Secretary John W. Dickinson of the Massachusetts ing and pedagogy in the State Normal University at State Board of Education, virtually state superintend- Normal.

ent of schools for nearly twenty years, has tendered his resignation, to take effect early in January.

Prof. Palmer of Harvard is about taking as his residence the house in the college yard where Dr. Peabody lived for so many years.

Rev. Robert Allyn, D. D., LL. D., for twenty years The venerable Elizabeth P. Peabody, Jamaica Plain, president of the Southern Illinois Normal University died Jan. 4. She was one of the advanced educators and one of the faithful attendants upon the N. E. A. of the country, was directly concerned in the intro- for many years, died on the 7th inst., of "grip." He duction of the kindergarten system in this country was a native of Connecticut (Jan. 25, 1817), a graduate and has been foremost in all educational reforms, of Wesleyan University (1841); was principal at Wilespecially in that of establishing new and important braham for four years, at East Greenwich, R. I., for methods in the existing school system. She was five years; was a member of the Rhode Island legislaborn in Billerica, Mass., May 16, 1804.

ture and commissioner of education in that state. Dr. Oscar Faulhaber has resigned his professorship Professor Lindahl goes back from his work at of French and German in Phillips Exeter Academy, Springfield to Augustina College, Rock Island. This to take effect at the close of this school year, when he college is a Swedish institution, and is doing excellent will have completed twenty years of service as in- work. structor or professor. A thorough scholar, he has a national reputation as an authority in his specialties, and he will retire with the deep regret of pupils and friends.

Hints.

On Eyesight.

A school principal of Brooklyn is making some interest

Mr. H. F. Brooks of the city of McKeesport, Allegheny county, Pa., has been elected and commissioned ing investigations regarding the eyesight of the children to the office of City Superintendent, to fill the unexpired term of Supt. P. A. Shanor, who recently resigned.

who come under his care, and he is adopting a very simple test, which may be new to a great many people. Taking a sheet of paper he draws four perpendicular marks with a lead pencil, then four slanting ones, and lastly four horipro-he directs him to walk away from the paper and tell him zontal ones. Holding the sheet of paper before the pupil has;

Professor Julius Schrader, the well known historic painter, now in his 78th year, who resigned his fessorship at the Berlin academy some time ago, been obliged to suspend work in consequence serious eye trouble.

of a

home

when he first loses sight of any of the lines, which ones they are, and which one can be seen at the greatest distance. He relates the result of his investigations, thus far, as follows:

Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody, who died at her in Jamaica Plain, Jan. 5th, at the age of 89, was sister "In every instance but one have I found that the perpenin-law to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. dicular lines can be seen at the greatest distance. It does She was an eminently successful teacher and a pioneer not indicate any peculiarity of eyesight to see them farther kindergarten advocate. She was the last of a remark-than the horizontal lines, but simply that they are more able company of educational leaders. legible to ninety-nine pairs of eyes out of a hundred. The one exception that I met with was that of a person

Supt. J. H. Freeman, of the East Aurora schools, Ill., whose eyes were crooked. The writing of the future, the is annonnced as a candidate before the next republi- ideal writing, will be formed entirely of perpendicular lines. can state convention for the place on the republican The English civil service system now requires its candidates ticket of state superintendent of public instruction. to write in that manner. In the first place it is the most Prof. C. C. Van Liew of the St. Cloud Normal rapid form of chirography, and the length of the stems beSchool, Minnesota, has been elected professor of read-Itween parallel lines of a given length apart, must of neces

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sity be shorter than the length of the slanting stems be- The boy that cuts a desk with his knife should be puntween such parallel lines. Then, too, perpendicular, or ished. The only effectual remedy against cutting desks is what is called back-hand writing, is much more legible, and to keep the knives out of sight. Request every body to to me is more business-like, if not more artistic.-Popular keep his knife in his pocket in the room, except when he Educator.

Rules For the School Room.

Supt. Mowry, of the Salem, Mass., schools, has issued cards to his teachers containing, among others, the following excellent practical suggestions of school government: 1. Prevention of the wrong doing is better than punishing the wrong done.

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2. Never charge a pupil with a misdemeanor on suspicion, never at all unless you have positive proof, absolute demonstration, that he is the guilty one. Exercise great care in taking a stand that you 3have no occasion to retreat.

4. Fault finding is not calculated to cure a fault. 5. Distrust in the teacher breeds deceit in the Therefore always trust your pupils.

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gets permission to use it, then declare "contraband" and subject to seizure every knife you see in school. --Texas School Journal.

Educational Intelligence.

