Official Department. J. W. ANDERSON, JANUARY 1891. Superintendent Public Instruction The following official matter accumulated during the month of December and was kindly furnished by ex-State Superintendent Ira G. Hoitt. The State Board met on December 27th, all members present except Governor Waterman. Superintendent-elect Anderson was also present by invitation. It was resolved that a recommendation be made to the incoming Legislature that the Grammar School Course Schools be abolished, and proper provisions be made for the organization of Union District High Schools. It was resolved that the Board would not issue a second Educational Diploma to the same person on the expiration of the first. It was resolved that the Board would not issue Life or Educationel Diplomas to persons who have not had at least three years or twenty-one months' experience in the public schools of California. It was resolved that the Board recommend the Legislature to pass a law forbidding the State Printer to print any editions of the State school books unless first ordered by the State Board of Education or its Secretary. Supt. Hoitt recommended the following list of books to be placed upon the Library list, and they were so recommended: "Teaching Patriotism," George T. Balch; "Raub's Methods of Teaching," Practical Rhetoric," "School Management," "Pickard's School Supervision," "Gordy's Lessons in Psychology," "Pathfinder Series of Physiologies," "Union Series of Physiologies," "Smith's Primer," "Compayre's History of Pedagogy," "Fiske's Civil Government," "Home, School and Nation "-a magazine. Prof. Childs reported the following list of books to be used in connection with the State Geography and State History, some of them being already on the list of Library books: "Tropical Africa," Drummond; "Little People of Asia," Miller; "Bird's-eye View of the World, "Physiography," Huxley; "The Boy Travelers," Knox; "Zigzag Journeys," Butterworth; "Geological Excursions," Winchell; "The Great Ice Age," Geike; "Sketches of Creation," Winchell; "Forms of Water," Tyndall; "Methods in Geography," King; "How to Study Geography," Parker; "The Earth as Modified by Human Action," Marsh; "The Story of Creation," Clodd; Growth of Man," Clodd; "Great Cities of the World," Shepherd; "Longman's Geography," "Tales Out of School," Stockton; "Egypt, Past and Present," Adams; "Washington and His Country," Fiske; "Building the Nation," Coffin; "Old Times in the Colonies," Coffin; "Boys of '76," Coffin; "Draper's History of Civil War," 3 vols.; "Young Folks' History of Civil War," Champion; "Lossing's Hisof U. S. Navy;" "Critical Period of American History," Fiske; "Montcalm and Wolfe," Parkman, 2 vols.; "How We Are Governed," Dawes; "Politics for Young Americans," Nordhoff; "Our Government," Macy; "General History," Meyers; "Schoulers' History of United States," 5 vols.; "American Statesman Series," "Story of the Nations Series," "Greece," "Rome," "The Jews," "Green's History of England." "The Making of New England," Drake; "History of the Colonies," "Fiske's Civil Government.” It was resolved that the law ought to be so amended as to allow Trustees to purchase books recommended by the State Board, as well as those recommended by County Boards. It was resolved that all Life Diplomas issued after the 1st of January shall be on parchment. Report as to the condition of the Text-book fund, number sold and on hand, will be forwarded for next issue. The following State, Life and Educational Diplomas, respectively, were granted: Life diplomas were granted as follows: Rebecca Alexander, Lucy J. Anderson, Evelyn R. Ashmead, Lizzie G. Atwater, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Alma S. Brigham, Mrs. Fannie P. Bronson, Lillie M. Blue, Belle C. Brown, Helene F. Buckley, Mrs. Clara R. Barlow, William L. Brown, Emma Crofton, Anna Dwyer, Emma L. Doherty, Helene Egl, Bernard R. Grogan, Jennie Gibson, Frank W. Hooper, Mary I. Hutchinson, Mrs. Lizzie A. Jones, Kate D. Jones, Clarence Laird, Mary E. Leonard, Mrs. Mary Q. Mauldin, Miss Marguerite Moore, Andrew J. Mikesell, Alice M. Mulgrew, Miss Lizzie McCorkell, Ella G. McCleery, Mrs. Fannie P. Osborn, Mary O'Connor, Lizzie A. Parker, Eben H. Parnell, Anna M. Parsons, Mrs. Libbie H. Rodgers, Cornelia Richards, E. Josephine Seaman, Minor L. Seymour, Zella Springsteen, Ellen F. Thompson, Louise Walters, Frank Anderson, Mary L. Westover, Nadine Crump, Wm. H. Hauert, Frank H. Walter, Thomas C. Welch, Esther Frank, Sarah Morrow, Cora E. Lamb, Ella V. Waitneight, Walter B. Ferguson, Parke W. Kaufman, Robert F. Burns, Preston W. Smith, Leonidas L. Evans, Nettie Getchell, William M. Friesner, Louisa J. Kendall, Mrs. Huber, Leroy D. Brown. Educational diplomas were granted as follows: Mrs. Hattie E. Archibald, Ernestine J. Arnold, Lulu Ashcraft, Evelyn R. Ashmead, Walter J. Bailey, Lizzie M. Baxter, Evelyn Blakely, Leonora Boggs, Edgar T. Boughn, Isabella R. Brown, Georgie Brooks, Kate