Jimmie Jones, Jr., is an example of what the new junior high school system can do for the average boy. There never was any sound reason, anyway, for dividing precollege education into two periods of eight and four years each. It is a further fact that the old-time seventh and eighth grades, which came at the critical time in a pupil's life, at a time when he ought to receive a real inspiration from school work, were about the dullest and most wasteful in the whole educational cycle. The work was mostly review of what had gone before, and seemingly calculated to drive a boy from the schoolroom into industrial life, where what he did counted for something. Even moderate efficiency demanded the creation of the junior high school.-The Quadwrangler, in the Boston Transcript. DREW'S GOLDEN JUBILEE New York City and Madison, N. J., were both the scenes (on October 29, 30 and 31, 1917,) of the semi-centennial celebration of Drew Theological Seminary. 441 for a million-dollar endowment has been successfully launched. Drew Seminary was first conceived in New York City DAILY BIBLE READINGS FOR SCHOOL 9. STORY OF JOSEPH, CONCLUDED. seph's Hidden Tears at Sight of Benjamin. The organization of Drew was perfected in 1867, when the seminary was formally opened. The first president was Dr. John McClintock, who was succeeded by R. S. W. Genesis xliii, 16-34; Jeremiah xxxi, 3b, Foster (afterward bishop). John F. Hurst (also later elected a bishop), John Miley, Daniel P. Kidder, George R. Crooks, S. F. Upham, Henry A. Buttz (now president emeritus, who has been connected with the faculty of Drew during its entire history), Bernard H. Nadal and James Strong have been among its presidents. The present head of Drew is Dr. Ezra S. Tipple, a graduate of Drew and of Syracuse University, who entered the ministry in 1887 and is secretary of the Methodist Board of Education. Under his direction a campaign 6. Jo T. Genesis xliv, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12-14, 18-34; Jeremiah xxxi, 11b-13b. The Cup in Benjamin's Sack. Joseph Reveals F. Genesis xlv; Psalms cxxx, 2-6. Himself and Forgives His Brothers. S. Genesis xlvi, 1-7, 28, 29; xlvii, 7-12; xlviii, 1, S. Genesis xlviii, 21; xlix, 1, 3, 5-21. BOOK TABLE KNOWING AND USING WORDS. By William D. Lewis and Mabel Dodge Holmes. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Cloth. 128 pp. Price, 75 cents. In many ways for several years Mr. Lewis has been demonstrating intense interest and high efficiency in promoting the best use of spoken and written English, and this book is the ripe fruit of much culture. In school and out, in business and society, in the industries as in the professions, it is now recognized as indispensable to great success that one use the English language fluently, accurately and interestingly. Mr. Lewis was one of the first men of today to place great emphasis upon the need of meeting this public demand and he has specialized upon ways and means of getting early and adequate results for his effort in this direction. Into this book he has packed all the schemes and devices whose efficiency he has demonstrated. There is nothing lugged in because it is traditional nor because it is catchy. If it is in this book we may be sure that it is known to be both up to date and genuinely valuable as a means of increasing efficiency in the use of the right word in the right place, at the right time, both for correctness and for attractiveness. The authors make a brilliant statement of their conviction as to the significance of good English: “Language is the clothing of one's thought. If it is spoken, the quality of the voice, the purity of the vowels, the distinctness of the consonants, all combine to indicate the social and intellectual rank of the speaker. That accuracy which is perfectly easy and natural is an invaluable passport in business and society. Inaccuracy, slovenliness, or studied precision is infallible evidence of lack of culture. If language is written, it is, as it were, an exhibition of thought on dress parade. The sentences must be easy to understand; their connection and sequence must be natural and clear; their groupings into paragraphs must be logical and helpful in conveying the whole thought. A misspelled word is a dirty fingermark on the mental linen. In both spoken and written expression the choice of the right word is imperative. The nice distinctions that lend subtle charm can come only from acquaintance with the derivation and connotation of the words themselves and with their infinite variety of relationships in idiomatic literary usage." Joseph's AN EXPERIMENT IN THE FUNDAMENTALS. By Cyrus D. Mead, Ph.D., College for Teachers, University of Cincinnati. One of the School Efficiency Monographs. Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Company. 68 pp. Price, 60 cents. As was to have been expected when the testing of results became the rage, the testers themselves are much excited in having the champions of every set of very tests prove the inferiority of other sets of tests. There is danger of confusing the everyday teachers to the verge of disgust, but there is now no help for it and we must read all that everybody says of the other fellow's weakness. Professor Mead in this monograph gives the first elaborate summary through tables of the results of a testing of a large number of pupils in a large city system of schools, of more than one expert system of teaching essentials. It is interesting reading. RUSSIAN COMPOSITION. By J. Solomonof. Cloth. VOLPER'S RUSSIAN ACCIDENCE TABLES. Edited Recent events in Russia, with the rise of a great Rus- about twenty-five lessons in each part. The book is adapted for use early in the course. Mr. Sieff, the editor of the "Accidence Tables," is in structor in Russian in several polytechnic schools in England and has adapted the work from the Russian original, with special attention to the needs of English-speaking students. It contains all the declensions of nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns, the conjugations of verbs, formation of nouns, adjectives and numerals, a chapter on the formation of augmentatives, diminutives, etc., a full index and a grammatical glossary. It is an extremely valuable and reasonably concise reference work of forms, and is indispensable to the student. AMERICAN HISTORY FOR LITTLE FOLK. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball. For boys and girls eight to twelve. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Cloth. Price, 75 cents. One of the best phases of the latest features of the public schools is that school children get a relish for their studies in advance of routine work therein. In no line of school work is this more in evidence than in the case of history. Children who read a book like this of Dr. Blaisdell and Mr. Ball will study real history with zest because they have had the appetite whetted to a keen edge by irresistibly charming stories of Polly Daggett, who saved the village flag-pole from the British, and Peggy White, who dared to go and beg her father's freedom from Lord Cornwallis; of the heroes of Virginia and the Mayflower, of the Dutch in New York and of the Quakers in Philadelphia, and about the historic scene in 1777 in Betsy Ross's little back parlor. THE RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES. Kipling BOOK II. From Kipling's "The Seven Seas," "The Day's Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. Kipling is the best of the best story writers for children and the best of the best of Kipling's best are gathered in these two books. More could not be said; if it could be we would try to say it, for we are infatuated with the selections gathered in these pages. THROUGH THE BIBLE DAY BY DAY. By Rev. F. B. Meyer. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Illustrated. Price, 50 cents. This Volume III of the Devotional Commentary Series on the Bible includes the books from Job to Ecclesiastes. It is arranged for daily readings with book introductions, outlines and review questions and is designed to bring out spiritual teachings and to give them a personal application to every reader. The illustrations are from paintings by modern artists. UNCLE SQUEAKY'S VACATION. By Nellie M. Leonard. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Illustrated. Price, 50 cents. This story of ten little mice and their grown-ups treats them successfully in the likeness of real children, and arouses an interest in the animal world that can be extended profitably to the smallest members of the human. The amusing adventures of the mice in "Uncle Squeaky's Vacation" bring enjoyment that is made more vivid by the clever pen-and-ink sketches SO freely scattered through the text. THE TREASURE OF MUSHROOM ROCK. By Sidford F. Hamp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Illustrated. This story of prospecting in the Rocky Mountains is bound to be of great interest to every boy. It gives the adventures of an American and an English boy, who after many vicissitudes find themselves in a mining town in Utah. Life in the open, human nature of all