mine, for the proceedings were concealed from the public under the cloak of executive session. But these facts are known: (1) The charges were not preferred; (2) The resignations of the three lady members of the faculty, the Misses Fitzgerald, Peake, and Coffin, who accompanied the local regent to Madison (not to Plainfield as the local paper announced) for the evident purpose of supporting the charges, were received and granted; (3) John F. Sims is president of the Stevens Point normal school and this year has selected his own faculty!

Any other outcome of this fiasco would have been a death blow to the teaching profession of Wisconsin, and the Stevens Point normal school would have been known as the grave-yard of successful educators; there would have been a fight to the finish for the good name of the teachers of Badgerdom; and it is very doubtful if the present plan of organization of the normal regents could have survived another legislature.

Just one more step is necessary before the Stevens Point normal school is restored to its former tranquility, and that is the appointment by the Governor in February, 1910, of a regent, either local or otherwise, to succeed the present incumbent. This regent should be a man broad enough, whatever his vocation is, to realize that the teaching profession is a sacred one, not to be tampered with by a layman for personal reasons, and one who should possess first of all the spirit of co-operation, working hand in hand with the president not only for the welfare of the local school at Stevens Point, but for the entire normal school system of the state of Wisconsin.

Several changes in the faculty are of interest. Mr. Frank S. Hyer, the institute conductor, instead of teaching his former subjects, will do the work of the supervisor of practice; H. S. Hippenstal of Auburn, Indiana, takes Mr. Hyer's studies; A. M. Sanford is transferred to the new La Crosse normal and his work in history and economics is taken by Raymond G. Patterson of Syracuse University; Mr. Olson is granted a year's leave of absence and W. A. Gardner of Albion College will take charge of the biology for the year; the new kindergartner is Miss Amanda Zeller of the Chicago Kindergarten College; Ex-Supt. Laura A. Burce of Eau Claire county will assist in the English work; the music supervisorship goes to Miss

Anna E. Menaul of Chicago; Flora C. Studley of Springfield, Massachusetts, takes the domestic science work. Miss Sara Craw of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is the new grammar grade critic, and Miss Elanora Flanagan of Clinton, Iowa, the supervisor of art. L. A. Flagler of Eau Claire takes charge of the manual training work. Miss Hulda Schrode of Stoughton is the new intermediate critic.

Mrs. Bradford Goes to Whitewater.

It will be welcome news to the Wisconsin educational public to learn that Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, for twelve years supervisor of practice in the Stevens Point normal school and recently of the Stout Institute, becomes the supervisor of practice in the Whitewater normal school this year. The school is to be congratulated and the state is certainly fortunate in keeping Mrs. Bradford within its educational circles.

The only other change in the faculty is Miss Charlotte Wood of Appleton, who succeeds Miss Norma C. Wood in the German department.

Mr. G. C. Shutts, the institute conductor, is just back from his European trip full of enthusiasm over the European summer school and its methods of showing the Old World to travellers. Journal readers fill hear more of Mr. Shutts' trip in subsequent issues.

Milwaukee In Its New Building.

The great event in connection with this school is the occupancy of the new $250,000 structure at the opening of the present term. Faculty, students, and regents, are proud of the new building which was completed the middle of last month. Every modern convenience known to school house architecture has been provided in this building. The new location on the east side has plenty of ground for student activities, and taken all in all, the school and Milwaukee are to be congratulated upon the new environment.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the first graduation exercises of the normal in June, 1910, will be appropriately honored. A committee of the faculty has been appointed to prepare a program and arrange the details of the celebration.

The First Dormitory at Superior. The summer school this last year has been very satisfactory, having an enrollment of 317, which is an increase of fifty-one over last year. It is hoped that next year the training department will be in session so that attending teachers may have the

benefit of the practice work in their preparation for teaching.

The fall session opened on August 30 with the new Manual Training department and all other divisions of the school ready for business.

Next year the Superior normal is to have the first dormitory erected in connection with the normal schools of the state. A site directly across the road from the school has been purchased. The legislature appropriated $65,000 for this building.

Superintendent Youker to Oshkosh. The most important faculty change this year is in the election of Supt. H. S. Youker, who has served the Grand Rapids city schools so efficiently, to the position of supervisor of practice. Miss Rose C. Swart, who, for nearly forty years has been in charge of training teachers, at her own request, is relieved of many of her duties but she will still be in the faculty and a power for good in the work of the normal.

Other faculty changes are Miss Gertrude Morehart of Racine who succeeds Miss Mary Rich as second primary critic; Miss Nettalie Boucher of Grand Rapids is to be assistant in the grammar grade training department, succeeding Miss MacKenzie. In the normal department, Miss Marietta Neff of the University of Chicago and Miss Ruth G. Bagley of the University of Michigan assume charge of the English work, which was formerly handled by Miss Rooney and Miss Beye. Mr. W. W. McMillan, a former teacher of the school, succeeds Mr. Fairweather in Algebra. The board of regents recently authorized three new positions and they are filled as follows: Domestic Science, Miss Daisy I. Harner, Manhattan, Kansas; assistant in gymnastics, Miss Pauline Bromberg, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics; assistant in Music, Miss Irene Curtis of Wilton Junction, Iowa.

