dation scheme was explained in full at the request of educators from various parts of the State. The exhibit consisted largely of photographs and maps explanatory of consolidation methods.

Some changes and additions were made in the faculty of the Central Normal College at Danville. Prof. Fred Luscomb succeeds Prof. Fred Kollmyer in the music department. Solon Enloe is in charge of the law course, having as his assistants Judge Thomas Cofer, of the Hendricks Circuit Court, and several attorneys of the Danville bar, who will give special instructions along various lines and deliver special lectures. Miss Pauline Hilliard has charge of the work in rhetoric. A new department is the addition of a class in telegraphy in charge of James Dalton.

Dr. Albert Homberg, graduate of the University of Wisconsin, has been selected as assistant of chemistry at the Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Wm. A. Stechell, head of the department of botany in the University of California, has been making some interesting experiments recently. He has shown that the process of regeneration may be controlled in plant life by controlling the direction of the flow of nutrition in the plant. He made buds grow where they had not grown before, and made the buds at the end of the plant, which had been the strongest under normal conditions, dwindle away.

"There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer everything; the fearful are the falling."

Pres. Bryan, of Franklin College, served as chief orator at the dedication of the new high school building at Columbus.

Prof. Lambert M. Baker, teacher of English in the Sullivan high school, has resigned his position and gone to Los Angeles, Cal., to accept a similar position. He is a graduate of Indiana University and was formerly principal of the Veedersburg high school.

Prof. Charles Keller, principal of the Brazil high school, and Miss Katherine Rogers, a teacher in the Brazil schools, were married September 6th.

Dr. John P. Branner, acting president of Stanford University, in his annual address to the incoming freshman class, gave the new students a serious talk on the wrong of extravagance in their college life. He handled the fraternity question "without gloves," and warned them against the probability of being rushed into a fraternity before they have time to look over the ground and know what they are getting into.

Miss Laura Samson, a teacher in the Evansville schools, and John A. Anderson, a business man of that city, were married September 6th at the home of the bride in Evansville.

The marriage of Prof. William Andrews, principal of the Mitchell high school, and Miss India Poland, of Cloverdale, was solemnized September 6th.

"Rise! If the past detain you,

Her sunshine and storms forget; No chains so unworthy to hold you As those of a vain regret;

Sad or bright, she is lifeless ever:

Cast her phantom arms away, Nor look back, save to learn the lesson Of a nobler strife today."

The Bourbon schools opened September 4th under the supervision of Prof. E. B. Rizer. The board found it necessary to provide more room to meet the growing conditions and established a primary ward for the south side of the town and arranged an additional room for the high school. The board was so fortunate as to secure the services of Miss Bertha Lee, of Greensburg, Ind., a graduate of Indiana University, to teach English and Latin in the high school. The school spirit in Bourbon is excellent.

"The proof that a man is a master is that men come to think with him ten years later."

The Steuben County Institute was held August 28th to September 1st. Mrs. Emma Mont. McRae and Dr. Sherman L. Davis were the instructors. Pres. W. L. Bryan, of Indiana University, dedicated the new high school building on the afternoon of August 31st. He was received with great enthusiasm by the teachers and citizens. On Wednesday evening Mr. J. W. Cravens, registrar of Indiana University, gave his interesting lecture on that institution.

The Borden Institute entered upon its eighteenth year September 19th, with Prof. Wm. W. Borden as president, and Prof. J. O. Engleman as principal. With its strong faculty, the school has every chance for a good year. Borden Institute affords the students of Clark and adjacent counties an excellent opportunity to prepare for entrance to the higher colleges.

The Anderson public schools opened September 11th, under the supervision of Prof. J. B. Pearcy. The attendance is good and everything seems favorable to the best year in the history of the schools.

A library school will be opened Nov. 15, 1905, in the Winona Technical Institute at Indianapolis. This school will afford facilities for the proper training of young men and women desiring to fill the positions of librarians and assistants. The school will offer one year's course in Library Science. Much of the instruction will be technical and will presuppose a good general education.

It was Emerson who said: "We need not fear that we can lose anything by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end."

In his annual report to the board of regents, Pres. Angell, of the University of Michigan, said: "I regret to say that a vicious custom, not unknown in the business world, has been edging its way into this university, and into other colleges and universities. It is what is popularly known as 'graft.' Officers of various kinds of student organizations which expend money for some object have been tempted to make contracts

on terms which allow them secretly to pocket a commission. It is just, but lamentable, to say that some business houses and lecture committees, in certain cases, have approached these officers with corrupt propositions, which have been accepted.

