JAS. F. SCULL, Rochester, James F. Scull, superintendent of the Rochester public schools, and Mrs. Addie E. Kendrick were quietly married June 19, 1902. The bride is a lady well known in that community; a woman of culture and no little literary ability. Of the groom there is not much to say that every one does not know, because of his wide acquaintance and warm friendships among the school men of the state. To know him is to love him. His is a rare but rich personality, a typical school man, as well as one of the most successful ones. The lady is certainly deserving of our most cordial congratulations. The editor of this journal recalls the first meeting with Supt. Scull, and this acquaintance has grown into the warmest friendship. We quote from a personal letter, which is indicative of the man: "I have just closed my twentieth year's work as superintendent of the Rochester schools and have been elected to continue the work. When I came here I expected to stay but one year, but I became enamored of the beautiful little city, and am here yet, and expect to stay here as long as I live and to lay my bones in her beautiful cemetery. I do not always expect to be in the work, but expect to stay here my remaining days. taught my first school in 1856, and have been in the school work, with but few interruptions of brief duration, ever since. I am in love with the work, and do not yet feel like taking my ease. I have always felt that true happiness is in work, not beyond it. A man may come to the point in life where he may say, 'Soul, take thine ease, for thou hast much goods laid up for many years,' but he is pretty sure to hear the response: "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be re I quired of thee.' I am in most excellent health, and have never had a physician's attendance since I was a baby. Dear Journal, your monthly visits are always appreciated. 'Here's to yourself and family; may you live long and prosper. " A. L. Gary, the successor of Geo. F. Bass in the management of the Young People's Reading Circle, is one of our pushing young men. We first met him while he was serving as one of the Columbian Guards at the World's Fair. His courteous attention to all requests earned for him the high favor of all who met him. However, he is always gentlemanly and every one finds in him a friend. He was born in 1868, reared on a farm, attended district school and Carthage schools. He attended Prof. Cyrus Hodgin's normal school at Richmond one year-'85-'86, and began teaching in the fall of '86. He taught five years in a country school and one in a township high school at Avon, Hendricks county. Worked his way through DePauw University by teaching and working on a farm, and as Columbian Guard during World's Fair at Chicago. He graduated at DePauw in 1895. He was elected county superintendent of Rush county in June, 1897. Unanimously re-elected in 1899. He is not married. Prof. J. H. Bobbitt has decided to remain at Westport another year. His services have surely been in demand this year, as several trustees were after him. He had been offered exceptionally good wages to take charge of the Burney schools next year and had about concluded to accept, but when his old school board at Westport heard of his contemplated move, they called him down there and after holding a conference with nim, decided to make the salary so interesting at Westport that he would give up all idea of a change and again hold forth where he has been doing such grand work for the past four years. He is a splendid instructor, a thorough disciplinarian and possesses the happy faculty of retaining the good will of both patrons and pupils-the secret of a successful teacher. Mr. Bobbitt was county superintendent of Decatur County for twelve years. The corps of teachers are the same for four years: Superintendent and principal high school, J. H. Bobbitt; principal grammar school, E. L. Deupree; principal intermediate department, Miss Carrie Arbuckle; principal primary department, Miss Lena Thomas. Three years' high school work is done, and the graduates are accepted at commissioned high schools, where their work is strong. Miss Maud Connelly, one of the teachers in the Greensburg schools, is a graduate of this school. JACOB T. MERRILL. Memorial exercises in honor of their former superintendent, Jacob T. Merrill, was held by the Lafayette High School Association. Addresses were made by Hon. A. O. Resor, on behalf of the trustees and friends; by Miss Helen Hand, on behalf of the high school; by John E. Mathews, on behalf of the principals, and by Miss Katharine Andrew, on behalf of the grades. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: At Ligonier, Ind., June 22, 1902, death stilled the heart and silenced the voice of Jacob Theodore Merrill. Yet he lives, else what means the presence of these friends, these teachers, these pupils gathered here to-night. For twenty-three years, from 1867 to 1890, as their superintendent, it was his head, his heart, his hand that guided and guarded the interests of the boys and girls of the public schools of our city. Under his searching eye, discerning mind and energizing power, our schools grew from their infancy into a development of excellence of which our city was justly proud. Nor were his educational merit and influence limited by the bounds of our city, but they extended to the broader field of our state's educational life, where he was honored as the executive officer of our state convention. Even beyond the limits of our state was his worth acknowledged by his call to Cedar Rapids, Ia., where for eleven years, until his death, he was the honored superintendent of their schools. As an educator Mr. Merrill was broad, generous, just. As a superintendent, to his teachers he was liberal and loyal. Receiving their confidence, he sympathized with them in their failures, strengthened their weaknesses, and shared the joy of their successes and triumphs. To his pupils he was tender and true. To his friends he was fervent and faithful. Thus would we, his friends, his teachers and his pupils, here assembled, honor his worth and revere his memory. Be it resolved, That this