Prof. C. F. Curtis Riley has resigned the principalship of the Covington High School to accept the Department of Biology in the State Normal School at Duluth, Minn.

Prof. D. A. Sharp recently resigned his position with the Lake Shore Railroad Compan to take charge of the Hamilton schools. He has been in continuous service in the schools of Indiana and Ohio for over thirty years.

Miss Bernice E. Clark, after graduating from the University of Chicago in June, accepted a position in the South Bend High School. She is held in high esteem by the teachers at South Bend, as she was formerly connected with the schools there.

Miss Lillian M. Maxwell, a graduate of De Pauw University, has been selected as principal of the New Carlisle High School. She has had much successful experience as teacher.

We are in receipt of very many strong endorsements of the Educator-Journal, but one of the most pleasant letters which we have received is from Prof. Lawrence McTurnan, Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He addresses our Editor, Dr. Robert J. Aley, as follows:

"I want to congratulate you on the editorials which appeared in the last issue of the Educator-Journal. You have the faculty of putting things in a straight way, but in the last issue you strike exceptionally straight and hard from the shoulder. I believe that more of the doctrine as given under 'Poise,' would be greatly beneficial to the teachers of the State."

Miss Adelaide Steele Baylor, superintendent of the Wabash city schools, returned from the University of Colorado about the middle of August. While there she met some distinguished educators who were formerly connected with the schools of Indiana, Messrs. Sanford Bell and Dr. Phillips. She had the pleasure of listening to an able address before the Colorado Chautauqua by Professor Bell upon "Woman's Place in the Twentieth Century Civilization." Dr. Phil

lips was formerly connected with the Eastern Indiana Normal at Muncie, but is now in the Department of Sociology in the University of Colorado.

Prof. E. D. Allen was elected superintendent of the Pendleton schools in 1892, and we are pleased to note his re-election for another year as his work of supervision will bear close inspection. Prof. J. M. Kinney has resigned the principalship of the high school there to accept a position as instructor in Mathematics in the Shortridge High School at Indianapolis, and he has been succeeded in the former position by Prof. L. J. Brown, who has been an instructor in De Pauw University.

Prof. H. F. Hunt, a former principal of the Pendleton High School, is now teacher of Latin in the high school at Tacoma, Wash.

Quite a number of Indiana's educators attended the Summer Session of Columbia University after the meeting of the N. E. A. We refer to Supt. Linnaeus Hines, Union City schools; Supt. B. Lester Smith, Brookville schools, and Supt. W. A. Jessup, Westfield schools. Evansville was represented by Miss Alice Louise Harris and Prof. John H. Henke. The following is a partial list of the students from Indianapolis: Miss Georgia Alexander, Miss Anna Brockhausen, Miss Myrtle Lefeber, Miss Helen Loeper, Miss Emily Helming and Miss Wilson.

ford High School. He will also be supervisor of music. He received his A. B. degree from Indiana University in June. Supt. R. N. Grindle states that all of his teachers in the above-named high school are university graduates. He is not only a graduate of Indiana University, but of the Indiana State Normal School. We predict, therefore, that the patrons of the Oxford schools will be especially pleased with his supervision.

HANOVER COLLEGE.

The first term of the year '05 and '06 opened September 13th at Hanover College. Few changes have been made in the corps of instructors. Buford W. Tyler, who has been in charge of the Department of English as instructor during the past year, has been elected to the professorship of that department. Miss Helen S. Oldfather, who, for several years has done good service as instructor in the Preparatory Department, has resigned and her position will be filled by Miss Clemmons, of '01. The Department of Music during the present year will be in charge of Miss Clare Rautenberg, of Lombard University, and Miss Marion Wrigley, of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Both come with the best of recommendations.

The Hanover Summer School finished its term of six weeks on July 21st, and was in every way a success.

The graduates of last year who have chosen the teaching profession, have all received satisfactory positions for the coming year and many requests for teachers are still being received.

The Hanover Bulletin, a recent publication of the college in charge of a committee of the faculty and of the students, has met with an unusually pleasant reception from the alumni and friends of the college.

Prof. Edwin H. Gibson, who was recently elected superintendent of the Bloomfield schools, is a graduate of De Pauw University, of the Northern Indiana Normal School, and the Dixon Business College at Dixon, Ill. He has had three years experience as a teacher in the country schools, two in the high school and ten weeks in a Summer Normal in Greene county, Indiana.

Miss Lois Elsie Preston, who received her Ph. B. degree from De Pauw University in June, has been elected teacher of English and History in the Lagrange High School. She is strongly recommended by Dr. E. H. Hughes because of her very creditable work in the university.

