PRESIDENT SALISBURY HONORED.

At the eighth annual meeting of the North Central Council of State Normal School Presidents held in Chicago on March 24 and 25, President Albert Salisbury of the Whitewater normal school was elected president for the ensuing year. This is an honor which Wisconsin should appreciate, as this organization is one of the strongest in this country for the promotion of the teaching profession.

THE CITY SUPERINTENDENTS' MEETING. For the first time in many years the city superintendents and supervising principals' association held a meeting at Milwaukee independent of the state association, and the great success of the same means that the plan will be followed in the future. There was a good attendance from all parts of the state, the papers were listened to with marked interest, and the informal nature of the discussions made every member feel at home. Supt. B. E. Nelson of Racine read a most admirable paper on teachers' meetings which was supplemented by Miss Margaret Canty of Milwaukee. In the discussion which followed many important features of this phase of executive educational work were touched upon and good seed sown which must bear fruit in the progress of Wisconsin schools.

The Friday evening session which opened with a banquet at the Blatz hotel, had the star feature of the meeting in the able paper presented by Supt. H. S. Youker of Grand Rapids on needed school legislation for cities. Mr. Youker showed in his presentation of this subject the most careful and extended preparation and he pointed out some existing conditions that call loudly for the immediate application of the necessary remedies. An intensely interesting discussion followed. Both Mr. Youker's and Mr. Nelson's papers are to be issued in bulletin form by the state superintendent, so we refrain from further comment upon them at the present time.

The Saturday morning session at the normal. school building proved just as interesting. Supt. Orville T. Bright of Chicago in his illustrated lecture on the improvement of school grounds and homes showed what a little effort on the part of the school in this direction will do to make a better and more enjoyable life for the community. Supt. G. A. Works of Menomonie was elected

president and Supt. J. T. Wilson of Beaver Dam, secretary, for the ensuing year. The date and place of meeting for next year will be determined later by the executive committee.

OREGON ABOLISHES ITS NORMAL SCHOOLS.

To the shame of the state of Oregon the legislature failed to make an appropriation to support her three state normal schools even for the remainder of the present year. They of course will not run next year. Such an act is without precedent in the history of education of the United States. God save Oregon and protect her children!

L. D. HARVEY AN AUTHOR.

President L. D. Harvey of the Stout Institute is the author of a set of practical Arithmetics which have just reached us from the publishers. Mr. Harvey has had the preparation of these books in mind for many years and they are the outgrowth of more than twenty-five years of experience in teaching the subject and in training teachers for the common schools. Probably the most striking feature of these books is the fact that while they contain all the matter essential for the necessary arithmetical training of all grades of pupils, the subject matter permits the mastery of Arithmetic in a much shorter time than most other texts upon the subject. In other words, the books are just plain Arithmetic with no fancy frills or useless features. There are notes to teachers throughout both books which will be found helpful, though even if these are not followed by teachers, the book itself is written upon such a sound pedagogical basis and is so carefully graded that the pupil will be safely guided in his progress. The author has wisely omitted any demand for abstract reasoning in the first book. It is well known that many pupils fail in Arithmetic because they are unable to read or understand the problems. In these books Mr. Harvey has underscored the new words with the suggestion that the teacher is to see that these are always understood by the pupil. No doubt this series of Arithmetics. will be widely used in this state and throughout the country.

May!

Arbor and Bird Day is May 7.

Some graduating exercises this month-make them truly democratic .

No conventions this month-only declamatory contests and field meets.

Monday, May 31, is a legal holiday for schools as Decoration Day falls on Sunday.

The election has come and gone and educational politics will have another four years' vacation.

Prin. C. H. Bachhuber of the Bangor schools succeeds Prin. A. A. Blandin of Port Washington. Supt. H. B. Patch of Outagamie County is undergoing a siege of the smallpox.

Educational legislation is progressing favorably though no important measures have yet become laws.

Mr. Chester W. Collmann of the Mount Horeb school goes to the principalship of the Bangor schools for next year.

The ambition of Eau Claire, Antigo, Rhinelander, and Green Bay to have normal schools has been thwarted by the legislature.

