In his annual report to the board of education, Superintendent G. G. The largest school of Oratory, Literature and Pedagogy in America. It aims Bond of the city public schools to develop in the student a knowledge of his own powers in expression whether his thirty-first annual report, by as a creative thinker or an interpreter. A beautiful new building. Summer the way--speaks as follows of the sessions. Catalogue and full information on application to progress of military training at the "In the spring we were fortunate enough to secure the services of several students, who went to the different grammar schools so many times per week, and did very efficient work in training the boys in these schools. After two or three weeks training of this sort the boys became trained well enough for their own classmates to take them through the different exercises. It was an inspiring sight to stand and watch a sixth grade boy drilling other sixth grade boys in their exercises with a fair degree of precision. I think the effect of this military training on the discipline of the schools will be simply incalculable." district taxes and in some districts progressive citizens making private subscriptions to building and teaching extension work. made a HARRY SEYMOUR ROSS, Dean educational creed for this state: 1. We believe in education; because it makes us despise littleness and induces us to endeavor to be big of mind, generous of soul, and sound of body. 2. We believe in public education; because it best fits one to live the life of a free man in a free country. 3. We believe in education at public expense, because it is the 4. We believe in compulsory at- TENNESSEE. RALEIGH. D. F. Giles, retiring 5. We believe in the education superintendent of Wake county, of the whole man that will produce recommendation to the a sound body, a broad-gauged Wake County Board of Education mind, and a generous soul, crowned which has been adopted and which with life's fundamental virtues and is destined to make better every graces. one-teacher school to which it is applied, and give the patrons the viewpoint that will ultimately make them demand a school of a better class. His plan is to divide each one-teacher school into two sections-primary and grammar grade have each section report at different hours of the day, increase the teaching time and the salary of the teacher, guaranteeing a raise in salary each year until a maximum has been reached. This plan will make of each one-teacher school a school doing the work of the twoteacher class. It will give to the small one-teacher school, at a minimum cost, grade teachers as good as the best. KNOXVILLE. Under the administration of the present school board and Superintendent M. W. Wilson, a great campaign has been waged over the county for better buildings, equipment and teachers, which has resulted in the improvement of the school system in the county. Six years ago Knox county had only two brick buildings, while at the close of the present year the county boasted seventeen. Perhaps the greatest stride made in recent years is the establishment of hack lines to carry pupils free of charge to consolidated schools erected in the various parts of the SOUTH CAROLINA. county. The number of buildings SUMTER. Superintendent S. H. in the county has been in recent Edmunds suggests the following years reduced by consolidation from OKLAHOMA CITY. An exhaustive statistical study of the comparative standing of fraternity and non-fraternity pupils in the Oklahoma City High School has been made by J. G. Masters. His method was so thorough and comprehensive that his conclusions are conclusive. Here they are:- "1. That fraternities discourage scholarship and retard their members in their progress through the Oklahoma City High School. "2. The disparity in scholarship between fraternity and other groups in the same high school is so great as to be a cause of concern to parents and school authorities. TEACHERS' AGENCIES. and nation in every act, thought and word, has no business in an American school. "A teacher may be excused for not THE FISK TEACHERS AGENCIES knowing the cause of the Revolution, Boston, Mass., 2-A Park Street Portland, Ore., 514 Journal Bldg. Birmingham, Ala., 809 Title Bldg. MISS E. F. FOSTER, Manager THE EASTERN TEACHERS' AGENCY Reputation founded on twenty-seven years of successful experience. Established 1890 but she cannot be excused for not knowing the cause of the war of 1917." OHIO. CLEVELAND. Steady and large MISS T. M. HASTINGS, Acting Manager University are indicated by enrollment enrollment gains in Western Reserve figures covering recent years and to be published in the annual report of President Charles F. Thwing. In the last ten years Adelbert College has grown from 274 to 450 students, the College for Women from 280 to 492. and the university from 965 to 2,265 students. Entrance certificates already received for Adelbert College exceed those of a corresponding date of any preceding year. THE FICKETT TEACHER'S AGENCY Edward W. Fickett, Prop. Established 1885. 