EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. May 8, 9, 10: Eastern Art and Manual Training Teachers' Association annual meeting, Baltimore, Md.; president, C. Valentine Kirby, Buffalo, N. Y. Copy TEMS of educational news to be inserted under this heading are solicited from school authorities in every state in the Union. To be available, these contributions should be short and comprehensive. should be received not later than the fifteenth June 12-19: Thirty-ninth conference of the month. MEETINGS TO BE HELD. March 8, 9: Southern Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Madison; president, Superintendent Clough of Portage. March 13, 14, 15: Central California Teachers' Association, Fresno. March 14, 15, 16: Northeastern Minnesota Association, Duluth. March 19-22: Music Supervisors' National Conference, Planters Hotel, St. Louis; president, C. A. Fullerton, Cedar Falls, Iowa. March 22, 23: North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools,. Chicago; secretary, Thomas Arkle Clark. March 27, 28, 29: West Central Nebraska Educational Association, Kearney; president, L. A. Quivey, Cozad. March 27, 28, 29: Central Nebraska Teachers' Association, Aurora; president, Roy E. Cochran, Kear ney. March 27, 28, 29: Southeastern Ne- March 27-29: Southwestern Nebraska of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, Cleveland, O.; Alexander Johnson, Angola, Ind., general secretary. June 24, 25, 26, 27: Catholic Educa tional Association ninth annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa.; secretary-general, Rev. Francis W. Howard, Columbus, Ohio. June 25, 26, 27: Kentucky Educational Association, Louisville. July 2-5: American Institute of Instruction, North Conway, N. H.; president, C. T. C. Whitcomb, Brockton, Mass.; secretary, Wendell A. Mowry, Central Falls, R. 1. NEW ENGLAND STATES. MAINE. Maine has been making notable strides in education since the election of Payson Smith as state superintendent. The teachers the state over have been adsalaries of women vanced on the average $60 a year in three years. Teachers are much more scholarly and professional. ST. ALBANS. state is justly proud of the part she The Pine Tree plays in the world outside. This quiet little town boasts of her influence in Rhode Island. Irving O. sociation of South Carolina; sec- Winslow, assistant superintendent of retary, W. H. Jones, Columbia. Providence, a native of this town, March 28, 29, 30: East Central Ne- was sent from this county-Somerset braska Teachers' Association, Fre--to the state senate, where he was mont; Mrs. E. B. Williams, chairman of the legislative committee Wahoo, secretary. on education. A brilliant political March 29-30: Annual meeting Wis- career was prophesied for him when consin City Superintendents and he went to Providence into school Supervising Principals, Hotel Pfis- work. ter, Milwaukee; president, Superintendent B. E. Nelson, Racine. April 3, 4, 5, 6: Spokane (Wash.) Inland Empire Association; president, C. A. Duniway, Missoula, Mont. April 3, 4, 5: Southern Educational president, D. R. Murphy. April 5, 6: Northwest Nebraska Teachers' Association, Chadron; president, Superintendent H. H. Reimund, Crawford. April 4, 5, 6: North Platte Valley (Nebraska) Teachers' Association, Bridgeport; president, Superintendent W. L. Greenslit, Scottsbluff. April 19, 20: Central Missouri Association, Warrensburg, Mo.; secretary, T. R. Luckett, Sedalia. April 26: Annual meeting of Fairfield County Teachers' Association, Bridgeport, Conn.; president, William B. Kelsey. May 2, 3, 4: Mississippi Teachers' Association, Gulfport; president, Dr. D. C. Hall. MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON. The Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, to the number of nearly 100, met at the City Club recently with Superintendent Stratton D. Brooks presiding. President Murlin of Boston University made a courageous comparison of higher education in the West and the East, the conclusion of the whole matter being that the pace of the last fifteen years in the West, if maintained, will cause the universities of the East to broaden their vision and intensify their activity. Superintendent James H. Van Sickle in his first appearance before the club gave quiet presentation of the most progressive ideals in regard to the duty of the school to the exceptionally bright boys and girls. a The morning session of the Massachusetts Superintendents' Association meeting here recently was a most illuminating demonstration of tion in Massachusetts is loosening up. the way in which school administraEach of the seven speakers gave a graphic exposition of the transformation in his city from the traditional iron-clad system to the latest ways and means of meeting exceptional children. The plan in Newton was pro presented by Principal Samuel B. Paul of the Mason school. Superintendent Clarence H. Dempsey of Malden described their flexible grading and individual promotion lined the new plan in Cambridge. gram. Superintendent Parlin outSuperintendent Nickerson of Medford described the advantages they had derived in Medford from the summer school work of the last two years. In these schools pupils can make up a lost grade, and ambitious pupils can advance an extra grade by summer work. Superintendent Clark of Somerville told how the difficulties which are always met in establishing the semi-annual promotion system were overcome in Somerville. Superintendent Van Sickle of Springfield outlined the provisions for exceptional children in his city. In the afternoon Ernst Hermann, director of physical education in Cambridge, gave "a working scheme for physical education in the public schools." The unusually effective work which has been done in the Cambridge schools under his direction has gained wide