kinds, with courage and persistence winning in the end, makes it a live story holding youthful attention to the end. THE ADVENTURES OF PUSS IN BOOTS, Jr. By FURTHER ADVENTURES OF PUSS IN BOOTS, All little folks have a fondness for animals as heroes and "Puss in Boots, Jr." is a most amusing figure. He starts out in search of his father, the Elder Puss in Boots. During his search through Mother. Goose Land he visits the little pig that went to market, sees the cow jump over the moon, has supper with the old woman that lived in a shoe, and thus combines these and other old friends and new experiences. In the companion volume the engaging Puss hunts further for his famous father and has many adventures before he finds him. FIL AND FILIPPA: STORY OF CHILD-LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES. By John Stuart Thomson, New York: The Macmillan Company. Illustrated. Price, 40 cents. Charmingly told and attractively illustrated in colors, the story takes one into the home-life of the Philippines. Climate, worship, houses, productions, animals, dress and customs are all woven into a setting that is as real to the reader as it is faithful to the truth. A map in the frontispiece adds to the book's use as an aid in geography or history of these islands. HOW THE PRESENT CAME FROM THE PAST. . By Margaret E. Wells. New York: The Macmillan Company. Illustrated. Price, 56 cents. This book is intended to acquaint children with primitive man. Part I takes up his history and customs and has six problems for children to solve; Part II, myths and legends about nature facts followed by ten problems. The illustrations are peculiarly original and aid in laying the foundation of future study by making the dead past live again. With this motive, the author has provided details of primitive life with thoughts and feelings embodied in literature, myth and legend. "The Profession of Teaching." By O. I. Woodley and M. V. Woodley. Price, $1.35.-"Kipling Stories and Poems" (Books I and II). By M. E. Burt and W. T. Chapin. "The Little Book of the Flag." By Eva M. Tappan. Price, 40c.-"Wild Animal Ways." By E. T. Seton. Price, 60c. "Irving's Tales from the Alhambra." Adapted by J. V. Brower. Price, $1.10.-"The Observation of Teaching." By C. R. Maxwell. Price, 70c."Life of Robert E. Lee for Boys and Girls." By J. G. Hamilton and M. T. Hamilton. Price, $1.25.-"The History of Medieval Europe." By L. Thorndike, Price, $2.75. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. "English Essays." Edited by David T. Pottinger. Price, 25c.-"A Textbook in the Principles of Science Teaching.' By G. R. Twiss. Price, $1.40.-"Junior High School Mathematics." By Vosburgh and Gentleman. Price, 75c. New York: The Macmillan Company. "Extraits des Prosateurs Français." Edited by J. E. Mansion. Price, 65c. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. "The Superintendents' Guide." By H. E. Bartow. Price, 25c. Philadelphia: The American Sunday School Union. "The Well of English and the Bucket." By Burges Johnson. Price, $1.25.-"American History for Little Folks." By A. F. Blaisdell and F. K. Ball. Price, 50c. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. "The Food of Working Women." Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union. "The Essentials of Child Study." By G. W. A. Luckey. Chicago: The University Publishing Company. "Exercise and Review Book in Biology." By J. G. Blaisdell. Yonkers. N. Y.: The World Book Company. "Bookkeeping and Accounting." By J. J. Klein. New York: D. Appleton & Co. "Number Games for Primary Grades." Bv A. Van S. Harris and L. McL. Waldo. Price, 60c.-"Nixie Bunny in Faraway Lands." By J. C. Sindelar. Price, 45c."The Common School Song Book." Price, 40c. Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company. "Clematis." By Bertha B. and Ernest Cobb. Brookline: The Riverdale Press. "A Trip to Latin America." (In simple Spanish.) By V. Fuentes and V. E. François, New York: Henry Holt & Co. "A Treasury of Old Fairy Tales." By Alethea Chaplin. Price, 50c.-"A Treasury of Folk Tales." By Lilian Gask. Price. 50c.-"The Age of Fable.' By Thomas Bulfinch. Price. $1.00.-"American Presidents." By T. F. Moran, Price, 75c. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. 443 EDUCATIONAL NEWS This department is open to contributions from anyone connected with schools or school events in any part of the country. Items of more than local interest relating to any phase of school work or school administration are acceptable as news. Contributions must be signed to secure insertion.. Boston. 