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Horsford's benefits the brain by renewing Sold by Druggists Send for Free Booklet J 46 6-16 Certain grammar and primary new schools should be replaced by Of thirty-two cities compared Brookline has the largest percentage of over-age pupils in its elementary schools. In other words, if they remain in school a larger number will complete their elementary education normal at an age greater than the than in any other of these cities. This over-age condition in the Brookline schools is inconsistent with their reputation and hampering to their usefulness. Both the parents and the schools are responsible: the parents for late entrance and irregular tendance of pupils, and the schools for the superfluous ninth grade, for at mass promotion, and the short school At least as much emphasis should pro HARDWICK. The work of Miss Addie M. Johnston, for over forty years a teacher in the public schools of this town, was automatically terminated under the ruling of the Massachusetts Pension Law after her nearly fifty years of service in the schools of the state, on June 22 by a singular coincidence, her seventieth birthday as well as the date for closing the schools of Hardwick. At the graduation exercises of the Gilbertville Grammar School, in which she has taught the sub-grammar class for thirty-two years, she was the recipient of a framed testimonial of NEW YORK. NEW YORK CITY. The city will keep open during the machine shops and allied activities of summer the schools. Provision also was made to the manual training and technical assign from the eligible list teachers of cooking for summer service in cooperation with the mayor's food aid committee. This June 25,307 boys and girls were graduated from the elementary schools out of a register of 27,123 in the highest classes, or a percentage of 93.3. Last June the percentage was 94.3, the number of graduates being 25,109. Brooklyn schools graduated the most pupils and the Bronx schools the highest percentage. The eleventh annual report of the president and the treasurer of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, for the year were ending September 30, 1916, shows a The report includes official replies from fifty-two of the institutions associated with the foundation concerning the new contributory plan of insurance and annuities proposed by the foundation, and presents the fundamental principles of a pension system which have been approved by the trustees of the foundation and a joint commission representing the American Association of University Professors, the Association of Amer-7 day ican Universities, the National Association of State Universities, and the Association of American Colleges. Details are given concerning the new teachers' insurance and annuity association which is to be established, together with an estimate of its prospective service to the teaching profession. The report, as usual, devotes considerable space to recent developments in the field of pensions for teachers, clergymen and industrial workers; and records the co-operation of the foundation with the committee on pensions of the National Education Association. The work of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement Board, the new system for the teachers of Erie, Pa., and the plan proposed for the State of Iowa are commended; the systems proposed for the teachers of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Wheeling, W. Va., are considered faulty; the new plan for the city of New York is commended in general, but is considered faulty in particular in basing the amount of its pensions upon future salaries which nobody can predict, and in undertaking the grounds, which naturally are among the finest in the whole county. The ladies served a dinner at noon, after which the children gave a program. LANCASTER. West Lampeter has a vocational school costing $25,000. There were 1,000 people at the dedication. DELAWARE. WILMINGTON. Dr. Charles A. Wagner, Commissioner of Education, discussing "An Incidental Advantage of Adopting a Scale of Standardization of Schools," says: "The scoring up of the points or items of credit would be a most valuable lesson to the teacher and commissioners. secure the The inexperienced young teacher and the inexperienced commissioner would get the best lesson they have ever had on the right conditions and circumstances for a modern school. The marking up of the credits would give knowledge of proper requirements, would act as a suggester of betterments, that are desirable and possible, and would also awaken a sense of responsibility to the betterments; possible stimulation of the sense of duty and obligation, of moral responsibility to get the best procurable for the children, is the surest dependence, as motive force, to work steadily and unIf flaggingly for better conditions. for no other reason, the Department of Superintendence should next year, therefore, require from each teacher, as part of her annual report, a scoring up of her school and room on this standard scale. The reports lated would make such a survey of 'housing' conditions of the state as no state has yet had the means gather. One of the results that be the would surely follow would preparation and publication by the State Board of Education, of suitable plans and drawings for school buildings and grounds adapted to supply the needs of its communities, whether the need be a three-roomed teacher school or a ten-roomed townbuilding. tabu to one "If proper diagnosis is the first step for the physician when called to visit a patient, then this scoring up of school premises and properties according to the adopted standard, to find that environmental 'pulse' and 'temperature' which make the sound working condition con for the school child, should be taken without fail, as the indispensable first step toward the thorough planning of wise reconstruction of the system. Thus it would be learned beyond any doubt and beyond the possibility of argument or troversy, which localities have school properties that are not worth repairing or improving, and which properties and localities should at once be helped by making them part of an ultimate consolidation plan. The old building should be abandoned and temporary provision for the pupils should be made at the point or place which is to become the future consolidation centre. "Standardization' as the necessary first step in such a far-sighted formative program will vindicate itself as the perfection of counsel, and as the acme of professional foresightedness and of educational statesmanship. Thus will other new laws also justify themselves." ATLANTA. State Superintendent "As a matter of common justice chance and northern philanthropists." Mr. Brittain says that the most despite the fact that some county au- He reiterates his recommendation NORTH CAROLINA. State Superintendent Joyner, in a letter to county boards of education, says: "In fixing the maximum salaries of teachers in each school of your county, I beg your board to remember the large increase in the cost of living, the growing demand for better teachers and better teaching, and the higher standards of professional and scholastic qualifications required for certification under the act of 1917. In justice to the teacher and to the profession, increase salaries proportionately. Many worthy teachers have found it difficult and in some instances impossible to live on the salaries heretofore paid in many counties. Unless a reasonable increase in their salaries can be made, many of your best teachers will prob STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WIL LIMANTIC, CONNECTICUT.