The east end of the building will be for the men and the west for the women. In the central portion will be an auditorium with a seating capacity of five hundred, which will be used for both men and women. By a system of folding doors the entire first. floor can be thrown together for special occasions. The building will be almost two hundred feet long, and will be the largest one on the campus. Work began on the excavation April 19th and the building will be completed by May 20, 1905.

The enrollment at Indiana University this term exceeds that of any previous spring term by forty.

READING NOTICES.

Teachers are often interested in what is said of teachers' agencies by educators with whom they are acquainted. The following are quotations from letters written by Indiana teachers to Mr. Brewer, the manager of the Teachers' Coöperative Association, Chicago:

I take pleasure in stating that I have found from experience and observation that the Teachers' Coöperative Association is a valuable means of assisting teachers desiring to obtain position and school officials searching for competent teachers. In my relations with Mr. Brewer he has proved to be a man whose word can be relied upon. WILLIAM A. RAWLES, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Indiana University. Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 31, 1903.

I regard the Teachers' Coöperative Association as one of the best managed teachers' agencies that I have ever had anything to do with. It considers alike the interests of both the employer and employe in a competent, trustworthy and business-like way. WM. J. KARSLAKE, Professor of Chemistry, Butler College. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 26, 1903.

My dealings with Mr. Brewer have been most satisfactory. Immediately upon registration, which was done while in Italy last March, I was put in communication with several excellent positions and the selection

of this one as teacher of vocal culture at DePauw University has proven more than satisfactory.

MARY AUGUSTA ENGLISH, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.. Feb. 7, 1904.

Mr. Brewer is in touch with the best high schools of the country and he locates teachers quickly. Without any effort on my part whatever I secured my present position. HARRIET M. SILLIMAN,

Principal of High School.

Knox, Ind., Feb. 8, 1904.

For more than fifteen years I have had pleasant business dealings with Mr. Orville Brewer, of the Teachers' Coöperative Association.

I have found him to be prompt and always courteous in his correspondence, close in his study and careful in his selection of teachers, patient and untiring in his efforts to please, and strictly honorable in all his dealings. W. A. HESTER, Superintendent of Pedagogy, Indiana University.

Bloomington, Ind., March 1, 1904.

I thank you many times for your efforts in getting me this place, and must say that this is the third position which I have secured through your agency. The location is a pleasant one.

SOPHIE H. LUZADDER,
Teacher of English.

Decatur, Ind., Jan. 19, 1904. Indiana teachers who wish to secure promotion should write at once to the Teachers' Coöperative Association. Address Orville Brewer, Manager, Auditorium Tower, Chicago.

THE TEACHER's neeD OF A GOOD TYPEWRITER. A good typewriter has become a necessity as a part of the equipment of an up-to-date teacher. Heretofore many teachers have · hesitated to purchase a typewriter because $100, the price asked by the trust for a satisfactory machine, is more than many of them feel they could afford to pay.

The Blickensderfer is really much better suited to the work which a teacher has to do than any other typewriter on the market. It is small, convenient, simple, and therefore

easy to learn and easy to operate, and any kind of work, such as heavy manifolding, mimeograph work, tabulating and other work for which a teacher needs a typewriter, can be accomplished more successfully than on any $100 machine.

The impression is clear and plain because of the direct inking from an ink roll, which is far less expensive than ribbons. Several different styles of type can be used and the purchaser has his choice of two wheels with each new machine.

Every teacher who does not already have a satisfactory typewriter should investigate the Blickensderfer before they purchase. Satisfactory terms can be made with Frank D. Shera, manager of the Indianapolis office, 136 East Market street, whereby you can secure a machine for cash or on installments, as may be desired.

The Anderson Business School and the Bliss Business University, of that city, have been purchased by the Indiana Business College, of which Mr. J. D. Brunner, of Marion, is President and Mr. Chas. C. Cring, of Muncie, General Manager. The consolidation will have a tendency to increase the efficiency of the Indiana Business College.

BOOK NOTICES.

The leading article in the May Century is "The Mother of Parliaments," by Henry Norman, M. P. Two portraits of unusual interest are found in the same number, one of Tolstoi and the other of President Roosevelt.

D. Appleton & Company report a large introduction for Krohn's Physiologies. Although these books have been out but a short time, they have been introduced by three States, in several of the largest cities of the country and in a number of counties in Illinois and Iowa.

