Normal School, was selected as assistant in the High An Ann Arbor University student, Miss Lois Janes, committed suicide a few days ago. It is believed that overstudy had unbalanced her mind. Dr. R. G. Boone of the Michigan State Normal is to have charge of the school of methods at Bay View this summer. John P. Harmon, who about 20 years ago was superintendent of Lincoln county, Kansas, died at his home at Vesper, on March 5. Supt. J. E. Klock, of Leavenworth, has been reelected; salary, $2,400. He begins his fifth year at Leavenworth. Prof. Harry P. Judson is promoted to head professor of the department of political science, Chicago University. In Covington, Ky., Prof. Warfield has been re-elected superintendent for four years at a salary of $2000. Miss Anna M. Rodgers, of Goodville, Lancaster The Commonwealth says he has labored to the best of county, has been employed by Prof. D. F. Detter, to his ability for the welfare of the schools. assist him in his Summer Normal at Berrysburg, Supt. O. I. Woodly is elected Supt. of Schools at Menominee, Wis. H. Olcott, superintendent of the Ishpeming public Dauphin county. schools, has sent in his resignation to the school board to take effect in June at the expiration of the school year. Owing to his advanced years Mr. Olcott deems a rest expedient. Mr. Olcott first engaged as a teacher fifty-three years ago and during that time has labored continuously.-Moderator. Prof. J. T. Whittaker, the new teacher of Latin and Grammar in the Central State Normal School, is from Bellwood, Pa. Mr. Whittaker holds diplomas from a state normal and from Franklin and Marshall Col In the latter part of April, Prof. and Mrs. Barnes, of lege. Professors Anderson, Singer and Eldon will Stanford, left for a vacation in Europe. The Profes- also assist during the spring term. sor has been working at high pressure during the past two years. James Hobbs Hansen, LL. D., principal of Coburn Classical Institute, one of the most celebrated educators of New England, died April 21. He had been failing gradually for months. He was born in China, Me., in June, 1816. He was author of preparatory Latin prose books, including an edition of Cæsar's Commentaries, Sallust's Cataline, and Cicero's Orations and Letters. Supt. W. M. Davidson has been re-elected to serve a third year at Topeka. Mr. E. H. Gerhart, of Lincoln, Lancaster county, a graduate of Millersville State Normal, is now teaching in Schuylkill Seminary, Fredericksburg, Pa. Hints. Valuable Hints. Do not ask questions in rotation. Do not point to the pupil you wish to answer, while giving the question. Do not even look fixedly at the pupil whom you wish to answer, while giving the question. State questions to the class as a whole. Ask one member for the answer. Do not wait an instant for the answer, when reviewing most subjects. Do not look steadily at the pupil who is answering. Do not repeat a question to oblige those who are inattentive. Be sure to ask questions of those who are in the slightest degree inattentive. --JAS. C. HUGHES. Doctors Differ. Prof. Shortlidge, who is probobly the most noted patient under treatment at the Norristown Insane Asylum, is gradually going into dementia. He grows stronger physically, but degenerates mentally. Prof. H. K. Bender has been elected vice principal serious counsels expended upon them. Reading or tell"I am quite sure that many trifles are not worth the at Pen Argy). His acceptance will cause a vacancy ing a story, for instance, has become as grave a matter as in the principalship at East Bangor. choosing a laureate, and many a mother must look Educational Intelligence. PENNSYLVANIA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS. The annual examinations of the several State aghast at the conflicting admonitions bestowed upon her: figures. Do not attempt more than this in one lesson.Read fairy tales. Don't read fairy tales. Read about Popular Educator. elves. Don't read about ogres. Read of heroic deeds. Don't read of bloody battles. Avoid too much instruction. Be as subtly instructive as you can. Make your stories long. Make your stories short. Work the moral in. Leave the moral out. Try and please the older children. Try and charm the younger ones. Study the tastes of boys. Follow the fancies of girls. By degrees the harassed parent who endeavours to obey these instructions will cease telling stories at all, confident that the task, which once seemed so simple and easy, must lie far beyond her limited intelligence."-Agnes Repplier, in the N. A. Review. How to Teach Fractions. Normal Schools will be held as follows: June 4th, 2 P. M. West Chester.-Principal Eckels, Supts. Slotter, June 11th, 9 A. M. Edinboro.-Principal Lyte, Supts. Bigler, Missimer. Slippery Rock.-Prin. Benedict, Supts. McCollough, June 18th, 9 A. M. Bloomsburg.-Principal Waller, Supts. Arnold, Ober dorf. East Stroudsburg.-Principal Philips, Supts. Harrison, Millersville.-Prin. Maltby, Supts. Gardner, Buehrle. Lock Haven.-Prin. Welsh, Supts. Youngman, Bodler. Shippensburg.-Prin. Bible, Supts. Zumbro, Potts. California.