school year the plans for all sections may be well settled. Even with this done, the ordinary

Critic Teacher, Grammar Grades, Whitewater Normal, (Appointed.)

Intermediate

Grade Conference, W. W. Hanaman, Principal Ward School, Kenosha, (Appointed.)

Primary Grade Conference, E. H. Miles, Supt. of Schools, Waupaca, (Appointed.)

Kindergarten Conference, Clara D. Hitchcock, Kindergarten Director, State Normal School, LaCrosse, (Appointed.)

Rural School Conference, Fred Christiansen, Principal Manitowoc County Training School, Manitowoc, (Appointed.)

State Graded School Conference, George W. Davies, Supt. Sauk County Training School, North Freedom, (Appointed.)

Domestic Science Conference, Daisy Harner, Home Economics Department, Oshkosh Normal School, (Elected.)

Drawing Section, Mrs.Sophie Hauser Harris, Milwaukee, (Elected.)

Manual Training Conference, J. E. Fults, Supervisor Manual Training, Marinette, (Elected.)

Agricultural Section, Prof. K. L. Hatch, College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, (Elected.)

Board of Education Section. Wm. L. Pieplow, Member of School Board, Milwaukee, (Appointed.)

Moral Education League, Dr. F. C. Sharp, U. of W. Madison, (Elected.)

Music Section, Ida Bach, State Normal School, Milwaukee, (Appointed.)

Physical Education Society, Geo. W. Ehler, Physical Education, U. of W., Madison, (Elected.)

School Library Section, G. B. Rhoades, Supt. Waupaca County, Waupaca, (Elected.)

Special Education Section, Anna Nugent, Prin. Day School for the Deaf, Oshkosh, (Elected.)

The programs of the main section are well under way, and work on the others has begun. Mrs. Bradford, the president of the association, sent out a request April 1 that programs be organized as soon as possible. After June comes, the nearing commencement season will absorb attention and energy, and after commencement, teachers scatter to their various places of vacation work or rest and are hard to reach. It is hoped that by the close of the

unsettle enough of the many plans to keep those busy who have general charge of affairs. It is expected that the preliminary programs will appear immediately after school opens in September.

Attorney General Upholds Teachers' Pension Law

Last month Attorney General Bancroft, at the request of State Treasurer Dahl, passed upon the constitutionality of the teachers' retirement fund law. He rules that as the courts have already upheld the laws relating to pensions for policemen and firemen, it is difficult to see why the same reasoning should not apply in the case of teachers in the public schools.

The Danger of Athletics

Surgeon General Stokes of the United States navy has just pointed out a danger in college athletics that ought to mean a warning to those engaging in sports on the American plan.

Of 625 former athletes in the naval academy classes from 1891 to 1911, nine have died and twelve have been retired for disability. Of these twenty-one, six were afflicted with tuberculosis, eight with mental or nervous diseases, resulting in suicide in three cases; two with acute alcoholism and two with heart diseases. All these cases were traced directly to the strain due to track and crew racing and football, and the preparatory training required. Of the remaining 604, no fewer than 198 have disabilities or abnormal conditions which probably were induced, if not actually caused, by too strenuous athletics.

It is a well known fact that there is danger in the over-exertion of severe physical exercise in training for athletic contests. The danger lies in the too sudden cessation from training afterwards. Men go out of school and enter occupations that call for little exercise. This is where they make a mistake. No mattar what their occupation, these men, former athletes, must keep up their exercise or they will deteriorate. Perhaps the English method is better, wherein all the students are called into activity, but as long as we continue to keep our athletics on the star basis we must consider means for minimizing their evil effects.

The county superintendents meet at Marinette,

June 5-6-7.

day, May 3.

Prin. N. A. Anderson of Ellsworth is reelected at a $200 increase.

Mr. J. F. Cannon, supervisor of manual train

Supt. F. R. Hamilton of Hudson, has been re-elected at a salary of $1,900.

The Kaukauna school board has provided for manual training and domestic science.

Prin. S. P. Reese of Clinton, has resigned and will enter the insurance work next year.

