AN EDUCATIONAL REVIVAL.

Educational activity is the watchword of the hour in California. Beginning in the office of the State Superintendent, a spirit of work and progress is radiating throughout the entire educational system of the State. The Legislature has felt the influence, and the result is embodied in half a dozen new laws, all tending to foster and improve our public schools. The primary and grammar schools will enjoy the benefit of a State appropriation, increased beyond all former precedent; and the University, for the first time in its history, is placed on a stable financial basis. A new Normal School has been established, county institutes have had new life infused into them, additional school facilities are being provided in the cities, and the "boom" that is infecting the entire California atmosphere is being rapidly and surely communicated to the school system.

What is now needed from within that system is a spirit of hearty and active cooperation among teachers. The professional body should strive to elevate the tone of the profession, to make admission to its ranks esteemed more of an honor, and to so "put up the bars " that such admission may not become too easy. Nor, on the other hand, should our various County Boards of Education be over finical in their examination of teachers' credentials granted in other counties. They should not act as if all wisdom and discretion and integrity were restricted to their one particular section of the State. We hold that certificates properly granted in one county should be recognized-if not by law, then by professional courtesy-everywhere throughout the State, and that one examination fairly passed should suffice to give the holder of a certificate a permanent professional standing. If the teachers and school officials of the State will now meet the community in this spirit of liberality, of justice, and of intelligence, the result cannot but insure a lasting revival and progress of our educational institutions. Ample help has been given by the community from without; let the spirit now move from within.

THE NEW NORMAL SCHOOL.

The Commission to select a site for the new Normal School is a notable body. The Daily News, published in Red Bluff, introduces them as follows: "At the head of the party is the Chief Executive of the State, Governor Bartlett. We all know him, though many will see him for the first time. His fame has gone before him, and his very honorable career is familiar to all. Red Bluff is glad to welcome the most conspicuous citizen of the commonwealth, and to give him hearty congratulation. In his dignified and kindly presence we will all feel that our town, county and State have a safe friend and guardian. The only warning we give him is this: Not to stay too long. For he comes here a bachelor; and we will wager that if he remains here a week in this rosebud garden of girls he will go home a Benedict. Superintendent Hoitt has been with us before, and many of us have enjoyed the advantage of making his acquaintance. Stately and benignant, all will find him a genial gentleman; and we commend him especially to our bright and handsome schoolma'ams, upon whom we are sure he will beam with fatherly interest. Mrs. Hoitt, wife of the State Superintendent, the only lady in the party, is a refined, cultivated, kind-hearted lady, who charms all who come near her by her affability and womanly dignity. James Denman's name is a household word among all who are familiar with the educational history of the State. For many years he has been

prominent among the educators, and his reputation for ability is fully equal to his very high standing as a citizen, and long after he has laid down life's burden of work and gone to his reward, the Denman School will stand a monument to his memory. Judge Lawrence Archer is one of the leading men of California. Singularly pure in public life-an eloquent, able and reliable friend of popular rights at all times, with a career never touched by the breath of suspicion—he is also notable for his uprightness and success in a long business career, as well as for the urbanity and suavity which mark his intercourse with all who are fortunate enough to meet him. T. Ellard Beans is a successful and wealthy banker of San Jose, whose high standing in that cultured community bears testimony to his elevation of character. Ralph Lowe of New Almaden is another successful and prominent business man, whose labors have brought him a competency, and who bears the reputation of an upright, honorable and able man. Professor Allen, Principal of the Normal School at San Jose, the parent institution, would find it difficult to find any spot in California where his high reputation has not preceded him. A lifelong laborer in the higher walks of professional work, he has builded up a name for learning, zeal and professional integrity which will be the proudest legacy he can leave his children. General John R. Brierly is Assemblyman from Los Angeles county, and a genial, companionable and able man."

TO OUR OLD CONTRIBUTORS.

This JOURNAL is the successor, educationally and in a literary point of view, of both the old Pacific School Journal and the California Teacher. In regularity of issue and care in business management we intend to excel either of those now extinct publications. We hope, however, that we have fallen heir to the many able contributors whose papers have for so many years past lent interest and educational value to their pages. We need articles on new methods of teaching, devices for presenting the daily work of the school room in a novel and attractive guise, discussion of the educational questions constantly occurring in practical work and ever new.

Let us hear from Charles M. Drake, who never writes without saying something that is entertaining and instructive; from Professor W. W. Anderson, whose success in the Sacramento High School is a fitting continuation of his career in Santa Cruz and Berkeley; from C. B. Towle, of Vallejo; Ira More and C. J. Platt, of Los Angeles ; Professor Allen, C. W. Childs, Miss Norton, Mrs. Field, of San Jose; Professors Mann and Volney Rattan, D. C. Stone, Mrs. Griffith, Miss Fowler, of San Francisco-all of whom, and a host of others, are needed now to aid their juniors in the educational revival that is sweeping over the community.

