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The vacancy in Dauphin has been filled by the election of Mr. Edw. F. Brightbill, of Lebanon, a graduate of Lock Haven and a former teacher of Dauphin.

Prof. J. S. Espey is President of the Agricultural School, at Abbeville, Ala.

Prof. J. T. Muir, for several years a member of the faculty of the Kirksville, Mo., State Normal School, has resigned his position and accepted the superin tendency of the Moberly public schools, which was Southeast unanimously tendered him.

F. L. Miller, former superintendent of schools at Jeffersonville, Ohio, now has charge of schools at Harvey, Ill., with a corps of fourteen teachers, most of them trained in the Cook County Normal School,

under Col. Parker.

Prof. Norton, ex-president of the Cape Girardeau Normal was offered and accepted the position left open by Prof. Muir's resignation.

Mrs. Flora Kimball selected and superintended the planting of trees on seven miles of the streets of National City, Cal., by request of the supervisor, who deemed her the most competent person in the place. Prof. W. I. Graham has been elected president of

Miss Jessie H. Bancroft, formerly connected with the New York Normal College, has recently been appointed director of physical culture in the Brooklyn the Dakota University, at Mitchell. public schools.

Prof. H. A. Hortman is Professor of Languages in

Alabama.

Doctor Slocum of Colorado has declined the re- the North Alabama Agricultural School at Athens, gency of the University of Illinois at $7500 a year, and will remain with the institution he has done so much to build up.

Miss Allie Cook of Manistee, graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, has charge of the art department of Ferris Industrial School, Big Rapids, Michigan.

Mr. K. H. Cressman, a former Northampton Co., Pa., teacher, is now superintendent of Leech Lake Indian School, in Minnesota.

J. F. Knight, formerly principal of Laporte High School, at the close of last year left school work and turned his attention to the profession of law. Upon the resignation of Mr. Hailmann he was elected his successor, and has been induced to return again to the ranks of the teachers' profession.

Prof. R. D. Jones and family have returned from Germany, and are now nicely settled at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Prof. C. C. Van Liew of the St. Cloud Normal Doctor McCosh is now eighty two years old. He School, Minnesota, has been elected professor of still writes a little but only a little, and a book now reading and pedagogy in the State Normal University at Normal, Ill.

passing through the press will be, he says, his last word to the public. The one thing in which Doctor Rev. Dr. Carroll Cutler died at Talladega, Ala., McCosh takes the greatest pride-greater even .than Jan. 25, his funeral occuring at Hudson, Ohio, Jan. in the work he has done for Princeton-is the fact 29. Dr. Cutler was born in New Hampshire in 1829, that all of his books have yielded him a profit. He and entered Yale in 1850. He was connected with is especially proud of the fact that his royalties last Western Reserve College from 1860 to 1889, fifteen year amounted to several hundred dollars. years of that time as president.

G. H. Hicks, instructor in botany in the Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing, has received the appointment of assistant botanist in the Department of agriculture at Washington.

Secretary Hill, the successor of Secretary Dickinson of Massachusetts, is a native of Biddeford, Me., where he was born in 1841. At twenty, he was graduated from Bowdoin College. While at college he taught three months of each year, and after graduaProf. Wm. H. Kirshner, librarian of Rose Poly-tion he was appointed principal of the high school in technic Institute and assistant instructor in drawing, his native town. Later he took up the study of law has resigned to accept a professorship in the Univer- and was admitted to the bar. But his love of teachsity of Minnesota. ling soon asserted itself so strongly that he gave up

"I beg of you not to run into the grave Herbart, or Fræbel, or Pestalozzi, or so run them into the ground that you can't recognize them. I fear this kindergarten busi-a ness is carried to such an alarming extent that really the child is lost by it. Exercise common sense in education

and then you will see that we are all right." These wise words of Prof. J. H. Kappis, an educator of fifty years' standing in Europe and America, are as timely as they are weighty. There is no sphere in which a rigid common sense is more constantly needed than in the work of educational reform. The kindergarten and the "new education" generally have a constant tendency to overleap the

bounds of sober common sense.