recognition. He has imported ideas which are bound to make the work of teaching easier, because under his plan children are in fine physical condition, and mental fatigue scarcely finds a place in the exercise are simple and require little schoolroom. His plans for play and expensive preparation, and they prove very practical. For next year the officers of the association President, O. A. Morton of Marlboro; vice-president, Fairfield Whitney of Everett; secretary and treasurer, W. F. Sims of Saugus. are: Boston University is already doing large and admirable things for the teachers of public schools in Boston and vicinity, but even more is to be offered. More courses in music, the drama, and English will be given, and these may, in some instances, count towards a degree. MALDEN. The annual report of the superintendent of schools, C. H. Dempsey, states that there are two half years of review work in the double promotion system as it now stands which may be dropped when the committee is ready to reduce the nine-year elementary term to eight years. Other recommendations of the superintendent are for an assistant teacher in every building of over four rooms to help individual pupils and groups where it is desirable, for two more special classes for retarded and defective children, and for more attention to the vocational side of instruction in manual training, domestic science, applied courses, and special evening classes. FITCHBURG. There was no opposition in the school committee when the question of increasing the maximum salary limit for elementary school teachers came up. The maxi mum was raised from $680 to $720. MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. NEW JERSEY. JERSEY CITY. Miss Cornelia tier House, Jersey City, the largest Bradford, head worker of the Whit social settlement in New Jersey, has been appointed a member of Jersey City's new board of education. She is the city's first woman member of the school board. Other members of the board were appointed as follows: AN ALL-KNOWING SPECIAL TEACHER George G. Tennant, Joseph E. Bernstein, Henry Bornemann, William Gotthardt, Robert M. Brennan, Pat-. rick Flannery, Dr. O. R. Blanchard, and Morris Fox. All excepting Miss Bradford and Mr. Bernstein were members of last year's board. Miss Bradford established the Whittier House settlement eighteen years ago. She had previously been engaged in social settlement work at the Mansfield House, East London, England. When she located in Jersey City she lived in a furnished apartment house for four months, after which she moved into the Whittier House at 174 Grand street. At that time she had a $10 bill and three articles of furniture. The social settlement property now consists of the original Whittier House, a former private mansion, and a fine brick building connected with it. The settlement owns both buildings. Miss Bradford collected $20,000 for the work last winter, and the settlement is free from debt. Every week 2,500 persons visit the Whittier House. There are about fifty clubs and departments connected with the work. The governing board is made up of young men who as boys enjoyed the privileges of the settlement when Miss Bradford established it. NEW YORK. NEW YORK CITY. "Appreciation Day" is an annual holiday for the children in the Washington Irving high school, but not a holiday such as is generally understood by American school children. It is a day when the Washington Irving girls express their thanks to their teachers, superintendents, officers, school commissioners, and friends by inviting them all to a festival. This year it took the form of a pageant of great size and splendor, "Ye Simple Schoolgirl Playe-Rip Van Winkle's Dream." Associate Superintendent Edward B. Shallow has questioned the value of the work done by the Census Bureau and especially the bureau's recommendation of a bill providing that attendance officers should be transferred from the board of education to the Census Bureau-a body in no way officially connected with the board of education-and that a police force also be given the bureau. A school census once in three years should be sufficient, and it would cost but $15,000 each time, according to Associate Superintendent Shallow, who goes on to say in an interview with the New York Sun: "What is the net result of the work of the permanent census board up to date? It has found a few non-attendants and left them where they were found; it has found (mirabile dictu!) a few cripples, a few blind children, a few anaemics, a few negligent parents (and left them in their negligence), a few immigrants careless of their children's education, and reported the names to the attendance officers of the board of education-all of which work could be done better by an adequate force of attendance officers, and it would not cost the city $97,000 additional each year. Since September last-five months-the permanent census board has sent to our officers about 300 cases per month, which shows that the wheels are moving very slowly, and excuses for further existence of the census bureau must be devised." WEST VIRGINIA. FAIRMONT. Fairmont recently voted $140,000 in bonds for the erection of one large ward school building, and for enlarging and modernizing four other buildings. Domestic science was put in the high school last year, and manual training this year. Manual training and domestic science have been installed in the colored school with modern equipment. When the improvements now provided for have been completed this city will have of equipped public school systems in the country. This development has taken place under the administration of Joseph Rosier, who has been superintendent for the past twelve years, and is one of the older superintendents of the state in point of service in one