Brousseau, Lilly E. C. Cappelman, Agnes A. Carey, Kate A. Cleary, Sarah M. Cooley, Mrs. Annie E. Crawford, Florence A. Crichton, May Cutler, Charlotte A. D'Ancona, Rosa Danielewicz, Julia Daubenbis, Julia A. Donovan, Anna M. Durner, Carrie L. Easton, Annie C. Edmonds, May F. Ford, Daniel H. Forey, Rosetta E. Fox, Annie L. Frazier, Georgia M. Freeman, Ida A. Fulton, Margaret G. Gillespie, Frankie Ginn, Mary E. Gordon, Helen T. Griffin, Emily L. Hammond, May Holmes, Hallie M. Hood, Carry K. Houston, Addie L. Hughes, Katie M. Hughes, Anna T. Keeler, Minnie M. Kiefer, Margaret C. Kelly, Birdine M. King, Emma S. Kleinsorge. Frederica de Laguna, Jennie Stoddard Lee, Lottie J. Matthis, Etta Meily, Mrs. Mar L. Metzler, Millie Myer, Maggie McFall, Thos. J. McGrath, Tomasena McKenna, Katie McMahon, Dora B. Newman, Edward Nolan, Mollie A. O'Connor, Mary A. Parmalee, Lillie K. Piper, May M. Randolph, Mrs. Carrie L. Remington, Mabel Rhodes, Lucy Richards, Kate J. Riley, Teresa M. Rivara, James E. Rodgers, James R. Saunders, Mrs. Essie Schmitt, Addie W. Seat, James E. Shafer, Elizabeth A. Spencer, Effie D. Stark, Rose V. Stitt, James T. Stockdale, Annie Linscott Swank, Kate Walters, John F. West, Addie E. Wilbur, William Francis Trainor, Mrs. Fanny L. Thatcher, Annette Futhey, Helen M. Gompertz, Viola A. Dillon, Clara L. Cleveland, Sallie E. McCauley, Ann A. Cordes, Ada F. Robins, Mabel H. Barber. "" Q. Can the Library fund be used for the purchase of a book-case? A.-A book-case is part of the furniture of a school and cannot, legally, be purchased with the Library fund. HIRING A DISTRICT CLERK. Q. Can a Board of Trustees employ a person to act as clerk and pay him for such services? A.-The Trustees have no right to employ any outside person as clerk of the Board, and there is no fund to pay for such service. TIME OF ELECTION OF CLERK. Q. Can the Board of Trustees elect a clerk at any other time than at the first meeting in July? A. An election can be held only on the day specified in Section 1,649, unless a vacancy should occur from some of the causes mentioned in Section 996, page 46, School Law. MOVING A SCHOOL-house. Q. What steps must be taken when some of the residents of a district desire to change the location of a school-house? A.-See Section 1,617, Sub. 20, 1. PAY AS MEMBER OF THE COUNTY BOARD, { SACRAMENTO, December 5th. Hon. Ira G. Hoitt, Superintendent Public Instruction: DEAR SIR: In reply to the inquiry of *** which you inclosed I have to say that I do not think the Board of Supervisors of his county can deprive the County Board of Education of their per diem for three days, for the reason that it took three days for them to prepare questions for applicants for teachers' certificates. The law says the Board of Supervisors shall allow a per diem of five dollars to each member of the County Board of Education," and does not say that the questions shall be prepared beforehand, nor limit time for such meetings. Very truly yours, G. A. JOHNSON, Attorney-General. HAVE YOU READ “BLACK BEAUTY?" The "gentle gospel" of this fascinating book, is spreading over the world. It is the autobiography of a wonderfully intelligent horse, relating the joys or miseries, comforts or tortures of the helpless beast, according to the kind of master he has. It gives valuable information how to best care for the horse, besides appealing powerfully to the feelings to treat him with consideration. The style of the book is simple and pure, charming alike to young and old. Written by an English lady, its sale in London alone has reached 103,000 copies, and it is translated into German, French and Spanish. Ladies of wealth and philanthrophy in Boston and New York, such as Mrs. Wm. B. Astor, have given copies by thousands through humane societies-to car-drivers, stable-men, and young people who need to be taught these simple facts, as much as the "three R's." It is adopted for supplemental reading in many public schools, notably Boston. William R. Garrett, President of the National Educational Association writes : "I shall do all in my power to place it in the hands of young people." California is far behind Oregon in this work for humanity. In Throughout that State prizes are offered for compositions on the subject of Kindness to Animals," topics being suggested as "The World Without Animals," "Artisans of the Animal World." Portland schools, 165 prizes were given in 1888 to 1889-teachers reporting great good resulting. The book is within the reach of all, being only twenty-five cents in paper, $1.00 in cloth. A number of copies can be had at a reduced rate, by applying to the Secretary of the "American Humane Society," George T. Angell, 19 Milk St., Boston. He will also send to any teacher, on application, a copy of that excellent monthly, "Our Dumb Aanimals," one year for twenty-five cents. Every-one can aid in this noble work by reading and circulating "Black Beauty." MRS. J. B. McCHESNEY. OAKLAND, CAL. |