D. S. Kelley used to be superintendent of schools of Jeffersonville, Ind., before he went to the Kansas Normal school. He has now returned, after many years, to his first love, an older and an abler man. Indiana welcomes him home with a hearty good will.

Supt. R. C. Barrett of Osage is announced as a candidate for the state superintendency of Iowa. Mr. Barrett has been in the field before, and has developed some strength. He stands well among Iowa educators and has filled the office of president of the state association..

Ellenwood, Ill., has erected a new school building during the past year. It contains thirteen school rooms and an assembly room that will seat over 500. The old building was burned in October and the new building was occupied for the first time in January.

Supt. Joseph S. Stewart, of Marietta, Ga. was the president of the Georgia State Teach ers' Association, which met in Warm Springs, June 28. His address was one of the ablest ever delivered before that intelligent body, or before any other educational assembly.

G. F. Kenaston follows I. M. Wellington at Crawfordsville this year. He has been a success in Mankato, Minn., for some years, so he is now retracing his steps by easy stages back to Ohio. He lingered some years in Indiana on his west-bound voyage, to the mutual profit of the state and himself.

Edgar county, Ill., conducted another first class institute this year. The principal instructors were Professor Tompkins and Mrs. Campbell, of Anderson, Ind. By the way, the Illinois superintendents ought to know that Mrs. Campbell has no superior in this country as an institute instructor.

We note that "The Pioneers of the Revolution is one of the three books on the list of the Indiana Young People's Reading Circle for the third grade. This is a general favorite with boys and girls everywhere, and gives them a view of the revolution that they will never get elsewhere.

Hon. Nathan B. Coy, ex-state superintendent of schools, has succeeded M. C. Gile as principal of the preparatory department of Colorado college. Mr. Coy was for ten years identified with the department of the classics in the Denver High School; he is a graduate of Yale. He is one of the best school men in the New West.

County Superintendent Hatfield, of Pike county, Ill., conducted a summer normal and institute at Pittsfield, from July 5 to August 6. Superintendent Hatfield is in the habit of conducting one of the best institutes in the state every year, and for the good and sufficient reason that he employs first-class institute instructors.

Honolulu had a summer school, conducted by Dr. Elmer E. Brown, of the University of California. There were two hundred teachers

in attendance. Inspector-General Townsend is doing noble service in Hawaii. Genuine American push and enthusiasm characterizes the teaching corps of those islands.

The recent graduating class of the Rockford, Ill., High School numbered 88. This class entered four years ago and then numbered 170. How many high schools graduate 52 per cent of those who enter? The number of students in this high school is 465. The number enrolled in the city schools is 5,414. There were 27 boys in the graduating class this year.

The citizens of Joliet and the educational public regret that turn of the political and self-seeking machine in Joliet which refused to support a good man in the performance of his duty, but these offenses must come in the process of the slow evolution of human intelligence, and morality. It is often the penalty of well-doing that the well-doer shall suffer.

At the county superintendents' meeting in Indiana, in June, the question for discussion was: "The Most Important Duty of the Superintendent," and the conclusion reached was that his chief duty is to do his duty. This is too revolutionary a doctrine to pass unchallenged, we fear. The time has not yet come when every state expects every county superintendent to do his duty.

Some enterprising (?) agent is showing a letter purporting to be written by Dr. Wm. T. Harris recommending an encyclopoedia of school charts,-whatever that may be. The letter is pronounced by Dr. Harris to be a forgery. Dr. Harris will be pleased to receive any information from those who know anything about the matter. The times are hard, but that is no valid excuse for lying.

In Newton county, Ind., two days were devoted to the election of a county superintendent, and 263 ballots were taken. W. W. Pfrimmer was finally declared re-elected, though he is reported to have had five votes of the ten trustees from the start, and the auditor. We judge that he was really elected on the first ballot, therefore, since the auditor has a vote in case of a tie.

The thirteenth annual commencement of the Kansas State Agricultural college at Manhattan, June 6, was marked by fine weather and an unusually large attendance. Dr. Washington Gladden delivered the address, on the subject of the "True Socialism." The degree of B.S. was conferred upon the fifty-five members of the graduating class; that of master of science upon seven post graduates and that of master of arts upon Professor Olin.