Soon after the return of Mr. F. A. Preston from the N. E. A. he became critically ill. He was taken to the Deaconess Hospital ac Indianapolis, but we are pleased to note his recovery. He has been quite successful as the representative of Allyn & Bacon, 378 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. He graduated from De Pauw University in 1894, and formerly taught in the Manual Training High School at Indianapolis.

Phillips Brooks says that wealth is just so much baggage to carry around and to be taken care of in this world but a cultivated brain is easy to carry and a continual source of pleasure and profit.

Miss Flora Roberts, who taught several years in the West Lafayette High School and later in the Chalmers High School, has been promoted to the superintendency of the Chalmers schools. She was offered a position in Vincennes University. Miss Roberts has been quite successful in the various positions which she has held.

Prof. E. N. Canine has been promoted from the principalship of the high school to the superintendency of the East Chicago schools. He assumed his duties as principal of the high school in 1904 and on the same night that Superintendent Smith's resignation was accepted, he was unanimously elected to the position. The East Chicago system has eight schools with 40 teachers. It has three kindergartens and offers manual training and commercial courses.

The summer term of the Indiana Normal closed on August 4. Those seniors who lacked a few credits at the close of the spring term six weeks before, and who made them in the summer term, received certifi cates of graduation, but there were no grad

uating exercises. The total enrollment was 750, the largest since the summer terms have been held.

Cambridge allows any teacher to take a year off for study and draw a third of their salary. It is a great advantage to teachers.

Mr. Albert Kohlmeier has been elected principal of the Oakland City High School. He has a most creditable record as a student in the high school there and in Indiana University.

Prof. C. E. Lowe is principal of the Marshfield schools. He has been a student at Central Normal College, Danville, Ind., and Hoopestown College, at Hoopestown, Ill. He is one of the most influential teachers of Warren county.

The Boys' Corn Club of Hamilton county, having 250 members, had a most enjoyable excursion to Purdue University on August 8th. The excursion was conducted by Prof. J. F. Haines, the county superintendent at Noblesville. He has given an impetus to the teaching of agriculture in the public schools of Indiana because of his systematic efforts and great success in Hamilton county.

After the excursionists arrived at Lafay-` ette they were placed under the direction of Prof. M. L. Fisher, Purdue University, who had carefully outlined a route of inspection. A talk upon "Selection of Seed Corn" was made by Prof. G. I. Christie, after which a stock judging demonstration was made by Prof. J. H. Skinner, relating to the points of excellence in beef animals. Various points of interest were next visited, including the Veterinary Department, Soil Laboratory, Dairy and Creamery, Experimental Field, Forage Crops and Judging Pavilion.

Prof. Haines and his enthusiastic young farmers were greatly pleased with the courtesies extended them by Prof. Fisher, who is a contributor to the Educator-Journal.

Miss Blanche C. Lampe, of the Girls' High School, Frederick, Md., while visiting friends in Warren County attended the

County Teachers' Institute at Williamsport. She requested the pleasure of distributing some sample copies of the Educator-Journal among her friends in the East.

Miss Minnie M. Davis, Supervisor of Music of East St. Louis, a graduate of the Chicago School of Music, did her first county institute work in Indiana in August. The Educator-Journal congratulates Superintendent Webb that he was able to give the teachers of Johnson County such capable talent as she proved to be. Miss Davis has an artistic manner of presentation; and she is able in three or four lessons to have the institute under complete control. Her chorus work is chosen from the masters, such as the opera of Norma from Bellini.

We hope that more county superintendents will be able to secure Miss Davis' services in the future.

Fred W. Clarke, who graduated from Franklin College in June, will have charge of the Departments of Chemistry and Biology in the Kokomo High School, and Louis G. Goetz, of Wabash College, will return to his old position at Kokomo as teacher of Physics. Both of these gentlemen are spoken of very highly on account of their professional zeal.

Prof. Jason Elstun, Irvington, Ind., has accepted the Department of Biology in the Greencastle High School. Like thousands of other progressive teachers he has ordered the Educator-Journal for professional improvement.

Prof. Arnold Tompkins, who has been principal of the Chicago Normal School since 1900, died on 14th ult, in Georgia of typhoid fever. His health had been broken for several months as a result of the nervous strain caused by bitter criticisms upon his administration of the above-named normal school. He was born on a farm near Paris, Ill., and has been prominent in educational circles for many years. He was formerly superintendent of the Franklin and Worthington schools. He graduated from the Indiana State Normal School and Indiana University. He has filled various important positions such as Professor of

SCHOOLS AT STATE FAIR.

