At the recent meeting of the Texas State Teachers Association, the following persons had prominent places in the program: Dr. Arthur Dean, Columbia University; Dr. F. J. Kelly, University of Minnesota; Dr. George A. Works, Cornell University; President Charles McKenney, Teachers College, Ypsilanti; and Dr. E. R. A. Seligman, Columbia University.

The registration at the state normal schools in New York is as follows: Buffalo, 1019; Cortland, 460; Potsdam, 403; New Paltz, 401; Oswego, 391; Oneonta, 389; Geneseo, 381; Fredonia, 315; Plattsburg, 295; Brockport, 142. The largest entering classes are at Buffalo, Cortland, and Oneonta, the numbers being 303, 245, and 190, respectively.

There are 8000 different items of stock carried in the board of education warehouse in Cleveland. This public school warehouse is said to be one of the most complete plants of its kind in the country.

There are about 600 teachers out on maternity leave in New York City, according to the records. Such absence is compulsory for two

years.

The state of Arizona is apportioning, this year, about $29 per capita, on the basis of attendance, to the schools of the state.

Kathleen Hern has been principal of the Aurora, Nebraska, schools for the past twentyfive years. The little town is now raising

$1000 to pay her expenses to England next year so that she may visit her old home.

The state normal school at Tempe, Arizona, has an increase of attendance of 36 per cent over last year, and the normal school at Flagstaff has an attendance of upwards of 700.

The hundreth anniversary of the historical society of Pennsylvania was celebrated at its recent meeting in Philadelphia. More than 2500 invitations were issued to persons prominent in education, art, and other activities. The president of the society, Hampton L. Carson, spoke of the purposes of the society and its accomplishments. A centennial fund of $50,000 was raised by subscription from its members to meet increased expenses.

The eightieth birthday of the state college for teachers at Albany, New York, was recently observed by breaking ground for a $1,000,000 addition to its present building plan. This institution was started as an experiment in 1844. It was the first training school for teachers in New York and the third in the country. It was authorized by Governor De Witt Clinton in 1826.

Grand Island, Nebraska, will soon have a new $400,000 building ready for occupancy. An extended building program is under way in Louisiana. Contracts have already been let which involve an expenditure of nearly $400,000.

The state of West Virginia has a surplus of high school teachers this year for the first time in a number of years.

The state normal school at Chadron, Nebraska, has published a hand-book which contains information pertaining to political parties and candidates. New York City will spend $160,000,000 to erect 192 schools.

Tucson, Arizona, recently dedicated a new high school which costs $750,000. C. E. Rose is superintendent of schools and O. W. Patterson is principal of the high school. Mr. Rose has been in charge of the schools for four years, and during that time great advancement has been made. The new building is complete in all details. The big gymnasium is divided by a folding partition into two sections one being for the girls and the other for the boys. A cafeteria has accommodations to serve 350 people at one time. The walls of the music room are padded. The manual training and military training rooms are in the basement. President Marvin of the State University gave the principal address at the time of the dedication of the building.

It has been announced that Ethen Allen Shaw, who has been professor of mathematics at Norwich University for 25 years, will resign at the close of the present semester. He will devote his time to a large fruit farm which he purchased recently at Somers, Con. necticut.

The Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation announces that a limited number of American graduate fellowships for study in Belgium during the academic year 1925-26 will be awarded by April 1, 1925. These fellowships were established to commemorate the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium during the Great War and to promote closer relations and the exchange of intellectual ideas between Belgium and America. A candidate for a fellowship to be eligble: Must be an American citi zen; Must have a thorough speaking and reading knowledge of French; Must be a graduate, at time of application, of a college or professional school of recognized standing in the United States. (If a member of the faculty of a college or university, the candidate must hold a grade below that of associate professor); Must be capable of independent study or research; Must be in good

health.

Norton, Kansas, Community High School has a new $20,000 gymnasiumauditorium which will seat approximately fourteen hundred people.

Professor Harold G. Lawrence, Huron College, South Dakota, has been given a year's leave of absence for university study. During this time he will write a biography of his father, the late Marion Lawrence.

F. L. Tibbetts, who has been engaged in governmental work at San Antonio, Texas, has been elected professor of Psychology and education at Tulsa, Oklahoma, University.

An "Air College" was opened this fall by the New York University. Systematized education by radio is its particular object. Professional broadcasters will lecture every week-day evening until December 23. A holiday vacation will then follow with a resumption of work after New Year's day. The term's work is in eight subjects. Fifty-four twenty-minute lectures will be broadcasted. The work is under the direction of M. S. Brown, dean of the faculties.

Mrs. A. B. Carrier, Orlando, Florida, has accepted the position of primary supervisor of the schools of St. Augustine. Mrs. Carrier is said to be one of the best informed primary teachers in Florida.

The Reverend James Duane, professor of theology and philosophy at Fordham University, has been appointed president of that institution to succeed the Reverend Edward P. Tivnan.

M. Paul Laumont, University of Bordeaux, is visiting teacher of French literature at Columbia University. His principal course is for graduate stu

ture.

dents of French civilization and literaProfessor Albert E. Pollard, University of London, will occupy the British-American chair at Barnard as visiting professor.

Assistant Superintendent Ray Latham, Duluth, Minnesota, has been appointed professor of elementary education in Ohio University.

Professor Theodore F. Collier, department of history and international relations, Brown University, has been granted a year's leave of absence to lecture on history at Constantinople Women's College.

of the teachers of Virginia attended It is estimated that sixty-five per cent summer session at institutions of higher learning last summer.

