years for MR. T. W. HUBBARD, of Toledo, Ohio, has been elected principal of the public schools of Kenosha for the ensuing year. THE Fort Atkinson High School closed June 13th, graduating a class of fifteen, one of whom had not lost a day in four any reason whatever The Bay View High School graduated a class of seven pupils, June 28th The closing address was made by the principal, Prof. Lewis Funk. T. C. RICHMOND, the efficient superintendent of Green County, has been engaged the coming year as the principal of the High School at Brodhead. PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL, known to many teachers in this State, has been appointed professor of Natural Sciences in Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. PROF. A. R. SPRAGUE, who has had the charge of the Evansville High School for the past three years, has been engaged next year as the principal of the High School at Black River Falls. THE Whitewater Register says: Prof. Salisbury, is publishing a volume on Orthoepy. Austin Cravath is making the cuts with which it is illustrated, and is doing admirable work. PROF. F. B. SECOR has been re-elected the principal of the High School at Chippewa Falls for the next year, with Mrs. T. T. Perk for the first assistant, and Miss Ida Pound for the second assistant. PROF. JAS. BAINARD, who has taught in the public schools of Oshkosh for the past five years, takes the charge of the Fourth Ward school of that city next year. He was the principal of the Third Ward school last year. PROF. HENRY SABIN, Clinton, Iowa, who read an excellent paper on the New Education before the State Teachers' Association last month, writes: “My visit to La Crosse has left very pleasant impressions concerning Wisconsin teachers." THE Michigan University has created a new chair - that of “The History, Theory, and Art of Education.” W. H. Payne, superintendent of schools at Adrian, has been elected first professor. Shall we not have a similar chair in our State University ? LUCIUS HERITAGE, a graduate of Milton College, and for the past two and a half years a student in the universities of Germany, has been chosen an instructor of the Latin language in the State University. His many friends will rejoice in his success. The High School of Manitowoc, North Side, held its closing exercises July 1st. The Assembly hall was finely decorated. A large audience greeted the graduating class, which numbered three gentlemen and five ladies. The youngest in the class was the valedice torian. The meeting of the Institute conductors at Clear Lake, Iowa, the first week in July, is said to have been a very interesting occasion, Prof. Graham occupied a considerable portion of the time in discussing institute work. We hope to receive further particulars of the meeting PROF. W. P.JONES, who has been the educational editor of the Chicago Evening Journal for the past year, has been engaged to fill the same position on the Inter-Ocean. His columns furnish the freshest news from all portions of the country. Miss Rose C. Swart, formerly teacher of Geography in the Oshkosh Normal School, has been engaged for the next year by Prof. Fogg, of St. Paul, Minn., for his private school in that city. A larger salary is paid her in her new position. We regret to lose her from our state and from our Normal Schools. PROF. THAYER and wife, and Prof. Emery and wife, spend a portion of the summer at Lake Superior, near Ashland. Prof. Salisbury and family rusticate at Geneva Lake. Supt. Shaw, of Madison, is on his farm in Marinette County. Pres. Bascom and family are at their old home in Williamstown, Mass. On a recent visit to the northwest portion of Chippewa County, we found some excellent country schools in that comparatively newly settled region. The teachers and pupils of these schools were as bright and active, and were doing as good work as those in the schools of the southern part of the state. On the steamboat Arkansas, on the return of the excursion of the teachers of the State Association from Winona, Minn., Thursday, July 10th, thirty-six graduates of the State University met by themselves and related some of their experiences since they left the institution. It was a very agreeable gathering. MR. J. B. ESTEE goes from Edgerton to Howard, Ill., next year; Mr. H. D. Kinney, from Wonewoc to Mazomanie; Prof. J. M. Rait, from Brodhead to Two Rivers; Prof. A. A. Spencer, from Omro to Third Ward school at Oshkosh; C. L. Powers, from Two Rivers to Hartford; Prof. J. K. McGregor, from Stevens Point to Eau Claire; and Prof. H. W. Rood, from Pewaukee to Omro. PROFESSOR BEACH, the recently elected President of the Wisconsin State Teachers' Association, is a graduate of Hamilton College, New York. He served faithfully in the army for the preservation of the Union. He was principal of the High School, Dubuque, Iowa, for several years, and is now principal of the High School at Beloit, Wis. CONGRESS has made no appropriation for the payment of freight upop goods sent to the Australian exhibition for the next year, and each exhibitor will have to bear