Jersey City has adopted an elaborate school construction program at an estimated cost of about five million dollars. The plan provides for an elementary school to replace two old schools and three junior high schools. The plans have already been prepared and the work will be started at once.

The superintendent of schools at Austin, Minnesota, a city whose population is about 10,000, has received nearly 800 applications for positions to teach in those schools. Supt. Neveln declares that the total number of applications will probably exceed 1000 before the end of the school year.

William H. Meck, Principal of Stivers high school, Dayton, Ohio, one of the best known educators in Ohio, died April 23. Supt. Stetson, of the Dayton schools, said: "Mr. Meck was a most valuable asset to the Dayton school system, and no man has ever worked with greater sincerity for the education and welfare of humanity than did Mr. Meck." Mr. Meck began his activities in the Dayton schools in 1895 as an instructor in a high school. He was a firm believer in the three-fold education, namely, physical, mental, and spiritual. These principles were in Mr. Meck's estimation the cardinal virtues of success, and it was to them that he attributed his achievements. He earned a master's degree at Miami University and a degree in law at the University of Michigan. He served three years in the Ohio Senate, and he was a member of the state board of examiners for ten years, the longest term of service for any man in the state. At the time of his death he was a member of the city board of school examiners. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a thirty-second degree Mason.

G. Holmquist was recently re-elected superintendent of schools at Warren, Minn.

Professor James C. Miller, school of Education, Indiana University, has resigned to accept a position in the school of education, University of Pennsylvania.

The Kansas Legislature made the following appropriations for state schools: $15,000 a year for increased salaries to Pittsburg Teachers College; $250,000 for a new library and $200,000 for a woman's dormitory to the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan; $60,000 for the stack of its new library and $250,000 for an auditorium to the University of Kansas; a new music hall to cost $150,000 to the Emporia Teachers College; a $150,000 library to Pittsburg Teachers College; and a $120,000 library to Hays Teachers College.

Supt. D. E. Cloyd, Huron, S. D., has accepted the professorship of education and English in Sioux Falls College. The withdrawal of Supt. Cloyd from the superintendency of the Huron schools will be regretted by the citizens of that city. Supt. Cloyd is one of the most progressive school men in the Northwest, and Sioux Falls College is to be congratulated upon securing his services for the important departments to which he has been called.

J. W. FRENCH

SUPT. J. W. FRENCH, Winfield, Kan., was recently elected principal of the senior high school, Lincoln, Nebr. His salary will be $4,800 the first year and $5000 thereafter. Mr. French has had a somewhat distinguished career as a student and public school official. He was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1912, and he earned a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has always been prominently identified, since his university days began, with athletics. He was secretary of the Kansas State High School Athletic Association for three years while he was principal of the junior-senior high school at Winfield. He was promoted to the superintendency of the Winfield schools in 1923. He is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa honorary educational fraternity, the Kansas Schoolmasters' Club, and the Rotary. He has written some distinctive articles which pertain to adminisration of high school affairs. During the present summer he will serve as an instructor in the southern branch of the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. French is one of the most progressive public school men of the Middle West, and Lincoln is to be congratulated upon securing his services as principal of its big senior high school.

Dr. Frederick Bogan, chairman of the Boston school committee, and Supt. Jeremiah E. Burke, have asked the legislature for $1,394,000 to increase the salaries of 4000 teachers for the next five years.

Professor Lawrence A. Sharp, University of Colorado, has been appointed director of the summer schools to be held this summer at Glenwood, Fort Lewis, and Lamar, Colorado.

Beginning next fall, Ohio will have a state commissioner of school athletics who will have general supervision over high school athletics.

The University of Minnesota will have the greatest commencement exercise in its history

in the new memorial stadium on June 15. Governor Theodore Christianson, an alumnus of the university, will be the principal speaker. Personal invitations will be sent to every one of the 17,500 alumni on the lists of the association. A general invitation will be extended to stadium subscribers and friends of the university everywhere. Each member of the graduating class will be permitted to send out ten invitations. An attendance of 10,000 is anticipated which will be three times as many persons as ever saw a University of Minnesota class graduated. The seating capacity of the stadium is nearly 55,000.

R. H. Wollin has been re-elected principal of the Custer County, Montana, high school at an annual salary of $3,600 which is an increase of $200. All of the teachers in this school have been retained with an increase of $50 a year. The coach, Roy McLeod receives an increase of $200.