New Department Created for Rural Schools. The State Board of Agriculture has created a new department for the Indiana State Fair. It relates to rural school work and the first exhibit will be at the coming fair, which opens at Indianapolis September 11th. The plans of this department were carefully worked out with the aid of the State Department of Education, and State Superintendent F. A. Cotton has been active in seeing that the first exhibit is a large and creditable one. The rural schools all over Indiana have been asked to send their best work, the State Board of Agriculture paying the cost of shipment. Effort has been made to enlist the services of county superintendents and school teachers, and the work of the pupils will be carefully culled that the very best efforts of the scholars may be shown. The prizes to be awarded will include medals and diplomas. School consolidation work will be shown from Lagrange, Fountain and Delaware counties; every school in Benton County will be represented; Randolph County will make an exhibit of school architecture; Pulaski County will contribute pictures, and Floyd County schools will send maps. The special work for these counties includes their compositions on certain subjects, the best examination papers; collections of flowers and plants will be shown. In fact, the exhibit will give a perspective view of the progress making in the rural schools of Indiana. This is to be a permanent department of the State Fair.

BOOK NOTICES.

"Every Day Life in the Colonies" (D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, New York, Chicago, and London), by Gertrude L. Stone and M. Grace Fickett. One of the chief purposes of the authors of this very interesting little volume is to develop that sympathy and in

ical study. The graphic description of how the children of New England spent their first Christmas will appeal strongly to both teachers and pupils of the present time. The book is replete with incidents, stories, sketches and descriptions of life in the other colonies. The story of the Indian attack on Saco will give a new beauty and significance to Whittier's famous poem. Teachers in general will find the book a most helpful one in the preparation of material for their morning exercises. For prices please address the publishers at 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago.

Prof. William M. Davis, of Harvard University, is to join the official party of the British Association of Geographers which goes to South Africa this summer. Prof. Davis has traveled extensively in this country and abroad. The results of some of his observations are recorded in two text-books in Physical Geography, published by Ginn & Co.

Arthur Sullivan Gale, joint author of Smith and Gale's "Elements of Analytic Geometry" and "Introduction to Analytic Geometry" (both published by Ginn & Co.), is to have charge of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Rochester next year.

The Mississippi Text-Book Commission has recently adopted for exclusive use for five years Frye's Geographies, Mother Tongue, Book I, and Agriculture for Beginners, all published by Ginn & Co.

Ginn & Co.'s Medial Writing Books have been adopted at Ithaca, N. Y.

Der Letzte (Silver, Burdett & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago), is a short story from a collection entitled, "Kinderthranen." It is the work of Herr von Wildenbruch, a widely known dramatist and novelist. Der Letzte is a charming, pathetic little tale of childhood. Its style is simple and direct, making it especially suitable for secondary schools.

ARITHMETIC.

1. What is the net amount of a bill of $360, discounts being 12% and 8%? Find a single discount equivalent to the two successive discounts.

2. A speculator bought 70 shares of stock at 90, and sold them at 9434. How much did he gain, brokerage in each case being %%?

3. What must be paid for a draft for $500, payable 60 days after date, at %%% premium, and interest at 6%?

4. A and B rented a pasture for $480. A put in 400 sheep, and B 320. At the end of 4 months they disposed of half their stock, and allowed C to put in 300 sheep. At the end of 6 months what rent should each pay?

5. If 10 iron bars, 4 ft. long, 3 in. broad, and 2 in. thick, weigh 480 pounds, what will be the weight of 30 bars, each 6 ft. long, 41⁄2 in. broad, and 21⁄2 in. thick?

6. A well 5 ft. in diameter is dug to a depth of 30 ft. How many cubic yards of earth are excavated? What would it cost to wall the well with ordinary brick at $7 a thousand?

7. A sold cloth to B and gained 10%; B sold it to C and gained 10%; C sold it to D for $726 and gained 10%. How much did it cost A?

8. (Algebra.) A man bought a certain number of railway shares for $1.875; he sold all but 15 of them for $1,740, gaining $4 per share on their cost price. How many shares did he buy?

1740 1875 By conditions of problem x-15 X Clearing of fractions by multiplying by x (x-15) and simplifying, 4x2 +75x = 28125; completing square 5625 455625

by adding (75) to both sides, 4x2 + 75x + 16

16

Simplifying and taking positive sign, x = 75, number of shares.

U. S. HISTORY.

1. Upon what did the European nations claiming the New World respectively base their claims?

2. State the chief points of difference between the Massachusetts and the Virginia colonies.

3. By what event is Indiana connected with the Revolutionary War? Give brief account.

4. What was the "Missouri Compromise"?