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Combined by pupils thus:

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The list of words may be omitted and the pupils directed to find words they know in their Reader with which to make the number story.--Indiana School Journal.

Educational Intelligence..

Recent book introductions:

Raub's Studies in Literature into Augustana College, S.
Dak.; Mento, Ia.; Braddock, Pa. Nora Springs, Ia.
Raub's Rhetoric into the schools of Vanderbilt, Pa.;
Point, Tex,; South Solon, O.; Larwill, Ind.
Raub's Tests in Spelling and Pronunciation into the
schools of Flint, Mich.; Lehighton, Pa.
Swineford's Literature for beginners into the schools of
New Milford, Pa.; Milford, Pa.

EAST STROUDSBURG NORMAL.-The enrollment for the winter term is rapidly reaching the round number 400. The model school under the efficient supervision of Mrs. E F. Lamb, is in a most flourishing condition. The little children have produced two cantatas, one in the early part of last term, entitled, "A visit to grandpa" and on Friday, the 16th inst., they rendered the charming cantata "A Dream of Fairy Land."

Prof. R. L. Park is the recently elected teacher. He is graduate of Baldwin University, and a teacher of considerable experience. He recently completed a course at Drexel Institute. Prof. Park has charge of Penmanship, Bookkeeping, Drawing and Manual Training.

Twenty sled loads of students were driven to the famous Delaware Water Gap on Tuesday, February 6. This treat was tendered by the Board of Trustees. The faculty and trustees accompanied the jolly party.

The NEWS is a very welcome visitor to our reading room and the pupils are eager for its arrival.

New buildings are to be erected in the near future.

NORMAL.

Hon. Ira Mayhew, a former superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan, and now in his four-score years, takes up the work of a correspondence school of bookkeeping in connection with the Sprague University of correspondence in Detroit. Mr. Mayhew has been a close student of the subject, and a successful manager of commercial colleges for years.

The schools of Sandusky, Ohio, have receive from the jure the sight, to render the nerves unsteady, to enfeeble World's Columbian Exposition the award of a handsome the will, and enslave the nature to an imperious habit likely medal. to stand in the way of duty to be performed. Yours very truly, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Earlham College proposes to conduct a summer school for normal, academic and collegiate instruction to begin June 19.

Butler University has abandoned all baccalaureate degrees except that of Bachelor of Arts. This places all her courses on a par. This movement was begun among In

Illinois State Teachers' association this year lacked $100 diana colleges in 1886 by Indiana University. of paying expenses.

Mrs. Sidgwick of England has collected vital statistics

Nineteen college building have been erected on the cam- concerning nearly 600 women who have studied at Campus at Princeton during the past 25 years.

There is a movement on foot to organize a Teachers' Association for Northwestern Iowa. The first meeting will probably be held at Cherokee in March.

The faculty of Andover has voted to abolish the valedictory and salutatory addresses at their commencement exercises.

bridge and Oxford. Those women and their children are said to be physically superior to the British average.

There are 1,309,251 colored child in public schools of the United States.

The great offer being made by The Pittsburgh Dispatch to take the sixty teachers of the public schools of Pittsburgh, Allegheny and other points in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland to Atlantic City in July, is

The University of Michigan has a Japanese Students' the talk of the hour. As an additional inducement the Association with a membership of thirteen.

twelve teachers of the sixty, who receive the largest number of votes, will be taken on a supplementary trip to The University of Leipsic is worth nearly $20,000,000. Philadelphia, New York and Boston, after the Atlantic City trip is over.-Ex.

Henry Irving, the great English actor, will speak before the students of Harvard College, March 17th.

Since the State University of Tennessee opened its doors to women the women's club of the state have been

SMART BOY.-A teacher in one of the public schools was raising money for a building on the university grounds. drilling her children in music.

"What does it mean when you see the letter 'f' over a bar or stave ?" she asked.

"Forte," answered one of the pupils.

"And what does the character 'ff' mean?"

There was a short period of forgetfulness on the part of the children and then one of them shouted triumphantly "Eighty."-N. Y. Morning Journal.

