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loyalty of the West it must be dispelled so far as it concerns the state of Washington by Patriotic Memorial Days issued by the department of public instruction. It would be difficult to put in so small a compass more of independence, liberty, and patriotism; more of the red-white-and-blue, flag of the free, and the star spangled banner, more of honor and devotion to our heroes everywhere than is found here. Hurrah for the "Evergreen State!"

The publications of T. S. Denison scarcely need an introduction more than the announcement of new numbers as they appear from time to time. The latest to reach us are One Hundred Entertainments, arranged by Charlotte Whitney Eastman, and All Sorts of Dialogues, compiled by Clara J. Denton. These collections are in the usual paper binding. [Price 25 cents.]

Under the title of Educational Creeds E. L. Kellogg & Co. have collected and published in convenient form the various series of creeds that have appeared in their own and other educational papers during the past year or two. W. T. Har ris, Jonn Dewey, Francis W. Parker, B. A. Hinsdale, Earl Barnes, Richard G. Boone, L. H. Jones and others are among those whose ideals and beliefs are here given briefly but comprehensively. The principles of Pestalozzi, Herbart, Froebel and Beneke are also included. This concise body of educational doctrine is of greatest interest and value. It is furnished with Educational Foundations by the same publishers.

INDIANA STATE TEACHERS' ASSO

CIATION.

Forty-fifth Annual Session, Plymouth Church, Indianapolis, Ind., December, 27, 28, 29, 30, 1898.

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

PLACE OF MEETING.

The General Association will meet in Plymouth Church, For place of meeting for sections, see directory.

HEADQUARTERS.

The Headquarters of the Association will be at the Grand Hotel Executive Committee's Headquarters, rooms 1 and 2. The Grand Hotel will give a rate of $2.00 per day to members of the Association where two or more persons occupy the

same room.

HOTELS.

The other hotels will give the usual reduction to members of the Association.

FEES.

The initiation fee is one dollar for gentlemen and fifty cents for ladies. The Annual fee for members is fifty cents. EXCURSION RATES.

All persons who wish to take advantage of excursion rates must secure a certificate from their home railroad agents. Read the instructions of the railroad secretary.

OFFICERS.

F. M. STALKER, President, Terre Haute.

W. S. ALMOND, Chairman Executive Committee, Delphi.

J. R. HART, Permanent Secretary and Treasurer, Lebanon. EMMA B. SHEALY, Recording Secretary, Delphi.

Vice-Presidents:

C. N. Peak, Princeton.

W. H. Hershman, New Albany.
C. S. Meek, Terre Haute.
J. P. Forest, Butler College.
F. L. Jones, Tipton.

S. L. Heeter, Converse.
A. T. Reid, Winamac.

Executive Committee.

W. S. Almond, Delphi.
E. B. Bryan, Bloomington.
Anna B. Suter, Aurora.
W. H. Glascock, Greenfield.
C. L. Hottel, Columbia City.
W. E. Stone, Lafayette.
George Mingle, Churubusco.

T. F. Fitzgibbon, Ex-officio, Elwood.

DIRECTORY.

General Association, Plymouth Church.
Sections:

High School, Lecture Room, Plymouth Church.
English, room 112, State House.
Classical, Room 15, State House.
Mathematical, Room 112, State House.

History, will meet in June, 1899.
Primary, Room 50, State House.

Child Study, Auditorium, Plymouth Church.
Reading and Elocution, Room 29, State House.
Music, Room 85, State House.

Library Association, Room 85, State House.

County Superintendents, Room 70, State House.
Trustees.

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MATHEMATICAL SECTION.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2 P. M.

1. "Arithmetic for the Common Schools of Indiana." From the Standpoint of:

(a) The Grades - Superintendent J. F. Haines, Noblesville.

(b) The High School-E. Fiske Allen, Industrial Training School, Indianapolis.

(c) The College-Professor Alfred M. Kenyon, Purdue University.

2. "Some Recent Developments in Modern Mathematics" Professor Ernest W. Rettger, Indiana State University Ample time will be allowed for the discussion of each of these papers.

A. S. HATHAWAY, President, Terre Haute.
MISS AMELIA PLATTER, Secretary, Indianapolis.
J. C. TRENT, Chairman Executive Committee.

PRIMARY SECTION.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2 P. M.

"In Beginning Primary Reading, Shall the Thought be Prominent and the Symbol Incidental, or the Symbol Prominent and Thought Incidental?" Miss Jessie Montgomery, Fort Wayne Discussion-Miss Anna Pitts, Peru; Miss Lida Cline Brook, Anderson.

General Discussion.

"Discipline in 'Primary Grades as a Preparation for

Citizenship" . . . Miss Anna Brockhausen, Indianapolis Discussion-Mrs. Harriet Farrel Case, Muncie; Miss Martha Jewett, Evansville.

General Discussion.

MRS. E. E. OLCOTT, President, Charlestown.