A New President at Platteville.

W. J. Sutherland of the St. Paul training school for teachers is the new president at Platteville to succeed Mr. Livingston. Mr. Sutherland was born in Rockford, Illinois, forty-three years ago; was graduated from the Illinois state normal university in 1892 and took his Ph. B. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1894, and this last summer his Master's degree from the same institution. For nine years he was principal and superintendent of the schools at Yorksville, Oregon, and

W. J. SUTHERLAND

The new President of the Platteville Normal School. Charleston, Illinois; six years a member of the faculty in the Illinois state normal school at Macomb, and this last year has been principal of the teachers' training school in St. Paul. He comes to Wisconsin with every promise of success in the Platteville normal school.

Wilson Begins at River Falls.

H. L. Wilson begins his new duties as president of the normal with this term. Besides the change in the presidency, the following new faculty members are also noted:

Supt. J. H. Ames of Stanley takes the History work. Mr. Robert Reed, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, will be the instructor in Composition and Rhetoric. Miss Ruth A. Rodman of Oklahoma City is the new Critic of the intermediate department. Miss Edna B. Zinn of East Troy, Wisconsin, takes Miss Steinfort's place as teacher of Latin and German. The regents recently created one new faculty position which calls. for a teacher to have charge of students who enter the normal school not fully prepared to do the regular work, being deficient in some one or more subjects. For this position, Miss Bernice Sanford of Marlette, Michigan, has been selected and she will have entire charge of these sub-normal classes.

"WHEN SHE GOES BACK TO TEACH SCHOOL." MARY D. BRADFORD.

The gender of the pronoun used in the title above is not intended to preclude the application of my little story to teachers of the other sex, or suggest that any message it conveys is exclusively

ours.

Once upon a time I was assisting in an institute in Central Wisconsin. I was so fortunate as to find a home with one of the old families of the place, and in a comfortable, large, low-ceilinged, well-aired room, I settled down for my two weeks' stay.

There were in this pleasant household two little girls of about six or seven years, not regular members, but under the charge of the daughter of the house for the summer. One whom I will call Margaret, was a relative; the other, Olga, was a motherless Norwegian child.

These little girls occupied a room next to mine, and I very soon learned to find it convenient to take a short rest from my study or other work, when their bed-time came; for the loose-fitting door between our rooms made it quite impossible for me to be otherwise than entirely cognizant of the program, which under the direction of their gentle guardian, was carried out every night when prayer-time came.

These prayers were a most touching exhibition of childish faith, and simple penitence, as well as an interesting study of the force of imitation, and of innocent and somewhat amusing competition. Margaret first prayed for forgiveness of all the naughtiness of the day, "O Lord forgive me for being saucy to grandpa, and for hurting my kitty," -thus the enumeration would proceed to the end of the list. Sometimes the confession took the form of a plea for help in avoiding at another time the errors of the day, as when she would say, "Oh Lord, don't let me be selfish and keep the swing away from Olga." Finally, would come invariably the petition for blessings upon all whom she could think of, ending with the rememberance of the members of the family.

Olga, not so "gifted in prayer" would then take her turn, endeavoring not to fall behind her competitor either in length or earnestness of petition. When at last the extemporaneous effort ended, sweetly and fluently the words of a prayer in Norwegian, probably familiar to her lips from in

fancy, would come to my ears. Then I knew that the nightly program was about to close. Refreshed I would renew my work.

ers.

My interest in the children grew. Yet I found them reticent; the best I could do resulted in little progress towards their confidence and favor. Miss told me that Olga had had a most unhappy time in school and that she seemed to dread teachMiss thought Olga had communicated her dislike to Margaret. She had heard them instruct their dolls who were being sent off to school, by their little mothers not to mind it if "the mean old thing of a teacher" did scold them and slap them. They had asked her if I was a "truly teacher." When told that I was they had probably drawn their own conclusions and had acted accordingly.

The final evening of my stay arrived, and I was packing to take the night train. The shyness of my little neighbors had by this time worn off sufficiently for them to feel, with the help of a little. suggestion from Miss that they could come to my room and bid me an affectionate goodbye.

Soon after they had returned to their room, Margaret opened the devotional exercises as usual. These I noticed casually being too busy to listen; but soon my attention was fixed by hearing my own name fervently mentioned. This is what I heard: "Oh, Lord, bless Mrs. Bradford when she goes away in the cars tonight, don't let her get hurt. When she gets to where she is going, please let her get rested; and Oh, Lord, when she gets back to teach school, don't let her be mean.”

This is my prayer for you all, fellow teachers of little children, yes, and of big children, as well,— when you "go back to teach school" this fall. May you be able to take up the work with love and sympathy for the boys and girls given into your charge. It is the absence of this sympathy, so quickly and keenly felt by children, which, in their lack of a more discriminating term they call "meanness"; as it was the presence of this sympathy manifesting itself in all the activities of the school that led another little friend of mine when lacking a more appropriate word, to say of her teacher-"O, papa, she is so restful."

The remembrance of her own childhood with its joys and sorrows; the stirring of her imagination as a means to putting herself in the child's place—