schools for three years; but he finally decided to return to his native county, where he had received so much encouragement in his youth. He holds a Ph. B. degree from Franklin College and is a member of the American Historical Association. He has been a member of the Indiana Reading Circle Board, and is treasurer of the Educator-Journal Co. He has written several valuable papers upon historical subjects for the Indiana Teachers' Reading Circle Department in the Educator-Journal. In addition to being an educator, he is a man of affairs, having demonstrated his ability in business. He is the owner of a valuable farm near Windfall, and has other investments. He is a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second degree.

The commencement exercises of the Corydon high school will be held in the college auditorium May 10. Dr. E. B. Bryan of Franklin College will deliver the address. Supt. A. E. Martin, who has had charge of the Corydon schools during the past two years, has decided to enter the legal profession at the close of the present year. He will meet his engagements for institute work. Principal Taylor of the high school will spend his summer at Indiana University, where he expects to receive his degree.

The trustees of the Indiana State Normal School elected Prof. James Baxter of Ann Arbor, assistant professor of mathematics, to succeed Prof. W. P. Morgan, who will become superintendent of the Terre Haute schools.

The spring term of the Central Normal College opened April 3 with an enrollment of over seven hundred. Nearly seventy classes were organized to accommodate all.

The following Indiana school teachers have passed the civil service examination for teaching in the Philippines: Sydney L. Davis, Culver; Fernandina G. Traubarger, Muncie; Frank J. Keelty, Hege; Cyrus D. Mead, Spencer; Charles C. Haag, Peru; Claude Miller, Bloomfield; Ira E. Bowman, Washington; Graham A. Barringer, Elizabethtown.

Chicago gives more than 50 per cent. more time to arithmetic than New York, and 20 per cent. more than Boston.

Contracts have been let for the fitting up of the foundry and pattern room in the new manual training high school at Fort Wayne. This will be the third year's work of the manual training course for boys, and will be put into operation at the beginning of the next school year. The manual training department is proving a great success, a very large majority of the boys entering the high school selecting the manual training course and a large majority of the girls taking the domestic science course.

Dr. Charles M. Jordan, superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, said in a recent address: "I regret the tendency which prevails in some of the high schools toward imitating the methods of colleges and universities. Secret societies, elaborate class day and graduating exercises, the expensive class parties, and matters of this kind are not conducive to the best interests of the schools. The high schools, in order to be what they should be, must be kept in touch with the common people, and the large number of poor students should not be allowed to feel that they are of a different class from the rich and must take their places accordingly. This is a matter which necessarily, in a large degree, is in the hands of parents, and with which neither the board of education nor the school authorities in general can interfere, except to the extent of advice and suggestion."

Work well done is in itself the amplest reward and the amplest prize.-Roosevelt.

Prof. H. S. Hippinsteel has been re-elected to the superintendency of the Auburn schools at an increased salary.

The record for the registration of students at Indiana University has been broken this spring, the enrollment reached the one-thousand mark on the opening day of the term. A number of extra courses for the special benefit of teachers have been added.

A crowd of 112 American teachers will sail for the Philippines in time to begin work June 10. The salaries will range from $1,000 to $1,200 per year.

W. H. Hickman, teacher of biology in the Paris high school, recently resigned to accept a similar position in the schools at Greencastle, Ind. Miss Nettie Girhard of Newton was elected to fill the vacancy at Paris.

A gymnasium has been equipped in the new high school building at Fort Wayne and regular instruction is now given by Dr. Nohr, instructor in physical culture in the Fort Wayne schools, to large classes of boys and girls. This is a regular continuation of the work carried on throughout the entire school system in the lower grades and is proving to be very attractive.

Dr. Butler, in an address before the S. I. T. A. said: "One of the fallacies of the present day in education is that of the self-made man. It is entirely wrong to say that a man must be self-made to be successful. I do not mean to cast any shadow on the selfmade man, for he is entitled to all the credit that can be given him, but he must not be made a hero."

Mr. J. H. Wagner, principal of the Auburn high school, recently resigned to become the business manager of the Auburn Courier. Mr. William Cushing, a graduate of the State Normal and a student of Indiana University, took Mr. Wagner's place. Mr. Cushing formerly taught at Ossian.

The Commercial Club of Indianapolis has interested itself in the movement to obtain higher salaries for grade teachers, and will do what it can to devise ways and means to provide revenue to make increase in salary possible.

Supt. F. M. Marsh in a recent address said: "The influence of the so-called 'soft pedagogy' has led to a feeling among children that they must be pleased at any cost, and not a few adults are yielding to the

tendency to deprive the American boy and girl of their rugged right to obey and respect authority, and to meet with conquering pride a few character forming obstacles."

Edwin Corr and Major Theodore J. Louden, of Bloomington, have been nominated for the alumni trusteeship of Indiana University, the election to take place in June.

Dr. W. L. Bryan's address before the S. I.. T. A. on "Politics in Shakspeare" was highly appreciated by his hearers, especially those who were students of Shakspeare.

The schoolhouses at Wingate, Clayton and Avon have been ordered closed by the State Board of Health. A number of pupils have been sick recently and it is asserted that their illness can be traced to the conditions existing in the schoolhouses.

