We open the last form to say that the appropriation bill for Purdue University, with "rider" attached, failed to pass, and the Trustees and friends of the institution have urged Dr. White to withdraw his resignation, offering needed funds. This he declines to do, and will return to Ohio next Fall, probably to Columbus. The following names should be added to the list, published in our last number, of those receiving certificates from the State Board of Examiners, at the meeting in December: Robert Story, Greenfield; A. A. Douglas, Belleville; Etta L. Knowles, Ottawa; Montgomery H. Lewis, Circleville; Charles H. Penfield, Cleveland, and John Elbert Sater, Columbus. For beautiful diplomas at a very reasonable price, address Beacon Publishing Company, Akron, O. Samples and estimates sent when requested. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, -The Fayette Normal School announces a six weeks normal institute, to commence June 11. -The tenth meeting of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Association will be held at Hamilton, on Saturday, April 28. -An experienced lady teacher is wanted at the N. E. O. Normal School. Address the Principal, Byron E. Helman, Canfield, O. -The counties of Washington, Stark, and Williams, hold institutes the last week of August. The Allen County Institute begins August 6. —The Trumbull County Teachers' Institute for 1883, will be held at Warren, Aug. 20-25. J. J. Burns and R. B. Marsh are the instructors. -The Summit County Teachers' Institute will be held at Akron, the week beginning August 10th. Thos. W. Harvey, J. C. Hartzler and E. Fraunfelter have been engaged as instructors. -The Metcalf school bill, which provides for township organization, came to a vote in the House, March 15, and was defeated by a vote of 27 yeas and 47 nays. How long! Oh, how long! -The teachers of Seneca, Hancock, Hardin, and Wyandot counties hold their eighth annual session at Carey, on Saturday, March 31. We would like to print the program, but want of space forbids. -The Eclectic Teacher and Southwestern Journal of Education has ceased to be. It began with July, 1876, and ended with February, 1883. It was edited and published at Lexington, Ky., by T. C. H. Vance. -The Jefferson County Teachers' Institute will be held at Toronto, commencing August 27, and continuing one week. The institute will be conducted by Samuel Findley, with the assistance of home teachers. -The Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association met at Washington, D. C., Feb. 20. Ohio was represented by Superintendent R. W. Stevenson, of Columbus, and Dr. E. T. Tappan, of Gambier. "Authors' Days" are an important feature of the Cincinnati schools. Washington Day" was observed February 21st, the 22d being a legal holiday. -The regular bi-monthly meeting of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association will be held at Cleveland, on Saturday, April 14. There will be a continuation of the discussion of "The Superintendent," at the Forest City House, on Friday evening preceding. -An afternoon school of science and history has been successfully carried on the past winter by the faculty of Chickering Institute, Cincinnati. The session lasted 10 weeks. Chemistry, botany, zoology, history and art were each the subject of an extended course of lectures. -The seventeenth annual session of the Hamilton County Teachers' Institute is to be held at Newtown, the week beginning August 20th. R. W. Stevenson, of Columbus; John Mickelborough, of Cincinnati; A. B. Johnson, of Avondale, and C. A. McCoy, of Clifton, are the instructors. -The American Institute of Instruction offers a premium of sixty dollars for the best essay on "The Application of the Principles of Psychology to the Work of Teaching." The essay need not exceed 5,000 words, and should be sent to Thomas W. Bicknell, Secretary of the Committee, 16 Hawley Street, Boston, on or before May 15, 1883. -The next annual meeting of the National Educational Association will be held at Saratoga Springs. The National Council will hold sessions at Congress Hall, July 5, 6 and 7. The general and department sessions will be held July 9, 10 and 11. The American Institute will follow at Fabyan's, White Mountains, on the 11th, 12th and 13th. Programs will be issued in due time. -The Dayton Board of Education has issued a circular, asking the co-operation of school authorities in other cities of the State in securing the necessary legislation to change the time for the organization of the several School Boards of the State, from the third Monday in April to the second Monday in September. The design is to make the life of the Board coterminous with the school year. -The sufferers from the floods in Germany received $51.17 from a penny collection taken in the Chillicothe schools, and the sufferers from the flood at Cincinnati received $39.76 from the same source. A call for one potato from each pupil resulted in the shipment of 30 bushels of choice potatoes to Cincinnati. The boys and girls of Chillicothe are evidently receiving some training outside of their text-books. -The Lancaster teachers organized, last Fall, a City Institute, which meets the first Friday afternoon of each school month. The Supt. seizes the forelock of the time to talk about current home-school concerns, then