SOME IMPORTANT SCHOOL EVENTS OUTSIDE OF THE STATE.

The new United States Commissioner of Education to succeed Elmer E. Brown who goes to the chancellorship of New York University, is Philander P. Claxton who for many years has held the chair of education in the University of Tennessee. His appointment is especially pleasing to the south. He is a versatile man and a great public speaker.

The politicians got hold of the Baltimore. schools, and Supt. J. H. Van Sickle received the axe. Springfield, Mass., heard of his dethronement and immediately elected him superintendent of that city at a salary of $5,000.

Supt. Calvin N. Kendell of Indianapolis, goes to the post of commissioner of education of New Jersey at a salary of $10,000. The assistant city superintendent will conduct. the Indianopolis schools for the present year.

Supt. William N. Davidson of Omaha, Neb., goes to the superintendency of the Washington, D. C., schools. Prin. E. U. Graff of the high school succeeds Mr. Davidson.

THE STATE MEETING AT MILWAUKEE.

The program for the great meeting of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association to be held in Milwaukee, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 9-10-11, has about been completed. President Parlin was obliged to resign his office on account of moving to Boston, where he will engage in business. First Vice-President L. S. Keeley, principal of the Mayville schools, has been promoted to the office of president and will preside at the coming meeting. Among the notable speakers engaged for this occasion are the following:

David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, the Great Western Educator.

Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, the Great Southern Educator.

Earl Barnes, of Philadelphia, the Celebrated University Extension Lecturer.

Sarah Louise Arnold, of Boston, the Great Woman Orator of the Profession.

Henry Turner Bailey, of Massachusetts, a Leading Authority on School Manual Arts.

Dean L. H. Bailey, of Cornell, a Leading Authority on Agricultural Education for Rural Schools.

F. G. Blair, of Illinois, a Foremost Orator Among State Superintendents.

Edith Smith Davis, World's Superintendent of W. C. T. U. Educational Work.

PRIN. L. S. KEELEY, MAYVILLE, President of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association

Wm. R. George, of the George Jr. Republic, Greatest Reformer of Juvenile Delinquents.

Wm. R. Frost, of Berea, Ky., Authority on Southern Mountain Whites.

F. A. Barbour, of Ypsilanti, Eminent in English. W. N. Ferris, of Ferris Institute, an Authority in Commercial Work.

Miss Clara Wheeler, of Grand Rapids, Mich., Kindergarten Training School.

Mrs. Mary Boomer Page, of Chicago, Kindergarten Expert.

F. W. Johnson, University High School, Chicago, Expert on Social Life of High School Students.

AND OTHERS!

Make your plans now to be at Milwaukee on these dates.

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THE SAN FRANCISCO MEETING.

The forty-ninth annual meeting of the National Education Association held at San Francisco last July was not a huge success. The bulk of the attendance was made up from California. Outside of Superintendent Pearse and a few Milwaukee teachers, there were scarcely any in attendance from Wisconsin. There was a notable absence of the leading educators of the nation. It was strictly a woman's meeting in that the fair sex had a larger representation upon the program than ever before. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young

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after with the Department of Superintendence at the winter convention. This means that the Department of Superintendence is to be considered in the future the greatest of the educational meetings of this country. The attempt of certain publishers to create a new alphabet key was defeated and the matter laid over for one year.

In the election of Supt. Carroll G. Pearse of Milwaukee, as president of the N. E. A. for next year, Wisconsin was signally honored. This is the second president which the state has had within the last three years. Supt. Pearse will preside over the meeting next year which will be held at St. Paul.

ALBERT SALISBURY.

President Albert Salisbury of the Whitewater normal school departed this life during the early morning hours of June 2, 1911, at the Sacred Heart Sanitarium, Milwaukee, where he had been confined for some two months with a serious heart affection.

Albert Salisbury was born on a farm near Whitewater, January 24, 1843. In 1863, he enlisted in the army, serving until December of 1865. Soon after the war, he entered Milton College and completed his studies, graduating with the first class in 1870. Following this, he was principal of the Brodhead high school for three years. He was appointed to the Whitewater normal school faculty and was its first institute conductor, being assigned to that position in March 1873. In 1882, he resigned his position in the normal to become superintendent of schools for the American Missionary Association. For three years he pursued this work, and in 1885 succeeded Dr. Stearns as president of the Whitewater normal school. From that time to the day of his death, he lived for the institution. His rugged honesty, his square manhood, his zealous work in behalf of the teaching profession of this state, his many deeds of charity and kindness, the benefactions which he has bestowed upon many of the most prominent educators of this state, will forever keep green the memory of Albert Salisbury in Wisconsin educational circles.

The Marathon school of agriculture and domestic economy has recently issued two bulletins, one on the young people's corn growing contest, and another on the growing of alfalfa in Marathon county.

A preliminary circular sent out by the state association gives the date as November 8-9-10. This is an error. It should read November 9-1011. These dates fall as usual on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

The schools of New Richmond, Deerfield, and Reedsburg have prepared manuals of their courses of study which contain general information relating to the educational interests of their respective communities.

The school board at Manitowoc has prohibited all basketball games by girls for the coming year in the belief that the exercise is too violent for them. Several other boards in the state have ruled along the same line.

Some faker started a game in Kenosha last summer in which he offered to employ primary teachers and sales ladies upon an advance deposit of $5.00. He left town before Supt. Mary Bradford could get hold of him.

In the state contests last June, Miss Lorraine Grimm of Jefferson won first honors in the declamatory contest held at Merrill, and George Wahle of Marshfield won first prize for oratorical ability in the contest at Reedsburg.

The Pine Cone is the title of a publication issued by the Chetek high school, The commencement number for 1911 is especially attractive. This is probably the smallest high school in the state which issues such a publication.

Milwaukee public school of trades for girls has issued a very attractive prospectus for the year 1911-12. This school is conducted in the old nor

mal school building, and is in direct charge of Charles F. Perry, supervisor of industrial education.

John N. Davis, for several years superintendent at Stevens Point, is now at the head of the Menominee, Mich., schools. Mr. Davis did splendid work in Stevens Point, and Menominee is fortunate in securing the services of such a strong schoolmaster.

Monroe voted $2,000 to establish and maintain for the first year a manual training department. No teacher in the high school now receives less than $80 a month. There is something doing in Monroe along educational lines which deserves commendation.

Mr. B. B. Jackson's many friends in this state will be pleased to learn of his election to the assistant superintendency of the Minneapolis city schools. He was formerly superintendent of schools at Ashland and Superior in this state, and recently at Moline, Ill.

H. R. Pestalozzi, chief truancy officer of Milwaukee, at whose instance the National Society of School Attendance Officers was organized at Chicago last June, has succeeded in securing the 1912 meeting of this organization for Milwaukee. It will be held early in June.

Prof. J. A. Merrill of the Superior normal school is the author of a new book entitled "Industrial Geography of Wisconsin," which is published by the Laurel Book Co. This will be found a most valuable text to be used in the commercial courses of high schools.

Many Wisconsin schoolmasters will remember J. A. Sheridan, once high school inspector of this state. Some two years ago, he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and his many friends will be glad to learn that he has greatly improved and is now living on a farm near his old home, Waterloo.

Prof. K. L. Hatch of the college of agriculture of the state university has issued a very important bulletin relative to the teaching of agriculture in high schools. Mr. Hatch does not believe that city girls are competent to instruct in this subject, and he opposes the system of formal text-book teaching.

Prin. W. D. Fuller who presided over the Sparta schools last year, and Ex-Supt. D. L. Hen