O'Shea in the first half of his book shows how motor activity should be utilized throughout the whole school life of the child.

Motor activities in early life are crude and large. The work of the beginner should be with coarse and easily adjusted material. For a child to attempt fine needle work or fine writing is contrary to the law of its being. Crudeness must precede the esthetic. The development must be from large fundamentals to the more finely co-ordinated accessories.

The second half of the book is devoted to the Energie Factor in Education. Some of the most valuable chapters are, the influence of fatigue, economy in the expenditure of energy and some common wasteful practices. These chapters should be read by all teachers. They call attention to some of the most vital things in school room economy.

The book is written in a fascinating style. Each chapter is followed by ten topics for study. These topics are wisely selected and form a most valuable part of the book. The book is well adapted for class use. It may also be read with pleasure and profit by the private student.

Indiana Commended.

A recent editorial in The School Journal of New York pays such a fine tribute to our good State that we quote it in full. It appeared under the heading, A FarSighted Investment, and was as follows:

"Indiana leads the sisterhood of States in her attitude toward needy school children. Several places are providing not only school books but suitable clothing and school supplies. The reasonable way is to give the children every facility for acquiring an education. In no other way can society afford them the means for raising themselves above the misery into which they were born. Education is their only salvation. But if the body's needs are not first attended to education can not do them much good. Sufficient sleep, proper food, adequate clothing, and working tools should be the first consideration. The responsibility for these things rests upon society, where the homes are unable

to supply the necessities. After all, society-the State-is the beneficiary. Its welfare rests upon the education of the individuals. Every educated individual is a distinct addition to the wealth of the State. The proper care. of the children, physical, moral, and intellectual, is a wise investment. There is no smack of charity about this matter. Indiana's attitude is to be commended. The law on the subject says 'that if any parent, guardian, or custodian is too poor to furnish the child with the necessary books or clothing with which to attend school, then the school trustee of the township, or the board of school trustees or commissioners of the city or incorporated town where such parent, guardian, or custodian lives, shall furnish temporary aid for such purpose, which aid shall be allowed and paid upon the certificate of such officers by the board of county commissioners. Such towship trustee or board of school trustees or commissioners shall at once make out and file with the county auditor, a full list of the children so aided, and the board of county commissioners at their next meeting shall investigate such cases and make such provision for such children as will enable them to attend school.''

Stanford University and the Earthquake.

Indiana has great interest in Stanford University. Her president we claim as our own, and many of her faculty first won distinction in Indiana. Stanford suffered great loss, but we are glad to say, not so great as at first reported. The following from a recent number of Science gives an accurate statement of the loss:

"The scientific laboratories and collections at Stanford University were but slightly injured by the recent earthquake in California. The buildings containing the departments of physiology, botany, zoology and entomology are uninjured structurally, and the apparatus and collections suffered almost no damage. The chemistry building lost small parts of two walls, and the loss to apparatus and supplies amounts to a few hundred dollars.

The present geological and metallurgic laboratories are, with their contents, practically unhurt. The large new geological building, nearly completed, suffered serious injury. The building in which the departments of physics and psychology are housed lost a part of one wall, but the equipment is but slightly damaged. The laboratories and shops of the various engineering departments show some injuries, all of which, however, can be easily

and quickly remedied. The really wrecked buildings are the famous church, great memorial arch, museum and the large new library and gymnasium buildings in course of erection. University work will begin again (it has been suspended for the rest of the present semester, about four weeks) on August 23, the regular date for the opening of the next college year.

VERNON L. KELLOGG."

LIST OF BOOKS ADOPTED ON THE 14TH ULT. FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF INDIANA BY THE STATE BOARD OF SCHOOL BOOK COMMISSIONERS.

"Introductory Physiology and Hygiene" (Silver, Burdett & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago), by H. W. Conn, Ph. D., Professor of Biology in Wesleyan University. Retail price, 30 cents; exchange price, 15 cents.

"Elementary Physiology and Hygiene" (Silver, Burdett & Co.), by H. W. Conn. Retail price, 50 cents; exchange price, 25 cents. "The Leading Facts of American History" (Ginn & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago), by D. H. Montgomery. Retail price, 65 cents. There is no exchange price as the work was re-adopted.

"A Spelling Book" (Longmans, Green & Co., 91 Fifth Ave., New York, and Fine Arts Building, Chicago), by Miss Georgia Alexander, Supervising Principal in the Indianapolis schools. Retail price, 10 cents; exchange price, 7 cents.

"Lessons in English-Book One" (Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., Boston, New York and Chicago), by Fred Newton Scott, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan, and Gordon A. Southworth, Superintendent of Schools, Somerville, Mass. Retail price, 25 cents; exchange price 17 cents.

"Lessons in English-Book Two" (Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.), by Fred Newton Scott and Gordon A. Southworth. Retail price, 40 cents: exchange price, 28 cents.

There was a spirited contest among the

representatives of the various publishers, and quite a number of other good books were given careful consideration. It is confidently believed that the members of the above-named board endeavored to make judicious selections, and we hope that the books adopted may prove quite satisfactory to the teachers especially throughout Indiana. It is somewhat difficult to select books adapted to both the country and city schools, but it should be comparatively easy to eliminate those books which can not be successfully used by the rank and file of teachers.

