WHAT A TEACHER'S ENCOURAGEMENT DID. CHICAGO.-Herman Atkins MacNeil, formerly instructor in drawing at Cornell, now of this city, has won the Rinehart Roman prize in sculpture, entitling the holder to a studio and other accommodations in the Villa Ludovici. at Rome, besides $1,100 for expenses. Mr. MacNeil did his first piece of modeling at Cornell-" Putting the Shot "-from the then champion all-round athlete of the university. He was about to break it up when Prof. Thurston, director of Sibley college, interposed to save it, and it now adorns Sibley. Professor Thurston's active encouragement is what led Mr. MacNeill to devote himself entirely to sculpture, and his most enthusiastic admirers are still at Cornell. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Pres. James B. Angell has issued his annual report for the past school year. It is a strong, vigorous characteristic document and very readable. The total attendance for the year was 2874 again over the previous year of 169 and making the largest number of students ever in attendance Of this number 1551 were from Michigan against 1400 for the previous year. He accounts for this increase in part from Michigan to the improvement in the high schools "which are so efficiently preparing and stimulating students to take a university training." The 45 per cent of students outside of Michigan represented every state except Nevada and sixteen foreign states and provinces Illinois came next to Michigan with 309, Ohio next with 201, and even Massachusetts sent 23. There were 576 women in attendance, 494 in the literary department, 74 in medicine, three in law, and five in dentistry. He notes the fact that hereafter the students in engineering will be enrolled separate from the literary students and will be under the mangement of their special teachers and will constitute a separate school. The experience of the year confirmed the wisdom of two changes made, one to have class-room work close at 4 P. M., and second to limit the hours of class-room work to sixteen. The number of volumes in all the libraries September 30, 1895, was 9870-, unbound pamphlets 17241 and maps 1151. The recorded circulation in the reading room was 122352 with 6469 volumes drawn by professors for home use. Athletics are touched upon lightly. The completion of the gymnasium is announced at a cost $55134 14. He adds that volunteer classes only were organized but the "interest displayed by them was very great" and that "the beneficial effort upon the health and intellectual vigor of the students was marked." women's gymnasium is contemplated and work will be begun soon. The funds will all come from subscription. A Pears' It lasts in credibly. Best soap in the World. WHO WILL BE PRESIDENT? LANSING, MICH.-The president of the agricultural college has not been selected as yet. There was a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture at the governor's office Dec. 17, at which the whole matter was discussed, but no conclusion reached. The board were all present with one exception. No word could be gleaned from any of them concerning ex- Pres. Gorton. Sec'y Butterfield said there were some twenty candidates. Among the prominent names mentioned recently are Edwin Willets, ex-president of the college and later assistant secretary of agriculture and still of Washington, D. C; President Louis McLouth, of the South Dakota agricultural college; J. W. Arbury, ex-supt. Battle Creek, now with Silver, Burdette & Co.; Supt David McKenzie, of Muskegon, and ex-Gov. Cyrus G. Luce. The latter is high in the councils of the Grange, which organization recently held its state convention and endorsed Mr. Luce. Mr. Arbury received three votes when Mr. Gorton was elected and is very near to Governor Rich who is ex-officio member of the board. It is announced that the election will be made January 7. A SCHOOL FOR NEWSBOYS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.-The Evening Press, of this city, has fitted out a school-room, engaged a competent teacher, and provides five hours instruction per day to the newsboys connected with its office. The work in the school is so arranged as not to interfere with their work for the papers. This is practical philanthropy. The enterprise of the Press deserves high commendation. BLOOMERS IN CALIFORNIA. A number of the women students at the state university at Berkeley have agreed to wear bloomers They began last year with a "rainy day" costume-a short skirt and leather leggins. This fall this set determined to go a step further. Mrs. P. is a student who put on bloomers and no skirts. It is expected others will get up courage to follow the example. The wrap is a regular man's overcoat; the hat is a derby. MEETING OF DEPARTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENTS, NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, JACKSONVILLE, FEB 18-20, 1896. Mr. C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., writes that rates of a fare and a third upon the certificate plan have been authorized on account of this meeting; that is, parties who will attend should purchase regular tickets to Jacksonville and at the same time secure from agents certificates showing that full fare was paid, and when these are properly signed by the secretary of the meeting. and viséed by the special agent of the Southern States Passenger Association, they will entitle the persons named therein to special return tickets at one-third fares. MORE SCHOOL-HOUSES TO BE BUILT. NEW YORK CITY.-The legislature authorized the city to expend $5,000,000" for the purchase of new school buildings, additions, furnishings." This will make the total value of school buildings of New York city, sites and structures $20,000,000. 