Our readers will be pleased to Professor find in this issue of THE EDUS. H. Clark, CATOR the first half of an article on Reading by Professor Clark of the Chicago University. The fact that he is revising the school readers for the state of Indiana creates a natural interest to know what his theories of reading may be. The latter half of the article will appear in July. It is a pleasure to state also that arrangements are completed for a series of articles from him in connection with the township institute study for the coming year. This will be a great privilege for readers of THE EDUCATOR.

article on another page. Graduation is one of the most interesting occasions of a young person's life and the wish to make the most of it is both natural and commendable. But there can be no doubt that a great part of the etherialized sentiment which finds expression in orations and essays at this time is in such contrast with the plain practical realities of daily life as to lose its influence. A change in favor of simpler themes worked out in the student's own way and expressing his own experience and attainments is highly desirable.

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held by all of us, deep sense of our perassure the bereaved that them.

State Officials of Indiana, by

F. A. COTTON, J. A. MOUNT, W. H. HART,

ANAPOLIS, Ind., May 15, 1999.

Los Angeles and the N. E. A.

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Committee.

Inducements to attend the the National Educational Association this year are

usually large. In the first place there is the Sightseeing en route. The railroads offer options of going one way and returning another with all the stop-over privileges that could be desired. The trip therefore means, to teachers east of the Mississippi, a tour of the Union with Yosemite, the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, the antiquities in the old Spanish territory of New Mexico, Arizona and southern California, the Pacific coast, the Rocky Mountains and some other things thrown in at only a trifling additional cost. It

AL FOR THE PROGRESSIVE TEACHER.

INLAND EDUCATOR.

calls it,

eform," seems to

position. It is natural reform worthy of the name Indeed, the value of any pro

mange may often be measured by the rength of the opposition to it. Superintendent Andrews has appeared as its latest champion in Chicago, and the newspapers of that city are up in arms against the “unmitigated phrod." The most that they appear to have accomplished, however, is to poke a little fun at the suggestions, and to assert that they should not have been made. It does seem like sacrilege to mutilate old forms whose age should make them sacred, but conventionalities are less stubborn than they once were, while the most grotesque forms need but the sanction of fashion to make them not only endured but presently even embraced. Not very long ago it seemed like affectation to spell programme without the final me. Within a few years those letters have come to look like an excrescence. Humor, favor and honor have each lost a u in America without greatly disfiguring the language, and the small group of reformers think that a little more pruning may not be fatal. We must confess that we cling to the traditions of the past. "Thru" doesn't look right, and THE EDUCATOR Will struggle on for awhile in the old way. Nevertheless we admit that the arguments favor the proposed changes. It is a question of custom and sentiment regarding a dozen words against a more

the in Chicago mention of it p feeling that the

e school offered were not ated. The study was not wholly en mainly from the kindergarten andpoint, although it was inaugurated by the Chicago Kindergarten College. It was an open expression of fundamental principles. Such a discussion in a spirit of candor by such men as Commissioner Harris, President Hall and Dr. Münsterberg might well stand as a notable event in professional educational thought. With a belief that thousands of our readers will be interested we have selected from the admirable report printed in the Kindergarten Magazine some of the statements which best seem to express the principles held by the three leading speakers.

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all of these are ultimately dependent upon a fundamental method, which may be called the "method of objectification."

All psychology describes and explains mental life. Description and explanation is possible for objects only. Our real inner life is not at all a group of objects, but a system of subjective will attitudes. Subjects can not be described and explained, but must be interpreted and appreciated; to make a psychological study of mental life possible we must, therefore, first transform the subjective acts into objects, and this objectification is the fundamental method of all psychologists. Our systems of physiological psychology are useless unless we start with the conviction that every physical process has a parallel movement in the brain. We do not arrive at conclusions unless we presuppose philosophical convictions and Dostulates. There is no psychic effect which 's not also its physical complement, and is no description of a psychic effect ble except in terms of the physical world. Psychic effects may be described, but not communicated. My mind is my castle, and there is not the slightest possibility that any other may conceive what goes on in this mental realm. The psychic view of any object is mental property. -Hugo Münsterberg.