8 Beacon Street, Boston Telephone Hay. 1678. schools, and that this fact is true a The thirty-seven members of the Chicago Teachers' Federation who were side-tracked about a year ago have returned to the schools, mostly to their former positions. The return was due to the legal decision which caused the federation to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor. The thirty-seven were amply provided for during their retirement by the federation. Everyone is happy now. KANSAS. NEWTON. In this city credit has been given for music for some years, but now credits are given in the high school for knowledge of the Bible. WISCONSIN. KENOSHA. At the University of Wisconsin at the annual commencement the honorary degree of master of arts was conferred upon Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, city superintendent of Kenosha schools since 1910, services in this state as a teacher and for her indefatigable and effective trainer of teachers." Mrs. Bradford was formerly supervisor of practice then at Stout Institute, and later at at Stevens Point Normal School, Whitewater Normal School. She was for many years and was author of the prominent as an institute conductor outline on reading in the state manual for the common schools. has No SUPERIOR. The Superior State Normal School, under the leadership of President V. E. McCaskill, developed beyond all promise. state institution was ever more isoand none was ever hit harder than lated from the schools of a state when Minnesota put a State Normal School just across the bridge, but Superior, as a city, has grown until it is larger than Duluth then was and the character of the school and the quality of its work have drawn students from afar, and have held all who belong there until the Superior Normal School and Training School faculties have built up a body of students with an unusual number of young men and an unusually mature and scholarly body of young women. MILWAUKEE. In his annual report to the school board Dr. Charles J. Coffey, president, expressed the conviction that the superintendent of schools should be given sole authority in the nomination and employment of city teachers. He also favored putting all departments, business and educational, under control of the superintendent, and expressed his regret over the "hasty action" taken with reference to German instruction. SOUTH DAKOTA. ABERDEEN. Advocating a requirement in this and every other state similar to the New York order compelling all teachers to take the oath of allegiance and dismissing a number for refusing to take this oath, Professor M. M. Guhin delivered an address to more than 400 teachers attending the first summer term at the Northern Normal and Industrial School, adding: "The government has MINNEAPOLIS. The board of a right to expect loyalty on the part of all public and denominational school teachers. Essentially the school exists for the purpose of conserving loyalty and patriotism and the teacher who cannot stand wholeheartedly and unreservedly by the flag MINNESOTA. regents of the University of Minnesota has decided to open the institution October 10, this year, more than a month later than usual, in order to permit students to continue farm work until harvesting is well over. . NORTHWESTERN STATES. IDAHO. A TEACHERS' AGENCIES July morning in our Agency would be a surprise and an eye-opener to the teachers who are asking at this season "Most places are filled now?" Let Monday morning, July 16, answer them. First comes a night letter from one of the best cities in Florida asking for a teacher of LEWISTON. One-fourth of the science and a teacher of French and Spanish. at $900 each. The mail brings application from credits for graduation from the high teachers, from vermont for twenty school JULY high school teachers, from a southern New in out-ofjunior York city for a school secretary; meanschool may be earned while we are asked by telephone to nominate a woman for commercial department studies. Superintendent in a central New York town school at $1,250. If teachers wanting places have any doubt about places needing teachers we would ask them to Simmonds is a leader in many prowrite us and get the facts as proven by the calls of gressive phases of education. THE SCHOOL BULLETIN TEACHERS' AGENCY, C. W. BARDEEN, Manager. 313-321 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, New York. MONTANA. LIBBY. Ex-Assistant State Superintendent C. W. Tenney has been city superintendent at a July MORNING OUR BOOKLET elected $2,100. He is one of the The Albert Teachers' Agency "TEACHING AS A BUSINESS" salary of OREGON. 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. PORTLAND. State Superintend-The Pratt Teachers' Agency nte Mary C. C. Bradford of Colorado was regularly nominated and elected president of the National Education Association here last week. This is the first time that a woman has been selected by a nominating committee for the office. President Ella Flagg Young had to break a slate to get in. Robert J. Aley, president of the University of Maine, automatically becomes first vice-president. Other vice-presidents nominated include Mary Schenck Woolman, Boston, Mass., manager National Association for Promotion of Industrial Education. WASHINGTON. ELLENSBURG. Superintendent McCullough of La Grande, Oregon, has been elected superintendent of this city over twenty other appli cants. The Century MERICAN TEACHERS' AGENCY Introduces to Colleges and FOREIGN superior Professors, Principals, Assistants, Tutors and Governesses, for every department of instruction; recommends good Schools to parents. Call on or address Mrs. M. J. YOUNG-FULTON, 23 Union Square, New York. Kellogg's Agency recommends teachers and has filled hundreds of high grade positions (up to $5,000) with excellent teachers. Estab⚫lished 1889. No charge to employers, none for registration. If you need A teacher for any desirable place or knew where a teacher may be wanted, address H. 8. Kellogg. 