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The chair of civil engineering and room, principal's office, coat room, and propriately occupy in the State school mathematics in the Thomas S. Clark- lavatory; on the other, the board room. system, altho it may not be legally or son Memorial School of Technology at On the first floor also are located the officially recognized as a part of that Potsdam, N. Y., has been vacated re- gymnasium, fifty-seven by seventy-six system. It is the forum to which every cently, and the trustees of the institu- feet, and a study-hall of similar dimen- school problem may be brought with the tion have been seeking a suitable man sions; the rest of the space being occu- expectation that it may be fully and to fill the position. Candidates will be pied by eight class-rooms and a number satisfactorily considered. It may be reexpected to have taken degree of A. M., of teachers' rooms. garded as a competent authority on C. E., or Ph.D., and to have had prac- On the second floor is a large drawing- every matter connected with the schools. tical experience in teaching in colleges or room, on the northern side, and of the The Association is a school legislature, technical schools, and also experience same dimensions as the library; there as representative, in its way, of the in field or construction work. are, also, in addition to two large and school system as the State Legislature one small lecture rooms, two large reci- is of the people in general, to which tation rooms, four teachers' rooms, and school legislation and school measures four large laboratories. The latter will may be submitted with confidence in its The plans for the new North Jersey be devoted to chemistry, physics, zoology, judgment, and whose opinions, I hope, Normal School, which is to be built at and botany. may not only be received, but solicited Montclair Heights, N. J., have been On the floor below that on which the by those who seek to be rightly directed." completed, and bids for contracts opened. gymnasium and library are situated, In general style the architecture will are to be found recreation rooms, manual The Ohio School Improvement Fedresemble that of the Missions of South- training rooms, the cooking-school, pan- eration which met in Columbus on Deern California; walls finished in white try, etc. cember 26, 27, and 28, discussed "An stucco with door and window frames While the construction cannot tech- Efficient School System for Ohio." The in green, the under part of the cornice nically be called fire-proof, the greatest difficulties to be overcome and the enin dark brown, and the roof of red Span- care has been observed in selecting couragements and helps to be hoped for ish tile are in harmony with this form materials which are not easily inflam- were well presented by various members. of architecture, and should present a able. simple and dignified appearance. The length of the building is to be 334 feet with a depth of 138 feet.

Place of State Association.

Frederick S. Oliver, of Ballard, Calif., writes: Antikamnia tablets have done

Directly opposing the main entrance, President Snyder, of the New Jersey grand service in alleviating women's across a corridor which runs the entire State Teachers' Association, in address- pains. Shall take much pleasure in length of the building, is the library, ing the recent Convention at Atlantic recommending them in various nerve sixty by thirty-two feet, and connect- City, spoke of the Association's place in and inflammatory pains. Druggists sell ing with the library the rooms for school the school system of the State, in the thern, usually charging twenty-five cents supplies, etc. Flanking the vestibule following terms: a dozen. Camping and outing parties leading from the main entrance to the "It is clear that there is a place which will do wisely by including a few dozens long corridor are, on one side, the ante- the State Teachers' Association may ap- in the medical outfit.

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Texas Resolutions.

districts.
levied upon inheritances.
a State tax therefor, and
cational purposes, and by the State's the
providing funds for the purchase of school districts.
tutions, said incomes to be derived from cratic country, the people must be con-
building bonds issued by common school
legal provision for a county tax for edu- scholastic population being exclusive of
manent incomes for higher State insti- reforms can be established in a demo-
twenty cents, on the $100, by making tic population of 1,000 or more, said.
vote a local tax of fifty cents, instead of lished in every county having a scholas-
3. That the county be made the unit believes, is the one immediate, compre-
the right to common school districts to tendent of Schools be permanently estab-
That provision be made for per- length and breadth of the State. Before
from taxes vinced of the righteousness and the
children living
hensive, fundamental educational need
worth thereof. This, the Committee
lar education be waged thrucut the
5. That a vigorous campaign for popu-
January 5, 1907
in independent

2.

be
mitted the following recommendations:
and independent districts, by granting
cents on the $100, by increasing the
of all phases of public education should
1. That the revenues for the support
local taxation in both common school of school organization.
to the Constitutional limit of twenty
obtained by raising the State school tax
investigate educational progress in the
State during the past two years, sub-
revenue for the public schools should be
Texas State Teachers' Association to
greatly increased. This increase of
The committee appointed by the

4. That the office of County Superin- of our State.

Tuskegee Methods. Booker T. Washington, writing in the World's Work, describes the way in which the influence of the Tuskegee Institute is being spread, and how people are being shown the best way to get the largest returns from their efforts, says: "The Tuskegee Institute, whose object has always been the uplifting of the masses of the negroes, has been confronted with the problem of reaching shiftless farmers. It is not enough to get the sons and daughters into the Institute and teach them useful trades and give them object lessons in good farming: something must be done for the fathers and mothers who cannot come to school. The whole family must be reached if the condition of the race is to be bettered. This problem is being solved, in a large measure, by the Jesup Agricultural Wagon, made possible thru the generosity of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, a friend of the Institute. The wagon itself and the harness were made at the school by our own students, and two large mules were purchased. The outfit includes different kinds of ploughs and planters, a cultivator, a cotton chopper, a variety of seeds, samples of fertilizers, a revolving churn, a butter mould, a cream separator, a milk tester, and other appliances useful in making practical demonstrations.