"The university senate has deemed it wise to subject the financial action of certain student organizations for a time to supervision of a committee. To permit the graft would be to encourage the very spirit which has been poisoning municipal and corporate administrators in so many ways."

the child

Miss Isabel Lawrence, superintendent training department, Normal School, St. Cloud, Minn., in her address before the members of the N. E. A., said: "Co-operation is the need of the moment. is to be benefited, no organized force in the community can be ignorant. One superintendent complains that the club woman of his region figures prominently in all kinds of social reform and that the school is so convenient to her hand, that she has turned her pop gun upon it.' A true statement of the case doubtless. The professional teacher expects a periodical peppering from the pop guns of amateurs from club, shop and pulpit. But where is the superintendent or teacher who has the skill of a general, to transform pop guns into cannon and then face them on the enemy? The woman's club should be utilized, as should every other force, to further right public sentiment in regard to the training of children-a sentiment whose absence in any community will render futile the work of the most enlightened corps of teachers."

The many friends of W. P. Burris will be glad to know that he has accepted the professorship of history and principles of education in the University of Cincinnati. Prof. Burris graduated from DePauw University in 1891, and served as superintendent of the Bluffton schools from that time until 1897, when he resigned to accept a similar position at Salem, Ohio. In 1900 he resigned his position at Salem to pursue graduate studies in philosophy and education at Harvard and Columbia universities. He received the master's degree at Harvard in 1901 and was appointed scholar in Teachers' College, Columbia University, for the following year. He next accepted the principalship of the Teachers' Training College at Albany, N. Y., which position he has held for the past three

years.

The University of Cincinnati, in addition to the college of liberal arts and graduate department, already includes colleges of law, medicine, dentistry and engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical and chemical), and definite plans are now formulated for the organization of a teachers' college as a professional school of education. Meanwhile the work of this department is to be carried on by several professors of various phases of education. The public school authorities of Cincinnati are lending generous support to this department of the university and have placed its graduates on a preferred list of those eligible to appointment in the Cin

cinnati schools. Under such an arrangement the importance of the educational department of the university is obvious enough, and this attempt to provide better teachers by resting their professional training upon the college rather than the high school course, is one which will be watched with interest throughout the country. The fact, also, that within the city, considered as a unit, a joint board of the public school and university authorities, acting in a spirit of heartiest co-operation, is engaged in correlating the work of the various grades of schools of the city, culminating with a municipal university, gives to Cincinnati an educational position as enterprising as it is unique.

Prof. J. W. Carr, formerly of Anderson, Ind., made his salutatory address to the Daytonians on Friday evening, Sept. 8th. He impressed his hearers with his firm belief in the progress of education and in the excellence of the public school system. Supt. Carr has been received very kindly by the citizens and teachers of Dayton. In the course of time, be will be able to lift the Dayton schools to the high standard possessed by the Anderson schools.

Moore's Hill College opened Tuesday, Sept. 19th, with four new members of the faculty and two new departments. Prof. F. L. Fagley, recently superintendent of the Amelia, Ohio, schools, has charge of the normal department. Prof. O. R. Ficken, of the German Wallace College, Berea, O., is instructor in Latin literature. Miss Gertrude C. Hansel, formerly instructor in violin at the Louisiana State Normal, is doing similar work at Moore's Hill. Miss Elizabeth Webber, of the Cincinnati Art School, has control of the art department.

Prof. and Mrs. C. F. Patterson, Edinburg, Ind., returned recently from a trip West. They were delighted with the Lewis and Clark Exposition.

Miss Elizabeth Baxter, French Lick, graduated from Indiana University in June, and has accepted the Department of English in the Union City high school. Her work is proving most satisfactory to Supt. L. N. Hines.

Prof. Chas. Swain Thomas, head of the Department of English in the Shortridge high school, Indianapolis, and Prof. M. W. Sampson, of Indiana University, will presently begin a course of thirty lectures at Indianapolis upon the drama, and the tuition fee will be only ten dollars ($10.00). These lectures will be given on Saturday, beginning about 9:00 a. m. The former is justly recognized as one of the most practical teachers of English in Indiana, and the latter has a national reputation because of his scholarship. He has been Professor of English in Indiana University since 1893. We bespeak for the course a very liberal patronage, and hope that it may be convenient for quite a number of teachers of English in the towns and cities near Indianapolis to take the entire course. Our readers desiring further information should address Chas. Swain Thomas, Shortridge School, Indianapolis.

Prof. High

Discussion-Lotus D. Coffman, Superintendent Connersville Schools; Prof. T. C. Howe, Butler College; John A. Wood, Superintendent Laporte Schools.

General Discussion.

Friday, November 10, 10 o'clock a. m.,
Palm Room.

"Transfers and Tuition"-A. O. Neal, Superintendent Madison Schools.

General Discussion.

Friday, November 10, 1:30 p. m., Palm
Room.

"Is the Indiana Truancy Law Successfully Enforced?"-County Superintendent Geo. H. Tapy.

General Discussion.

Officers.-H. C. Yount, President, Covington, Ind.; C. G. Schelke, Secretary, Madison, Ind.; C. L. Kiser, Treasurer, Alexandria, Ind.; A. M. Sweeney, Chairman Executive Committee, Indianapolis, Ind.

INDIANA NORMAL SCHOOL.