-Prin. Davis, Supts. Berkey, Tombaugh. June 26th, 2 P. M. Fractions must be taught objectively. Start with something familiar to the child. Show the meaning of the word. How many children have heard of a fractured leg or arm? Instantly some hands will go up. What does it mean? That some part of the limb has been broken. Call attention to the words fragile, easily broken; fragment, a part of something broken off. Notice that you have awakened thought, and given a new meaning to a word, which a moment before, was associated only with the idea that it meant something about figures. Now take the word itself; from frangere, fractum, to break, ion, the act of; the act of breaking; therefore a fraction must be a part of something. Take two apples; cut from one a small piece; a sec. ond piece a little larger; cut the remaining portion in two. Hold up any of these pieces. What part of the apple is this? The children will be puzzled; perhaps someone will venture to say it cannot be named because the pieces are The Pacific Educational Journal says: "Of 350 pupils in not even. Now take the second apple; cut it exactly in the Los Angeles normal only 35 are men. In the profeshalf, hold up one part. What is it? Now the hands go sion of teaching it appears that man is slowly but surely up. Cut it again into four equal parts-what is each part losing his supremacy. Unless a very radical change takes called? Why can we speak of the parts of the second ap- place within the next decade or so, the "village schoolple as we could not of the first? Because the second one master will have become an extinct creature, along with has been cut into equal parts. Then you see, that a frac- the mastodon and dodo." tion must not only be a part of something, but in order to be named it must be an equal part. You have now developed the definition of a fraction, and you are certain the children understand what it means. The next step is to express and write quantities of fractions. The apple is cut into two equal pieces. Hold up one-name it. Ans. 2. Who will express it in writing? Cut into thirds, fourths, eighths, name each piece as it is held up; write it. In this way familiarize the children with written work, and make this work mean more than bare Indiana.—Prin. Hancher, Supts. Leech, Jackson. Ishpeming, Mich., has more than one hundred applicants for the position of superintendent. The meeting of Missouri State Teachers' Association to be held at Pertle Springs, June 19, 20, 21, ought to be a great success. President Henning W. Prentis is working energetically to make it a large gathering. A most attractive program has been prepared and the railroads offer the lowest of rates. Philip D. Armour denies that he intends to give $500,- nations. He will hold two examinations for primary ooo to found a school for manual training in San Francisco similar to the Armour Institute in Chicago. On March 21, a public school in South Evanston, burned. Several of the children were seriously injured attempting to escape. Harvard's athletic field contains over 100 acres. teachers at the county seat, and five for such as have never taught. The number of applicants will be limited each time to twelve, the capacity of his office. He does this to Ill., enlighten the work of the regular examinations over the in country and to enable him to examine primary teachers and beginners differently from other teachers.-Gazette. The trustees of the University of Denver are arranging to pay off the remaining indebtedness of the university, though the obligations are not due. Ontario has but one teacher to every 250 of her population. This means an average of fifty-seven pupils to each teacher. By the will of the late Mrs. Harriett Hayden of Boston, her entire estate is given to Harvard College in trust to establish "the Lewis and Harriett Hayden Scholarship for Colored Students." The income is to be used for the benefit of needy and worthy colored students. Almost every one is aware of the fact that when a tree is cut down, its age can be determined by counting the rings, each of which represents one year's increment, but closer observers find in the irregularities of these rings and and other signs a very faithful register of climatic and other conditions in any given year during the whole period of growth. The years of small rings, that is of little growth, were either very dry, or the tree was exhausted by bearing an exceptionally heavy fruit-crop. The broad rings indicate abundant rain and good growing conditions. Brownish spots on the cut surface, looking as if they were wormeaten, are evidence of a severe winter, the young sapwood formed in summer having been partly destroyed by severe cold, and the injured part covered over with sound wood the next year. The year may easily be fixed by counting A co-operative book buying association has been formed the rings from the outside. If the layers of wood are not of uniform thickness all round they afford evidence that at the University of Wisconsin. at this stage of growth there were conditions which hin The faculty of the University of Pennsylvania give dered its growth on one side. The spread of its roots or branches has been arrested, perhaps by a neighboring tree. credit for work done on the college papers. The number of layers showing this irregularity indicates A $750,000 building is to be erected by the University the number of years during which the tree was exposed to of New York, on its present site. On Tuesday evening, June 12, the Literary Societies, of Roanoke College, will be addressed by Hon. Chas. Emory Smith, LL. D., of Philadelphia. Toddles-"Papa, I've found another word that's all wrong." Papa-"Well, Toddles, what is it?" Toddles-"Why, it's buttermilk. The idea of taking all the butter out of the milk; and then calling it buttermilk. When it comes from the cow it's buttermilk, seems to me." the unfavorable conditions. The sludent of forestry may learn lessons of practical value in the management of forests, by a careful study of the annual rings. Teachers in Hamburg, Germany, receive from $11 to $28 per month. According to the Chairman of the Glasgow School Board, school accommodation has increased 50 per cent. over the whole of Scotland and 70 per cent. in Glasgow during the last forty years. A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature Papa-"Well, and what would you call it afterward?" fixing a penalty of $25 to $100, or imprisonment of from Toddles-"Butterless milk, of course."