don, of the University of Chicago. Assistant physical director, Zora G. Clevenger and Miss Mary Roddy, spent the summer at Lake Chautauqua, New York, where they took special work in the physical training department. Miss Maxwell, head of the physical training department for women, spent the summer in special work in Boston. Mr. May and Mr. Mathers, of the department of chemistry, will spend the year in advanced study, and Dr. Sherman Davis, who was away last year on a leave of absence, will return as associate professor of chemistry. One of the new assistants in the department of English is George E. Teter, a graduate of the University, class 1905. Professor Ernest O. Holland, of the Louisville schools, will have work in the department of education. The department of pathology and bacteriology is a new one and is in charge of Dr. W. H. Manwaring, of Johns Hopkins University. The school of medicine was established in the fall of 1903, and its progress has been steady from the start. Word has just been received that the work here has been granted full recognition by the Illinois medical board. This recognition was granted by the Indiana Board of Medical Examination and Registration last July and the number of letters and inquiries indicate a decided increase in the number of students in medicine here this year. The attendance at the summer term, which closed Friday, Sep. 8th, went far beyond expectations. A unique plan was adopted this year for the summer term. Since 1890 the summer term consisted of six weeks. This year there were two terms of six weeks each, making a continuous term of twelve weeks. There was an entire change of faculty for the second half. The enrollment for the first half was six hundred and the attendance for the second half exceeded three hundred. In a material way the students see many changes this term. The students' building, which will cost one hundred thousand dollars, is ready for its red-tile roof and its tower for the chimes is being erected. The ten buildings of the university were in the hands of the janitors for several weeks and the seventy-acre campus was being made more beautiful by the gardener. The architects for the new library build ing will have the revised plans ready for bidders the latter part of this month. The last legislature appropriated one hundred thousand dollars for the building, and the bids on the original plans exceeded this amount. The architects are preparing modified plans and these call for a Gothic structure, stone, red-tile roof, fire-proof and space for two hundred thousand volumes. The unusually large demand for graduates of Indiana University for educational and business positions has almost exhausted the supply. In many instances the authorities have been unable to comply with the numerous requests. The members of the faculty have been in a large number of institutes this summer and they report that every section of the State will send an increased number to the University this fall. Among those who addressed county institutes this season were President William L. Bryan and Professors Aley, Clapp, Davis, Foley, Holland, Lindley and Woodburn. Gerstacker's Irrfahrten. By F. B. Strum, Assistant Professor of German, University of Iowa. 4x7 inches. 203 pages. Illustrated. Price, 45 cents. The Principles of Rhetoric. By Elizabeth, H. Spalding, A. B., of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. 5x7 inches. 275 pages. Price, 90 cents. Asensi's Victoria. By Edgar S. Ingram, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Romance Languages in Ohio State University. 64x4Į inches. 166 pages. Every Day Life in the Colonies. By Gertrude L. Stone and M. Grace Fickett. 71x51 inches. 119 pages. Illustrated. Selected Poems of Swinburne. By William Morton Payne, LL. D. 41x6 inches. 379 pages. 60 cents. "A Common School Spelling Book" (Ginn & Company, Boston, New York and Chicago), by Aaron Gove, former superintendent of the Denver, Colo., public schools, is a book based upon the methods universally employed by teachers rather than upon theories The F. A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, N. Y., offers "An Outline of English and American Literature," by John E. McKean. The book affords a practical and systematic literary study for teachers, students and literary clubs and for any one who may need a guide book for his travels "In the Realms of Gold." Thirteen Chapters of American History (The Baker & Taylor Company, 33-37 East Seventeenth Street, New York City), is a most attractive volume, fully illustrated with reproductions of the famous series of thirteen historical marine paintings by the late Edward Moran, the greatest maritime painter of the United States. Each picture is accompanied by an interesting descriptive essay written by Theodore Sutro, a distinguished member of the New York bar. The volume is fascinating reading throughout, heightened in interest by its superb illustrations. The book should not only be found in every teacher's library, but in every school library. It is a fine work of art and a patriotic memento of the most interesting events in the history of America. It comes beautifully bound in cloth and paper, gilt top at $1.50 net. From the artistic viewpoint, as well as that of fashion, the October Delineator surpasses even the high standard it has previously attained. Of widespread interest to parents and teachers and all who lead or follow in educational lines is an exceptional article, "Education for Life Through Living," by William H. Maxwell, Superintendent of the New York City Schools. "Safe Foods and How to Get Them," by Mary Hinman Abel, is a very interesting topic on milk and the necessity of cleanliness in its production and marketing. Some practical advice in housekeeping economy is given by Isabel Gordon Curtis in the October number. Writing on "The Rights of the Child," Dr. Grace P. Murray makes some particularly interesting points for young mothers. Prof. David Eugene Smith, the author of the well-known Smith Arithmetics, has recently received from Syracuse University the degree of LL. D. in recognition of his services in improving the teaching of mathematics in this country. A German Grammar (Silver, Burdett & Co.), by George Theodore Dippold, Ph. D., formerly professor of Languages in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The classification of verbs and nouns; the arrangement of vocabularies and the presentation and selection of material for translation are especially well treated by the author. The book is both attractive and logical. The Hygiene of the School Room (Silver, Burdett & Co.), by W. F. Barry, consulting physician at St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence, R. I., and member of the American Medical Association. Illustrated; 195 pages; cloth; price, $1.50. Its primary object is to treat intelligently and helpfully all sanitary problems vital to the schoolroom. The book is carefully illustrated. Public Elementary School Curricula (Silver, Burdett & Co.), by Bruce R. Payne, Ph. D., Department of Philosophy and Education, William and Mary College; 200 pages. This book attempts to give an exact description of the subject matter and its arrangement in the curricula of public elementary schools of certain representative cities of the United States, Germany and France. The book is not a discussion of pedagogical abstractions, but is a volume of clear and intelligent suggestions to educators and students of pedagogy. The Elements of Geometry (Silver, Burdett & Co.), by Walter M. Bush, principal, and John B. 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Old Tales and Modern Ideals (Silver, Burdett & Co.), by John Herbert Phillips, superintendent of public schools, Birmingham, Ala.; 233 pages. This book is a series of talks to high school students, written not for entertainment or instruction, but for the presentation of worthy ideals and an inspiration for nobler living. |