Mr. Luther Burbank, the scientist, in a recent address said: "Which has the more influence in building the life of a child, heredity or environment? Are acquired characters inherited? My own observations prove that all characters which are inherited have once been acquired, and that heredity is only the sum of all these past environments, which if impressed on the heredity long and strong enough in any specific direction will become a party of heredity itself, and this new heredity, already slightly changed by these late environments, will have to meet new environments as before, which will by repetition become fixed in the ever new and constantly fluctuating heredity. Did you ever think what is the most pliable and the most precious of all the ages? It is not pigs, mules, books, or locomotives, cotton or corn-but children. Children can not all be treated alike; each has his or her special individuality, which is the most valuable of all endowments. If all were alike no progress could be made, and right here comes the weakest point in the present educational system."

In his address on "The Call of the Twentieth Century," before the S. I. T. A. Dr. David Starr Jordan said, in part: "The

twentieth century will be strenuous, complex and democratic. Strenuous because there is much to do in the 100 years. Five years of that time is gone, and we must employ strenuous efforts if we get it all done. Complex, because the world, though large, is made smaller by the many new discoveries and inventions. Men in all parts of the world are brought into close touch by new means of communication. The century is one of knowledge. We can not say ignorance is bliss, because ignorance is a commodity that leads people to destruction. There is a demand for the young man. Never was there such an opportunity for him as now. Therefore, the century, being strenuous and complex, must be democratic. There are so many things that the young man can do that it would take all day and all night to enumerate them. But the young men must be of the right kind. There are opportunities for more doctors, more lawyers, civil engineers, electrical engineers, editors, teachers and preachers. There are not enough young men now to do all there is to be done. The century demands young men who have been trained. It does not want those who are found in the saloon. Liquor destroys half the force and energy of our young men each year. The century will demand educated men. It will demand honorable men. It will require loyal men, men who are true to the interest of their employers. It will require hopeful men. They must be men who believe that what they are doing is the most important thing there is to do, and that they are going to do it well. What the century will value most will be the sober, well-balanced mind.”

The truest test of civilization is not the census or the size of the cities, nor the crops. No, but the kind of men the country turns out.-Emerson.

Miss Eva Newsom, daughter of David Newsom of Elizabethtown, Ind., won the distinction at Earlham College, where she was a member of the senior class. A Bryn Mawr scholarship was awarded her for the highest standard of scholarship at Earlham. She will be graduated from the Latin course. The scholarship has a money value of $400.

The Commercial College of Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky., has been the gateway to many young men who pursued a course of bookkeeping and then located in the prosperous South. Teachers who are interested should address Prof. W. R. Smith, Lexington, Ky.

It was Phillips Brooks who said: "It is not what stays in our memories, but what has passed into our characters that is the possession of our lives."

Prof. Edwin Monroe, superintendent of the Frankfort schools, has been re-employed for three years, at $2,000.

Every city should employ some resident teachers, but no city should employ all resident teachers.

Miss Jessie B. Montgomery, principal of the grammar and preparatory departments of the State Normal School at Platteville, Wisconsin, was formerly an Indiana educator. She graduated from the Indiana State Normal in 1895. The following two years she spent as critic in the seventh and eighth grades of the Michigan Normal College at Ypsilanti. She spent the next five years as principal of the City Normal School at Ft. Wayne, Indiana. She resigned her position at Ft. Wayne to study at the University of Chicago.

The overcrowded condition of the Brazil schools has made it necessary to make provision for several hundred children for the coming year. The school board has about $30,000 in its treasury and it expects to build three ward schoolhouses and add two rooms to two of the present school buildings.

The postoffice department has rerused second class mail privileges to "The DePauw," the official publication of the student body of DePauw University, thus raising its mailing expense from 50 cents to $3.75 an issue. The ruling is based on the grounds that college papers are not of the nature to obtain the privileges. The paper will not be suspended.

The Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, is making a vigorous effort to add $250,000 to its endowment fund. Mr. Carnegie promised $50,000 of this amount, and when the college had raised $50,000, Mr. Carnegie offered to give another $50,000 when the total reached $200,000. Dr. Z. B. Campbell, the financial agent, has agreed to loan to each student $1, on condition that this money with its accumulation shall be returned to the college upon October 16 next. There will be sharp competition among the girls to see who can increase her "talent" most.

While President Jordan of Leland Stanford Jr. University was in Indianapolis he sat for a portrait to be hung in the new library building at Indiana University, the gift of the resident graduates of Indianapolis.

Miss Josephine Meeteer, a member of the graduating class of 1901 at Indiana University, has recently been appointed dean of women at Swarthmore. In addition to her services as dean, she will teach two or three courses in the department of Greek. Miss Meeteer began her work as a teacher in 1887 and since then has had valuable experience in the private schools of Philadelphia.

Miss Elizabeth Farson, a sister of John Farson, one of the most prominent bankers of Indianapolis, though she possesses a fortune of $300,000, is still teaching school. She stands in the front rank of the elementary school teachers.

Supt. C. L. Hunt of the Clinton, Mass., schools says: "The school work tends directly to sobriety and industry, but the schools can not keep the children from social