Harvey L. Freeland has been appointed state supervisor of trade and industrial education, Nebraska. He will succeed L. A. Hartley who becomes educational director of the National Founders Association. Mr. Freeland has been state director of trade and industrial education in Iowa during the past four years. He received an academic degree from the University of Illinois and a degree in law at the University of Minnesota. During the war he was a machinist in a munitions plant. He will enter upon his new duties July 1 and will live in Lincoln.

Dr. Carl C. Engberg, who has been executive dean of the University of Nebraska since 1913, has resigned his deanship and will be continued in the faculty as professor of mathematics beginning September 1, 1926.

Dr. William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minnesota, was recently re-appointed by Governor Christianson to membership in the state board of university regents. Dr. Mayo has been a member of that board for many years.

Supt. E. E. Cortright, Bridgeport, Conn., has accepted the position of assistant professor in the school of education, New York University.

Supt. D. S. Brainard, Fairmont, Minnesota, was recently elected superintendent of schools at Crookston in that state. The Fairmont board of education promptly increased Mr. Brainard's salary $500 and gave him a twoyear contract.

Professor W. W. Black, school of education, Indiana University, has resigned and will study problems in educational and social fields. He has been named professor emeritus in education.

Kansas has taken the control of state schools from the state board of administration and placed it in the hands of a board of regents to be appointed by the governor. There will be nine members of the board who will serve without pay. An assistant state business manager will act as secretary to the board, and the state treasurer as treasurer.

J. Orin Powers, University of Minnesota, has been appointed assistant professor of

education in teachers college, George Washington University, to succeed James B. Sullivan who goes to William Jewell College.

Adolph S. Ochs, owner and publisher of the New York Times and of the Chattanooga Times, has given the University of Chattanooga $50,000 for the endowment of a professorship in city government.

At the last session of the Arizona Legislature a bill was passed which changes the name of the state normal schools to state teachers colleges. The bill, which has been signed by the governor, authorizes the board of directors of the two normal schools to maintain a training course of four years and to grant the degree of bachelor of education. The movement to make the change was started by the Alumni Association of the Normal School at Tempe. This normal school was established nearly 40 years ago and is the oldest educational institution in the state. The campus comprises 30 acres of ground, and there are 14 buildings. Dr. A. J. Matthews is president of the Tempe institution and L. B. McMullen is president of the school at Flagstaff.

An actual "Back to the Farm" movement took place on March 14, when the Wisconsin college of agriculture graduated its short course class. More than 75 young men, representing 35 Wisconsin counties and one in Illinois returned to farms. Of this number, 95 per cent returned to their home farms. The others will take up the duties of herdsmen, foremen on farms, and work with cow testing associations.

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Professor N. A. Crawford, formerly director of the department of journalism, Kansas State Agricultural College, is now secretary to Dr. William Jardine, secretary of agriculture. He assumed his new duties May 1.

The Chicago school budget for the ensuing year amounts to $66,112,823.75. Funds are alloted in five groups as follows: Educational fund, $41,302,012.07; building fund, $22,711,442; free textbook fund, $851,987; school playground fund, $636, 815; teachers pension fund, $610,567.68.

Columbia University is planning to take care of 15,000 students at the summer session. More than 1000 courses will be offered, which will cover almost every phase of educational endeavor and professional procedure. The session will open July 6 and close August 14.

Dean C. R. Melcher, University of Kentucky, was chosen president of the National Conference of Deans of Men at the recent convention held at the University of North Carolina. The University of Minnesota was selected as the next meeting place.

Supt. Arnold Gloor, New Ulm, Minn., has resigned his position to accept the superintendency of schools at Crookston.

C. E. Germane, dean of the college of education, Des Moines University, for the last five years, has accepted a professorship in elementary education in the University of Missouri.

Joseph M. Sheehan has been elected associate superintendent of schools in New York City at a salary of $8,250 a year. Five members of the board of education voted for Mr. Sheehan, while three, including George J. Ryan, president of the board, did not vote.

David Jones, principal of the High School at Eugene, Ore., has been promoted to the superintendency of that city.

Supt. Ira L. Plummer, Forsyth, Montana, has been re-elected for a three-year term.

Miss Dorsie Fisher of South High School, Columbus, has been selected chairman of the Ohio division of a three-year study of modern languages which is supported by the Carnegie Corporation.