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There is to be a new grammar school on Henry street, between Oliver and Catherine; a new school on the south side of Rivington street, between Forsyth and Eldridge streets, One grammar school No. 42, in Hester street, between Orchard and Ludlow streets; an annex east of grammar school No. 15the old Fifth street school, erected in 1838; an annex to grammar school No. 34, corner of Broome and Sheriff streets. An annex to grammar school No. 25, in Fifth street. FREE LECTURES ON ART HISTORY. NEW YORK CITY. -A course of eight illustrated lectures on the history of art will be given by Professor William H. Goodyear at the Teachers College, West 120th St. Teachers who are interested may obtain free course tickets by writing to Dr. Hervey, the president of the college. The first four lectures bear on sculpture, the last four on Italian art. These lectures are given on Friday evenings, beginning January 10, 1 96. SEWING IN BROOKLYN SCHOOLS. BROOKLYN.-This city has appropriated $6,000 for the teaching of sewing in the public schools. Miss Lucretia M. Phelps, a graduate of the Brooklyn schools and of Pratt institute, is one of the first appointed. DISCUSSIONS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL QUESTIONS. PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 19.-The American Academy of Political and Social Science which counts among its members many of the leading educators of this country, held its thirty-first scientific session at the New Century Club last night. Social Observation and the Modern City as a Laboratory" was the subject of a paper by Dr. S. M. Lindsay, of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. William Howe Tolman, of New York City, and President James MacAlister, of Drexel Institute discussed the paper. Provost Charles C. Harrison, of the University of Pennsylvania, presided. The paper and discussion will most likely appear in the Annals of the academy. These Annals, by the way, contain many valuable articles and supplements of great interest to students of sociology. It is announced that with the January issue will be sent out an important monograph by Prof. Simon N. Patten, entitled, "The Theory of Social Forces," a study of the various steps in social evolution, particularly of some hitherto neglected processes in development. Dr. Edmund J. James, as THE JOURNAL already stated, is no longer editor of the Annals. His resignation was due to his approaching removal to Chicago, where it will be impracticable for him to give to the editorial work the supervision which it requires. The executive committee reluctantly accepted the resignation, and requested Dr. James to retain his connection with the publications of the academy as associate editor of the Annals. This Dr. James consented to do, and by vote of the executive committee, the editorial board, Dr. Robinson having also resigned, was re-organized as follows: Editor, Roland P. Falkner; Associates, Edmund J. James, and Emory R. Johnson. Vermont. The State Teachers' Association held its forty-sixth annual meeting in St. Johnsbury, Nov. 21-23. The attendance was larger than it has been for many years, despite the fact that the place of meeting is remote from a large section of the state. The good attendance may be accounted for in part by the fact that the local attractions and social features were skilfully used in advertising, and in part by the introduction of a strong corps of speakers from other states. In some respects Vermont has given other states a model this year. In the first place the advertising was made as attractive as possible, and the beautifully printed and illustrated prospectus was calculated to give each teacher in the state a high conception of the character and tone of the meeting. It certainly paid. In the second place everything possible was done to promote sociability among the teachers present, -a beneficent factor in such gatherings all too often omitted. A reception was held after each evening's lecture, the most beautiful buildings in the town being used for the purpose-the Athenaeum Library and Art Gallery and the Fairbanks Museum of Natural Science. Vermont teachers have strong social instincts, for not only did they throng the receptions until a late hour each night, but turned out en masse to the convention banquet. All these occasions were strong factors in promoting the idea of association and the association of ideas among those present. The program was listened to with great attention, and was varied and comprehensive. From other states were present President E. Benj. Andrews and Wm. J. Tucker, Prin. Chas. F. King, Mr. Henry T. Bailey, Miss Lucy Wheelock, Mr. C. S. Davis, and Prof. A. E. Dolbear. Among the speakers from Vermont were Principals A. W. Pierce, Homer C. Bristol, and F. A Bagnall, Miss Harriet Savage, and Hon. Frank Plumley. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President S. J. Blaupied. Montpelier; ex-Com. Chas. H. Morrill, Bakersfield; E. H. Whitehill, Woodstock; W. P. Kelly, St. Johnsbury. The Vermonter was adopted as the official organ of the association. St. Albans made a strong bid for the meeting next year. ALBANY.