Last month Miss Mary Schenek, a young school teacher near Rib Lake, was killed while getting on a logging train to ride to her school.

Mr. E. M. Paulu of the Dunbar graded school goes to the principalship of the Pewaukee highschool next year at a salary of $900.

Miss Carrie Lingsweiler, who has taught school for over thirty-seven years, the last thirty of which has been in Racine, has declined a re-election.

The Janesville high-school has started an educational paper entitled "The High School Life," the first issue of which will appear about June 1. Miss C. L. Ewing of the Oshkosh normal school has resigned her position as the supervisor of Drawing to accept a larger field of work in Philadelphia.

Supt. F. L. Whitney of Waupun has been reelected at an increase of $150.00. All the teachers in the city schools re-elected have been given an increase in salary.

A wireless telegraph station is to be erected on top of the Beloit high-school building to work in conjunction with a similar station on the Rockford, Illinois, high-school.

What an inconsistency these inspiring May days and the drudgery of examinations are to teachers and pupils. Be merciful, teachers, to yourselves as well as to the children!

The Green Bay school board has ruled against the high-schools giving public plays and this has stopped the West Side school from further preparation for its annual play.

A spelling contest last month between the De Pere and West De Pere high-schools resulted in a victory for the former. A list of over six hundred words was used in the contest.

Waterloo has re-elected all the teachers of its present corps at an increase of $5.00 per month

each. Principal Waite's salary was increased from $1,100 to $1,200 for next year.

Mr. P. L. Pease, for the past few years representative of D. C. Heath and Company in this state, has resigned to accept the management of a heating and ventilating company.

The Green Lake county training school will open next September, though the matter of location has not yet been decided by the board. A principal and cne assistant will be employed for the first year.

The Stevens Point high school graduates, a class of thirty this year, and the Janesville high school will confer diplomas upon forty-seven members of the senior class.

The new public school building at Galesville was occupied for the first time on April 12, and there was general rejoicing appreciated by children and teach

ers.

The April Bulletin of the Whitewater Normal School contains an interesting address by President Salisbury on the schools of Great Britain, which he visited last fall.

Supt. L. P. Bunker of Kaukauna has been reelected for next year. The school board is seriously considering the erection of a new high-school building but no definite action has yet been taken on the matter.

Prin. Herman G. Augustine of the Winslow school, Racine, died on April 10, of kidney trouble. Mr. Augustine has been a teacher and principal in Racine for twenty years and was fifty years of age at the time of his death.

Secretary Katherine Williams of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association corrects our announcement of last month that the meeting was to be held November 6 to 8. The correct date is November 4-5-6, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

We are in receipt of the annual school directory of Milwaukee county issued by Supt. H. A. Pauly. This is a complete roster of the school officers and teachers of the county, and its preparation reflects much credit upon the county superintendent.

Prin. William H. Kiekhoefer of Arcadia has refused a re-election at a salary of $1,700 and will sail in September for Germany to spend three years in the graduate study of Philosophy. He is succeeded in the principalship by Mr. Robert Lohrie of Hixton.

A great success was achieved in Sheboygan last month when a concert was given by the public school teachers' treble-clef chorous, assisted by the boys and girls' glee club and the orchestra of the high-school. It is proposed to make this affair an annual event hereafter.

On May 8 the annual field meet of Beloit College will take place and a large number of entries have already been recorded. Invitations have been sent to over one hundred high-schools as far east as Detroit, and it is expected that many of the Chicago high-schools will be represented.

All the normal schools of the state except Milwaukee will hold summer sessions of six weeks

duration. Strong faculties have been secured for all of them and information concerning courses of study and other details may be obtained by writing the different men in charge of the same.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Schussmann, Rice Lake held a most interesting parents' and teachers' meeting last month. An excellent exhibit of school work was prepared, and in an interchange of ideas citizens, teachers, and pupils enjoyed a most profitable day and evening.

The annual school directory for Ashland county is an interesting booklet issued by Supt. Walter J. Cordy. Ashland is one of those northern counties which has made remarkable strides in its educational growth within the last few years, as shown by the list of teachers and school officers named in this directory.