2: Essex County, Mass., Teachers Association. Tremont Temple, Superintendent William F. Eldredge, Rockport, president; John H. Bosshart, Salem, secretary. 8-10: Kansas State Teachers' Associa tion. Topeka W. H. Johnson, Lawrence, president; F. L. Pinet, Topeka, secretary. 12-16: Newcastle County Teachers Institute, A. I. Dupont High School. Kent and Sussex Counties, at Milford. State Institute for Colored Teachers at Milford. Charles A. Wagner, State Commissioner of Education, Dover, Delaware, chairman committee on arrangements. 15-17: Missouri State Teachers' Association. Kansas City. President, Ira Richardson, Maryville; secretarytreasurer, E. M. Carter, Columbia. 15-17: Joint 22-23: East Central Oklahoma Edu- 25-March 2: Department of Superin- NEW ENGLAND STATES. MASSACHUSETTS. meeting: New England Association of School Superintendents, Massachusetts Superintendents Association, American Institute of Instruction and Massachusetts Teachers Association. Boston. 26-28: South Dakota Educational Association. Thirty-fifth annual meeting. Sioux Falls. A. H. Seymour, Aberdeen, corresponding Education was discussed by Super secretary. 26-28: Montana State Teachers' Association. Helena. Dr. H. H. Swain, Helena, secretary. Charlotte. president; 29-December 1: North Carolina State Teachers' - Assembly. A. T. Allen, Salisbury, N. W. Walker, Chapel Hill, vicepresident; E. E. Sams, Raleigh, secretary. 29-December 1: Texas State Teachers' Association. Waco. Miss Annie Webb Blanton, Denton, president; R. T. Ellis, Forth Worth, secretary. DECEMBER. 7-8: New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Springfield, Mass. Professor Walter Ballou Jacobs, Brown University, secretary. 26-29: Pennsylvania Educational Association. Johnstown, Pa. Charles S. Davis, Steelton, president; Dr. J. P. McCaskey, Lancaster, secretary. 26-30: Florida Educational Association, Daytona. Miss Agnes Ellen Harris, State College for Women, Tallahassee, president; Hon. R. L. Turner, Inverness, secretary. last SPRINGFIELD. At the meeting of the Connecticut Valley Superintendents Round Table Civic intendent F. K. Congdon of Northampton, and Principal McDougal of Broad Brook, Conn. Superintendent J. R. Fausey was elected president and Superintendent Goodhue, secretary. WARREN. S. B. Genthner, principal of Charlton High School for the past two years, has been elected to the principalship of the Warren High School. Mr. Genthner is a Bowdoin graduate and has taught in Morris Hill, Maine, Randolph, Vt., and Charlton, Mass. BROOKFIELD. Fred E. Snell, now teacher of mathematics in Greenfield High School, has been elected principal of the Brookfield High School, to succeed William M. Strong, who has been drafted. Mr. Snell is a Harvard graduate, 1916, and has taught one year in Greenfield. :-: GREENFIELD. Charles R. Hart, teacher in Latin in the Greenfield High School, has been accepted by the National War Council for Y. M. C. A. work in France. He will sail November 1. NORTH ADAMS. The State Normal School here offers the following correspondence courses for teachers: Oral language (including story telling and dramatization); primary reading and spelling; grammar; literature; arithmetic, geography; history and social science; handicraft (for the first six grades); cooking; sewing; pyschology; history of education. The subject-matter and procedure in these courses are designed to give professional training to teachers of boys and girls in elementary schools,-to show the teacher not only what to teach but how to teach. NORTON. The new Wheaton College chapel was dedicated last Sunday with impressive monies. cere The exercises were followed by a reception in Mary Lyon Hall attended by many alumnae and friends of the college. CONNECTICUT. The report of NEW HAVEN, the treasurer of Yale University for last fiscal year shows heavy financial losses caused by the war and heavier deficits predicted for the current year. A deficit of $12,000 for the university dining hall, reports Treasurer George Parmly Day, is traceable to the increased cost of foodstuffs and the small registration following the departure of a thousand students to enter military service. The net deficit of the university is shown to have been over $115,000. Gifts from 6,000 alumni reduced this to $15,318. The total gifts to Yale in the year amounted to $1,749,192, making the endowment on June 30, $19,823,646, as compared with Harvard, $32,434,736, and Princeton, $6,248,625. Six of the nine Yale schools show deficits. 