the full expenses in sending his materials. Neither does the government assign any vessels for their transpo. tation. In all probability none of the states will send any school work to this exhibition. SUPERINTENDENT D. D. PARSONS, Richland County, says: The compulsory'attendance law is already in successful operation in some school districts of the coun y. The children of the required age are all attending school, supposing the law to be in operation. The people are generally in favor of it, and the prospect is that it will be rigidly enforced in most of the school districts. We hope teachers will interest themselves, before the annual meeting in making the provisions of the law known, and in creating a healthy feeling in favor of it. THE Shawano Journal is responsible for the following touching the JOURNAL OF EDUCATION: The June number of the periodical whose title is given above, lies before us and is creditable to the state, as well as its editors, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and his assistant. It has valuable articles on Primary Reading, Etymology in the Public Schools and various other interesting themes, beside, correspondence, educational notes, and book notices. It is published monthly, at one dollar a year, payable in advance. The school district in the village of River Falls unanimously adopted the following resolution at the annual meeting the second Monday evening in July: Resolved, That the District Board be authorized to purchase text-books for the whole school, and to lend them to the pupils, either free or for a small rental; and that pupils be held responsible for injury to the books. On motion, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars was appropriated to carry out the provisions of the above resolution. PROF. THEODORE BERNHARD, who was the principal of the High School at Watertown for twenty years, died of consumption in the midst of his labors at his own residence, June 27th in the 53d year of his age. He was hon. ored by his fellow citizens with a seat one term in the Assembly. He came from Germany over twenty-five years ago with a large number of his countrymen, who sought refuge at the time in the United States. His work some of the features that on such occasions are apt to be offensive to people of strictly good taste. The remark, common at this season of graduating and college commencements, about the young lady who graduates in four languages and sixteen flounces, would in the case of these young ladies have no point. The adornment of the mind being evidently considered of infinitely more importance than the adornment of the body. in the public schools of Watertown has been of a high character. E. STEIGER, 25 Park Place, New York, will soon publish his Year Book of Education for 1879. It is the second annual supplement to his Cyclopædia of Education, issued in 1877. No similar works of equal merit have ever been prepared in this country. This new volume contains the most recent information on edu. cational matters. It is larger than the issue of last year, and is sold at the very low prices, in limp cloth, $1.50; in cloth, beveled boards, $2.00. It will be sent by mail upon receipt of price. THE Dunn County News contains the fola lowing: An examination of the report of Prof. Ingalls in anoiher column will impress the reader with the fact that our village schools close the year in most excellent condition. During the three years he has been in charge the results must be regarded as gratifying to pupils, parents, and teachers. Certainly, Mr. Ingalls and his accomplished assistants have done their work faithfully and well. In the last three years forty-four of the pupils have fitted themselves for teachers, and tive have prepared for college. Few districts in the state can make a better exhibit. A RECENT circular of the Bureau of Education at Washington contains the address of Hon. John D. Philbrick, the superintendent of the United States Educational Exhibit at Paris last year. This address was presented before the National Educational Association at Washington, in February last, and contains the following item: In the preparation of new materials for the exhibition at Paris, foremost in merit among cities are Washington and Cincinnati, and, among States, Kansas. The superintendent of schools of Wisconsin is entitled to special acknowledgment for his zeal and energy in collecting and forwarding materials." THE graduating class of the Racine High School, numbering fourteen this year, is one of the largest the school ever had. A writer says in reference to these graduates and their orations and essays: We should be pleased to take each one and comment separately, but as each did so well, we could not easily discriminate, and the commendatory remarks which we could not help making, would become monotonous. The interest of the people in the welfare and continuance of the High School, was plainly man. ifested by the applause which continually interrupted the well-timed remark- of President Hand, who briefly and earnestly reminded the graduates