Besides those re-elections noted elsewhere the following have come to our notice: Supt. J. N. Davis, Stevens Point, $1,900; Supt. W. P. Hagman, Mellen, $1,500; Supt. G. H. Landgraf, Marinette, $2,500; Prin. J. F. Powers, Shawano, $1,350; Supt. W. H. Hickok, Antigo, $2,000; Supt. G. A. Works, Menomonie, $1,850.

During the past year the system of semi-annual promotion has been adopted in the grades of the Grand Rapids school and the same plan has been introduced in the high-school so far as the number of teachers would warrant. Superintendent Youker reports that the plan has proved feasible and very beneficial for all concerned.

The Bureau of University Travel, under whose auspices the Journal party goes to Europe this summer, has inaugurated a short vacation tour varying in price according to the territory covered. Many who do not want to take the long tour will be interested in this new plan and may obtain further information by writing the Editor of this Journal.

Great progress is noted in the growth of "Galahad," the private school started at Hudson some years ago by Mr. B. B. Jackson, and now in charge of Mr. J. P. Inglis and Mr. T. W. MacQuarrie. While its beginning was modest, it now has an enrollment which taxes its capacity. The school draws largely from the Twin Cities and has proven its usefulness by the liberal patronage accorded it. Oconto had a slight school disturbance last month in what seems to be an unwarranted request by the Common Council for the resignation of the present school board because the latter saw fit to contract for next year's teachers before the new members were elected. It is a mistake to have any school board subject to the election or control in any manner by the Common Council.

In order to stimulate an interest in the study of German, the Beloit high-school German students are carrying on a correspondence partly in German and partly in English with students in Germany, thus giving both practice in writing the foreign languages. This correspondence is under the supervision of the German International Correspondence Bureau. The letters of each are corrected and returned to the writer.

We are in receipt of a very neat booklet from Mr. C. A. H. Fortier, formerly superintendent of schools at Florence, describing in detail his interesting summer camp for boys in the northern woods. Mr. Fortier conducts this annual pilgrimage to the wilds of the north under the auspices of the Outer s Book and has been very successful

in taking care of boys from ten to eighteen years of age and training them in wood-craft.

The annual catalog of the summer school of the University of Wisconsin came from the press last month and may be obtained free by addressing Prof. G. C. Sellery in charge of the school. The session this year will open June 26 and close August 6, with the exception of the College of Law, which will continue its course until September 3. The summer school is of special interest to teachers as almost every department of public school instruction is represented in its curriculum.

Wisconsin principals will remember Mr. M. McMahon, for so long principal of the Kewaunee highschool. He has recently received the degree of B. A. from the University of Chicago at the ripe age of fifty-nine. This degree was not honorary but was the result of hard work on the part of Mr. McMahon in the regular scientific course of the University. As might be expected, Mr. McMahon proved very popular with the younger students and when he was given the degree the entire class joined in an ovation in his honor.

Waukesha is certainly worth watching in its educational progress. Superintendent Loomis has been Two re-elected at a salary of $2,100 per year. kindergartens have been established and Manual Training and Domestic Science have been introThe duced beginning with the next school year. latter subjects will be taught in the grades and high-school. The school board has asked the council for an additional $10,000 to equip and maintain these departments. A general increase has been allowed all teachers who remain in the service next year.

Things look good in the educational line at Chippewa Falls. Superintendent Swartz has been re-elected for next year and his salary increased from $2,000 to $2,300. This city has special teachers for Music, Drawing, Manual Training, Domestic Science, Physical Training, and Commercial branches. Physical Training is the latest addition to the curriculum and is taught from the primary room through the high-school. It has proven very successful. This last year a special school for backward children was established. The results have far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of Superintendent Swartz and those who advocated its adoption.

The Milwaukee Educational Club held one of the most interesting and profitable meetings in its history at its annual banquet in Milwaukee, April 15. The subjects under discussion were the teaching of the physiology and hygiene of sex and the introduction of text-books into our schools, though the former subject proved the topic of most interest. The question was discussed from many view points and the testimony of Judges Karel and Neelan of the Milwaukee courts was not the least in bringing out the necessity for the proper instruction of our youth in these matters. This club holds a banquet once a year; it has no officers or other organization, but is an intensely interesting body of men who meet for the purpose of exchanging ideas upon live educational subjects.

