distinction of being the first woman to be admitted to extended experience in this class of work, having that seat of learning with the privilege of taking her degree. Supt. C. O. Hoyt has been elected for two years more at Lansing, Mich., $1,700, and $1,800. Mr. Caleb S. Bragg, managing director of the American Book Company at New York, while on his way from that city to his old home in Cincinnati, on March 7, died in the train before reaching Pittsburg. He was accompanied by his son C. C. Bragg and wife. William S. Rice, whose life for many years was prominently identified with the educational interests of Buffalo, N. Y., died a few days ago. Mr. Rice was born at Mayville, Chautauqua county, in 1820. He was educated principally at Alleghany college at Meadville, Pa., and fitted himself for the law. been a teacher of natural history and science in both the Massachusetts State Normal School, and Middletown University of Connecticut. He was also for three years assistant in Ward's Museum at Rochester, N. Y., and spent nearly two years in travel and research in South America. Miss Lizzie Dalley of Dexter, Me., has been teaching school continuously for forty-four years. Principal E. U. Aumiller, of Wrightsville, formerly superintendent of Perry county, Pa.,had resigned to take charge of the New Bloomfield Academy this spring; but his board is so well pleased with his work that inducements were offered him which induced him to reconsider his action.-Ex. Prof. W. S. Neal is Principal of Pleasant Hill Academy, Brewton, Ala. GOOD WORDS. Professor Barnes, of Stanford University, leaves next April for England, where he will spend his vacation. He expects to visit the British Museum for the purpose of collecting data for the interesting in"I received the premium "Hints and Helps on English vestigations he has been pursuing. Grammar" with EDUCATIONAL NEWS and am very well Governor McKinley, of Ohio, is a trustee of Mt. pleased with both premium and paper." Union College. Professor William L. Robb, of Trinity College, has been awarded the Barnard fellowship of Columbia, founded in memory of the late President Barnard. The Hon. J. P. Dolliver, the young statesman from Iowa, delivered the oration on Washington's birthday at the University of Michigan. C. H. EVERHART, Mt. Wolf, Pa. "I like the NEWS very much and as I have again re-enlisted in the ranks as a teacher, I more than ever feel the need of the help it can and does give." J. J. HAMILTON, Chatham's Run, Pa. "I have been taking the NEWS many years and am still President Welling of the Columbian University has highly pleased with it. I wish it a long and prosperous resigned. career." Prof. John M. B. Sill, of Ann Arbor, for a number of years at the head of the schools in Detroit and until last spring principal of the normal school at Ypsi lanti, took his departure March 1st, for Corea, where he has been appointed minister. Mr. Sill spent some few days in California and sailed from there March 20 for his destination. Dr. Walter B. Barrows of Washinton, D. C., was elected by the Michigan State Board of Agriculture to the chair of zoology and entomology at Michigan Agricultural College, made vacant by the recent resignation of Prof. A. J. Cook. Dr. Barrows has had an Hints J. R. STIRLING, Blackstock, S. C. The Indianapolis High School No. 1 at its mid-year commencement graduated just fifty pupils. It now has in attendance of more than one thousand, not counting about twenty-five post-graduates. Students are made to feel that they are perfectly free in At the Oshkosh Normal School the total enrollment on the school-room as long as they are busy and disturb no one else. If the disorder becomes so great as to interfere with January 19th was 622. At the River Falls school it was the work of any one or of any class, the words "No whis- 354. In the former the Normal department registered 327, pering" are printed neatly on the board in sight of all. in the latter 168. Absolute quiet is rigidly enforced while these words remain on the board, generally about one hour. And what a strain on both teacher and student? It is taken by all as a punishment for not regarding the rights of others as they should, and each one silently resolve to control himself next time. Then the words "No whispering" are erased I print, instead "Govern yourselves." Whenever they fail to do this properly, the privilege is taken away. Many have learned to govern themselves. Others are slow in learning it. A few never will, and with others punishment must be resorted to-School Journal. Educational Intelligence. Dr. Hawthorne has been invited to deliver the commencement sermon at the University of Georgia and he has also been invited to preach the commencement sermon at Mercer University. He has accepted both these invitations. The sermon at the University will be preached on the 17th of June and the one at Mercer will be delivered on the 3d of June. Columbia's endowment fund is nine millions, it is second only to Girard College, while Harvard comes third with eight millions. The Board of Education of the City of Sacramento has before