EARLHAM COLLEGE. The attendance at Earlham this year is a record-breaker. A notable feature of the enrollment is the large number of students coming from the commissioned high schools of the best cities of the State.

Francis T. White, a wealthy business man of New York city, has recently offered to add $25,000 to the endowment of the college on condition that within a year the $20,000 debt of the college be liquidated. Actingpresident Kelly presented the cause of the college before the Indiana and the Western Yearly Meetings of Friends at their recent sessions and about $8,000 was subscribed for this purpose. The friends of the college are confident the remaining $12,000 will be secured before the end of the year. Mr. White on previous occasions has presented the college with sums aggregating nearly $75,000. The productive funds of Earlham are now over $200,000.

The Earlham souvenir, issued not long ago, is attracting wide attention. It is pronounced by good judges one of the most attractive pieces of artistic work of the kind ever issued.

Chapel talks have recently been given by Miss Harriet Green, of England, on the "Customs of English Students" and by President L. L. Hobbes, of Guilford College, N. C., on "The Educational Awakening in North Carolina."

Albert Rhue, the representative of the Students' Volunteer Department of the International Committee of Y. M. C. A., has spent a few days, in the interest of his work, among the students.

Miss Jessie D. Lewis, who has just taken charge of the department of vocal music, gave an entertainment in the chapel on Monday night, the 6th, which was greatly appreciated by all who heard it. She was assisted by Mrs. Bruner, of the department of instrumental music, and Mrs. Ethel M. Bailey, a music graduate of the college.

It takes a student quite a while to appreciate the value of a library such as ours; the older students are seen there often-the younger ones once in a while.

The college had a talk recently from Prof. H. B. Wilson, superintendent of the Franklin schools, on the mutual relations of the college and the public schools. The statement was made that the colleges were not turning out graduates fast enough to supply the high schools with competent teachers; and incidentally the question arose whether we need more normal schools in the State.

At the first Faculty Club meeting of the year Professors Zeppenfeld and Bestor gave accounts of their sojourns abroad-the one in Europe and the other in Britain.

The cause of education will be pretty fully presented at the convention which meets this month in Muncie the Indiana Baptist convention. W. T. S.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

The enrollment for the term is 745, an increase of ninety over any previous fall term's attendance. This insures an attendance of more than 1,100 for the year.

The interclass oratorical contest will be a new feature at Indiana University this year. Each class will hold a primary in November and the two best speakers will enter the interclass contest in December. Each contestant must be a member of the Oratorical Association.

Arthur Rugh, traveling secretary of the Students' Volunteer movement, addressed the Christian associations of the University Sunday afternoon.

The Young Women's Christian Association gave the first social of the year last night. Miss Batchelder, a graduate of Smith College, is the new secretary of the association.

The editors of the Daily Student, the official publication of the student body, were

The Woman's League entertained two hundred guests Saturday afternoon at Beechwood, the former home of President and Mrs. Swain. Mrs. William Lowe Bryan, Dr. Mary B. Breed, and members of the League board, received.

The enrollment in the law school is 102, an increase of 37 over last year.

The glee and mandolin clubs will be reinforced this year by an orchestra of ten pieces.

The Rev. A. B. Philputt, pastor of the Central Christian church, Indianapolis, conducted the devotional exercises in the chapel last Tuesday.

The alumni prize of thirty dollars offered by the department of English for the best written essay upon an assigned subject was awarded to John Crowley, of Clayton, Indiana. Upon receipt of the check he donated the amount to the students' building fund. The fund has reached twenty thousand dollars, and those in charge predict that the desired amount, thirty thousand dollars, will be raised before January 1.

The new science building is under roof, and the departments of physics, mathematics, philosophy and pedagogy will occupy it beginning with the winter term. The administrative officers will occupy six rooms in the new building.

MARION NORMAL COLLEGE.

The mid-term examinations of the Marion Normal College were held October 3. This institution holds an examination at the middle of each term. These examinations are not only great educators, but they give the student an opportunity to ascertain his bearings. He can find out how much of the subject matter gone over he is able to put on paper intelligently, and, what is of still more value, he learns his defects.

The school is exceedingly prosperous this year. The fact that so many of the former students and patrons of the institution have returned to take regular courses, is especially gratifying to the management.

The scientific class is the largest known in the history of the institution, and the same can be said of the classical and other courses as well.

Especial preparations are made this year for the training department of the school, which has proven such a desirable feature of the institution. So many of the teachers availed themselves of the privilege of taking this work last year, that increased facilities have been added. All grades of work will be taught in the professional training school from the primary to and including the sixth.

The business department of the school is exceptionally strong this fall. More than fifty former students of the business department are now engaged in lucrative employment in the county of Grant.

There never was a brighter prospect for a young person in business pursuits than at the present time. The call for bookkeepers, stenographers, accountants and cashiers has been phenomenal during the past year.