Supt. W. P. Colburn of Viroqua goes to the superintendency at Rhinelander next year.

W. J. Ryan of the Chippewa Falls high school goes to the principalship at Bloomer next year. The different counties reporting to the state superintendent have organized a total of 120 contests.

Supt. Roy K. Brandt of Iron River, Mich., goes to the superintendency at Antigo at salary of $1900.

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The two blocks west of the LaCrosse normal school have been purchased by the board of normal regents and a dormitory will be erected this year.

John F. Hogan, assistant in the DePere high school, has been elected superintendent of the city schools to succeed Mr. Bishop who refused

re-election.

Waupaca county is to hold a field day for rural and graded schools at Ogdensburg on May 10, under the supervision of county superintendent W. E. Switzer.

The Menomonee Falls high school has added a four year agricultural course and will introduce the subject of domestic science next year. W. J. Arnold is the principal.

The Sauk county country life association was formed at Reedsburg some time ago. William Toole of Baraboo was elected president, and Supt. G. W. Davis, secretary.

The Green Lake county training school is getting out a very creditable school quarterly which deals especially with the educational interests of Green Lake county.

Prin. M. C. Palmer of the fourth ward school, Sheboygan, is trying an interesting experiment with a ward school in Marquette, Mich. Two classes in each school are exchanging letters.

The Clinton high school has thirty-six boys and twenty-eight girls in a total enrollment of sixty-four. We doubt if any other school in the state can show this proportion of boys and girls.

W. J. Ryan will be principal at Bloomer next year; W. O. Blanchard goes to Bloomington; C. W. Collman of Glenbeulah to Cedarburg; J. Gordon Jones to Kilbourn; Z. B. Wallin to Spooner.

The joint training school board of Door and Kewaunee counties has purchased a building formerly used as a hotel at Algoma. This will be remodeled for the housing of a training school in the future.

Prin. B. E. McCormick of the LaCrosse high school has established an employ ment bureau to take care of the high school boys during the summer vacation. Already he has many request from business men for student help.

An earnest effort is being made by the normal school and training school teachers of the state to have included in the pension law the members of the faculties of these institutions. There is no reason why this should not be done. Professor C. O. Merica, formerly of Lawrence College and later head of the Waukesha industrial school, has resigned his position as president of Wyoming state univerrity to become superintendent of the state training school for boys at Red Wing, Minn.

The board of education of Stoughton is making a strenuous effort to secure an enforcement of the state law concerning the use of tobacco by boys under sixteen years of age. The truant officer has been instructed to enforce the law against all public school boys.

The Green Bay school authorities are thoroughly aroused over the prevalence of the cigarette habit among the school boys of that city and have taken active steps to see that the law is rigidly enforced and that dealers no longer sell cigarettes to minors.

The normal board of regents besides establishing summer schools in the different normals, will also have one at Oconto and another at Eau Claire. It has been found necessary to charge a tuition fee of six dollars for the term of six weeks in all of these schools.

According to the university press bulletin, sixty-four per cent of the women graduates of the University of Wisconsin, over thirty years of age, have married. Forty-three per cent of all women graduates who have married have wedded men graduates of the university.

The attention of Journal readers is called to an article by Mr. C. R. Rounds of the west division high school, Milwaukee, in this issue on "Criticism." He has some pretty pertinent suggestions which may well be heeded by many of our inspectors, superintendents, and supervisors.

On June 15, the sixth annual Sauk county contest will be held at Reedsburg. This is open to the rural school pupils in the subjects of spelling, language, arithmetic, sewing, cooking, and corn judging. These contests are growing popular all over the state and very few counties are now without them.

Among the policies laid down by the incoming president of the school board at Kenosha, he places this first: "The employment of qualified Kenosha girls to fill any vacancies that may occur in the teaching corps." This certainly indicates a loyalty to his home city, but it is not a policy generally pursued elsewhere.

Many Wisconsin educators will remember Miss Mary Alice Glen who for so many years was private secretary to Professor Tressler of the appointment committee of the university. On April 24, she was killed in a street car accident in Chicago. Miss Glen was a lady of superior qualifications and many friends regret her untimely end.

