bia University. He has for years been one of the leading school men in Indiana. His going is much regretted by the people of Bloomington.

Ed. C. Limpus, formerly trustee of Addison township, Shelby county, has been elected as one of the teachers in the Shelbyville city schools.

J. C. Burgess, formerly principal of the Jefferson school, Ward township, Randolph county, has been elected as principal of the school at Modoc.

E. F. Marlatt and Miss Lois Fritter have charge of the playground activities in Rushville this summer.

Supt. J. A. Wiggers, in charge of the schools at Three Rivers, Mich., for the past three years, has been elected superintendent of the Elkhart schools, to succeed Supt. E. H. Drake, resigned.

Prof. Chester T. Lane, for more than a quarter of a century the principal of the Ft. Wayne high school, will be retained on the faculty in an advisory capacity. The school board has appointed Louis Ward to the principalship. Professor Lane retired from his former position on account of ill health.

When a resolute young fellow steps to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Asbury Conservatory of Music, Greencastle, has closed and will not reopen next fall. The principal, Prof. Isaac S. Norris, has gone to New York to study.

Improvements are being made in the manual training and domestic departments of the Rockport schools.

W. E. McCullough, fifty years old, for many years principal of the Knightsville schools, died recently of heart disease.

The Lafayette Board of Education adopted recently the following resolution:

"Whereas, the board of trustees of the Lafayette school city is in receipt of a petition signed by a majority of the teachers in the public schools regularly employed asking them to join with them in coming under the provisions of chapter 182 of the laws of the State of Indiana, passed at the sixty-ninth regular session of the general assembly; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the board of trustees of the Lafayette school city, do hereby join with the said teachers and petition the board of trustees of the Indiana State teachers' retirement fund to come under the provisions of the said law."

Ruskin said: "People, as a rule, only pay for being amused or being cheated. Five thousand a year to your talker, and a shilling a day to your fighter, digger, and thinker, is the rule. None of the best head work in art, literature, or science is ever paid for."

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Dear County Superintendent—at a meeting of the State Board of Education, May 6, the following resolution was endorsed by that body:

Resolved, That paragraph 2 of section b, Teaching and Teachers, of the requirements for commissioned high schools, be amended to read as follows:

2. Teachers-At lease two teachers must give all their time to high school work. One of the teachers in the high school must be a graduate of a standard four years' course in a standard college or a standard three years' course in a standard normal school, or the equivalent.

In all township commissioned and certified high schools the trustee shall employ teachers endorsed by the county superintendent of schools of the county in which said high schools are located.

Dear Mr. Greathouse-I have your letter of July 9, in which you ask the two questions following:

1. Are township trustees and city. and town school boards subject to the provisions of the workmen's compensation law, pp. 392-417, Acts of 1915?

2. Assuming an affirmative answer to question 1, would the statement of the financial standing of a corporation -its assessed valuation, its levy for taxable purposes, its indebtedness and its annual expenditures-be deemed sufficient compliance with section 68 of the above entitled Act?

In answer to the first question, I wish to say that it is the opinion of the Industrial Board that township trustees, city and town school boards, are subject to the provisions of the Indiana Workmen's Compensation Act. See section 18 of the Act.

As to the second question, the Industrial Board has adopted Rule No. 15 as follows:

No special proof of financial ability to pay compensation direct will be required of the State, or of any political division thereof, or of any municipal corporation within the State, having the power to levy and collect taxes, or of any bank or trust company within the State, subject to either Federal or State supervision and examination, as to its employes engaged only in the conduct of its banking or trust company business. If the State, any political division thereof or any municipal corporation therein, or any such bank or trust company should at any time fail to discharge in full its compensation and other liabilities under the compensation act by cash payment at the time, in the amount and manner therein provided, the board will require it to secure its further liabilities under said act by insurance or other indemnity to the approval of the board.

I feel that this rule will completely and satisfactorily answer your second question.

I set the rule out in this letter, assuming that you may have additional inquiry on the subject.

NEW EDUCATIONAL LAW. Certain important changes in the matter of qualifications for teachers in the public schools of Indiana and in the manner of taking examinations and signing of contracts go into effect this year as a result of a new law passed by the last legislature. County superintendents will call attention to these changes as vitally affecting the teachers. Many of these changes, at least, are of such a character as will raise the standard of teaching and hold the teachers more strictly to account.

Some of these changes are outlined as follows:

Agriculture and domestic science. must be taught in all district and township schools.