Mr. Charles H. Keyes, late president of Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pasadena, Cal., is elected principal of the High School in Holyoke, next year, at a salary of $3,000.

Mr. Levi F. Warren, principal of the Peirce School in West Newton, Mass., died suddenly on July 29. He graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School more than forty years ago, and has been teaching ever since.

There are ninety-two counties in Indiana, and at the last election of county superintendents fifty-three new superintendents were eleeted, and in six counties the election is contested. This looks like a very large number of changes in so important an office, where so much depends upon a uniform policy of school administration. The Indiana county superintendent is a very influential factor in public education in that state.

Supt. M. E. Hard, of Salem, Ohio, is the Democratic candidate for state school commissioner at the coming election in that state. The older teachers will remember that W. D. Henkle was in charge of the Salem schools for years before his death, and that President Holbrook, of Lebanon, Ohio, went from Salem to Lebanon. Mr. Hard is declared to be a worthy successor of these great educational luminaries.

It is also of general interest to our readers to know of the pronounced success of the pedagogical department of the University of California, under the management of Dr. E. E. Brown. The corps of instructors now numbers four professors, assistants, and fellows. The withdrawal of Dr. Earl Barnes from the Leland Stanford department of education will tend to center the leadership of educational progress in the state in the State University.

Supt. M. Moore, so long at the head of the schools of Charleston and Champaign, Ill., and for two years past a student of the schools of Germany and of pedagogy in Jena, is now superintendent of schools in Belvidere, Ill. He returns from Germany with health fully recovered and with renewed enthusiasm for his chosen profession. The JOURNAL extends to him a cordial welcome home in behalf of his. numerous friends, and in its own behalf as well.

County Supt. J. L. Whisnand, of Coles county, and many others in Illinois and Indiana, arranged the time of their institutes this year so as not to conflict with the vacations of the teachers, nor with opportunities to do special work in the universities and normal schools. This is an excellent idea. Mr. Whisnand always makes his institute worth one hundred cents on the dollar. This year the principal instructors were Professor Tompkins and Professor Galbreath.

The Streator Township High School has had a prosperous year under the leadership of Principal Alfred Bayliss. The interesting annual report of the principal contains a detailed statement of the work required, and of the work done by the respective students during the year. This work is measured by term credits. A term credit is given for satisfactory work in any subject of the course of study during a period of thirteen weeks. A pupil must secure fifty term credits before graduating, one of which may be earned by good deportment during the course, and another by general excellence in the use of English. The regular thing is for the pupil to score twelve credits each year.

The State University has just moved into its new $130,000 library building-the handsomest structure on the grounds. An $80,000 central heating plant is also under construction. The plant will be of inestimable value to the mechanical and electrical engineering students.

A successful summer term at Dixon College has just closed and the faculty is now beginning the work of the regular school year. The facilities for work at this institution are taken advantage of by a large number of students each year. The work is very nearly continuous throughout the year, and students can enter at any time for any desired course of study.

The purpose of the Illinois Pupils' Reading Circle is to aid in securing the careful reading of a number of good books at an age when the tastes and habits of the children are forming. The courses of reading for the various grades for the last four years as given in the prospectus shows good judgment in the selection of books, and the work of the Circle should receive the willing aid of all teachers.

Judge Benjamin R. Burroughs, of the Apellate Court of Illinois, will give a short course of lectures before the law students of the University of Illinois on the Law of Real Estate. His ability and experience as a jurist and his great interest in legal education will attract much attention to his subject. Other gentlemen of high standing before the bench or at the bar will bring their help to the aid of the School of Law at the State University.

The following places, which have been using the Pollard series of text books one year or longer, are this year adding the Advanced Speller of this series, which is just out: Beaver Falls, Penn.; Columbia, Duncansville, Beaver, Wilkes-Barre, Berwick, Catawissa, White Haven, Kingston, Shamokin, West New Castle and Middletown, Penn.; also Mead township, Warren county, Penn.; also Washington, N. J., and St. Rose's Parochial School, Meriden, Conn.