At a meeting of the faculty of Jefferson Medical College Monday evening of last week it was unanimously decided to extend the course from three to four years Similar action has been taken by the faculty of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, where the four years' course is now in effect, and by Hahnemann College, and may the Woman's Medical College. The usual course in medical colleges has been three years in length, and the movement to extend it another year is quite recent. Those other colleges in the country where the longer course is in effect are Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, a and the University of Michigan.

pupil.

6. Absolute self-control on the part of the teacher is necessary prerequisite to proper control of the pupils. 7. Obedience won is far better and easier than obedience compelled.

8. A child properly employed is easily controlled. 9. A school not properly controlled is a school of little progress or profit.

10. Never threaten; never chide angrily; above all, never use, in the least degree or under any circumstances,

sarcasm.

Appearance of Your Room,

The State Board of Medical Examiners, from which all physicians must secure a diploma before they can practice, has announced that after 1898 they will not recognize or receive for examination any graduate from a school having a three years' course.

The faculty of Jefferson College deemed it wise to adopi the longer course at once, though not compelled to do so for four years. The new order will go into effect at the beginning of the term of 1895-96. The Board of Trustees must pass upon the question, but will indorse the action of the faculty.

Look to the appearance of your room at all hours. If the windows are dusty and dingy have them cleaned by It is officially announced that a session of the summer the janitor, if you have one; if none then by your pupils. school will be held in Amherst this year. Dr. Sauveur, If your stove is rusty have it polished. Keep the papers who conducted such a school in Amherst from 1877 to off the floor. If your room is not thoroughly dusted once 1883 and has since been at the head of the Sauveur School a day, at least, you should "make a dust" about it or sub-of Languages, will combine with Professor Montague in mit to being "dusted" yourself. Keep the tops of the Amherst the Sauvuer College of Languages and Amherst desks free from books. Pupils cannot work on a crowded Summer School.

desk, to say nothing of neatness. These things are worthy

The West Chester School Board, Pa., is considering the

your attention, because, first, the school-room is the only decent room your pupils will see during the year. And question of introducing sewing, both plain and fancy, into those of your pupils that come from nice homes should not the schools of that borough.

be compelled to regard the school room as a place of care

lessness, dust and dirt. "Cleanliness is next to godliness" TEACHERS WANTED.-Apply at once, Teachers' Prodoes not lose its strength with age. Keep everything in tective Association, Rembrandt Hall Building, Detroit, its proper place this year.

Mich.

Sixty languages were known by Christian Joachim Mohn, to corporal punishment, especially condemning the violaa Norwegian, who died recently in Naples, at the age of tion of that portion of the law which prohibits punishment eighty-five.

Secretary Carlisle has decided to throw open to young men in civil life the examinations for cadetship in the revenue cutter service. Heretofore the officers for this service were secured from the naval academy. If there is a sufficient number of applicants from the Pacific coast, an examining board will be appointed in San Francisco.

The Hebrew kindergarten of the Young Women's Union at 238 Pine street, Philadelphia, Pa., enrolls fifty children, with an average attendance of thirty.

about the head and face, and announced himself ready to revoke the certificate of any teacher guilty of it, even to the extent of pulling ears or hair.

The London school board has engaged ten dentists at a salary of $750, whose duties it is to examine the teeth of the different schools of London.

The University of Missouri has received from the State Legislature since February 1891, by direct appropriation and in interest on its endowment fund, $525,000. No other state in this country has given its university so much money in so short a time.

Great Britain has eleven universities, with 344 professors

Supt. Charles E. Gorton and Prof. Edward R. Shaw, of the School of Pedagogy of the University of the City of and 13,400 students. New York, are making a very careful test of the vertical writing in the second, third, and fourth, and fifth years in a public school of Yonkers, N: Y. The test has been a severe one, and thus far the results are markedly in favor of vertical script.-School Journal.

The High School gymnasiums of Cincinnati have just been opened for use. They are said to be perfect in appointment and finish.

The board of aldermen at Lexington, Ky., have passed an ordinance, appropriating $100 to Miss Laura Charles for kindergarten work.

Chicago University has purchased for $80,000 the library and manuscripts of the Historian Bancroft. The library contains 225,0co volumes. It is the largest in any of the American universities.

The kindergarten training school at Lincoln, Neb., is full, many having been turned away. Those attending are studying with Prof. Bruner of the state university. The mothers' meetings are well attended and great interest is manifested in the children.

State Supt. Schaeffer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, of Pa., has decided that free text books furnished at the expense of the various school districts of the Commonwealth, are for the use of the children in attendance upon the public schools of their respective districts, and that Boards of Directors have nothing to do officially with private or subscription schools.