Industrial arts and domestic science

must be taught in all grades in the city

schools.

Every commissioned and certified high school must offer one full year's work in domestic science to girls and of either agriculture or industrial arts to boys.

Every teacher, city or county, required to teach one of these special subjects must hold a license in the special subjects or subjects he or she is required to teach. These licenses must be attached to regular certificates at the time of signing contract.

By provision of the state board of education every teacher in a township commissioned high school must have. the O. K. of the county superintendent. The intention of this ruling is to prevent teachers being given positions to pay political debts, or for similar rea

sons.

There will be no September examinations under the examination law, but there will be one in October. If any emergency vacancies occur during

the school year they may be filled on permit issued by the county superintendent, which permit must expire at the date of the next general examination.

No such permit is issuable to a teacher who has failed in the examinations of the current year.

All state licenses must be counter

signed by the county superintendent in the county in which they are to be used before the teacher can sign a con

tract.

The 1915 law making the above important changes becomes effective for the coming school term.

City institutes will now be compulsory and will be conducted along the same general lines as the county institutes. The textbooks that are to be

made the basis of the work in both city and township institutes are the following: "The Rise of the American Teacher and the School," by C. P. ColPeople," by R. G. Usher, and "The grove. These city institutes will constitute a new feature, as they will be compusory, or amount to that, as teachers must attend them monthly or

forfeit a day's pay. In addition to not forfeiting pay, if they attend, teachers will receive additional pay for attend

ance.

There is another new ruling that will interest teachers. Under this ruling they will not fail wholly at an examination if they do not fail in more than two subjects, but can make up these subjects at the next examination and will not have to take the entire examination over as heretofore. Under the old law a failure in one subject meant a failure in all. Also, if the state board of education so rules, the grade examinations may be taken in two sections, one in one month and the other the next month.

6. Find the cost of excavating a cellar 40 ft. long, 25 ft. wide and 8 ft. deep at 20 cents per cubic yard.

7. A broker buys bonds at 10 per cent. premium and sells them at 10 per cent. discount. What per cent. does he lose? 8. Find the face of a non-interest bearing 60 day note that will yield $1,500.00, when discounted at 5 per cent.

9. Discuss several methods of teaching number. Which one do you consider the best? Why?

10. Write two store problems for a second grade pupil.

11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beginning the teaching of number in the third grade?

Each of the solutions one and two is by a bank expert. Solution three is more nearly in accord with the methods found in the textbooks.

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9. In previous issues of the EducatorJournal for this year will be found much material applicable to this question. One method called "Spencer's" extensively adver tised in the past, had for its distinctive feature the exhaustive treatment of all numbers, from 1 to 10 inclusive, before the numbers beyond 10,-such as 11, 12, 13, 14, etc., were permitted to be presented to the class. Since a large number of the pupils were able to count as high as 50, or more, many teachers disregarded all such limitations and used whatever numbers the majority of the class seemed to comprehend concretely. The normal, or natural, method of representing a number by objects, as a whole, and as to its variable parts, in all of its possible divisions, admits of the assignment of much val uable busy work, accompanied by all the oral work adaptable to the strength of the class.

10. (a) A girl bought 7 two-cent stamps and 13 one-cent stamps. How much did a quarter lack of paying for them? (b) A boy Lought a pencil for 5 cents, a tablet for twice as much, and a book for three times as much. flow much did he have left out of a half dollar?

11. The disadvantage in beginning the teaching of a subject late is the probability of not being able to advance the pupils sufficiently to meet the demands of the higher grades.

The only advantage in deferring the teaching of a subject is the likelihood of the child acquiring a better and a broader basis on ground work for the mastery of the subject, through his greater maturity of mind.

UNITED STATES HISTORY.

1. Explain why the English triumphed over the French in the struggle for territory in America.

2. Identify: (a) Anne Hutchinson, (b) Harriet Beecher Stowe, (c) Clara Barton, (d) Susan B. Anthony, (e) Jane Addams. Explain the folly of England's retaining the Tea Tax on America, 1770. Why did Maryland object to the adoption of the Articles of Confederation? What resulted from her objections?

$1,060, due in 1 year, is..

$1,120, due in 2 years, is..

1,018.181

$1,180, due in 3 years, is_

$1,240, due in 4 years, is_.

1,033.333

$1,300, due in 5 years, is-- -$1,040.000

5. Discuss the Federalist Party.

Give its

Total

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purpose.