We begin with the heart and go out from the heart to the intellect and the will. Evolution begins with a consideration of rudimentary elements, while the higher life begins with renunciation. There is no definite place where the symbolic stage leaves off and the logical or inventional age begins. Human lite, nature, all is symbolic. Symbolism makes material objects stand for a spiritual thing. Play has no claim of causality. The child has a wooden stick resembling a scythe. He makes believe to cut with it. His play reproduces without. creating a product. The child becomes dissatisfied and is pricked on to make things more causal. He wants a scythe with a metal blade, and later a still better one, till he has one which ceases to be symbolic in that it actually does the work. In play the child feels that he himself is causality. Play makes him become conscious of . . In time the child demands an increase in resemblance. At first a stick serves him for a horse, but he gradually grows to want one more and more

his essence.

male teacher after twelve years of approved service in such position less than $2,160. The salaries of women principals to be increased by $250 yearly until they receive $2,500, and those of male principals to be increased by a like sum until they reach $3,500. Such a schedule approaches something like adequate payment for service that fully qualified teachers should render. If the city will maintain this it can demand and secure the best teaching talent available, and may feel sure of a corresponding excellence in her schools.

Death of Mrs.

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The warm resolutions of sympathy expressed by the state Geeting. officials of Indiana towards

Mr. D. M. Geeting and family are a fitting tribute of kindly feeling for a brother official. Mrs. Geeting was regarded by all who knew her as a woman of beautiful life and character and THE EDUCATOR Sincerely joins in the sentiments expressed in the following resolutions:

Words cannot always express the sympathy the heart would desire to convey, and while we know that any expression of ours must fall far short of assuaging the grief of husband bereft of wife and children of mother, yet we would in this way assure Mr. D. M. Geeting and daughters, Wellie and Alice, that our hearts go out to them in sincere sympathy in this their great sorrow. The memory of Mrs. Geeting will be cherished, not only by them, but by all who knew her, for her exemplary character, her loving patience in suffering and the reflection her pure life has left.

On account of the very high esteem in which Mrs. Geeting was held by all of us, we desire to express a deep sense of our personal loss, and to assure the bereaved that we mourn with them.

For the State Officials of Indiana, by

F. A. COTTON, J. A. MOUNT, W. H. HART,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 15, 1899.

Los Angeles and the N. E. A.

Committee.

Inducements to attend the the National Educational Association this year are unusually large. In the first place there is the sightseeing en route. The railroads offer options of going one way and returning another with all the stop-over privileges that could be desired. The trip therefore means, to teachers east of the Mississippi, a tour of the Union with Yosemite, the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, the antiquities in the old Spanish territory of New Mexico, Arizona and southern California, the Pacific coast, the Rocky Mountains and some other things thrown in at only a trifling additional cost.

It

means a trip such as not one teacher in ten thousand would have thought of taking ten years ago. Such pleasures then were for the wealthy alone. Los Angeles itself, but fiftee miles from the sea on the south, and just as far from the mountains on the north, is said to be an ideal summer resort. A writer says of it: "Seldom has man so well interpreted the evident purpose of nature in choosing for a great city a site at once the perfection of physical beauty and the embodiment of climatic excellencies.” The list of attractions easily accessible at all hours of the day is really bewildering, and there is danger that the Association itself may suffer in consequence. However, travel and sightseeing in so delightful a country are in themselves educative, while the long limit on return tickets will permit sightseeing afterwards to those who attend the meeting for professional culture. Various items of interesting official information will be found on another page of this issue.

Through or Thru ?

The spelling reform, or as editor Macdonald of Kansas calls it. the spelling "deform," seems to be meeting increased opposition. It is natural that it should. No reform worthy of the name ever escaped it. Indeed, the value of any proposed change may often be measured by the strength of the opposition to it. Superintendent Andrews has appeared as its latest champion in Chicago, and the newspapers of that city are up in arms against the "unmitigated phrod." The most that they appear to have accomplished, however, is to poke a little fun at the suggestions, and to assert that they should not have been made. It does seem like sacrilege to mutilate old forms whose age should make them sacred, but conventionalities are less stubborn than they once were, while the most grotesque forms need but the sanction of fashion to make them not only endured but presently even embraced. Not very long ago it seemed like affectation to spell programme without the final me. Within a few years those letters have come to look like an excrescence. Humor, favor and honor have each lost a u in America without greatly disfiguring the language, and the small group of reformers think that a little more pruning may not be fatal. We must confess that we cling to the traditions of the past. "Thru" doesn't look right, and THE EDUCATOR will struggle on for awhile in the old way. Nevertheless we admit that the arguments favor the proposed changes. It is a question of custom and sentiment regarding a dozen words against a more