of the possibilities and duties of coining life, as he handed them their wellearned diplomas. At the annnal meeting of the Regents of the Normal School, the first week in July, the following teachers were elected 10 the positions named: THERE are 170 co-educational collegiate in. stitutions in this country. The largest number - 22 — are maintained in Ohio. Illinois has 18 and New York 5. Prof. L. W. Briggs, director of model department, and Mrs. L. L. Cochrane, teacher of prepaiatory classes, in the Oshkosh school. Mrs. M. Emily Jenness, teacher of English language and literature, and Mrs. Elien C. Jones, teacher of the grammar grade, in the River Falls school. Miss Ella C. Aspinwall, teacher and critic of the grammar grade in the Platteville "chool. Miss Emma M. Farrand, teacher of English grammar, rhetoric, and literature: Miss Margaret E. Conklin, superintendent and critic of prac'ice reaching; ynd Mrs. Ada Ray Cooke, teacher of intermediate grade, in the Whitewater school. WE have received a full account of the exercises of the graduating class of the Racine Academy, under the charge of Hon. J. G. McMynn. These exercises were held in the Baptist Church of that city,and were witnessed by “a large and appreciative audience." The class consisted of two ladies and eight gentlemen. The article says in reference to this class: Speaking of the young men of the class, we can most cheerfully commend their gentle. manly bearing, quiet self possession, faultless pronunciation, graceful oratory, and the ca. pacity for expression and reasoning shown in their essays, orations, aud recitations. These steil ng qualities commend themselves to the pupils of our schools and colleges as worth struggling for with ardor in acquiring an education. What we have said in regard to the young men will apply with equal force to the young ladies of the class. Their compositions showed them to be high up in their studies, studious and thoughtful one might say even beyond their years. In dress and demeanor, modest and graceful to a degree. In their case there was a complete absence of It is estimated that more than half a million dollars are taken out of Ohio every year by students to be spent elsewhere, because there is no university of the first class in the State. MR. MOORE, of Philadelphia, who was graduated in the class of 1873 at Harvard College, has presented to the Peabody Museum of Ethnology at Cambridge a case of specimens consisting of Egyptian antiquities, and a col. lection from the Swiss lakes that represents the flint and bronze ages. With a large corps of eminent instructors, tuition at very low rates, and rare collateral advantages, the New England Conservatory at Music Hall, Boston, now entering its fourteenth year, offers advantages for obtaining a finished musical education such as can be found in no other music school in the world. This is saying a good deal, but its past history and that of its graduates fully warrants it. TEACHERS READ THIS. ZELL's Condensed CYCLOPEDIA, CONDENSED The Teacher's Examiner, Giving a general review of the Common and High School Studier, in a work consisting of over three bu died and fixiy pages, nemily pripted avd elegantly bound, and is very valuåble for Teachers, or Students who are prepiring themselves to teach; asking from iwo io five hundred of the most important qu« stiosu ench diapch of sudv, aid aria Wering ea h question that it asks. The Examiner 18 a work that should be in the haids of +very Teacher ihroughout the state. While ibe hook is especially ad pted :o the use of teachers, tte proless Opal and business men will find it a ready book of reference, crn'aining in concire form much that is useful and valable. Mrs. AMY Hough has the sole agency for Madison, Wis. THE TEACHER'S EXAMINER will be sent to any address, prepaid, on re ceipt of $1.75. Agents are now wanted in every state and coau'y in the Union, to introduce this fast selle ing book. Address all communications to ALBERT HENRY THOMPSON, Or EGBERT, FIDLAR & CHAMBERS, Davenport, Iowa. Complete in one volume. Brought down to 1879. Containing 10 new double page Maps, 800 Illustrations, and treating upon 35.000 dif ferent Subjects. A new work admirably adapted to the wants ol Teach«rs and Siudenis, ad indispersable in the 1xmily library as a cheap book for general reference. Sold only by srbscription. Good efficient agents wanted to seilit in every county iw Wisconsin. Addipeg A. L. BUSHNELL, Booninpyton. Il., State Agent for Wisconsin. C. R. BRODIX. Gen'). Agent, Bloomington, Ill. A FINISHED THE NEW ENGLAND Conservatorv, Boston, MUSICAL «m loying 75 eminent pri fessors, has a repu. EDUCATION.ation unequalled for furpirhings complete musical education at merely diminal rates, combined with RARE collateral advantages. For prospec 08 address E. Tourjee, Music Hall, Boston, Mass. vide the means for mental cnlture, and to direct the work of mental growth and development. Recognizing this fact and guided by this principle, the framers of our constitution very properly, yes, and wisely too, incorporated a provision in that