MRS. SARAH E. TARNEY-CAMPBELL, Secretary, Anderson. MISS LENA BOARD, Assistant Secretary, Jeffersonville.

CHILD-STUDY ROUND TABLE.

FIRST SESSION.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2 P. M.

1. Opening Address by the President.

2. "Habits of Work and Methods of Study of High School Pupils," Superintendent N. C. Johnson, Franklin 3. "Child Study Abroad". Dr. Ernest Lindley, Bloomington

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COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS' SECTION. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2 P. M.

1. "What Shall be Done with the Graduates from the Common Branches?"

W. S. Gibbons, Superintendent Fulton County Discussed by H. E. Coe, Superintendent DeKalb County; Ellis A. Hutchens, Superintendent Hamilton County; Frank E. Cooper, Superintendent Lake County. General Discussion.

Music.. Pupils of Broadway Colored High School, Madison 2. "Needed School Legislation"

W. F. Landes, Superintendent Marion County Discussed by E. McFarland, Superintendent Martin County; W. O. Baker, Superintendent Morgan County; C. F. McIntosh, Superintendent Owen County.

General Discussion.

Miscellaneous Business.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 9 A. M.

Music.. Pupils of Broadway Colored High School, Madison 3. "How May the County Superintendent Accomplish Most for His Schools"

Robert W. Stine, Superintendent Wells County Discussed by Chas. S. Royse, Superintendent Ripley County; Charles A. Robertson, Superintendent Crawford County; J. E. Payne, Superintendent Jackson County. General Discussion.

Music.. Pupils of Broadway Colored High School, Madison 4. "Libraries for Rural Communities"

W. E. Henry, State Librarian
Discussed by R. H. Harney, Superintendent Boone County;
W. B. Walkup, Superintendent Montgomery County;
Chas. Greathouse, Superintendent Posey County.
General Discussion.
Miscellaneous Business.

L. H. SCOTT, President, New Albany.
L. H. HAMILTON, Secretary, Rensselaer.

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(b) "The Value of Interval Practice in All Grades Above
the Second Year."

(c) "Music in the Public Schools of Indiana."
(d) "The Supervisors of Music."

(e) "Supervisors' Duty to Teachers."

(f) "The Pitch-pipe-Beating Time."

(g) "Tone Production in the Primary Grades." Adjournment.'

J. S. BERGEN, President, LaFayette.

J. M. BLACK, Secretary, Washington.

WM. MILES, Chairman Executive Committee, Ft. Wayne.

LEBANON, IND., November 18, 1898. Superintendent W. S. Almond, Chairman Executive Committee, Indiana State Teachers' Association, Delphi, Ind.:

DEAR SIR:-The following are the instructions of the Railroad Secretary:

1. Buy a ticket from your home to Indianapolis and get a certificate from your local agent. If he has no certificates, get a receipt for one full fare to Indianapolis.

2. See that your agent stamps the certificate, signs it, and has you sign it in his presence.

3. Present your certificate some time before 9 P. M. on Thursday (pay your dues or initiation fee), and your certificate will be properly signed and vised by the special agent of the Central Passenger Committee. This will entitle you to a one-third fare in returning to your home over the same route by which you came.

4. The special agent of Central Passenger Committee will be present two days, Wednesday and Thursday, the 28th and 29th of December.

Respectfully,

JAMES R. HART, Railroad Secretary. INDIANA STATE BOARD QUESTIONS FOR NOVEMBER, WITH DISCUSSIONS.

HISTORY. (Any five.)

1. What historical knowledge, if any, should be given prior to placing a text-book in United States history in the hands of the pupil?

State reasons for your answer, and state method of giving such instruction if, in your opinion, instruction should be given.

2. What effect did the American Revolution have upon French politics? How were American politics influenced by the French Revolution?

3. State the remote and the immediate causes of the battle of Tippecanoe. What were its effects?

4. What, where, and when was the origin of the Mormon religion? State briefly the history of this movement.

5. What states have been formed from the Northwest Territory? Give the order of their admission into the Union. 6. (a) What places have been capitals of Indiana—as a territory and as a state?

(b) When was Indiana admitted to the Union, and who was the first governor of the state?

7. Make out a list of the principal wars in which our country has been engaged as colonies and as a nation.

1. According to the outline of history recommended by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and also by the town and city superintendents, there should be six grades of history work done in the schools before entering upon United States history work proper. If this course of work is carried out as proposed, there would be no reason why children should not be given a good text-book at the beginning of United States history, when they enter upon the study of it in the seventh grade. In fact, this would be the best thing to do; supplementing the text-book with good reference work.

2. The American Revolution greatly stimulated the common people of France to struggle for their political liberties. American politics were greatly influenced by the French Revolution. At first, the Americans sympathized with the French revolutionists; but, on account of the excesses of the revolutionists, public sentiment in America largely revolted against the French. It may be said in general, that the French Revolution tended somewhat to dampen, for a time, the democratic spirit in America.

