There is the pretender in the teaching business as well as in other lines of activity. There are a number of ways in which the insincere teacher can "assume a virtue if he have it not." The particular way in mind at the present time was suggested by the case of a high school teacher in the northern part of Indiana. She is a woman of good appearance and she is popular with the public and the school authorities whom she serves. She was appointed to her position a number of years ago without her having received a college education. She had had some normal courses.

work and some summer

At the present time, amidst the agitation for thorough preparation on the part of teachers, she is constantly afraid that she will lose her position. She goes away each summer, after having duly advertised the fact, to some school to take summer work. She comes home in due time. The fact that she has been to summer school is thoroughly heralded throughout her community. The community is presumably duly impressed. She has been to summer school each time and her name can be found on the records, but she rarely goes into details. The truth of her career each summer is that she goes to summer school, picks out two or three "snap" courses, manages to get to a bare majority of the recitations, works in a lot of excursions and visits and then winds up her summer

holiday by taking a trip to rest her "tired" nerves after a scholastic career so strenuous.

In so far as real summer college work is concerned, this woman's talk about her preparing herself to do her work. better is mostly pretense and bluff. She is not very much nearer a college degree than she was a few years ago. Some time or other her pretensions will collapse under the fire of situations that find out unpreparedness in teachHer type is not very numerous in Indiana but every such teacher is just one too many. The thing for every such teacher to do is to quit pretending and get a college education, if she is going to continue teaching.

ers.

The American School Hygiene Association is an organization that deserves. more attention and support from teachers and school officers in Indiana. The association was organized some eight or nine years ago and has its headquarters in New York. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, of Cambridge, Mass., is the honorary president. The active. officers are: president, Dr. Henry M. Bracken, St. Paul; vice-president, Dr. Lewis M. Terman, Leland Stanford; secretary and treasurer, Dr. Thos. A. Storey, the College of the City of New York. Annual meetings of the Association have been held in various parts of the country. In 1913 the meeting was held in Buffalo in connection with

the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene. The 1914 meeting was planned for Philadelphia in September last, in connection with the International Congress on School and Home Education, but was postponed on account of the abandoning of the School and Home meeting. The past few months have been a poor season for international meetings. The program for the association is being recast and the 1914 meeting will yet be held at a time and place to be announced.

The particular advantages in belonging may be enumerated as follows:

1. The receiving of the printed proceedings of every meeting.

2. The coming in touch with all that

is newest and best in matters of school health.

3. The helping in the promotion of the splendid hygiene movement in American schools.

4. The inspiration to improve local conditions wherever the superintendent or other school official comes under the influence of the American School Hygiene Association.

The annual membership dues are $3.00. The officers serve without pay. Help the cause along by joining in this great movement.

The history or geography teacher that is not taking advantage of the interest in the present European war is asleep. The world today is seeing one of the greatest conflicts of all time. Every periodical in the land is full of war news. The history teacher, in having his pupils study any war, can find plenty of supplementary and illustrative material in the daily press.

Such a linking of the present with the past will make the study of history something else than a mere recital of apparently lifeless facts. The teacher that is attempting to fill a history position without keeping up with what is going on in Europe now is a poor excuse at best. The current news is furnishing a wealth of material for the enlivening of every history recitation in the United States.

If the history teacher is having the opportunity of his career, the geography teacher is having even a better chance to have the liveliest recitation he has ever had. A good map of Europe, and some maps of the rest of the world are everything that is necessary at the present time in the way of regular school room equipment. The daily papers and the magazines will supply the reading material. The live geography teacher can ask his pupils to bring this material from their homes. It can be read in class and

thoroughly discussed. Give the class some intelligent directions as to how to proceed and the chief difficulty of the teacher will be to keep ahead of his class in intelligence and enthusiasm. The present opportunity is a rare one.

thing in selecting the Christmas holidays as the time of the 1914 meeting in place of the customary November date. The putting of the State Teachers' Association in the last week of October made the superintendents' ordinary meeting time almost an impossibility. Other fall gatherings in which many superintendents are interested also militated against any other week than Christmas week. Chairman H. A. Henderson and the other members of the executive committee of the superintendents' association are to be congratulated on their happy choice of a date for the next conference.

There is one other item that deserves special mention, in connection with the preliminary announcement sent out by Chairman Henderson. This announcement included the topic "Measuring Efficiency" as one that will receive attention at the coming meeting. No subject of more importance could be considered at this time. We plan and work and hope for great things but how many of us really know when we are getting results that ought to be obtained, how many of us can measure the efficiency of the teaching in our schools, how many of us can actually tell whether the tax-payers are getting adequate returns for the money spent on the schools? There is a lot of teaching and a lot of theorizing about teaching, but how many of us can tell, with anything like the accuracy of an accountant, whether we are getting seventy-five per cent. of the efficiency we ought to get, or whether the deplorable total is only fifty per cent.? "Measuring Efficiency" is by far the best topic suggested for the coming meeting of the town and city superintendents.