Governor Hanly has accepted an invitation to preside at the seventy-seventh annual commencement exercises of Indiana University, to be held Wednesday, June 20. President W. P. Kane, of Wabash College, will deliver the baccalaureate address on Sunday, June 17, on Monday the senior classday exercises will be held and Tuesday will be alumni day. The new student building will be dedicated during commencement week and Mrs. Joseph Swain will be a special guest at the dedication. It was Mrs. Swain who began the movement to obtain the funds for the building, and it grew until it finally reached $100,000.

Every teacher should be granted at least two visiting days each school year, and these days should be carefully spent in acquiring new and better methods of teaching.

The largest class in the history of the Hammond high school was recently graduated. The following is an extract from the Hammond Daily News: "In more than one way this year has been the most diversified and successful of any of its predecessors in the history of the public school system of Hammond. The schools, not one but each of them, have prospered in every conceivable way, and have neither retrograded nor stood still in any particular. No doubt the splendid executiveship of Supt. C. M. McDaniel has been responsible for this more than any thing else, and his administrative ability has produced such a harmonious working together of school board, superintendent and corps of teachers as has been seldom experienced in Hammond." A new $30,000 grade building is to be ready by fall. The next building that will be built in Hammond is a Manual Training High School, which will not be outclassed by any like school in the country, and when this is built no city in the State can distance Hammond's public school system.

CONSOLIDATION.

Nettle Creek Township, Randolph County, built a $15,000 central building last summer and in the fall organized a consolidated school comprising the pupils of several district schools, all the eighth grade and high school pupils of the township and the Losantville schools. Of the nineteen pupils remaining in the eighth grade at the close of the term seventeen passed the county examination, securing diplomas admitting them to the high school the coming year. Biological work, both vegetable and animal, has been a valuable feature, and during this first year more than two hundred specimens have been mounted between glass for class use, as recommended by Professor Hodge of Worcester, Mass., last summer at Irvington and at Winchester. Prof. W. C. Barnhart will be continued as Principal the coming year.

The Tri-State College at Angola, Ind., has been reorganized. Articles have been filed for three divisions-the first is the literary department, with a capital stock of $35,000, the second the Tri-State College of Pharmacy, with a capital stock of $10,000, and

On May 4, a class of twelve students graduated from the Oakland City high school. Dr. E. B. Bryan of Franklin College addressed the class on the subject, "Man and His Work." Supt. F. D. Churchill on presenting the diplomas recited an original poem. The Oakland City Journal made the following comment on its schools:

"The entire term passed without the slightest friction and the work was thorough and the interest good. The corps of teachers, from the primary department to the superintendent, was made up of competent instructors and they were all men and women of character and ability."

The Brookville schools closed June 1 after a very pleasant and successful year. Eleven students were graduated from the high school. Supt. J. W. Stott was unanimously re-elected for another year.

From an extensive comparison of 7,000 children in the public schools of Chicago, the dictum has just been sent forth that small pupils on the average are not as bright as the larger ones.

Miss Annette Ferris, principal of the Rice school, Trinidad, Colorado, will spend the summer at her old home at Brookston, Indiana. Miss Ferris has served the Trinidad schools five years and has been re-elected at an increase of salary.

The La Porte City schools are represented this year by forty-seven students distributed in twenty-one colleges or universities.

The second annual intercollegiate peace conference went in session at Earlham College, April 12. Representatives from about twenty colleges and universities were present, in addition to several men of national prominence in the general movement for peace and arbitration between the powers of the world. The names of Pres. Robert L. Kelly of Earlham College, William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Dr. Benjamin Trueblood of Boston, Prof. Earnest Richard of Columbia University, Noah E. Byers of Go shen College and Edwin D. Mead of Boston, appeared on the program.

The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools has again honored the La Porte high school by placing it on the accredited list.

Population considered, Westfield is said to have the largest high school in the State. The enrollment is 114 and the graduating class numbers twenty-three.

The spring term enrollment at the Indiana Normal will reach 1,200. The great majority of these students were admitted on teachers' license and diplomas.

Dr. John Anthony Miller, now professor of Mechanics and Astronomy in Indiana University, was recently elected professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Swarthmore College.

Dr. Miller graduated from Indiana University in 1890 and took the degree of Master of Arts in Leland Stanford Junior University in 1893. Mr. Miller has won national reputation as a scholar.

In less than two years the Muncie high school has built up a library from nothing to more than a thousand volumes. A special room, containing five large cases, reading tables, pictures, etc., with a paid librarian in charge, has been fitted up for this purpose. The books have all been catalogued on the Dewey system by the city librarian. This summer they will move into a larger room in order to double their seating capacity, and expect to increase the number of volumes next fall by fifty per cent. The money came from the receipts of the annual play with some assistance from the school board. Mr Henry L. Peacock is Faculty Director of the library.

The nineteenth annual commencement of the La Gro high school was held Saturday evening, May 5. Mr. M. M. Dunlap, of Anderson, delivered the address. The La Gro high school has a four years' course of study. It has been using the "County Uniform Course of Study" since 1901, and it hopes to work to the place where it can ask for a commission. Prof. Howard Williams is the superintendent, and Miss Katherine Ramsey is the principal.

Supt. Joseph E. Kelley has been re-elected to the superintendency of the New Harmony schools for a term of two years at an increased salary. Mr. Kelley has served in his present position nine years.