31 Union Square. New York. S PECIALISTS with good general education wanted for aepartn ent work in High, Preparatory and Normal Schools and Colleges in Pennsylvania and other States. Grade teachers with ability to teach some approved sys tem of music and drawing secure positions paying $70 to 890 per month. For further Information address THE TEACHERS' AGENCY, R. L. MYERS & CO., Lemoyne Trust Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Co-operating Agencies in Denver and Atlanta. THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' AGENCY 0.4 80OTT Co., Froj rietors Frederick C. Howe, Commissioner THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' of Immigration at the Port of New York, will write in the August Cen tury on "The Problem of the Ameri-THE 442 Tremont Building, Boston. SCHERMERHORN TEACHER S' AGENCY. A superior agency for superior people. We recommend only reliable candidates. Services free can Farmer." Americans, it is stated, to school officials. 353 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. are almost the only people who have CHARLES W. MULFORD, Proprietor. Telephone Vanderbilt 2436 and 2437. not recognized that agriculture is breaking down and that the old order of things really ended ten or twenty years ago. We are almost the only THE CORLEW TEACHERS' AGENCY people who have not begun to work out a constructive policy for placing people on the land under proper conditions and for the protection of the farmer from exploitation after he has gone there. Denmark was the pioneer in a new agricultural policy fifty years ago. Denmark has been followed by way, Sweden, Italy, and the Austra RUFUS E. CORLEW, Proprietor Telephone Beach 6606 Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Nor- ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY, Inc. lian states. Since the war broke out Supplies Schools and Colleges with Competent Teachers. Assists Teachers nearly all of the warring nations of in Obtaining Positions. Send for Bulletin. 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. U. teacher in California, to whom we had sent a claim check, in which she said: "A teacher has no better friend than the T. C. U., especially during vacation when she is on expense instead of on salary. This is the second time during vacation that the T. C. U. has cheerfully and promptly aided me in the payment of physician's bills, and it surely gives one a feeling of protection to know that if illness, accident or quarantine increases one's expenses, the T. C. U. stands ready to give aid." Vacation time is danger time, for the risk of Sickness or Accident is greater than during the school year, and the income is cut off. How very important, then, it is that you be protected during the summer months. Every summer we pay hundreds of claims to Teachers who were thoughtful enough to provide in advance for those misfortunes which, some time, come to each of us. Read the following extracts from a few of the many grateful letters we received last season during and immediately after the vacation period. An Ohio Teacher wrote: "Accept my most sincere appreciation of your quick and willing settlement for my sickness during this summer vacation. I feel that every teacher should be a member of the T. C. U." A New Jersey Teacher wrote: "I wish to thank the T. C. U. for the courtesy, promptness and fairness with which they settled my claim for sickness due to typhoid fever. Having been taken sick in the middle of my vacation the check was very acceptable." An Arkansas Teacher wrote: "I appreciate the promptness with which the T. C. U. settled my claim. I believe this is the only organization that protects the teacher during the summer, and I am very glad that I am a member of it." A Nebraska Teacher wrote: "I greatly appreciate the promptness and fairness shown me by the T. C. U. My doctor's bill was promptly and cheerfuily taken care of at a time (summer vacation) when such unexpected bills are met with most difficulty." Every teacher in America should be a member of the T. C. U. and share its protection. If you have not already done so, fill out and mail the coupon for information. FREE INFORMATION COUPON To the T. C. U., 141 T. C. U. Bldg., Lincoln, Nebraska Name.... Address.... (This coupon places the sender under no obligation) What the T. C. U. Will Do For 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 benefits. 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. Broken Arm.. Broken Leg above knee.. Broken Collar-bone. $ 85.00 100.00 100.00 Broken Knee-cap. 75.00 50.00 Dislocated Shoulder, Elbow or Wrist 60.00 Dislocated Ankle.. 60.00 Teachers Casualty Underwriters Both eyes.. 141 T. C. U. Building Lincoln, Nebraska All accident Benefits Doubled for Railroad Wreck and Travel Accidents. D ON'T YOU BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY ARITHMETIC taught in elementary schools should be that which is useful in everyday life? And that the pupil's training should be confined to developing skill in applying and using those principles? This is the position taken by the new HAMILTON STANDARD ARITHMETICS. These books are in harmony with the best methods of present-day teaching. They omit some of the traditional topics because they are not used in ordinary business. Their abundant and varied problems are closely related to real conditions. These problems have been drawn from the pupil's life at home, at school, and at play, and from his community life and the most important national industries. WE NEED THEM YOU MAY HAVE THEM Despite the fact that we often print hundreds of copies more than our Just at present we have calls for the issues of the JOURNAL OF EDUCATION July 15, 1915 — -FOR September 14, 1916 If you have them on file and can spare them, mail to us and we will NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY 6 Beacon Street, Boston |