"The wagon method has the immense advantage of going direct to the man in the field, where improved methods can be adapted to his particular conditions. We carry our implements out into his field. After he has ploughed a few furrows we hitch up one of our improved ploughs. That may be a good plough for some,' he says, 'but for me, give me that old "scutter." We use our plough for a few minutes and then ask him to compare the amount of work done and the kind of furrow. After that, we can hardly get away from him. They often try to borrow our implements and one man insisted that we remain at his house until he could plough over his cotton.

Philadelphia Playgrounds.

Schools,

When we come upon a man slowly
ploughing out his cornfield, we take out
the cultivator and show him that he At the Industrial Exhibition recently
can make seven furrows where he is held in Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia,
making one, and with the same animal. District Superintendent of
So convincing have these demonstrations Charles H. Brelsford, spoke of the urgent
been that many have at once bought need for larger school yards in that city.
improved implements. It generally He said: "There are schools having
means that the boys between the plough yards in which the number of square
feet of yard surface is equaled by the
handles may stay in school longer.
"We often find the farmer's wife and number of children in the school. This
children out in the field scattering fer- is the condition of the Ralston School,
tilizer. A distributor taken from our at Second and Bainbridge Streets; of
wagon shows him that there is a quicker the Watson School, at Second Street and
and better way, and his family may at Washington Avenue, and at the old
The operator in charge of the Jesup Sixth Street."
the time be free to do something else. Springer Building, on Christian, below
Wagon pays as much attention to the
kitchen as to the field, for experience
Miss Dora Keen joined in Mr. Brels-
has shown us that the wife must be ford's plea for more room both for re-
taught as well as the husband, if real cess use and for use as summer play-
grounds. Fifty-two of the city's school
"After the Jesup Wagon has in this yards are too small, and three schools
small farms of a community, a mass the 153 are used as playgrounds in sum-
way made the rounds of the large and have no yards whatever. Only fifty of
meeting is held in the open air at some mer, and none are open after school
central point."
hours or on Saturdays and holidays.

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The subject for discussion at the latest meeting of the New York Schoolmasters' Association was "The College Entrance Requirement in History." The discussion was led by Dr. Arthur M. Wolfson, of the DeWitt Clinton High School.

The recent meet of the City College Club, which was held on December 15, was addressed by Henry Phelps Johnston, of the department of history in the City College.

The New York High School of Com- board of trustees for the Normal College merce has commenced the publication and the College of the City of New York. of a school paper. The Caravel, the name printed and carefully edited magazine chosen for the new periodical, is a well of forty pages.

2. The board of trustees should include graduates of both institutions.

3. It is undesirable to establish coeducation in the united institution. 4. The preparatory departments in the The New York Board of Education present college should be abolished upon has granted permission to the committee consolidation. 5. Besides the full academic course, a on the prevention of tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society, to distri- school of pedagogy should be maintained bute cards containing suggestions for in the consolidated institution, and it is the prevention and cure of consumption desirable that the existing training school thru the schools of the city. The cards for teachers be transferred from the will be handed to the teachers, who will Board of Education to the consolidated give one to each of their pupils, with in- institution. structions to read it and take it home to their parents.

The Doctors of Pedagogy will hold their annual dinner at the Murray Hill Hotel on January 26. Miss Jennie B. Merrill, Director of Kindergartens in New York, is the president of the Association. The general topic for discussion by the speakers will be industrial education in its various phases.

The Association has written to Chairman Wilmer, of the executive committee, in the following manner:

While retaining its conviction, expressed to you in a previous letter, that the Normal College and the College of the City of New York should be consolidated in the interests of both institutions, and of the orderly development of the educational system, before a new president of the Normal College is appointed, the Public Education AssociaDr. Maxwell has announced that the tion begs to lay before your committee graduates from the Jamaica Training its views concerning the essential qualiThe proposed educational museum School of last June's class, will be con- fications of a president, in case it should which is to be placed on the ninth floor sidered by the Board of Examiners to be decided to proceed now to an appointof the Hall of the Board of Education be included in the resolution adopted I will include the New York prize-winning December 12 by the Board of Education. Exhibit at the St. Louis Exhibition. They will therefore be eligible for the There will also be examples of the work January examinations for License No. 1. done in the schools at present, and exhibits showing the prevailing conditions

in the schools with regard to buildings, In Favor of Consolidation.
organization, course of study, teachers, The Public Education Association has,
etc. The Board of Superintendents have thru its executive council, sent the fol-
chosen William E. Worth, teacher of lowing resolutions to the executive Com-
shopwork in Public School No. 158, to mitte of the Normal College:
take charge of the museum.
1. There should be one president and

ment.

Normal College should become one of the leading colleges in the country, a part, not of the elementary section of our educational system, but of the university section. It should be the college for ambitious students who cannot afford the fees of other colleges, offering them just as good a training as the best. The aim should be to give it full collegiate tone and tradition.

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