A young man ambitious for success wrote to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes asking four questions. The reply was: 1. A young man of good taste and good principles may safely go to see a good actor in a good play.

2. The best three books? The Bible, Shakespeare's plays, and a good dictionary, say Worcester or Webster. 3. To obtain "real success"? Real work; concentration on some useful calling adapted to his abilities.

The Harvard authorities will make use of the legacy left to the university by Catharine Page Perkins to erect a dormitory to be known as Perkins Hall.

The University of Chicago cleared about $40,000 this summer by renting its dormitories to the World's Fair visitors.

By a recent action of the Board of Trustees the Law School of DePauw University will be discontinued at the end of this year.

Girls in Kansas University last year, 296; this year, 400.

TEACHERS WANTED.-Apply at once, Teachers' Protective Association, Rembrandt Hall Building, Detroit,

4. Shall he smoke? Certainly not. It is liable to in- Mich.

15. Who wrote, "Auld Robin Gray,” and for what spe-surance policy worth $1000 at the end of 20 years, interest cial purpose?

In South Staffordshire, Eng., there is a slaty coal which does rot burn but lies in the fire till it becomes red hot and it is then called "bat," which gave rise to the expression, of 20th year.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

Literary Notes.

No teacher of English Grammar, especially if he wants to strengthen his own position can afford to be without the book we offer as a premium "Hints and Helps in English Grammar." It has met with a marvellous sale. Practically it is a key to Reed & Kellogg, Harvey, Swinton and Raub on the subject of Grammar. See on last page how you can get it and the weekly EDUCATIONAL NEWS a year for $1.38.

It the Rhetoric or the English Literature you use is not wholly satisfactory write to Raub & Co., Philadelphia, and they will show you how "Raub's Rhetoric or Raub's studies in English and American Literature" may be secured for introduction at the minimum of expense. It will pay you at any rate to write to them, and examine a copy of each of the books.

FIRE POPPING ON CARPET.-Many persons employ open wood fires, for the pleasure they afford, and for the Some kinds of wood pop the ventilation of the rooms. burning coals on the carpets and produce much annoyance. To prevent this popping, turn the convex (or bark) side of the stick to the open room, and much of it will be prevented. Try the experiment on such wood as you happen

to have.

EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON SUMS IT UP. The 28th commencement exercises of the Peirce School of Business and Shorthand, 917 Chestnut St., Phila., was recently held in the Academy of Music. The orator of the occasion was It is a fact that many of the largest and best Normal no less a distinguished personage than ex-President Harri- schools of the United States use Raub's Methods of Teachson, and his remarkable address on that occasion has beening and Raub's School Management as the text-books on these subjects. made the subject of national comment. In his direct remarks to the 170 young men and women graduates, he STREET RAILWAY TRAVEL IN BANGKOK.-An electric emphasized the great training value of the Peirce school by railway is now in operation in the capital of the Siamese referring to, "the eminently practical curriculum which kingdom, in which the king himself is a stockholder. So successful has been this road that the stock cannot be they (the graduates) had now completed." "Eminently bought at any price. As soon as the object lessons now practical" sums up in two words the instruction that is re- being given in Bangkok are generally known there is sure ceived at this admirable School-instruction which to be a large increase of electric railway mileage in Asia. pletely equips the graduate for every phase of business life.

The newly revised edition of "Raub's Tests in and Pronunciation" is meeting with a rapid sale. that it is made to accord with all the latest and tionaries has created for it a wide demand.

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FROM "PUDD'NHEAD WILSON'S CALENDAR.".-Mark Twain, in the February Century.-Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a tuneral? It is because we are not the person involved.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. was once a man who, not being able to find any other with his coal, complained that there were too many historic toads in it.

There

The postage on sixty copies of Raub's "Studies in English and American Literature, lately sent to a school in Japan, cost only six dollars. The cost on a hundred of these books sent lately to a school in Utah was only ten dollars. The express company offered to carry the same package at a cost of fourteen dollars and fifty cents. At great distances Raub & Co. preferably offer to deliver these and other books by mail at fixed prices because postal rates are uniform.

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