such publications as Success, Lippincott's, Puck, Judge, Hunter's, Bohemian, Holland's, and The Cosmopolitan. His humorous writings and verses have been widely quoted in the magazines.

H. Y. B.

Frederic Duncalf, newly-elected Tutor in History, was born at Lancaster, Wisconsin, on March 23, 1882. His preparation for college was done in the Lancaster public schools; his collegiate Frederic Duncalf: work at Beloit College, where he was graduated A. B. History in 1904. The years 1904-1906 Mr. Duncalf taught in his native State in the high schools of Lancaster and Dodgeville. In 1906 he entered upon a course of graduate study in the University of Wisconsin, making European History his major subject; and he received the degree of Ph. D. there last spring. During his first year at Wisconsin he was Scholar in European History, and for the next two years he held the post of Assistant in History. Mr. Duncalf took as the subject of his Doctor's dissertation "The Peasants' Crusade." His minor subjects were American Hostory and Political Science.

Miscellaneous
Notes

President Mezes spent his summer vacation in Wisconsin, but took occasion before his return to Austin to visit the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In October he went to New England to be present at the inauguration of President Lowell, of Harvard, and to attend the meeting of the National Association of State Universities. In December he made another trip East, going by way of Charlotte, North Carolina, where he made an address before the Southern Educational Association on "The Training of Workers and Citizens." Later he attended the meeting of the International Student Volunteer Movement at Rochester, New York.

Dean Townes and Judge McLaurin attended the meeting of the American Association of Law Schools at Detroit in August. Dean Townes was elected President of the Association.

Dean Sutton was the representative of the University at the meeting of the National Educational Association at Denver in July. He took part in the discussion of two papers: one, that of President Seerley, of the Iowa State Normal School, on "The Province of the Common People in the Administration of Public Education"; the other, a paper by Professor Slocum, of Colorado College, on "Athletic Organizations."

Professor Garrison, Mr. Ramsdell, and Mr. Worley represented the University at the meeting of the American Historical Association, in New York, during the Christmas holidays. Mr. Ramsdell, while away, stood his examinations for the Doctor's degree at Columbia.

A paper by Professor Callaway on "The Infinitive in Old English" was read by title at the meeting of the Modern Language Association of America at Ithaca, New York, during the holidays.

Professor E. D. Shurter's Representative College Orations came from the press of the Macmillans in November.

Dr. F. E. Farrington has a book in the press of Longmans, Green & Co. on French Secondary Schools. He expects it to appear this spring. Part II of Dr. Garrison's Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas has gone to press.

Dr. R. A. Law spent most of his summer vacation in the Harvard Library, at work on an edition of Romeo and Juliet, to appear in the "Arden Edition" of D. C. Heath & Co.

Dr. Johnson spent his summer vacation in part in Chicago, where he taught in the University of Chicago Summer Schools,-in part in Washington, where he held during August and September a responsible position in the Census Bureau.

Mr. C. R. Baskervill was another member of our Faculty who taught in the University of Chicago Summer Schools.

Registration for
Fall Term

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

The registration in the Department for the Fall Term of 1909-1910 shows an increase of about 11 per cent over that of the corresponding term of 1908-1909. The total reaches 274-58 men and 216 women, as opposed to a total of 247 on the same date last year. There is an even greater increase in the registration in advanced courses, the total reaching 162, as opposed to 122 last year and 95 the year before. The registration for the Fall Term by classes is as follows: Graduates 12, Seniors 63, Juniors 79, Sophomores 59, Freshmen 61.

The staff this year has been enlarged by the addition of Dr. Frederick Eby, who comes from Baylor University as Instructor in the History of Education; and by the addition of a second fellow, Additions to Staff Miss Itasca Sweet, to assist in the practice work. Dr. Eby received his Doctor's degree from Clark University.

He has studied abroad, has had extensive experience in a sister institution, and possesses a thorough knowledge of the educational needs of the State; all of which make him a valuable addition to the staff of the Department.

Significant changes in the organization of the Department of Education were inaugurated with the opening of the Fall Term of 1909-1910. The Department has been dignified by according to its Reorganization of head the title of Dean, while the Faculty has been the Department divided into three schools: The School of Educational Administration, comprising Dean Sutton, Associate Professor Henderson, Instructor Eby, and Student Assistant Cobb; the School of the Philosophy of

Education, comprising Professor Ellis, Instructor Rall, and Fellow Lowry; and the School of the Art of Teaching, comprising Associate Professor Farrington, Professors Garrison, Mather, Heald, Rice, Miss Lavender, and a Fellow, Miss Sweet.

The faculty of the Department has been busy, as usual, with services outside as well as inside the University. The following list of addresses made during the Fall Term is indicative of one sort Outside Work of the of service the Department is trying to render the cause education in the State.

Faculty

Dean Sutton attended and addressed three county institutes, one at Hallettsville, one at Cuero, and one at Alice. At each place he also delivered an address on The Conference for Education in Texas. He furthermore delivered an address on Christian Education at Taylor; one on Why the Sunday School Course of Study Should Be Graded, before the Travis County Sunday School Association; one on An Hour With a Southern Poet before the Robert E. Lee High School in Burnet; and read a paper on The Education of the Modern Woman before the Fortnightly Club.

