DR. JEWELL, of the University of the Pacific, reports subscriptions amounting to $35,000, towards liquidating the $50,000 debt of the University and Napa College.

SINCE our last issue, Miss Carrie Gray, one of the popular teachers of Sutter county, was married to Mr. Klyce, of San Francisco. We saw symptoms of this marriage long ago while we were superintend ent and she teacher.

THE Sutter City Union High School in Sutter county has under under the management of Mr. J. C. Ray, done most excellent work during its existence of two years. It is safe to say that Mr. Ray and Miss Everett will be retained.

MISS MARY J. WATSON, principal of the Sacramento Grammar School, was given a grand reception in the Crocker Art Gallery on the occasion of her retirement after twenty-seven years of service in the public schools of Sacramento.

THE San Francisco school census for 1895 shows a total of 34,085 white boys and 34,516 white girls of public school age, a total gain of 1620 as compared with the census of 1894. There are 323 colored children and 1082 Chinese children of school age.

DR. J. P. WIDNEY, President of the University of Southern California, will resign at the close of the current school year. Dr. Widney has been at the head of the University for three years, and the institution has been very prosperous during his administration.

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THE Board of Trustees of Chico have elected a fine corps teachers for this present year. We are pleased to note the names of several of the Chico graduates. Among them Geo. Harvey, Clara Bennett, Ella Rhinehart, Loraine Stilson and Chas. H. Camper.

WE are in receipt of the program of the "Commencement" exercises of the Bishop Public School of Inyo County. They are doing good work up there From the report given in the local papers, the essays and orations were most excellent, and along the line of progress and culture.

THE San Luis Obispo Board of School Trustees have directed that the promotions of all pupils in all grades, including the High School, shall be determined by the daily work of the schools. At the close of the year, however, the pupils may take the Principal's examnation for promotion from the Eighth to the Ninth grade.

ANOTHER School has been established in Berkeley, the seat of our State University. Prof H. R. Wiley has organized a College Preparatory School, where individual or class instruction may be had by students preparing for any of the college or professional courses. A Normal Department has been added for the benefit of those preparing

to teach.

WE are pleased to receive a copy of the Palo Alto School Gazette, edited and published by the students of the grammar school in Palo Alto. Well written in good English and in most attractive form, it is the first paper published by the students of any grammar school in California. Success to the Gazette!

DURING the nine months that the Preston School of Industry, Ione, has been open, 170 boys have been admitted. The boys are employed on the 320-acre farm, or work at carpentering, tailoring, or shoemaking for four hours each day, and are instructed in a course of study similar to that of our public grammar schools, for four hours more each day.

THE 15th of April, the 30th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, was fittingly observed in Oakland. There was a parade, participated in by civil and fraternal organizations, school children, and many citizens, literary exercises, the dedicating of "Lincoln square" as a memorial to the martyred patriot's name, and the planting of a Lincoln tree by the Lincoln public school. A young Sequoia Gigantea (big tree) was selected and planted in soil contributed from a score of historic spots, such as Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Mt. Vernon, Ft. McHenry, Lincoln's and Grant's tombs, etc.

THE award of the eight scholarships that were established in the State University several years ago by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst is made annually by the faculty. Any school officer of California may recommend candidates. Each scholarship yields $300. These scholarships are open to those young women who find it impossible to obtain a university education without this assistance. Recently, Mrs. Hearst has added four more scholarships, making twelve in all.

SUPERINTENDEnt Moulder, of San Francisco, has induced the Park Commissioners to contribute such flowers, plants and running vines as could be spared to beautify the school grounds, and the result is that many of the school grounds in the city are being laid off in prettily-arranged plats, and planted with rich flowers and shrubs. is strange that in a State noted for its fine flowers this matter of beautifying the school yards should have been so long neglected.

STOCKTON has been growing so rapidly that the people of that enterprising city are awakening to the necessity of erecting more school buildings. The question of bonding the city for $200,000 to erect a new high school building and two new grammar schools is now being agitated. Stockton has the finest court-house and library building in the State, and with her usual enterprise, she now proposes to have the finest high school building. Messis. E. W. S. Woods and S. A. Kitchener, of the Stockton Board of Education, and City Superintendent James A. Barr, were in Oakland a few days ago investigating the heating, ventilating and sanitary system used in the newly erected school buildings. The special election for bonding the city will be called some time during August.

THE

PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL.

Official Organ of the Department of Public Instruction of California.

VOL. XI.

AUGUST, 1895.

CURRENT EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT.

No. 8

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THIS gospel is the divine message that to every human soul belongs an infinite destiny, and that in this infinite destiny for individual man there is involved the inalienable right of every human being to the most favorable conditions possible for the working out of this destiny in his own person to the fullest degree of realization. This, then, is the true guide in the field of education. The pupil must be led to discover the essential, the abiding, the truly universal aspects of the world constituting his environment, and must also be led to see that conformity to this environment in the whole range of its significance, is the condition absolutely indispensable to the extension and enriching of his own individual life.-WM. M. BRYANT.

WE are glad to see the wisdom displayed by our teachers and superintendents in making much of the graduating exercises. The people are interested in these exercises, are open and alert to the best impressions, and such opportunities should be improved to impress patrons and taxpayers with the value of our common school system. The strongest men should be secured to deliver addresses on some practical phase of these educational questions pressing for solution. -American Journal of Education.

To say that our public school is an instrument of immoral collusion is a falsehood, and the man who reads such literature and does not feel wrath stir in him is not worthy of the rights of an American citizen, and has no right to vote. I want to say that there is not a schoolbook in all our public schools which is not calculated to confirm