it the question of the teaching of German in the lower grades of our public schools. The Bee states that For the first time in the history of Harvard University, it is opposed to teaching any foreign language in any of the expenses have exceeded $1,000,000. The total rethe grades of the common schools. It says: "We want ceipts last year, excluding gifts for capital account, were our schools to turn out English scholars, and not French $1,301,664.48, and the disbursements $1,065,055.37,leaving scholars or German scholars. The knowledge of good a balance of $236,609.11. The gifts and bequests amounted English possessed by the average graduate of the high to $552,298.55 State Superintendent of Public Instruction Vories, of dozen Northern and several of the Southern States, and an Indiana, has rendered an important decision to the effect unusual proportion are in the upper classes. The new stuthat devotional exercises cannot be enforced in the public dents are enthusiastic over the school, the climate and the scenery. Berea, which is designed for poor students, furAccording to the provisions of the Constitution the Su-nishes board, tuition, room rent and fuel, with good inperintendent says the only thing the Legislature intended struction and amid pleasant surroundings, for less than $100 to authorize school authorities to do was to place the Bible a year. schools of the State. in the school and leave the use of it to the judgment of the teacher. The total number of students this winter at Millersville A rule requiring devotional exercises might interfere Normal School is 643. with the rights and conscience either of the teachers, some of the pupils or parents and is not warranted. The laws authorize religious exercises in the schools, but do not en force them. About two weeks ago, the teachers of Pittsburg, Kas., under the guidance of Supt. D. A. Cooper, visited the schools of Kansas City, Mo. The Pittsburg board of education contributed $100 to meet the expense of the trip. The Topeka and Emporia high schools have had midwinter graduations with accompanying commencements. The number of graduates at Topeka commencement was 9; Emporia, 14. PRESIDENT ELIOT INDORSED.-President Raymond, of Wesleyan University, says regarding the reports of President Eliot, of Harvard, concerning athletics: The annual meeting of the Georgia Teachers' Association will be held on Cumberland Island during the first week in July. An excellent program is being prepared, and accommodations are offered at the lowest possible rates. INGHAM UNIVERSITY TROUBLES.-A levy has been made on the contents of the Ingham University buildings at Le Roy, N.Y., to satisfy the deficiency of over $19,000 existing by the sale of the Ingham real estate under foreclosure. The reality sold for $20,000, while the mortgage amounted, with interest and expenses, to over $39,000. Sheriff Neasmith made the levy and has been inventorying the valuables to be found in the buildings. The art college is filled with a collection of relics, some of which are very valuable. Superintendent Schaeffer, of Pennsylvania, holds that School Boards have no authority to levy taxes and appoint teachers for the next year. Under this decision appointments of teachers by Boards of Directors in March, April "I indorse, in general, the principles under President Eliot's statements, but I am not prepared to indorse all the particulars as being necessary to mark the limitations and May for the next year are illegal. which are desirable. I favor particularly the proposition to allow inter-collegiate contests to be held only on college grounds and in college towns, and I believe that this rule, together with the limitations that are already being devel-lic last week. It is shown that the enrollment in the comoped by the athletic associations themselves, would dispose of a majority of the difficulties." The Ferris Industrial school, Big Rapids, Mich., has an enrollment of 425; 102 in the business department; 90 in the shorthand; the remainder in the normal department; nine instructors do the work. The report of Dr. William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, for the year ending June 30, 1891,was made pub mon schools of the country during the fiscal year 1890-'91 was an increase of 268,895 over the previous year. The total number of public and private scholars of all grades was 14,669,069, or about 23 per cent. of the population. This number is exclusive of night schools, art, industrial, business and Indian schools, and those for defective classes, which swell the number to almost 15,000,000 pupils. The number of teachers in public schools is reported at Alma College has received two hundred volumes of 368,791, one-third of whom are males. Private school German and English for library purposes. teachers aggregate 60,000 in number. The total expenditure for public schools was $146,800,163. For private There are more than 400 students now attending schools the estimated expenditures were $28,000,000. The Berea College, Ky., which is a net gain of 125 over the entire number of pupils in kindergartens of the United Winter term of last year. The new students are from a States is estimated at 100,000, with about 3,100 schools. The Czar of Russia receives no salary from the govern- preposition understood; objects, words and shafts, are A. Duluth has been given up because of the perversity of setting of hope great AN ANCIENT PROVERB.