The librarians of New York State recently took a vote as to the best fifty books for a village library, among the 7,865 books published in America last ́year. Six more were thrown in for good measure, and of the fiftysix books selected fourteen, or 25 per cent.,

were published by The Macmillan Company. A list of these books can be obtained by addressing the company at 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago.

The Culture Primer, which is Book I, and the Culture Reader, Book II, by Mrs. E. E. K. Warner, edited by Doctor Jenny B. Merrill, will be published Friday, April 22d. The price of each book will be 30 cents. (D. Appleton & Company.)

The following publications are the most recent additions to Heath's Modern Language Series:

"Goethe's Das Marchen," by Charles A. Eggert, Ph., D., formerly Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of Iowa.

"Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea," by W. A. Adams, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of German in Dartmouth College.

"Exercises in German Conversation and Composition," by E. C. Wesselhoeft, A. M., Instructor in German in the University of Pennsylvania.

"La Cagnotte Par Labiche Et Delacour," by W. O. Farnsworth, Instructor in French in Yale University.

"Corneille's Horace," by John E. Matzke, Ph. D., Professor of Romanic Languages, Leland Stanford Jr. University.

"Goethe's Egmont," by James Taft Hatfield, Professor of the German Language and Literature in Northwestern University.

Our readers can ascertain the prices of these works by addressing D. C. Heath & Co., 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago.

Recent publications by Ginn & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago:

"School Iliad," by Thomas D. Seymour, Professor of Greek in Yale University. Half leather; 459 pages; with maps and illustrations; list price, $1.60.

"The Leading Facts of French History," by D. H. Montgomery. 328 pages; list price, $1.12. It is hardly necessary to add that Montgomery's histories have earned an enviable reputation and they merit an extensive introduction.

"Bacteria, Yeasts and Molds in the Home," by Herbert W. Conn, Professor of Biology

notes, references and suggestions to the student and teacher are of such high order as to command the highest praise. It is interesting to note that while published but a short time, this book has won the praise of press and public to an unusual degree, and that it has already established itself as a text-book in many of our schools and colleges. While there are many excellent books on the subject of civil government, they deal largely with the theoretical side of the subject. Dr. Hart gives us more of the actual working of the government in this book, and on this account it is more practical and much more helpful.

"Running the River" (A. S. Barnes & Co., New York), by Geo. Cary Eggleston. This is an interesting story of adventure and success. 295 pages. $1.50.

"The Heart of Nature Series", (The Macmillan Co., London, New York and Chicago), by Mabel Osgood Wright. The First Reader consists of stories of Earth and Sky, the Second contains stories of Plants and Animals, and the Third stories of Birds and Beasts. The Third book of the series has been illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Ernest Thompson Seton. Address the company at 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago, for prices.

"Physical Training for Women by Japanese Methods," by H. Irving Hancock, author of Life at Westpoint." This valuable work is published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, NewYork and London.

4. If 3 of t of a number is 24, what;is 7 of the number? 5. A coal dealer buys 150 tons of coal, 2,240 pounds each, at $4.50 per ton. He sells it at $4.75 per ton, giving 2,000 pounds to the ton. What is his profit?

6. When it is midnight at Paris 2° 20′ 22′′ east longitude, what time is it in Chicago 87° 35′ west longitude?

7. If I pay $28.00 for the use of money for 90 days, at 7% and lend 75% of the sum for 45 days at 8%, and the balance at 9% for 60 days, how much will I gain or lose by the transaction ?;

8. Find the dimensions of a field, the length of which is twice its breadth, its area being 1,800 square rods. Work by algebra.

Answers.

1. 800.0046 X .003040 = 2.4320139840.

2. The sum is 579524.9646.

5. 150 tons @ $4.50 $675, cost.

6.

=

240 lbs. X 150 18 tons excess.

150 tons +18 tons 168 tons to be sold.

168 @ $4.75 = $798, S. P.

$798 $675 $123, profit.

2o 20

87

35

55'

15 J 89°

22"

22′′, difference in longitude.

5 hr. 59 min. 417 sec. difference in time. Chicago being west of Paris its time would be earlier by 5 hours, 59 minutes and 41 seconds, or 6. o'clock and 18 seconds, P. M.

7. Interest on $1.00 at 7% for 90 days is $.0175.
$28.0175 = $1600, sum borrowed.

Select one and only one of the two following subjects:

U.S. HISTORY.