Forty-five school buildings for negroes were built in Virginia during the past year. The funds for these buildings came from the following sources: The Rosenwald Fund, $34,700; from negroes, $59,400; from the state $110,460; from white people, $2350. This makes a total expenditure of $206,950 for the past year.

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If you attend the meeting of the "Department of Superintendence" in Cincinnati, Feb. 22-26, come to see us at our Booth, No. 104.

The annual report of the superintendent of the schools of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, shows that teachers' salaries are as follows: Graduates of state nor

mal schools with two years' experience, first year, $125 a month; other teachers in grades 1 to 6, $135; seventh and eighth grade teachers, $140; high school teachers, $155; special teachers, $155 to $200.

In a mass meeting, held July 24, 1924, the alumni of the State Teachers College, Kearney, Nebraska, began campaign for the installation of a $10,000 pipe organ in the auditorium in memory of the late Mrs. Harriett Sutton. Over $600 was raised at the meeting.

Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Michigan, offers a new fouryear course in the department of manual

along with courses in French, English and Latin. All of this work, it is announced, will count as regular credit toward a degree of bachelor of arts. Mrs. Clara E. Brakey, who has charge of the work, declares that this recognition of the art of keeping house will result in a "back to the home" movement by young people when they discover that house work can be made attractive and even fascinating.

Supt. F. C. Marks, Sabeta, Kansas, who is beginning his fifth year as superintendent in that town, has been reelected for two years at an increase in salary.

Classen High School, Oklahoma City, will have the largest high school stage in the United States, when it is finished. It will seat 1000 students without crowd

the city and will cost, approximately, $1,000,000.

Medford, Massachusetts, has a new Two more are to be built soon, the three junior high school costing $410,000.

to cost $1,000,000.

Harry L. Durham, superintendent of schools at Whitewright, Texas, has been elected president of Burleson College, Texas, to succeed Dr. F. M. McConnell.

The honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred on Charles E. Hughes, secretary of state of the United States by the University of the State of New York.

Dr. U. G. Dubach, professor of political science, has been appointed dean of men at the Oregon Agricultural Col

Science.

There are about 5000 teachers employed in Cleveland's public schools. Nearly 400 of this number were new comers this year. In a recent address to the teachers, Superintendent R. G. Jones said: “Our ideal is to be as good as the best, to be worthy of the confidence of our city, and to do our fair share in supporting a high mark for Be public education country-wide. happy in your work and grow, grow, grow. There is no larger field and no greater work."

A $20,000 radio broadcasting station is to be erected at Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan. With the University of Kansas building a similar station, the state is claiming first place in broadcasting stations in state institutions.

A selected list of "Periodicals for the Small Library" has been prepared by the librarian of the University of Minnesota and published by the American Library Association, Chicago, (cloth 75 cents).

Passing events leave such an impress on the English language that in another 50 years lexicographers will be unable to present more than the words of a limited period, according to Dr. W. A. Craigie of Oxford University in a lecture at the University of Michigan. New words are being added so rapidly that the list is becoming unwieldy. Almost 400,000 words have been used in the development of the language thus far.

It will cost the city of New York $4,749,649 next year to finance the teachers' retirement system, according to the budget estimate for the year 1925, which was recenly adopted by the teachers' retirement board in that city.

New York University is offering work in cooking, cleaning, and home nursing,

school. There will be seats for 2000 in the auditorium.

G. E. Ruddell, printing instructor of Central High School, Evansville, Indiana, says that the print shop pays the school an average of over $5000 a year. The shop prints all of the enrollment cards, booklets, pamphlets and other forms necessary to run the school.

School district No. 1, town of Walton, Delaware County, New York, has voted an appropriation of $300 to purchase land to start a school forest.

C. James, secretary of the Educational Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, has been elected president of Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky.

It is said that 70 per cent of the teachers of Richland Parish, Louisiana, are college and normal school graduates; that schools are run 172 days; that practically all white children are enrolled; and that the three high schools are in charge of men of excellent training.

Dr. F. E. Shepherd, superintendent of schools, Passaic, New Jersey, has issued a pamphlet describing the scope of the work being done in the Passaic Vocational School.

Cincinnati, at the recent election, voted authority to the board of education to issue bonds for $8,500,000 to cover the cost of new school buildings to be erected within the next eight years. The school bond issue carried by a very large majority, while the vote for city tax money and that for the park bonds was strongly in the negative.

It is announced that a junior high school will be built in Albany, New York, next summer. The building will be located on land already owned by

director of physical education and athletics.

Leon Loyal Winslow, supervisor of art and industrial arts in the New York State Department of Education, has resigned to accept a joint position of director of art in the public schools of Baltimore, and teacher of art education in the Maryland Institute at Balti

more.

Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, has 44 schools for whites and 17 for colored. The parish is said to have housing facilities for 190 white teachers and for all white pupils; for 20 colored teachers and for all colored pupils. One hundred and thirty-nine white and 11 colored teachers have been employed for 1924-5.

Sidney G. Firman, supervising principal of the Glen Ridge, New Jersey, school system since 1910, will resign at the close of the present school year. He stated that he intends to devote all of his time to the preparation of school text-books.

It is announced that the Howland Memorial Prize has been awarded to Gustav Holst. This is the third award of the prize which, in the fields of literature, the fine arts, the government, may be compared with the Nobel Prize for scientific achievement. This prize was first awarded in 1916 to the late Rupert Brooke, and in 1918 to Jean Julian Lemordant, the French artist. Gustav Holst was born in 1874 in England. He has had a constructive influence on the younger generation of composers. He is now a teacher of music at St. Paul's Girls Schools, Brookgreen, at Morley College, and at the Royal College of Music, South Kensington, England.