Dr. Ellis delivered the following addresses during the Fall Term: The Relation of Education to Economic Development before the National Congress of Mothers, at Dallas; The Cause of Our Emotions before the International Club, at San Antonio; The Organization of Parents' and Teachers' Clubs before the State Federation of Women's Clubs, at Denison; Moral Education before the same organization, also at Denison; The Conference for Education in Texas before the teachers' institute at Fort Worth; School and Home Clubs before the State Normal School at Denton; the same address before the parents of the Denton High School, of the Center Point rural school, and of the Beaver Creek rural school; What Right Has a Man to Live? before the Denton High School; The Conference for Education in Texas before the teachers' institute at McKinney; the same address before the Grayson County Institute at Sherman, and the Dallas County Institute at Dallas.

Professor Henderson addressed the Travis County and the Bexar County teachers' institutes on the subject of The Psychology of Play, also teachers and citizens at the Texas and Pacific Teachers' Association at Roscoe. He attended the annual meeting of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States, November 5 and 6, at Charlottesville, Virginia, as official representative of the University.

Professor Farrington delivered two addresses before the Houston city institutes, one on Literature as a Factor in the Educative Process, the other on Some New Phases in Popular Education.

Dr. Eby delivered a number of addresses during the term, including two before county teachers' institutes at Gatesville and at Belton, one on The Conference for Education in Texas at Gatesville, two at Uvalde before the

newly organized Southwest Texas Teachers' Association, one before the Wooldridge School Mothers' Club, Austin.

Representation at
State Teachers'

The Department was represented on the program of the State Teachers' Association, at Dallas, by the following addresses: Professor Henderson, before the general association on College Entrance Requirements from the College Standpoint, and before Association the History Section on The Condition of History in Texas High Schools; Dean Sutton before the College Section on A FourYears Course in Education in Colleges and Universities; Dr. Farrington before the High School Section on University and High School; Dr. Eby before the general association on The Industrial Phase in Popular Education; Dr. Mather before the Mathematics and Science Section on Recent Tendencies in the Teaching of Physics. Mr. Emil Stieler, graduate student in Education, spoke before the German Section on A Uniform System of Teaching German in Secondary Schools.

An event of great interest as well as profit for the Department was the extended visit to Austin of Dr. Henry Suzzallo, Professor of the Philosophy of Education in Teachers College, Columbia Dr. Suzzallo's Visit University, New York. Not only through public addresses, but also by private counsel, Dr. Suzzallo's stay was of great benefit to the University. In an interview with a representative of the Galveston-Dallas News Dr. Suzzallo said: "I am agreeably surprised, not to say amazed, at the interest the University Department of Education is taking in the public education of Texas. I know no department of education in any other university which has such friendly and helpful co-operation with other factors; for example, the support of other public school men. The University Department of Education, in point of staff equipment, certainly should rank third or fourth in the country. They would, if they had the proper material, equipment, and facilities. There are very few schools of education that have more than six well-trained men assigned to that work. Columbia and Chicago, possibly Missouri, are the only ones I now recall."

Dr. Suzzallo during his visit here put himself on record as believing that the University needs a separate building for the Department of Education. In providing adequate facilities not only for instruction for the three hundred and more students annually registered in the Department, but also for the proper equipment for laboratory and experimental work in educational psychology and methods, and, above all, as a home of a model and prac

Separate Building for the Department

tice school such a building is an imperative necessity if the Department of Education is to fulfill its function properly.

tion

An event not only enjoyable to all concerned, but marking also a highly gratifying development of professional and departmental spirit, was the reception given by the faculty of the Department to Department Recep- their students, to the teachers of the city, and to others interested in education, on the evening of November 16th. During the early part of the evening Dr. Suzzallo, of Columbia University, and Governor T. M. Campbell, the guests of honor, made short and interesting addresses on educational themes. The meeting was held in the Law Building, the addresses being given in the lecture room on the first floor, followed by the reception and the serving of refreshments in the library on the second floor. In the receiving line were the members of the faculty of the Department with their wives, Governor and Mrs. Campbell, Dr. Suzzallo, President Mezes, Dean Battle, Dean and Mrs. Taylor, Superintendent and Mrs. Cousins, Superintendent and Mrs. Bralley, City Superintendent and Mrs. McCallum. The library was attractively decorated with yellow and white chrysanthemums, while music was furnished by the University Orchestra. Misses Sweet, Ujffy, Huston, Lillian Sutton, and Emma Lee Caldwell served the refreshments and presided over the coffee tables. Over two hundred guests were present.

The Sutton Club

Among the student activities of note in the Department, in addition to the meetings of the Students' Educational Association, has been the work of the recently organized Sutton Club. This educational organization is composed of men of Junior standing or higher, in the Department of Education, who purpose to make teaching their profession. It was organized during the Spring Term of 1908-1909 for the purpose of promoting the growth of a professional spirit among men of the Department, and to stimulate both the social and intellectual life of its members. The club meets biweekly for the discussion of educational problems by visiting educators and by members, for reports on special investigations, and for round-table discussions. The club has at present under consideration either affiliation with a national organization or the heading of a movement to establish similar clubs in other colleges and normal schools in Texas. E. E. R.