position. one PENNSYLVANIA. His special interest has always been in the grammar grades, but the list of innovations in the other departments in the St. Paul schools under his regime is a long one-the simultaneous construction of four modern high schools at a cost of $1,500,000, construction of many elementary schools to meet adequately the demands of the growing city, installation of modern heating, ventilating, plumbing, cleaning, and drinking apparatus; establishment of a parental school and detention home for chronic truants and delinquents; elementary induspreparing to go to work; part-time trial schools for young boys who are continuation schools on a small scale: thoroughly the best organized vacation schools; school gardens; summer high and grammar schools; medical inspection; school nurses: ungraded rooms; rooms for backward pupils; evening schools;-in fact almost every feature of the modern cosmopolitan school system has been tried under Mr. Heeter's direction. Citizens of Pittsburgh consider themselves fortunate in the choice of thei new superintendent. He will begin his work here on March 1. PITTSBURGH. Edward Rynearson, director of high schools, has gotten together a little manual setting forth the work and activities of the high school. It is an attractive pamphlet, and should prove most useful to parents and pupils in planning school work. The vacancy in the superintendency here has at last been filled by the, election of S. L. Heeter of St. Paul to serve a four-year term at a salary of $9,000 per annum. Mr. Heeter was born in North Manchester, Indiana, in 1870; he graduated from the Indiana Normal school and the University of Chicago, served for twelve years as a grade teacher, high school principal, and superintendent in his home state, was assistant superintendent under C. M. Jordan in Minneapolis for two years, and he is now finishing out his sixth year as superintendent of the St. Paul schools. HAZLETON. The fresh-air school here has been established just a vear. Its success has been complete. Sixty children have been admitted during the year, and twenty have been discharged to re-enter the regular schools. The school is provided by the school district for tuberculosis children because such children are not allowed under the state law to attend regular public schools. The Anti-Tuberculosis Society women have provided the warm outer garments, hot drinks, and porridge, while the state provides milk for children whose parents are too poor to supply it. Superintendent Harman says that through this school the disease is in almost all cases arrested and practically cured. The entire community is interested in the school, and is giving it hearty support. Primary Friday BY S. C. PEABODY A collection of poems written to supply the needs found in the first years of school life. Each poem has its special point or moral. 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An outcome of his plan might be a system of scholarships for deserving children in the grammar and high schools, such as has been proposed in England and in one of the United States. The section on continuation schools of home making offered these resolutions at the last annual meeting of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, which met here last November, and they were unanimously adopted: "Be it resolved that the American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality petition each state board of education to appoint a commission on continuation schools of home making, to consist of men and women technically qualified in home economics, sociology, school administration, and medicine, to TEACHERS' HELP MANUALS Paper, 25 cents each; or 5 copies for $1. 1. Practical Grammar. 500 Exercises. Edited by Seymour Eaton. Fifteenth thousand. Contains over 500 exercises adapted to all grades. 2. Manual of Correspondence. Edited by Seymour Eaton. 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CHARLESTON. Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, superintendent of the training department of the Eastern Illinois State Normal school here and author of the "Social Composition of the Teaching Population," has accepted a lectureship in education at the University of Illinois. He will remain at the normal school for the rest of this year. SPRINGFIELD. A commendable movement was set on foot at the State Teachers' Association meeting held here late in December and a movement which would bring Illinois into line with several other, states. The plan was for a reorganization of the state association so that all the various teachers' associations in the state might be closely bound to gether. The State Association meeting would necessarily be divided up into several sections. 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The last bulletin of the First District Normal school here on the subject of farm and household economics demonstrates the new fields for the activities of normal schools,-education for service it is styled in the bulletin. It is proposed to curtail in this normal school the old courses in botany for botany's sake, in chemistry for chemistry's sake, and in zoology for zool AMERICAN & FOREIGN Teachers' Agencv troduces to colleges, schools, and families, superior Professors, Principals, Assistants, tors, and Governesses, for every department of instruction; recommends good schools to parents. Call on or address MBS. M. J. YOUNG-FULTON, American and Foreign Teachers' Agency, 28 UNION SQ., NEW YORK. ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY ogy's sake. Botany for practical pur- THE ALBERT TEACHERS' AGENCY 623 So. Wabash Av. poses becomes a division of farm and garden crops. Chemistry takes practical form in a study of commercial C. J. 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