74125 JAN 13 1895 Interior Journal of Education Vol. XXIX. DO NOT, CLIP T: MADISON, WIS., JANUARY, 1899. No. 1 LONGING. Of all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul come thronging, The thing we long for, that we are Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the portal; Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal. Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving; We quench it that we may be still Content with merely living; But, would we learn that heart's full scope Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. -James Russell Lowell, Journal of Education AFTER waiting so long as seemed prudent for the official reports of the Wisconsin Teach- ers' Association, we are obliged to go to press RURAL SCHOOLS are evidently becoming a center of interest at the west such as may well result in decided progress. They occupied a prominent place in the discussions at the asso- ciations in North Dakota, Iowa, Illinois and ACCORDING to reports the Association meetings this year were fully up to the pre- ceding in interest and practical value, but the attendance was considerably less than last year and the year before. There seems to have been a falling off in the enrollment both of and Kansas, indicate a thousand and more en- rolled, whereas we shall not much pass the half of that. What the causes may be and how to counteract them, it is the business of the executive committee to determine. It may be that the "drawing" power of Milwaukee has been exhausted, and that Oshkosh, or Eau Claire, or some other point should be tried. Perhaps some changes of organization might help out, like round tables, or a council. Full of promise are the new departure of the child- study society, and the preliminary steps to the formation of a psychological society. The most valuable report was that on rural schools, which unfortunately was not fully discussed. Relations of high schools, normal schools, and university, also evidently evoked a good deal THE election of R. H. Halsey to the presi- dency of the Oshkosh normal school was re- SHALL we have trained teachers in our com- |