fundamental law, compulsory in its terms, but dictated with a view to the prosperity of the people, whereby the legislature is required to provide for the establishment of district schools to be free and withont charge for tuition to all children of school age within the state. Pursuant to this requirement of the constitution, the legislative department has enacted a code of laws providing for the organization, maintenance, and supervision of public schools, which is creditable to the state, and though imperfect in some particulars, it stands as a proud monument to the wisdom of those who have been called to legislate upon the affairs of public interest. After making these liberal provisions, founded upon the broad principles of a progressive civilization, by which school buildings have been erected throughout the length and breath of our fair state, furnished with appointments, often the most elaborate and complete, as shown by the many commodious and beautiful buildings erected for school purposes; after having placed a corps of teachers in charge of these schools, that rank in learning, tact and skill among the first in the northwest if not in the entire land; after having incurred the expense necessary to make this complete provision for the instruction of the youths of the state, the people, through the last legislature, declared that these school buildings shall be occupied, for at least twelve weeks during the year, by all children between seven and fifteen years of age, unless excused by the proper authority. And to enforce the provision, a fine may be imposed upon the parent or guardian who fails to comply with the requirements of the law, as containad in chapter 121, Laws of 1879, commonly known as the "compulsory educational law.” The principles of justice that pertain to the duties of the parent toward the child have long since been incorporated in the common law of the land, which requires the parent to support, protect, and 1 educate his child, and the common law declares this last duty of the de parent toward the child — that of its education suitable to his station he in life - to be a duty pointed out by reason, and by far the most imtil portant of all. The celebrated Puffendorf well observed: “It is not easy to immagine that a parent has conferred any considerable bentimu fit upon his child, if he entirely neglects his culture and education, and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast, to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself." Yet, notwithstanding the necessity for the exercise of this very evident and important parental duty, it is too often most sadly neglected, as every teacher present can testify, perhaps from personal observation; and the municipal law of most countries seems to be deficient in this point, by not obliging the parent to bestow a proper education upon his child. Teachers know that it is unwise and impolitic in the management of their schools, to make out and proclaim a specific rule before there is a violation of some apparent obligation, or an infringement upon some well established right; and our legislature, although having the right, very wisely deferred the passage of this law till the apparent necessity for the same seemed to justify the measure. The school report for the past year shows that nearly two-fifths of the children of school age in the state, did not attend either the public or private schools during any part of the past year, while many reported as having attended, were only enrolled for a limited time; thus being deprived of the benefits so freely offered by the beneficence of a liberal commonwealth, not through any fault of theirs, but by the neglect and indiscretion of indifferent parents. It is to reach this class and prompt these parents to a discharge and performance of their bounden duty towards their children that this law was enacted, and though it may be in advance of the popular sentiment in some localities, and be denounced as an unjust infringement on parental rights, still we regard it as a positive indication of the progress of the times, and believe it will mark the era of a change to directly benefit many neglected children. A careful consideration of the causes of regular attendance and nonattendance at school, leads to the following conclusions: First, Ignorant and indifferent parents. It is usually true that people feel the need of that which they do not possess or cannot acquire, and it might reasonably be supposed that those who are obliged to grope their way through life in mental darkness, would be very zealous in their efforts to have their children acquire the elements of a common education at least. But this is not the case. The laws of supply and demand do not apply to the matter of popular education, for the demand for the means of education is in inverse ratio to the supply. The less the supply the less the demand, and as a general rule, with a few laudable exceptions, it is this class of people that is negligent in requiring the attendance of their children at school. Second, The |