-When Supt. Skinner's report is issued, among other interesting facts, it will show that there are 26,000 licensed teachers in the state, and 12,000 school districts, 114 schools commisSioners, 34 city superintendents, and 32 village superintendents. As may be imagined, the correspondence with this great body of teachers and officers is immense. More than 12,000 letters have been received during the last half year. More than 260,000 applications have been received for teachers' licenses, each one of which has had a careful examination. A special work in educating the people in Civics was undertaken some ten years ago, and has resulted in an increased study of the problems of good government We must bear in mind that our present method is a government by a party, and the result is often most disastrous. The American Institute of Civics aims at a broad study of the problems of government; the magazine it issues is worthy the grand cause it represents. Committee on Rural Schools. The Committee of Twelve on Rural Schools has organized three sub-committees for the consideration of special problems. The work is outlined for each committee as follows: I. SCHOOL MAINTENANCE. (Committee: B. A. Hinsdale, W. S. Sutton, S. T. Black.) 1. REVENUES.-Permanent school funds; taxation, general and local, embracing state, county, township, and district taxes; miscellaneous sources of school income, such as fines, licenses, gifts, etc. 2. EXPENDITURES. Machinery and methods of distribution, general and local.-The main points to be considered are the channels through which the funds reach the schools, and the rules and methods regulating their distribution and application. 3. ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINERY.-The county, district. and township unit systems; the consolidation of schools; the transportation of pupils; county, township, and district high schools; the relation of rural schools to city schools. Inquiry should be made into the main social, industrial, and economical factors that condition rural education; as density of population, wealth, means of communication, etc. II. SUPERVISION. (Committee: L. B. Evans, C. R. Skinner, Harry Sabin.) 1. The manner of electing the superintendent, state, county, district, or township 2. Minimum qualifications required of each, and term of office. 3. The relation of the superintendent, state, county, district, or township, to the teachers and pupils, as officer and adviser. 4. The relation of the superintendent, state, county, district, or township, to school officers and their duties. 5. The relation of the state superintendent to the county and township superintendent. 6. The relation of the snperintendent to the public at large as creating and shaping public opinion in rural districts. 7. The relation of the superintendent to school buildings, architecture, sanitation, and hygienic conditions. 2. An inquiry into the means provided for the improvement of teachers already in the service. (1) Teachers' meetings and associations. (2) Reading circles. (3) Libraries and current literature. 3. An inquiry into the manner of electing. employing and paying teachers. (1) By what authority examined and certificated. (3) Terms of engagement, certificates and wages paid. 1. Methods of teaching and government peculiarly affecting rural schools. 2. Courses of study, text-books, and other appliances. 3. Working programs. 4. Gradation and classification of pupils. 5. The relations of rural schools to their environments; as to farm life, mining life, etc. Fall and Winter Associations. Jan. 1.-Minnesota State Teachers' Association at St. Paul. Dec. 31.-Jan. 1-2.-Southern Educational Association at Hot Springs Dec. 31,-Jan. 1,-2. Nebraska State Teachers' Association, at Lincoln. Ark. Feb. 28 29.-Sixth Semi-Annual Meeting of the New York State Art July 7-11.-National Educational Association at Buffalo, N. Y. President, Supt. N. C. Dougherty, Peoria, III, Secretary, Irwin Shepard, Winona, Minn. New Books. Shall the First Year Pupils be Introduced to Literature and Art? This is answered in the affirmative by Prof. J. G. Thompson and Supt. Thos. E. Thompson in Fairy Tale and Fable. It differs former the usual first reader in selecting its material and illustrations; the form are fables, myths, fairy tales; the latter are reproductive of the works of the world's great artists. The matter of the reading cannot but interest the young child; he will strive with all his might to find out what it is that is said about the interesting picture; this is a most important feature. The authors have made a book that well deserves to be in the hands of children. (New Century Educational Co., Boston.) A little volume entitled, Practical Exercises in English, by H. G. Buehler, deserves hearty commendation. The author had some principles before him at the outset. He has not wasted a line, but in 150 pages has made a model text-book. Under the discussion of articles he has given sixty exercises, and each demands thought by the pupil, and so the use of words with accuracy; for example, he says tell the difference between "Fire is beautiful," and The fire is beautiful." This method of demanding thinking in word using, as it is demanded in numberusing, is the characteristic of the volume. The author rightly objects to the old plan of correcting false syntax, a plan THE JOURNAL was among the first to declare a vicious one. (Harper & Brothers.) The use of songs and music in the teaching of children was seen to be indispensable by Froebel; his "Mother Play" exhibited his idea as to what should be sung to them. A volume has been lately prepared under the title, The Songs and Music of F. Froebel's Mother Play in which the songs are newly translated and furnished with new music. The arrangement of these has been the work of Miss Susan E. Blow, who has been identified with kindergarten expansion for a quarter of a century. The It volume is No. 33 of the International Education Series. has illustrations from Lange's work; the translations are poetic, which is more than could be said of many translations that have been used. The music is new, as the old music found little favor in America. It is a collection that will find immedi ate favor with the practical kindergartner. (D. Appleton & Co.. New York.) The influence of Froebel on the world has been already enormous. The volume Froebel's Gifts exhibits the influence of his mind on two persons who have been practical workers in the kindergarten field. Miss Kate Douglas Wiggin and Miss Nora Smith. The volume is a discussion on the ten gifts proposed by Froebel; possibly an explanatlon in the light of a knowledge of the child would be a better statement. The elder author was a person who employed these gifts under the inspiration of genius and sympathy, and it may be said that the book itselt contains a great deal of inspiration. It shows that the subject has been thought over and over, until the use of the gifts was seen to be essential to the unfolding of the child's power. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.) Plane Trigonometry by S L. Loney, M. A., from the University Press, Cambridge, is the second volume concluding the treatment of circular functions; it is confined to analytical trigon metry. It is well printed and contains many things of interest to the mathematical teacher. A series of German school text-books have been received from Messrs. Maynard, Merrill & Co. Bilder aus der Turkei, edited by W. S. Leyon, 25 cents; Robert Blake und Cromwell, bv Reinhold Pauli; Die Werke der Barm herzigkeit, by W. H. Reil, 40 cents; Kolberg, by Paul Heyse, 40 cents; Ulysses und der Kylop from C. F. Becker's "Erzahlungen aus der Alten Welt," 25 cents. The texts are chosen only from modern German authors, in order to give the pupil specimens of the language as it is now written and spoken. Each volume contains, either in excepts or in extenso, a piece of German prose which, whilst continuous enough to sustain interest, will not be too long to be finished in the work of a term or two. A series of French school text-books have been received from Messrs Maynard, Merrill & Co., Le Chant du Cygne par Georges Ohnet; Un Mariage D'Amour, par Ludovic Halevy. 25 cents; La Belle au Bois Dormant le Chat Botte. edited by B. Minssen, 20 cents; Huit Contes, par Mlle Marie Minssen, edited by W. S. Lyon, 25 cents. This series is intended principally for beginners. Each volume is edited with notes or vocabulary or both. as the tastefully bound in cloth. case may be. The type is large and clear and the volumes are The family medicine in thousands of homes is Hood's Sarsaparilla. Take only Hood's. THE SCHOOL JOURNAL. Established 1870. Published weekly at $2.50 per year, is a journal o education for school boards, superintendents, principals, and all teachers who desire to have a complete account of all the great movements in education. We publish THE TEACHERS' INSTITUTE, monthly. $1.00 per year; THE Woman's Beauty. CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 1894. Some people seem to think that a tonic is only necessary when they have run so low as to have to consult a physician. This is incorrect. I say, every physician says, "Eat well, drink that which is nourishing and energy-giving." I know of nothing which answers this purpose better than Pabst Malt Extract. The "Best" Tonic. Ladies, espe. rially, will find Pabst Malt Extract a splendid tonic to build up their systems, chang ing that weary, tired feeling to one of energy and activity, giving them strength, both physical and mental, to bear those thousand and one exacting household cares. New Books. One of the cleverest stories lately published is Dame Prism; it is aimed at the girls, but everybody will find something in it that will interest. It is more than usually well illustrated, and the illustrator orings out the feeling in the narrative. The title is well chosen; the heroine casts beautitul tints on all she touches, in fact is a sort of earthly fairy. And such exist. The novel that portrays the real charming creatures we know exist helps to lift the world to higher planes of thought and action. (Frederick A. Stokes Company.) A volume sure to call for some debate is Sold by Druggists. Secret Books Free. Mention this A Comedy in Spasms by lota. It is pret paper and address PAPST, Milwaukee, Wis. tily illustrated. It has a brightness that is not usually found in an unsigned novel. The situations are often novel and surprising, and there is a movement imputed to the personages introduced that arouses interest. There are many unusually good points in the style of this author. (Fred erick A. Stokes Co., New York.) Poetry is an expression of life, of the interior life and in the volume Lyrics of Love and Nature, we find many charming conceptions of thought and purpose. The illustrations are by the same hand; the author is both poet and artist. Certainly here are some very promising things. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.) The Twentieth Century series includes among other volumes The Phantom Death and Other Stories, by W. Clark Russell. The story which gives the title to the volume is a sea story in the best vein of this well known writer of sea stories. Other 66 It's your money and your dress but that you want to save, you can't save either by using cheap trashy binding. Pay a Arnold Constable &Co. FURS. stories, such as "Brokers' Bay," "A Mem- Persian Lamb Jackets, Rich Seal Jackets. ory of the Pacific," The Secret of the Dead Mate," etc., also have a flavor of the sea. The Sale of a Soul, a book in the same series, by F. Frankfort Moore, is an Fur Capes. intense story of an ocean voyage and of Black Marten, Persian Lamb, Russian love. It is illustrated by H. C. Edwards. (Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York.) Sable Capes. 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