The St. Cloud, Minnesota, board of education published a book on "Reading in the St. Cloud Public Schools." The book was written by Mrs. Ruth Ewing Hilpert. The first edition of 2000 copies is sold out, and the second edition of 700 copies has been disposed of. Orders for the book were received from many foreign countries.

The swimming pool of the new $400,000 gymnasium, Carnegie Institute, is said to be one of the largest in American colleges. It

SAMUEL AVERY, Ph. D., LL.D. CHANCELLOR SAMUEL AVERY, University of Nebraska, will retire from the chancellorship August 31, 1928. The board of regents accepted Chancellor Avery's resignation and granted him a year's leave of absence during which time he plans to take a trip around the world. Dr. Avery has served as chancellor since 1908. He is a graduate of Doane College, University of Nebraska, and Heidelberg University, Germany. He is a specialist in chemistry and was professor of chemistry in the University of Nebraska when he was called to the chancellorship. During the World War Chancellor Avery was a member of the National Research Council and a member in the Chemical Warfare Service. Dr. Avery has the undivided support of the board of regents and enjoys the confidence and esteem of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. At the close of his chancellorship Dr. Avery will become chancellor emeritus and professor in the University of Nebraska.

measures 75 feet by 35 feet and has a capacity of 130,000 gallons. It will be opened to summer students, and a swimming instructor will be in attendance daily. The Carnegie Tech Summer Session will open on June 15 for eight weeks' courses for undergraduates and on June 29 for six weeks' courses for teachers and supervisors of public school music, fine and applied art, manual and industrial arts, and psychology and education.

The sixth annual observance of "Public Schools Week" by the Masonic lodges of California occurred May 11-15. All the meetings, so far as practicable, were public and held in the auditoriums of public schools. The primary reason of this enterprise was "to afford the public in general and parents of school children in particular an opportunity to become informed and advised of the real condition of public schools with particular ref

erence to some phases of the public school system that have been widely discussed and frequently criticized."

At the recent meeting of the Nebraska Schoolmasters Club, Supt. C. Ray Gates of Grand Island, was elected president. Other officers elected were Supt. George E. De Wolf, secretary-treasurer; Supt. M. C. Lefler, delegate to N. E. A. meeting at Indianapolis; Membership Committee: W. G. Brooks, York; Dr. W. E. Sealock, University of Nebraska ; A. H. Waterhouse, Fremont; and W. R. Pate, Peru Normal School.

The state teachers college board of Minnesota recently adopted a four-year curriculum, and the colleges are authorized to offer courses in that curriculum for the ensuing year so far as their finances will permit. The degree, bachelor of education, will be granted to students who complete the four years of work. It is reported that not more than three of the six teachers colleges will undertake this work during the coming year. These colleges are at Winona, Moorhead, and Duluth. The college at Duluth is especially fortunate in that strong demands are made upon it for advanced work owing to the fact that many of the teachers in the Duluth public schools are eager to secure advanced professional training. A teacher in the Duluth schools is assured of an annual increase in salary for each additional year of preparation beyond graduation from the usual two year course of study in a normal school. Last year about 75 students took advanced courses in the Duluth College. There have been upwards of 25 taking such work during the present school year. As time goes on the Duluth Teachers College should become an institution of distinctive importance from a collegiate point of view.

Ross M. Young, principal of the John Marshall high school, Minneapolis, was elected superintendent at Superior, Wis. His salary was to be $6,500. The patrons of the John Marshall high school made appeal to the Minneapolis board of education to retain Mr. Young. Under the provisions of the salary schedule the board of education could not increase Mr. Young's salary to meet the offer made to him by Superior. Mr. Young finally decided to remain in Minneapolis although he reduces his own salary $2,500. He has had an extended and successful experience in public school work and is one of the coming men of the Northwest.

The distinguished superintendent of the Chicago schools, William McAndrew, gave the principal address before the Nebraska Schoolmasters' Club at the Omaha meeting. His thoughts about "service" as it should be interpreted to children in the public schools were developed in a notably artistic address.

Dr. Ernest Ashton Smith, superintendent of schools, Evanston, Ill., since 1920 has been elected president of La Crosse, Wis., Normal School, to succeed F. A. Cotton. J. R. Skiles, assistant superintendent, has been elected to succeed Dr. Smith at Evanston.