-He who knows and knows that he knows, is master. He who knows and does not know that he knows, needs a teacher. He who does not know and know that he does not know, needs love. He who does not know and does not know that he does not know, is lost. For larger salaries or change of location, address Teachers' Co-Operative Association, 70 Dearborn St., Chicago Orville Brewer, Manager. + is like x setting of sun | the S. P. R. LITERARY AND SOIENTIFIC Literary Notes Then they created the heavens-three in number, differ ing numerically from the Hebrew legend-as a place for themselves to dwell in, and the earth to be their footstool. Next they created the sun, moon, and stars, and a host of Part 12, Bancroft's Book of the Fair, continues the sub- angels or spirits, to minister to them. Last of all they ject of Horticulture, adding in this number 67 additional created man in the model of Kane. The body of the first illustrations of fruits, woods, etc., as found in the Horticul- man was made of red earth and the saliva of the gods, and tural Building and the Forestry Building. This number his head of whitish clay, which was brought from the four gives an illustration of the Liberty Bell and the California ends of the world by Lono. When the earth image of Citrus Tower, both constructed of California oranges, also Kane was ready, the three gods breathed into his nose and fruits and vegetable from California and Oregon in the far called on it to rise. Afterwards the first woman was created west and from Canada on the north, in addition to those from one of the ribs of the man while asleep, and these two from other parts of America. Among the portraits is one were the progenitors of all mankind.-Abraham Fornander of Mr. Charles Wright of Delaware, who was superinten- in April Lippincott's. dent of the department of pomology. Illustrations are given of both the exterior and the inter All those who are interested in higher education will ior of the Forestry Building with its contents, embracing find in the April Forum the first of a series of articles, by specimens of woods from all over the world, including the President G. Stanley Hall, on "Real University Work in famous California redwood plank over 20 feet in width and America." These articles will doubtless attract the same a walnut log from Kansas 6% feet in diameter, together general interest and attention as Dr. Rice's previous series with Siamese, Japanese, Australian and other valuable and on the Public Schools; for President Hall speaks in a very beautiful specimens. frank and almost radical manner of present educational ten. dencies. Chapter sixteen is devoted to Mines, Mining and Metallurgy: The exhibits in this department, as every one will remember, were simply wonderful, and the Book of the Fair is true to nature in the illustrations it gives of ores, minerals, and mining machinery. THE EASTER NUMBER OF "THE LITERARY DIGEST.The whole world has been traversed to find material for the Easter number of The Literary Digest. Almost every civilized language will be represented. It will be superbly HAWAIIAN TRADITIONS.-Throughout the gross idola-illustrated, full of information; treating all questions of try and cruel practices springing from traditions and super-present interest, and all sides of those questions; presenting stitions practised in preceding ages, the shreds of Hawaiian the leading articles in the foremost Magazines and Journals legendary mosaic, displaced from their original surround- of the world. This number of The Literary Digest will ings and made to fit earlier associations, are still preserved, probably excel any other attempt to give the literature of soiled in appearance and obscured in sense. Standing on the world in one issue. The Easter number is now ready. the traditional record as heirlooms of the past, as witnesses of a better creed, and as specimens of the archaic simplicity of the language and traditions, they are hardly intelligible to the Hawaiian of the present. to The ancient Hawaiians at one time believed in and worshipped a Trinity called Kane, Ku, and Lono, equal in nature, but distinctive in attributes: the first was considered the superior. They formed a triad commonly referred. as Ku-Kan-Akahi-lit. "Ku" stands for "alone," or the one established. They were all jointly worshipped under one grand and mysterious name, and existed from eternity from and before chaos, from the time of darkness. By an act of their will these gods dissipated or broke into pieces the existing surroundings of Po, which was night or chaos, by which light entered the space. An article under the title "Is New York more Civilized than Kansas?" will be one of the strong features of the April Forum. 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