tribute to his memory be inscribed upon the records of the Lafayette High School Alumni Association, of which Mr. Merrill was an honorary member, and that a copy be sent to his immediate family, to one of the papers of Cedar Rapids, and to our own city papers. Miss Mary Jefferson, Chairman, H. H. Lancaster, John E. Matthews, Mrs. Justine L. Taylor, Mrs. Albert Caldwell, Worth Reed, Committee on Resolutions. SOMETHING NEW. J. L. Dixon, representative of the Entertainers' League, of Indianapolis, was in the city yesterday making plans for a new lecture course committee and furnishing the talent for them. The principals of the graded schools in Lancaster, Nottingham, Chester, Jefferson and Liberty townships are the members of this association. The course contracted for embraces three lectures, but each lecture is given once in each township. In this manner traveling expenses for the lectures and amusement bodies are reduced to a minimum and some really fine entertainments can be secured. The idea is a new one, but has already been tried at different places and has always proven successful. It will give to the citizens of some of the smaller towns the privi lege of hearing at home some really firstclass lectures and should awaken new interest in educational matters in general among the patrons of the schools. Mr. Dixon, the man who arranged for the course, is acquainted with many Bluffton people. He is the man who gave this city the privilege of hearing W. W. Pfrimmer, the Kankakee poet, and has been here on several occasions. -Bluffton Banner. We are personally acquainted with Mr. Dixon, and take pleasure in recommending him. SONG OF BENTON COUNTY. Written for the Boys and Girls of Benton County. BY L. A. MCKNIGHT. (Tune "Marching Through Georgia.") Cheer our glorious Union and our State both dear and grand; Love them both we ever will and ever with them stand; Sing of our own county, now, the fairest in our land; Yes, we are proud of old Benton. (Chorus.) Hurrah, hurrah, for Benton we will cheer! and near; Yes, we are proud of old Benton. Others sing of mountain homes; we love our lowly plain, Meadows green, and waving corn, and fields of golden grain, Flow'ring slopes-and of them all we'll sing the glad refrain, Yes, we are proud of old Benton. Chorus: Hurrah, hurrah, etc. Country homes of plenty, and our city homes so fair; Church and school our fathers built with honest loving care, All shall ring with happy songs of children bright and fair; Yes, we are proud of old Benton, Chorus: Hurrah, hurrah, etc. Benton's sturdy "Ship of State" has, in her loyal crew, Twenty hundred gallant boys as bright as ever grew, By their sides two thousand girls, all good and brave and true Yes, we are proud of old Benton. Chorus: Hurrah, hurrah, etc. Gracious God of freedom, may the flag our fathers bore, Wave o'er dear old Benton till the earth shall be no more. Help us battle for the Right till Error's reign is o'er, And ever bless dear old Benton. Chorus: Hurrah, hurrah, etc. -L. A. McKnight. COLLEGE NOTES. TRI-STATE NORMAL COLLEGE. This week, August 9-15, is commencement week at the Tri-State Normal College. The class this year numbers fifty-three, of whom thirteen are graduated in the classical course, thirteen in the scientific, two in the philosophical, and the rest are divided among the various other courses of the institution. The exercises of the week began with the baccalaureate service Sunday evening, August 10, which the class in caps and gowns attended in a body. The sermon of the occasion was by Elder C. S. Medbury, pastor of the Christian Church. Tuesday evening is the biennial reunion of the Philomathean Society; Wednesday evening, the Law Commencement; Thursday afternoon, the annual meeting of the Alumni; Thursday evening, the Musical Commencement; Friday morn ing, the regular Literary Commencement, at which the principal address is to be made by Dr. John P. D. John; Friday evening, the exercises of the week conclude with the annual contest between the societies. The year just closing has been the most successful in the history of the institution. There has been an increase in attendance of over twenty-five per cent., and substantial improvement has been made all along the line. Beginning with the next school year a course in civil and mechanical engineering will be offered. This course will cover two years of time, and will be especially rich in mathematics. It will be under the direction of Prof. G. G. Niehaus, C. E., a practical engineer, and will include a large amount of field work, which among the lakes and hills of Steuben County ought to make one proficient in the use of instruments anywhere in the country. September 2, 1902, the Tri-State Normal College will open a school of pharmacy, in charge of Prof. Chas. S. Sherrard, of Detroit, Mich. Prof. Sherrard is a graduate of the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, and for the past ten years has been teaching pharmacy and chemistry in the Detroit College of Medicine. He will have able assistants in laboratory and lecture work. A laboratory freely equipped with chemicals and apparatus, and provided with gas, city water and steam heat, will furnish the students with ample equipment for this kind of work. Two courses are offered one of forty weeks, leading to the degree of Ph. G. (Graduate in Pharmacy), and one of seventytwo weeks, leading to the degree Ph. C. (Pharmaceutical Chemist). These courses are so arranged that anyone who has completed the shorter course and desires to go on in the longer, can receive full credit for the time spent in the shorter course. The laboratory also is prepared to do all kinds of microscopical and chemical analysis, ore analysis, assaying, etc. The prospects are very favorable for a good attendance in this department from the first. The many beautiful lakes about Angola are a never-failing source of delight during the summer months, especially to our students from the lakeless regions of Ohio and Indiana. Miss Zonetha Vance, of the class of 1902, sails early in September as a missionary to India. INDIANA UNIVERSITY. The summer session at Indiana University was a record-breaker, both