has been raised for conducting the fight and attorneys have been employed. The law is all on the side of the trustee and the advisory board, who have progressive ideas and who have decided to go ahead with the building of the school. We publish herewith "The Diary of a Female House Fly." This "Diary" has had wide circulation. It is worth rereading and ought to be read to school children everywhere. It is as follows: Diary of a Female House Fly. 1. Thursday, Nov. 2-Went into winter quarters. 2. April 20-Came out of winter quarters and laid my first batch of eggs-120 in number-in a manure heap. 3. April 21-My first 120 eggs have hatched. 4. April 22-Larvae have undergone first molt. 5. April 23-Larvae have undergone second molt. 6. April 26-Larvae transformed into pupae. 7. May 1-One hundred and twenty full-grown flies, sixty of which are. females. 8. May 3-Laid my second batch120 eggs-this time in the filth of an uncared for privy. 9. May 13-One hundred and twen ty flies came from my second batch of eggs. Laid my third batch in a kind neighbor's garbage can. 10. May 20-The city has offered a prize to the school child who will kill the largest number of flies. The boy at the house where I live is killing flies right and left. And to think—we have F. L. Sims has been re-elected principal of the South Bend High School. A German play was given in Caleb Mills hall at Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, recently. Prof. J. J. Pettijohn, Indiana University, will deliver the commencement address at the Washington High School. A movement is on foot to build a new high school building in Marion. The teacher and pupils of the Bluffton High School have raised the sum of one thousand dollars with which to buy a lot for a gymnasium. Wayne County, has been conducting speed and accuracy tests in arithmetic. Contests have also been held in reading and geography. The controversy in Huntington over a site for the erection of a new high school has not been settled. The trouble began something like five years ago. An old-fashioned spelling bee was given at the Joseph Moore school recently by the Southwest Richmond improvement Association. The Third District Teachers' Association held a meeting at West Baden March 19 and 20. The meeting was called by Superintendent Claude E. An addition to the Flora school will Cogswell, of Orange County. be built during the summer. State High School Inspector J. B. Pearcy inspected the high schools in White County recently. Professor D. T. Powers, formerly superintendent of schools at Rochester, Ind., has recently been appointed dean of the Teachers' College of the University of Louisiana and director of the summer school in the same institution. From 1900 to 1915 the number of illiterate children in the United States between ten and fourteen years of age has been reduced from 42 to 15 per thousand. The Claypool High School has been commissioned. R. E. Beebe is superintendent. C. W. Boucher, formerly president of the Marion Normal, has been elected superintendent of the Valparaiso schools to succeed Eugene Skinkle, who died recently. Professor Boucher at one time taught in the Valparaiso University. All pupils, fifth to eighth grades, in the schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, are eligible to membership in Lincoln Junior Commercial Club. "Make Lincoln More Beautiful" is the slogan of the club. A flower and vegetable exhibit and contest will be held by the Argos schools next September. The products shown will be raised by the pupils during the summer. The teachers of the Lebanon schools, under the leadership of Superintendent, H. G. Brown, visited the Superintendent C. C. Williams, Crawfordsville schools on April 15. BOOK NOTICES Received from Scott, Foresman & Co., New York & Chicago: Old Testament Narratives, illustrated and edited by Charles Elbert Rhoades, department of English, Lafayette High School, Buffalo, N. Y. Lake English Classics. Cloth, 395 pages. Price 40 cents. Elson-Runkel Primer, by William H. Elson, Cleveland, Ohio, and Lura E. Runkel, principal Howe School, Superior, Wis. Cloth, 266 pages. Illustrated. Price 32 cents. Received from J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and London. Daily English Lessons, by Willis H. Wilcox, professor of English in the Maryland State Normal School. Book Two with full page illustrations. Cloth, 293 pages. "The Teaching of Oral English." By Emma Miller Bolenius. 214 p., cloth. This is a practical work which is the outcome of the successful experience in teaching large classes of pupils to speak the mother tongue with fluency and precision. 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