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 BINGHAMTON. More than 300 boys out of the total of 400 in the local high school between the ages of sixteen and eighteen gathered in the big auditorium of the buildfor ing and organized a cadet corps military training and drill. Captain Moody will have charge of the work. He will be assisted by Second Lieutenant Edgar Parsons of Company H, New York Guard, who is now stationed in this city. The boys were divided into two companies and will drill at the State Armory once each week. Company A will drill Tuesday afternoon from 4.15 until 5.45, and Company B from 6.30 until 8 o'clock general ing physical defects and explain to parents the nature of such defects and suggest the proper method of treatment. To arrange, after the consent of the parents has been secured, for the free treatment of physical defects of those children who are unable to pay for medical attention. To visit the homes of children who come to school in an unsanitary condition and instruct the mothers in the importance of cleanliness. To make special examinations of pupils when their defects seem to demand it. To give practical demonstrations in homes when the nature of the case and home conditions seem to warrant it. SCHOOL SUPPLIES ERIE. Superintendent I. B. Bush has arranged a plan whereby the boy choosing the industrial course, upon entering the high school, will spend approximately half of his time in the study of English, algebra and science, and half in drafting, pracDuring the tice and shop work. ensuing summer the boy will work in one of the factories of Erie as a trial apprentice. At the beginning of the second year the student regularly alternates between the school and the shop, and this system is continued until he graduates. Before the beginning of each school term the boy, his parents, the employer and the school authorities agree upon the service, the wages and the opportunities of work to be given during the year. Under this plan the student will work thirty weeks and will go to school twenty weeks in each year. During the first year he will spend 1,160 hours in school work and 540 hours in shop work; during the second, third and fourth years he will spend an average of 560 hours in school work and 1,620 hours in That there shop work each year. may be no time lost in vocational selection in the high school, it is planned to have the boy try himself out in the grammar grades in the fundamentals of wood-working, metal-working, electrical construc- PALMER METHOD PENMANSHIP tion, sheet metal construction, printing, concrete construction and man. 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Palmer Building, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 32 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, III. Forsyth Building, Atlanta, Ga. SOUTHERN STATES. NORTH CAROLINA. Governor T. W. Bickett has called upon teachers in all North Carolina rural schools to read to pupils his appeal that November be "Thrift Month" in the state. Calling upon farmers to capitalize the present opportunity he specifically suggests that every farmer do one or more of the following things: 1. If he is a tenant to buy, if possible, a small farm and to make the first payment on the purchase price. 2. To pay off all debts, and go on a cash basis next year. 3. To start a savings account in some bank or credit union. 4. To buy a milch cow or brood SOW. 5. To install home water works and lights. 6. To paint his house. 7. To set out an orchard. The Agricultural Department, the Joint Committee on Agricultural Work and the State Department of Education will generously co-operate with the farmers in making Thrift Month a notable month in the agricultural life of the state. "Complete plans for taking a complete census during the first week in December will be arranged to the end that we may know at the end of the month just how many farmers have redeemed the great opportunity that now confronts them and have preserved for their wives and children some portion of the blessings of this unparalleled year." These conferences are planned to 445 help girls decide early in their SCHOOLS and COLLEGES university career on the work they want to make their regular vocation. MISSOURI. TARKIO. On October 19 Tarkio Dr. College celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of Dr. J. A. Thompson as president of this institution. Thompson has held his office longer than any other college president in this state. The chief address was delivered by Dr. A. Ross Hill, president of the state university, who paid a high tribute to Dr. Thompson for his service