Cook County Teachers' Institute, August 30 to September 3, 1897, at the University of Chicago Instructors and lecturers -- Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University; John M. Coulter, University of Chicago; William D. McClintock, University of Chicago; Charles McMurry, Illinois Normal University; Colin A. Scott, Chicago Normal School; Clara M. Newbecker, Forestville School; Frank E. Sanford, La Grange; Elizabeth Nash, Evanston, William M. Giffin, Chicago Normal School; William P. Beeching, La Grange. Charles W. Farr, Cook County. ORVILLE T. BRIGHT; County Superintendent.

The resignation of President E. B. Andrews. of Brown University, is causing a good deal of discussion in the newspapers and elsewhere: He has been very free in promulgating his views on "free silver," and other political topics. As a consequence, the board of trustees remonstrated with him somewhat sharply, and he resigned. The action of the board is

viewed in a very different light by different people; but all seem to agree that the affair was not managed judiciously. An open letter to the board is published, signed by several members of the faculty. The end of the discussion is not yet in sight.

IMPROVED READING AND SPELLING.

The following is an extract from the annual report of Supt. D. P. Dame of Green field, Mass., where the Pollard Synthetic method of teaching is employed and the Pollard text-books are used as the regular texts:

"The critical study of sounds, syllables and words is making better spellers of our pupils and is securing a clearer articulation and more correct pronunciation."

For particulars about the Pollard Synthetic Method write the Western Publishing House, 358 Dearborn st., Chicago, Ill.

The following from New Mexico will be of interest to a large number of our readers: "Prof. Hiram Hadley has resigned from the University, and Prof. C. L. Herrick is elected president. Professor Herrick has been in New Mexico for two or three years, at Socorro. He is a very scholarly man, and a man of pleasing personality. He is a graduate of the State University of Minnesota, was a student at Leipsic and Berlin, professor in Denison (Ohio) University and the University of Cincinnati, is the author of a number of scientific volumes, was once editor of The American Geologist, and is now editor-in-chief of The Journal of Comparative Neurology. New Mexico is fortunate in getting him at the head of her University. Prof. Charles E. Hodgin, of the Indiana State Normal, for twelve years connected with the private and public schools of Albuquerque, has been elected principal of the normal department of the University of New Mexico. Prof. J. T. Perigo, of the State Normal and State University of Indiana, recently from North Dakota, has been elected superintendent of the Albuquerque public schools, succeeding Prof. C. E. Hodgin."

THE LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.

A large part of the income of this institution, founded and endowed by Judge Asa Packer thirty years ago, has been cut off during the last four years by the failure of the Lehigh Valley railroad stock to pay dividends. Judge Packer left $1,500,000 of this stock as an endowment, the income of which was intended to support the university. The General Assembly of Pennsylvania at its last session appropriated $150,000 to meet the running expenses of the institution, which amount is now available. This fact sets at rest the question of the continuance of the work of this great institution. The university is a free school and a very great factor in extending a high order of education in technical, literary, and scientific branches to the citizens of the state and of the whole country. Because it is a free school the state has come to its support and will, no doubt, take care of it until it is again able to take care of itself. Railroad stock is an uncertain kind of wealth, it is true, but the state will not permit the doors of

this great school to be closed, even if the Lehigh Valley railroad should never pay dividends again.

The trustees of Teachers' College of New York City announce with sincere regret the resignation from the presidency ofthe college of Walter L. Hervey, Ph. D., who goes abroad for a year of travel and study. During the presidency of Dr. Hervey, the college has most wonderfully advanced. Six years ago, when he took the leadership of it, the college was a small nucleus, having quarters in the old seminary buildings at 9 University Place. Now the college has buildings and land representing a million and a quarter of money, and its educational advance has been as great. Allied, as it now is, with Columbia University, the Teachers' College has a unique position and a great future. The trustees feel that much of this growth is due to President Hervey, and wish to express their high appreciation of his devotion to the college and his earnest work in its behalf. The name of Dr. Hervey will always be associated with Teachers' College as one who, in the early days of its history, believed in its policy and its future, and gave it an impulse that put the college among the foremost institutions for the professional training of teachers.