The Milwaukee school board loses in the circuit court in its effort to mandamus the common council to levy the tax for school purposes asked by the board; the case is appealed to the supreme court. Contributions are being made liberally by the citizens toward the maintenance of the penny lunch in the different school buildings and no doubt the

plan will be continued as it has proven valuable to the children. F. M. Wiemer has resigned the principalship of the tenth district school number two. Miss Clara B. Barber, a teacher in the Milwaukee schools for the last twenty-six years, died last month at the age of fifty years. In the face of the stringent rule of the board against secret societies in the high-schools, a girls' sorority has been organized with chapters in the east and west division schools. Twenty barracks were abandoned last month which have been housing the pupils of the eleventh district number two; the event was duly celebrated by the children. The new eleventh district school number one was dedicated on April 3.

THE JOURNAL SPECIAL TRAIN TO THE N. E. A. AT DENVER.

All arrangements are now complete for the Journal special train from Wisconsin to the meeting of the National Educational Association at Denver, July 5-9. Through sleepers will leave Eau Claire, Madison, and Milwaukee on Saturday, July 3, arriving at Denver Monday, July 5, 7:30 A. M. Reservations for these sleepers may now be made with the Editor of the Journal. A ten page circular is ready for distribution to those interested, and further details of the trip will be gladly furnished all inquirers.

The plan is to make up a good sized party from Wisconsin as an escort to President Harvey who is the first executive of the N. E. A. to be chosen from this state. There will be no change of cars from Wisconsin to Denver and every detail has been so arranged that parties taking this special will be spared the usual annoyances of securing berths, looking after baggage, changing cars, etc.

A special tourist Pullman car has been chartered to leave Denver Saturday, July 10, 8:30 A. M. for Yellowstone National Park going via the Royal Gorge, with a stop-over of all day Sunday at Salt Lake City. Reservations for this car may also be made with the Editor. The round trip ticket from Chicago to Yellowstone Park with five days' stop-over at Denver and one day at Salt Lake City including five and one-half days transportation and hotels in the park, is $90.25. For the rate from any Wisconsin city inquire of your nearest C. & N. W. Ry. agent-it will be only a slight addition to the above figure.

Now, let Wisconsin send a big delegation to Den

its natural resources. Attend the big meeting, see the world, and grow as a teacher by acquiring at first hand a knowledge of the Geography of your own country.

TEACHERS STUDY IN COLORADO

Thousands of teachers should be in Denver for the N. E. A. Why not plan to do your summer study at the COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA AND SUMMER SCHOOL? It is only thirty miles by Interurban to this "Ideal Place for an Outing." Send your name and address for 44-page descriptive booklet. Address F. A. BOGGESS, Secretary, Boulder, Colo.

EXCHANGE COLUMN

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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. A bran new set of

Dodd, Mead & Co.'s New International Encyclopaedia, including polished oak case, $75. A bran new set of Ridpath's Library of Universal Literature, (25 vol.), $75. Neither of these sets can be bought for less than $100 from publishers. Will exchange the latter set for a good typewriter. Address, L. A. B., care Wisconsin Journal of Education, Madison, Wis.

FOR SALE. Three new Bausch and Lomb Microscopes complete in cases. Cost $75, sell for $50. Also Physics Cabinet, suitable for small high school. Cost $200, sell for $50. For information, address Geo. N. Danielson, Clerk, District No. 4, Appleton, Wis.

FOR SALE. A full set of Warner's Library of Universal Literature. Forty-six volumes. Good as new. Sells at $145.00. Will sell this set at $75.00. Address E. A. H., care of Wisconsin Journal of Education, Madison, Wisconsin.

"THE PARKER WAY" BOOKLET. This is an interesting little booklet just from the press showing the "Way" the Parker Teachers' Agency assists teachers to positions. Write for it. THE PARKER TEACHERS' AGENCY, Madison, Wisconsin.