The people are awaking to the fact that, while our schools are good, they may readily be made better. Through their representatives in the Legislature, they have appropriated more money than ever before for their support. Let teachers now do their part, and let the leaders among us-those to whom all look for guidance, for counsel, for the right ways—let these be active and intelligent, and California will immediately experience the same "boom" in her schools that she is now feeling in all her agricultural and industrial interests. The JOURNAL is quick to respond to the electric touch of prosperity and progress that now permeates our entire western slope. Let our schools enjoy the influences of the same reviving and quickening breath.

SUPERINTENDENT FRED. M. CAMPBELL'S ADDRESS.

It may be of interest to our readers to know a few of the points in Superintendent Campbell's able address before the Department of Superintendence, in Washington, on March 15:

He reviewed at length the history of educational work in California, from the time of

the settlement of the country, describing the difficulties in the way of progress in early days, when all comers regarded finished education as something to be obtained only in older institutions on the Atlantic coast, down to the present time, when California gives as good an education to her youth as can be obtained elsewhere on the globe. His description of the State University at Berkeley, its curriculum and purposes, was a revelation to the Convention. He said this institution comes nearer to the industrial pursuits of the people of California than any other establishment of learning in the United States. The University, so far as mineralogical and geological education is concerned, he described as the Freidberg of America.

Mr. Campbell gave the Convention a description of the normal, high and common school systems of California, showing the amount of money appropriated for educational purposes in the State.

In the matter of elementary education he paid a high tribute to the services rendered by Mrs. Leland Stanford and Miss Hattie Crocker, and astonished the Convention by telling the delegates that Mrs. Stanford alone supported kindergartens giving rudimentary instruction to over six hundred children. San Francisco, he said, was the third city in the Union in the matter of kindergarten education. He gave the history of the donations by Lick, Sutro. and Stanford for educational purposes on this coast, and gave as his opinion that California was better adapted to the study of natural sciences than any other State in the Union. Senator Stanford's gifts to the State for educational purposes, he believed, would aggregate $30,000,000.

The Convention was interested in Mr. Campbell's description of the founding of orphan asylums, schools for deaf and dumb and blind, and the establishment of public and private libraries, scientific societies, etc.

THE JOURNAL AS A HELP TO TEACHERS.

To make the JOURNAL what it should be is the earnest desire of its conductors. They know what is demanded of such a periodical. It must have articles on the theory of education, but such articles should not be purely theoretical, but everyday work-an actual record of what a good, experienced teacher does and says, how he calls a new class together, how he deals with the refractory, in what manner he instructs the dull-these are the questions of ever living interest, for which the young look into our pages. Little devices for making uninteresting topics more inviting, how to teach children to study, to investigate for themselves, will be of service to all teachers, old and young. It rests with our fellow-workers in education to decide how much or how little the JOURNAL shall do of this service. We ask the help of all. The Superintendents of our schools, especially, are looked to for advice and aid. Let them encourage their best teachers to communicate with us, and let them begin this work by leading the way.

SUPERINTENDENT CAMPBELL'S VISIT EAST.

As noted in our pages last month, Superintendent F. M. Campbell of Oakland has spent the four weeks of March among his old friends in New York, and in attendance on the sessions of the National Department of Superintendence at Washington. From telegraphic dispatches in the daily papers we learn that Superintendent Campbell's address before the Superintendents assembled in Washington, was a remarkably able production, and made a deep impression favorable to the educational condition of our State. On the conclusion of the address, Mr. Campbell was the recipient of general congratulations. On the following day he was introduced to President Cleveland, who displayed considerable knowledge of the school system of California, and who appeared much interested in Mr. Campbell's statements and opinions on educational matters.

prominent among the educators, and his reputation for ability is fully equal to his very high standing as a citizen, and long after he has laid down life's burden of work and gone to his reward, the Denman School will stand a monument to his memory. Judge Lawrence Archer is one of the leading men of California. Singularly pure in public life-an eloquent, able and reliable friend of popular rights at all times, with a career never touched by the breath of suspicion-he is also notable for his uprightness and success in a long business career, as well as for the urbanity and suavity which mark his intercourse with all who are fortunate enough to meet him. T. Ellard Beans is a successful and wealthy banker of San Jose, whose high standing in that cultured community bears testimony to his elevation of character. Ralph Lowe of New Almaden is another successful and prominent business man, whose labors have brought him a competency, and who bears the reputation of an upright, honorable and able man. Professor Allen, Principal of the Normal School at San Jose, the parent institution, would find it difficult to find any spot in California where his high reputation has not preceded him. A lifelong laborer in the higher walks of professional work, he has builded up a name for learning, zeal and professional integrity which will be the proudest legacy he can leave his children. General John R. Brierly is Assemblyman from Los Angeles county, and a genial, companionable and able man."