Supt. W. H. Campbell, of Joliet, Ill., closes his last report to the Board as follows:

"I wish to thank this Board for all the courtesies it has extended me during my administration of its affairs. I came before you three years ago and it is not my least satisfaction that the two members of the Board who objected to my coming became the warmest advocates of my administration, and the four members by whose votes I came never found occasion to withdraw their friendship and support. I have attempted to comply thoroughly with both the letter and the spirit of your regulations. I have not intended to hesitate in the doing of anything that seemed to promise a larger return in school values. The records and reports of my work, so far as they belong to this office will be found as complete as the time and circumstances would permit. It has been my intention to transmit to my successor the records of the office and the organization of the schools in a condition as complete and perfect as I myself could have wished or expected to find at the beginning of the next school year. Respectfully submitted.

W. H. CAMPBELL."

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF NORMAL METHODS

Enrolled many prominent teachers as members in its summer schools this year. There were nearly two hundred members at the Eastern School, which was held at the Boston Conservatory of Music, and a correspondingly large number at the Western school, at Chicago. The instruction was given in five departments, including such educators as Dr. Hugh A. Clarke, professor of the science of music, University of Pennsylvania; Mr. Leonard B. Marshall, instructor of music, public schools, Boston; Mr. Emory P. Russell, director of music, public schools, Providence, R. I.; Mr. Herbert Griggs, director of Music, public schools, Denver, Col.; Prof. Frederic A. Ly

man, director of music, public schools, Syracuse, N. Y.; Miss Minnie M. Jameson, director of music, public schools, Woburn, Mass.; Mr. Samuel W. Cole, director of music, public schools, Dedham and Brookline, Mass.; Mrs. Gish Garwood, director of music, public schools, Salem and Somerville, Mass.; Dr. D. H. Farley, professor of penmanship, State Normal School, Trenton, N. J.; Miss Kate S. Chittenden, principal of synthetic department, Metropolitan College of Music, New York city. Dr. Hugh A. Clarke, of the University of Pennsylvania, delivered some especially interesting and valuable lectures upon the history of music.

The post-graduate prize thesis on "The Educational Value of Music and How to Realize It," by Edwin A. Gowen, director of music at North Tonawanda, N. Y., was read at the graduation exercises, and Miss Sarah Louise Arnold, supervisor of schools, Boston, awarded Mr. Gowen the prize for his successful work in an informal but characteristically happy address. In the course of her remarks she said:

"There are three simple ways in which the value of music as it is presented in our schools appeals to me. First, I feel sure that through music the child is learning a very important lesson in the habit and power of study. Music helps our boys and girls to attend with all their might to their part of the work and to forget everything else. I believe that the simple music lesson helps to develop that attention which is essential to all good study. Second, I see in our schools that our boys and girls not only have this power to do their own work, but also to contribute to the success of the work which others are doing. That may seem a very simple thing, but it is something to grow into that concord which comes of working together. At the same time they are learning that lesson of infinite value, to bear their part for the good of the whole. Each one is learning to keep time with his neighbor. Is it a slight thing to learn this? So through our music teaching the boys and girls learn how to work together better as they learn how to sing together. Third, the time when we were satisfied with reading, writing, and arithmetic has gone by. We all desire something more for our children, and we have come to the day when the poem, the flower, and the song are accepted, nay, demanded in the school. I rejoice to find that, as the years go on, our children are becoming more and more children with songs in their hearts."

The American Institute is to be congratulated upon the success, to which its methods and its thorough and practical training for special work entitle it. The high standard which it set in the beginning has been reached.

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SHAKESPEARE NOTE-BOOK. Designed for Advanced Courses in Colleges and Universities; for Shakespeare Clubs and Critical Readers. By Charles W. Kent, Professor of English Literature in the University of Virginia. This Note-book designed by Dr. Kent for his own classes has been adapted by him for use in other institutions of learning, and is commended to the consideration of instructors as well as of private readers.

The book comprises a family-tree of Shakespeare, a chronological outline of his life, a comparative table of his plays, Dowden's classification of the plays, kinds of evidence weighed in fixing date of a play, and one hundred references for the study of Shakespeare. The peculiar feature of the Note-book, however, is the ruled pages for notes on each play. These ruled pages provide for notes on title, subject, theme, plot, history, structure of the play, as well as for comments on the interwoven plots, metre, inserted poems, criticism, mooted questions, etc. It is believed that such a book will make the class-room study of Shakespeare far more systematic and thorough than usual. Ginn & Company, Publishers.

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