in the educational work of this state. A feature of the celebration was the unveiling of an oil painting of Dr. Thompson done by Mrs. Elizabeth Tuttle Holsman of Chicago, a former art instructor at Tarkio College. In addition to this, Superintendent M. B. Vaughn and the high school principal rented, planted and harvested seven acres of navy beans. They will get about seventy bushels from the seven acres. The high school here has enrolled 145, so over twenty-five per cent. are directly interested. SOUTH DAKOTA. ABERDEEN. The interest from a $250 Liberty Bond purchased by the senior class of the Northern Normal and Industrial School will be given as a prize to the student excelling in literary or dramatic lines until the second bond issue matures, when the principal will become the property of the school. SIOUX FALLS. At the meeting U. S. Government Positions for of the South Dakota Educational Teachers All teachers should the try United States Government examinations soon to be held throughout the entire country. The positions to be filled pay from $1,200 to $1,800; have short hours and annual vacations, with full pay. Those interested should write inmediately to Franklin Institute, Department J220, Rochester, N. Association here November 26-28, the educational survey which is now being promulgated in the state and for which the legislature has made a generous appropriation, will be discussed. some of the One feature program which is entirely new is a reunion of all former South Dakota educators. A committee consisting of the also of present and in the former leading educators state has been formed, and this Y., for schedule showing all examination dates and places and large committee is working diligently to descriptive book, showing the posi- enlist the attendance of former now living in tions obtainable and giving many leading educators of the United States, questions, every part examination sample and is reporting considerable progwhich will be sent free of charge. WHEN looking for a thoroughly trained, experienced teacher of Physical Education, write the Vocational Bureau of the NEW HAVEN NORMAL SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS 1466 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGEWATER, MASS. Course for teachers in Junior High Schools. A. C. BOYDEN, Principal. SCHOOL, STATE NORMAL SALEM, MASS. Coeducationa!. Prepares teachers for the elementary school, for the junior high school, and for the commercial department of the high school J. A. PITMAN, Principal. ress toward getting a home-coming of these educators at that time. WISCONSIN. MADISON. "The Desirability of Vocational Education and Direction for Disabled Soldiers" is the title of a new bulletin by Miss Elizabeth Upham of Milwaukee Downer College, which has just been issued by the University of Wisconsin Extension division. After citing examples of mistakes made by other warring nations in allowing disabled soldiers to become a burden to the nation, the author urges the fact that the United States has time to prepare for the emergency and can learn from the experience of the others that wounded soldiers may be educated into producers. Numerous occupations into which soldiers may be educated or re-educated are suggested. in To attend to this vocational education many trained workers will be needed, the bulletin declares, as well as systematic methods of finding the aptitudes of various men, of training them, and of securing positions which they will be employed, not through charity, but as trained workers. The establishment of schools for their training will be economy, it is pointed out. JANESVILLE. The Legislature has fixed the minimum wages for county schools at $45 a month. Commenting on this, County Superintendent O. D. Antisdel says in the Rock County Educational Bulletin: "Most school boards willingly pay even more for good teachers. The average wages for all the one-room schools of the county is more than $45 for last year, and wages reported for this year are still higher. Besides this there is the state aid for those teachers who stay more than one year in a their place, and are improving in work. A few have been surprised and disappointed when they did not receive this state aid. But State Superintendent Cary says that to receive the aid he expects teachers to do better work than the year before and to do the better work all the year through. He wants live, progressive work from start to finish. Good discipline, good housekeeping, good planning and preparation by the inteacher for the daily lessons, |