1. Upon what conceptions did Columbus base his plan of reaching Asia by sailing westward?

2. When and how were negro slaves introduced into Virginia? What view was taken of slavery at that time by the civilized nations of the world? 3. What was the New England Confederation of 1643? 4. Give a brief account of events in the Continental Congress which changed the Revolution from a war to preserve the rights of the colonists as Englishmen, to a war for independence.

5. What was the greatest event of Jefferson's administration? Give a brief account of it.

6. What was the "Wilmot Proviso?”

7. What was the general plan of the War for 'the Union?

8. What Presidents have been assassinated? Give the motives in each case that impelled the assassin.

Answers.

1. Believing the earth a sphere, he attempted to find a westward route to India.

2 (a) In 1619 twenty negroes were brought by a Dutch ship to Virginia and sold to the planters. From this small beginning sprang the institution of slavery in the United States. (b) They justified slavery.

3. It was a union of colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New Haven, and Connecticut for the common protection against the Indians and the encroachments of the Dutch and French settlers.

4. The first Continental Congress was held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. It voted not to obey the recent acts of Parliament (the placing of a duty on all tea, glass, paper and painters' colors imported by the colonies and the Mutiny Act requiring the colonies to furnish the British soldiers with quarters and necessary supplies). It sustained Massachusetts in her resistance to Parliament, and agreed to hold no intercourse with Great Britain. Public feeling in England against the colonies became so intolerable that Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, introduced in Congress June 7, 1776, the resolution that "the United Colonies are, and ought to be free and independent States."

5. In 1802 Jefferson received information that Spain, by a secret treaty, had ceded to France the tract called Louisiana, reaching from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. He sent James Monroe as minister plenipotentiary to act with Mr. Livingston at Paris for purchase of New Orleans and the Floridas. Napoleon, being upon the verge of war with England, needed money, and he instructed his minister to sell not only New Orleans but the whole of Louisiana. The purchase was made in 1803 for $15,000,000. It comprised 1,171,931 square miles, out of which five states, five territories, and parts of four states and of one territory have been formed. Napoleon said: "This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States: and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will, sooner or later, humble her pride."

6. David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, offered in Congress in 1846 a bill forbidding slavery in any territory which should be acquired through the Mexican war. This was designed to prohibit slavery in the territory of Texas. It excited violent debate, but did not become a law.

7. It comprised three main objects: The opening of the Mississippi, the blockade of the Southern ports, and the capture of Richmond. In 1864 the plan was for Gen. Grant to march against Lee in Virginia, and Gen. Sherman was to attack Joseph E. Johnston in Georgia and sweep through to the coast. In 1865 Sher

man was to move north from Savannah against Johnston, and then join Grant in a final attack upon Lee. As to the success of these campaigns we need only state that Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox,near Lynchburg, Va., on April 9th, and Johnston to Sherman in North Carolina on April 26th.

De

8. (a) Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth April 14, 1865. On the day after the fall of Richmond, Lincoln visited that city, walked the streets unguarded, and gave a public reception in Jefferson Davis' mansion. Having returned to Washington, it was announced that he and Mrs. Lincoln and Gen. and Mrs. Grant would visit Ford's theatre on the evening of the 14th, the anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumpter. jected over the downfall of the Southern Confederacy, a conspiracy was formed for the murder of Lincoln and his cabinet officers and Gen. Grant and Vice-President Johnson. (b) Garfield was assassinated on the morning of July 2, 1881, by Charles J. Guiteau at a railway station in Washington. The assassin was impelled by revenge as a disappointed office seeker and by a morbid desire for notoriety. (c) President McKinley was assassinated on Sept. 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo by Leon Czolgosz, who had been unduly influenced by the pernicious utterances of leading anarchists.

1. (a) Charleston, S. C., April 23. (b) The session continued until May 1, when there had been fifty-seven ballots cast and no choice made. A portion of the convention, dissatisfied with one of the resolutions of the platform approving "squatter sovereignty," seceded, and organizing anew, adjourned to meet at Richmond, Va., on June 11, where it nominated John C. Breckenridge for President, and Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for Vice-President. Those who did not withdraw from the convention at Charleston adjourned to meet at Baltimore on June 18, where they nominated Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, for President, and Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, for Vice-President.

2. (a) At Chicago, May 16. (b) Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, Wm. H.Seward, of New York, Edwin Bates, of Missouri, and Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio.

3. (a) The third. (b) Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. 4. (a) The Republican party held that Congress should prohibit slavery in the territories. (b) The