Dr. Frederick E. Bolton, one of Wisconsin's noted educational exports (ours are mostly imports) leaves the education department of the state university of Iowa to head the same department in the state university of Washington, at Seattle. Mr. Bolton was offered the presidency of the University of Montana, but refused to accept.

Representatives of some twenty-eight schools in northern and central Wisconsin met at Eau Claire, March 30, and formed an independent high school athletic association under the name. of the Northwestern Interscholastic Association. This virtually takes these schools out of the state association, the claim being that Madison, where the annual meets are held, is too far from the northern territory. Mr. Mauthe, in charge of the athletic work at Menomonie, was elected president, and Mr. Davis of the Eau Claire high school, secretary.

Two educators connected with Wisconsin affairs died last month. A. N. Ozias principal of the Racine high school from 1896-1899 died at his home in Minneapolis at the age of sixtytwo. O. P. Deland, once a Fond du Lac teacher and who started the first business college in the Fox River valley, died in Appleton at the age of eighty-five.

The north Wisconsin teachers' association had an interesting and profitable meeting at Ashland last month. A. M. Royce of the Superior normal school was elected president for the coming year, and Miss Lida Doolittle of Ashland, secretary-treasurer. An effort was made to move the meeting to Superior for 1913, but failed to be carried.

Many cities in the state last month were compelled to close their schools for a longer or shorter term on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever. Kenosha, Lake Mills, Madison, Baraboo, and other places were threatened with serious outbreaks of the disease, but the promptness of the health authorities prevented any great spread of the contagion.

In the Richland Center high school, the domestic science class serves lunches to the mothers. Pupils are divided into groups, and after a group has learned to cook a few simple dishes, it is given $1.50 with instructions to plan, purchase, cook, and serve a luncheon within the $1.50 limit. This brings the parents into the school and enables mothers to see how practical the work of the public school is today.

In the Superior schools, Supt. W. E. Maddock has established a special grade room which has been placed in charge of Miss Elizabeth R. McCormick, our elementary editor. This room takes care not only of sub-normal pupils, but of the super-normal children. The idea is to encourage the former and to help the latter to advance faster than they can in their regular grades. According to Superintendent Maddock the idea is working out very well.

Milwaukee: School officials generally are much gratified over the outcome of the Greek letter sorority case; the decision of the court that Principal Chamberlain and Superintendent Pearse were justified in the expulsion of six girls for joining a secret society has met with general approval. The west division high school next month will graduate 139 pupils. Sometime ago serious attacks were made by unthinking persons on the morals of the high school students of Milwaukee; at a public investigation by the school board those who made the charges failed to appear, while others showed clearly that the charges were totally unfounded. It is gratifying to note that there will be a large delegation of Wisconsin teachers to the N. E. A. at Chicago; the fact that Superintendent Pearse is president of the association this year should mean a large delegation from Wisconsin.

SECURING A TEACHING POSITION

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High School English, Book Two, By A. R. Brubacher, Ph. D. Supt. of Schools, Schenectady, N. Y. and Dorothy Snyder, Head of English Dept., Schenectady High School. Illustrated. Cloth, 375 pages. Price, $1.00. New York, Charles E. Merrill. Educative Seat Work. By Edward F. Worst, Supt. of Schools, Joliet, Ill., and Edna Keith, Primary Supervisor, Joliet, Ill. Chicago, Thomas Charles Co. A Fifth Reader. By Clarence F. Carroll, M. A., Formerly Supt. of Schools, Rochester, N. Y., and Sarah C. Brooks, Formerly Prin. Teachers' Training School, Baltimore, Maryland. Price, $.75. New York, Chicago, D. Appleton & Co.

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The American Government. By Frederic J. Haskin. Illustrations from photographs taken especially for this edition by Barney M. Clinedinst. Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Co.

Lippincott's Second Reader. By Homer P. Lewis, Supt. of Public Shoools, Worcester, Mass., and Elizabeth Lewis. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co.

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