The institution may feel particularly proud of its record in its own county. More than eighty of the public schools of the county districts in Grant are taught by former pupils of the college. The city schools of Marion have a large number also who formerly received their training here.

The oratory classes this year contain some excellent material and ere the close of the year they will be able to do some very creditable work. On the evening of the 10th of October, "Tony the Convict" was presented to a large and appreciative audience in the college chapel. From one to two dramas are presented on the chapel stage each term, and in this way the students have excellent opportunities to develop their dramatic

powers.

The first winter term will begin November 11, and from the correspondence received at the office the indications are that not only a large number of the old students will return, but many new ones. The increased popularity of this school and its marvelous success has been the wonder and admiration of its friends.

WABASH COLLEGE. Our last report was written amid the bustle of the opening term, and of necessity was more or less unsatisfactory. The work now has settled down to its regular stride and it is possible to look about and see what is doing.

The enrollment shows a gratifying increase over the figures at the same date last year, the difference being nearly twenty per cent., and the freshmen numbering about sixty. Most of the new men come with good preparation and are taking up the work in good shape. Under the present conditions of entrance-a high school diploma admitting to full college standing without condition-it is natural that a larger proportion of candidates should complete their preparation in their home school and a smaller number enter preparatory classes. Thus the work is tending in the direction of less and less preparatory instruction in connection with the college.

The first number of "The Wabash College Record" has just appeared. It is to be a quarterly, devoted to conveying information regarding the college and its work to its alumni and other friends. It is not intended that the new quarterly shall be technical in its nature, but it will contain articles of a more or less popular tone on matters of interest to college men, and will give considerable space to the alumni record.

The football team is being "licked" into shape. It has only half a victory to its credit thus far, having tied its game with the manual training school of Indianapolis. At Bloomington, October 8, the university players were "too many" for the men in scarlet, as well as too heavy, and smothered them under a large score. Some excellent practice is being had every day, and it is hoped the team will strike its gait shortly and win the place to which its material entitles it.

The fraternities have come to a realization of the unwisdom from several points of view of rushing new men into membership within a few days or weeks of their first appearance on the campus, and are getting together on an agreement to postpone all "spiking" till Thanksgiving time. This will afford the newcomers opportunity to eat and sleep during their first few days at college

and also to prove their fitness for fraternity life and their desirability socially and otherwise.

READING NOTICES.

Prof. R. A. Draper, of Columbus, Ind., has just resigned his position as principal of schools to accept a place with the Home Correspondence School as organizer. Although Mr. Draper was getting a handsome salary, he says he is making half as much more in his present position. Teachers who are unemployed or who desire to better their position would do well to call on or address the Home Correspondence School, 1116 Stevenson Building, Indianapolis, Ind. They pay a definite salary of from $600 to $1,000 per year and expenses.

"The Home Correspondence School is thoroughly equipped and perfectly reliable in every way."-D. M. Geeting.

Steady Employment. Mallory & Company, promoters of the New American History, by Edward S. Ellis, of Princeton University, are offering steady employment during the school year to energetic men of good business ability who can furnish first-class references. Their system for introducing this work is entirely new, and from letters received at this office in answer to inquiries about this firm and their methods of work we are led to believe that they are doing a straightforward and upright business. The firm is located at 111 to 117 Longworth St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

ANALYSIS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT, BY D. M. GEETING. Now COMPLETED.

Hon. D. M. Geeting has been engaged for some time in preparing an addition to Dr. Ellis' Library of American History. This addition consists of five important subjects in connection with the study of history, as follows:

QUESTIONS ON UNITED STATES HISTORY. The Question Course belonging to Ellis' Library of American History has been revised, greatly improved, and brought down

to date. It furnishes a complete series of Analytical Questions on United States History study by periods, giving nearly three thousand citations in history and civil government found in Dr. Ellis' complete work, and presents the subjects in a way that is easily understood and readily retained. This department is followed by a

TOPICAL ANALYSIS OF UNITED STATES
HISTORY.

Giving a carefully prepared analysis by topics with citations to the pages where a full discussion may be found in the complete work. This will be a most useful help, especially for teachers when preparing an outline for any particular study of United States history. The third department is a complete

CIVIL GOVERNMENT HAND-BOOK.

Giving in a clear and concise manner the workings of the machinery of our government. The system of citations to the subjects of civil government is also used in this department of the work, referring the student to the pages where the subjects may be found in the larger work. The national government is first taken up, which is followed by the state and local forms, making a most complete work on the subject. In addition to the work on civil government proper, Mr. Geeting has prepared a

CIVIL SERVICE DEPARTMENT.

This department is becoming more important every year and is being taught in our schools throughout the United States. To know what it means and how it works should be understood by every teacher especially. By order of the President of the United States the extension of the service is made to cover a much wider field, which makes a growing demand for efficient appointees to places of preferment. All the rules and regulations are set forth in this department and the questions now used for examinations have been selected with much care. This department will be of greatest interest to those contemplating the preparation to enter the field of civil service.

