any other educational paper in the United States. With S. S. Parr, Principal of the DePauw Normal, at the head of the Pedagogical De partment; Geo. F. Bass, Supervising Principal and Critic Teacher in the Indianapolis schools, in charge of the Practical School-Room Department; and Howard Sandison, Professor of the Science of Teaching and Principal of the Model Department of the State Normal School, in charge of the Primary Department, and with an able corps of general contributors, the Journal can not fall below a very high standard of excellence. As primary work underlies all other work, it is made a specialty. Besides making the Primary the largest department, primary articles are often found in each of the other departments and in the main body of the Journal. It is safe to say that with but a single exception, no other educational paper in the United States gives so much space to primary work. Neither time nor money will be spared to make the Journal just what the teachers need. 66 66 66 Evansville, the mouth of the Wabash, 313 Northwest quarter of the State (average) 700 TENURE OF OFFICE A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. Massachusetts now has a law which provides that "The School Committee of any city or town may elect their teachers to serve for a term of years, or during good behavior." This is a step in the right direction. The law should be made to include Superintendents. The worst thing against teaching as a profession is its insecurity. A teacher or Superintendent can not select his residence as other people do, and say here will I make my home. He is liable to be dropped at the end of any year for a trivial reason, or no reason. This insecurity of tenure of place is driving out of the teachers' profession every year many of the most competent, because they are unwilling to run the annual gantlet for place. With a suitable provison for the dismissal of a teacher at any time for incompetency or immorality, there is no reason why competent tried teachers should not be elected "during good behavior." Under this regulation it would be a little more trouble to get rid of an incompetent teacher, but the compensating good to the competent masses demands that the change be made. A MUNIFICENT LEGACY. The late John Brewster, of Boston, has left a fortune of nearly a million dollars which is to be devoted to the establishment of "Brewster's Academy," to be located in his native town, Wolfboro, situated on Lake Winnepesaukee. A public library, reading room, lecture hall, etc., are provided for. Ultimately the annual income will be about $50,000. Why do not more rich men in some such way perpetuate not simply their name, but their usefulness? Or, still better: Why do they not use their money in such enterprise while living, and thus enjoy, in this life, the fruits of their generosity? To hold on to money till one is dead and can't use it any longer, robs benevolence of half of its virtue. ANOTHER CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. A resolution has been introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Gorham looking to the celebration at Washington, in 1889, of the centennial anniversary of the formation of the government under the Constitution, and of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America in 1492. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Every one that flatters thee is no friend in misery.—Barnfield. "What's one man's poison Is another's meat and drink." What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.-Cicero. . Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.-Bacon. "Know then this truth, (enough for men to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below." -Pope. O that men should put an enemy in their mouth to steal away their brains. Shakespeare. No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.-A. T. Stewart. Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.-Lowell. "For forms of government let fools contest; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." -Pope. MISS MARY E. WARNER has been teaching a primary select school in Danville for the past six years. A local paper in noticing the recent closing exercises says of Miss Warner: "She is the best primary teacher we have ever had in Danville." people do, and say here will I make my home. He is liable to be dropped at the end of any year for a trivial reason, or no reason. This insecurity of tenure of place is driving out of the teachers' profession every year many of the most competent, because they are unwilling to run the annual gantlet for place. With a suitable provison for the dismissal of a teacher at any time for incompetency or immorality, there is no reason why competent tried teachers should not be elected “during good behavior." Under this regulation it would be a little more trouble to get rid of an incompetent teacher, but the compensating good to the competent masses demands that the change be made. A MUNIFICENT LEGACY. The late John Brewster, of Boston, has left a fortune of nearly a million dollars which is to be devoted to the establishment of "Brewster's Academy," to be located in his native town, Wolfboro, situated on Lake Winnepesaukee. A public library, reading room, lecture hall, etc., are provided for. Ultimately the annual income will be about $50,000. Why do not more rich men in some such way perpetuate not simply their name, but their usefulness? Or, still better: Why do they not use their money in such enterprise while living, and thus enjoy, in this life, the fruits of their generosity? To hold on to money till one is dead and can't use it any longer, robs benevolence of half of its virtue. ANOTHER CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. A resolution has been introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Gorham looking to the celebration at Washington, in 1889, of the centennial anniversary of the formation of the government under the Constitution, and of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America in 1492. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Every one that flatters thee is no friend in misery.—Barnfield. "What's one man's poison Is another's meat and drink." What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.-Cicero. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.-Bacon. "Know then this truth, (enough for men to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below." -Pope. O that men should put an enemy in their mouth to steal away their brains. Shakespeare. No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.-A. T. Stewart. Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.-Lowell. "For forms of government let fools contest; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." -Pope. MISS MARY E. WARNER has been teaching a primary select school in Danville for the past six years. A local paper in noticing the recent closing exercises says of Miss Warner: "She is the best primary teacher we have ever had in Danville." |