Mr. Marshall Field, of Chicago, has subscribed $1,000,000 to found a Museum of Natural History in Chicago, on the condition that $500,000 is subscribed by other citizens. The art building within the fair grounds will be retained as a permanent building for the new museum.

The first woman that ever gave money to Harvard College could not have tancied in her most imaginative moA technical school is to be established at Osaka, Japan, ment that more than 250 years later her girlhood's name for the training of youths in various handicrafts. would be given to a college for women at Harvard. Anne

Radcliffe, who was afterwards Dame Moulson, sent her The Industrial course, Santee, Neb., normal training hundred pounds over seas from England to aid the cause school includes blacksmithing, carpentry, shoemaking, of education. She cast her bread upon the waters, and it printing, farming and cooking. The institution is under is returned to her memory in honor after all these many the charge of the American Missionary Association, and is days. Mrs. Agassiz, the President of the Harvard Annex, the chief training school of Indian teachers and ministers is congratulated on this most charming and suggestive Nearly 1,000 pupils have attended since it was started in choice of a name. 1870. At present it has 150 pupils and a corps of twentythree instructors. The Rev. Alfred L. Riggs is the prin

Superintendent Turner, of Spokane, Wash., is opposed cipal.

LITERARY AND SOIENTIFIC

tax upon the introduction of art into America. That the newest of the great nations, the one least equipped artistiEX-PRESIDENT HARRISON SUMS IT UP.-The 28th cally, the one most needing the examples and culture of commencement exercise of the Pierce School of Business art in its homes, schools and manufactures, should be the and Shorthand, 917 Chestnut St., Phila., was recently held one to stand at the ports of entry with a club in its hand in the Academy of Music. The orator of the occasion to beat back the very thing we most require, is a reproach was no less a distinguished personage than ex-President to American intelligence and a disgrace to our legislators. Harrison, and his remarkable address on that occasion has The lesson of the World's Fair will have been in great part been made the subject of national comment. In his direct lost unless it teaches our lawmakers the necessity of reremarks to the 170 young men and women graduates, he moving a tax which is an ignorant and brutal clog upon emphasized the great training value of the Peirce school national progress. by referring to, "the eminently practical curriculum which they (the graduates) had now completed." "Eminently practical" sums up in two words the instruction that is received at this admirable School-instruction which completely equips the graduate for every phase of business

life.

Ex.

A PROSPEROUS INSTITUTION.-The annual report of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for the year ending June 30th, 1892, contains a synopsis of the operations of the Relief Department of that Company, which shows it to be in a most prosperous condition.

The Department had a membership of 22,637 persons; NEW PROOFS OF OLD FACTS.-The Compound Oxygen the receipts of the Relief Feature for the year were $425,Treatment is nearly twenty-five years old. Its valuable 508.32 and the disbursements $415,554-39, and the beneremedial properties have long been known and acknowl-fits paid to members since May 1st, 1880, aggregate the edged. But we are constantly receiving new testimonials enormous sum of $3,883,940.17.

as to its efficiency in curing diseases which have, in many of the fiscal year, there was due depositors $830,386.06, as In the Savings Feature of the Department, at the close cases been pronounced incurable. We give below one of these: against $692,547.05 at the close of the previous year; the "Please accept my sincere gratitude for the restored life deposits during the year were $326,049.77, the withdrawof happiness and health, and vigor and usefulness that the Compound Oxygen has certainly given me. "While I was considered a healthy child I was known to be dyspeptic from babyhood. It was inherited. For two years I was confined almost constantly to the lounge. For more than four years I did not know a moment free five per cent. per annum.

als $188,210.76, and the amount due from employes on account of loans made for the purpose of securing homes was $601,239.26. An extra dividend of one per cent. was declared on all deposits drawing interest at the close of the year, thus making the interest for the year equivalent to

from pain. All this time dyspepsia continued its ravages Pension list, and the disbursements on this account for the At the close of the year there were 210 names on the except when temporarily relieved and aggravated other Pension list, and the disbursements on this account for the year have been $31,954.35, and for the whole period, $201,084.16.

serious disorders.

"My friends and physicians thought I would never recover. To-day I am entirely cured of dyspepsia, can enjoy articles of food that I never dared use before in my life. For the past year I have been up and going in ease and health, with sufficient vigor to take some part in domestic work of the most laborious nature. As my strength continues to improve, since leaving off Oxygen, I feel that I can conscientiously recommend the treatment, not only to cure, (provided the doctors directions are observed) but to be lasting in its beneficial effects.

MISS JAMIE MAGRUDER,

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