TO OUR OLD CONTRIBUTORS.

This JOURNAL is the successor, educationally and in a literary point of view, of both the old Pacific School Journal and the California Teacher. In regularity of issue and care in business management we intend to excel either of those now extinct publications. We hope, however, that we have fallen heir to the many able contributors whose papers have for so many years past lent interest and educational value to their pages. We need articles on new methods of teaching, devices for presenting the daily work of the school room in a novel and attractive guise, discussion of the educational questions constantly occurring in practical work and ever new.

Let us hear from Charles M. Drake, who never writes without saying something that is entertaining and instructive; from Professor W. W. Anderson, whose success in the Sacramento High School is a fitting continuation of his career in Santa Cruz and Berkeley; from C. B. Towle, of Vallejo; Ira More and C. J. Platt, of Los Angeles; Professor Allen, C. W. Childs, Miss Norton, Mrs. Field, of San Jose; Professors Mann and Volney Rattan, D. C. Stone, Mrs. Griffith, Miss Fowler, of San Francisco-all of whom, and a host of others, are needed now to aid their juniors in the educational revival that is sweeping over the community.

The people are awaking to the fact that, while our schools are good, they may readily be made better. Through their representatives in the Legislature, they have appropriated more money than ever before for their support. Let teachers now do their part, and let the leaders among us-those to whom all look for guidance, for counsel, for the right ways-let these be active and intelligent, and California will immediately experience the same "boom" in her schools that she is now feeling in all her agricultural and industrial interests. The JOURNAL is quick to respond to the electric touch of prosperity and progress that now permeates our entire western slope. Let our schools enjoy the influences of the same reviving and quickening breath.

SUPERINTENDENT FRED. M. CAMPBELL'S ADDRESS.

It may be of interest to our readers to know a few of the points in Superintendent Campbell's able address before the Department of Superintendence, in Washington, on March 15:

He reviewed at length the history of educational work in California, from the time of

the settlement of the country, describing the difficulties in the way of progress in early days, when all comers regarded finished education as something to be obtained only in older institutions on the Atlantic coast, down to the present time, when California gives as good an education to her youth as can be obtained elsewhere on the globe. His description of the State University at Berkeley, its curriculum and purposes, was a revelation to the Convention. He said this institution comes nearer to the industrial pursuits of the people of California than any other establishment of learning in the United States. The University, so far as mineralogical and geological education is concerned, he described as the Freidberg of America.

Mr. Campbell gave the Convention a description of the normal, high and common school systems of California, showing the amount of money appropriated for educational purposes in the State.

In the matter of elementary education he paid a high tribute to the services rendered by Mrs. Leland Stanford and Miss Hattie Crocker, and astonished the Convention by telling the delegates that Mrs. Stanford alone supported kindergartens giving rudimentary instruction to over six hundred children. San Francisco, he said, was the third city in the Union in the matter of kindergarten education. He gave the history of the donations by Lick, Sutro. and Stanford for educational purposes on this coast, and gave as his opinion that California was better adapted to the study of natural sciences than any other State in the Union. Senator Stanford's gifts to the State for educational purposes, he believed, would aggregate $30,000,000.

The Convention was interested in Mr. Campbell's description of the founding of orphan asylums, schools for deaf and dumb and blind, and the establishment of public and private libraries, scientific societies, etc.

THE JOURNAL AS A HELP TO TEACHERS.

To make the JOURNAL what it should be is the earnest desire of its conductors. They know what is demanded of such a periodical. It must have articles on the theory of education, but such articles should not be purely theoretical, but everyday work—an actual record of what a good, experienced teacher does and says, how he calls a new class together, how he deals with the refractory, in what manner he instructs the dull-these are the questions of ever living interest, for which the young look into our pages. Little devices for making uninteresting topics more inviting, how to teach children to study, to investigate for themselves, will be of service to all teachers, old and young. It rests with our fellow-workers in education to decide how much or how little the JOURNAL shall do of this service. We ask the help of all. The Superintendents of our schools, especially, are looked to for advice and aid. Let them encourage their best teachers to communicate with us, and let them begin this work by leading the way.

SUPERINTENDENT CAMPBELL'S VISIT EAST.

As noted in our pages last month, Superintendent F. M. Campbell of Oakland has spent the four weeks of March among his old friends in New York, and in attendance on the sessions of the National Department of Superintendence at Washington. From telegraphic dispatches in the daily papers we learn that Superintendent Campbell's address before the Superintendents assembled in Washington, was a remarkably able production, and made a deep impression favorable to the educational condition of our State. On the conclusion of the address, Mr. Campbell was the recipient of general congratulations. On the following day he was introduced to President Cleveland, who displayed considerable knowledge of the school system of California, and who appeared much interested in Mr. Campbell's statements and opinions on educational matters.