possible to the neighborhood by establishing clubs, branch libraries and entertainments. Their only competitors are the streets, the pool rooms, the saloons and a few cheap motion picture houses. "A careful investigation shows," according to Superintend 8 Beacon Street, Boston Telephone Hay. 1678. organize a preparedness program in which the schools might participate. At this conference five lines of activity were decided upon. Military drill was inaugurated for the high school students and up to the present time there are approximately 1,000 students organized in volunteer companies. A large amount of labor has been put into the making of home gardens and in assisting the Municipal Home Garden Committee, which was appointed to extend the work to adults. There are nearly 2,000 acres of land under cultivation. In the elementary schools 14,012 pupils work out of the regular school hours. These pupils have been enrolled as soldiers of the soil and now understand more thoroughly the significance of the home gardens. Special instruction is being given in Red Cross work, consisting of courses in home nursing and in first aid. Cooking classes have continued, but special emphasis is given to eliminating waste and to the preparation of inexpensive meals. Also classes in invalid and camp cookery have been established. Courses are also given in camp sanitation and hygiene. At the conference it was decided to list all the persons competent to give useful service if necessary. These amounted to about 3,600. All of the city schools are saving tin foil and giving it to a central committee. The fundamental idea is that the schools will contribute generously of the time and effort of the teachers, but must not displace the real work of the sow distrust between the German people and their emperor." The circular urges that all the teachers constantly hold before the eyes of the children the Emperor's great merits and the nation's indebtedness to him and the Hohenzollern family. Vorwaerts characterizes the circular as the "limit of blunder."-New York Sun. Impressed Teachers The press of registration was so great in certain polling places in Boston that in one precinct nine women teachers were impressed as registration officers. This is bringing women ballot-box. very close to the "It would not be strange if the government as insistently urged their presence in the polling-booth as in that of registration places," says the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. "The men and women who have argued against woman suffrage that women in power would not do their full share for war service should read intently the statements that three states in the Union have contributed their full quota to the new army call. They are Oregon, Nevada and Utah, all of them suffrage states." Holyoke Transcript. The Week in Review accumu Continued from page 2. Norwegian ships were sunk almost as mercilessly as those of the belligerent nations and Norwegian harbors were almost in a state of siege. The recent discovery at Christiana of large stocks of ingeniously-disguised German explosives, apparently lated for the wrecking of Norwegian ships, has intensified the resentment of Norwegians. The resignation of the German Minister to Norway may be only a coincidence or it may be a A War Medal sign that the strain upon diplomatic relations has approached the breakCommissioner of Education John ing point. If Norway should be H. Finley, now in France studying forced to join the Entente Allies, it the work the schools are doing will be the first break in the Scantoward prosecution of the war, has dinavian alliance, formed at the bebeen awarded the gold medal of the ginning of the war for the preservaConrad Malte-Brun prize by the So- tion of neutrality. schools. ent Shiels, "that the only additional PHOTOGRAPHS 24 Good Photographs for $1.00 Among the figures and facts on some of commencements, including the honorary degrees, which came to the attention of the Journal of EduIcation are these: Amherst-91 graduates; LL. D., Frederic Bayley Pratt, head of Pratt Institute; D. Sc., Professor Robert A. Millikan, University of Chicago. Brown-197 degrees; LL. D., Samuel H. Ordway, New York civil service TEACHERS' AGENCIES summer * MIDSUMMER agency calls for teachers are usually expected to be few, but when a morn- a recommendation asked to try to fill that this Agency has come to have all-the-year-round CALLS. THE SCHOOL BULLETIN TEACHERS' AGENCY, C. W. BARDEEN, Manager. 313-321 East Washington Street, Syracuse, New York. reformer, Samuel C. Eastman of Con- The Pratt Teachers' Agency cord, N. H., and Lindley M. Garrison; Litt. D., Professor Dallas Lore Sharp, Boston University, and Professor Stephen B. Leacock, McGill University; D. Sc., John E. Bucher, Brown. Clark College-29 degrees. A 70 Fifth Avenue New York Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. WM. O. PRATT, Mgr. Schools and FamiHes MERICAN: TEACHERS' AGENCY introduces to Colleges and FOREIGN superior Professors, Principals, Assistants, Tutors and Harvard-1,294 degrees; M. A., Governesses, for every department of instruction; recommends good Schools President Newcomb Carlton of the to parents. Call on or address Western Union; LL. D., President Hibben of Princeton, Former Ambassador Henry White, Ambassador Cecil Spring-Rice, Herbert Clark Hoover; Litt. 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Grade teachers with ability to teach some approved system of music and drawing secure positions paying $70 to $90 per month. For further Information address THE TEACHERS' AĠEÑCY, R. L. MYERS & CO., Lemoyne Trust Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Co-operating Agencies in Denver and Atlanta. grees; LL. D., President Robert J. THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' AGENCY TEACHERS' AGENCY 0.480OTT & CO., Proj rietors Briggs of Harvard, Former Ambassador Herrick; Doctor of Music, Paderewski. Á superior agency for superior people. We recommend only reliable candidates. Services free to school officials. CHARLES W. MULFORD, Proprietor. 353 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Telephone Vanderbilt 2436 and 2437. THE CORLEW TEACHERS' AGENCY ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY, Inc. Bates College-85 degrees; LL. D., When You Are On Expense Instead of Salary That's a Time You Need T. C. U. Protection Just after school opened last fall, we received an interesting letter from a T. C. 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Bldg., Lincoln, Nebraska Name.... Address.... (This coupon places the sender under no obligation) What the T. C. U. Will Do For You You will be paid $50.00 a month, when you are disabled by sickness or accident. This will help you to pay your doctor and your nurse, and other bills which come with sickness or injuries. This will protect your savings account so you will not have to start it all over again. This will keep you out of debt. You will be paid $25.00 a month for a period of illness that does not confine you to the house, but keeps you from your work. This will pay your board while you get well and strong. You will not have to overtax your strength by returning to work before you should. Operation and Hospital Benefits will be paid you in addition to other bene fits. You will be paid $50.00 a month when you are quarantined, and your salary is thus stopped. This insures your income. You may receive the following specific indemnities in lieu of monthly indemnity, if you prefer. 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