The autumn term of the Indiana Normal School and College of Applied Science, at Muncie, Ind., is in session with a large attendance. It is notable that an unusually large percentage of the students are young men, who are entering the technical course with the intention of equipping themselves for profitable employment of a higher order. The young women are holding to the courses for teachers; especially are they interested in the kindergarten appointments and other modern means of becoming distinguished teachers. The equipment of the institution is elegant, the courses of study are strictly modern, the expenses are low.

PROGRAM OF THE INDIANA STATE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS.

Indianapolis, Claypool Hotel, November 9 and 10, 1905. Thursday, November 9, 8 o'clock p. m., Assembly Room.

Joint Session of School Boards and Town and City Superintendents.

"A State Educational Commission"-Charles W. Moores, Vice-President of Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners.

PROGRAM OF THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TOWN AND CITY SUPERINTENDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA.

Indianapolis, Claypool Hotel, November 9, 10 and 11, 1905.

Thursday, November 9, 8 o'clock p. m., Assembly Room.

Joint Session of School Boards and Town and City Superintendents.

"A State Educational Commission"-Charles W. Moores, Vice-President, Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners. Discussion-Lotis D. Coffman, SuperintendC. ent Connersville Schools; Prof. T. Howe, Butler College; John A. Wood, Superintendent Laporte Schools. Friday, November 10, 8:30 a. m., Assembly Room.

"The Relation of Drawing and Manual Training"-Wilhelmina Seegmiller, Supervisor of Drawing, Indianapolis Public Schools.

General Discussion.

"English in the Elementary Grades"-Superintendent Frank W. Cooley, Evansville,

Ind.

General Discussion.

Friday, November 10, 2 p. m., Assembly Room.

Address "Some Minor Problems in Super-
intending"--Superintendent J. M. Green-
wood, Kansas City, Mo.
General Discussion.

Friday, November 10, 8 p. m., Assem-
bly Room.

Address "Some Major Problems in Superintending"-Supt. J. M. Greenwood, Kansas City.

Saturday, November 11, 8:30 a. m.,
Assembly Room.

Informal Discussion of topics selected from
lists submitted on program.
Officers-C. M. McDaniel, President; B. F.
Moore, Chairman Executive Committee.

PROGRAM OF THE MATHEMATICAL SECTION OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, 1905. The following is the program of the next meeting of the Mathematical Section of the State Teachers' Association, to be held at Indianapolis in December, 1905:

1. "The High School's Portion of Higher Mathematics."-Prof. D. A. Rothrock, Indiana University.

2. "Teaching versus Instructing."-Prof. John C. Stone, Michigan State Normal College.

3. "In what grade should the child begin the study of Algebra, and how intensively should the subject be pursued?" -Supt. George L. Roberts, Muncie, Ind. Leaders of Discussion: Franklin S. Hoyt, Asst. Supt. Grammar Schools, Indianapolis; Charles J. Waits, Prin. Terre Haute High School.

4. "How can High School Mathematics better prepare for the study of Science, and what material can Science contribute to the study of High School Mathematics?"-W. A. Fiske, Teacher of Science, Richmond High School. Leaders of Discussion: Julius B. Meyer, Principal Lafayette High School; John J. Mitchell, Principal Logansport High School.

This program was prepared early so that those who were to be on the program might have sufficient time for careful preparation,

and in order that all teachers of mathematics in the State might have a chance to think over the topics before coming to the meeting.

A little reflection will show that the topics in the program involve some of the most important problems which are now facing teachers of secondary mathematics. The discussions will be of interest to grade teachers, high school teachers, and teachers in the colleges, because all three fields of work are concerned.

We want all teachers of mathematics in the State to study the topics in this program, and to come to this meeting prepared to take a hand in the discussions. Make it a point to attend.

JAMES F. MILLIS, Indianapolis,
KATE M. MEEK, Marion,
THOS. W. RECORDS, Evansville,
Executive Committee.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

The fall term at Indiana University opened with an increased attendance and the indications are that the enrollment for the year will be between seventeen and eighteen hundred.

There are many new faces in the faculty this term. Miss Lillian Berry, assistant professor of Latin, has been given a year's leave of absence, which she will spend in 'postgraduate work at the University of Chicago. Her place will be taken by Dr. E. H. Sturtevant, of Chicago. Mr. J. L. Hancock will be a new instructor in this department. Dr. Albert Kuersteiner, head professor of romance languages, and who has been absent for the past year in Spain and at Johns Hopkins, will return about October 1st. During his absence Professor Walter T. Peirce, of the Case School of Applied Science, was a member of the faculty of that department. Prof. Roy H. Perring, of the German department, spent the year in the University of Pennsylvania, and his work here was taken by Prof. Gottfried Lehman, a graduate of Leipsic. The work in physical training will be in charge of the same corps of instructors with the exception of that of the head of the department. Mr. Horne is suffering from a nervous breakdown and his work in football will be in charge of "Jummy" Shel