the meeting starches up a little, and listens to essays upon general educational topics. Mrs. Siemen, of A primary; Miss Hamilton, of the high school; S. J. Wolfe, Principal of the South District; Miss Vorys, of D primary, and Miss Schleich, of D grammar, have read papers, and Miss Work, of A primary, at last meeting, conducted a class exercise in composition writing. J. M. Steward, Principal of North District, made an address upon "Defects of our School System." -A bill before the Legislature of Pennsylvania contains a provision for the regulation of the teacher's tenure of office by the certificate he holds. It provides that principals and teachers in city schools who hold "Permanent Certificates," or diplomas from State Normal Schools, shall be elected for a term of three years; that principals and teachers holding "Professional Cerificates," shall be elected for a term of two years, and that those holding "Provisional Certificates," shall be elected for a term of one year. -The faculty of Kenyon College, at a recent session, passed the following resolution: “Any student applying for admission to the freshman class at the beginning of the collegiate year, shall be admitted without examination,- provided he brings a certificate from the Principal of a high school of any city in Ohio, or from the Principal of any reputable preparatory school or academy, stating that he has thoroughly done all the work prescribed in our catalogue for admission to the freshman class; and provided also, that the Principal will state that, in his opinion, the applicant is able to maintain a good position in " his class, and is of good moral character and habits." Some have supposed that the above implies a relaxation of the rigorous rule that has hitherto been applied. The Faculty of Kenyon had no such intention. On the contrary, they expect that students admitted under this rule will be above the average. -The annual meeting of the Portage County Teachers' Association was held at Ravenna, February 24. Papers were read as follows: "The Child's Emotions," Hiram Sapp; "A Piece of Coal," Miss Esther E. Barnes; "Geography in the Common Schools," W. E. Slabaugh; "Literature in Our Public Schools," J. N. McCall. A committee was appointed to report, at a future meeting, the names of books found to be both interesting and instructive to children. The following officers were elected: President, W. E. Slabaugh; Vice-Presi- . dent, Edith Doty; Secretary, Belle Catlin; Treasurer, Fida Loomis; Executive Committee, J. N. McCall, Esther A. Barnes, John E. Morris. A very interesting and profitable time was the general verdict. About 150 teachers were present. Country teachers are doing their share of association work in this county. S. M. -A literary contest was held at Peninsula, O., on Saturday evening, Feb. 24, 1883, which created considerable excitement among neighboring schools. Three prizes of $5 each were offered by the Peninsula High School, as follows: Prize A.-For best delivery of any selection by pupil under 15 years of age. Prize B. For best delivery of any selection by any pupil 15 years old, or older. Prize C.-For best original essay by any common school teacher. There were nine contestants for prize A.; twelve for prize B., and three for prize C. A committee of five competent judges, chosen by the schools sending representatives, gave the prizes respectively to-Clarence Parker, of W. Richfield, Summit County; Ralph Richards, of Sharon, Medina County, and Leonard Hershey, of Bedford, Cuyahoga County. The winning subjects were: "The Meeting of Roderick Dhu and FitzJames," "Spartacus to the Gladiators of Capua," and "The Possibilities of Man." Much enthusiasm was manifested, and other similar contests are not unlikely. Peninsula, O., March 16, 1883. FRANK S. PIXLEY, Principal. -Arbor Day was observed last year by the teachers and pupils of the Cincinnati schools, in planting trees to the honor and memory of American authors. About 60 groups of trees were thus planted in Eden Park, occupying about six acres, and forming what is called Author's Grove. This year the day will be observed by placing in each group of trees planted last year a block of granite to the memory of the author in whose honor the group was planted. PERSONAL. -John McConkie is superintendent of schools at Port Clinton, O. -Robert Story is serving his third year as superintendent of schools at Greenfield, O. -A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette states that Dr. McCosh is soon to resign the Presidency of Princeton College. -J. E. Sater, of the State School Commissioner's office, will be Superintendent of the Ohio School Exhibit at the State Fair next Fall. -Hamilton Wallace is superintendent of schools at Salinas City, Cal., and editor of a mathematics department of the Pacific School Journal. -L. D. Brown, of Hamilton, is now the Ohio State Editor of the New England Journal of Education. C. J. Albert, who has held that position for some time, retires. -Dr. Edward Brooks has tendered his resignation of the principalship of the State Normal School at Millersville, Pa. He has been connected with the institution for 28 years. -Mrs. Rebecca D. Rickoff, Yonkers, N. Y., has been ill for a number of weeks. Her many friends among the readers of the MONTHLY will be glad to hear that