— Thoroughly trained teachers of Cooking and sewing. HENRY T. BURR, Principal. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGEWATER, MASS. Course for teachers in Junior High Schools. A. C. BOYDEN, Principal. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SALEM, MASS. tional. Prepares teachers for the elementary school, for the junior high school, and for the commercial department of the high school. J. A. PITMAN, Principal. ably be forced either to leave the profession to make a living or to divide their time between the profession and some other work in order to supplement their salaries. Such a division of time means a division of interest and a decrease in efficiency and professional preparation. The increased cost of living has necessitated an increase in salaries and wages in almost every other line of work. I am calling attention to this at this time because I realize that with the increased burdens of taxation necessitated by the war, there is danger of resorting to the false economy of undertaking to reduce expenses and lighten the burden by decreasing the funds for the maintenance of schools by reducing the salaries of teachers. During these little war times, I beg to urge all reasonable economy in the administration of your schools, especially in the incidental, contingent, and general expenses, many of which by a sacrifice on the part of the patrons of the school can be provided without appropriation from the county fund; but, in the name of the children and for the preservation of the efficiency of the vital work of the schools, I urge you to make adequate provision for reasonable compensation for efficient teachers." RALEIGH. Drawing a lesson from the tragic result of the war between the States in the "loss of a whole generation of education through the destruction of the schools and colleges," Dr. J. Y. Joyner, superintendent of public instruction, has issued an appeal to all school authorities in the state urging a patriotic crusade for the conservation of education as well as food at the closing exercises of the big colleges when the most significant feature of commencement was the inroad upon the ranks of graduates and undergraduates made by their country's call to service. It is in realization of this and more than this that Dr. Joyner declares:"When this war closes the need for trained leaders and citizens will be greater than before. The danger of This is more than three times the UTAH. SALT LAKE CITY. George A. Eaton has been appointed assistant superintendent of schools and principal of the East High School. MURRAY. This district of rural and village schools has made a great Liberty Loan bond record under the leadership of Superintendent C. E. Gaufin. The schools purchased thirty $50 bonds and sold thirteen more to their parents. In one school eightythree children contributed to the $50. NORTHWESTERN STATES. WASHINGTON. Mr. Smith has written an article DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASHINGTON. President Wilson recently appointed the Board for Vocational Education, which will have charge of the Federal Government's participation in that work as provided in the recent bill passed by Congress. The members are: Arthur E. Holder of Iowa, three years; Charles A. Greathouse of Indiana, two years; James Phinney Munroe of Massachusetts, one year. The Week in Review SPAIN NEXT? Education was the popular profes- The recent suspension of constitusion with the largest number of the tional guarantees by the Spanish govgirls. Sixty girls plan to be teachers. ernment, followed by what appears Ten wish to teach home economics, to be a revolutionary combination of nine music and eight kindergarten. the Republican, Radical and Socialist Three boys are planning to teach parties, points to a crisis which sugschool. One wishes to be a college gests the possible sweeping away of professor, and another the principal the monarchy, and the installation of of a high or normal school. The a republic in its place. To this hostile next largest selection for a livelihood combination of the democratic parties in the class is stenography, with fif- is added a wide-spread dissatisfaction teen girls willing to take up the work. in the army, and a seething disconUniversity of Washington students tent among the laboring people, due who desire to work in the harvest to the increased cost of living. The fields this summer will have until apparently pro-German leanings of meekness the government, and the October 1 under the new four-quar- with which it has submitted to reter system, arrangements for which peated attacks by German submarines nearly completed. The on Spanish vessels add to the popular change was made primarily with the discontent. Little is definitely known object of facilitating food production as to the course of events in Spain, for the war, but there are other gains but the situation is distinctly disalso. Instead of a six-weeks vacation quieting. every summer hereafter, there will be only two weeks, and two more weeks at Christmas time. This will keep the university's $2,000,000 campus and equipment busy the year round with little additional expense. Students may take their annual vacation are now A GOOD TIME FOR WATCHFUL WAITING. The American government will be wise if it does not interfere for the present, either by advice or in other ways, with the new crisis in China. on Our TEACHERS' AGENCIES recommendation of teachers brings satisfactory returns whether our candidate CAREFUL is the one selected or not. Two letters from principals received on July 9 read: Your candidate has been elected to English and biology, position at Ravena, salary $700... We thank you for submitting her name as candidate." **Am very glad our Board at Camden saw fit to engage Miss Have received signed contract from her and I anticipate a good year with her." In the first instance our RECOMMENDATION candidate was a Syracuse graduate with two years experiene, and the only one recommended. In the second the candidate selected was one of two recommended by us, a Vassar senicr. If neither one of these places had appointed our candidate we still should have felt we had done the best we could have had every confidence that the next time a vacancy occurred in either school we should again be asked to recommend-for this is the kind and for more. Recent landings of Japa- of agency work that appeals to most superintendents as entirely SATISFACTORY. nese troops in Shanglung province, THE SCHOOL BULLETIN TEACHERS' AGENCY, C. W. 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