in numbers and enthusiasm. There was a total attendance of five hundred and sixty-three, and these represented eighty-five of the ninety-two counties of the State. Dr. E. H. Lindley has been promoted to a full professorship in psychology, and Dr. John A. Bergstrom has been advanced to a full professorship in pedagogy. President Swain went to Pennsylvania, August 1st, to assume his new duties as president of Swarthmore, and on that date Dr. Bryan began his duties as president of Indiana University. During this institute season Dr. Bryan has addressed a large number of teachers, and he received many more invitations than his time would permit him to accept. Prof. E. B. Bryan, of the government normal school at Manila, will return to Indiana University, August 1, 1903. The new one-hundred-thousand-dollar fireproof Science Building is nearing completion, and it will be one of the largest and best equipped college buildings in the United States. It will be used by the departments of physics, psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, mathematics and the administrative offices. Prof. Martin Wright Sampson, head professor of English, will return in September from a year's leave of absence spent in study in London and Paris. President Bryan gave the commencement address at the Marion Normal School this year. Two free scholarships in the School of Law will hereafter be granted by the commissioners in each county. Tuition is absolutely free in Indiana University, except in the School of Law. Nearly all the counties will be represented in the School of Law this year. A new fence is being placed around Jordan Field and a stone wall thirty-two inches high has been built along the entire south side of the campus. Dr. Corson, of Harvard University, has been selected as a member of the faculty of the philosophical department, and W. A. Hester, formerly superintendent of the Evansville schools, will be one of the members of the department of pedagogy. Miss Lillie Gay Berry, teacher of Latin in the Indianapous schools, will be instructor in Latin in Indiana University this year. Prof. H. F. Clements, of the law department, has resigned his position to re-enter the practice at Mount Vernon, and B. F. Long of the Logansport bar has been selected to take his place. James W. Fesler, one of the leading attorneys of Indianapolis, has been elected a trustee of Indiana University to take the place 01 Supt. R. A. Ogg, who declined to be a candidate for re-election. Mr. John D. Rockefeller has offered to give thirty thousand dollars to Indiana University for a students' building to be erected on the campus of Indiana University. The only condition that he makes is that the friends of the institution raise an equal amount before January 1, 1903. Already the sum of seventeen thousand has been raised, and the loyal supporters of Indiana will see that the balance is secured. There was a larger demand for graduates of Indiana University for school positions than ever before. Practically all the graduates were located before August 1, and a large number of requests for teachers could not be granted. The fall term will open September 29th, and the heavy correspondence, the information given by school officials and former students indicate that the attendance the coming year will be larger than ever before. FRANKLIN COLLEGE NOTES. In the past few weeks several of the prominent alumni of the college have been called to their reward. Among them are Gen. T. J. Morgan, for several years Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and later Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society; Hon. G. M. Lambertson (who took the bulk of his work at Franklin), a prominent attorney in Lincoln, Neb., and at one time Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Rev. Clement Hall, pastor for many years at Youngstown, Ohio. The members of the faculty have been scattered quite widely apart for vacation: Professor Zeppenfeld in Germany, Professor Bestor in Great Britain, Professors Hall and Thompson in Michigan and Professor Gardiner in Illinois. The rest have gone about over the State, but in the main have "staid by the stuff." During the vacation the college buildings have been thoroughly renovated inside, and now present quite a cheery appearance. The library has received substantial additions during the summer; the library committee has labored earnestly to fill up sets of important periodicals, especially American, such as the Atlantic, the North American, and Littell's Living Age. The more recent periodicals were already complete. The Baptists of Indiana are organized into what are called "associations." These are composed of the churches in contiguous territory and meet once a year for mutual acquaintance and business; to these associations (thirty in all) the college sends representatives; this keeps us fairly busy, for the associations (all but two) have their sessions from the middle of August to the last of September. The awarding of the Cecil Rhodes scholarships has created que a good deal of interest over the State; the plan suggested down this way would certainly avoid the objection that the matter will be run by the colleges, and also the more flimsy objection that it will reopen the "late unpleasantness" between the State and non-State schools. The plan suggested is to have an examination in each congressional district; leu the best contestant be the representative from that district in a State examination; choose the best six in the State contest and let them furnish testimonials in respect to the qualifications, other than "literary and scholastic attainments." Give one board or committee charge of the examinations and another charge of the recommendations, but let them act conjointly in the final selection of the best two. A good deal of interest is showing itself in the matters presented by President Harper in his Minneapolis address; particularly ac ceptable is the suggestion that mere method is not what teachers need-but liberal education. To be a well-rounded man or woman with learning and character, is the prime condition of success in the noble professionteaching. |