she has recovered. -Isaac M. Coy, for several years a teacher in country schools, and for some time past editor of the educational department of the Butler County Democrat, died at Hamilton, O., March 10th. -Commissioner DeWolf attended the high school commencement at Canal Fulton, March 23, and Norwalk, March 27. He has engagements to attend commencements as follows: Cadiz, May 25; Greenville, May 18; Germantown, May 17; Lima, June 15. He will also attend the N. C. O. T. A. at Galion, April 21, and the Medina County Association, time not mentioned. -John H. Rolfe, of Chicago, at one time superintendent of schools at Portsmouth, O., and well known to many of the older teachers of Ohio., died in Edinburg, Scotland, in January last. He was for many years the efficient agent for Pelton's Outline Maps, and more recently represented the interests of Harper and Brothers in the Northwest. He was in Edinburg, superintending the engraving and printing of Rolfe's Hemisphere Maps, when death overtook him. A man of sterling integrity and strong convictions, earnest and warm-hearted, his voice was always heard in defense of the truth, and in denunciation of pretense and sham. BOOK NOTICES. Moral Education: Its Laws and Methods. By Joseph Rodes Buchanan, M. D., President of the American University. Second edition. Printed for the author by Green's Son, New York. The author of this work has set for himself the task of revolutionizing our whole system of education. He maintains that there is a very general misconception of the ends and purposes of education. It is supposed to be a process for acquiring knowledge and strengthening the intellectual faculties, with some incidental improvement of character. The cultivation of the intellect, whieh, in our system is almost the whole of education, the author claims to be but the little finger of the educational hand. The moral nature is just as educable as the intellectual nature, and it is just as practicable to train the young to goodness as to intelligence. The book is characterized by originality, vigorous thought and clearness, and should command the attention of all interested in the progress of sound education. Old Ocean. By Ernest Ingersoll. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. A very neat and handsomely illustrated volume. The outward appearance and characteristics of the ocean, its various phenomena-the gulf stream, the action of the waves, the tides, the currents, are described and explained. The stories of the famous voyages of discovery and adventure which have been made over the ocean, the great battles that have been fought upon it, and the perils of the deep are well told, and the wonders of the sea as displayed in its various forms of animal and vegetable life are vividly described. The author has brought within small space a large amount of information of unusual interest. Political Economy. By John M. Gregory, LL. D. Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. Cincinnati and New York. Clear analysis, concise statement, and thorough treatment of each topic characterize this work. It is designed for the general reader as well as for the highschool and the college student. The author does not dogmatize on the tarifi question. Unlike most of the economists he leans to the side of protection, but he states the question very clearly and fairly on both sides. Education of Farmers' Children is an interesting paper (in pamphlet form) read before the Durhamville Grange, Lauderdale Co., Tenn., by Dr. Isaac L. Case. It is a timely and excellent plea for the more liberal education of farmers, and for an education adapted to rural life. The Inductive Algebra: A Complete Course for Schools and Academies. By W. J. Milne, Ph. D., LL. D. Jones Brothers and Company: Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis. In the preparation of this text-book the author has aimed to make the transition from arithmetic to algebra easy and natural, and yet give discipline and skill in algebraic processes. There are some novel features in the arrangement and treatment of subjects. The equation is the first subject presented, and as each new process is learned the student is required to apply it in the solution of equations. We are impressed that the book is one which will bear the test of the the class-room. Yale Examination Papers. Collected and arranged by F. B. Stevens. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1883. The entrance examination papers for several years past are here published as an aid to teachers and pupils in cramming for future entrance examinations. Socrates. A translation of the Apology. Crito, and parts of the Phaedo of Plato. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1883. Pages xxii and 159. Paper cover. These very readable translations of parts of Plato describe the closing scenes in the life of Socrates, and are calculated to give the English reader a fair understanding of the personal character and moral standing of the man who cheerfully drank the deadly hemlock, firmly believing "there can no evil befall a good man, whether he be alive or dead." Test Problems in Algebra. By H. B. Furness, G. W. Smith, and J. H. Bromwell, teachers in the Cincinnati High Schools, Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co,, Cincinnati and New York, |