3. The remote cause was the continued pressure of population from the Atlantic sea coast toward the west. The immediate cause, the alliance of the Northwest Indians, under Tecumseh, to resist the settlement by the whites of the Wabash Valley. The effect was the complete overthrow of

the Indians by William Henry Harrison in 1811, and the subsequent opening up of all the northwest to white settlement.

4. Mormonism was the religion founded by Joseph Smith, who claimed himself to be the true prophet of God. Smith was a New Yorker; but the Mormon religion had its first stable settlement about 1840, at Independence, in western Missouri. About 1844 the Mormons moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, but were soon driven from this place and settled near Salt Lake in Utah, where they have lived ever since. One of their peculiar doctrines was that a man can have as many wives at one time as he wishes. In 1882 congress passed a stringent law trying to prevent this practice, since which time it has steadily declined. The Mormons, however, are still strong in Utah, as a religious sect.

5. States formed from the Northwest territory are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. They are here named in the order of their admission.

6. (a) Vincennes, Corydon, Indianapolis.

(b) 1816. Jonathan Jennings, 1816 to 1822. 7. King Phillips War, French and Indian War, American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War.

ARITHMETIC.

1. For what does 5 stand in the numbers 15, 516, 1.58, 35681, 89.645, 857293 ?

2. Multiply 31,643 by 20% of 30.205 and this product by seven hundred and ninety hundredths.

3. 26-[34-(2 + 1) — 25 — 6] =?

4. Express as hundredths and also as per cent.: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, #, fo, f. 1. ft. 1. t. 1, 20. f. §.

5. Determine by inspection: 663% of 660; 163% of 720; 441% of 63; 413% of 360; 874% of 160.

6. How would you teach a child to determine by inspection the least common multiple of such groups of numbers as the following: (a) 12, 18, 24; (b) 25, 60, 90; (c) 7, 42, 168?

7. Desiring the use of $1,969 for 90 days, I execute my note payable at the bank that advances the sum named at a discount of 6%. What is the face of the note?

8. Find the number of shingles needed in shingling a roof 60 feet long, with rafters 24 feet long, the shingles being 18 inches long and 4 inches wide, lying one-third to the weather, the first row being laid double.

9. The surface of a cube is 864 square inches. What is its volume?

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41% or of 360

87% or of 160 = 140.

6. (a) Since 12 is a factor of 24, we drop it. 18 has one more 3 than is found in 24; hence 24X3=72, 1. c. m.

(b) 60 has one more 2, and 25 has one more 5 than 90 has; hence 90 X 2 X 5=900, 1. c. m.

(c) 7 and 42 are both factors of 168; hence the last is the 1. c. m.

7. The proceeds of $1.00 for 93 days will be $.9845. $1969.9845-$2000, face of note.

8. Counting the double first row the dimensions of each side of roof are 60X24), giving 1470 sq. ft.

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5. What are the tests of good oral reading?

6. Is it possible to read well orally without understanding the thought? Give reasons.

7. Explain what is meant by the word method. What are its excellencies and its defects?

1. To read a selection is to comprehend in the fullest sense what the selection expresses; its These items facts, speculations, feelings, etc.

are expressions of what is in the mind of the author. Hence the selection is a medium for bringing about the unity of reader and author.

2. Silent reading is the gathering of the meaning by the mind through the sense of sight.

3. Oral reading adds to the above the expression of this meaning in the words of the author.

4. Other things being equal, the person who fully comprehends a thought will give it adequate oral expression. Of course, a defective speech, or embarassment, may interfere.

5. The principal test is whether or not the content of the selection is given adequate expression. In the fullest sense the items of pronunciation, quality of tone, rate of movement, etc., must be considered.

6. No; unless accidentally. What is not on the mind can not be given its full expression. One may understand the thought without reading well, orally; but one can not read well, orally, without understanding the thought.

7. The word-method has reference to the plan of beginning instruction in reading with the learning of words as wholes. Its chief excellency is that it gives the child at once the symbol for the idea in his mind. Probably the chief difficulty in using it is that the same letters or combinations of letters do not have the same value in different words. Hence, it must be supplemented by the phonic method.

SCIENCE OF EDUCATION. (Any five.)

1. What do you understand to be the aim of philosophical thought and study?

2. Give a brief account of Greek philosophy before Plato. 3. Describe the method or procedure by which Plato conducts the work of instruction.

4. Does it seem to you that Plato shows great power as a teacher? If so, in what does this consist?

5. Name several characteristics of good teaching.

6. As you understand it, what is the general subject of discussion in the Republic?

7. Name the principal speakers in the Republic.

8. How may a thorough study of the Republic be of benefit to the teacher?

1. It is to find a universal principle which unifies all knowledge and reduces it to a complete system. It is to gain an insight into the final principles of the universe.

2. See "general introduction," pp. 56-62

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