The Indiana State Department of Public Instruction is to be congratulated on the Uniform Course of Study for the High Schools of Indiana, issued just before the opening of the present school term. This course is a distinct contribution to the equipment of every high school teacher in the state. Every part of the book deserves mention but we desire to emphasize the wisdom of incorporating in the course the material included in the "Introduction" as well as the pages devoted to "High School Standards," the explanatory diagram. of the course of study, the college entrance requirements in Indiana, and the daily program. The discussion of the elimination of pupils in the high school is so valuable that every high school teacher in Indiana ought to read it. There is possibly no other topic so vital to the welfare of the institution of the high school and its continued prosperity. If the high school in its present form is to survive as an active agent in contributing to the welfare of society, the mortality rate among its pupils must not be so high. Every high school principal in Indiana ought to call the attention of his teachers to the "Intro

duction" of this course. The department will note the suggestion that more material on "The Elimination of Pupils" be included in the next issue of the course. Too many pupils drop out of our high schools and if the department can help stop any part of this leakage, it will be doing a great work. Much needs to be done along this line.

The outlines of the specific subjects, English, German, etc., included in the course, are of great interest and will be of value to all high school teachers. Even where a city superintendent has provided outlines of the subjects for

DEAN W. A. JESSUP.

On account of his removal from the state, and the increasing demands. made upon his time by his work as Dean of the graduate school in the department of education in the University of Iowa, Dr. Jessup has found it desirable to retire from editorial work on the Educator-Journal. However, he will continue to contribute to its columns from time to time. We would call attention to his review of the new

Beck, modern language, have taken charge of their various departments.

The first annual catalogue of the Walsh County, North Dakota Agricultural and Training School, shows two

Indianians at its head-Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Broyles. Mr. Broyles was a resident of Delaware county and Mrs. Broyles of Decatur county. Both are graduates of Indiana University. At the dedication of the new school build

the current issue.

The readers of the Educator-Journal will be pleased to learn that Superintendent L. N. Hines of the Crawfordsville public schools is to succeed Professor Jessup as associate editor. His first work appears in this issue.

Hanover college opened its eightysecond year September 16, with an unusually large enrollment. The opening lecture was given by Professor A. H. Woodworth, head of the department of history and social science. Subject, "The Background of the Present European Struggle." The four new members of the faculty, C. H. Oldfather, ancient languages; M. G. Feuerhak, mathematics; L. L. Alexander, music, and T. I.

kota-Mrs. Broyles delivered the dedication address, subject, "The Test of the Times."

The School Arts Magazine for September contains an article written by Henry Turner Bailey, which pays a very high compliment to the Annual published by the class of 1914 of Shortridge high school. Mr. Bailey speaks of the book as one of "marked individuality and consistency of character throughout, both in form and color. Intelligent design, excellent drawing and good English are here combined in an Annual which need not be ashamed of itself anywhere."

Mr. Winnifred Wager is superintendent of the Milroy schools this year.

Bremen high school has a new science laboratory. Mr. Fred Hadley, a graduate from Earlham, teaches physics there this year.

Mr. E. M. Gifford, who was superintendent at Milroy last year, spent the summer in the University of Chicago. He is in charge of the Kingman schools this year.

Mr. Elmer L. Mitchell, Indiana, '14, resigned the principalship at Kempton to take charge of the Selma schools.

Mr. Byron S. Legg, of Windfall, who graduated from Indiana University this year, will be an assistant in the history department of the university during the present college year.

Here is a thing a little out of the ordinary. This summer Superintendent Herman Wimmer graduated from Indiana University, majoring in education. In the same class were four young men who were high school pupils of his while he was superintendent at Windfall.

Chester high school is a pioneer among the the larger township high schools in the matter of vocational work. The class of 1914 was the fifth consecutive class to graduate with work in manual training. It was the third to have the privilege of domestic science. Now every boy takes manual training and every girl takes either cooking or sewing, or both, if she so desires. On "patrons' day" the domestic science gives a concrete demonstration by serving lunch to those who are in attendance on invitation. Superin

tendent Howard Williams is in charge of the school.

The appreciation of good music is not a matter of a moment. It must be arrived at by steady development and this development is impossible unless one is given the opportunity to hear the best things under circumstances which will serve to stimulate the emotions and to cultivate a fine taste. During the last fifteen years the people of Indiana have been given this opportunity and to Ona B. Talbot much of the credit is due. In glancing over the list of artists whom Mrs. Talbot will

present to her public during the season of 1914-15 one must be impressed with one fact. A concert series has been provided which for breadth and