DR. ELLIS' LIBRARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Has been accepted with universal favor among the leading educators throughout the

United States, and this new edition by Mr. Geeting makes the work all that could be desired-a complete constitutional, biographical, geographical, analytical, and civil governmental history of our country.

THE ADDITIONAL VOLUME

Prepared by Mr. Geeting will correspond identically in size, print, and binding to the other volumes of Ellis' History. This work will be ready for delivery by November 10, 1902. Special terms will be offered to school teachers. For further information, address Mallory & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.

A PROMINENT INSTITUTION.

An institution that has recently taken high rank in Indianapolis and is doing much for the unfortunate, is The Bogue School for Stammerers (located in the Postal Building) for the permanent cure of all impediments of speech. Mr. Benjamin N. Bogue, the founder and principal of the institution, was himself a hopeless stammerer for nearly twenty years. He originated and developed a method by which he completely cured himself, and he adopts the same method in relieving other unfortunate sufferers. Mr. Bogue emphasizes the fact that the method of cure can not be imparted through correspondence, so as to be of any advantage or benefit to the possessor of the impediment.

One of the representatives of the EducatorJournal had the pleasure of visiting Mr. Bogue's class recently, and it is a fact that the method used by him for permanently curing stammering is simple and easy, yet so effective that a person must admit its merits at first sight. It is really remarkable how rapidly the pupils gain perfect speech. Mr. Bogue has pupils from many different States, and since his school has won such a reputation for honest and fair dealings and continued success, he is constantly receiving letters of inquiry from every State in the Union, different provinces in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, the Philippines, England, Europe, Africa, and, in fact, from all parts of the world, many letters taking months for them to reach their destination. The pupils are under the direct care and watchfulness of Mr. Bogue, and every assurance is given that they will be constantly looked after

and continually surrounded by a sunny atmcsphere of moral influences during their entire course.

Mr. Bogne is always willing and glad to explain his method of cure to any interested person, and in this connection we desire to add that he will, upon request, mail his book, "Advice to Stammerers," together with full information and particulars concerning a course of treatment.

The proprietors of the Educator-Journal have known Mr. Bogue for some time, and have found him thoroughly reliable, and his school has won a high reputation in the city of Indianapolis.

The Interstate School of Correspondence has been affiliated with Northwestern University of Evanston and Chicago. The latter is one of the greatest educational institutions in the United States, and the former is a correspondence school of the highest grade, which has been serving the public admirably during the past five years. It is expected that official announcement will be made very soon as to the credits the correspondence student will receive in the university.

BOOK NOTICES.

"Outline of Nature Study," by months. This interesting and valuable pamphlet has been prepared by Prof. C. M. McDaniel, superintendent of schools, Madison, Ind., in response to the demand for a more specific and directive outline; 20 cents for single number, or 15 cents in orders for five or more copies.

D. C. Heath & Co., Boston anid Chicago, have just published "The Writing of the Short Story," by Prof. Lewis Worthington Smith, A. M., of Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. The price of this monograph is only 35 cents. It has been successfully tested with many classes for the first term of the freshmen year. It gives the students a firm grasp of the basic principles which underlie good writing.

For the benefit of the teachers and students of English and Literature we will give the following list of other excellent works which can be obtained from D. C. Heath & Co., 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago:

An Introduction to the Study of English Fiction, by W. E. Simonds, professor of English literature, Knox College. Cloth. 240 pp., 80 cents.

Four Years of Novel Reading, by Richard G. Moulton, professor in the University of Chicago; 104 pp., 50 cents.

Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, by Hamilton Byron Moore, assistant professor of English in Indiana University; 398 pp., 50 cents.

A History of American Literature, by Walter C. Bronson, professor of English literature in Brown University; 384 pp., 80 cents.

High School and Academic Algebra, by Louis Parker Jocelyn, Ann Arbor (Butler, Sheldon & Co., Philadelphia, New York and Chicago), is certain to be received most favorably by progressive teachers, as it contains a minimum of theory simply presented and a maximum of carefully graded problems. The work covers the subject of elementary algebra so as to prepare pupils for college. To students preparing for the professions of civil, mechanical, electrical, naval and mining engineering this book is especially helpful. The logical and simple presentation of the equation and factoring will attract attention, as these subjects are special features of the work. Teachers of physical science will be pleased with the section on variation; 445 pp.; price, $1.25.

The First Year of Latin, based on Caesar's war with the Helvetii, by Walter B. Gunnison, Ph. D., principal of Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Walter S. Harley, A. M., instructor in Latin in same school; 319 pp.; price, $1.00. A careful examination of this work will lead to the conclusion that it is the outgrowth of years of successful experience in actual teaching, and that it will stand the test as a satisfactory text-book in any high school, academy, normal school or college. (Silver, Burdett & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago.)