-Harper's Young thirty days to one year for college hazing. People. Superintendent Brecht, of Lancaster county, Pa., will make a new departure this summer in holding his exami Of the 3000 students now enrolled at the University of Berlin, 800 are Americans. The University of Wales now has a royal charter, by which, for the first time, degrees in music are to be granted to women. Why the fair sex, who in many departments of the art have long held a pre-eminent position, should have been debarred so long from musical degrees is not clear and the fact is the more remarkable, inasmuch as the only lady who at present is a Doctor of Music is the Princess of Wales, who received the degree honoris causa at the Royal University of Ireland, some years ago. Oxford has 22 colleges and has 12,000 students, including well as our type will permit. graduates and undergraduates. Two men were expelled by the students of Vanderbiit University for cheating in examination. Cornell has abolished examinations. A new dormitory will be erected at Exeter. Tufts College deserves universal praise for the heroism of its faculty, in expelling several of the students for their part in a disgraceful hazing incident.-N. E. Journal of Education. Amen, Brother Winship. We know nothing about this case beyond what your note above quoted contains; but the authorities of any institution who will teach any "unlicked cubs" among their students the essential difference between fun and barbarism, deserves universal praise, in these times, and yet they are doing no more than their plain duty.-Public School Journal. And the night | shall be filled | with mu | sic; Shall fold their tents | like the Ar | abs, And as silently steal | away. The prevailing foot is anapestic. ED. 52. Near my house I intend making a hexagonal seat around a tree, for which I have procured a plank 161⁄2 feet long and in. wide; what must be the outer and inner length of each side of the seat that there may be no loss in cutting up the plank? B. State Supt. W. N. Sheats, of Florida, is moving the professional standard of his teachers upward. He is now perfecting a plan to establish this year about five perma53. In the center of a pond of water 10ft. deep, the nent summer schools, of not less than two months' dura- bottom of which is a horizontal plane, stands a tree 100 ft. tion, with a regular graded course of study, extending from high; the tree breaks off, falls over with the one end resting year to year, and leading up to First grades and State on the stump and the other at the bottom of the water, so certificates. that the distance from the measure on the surface of the B. For larger salaries or change of location, address Teach-water, to the piece broken off is 20ft. What is the height of the stump and the piece broken off? ers' Co-Operative Association, 70 Dearborn St., Chicago Orville Brewer, Manager. 54. Analyze, ARY AND SOIENTIFIC PATENTS. NOTICE TO INVENTORS. children entering Boston schools had never seen a robin, 18 per cent had never seen a cow, some thinking it as big as their thumb or the p cture, thus making mere verbal cram of all instruction about milk, cheese, butter, leather, etc. Over 60 per cent had never seen growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes; 71 per cent did not know beans -even in Boston; and in 109 other topics primers generThere was never a time in the history of our country ally presuppose the percentage of ignorance of nature was when the demand for inventions and improvements in the such as to give pathos to the ideas of some, that good arts and sciences generally was so great as now. The con- people, when they die, go into the country. Urban youth veniences of mankind in the factory and work-shop, the now rarely feel the healthy old pagan love of nature. but household, on the farm, and in official life, require contin- get it, if at all, from secondary sources. More country life ual accessions to the appurtenances and implements of in contact with God's primitive revelation in nature will each in order to save labor, time and expense. The polit- lay better foundations both for science and Christian charical change in the administration of government does not acter. The latter will not then be jeopardized by a little affect the progress of the American inventor, who being muddle about Trinity, miracles, or inspiration, because on the alert, and ready to perceive the existing deficiencies, religious life will not build on the sand.-President G. Standoes not permit the affairs of government to deter him ley Hall, in the May Forum. from quickly conceiving the remedy to overcome discrepancies. Too great care not be exercised in choosing a THE PROFITS OF GRANT'S "MEMOIRS."-Never was competent and skillful attorney to prepare and prosecute there a more brilliant success following such labor. No an application for patent. 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JOHN WEDDERBURN, Literary Notes. COUNTRY LIFE, THE SANE EDUCATOR.-Now, instead of living in the country alone with nature half their lives, knowing, feeling, loving her, men are born and die in cities, always with their kind, and as careless as ignorant of all nature's ways. Some years ago, by careful individual study, I found that 60 per cent of the six-year-old There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness Sold by Druggists, 75c. |