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space and easier for the eye. We are using new type and a fine article of paper, and intend that the contents of the JOUR NAL shall accord with its improved appearance. To this end we ask the aid of our friends in the way both of contributions and additions to the subscription list.

Various circumstances have delayed the issue of this number, but we shall make efforts to get back again to the first of the month, as the time of publication.

THE MEETINGS IN DECEMBER.

The gathering of teachers during the holiday week was especially noticeable, for its comprehensive and practical character. The various educational institutions of the State were more generally rep. sented than at similar meetings heretofore and the papers and discussions were unusually able and searching; to which it may be added that a vein of good common sense was generally apparent, and but little riding of hobbies. President REYNOLDS is entitled to much credit for his skill and industry in getting up so good a programme. We have begun the publication of the papers presented, and shall continue it in future numbers. From the minutes of the Secretary, Mr. EMERY, and from the excellent report in the State Journal, by Dr. CARPENTER, we are able to present a very full account of the proceedings.

The convention of county superintendents was more fully attended than could have been expected, when so many were going out of office and so many new ones coming in. The proceedings, a tolerably full account of which we are able to give, were eminently practical, and will be read with interest.

It will be seen from the sketch of the debates in both meetings that there is a growing sentiment in favor of something to supply the "missing link "between the common and graded schools on the one side, and the normal schools and the

on the other. Dr. CHAPIN, President of Beloit College, Dr. CARPENTER, of the university, and A. F. NORTH, retiring superintendent of Waukesha county, among others, were emphatic upon this point — the need of county academies.

The other great want of our system, that is, some sort of town organization, is also more and more felt, and the conviction is growing that it must ere long be placed upon the statute book as a positive and not merely a permissory feature of our school laws.

"Compulsory attendance upon school " met with little favor, the speakers generally regarding such a measure as unnecessary or inexpedient, at present.

THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. — Of the sixty-three gentlemen elected for the next term-1874-5, twenty-three were incumbents during the previous term, and ten, namely, BURLINGAME, of Columbia, CHANDLER, of Dane, 1st district, MORGAN, of Green, SPENCER, of Green Lake, KIRWAN, of Manitowoc, GREENE, of Marathon, FOLEY, of Milwaukee, 2d district, MEARS, of Polk, REGENFUSS, of Washington and CHIPMAN, of Waushara, had served more than one term. Messrs. MALONE, of Racine, LUNN, of Sauk, and BALLARD, of Walworth, had been a short time in office by appointment, while Messrs. KENYON, of Juneau, AXTELL, of Pepin, STEWART, of Waukesha, and BURNHAM, of Waupaca, had formerly served a term or two. The remaining thirty-three, more than half, are new to the business.

We recently had the pleasure of spending a day in one of the best regulated Normal Schools in this or any other State. The place was Whitewater. The day, as fate willed, was the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. In addition to the usual exercises, more or less under the inspiration of Minerva, we were unexpectedly and pleasantly regaled with a favor direct from the Muses, to whom

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perpetual and very acceptable sacrifice and exhibitors who were in attendance
must be offered from that favored temple at the Universal Exposition, and appears
of learning. If this is in any sense enig- to have been a decidedly successful and
matical, its meaning will be seen in pleasant affair.
another column, where, indeed, the seeker
will find much more than a mere expla-
nation.

Among the speakers at the close of the
banquet was Dr. HoYT, who responded to
the Fifteenth Regular Toast, on "Educa-
tion, the Security of our National Fu-
ture." We shall try to find space in our
next issue of the JOURNAL for the elo-
quent and logical speech made on the
occasion by our distinguished fellow-

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

We have read with much interest the reports, reaching this country from time to time during the past year, of the discovery, by Dr. HENRY SCHLIEMANN, of the veritable site of ancient Troy and the un-citizen. earthing therein of sundry works of art which the Doctor proclaimed to belong to the regal treasures of Priam. This-We learn from the President, S. H. discovery, if genuine, would entitle Dr. SCHLIEMANN to rank with LAYARD and DI CESNOLI, and would win for him the enthusiastic gratitude of all lovers of Homer and Virgil.

A recent German announcement informs us that the Doctor has in preparation a book upon his excavations in Troy, which will contain a photographic atlas of 216 plates representing his discoveries. It is stated that no less than 8,750 different objects, golden prisms, coins, cylinders, rings, beads, etc., and called by him the "Treasury of Priam," were found in a large silver vase. It is further stated that "all the photographs are being prepared under his direction in Athens. Meanwhile the printing of the German as well as of the French text is going forward in Leipsic without delay, so that the appearance of his work, anxiously expected by archæologists, can be looked for at no distant date."

WHITE, of Peoria, Ill., that the Fourteenth
Annual Meeting of the National Educa-
tional Association will be held in Detroit,
Mich., on the 4th, 5th and 6th days of
August, 1874. The Governor of the State,
the Mayor of the City, the State and City
Superintendents of Public Instruction,
and the Board of Education of the city
of Detroit, have extended a very cordial
invitation to the Association to meet in
that place. Free use of assembly halls
has been proffered, and announcements
concerning programme, facilities for
travel, hotel accommodations, etc., will
be made in due season.

A CHANCE TO DO GOOD.-The Superintendent of the Industrial School for Boys has opened a Reading Room for them, and asks contributions. He says: "About forty volumes of very suitable bookseight magazines and some dozen papers have been furnished by the Secretary of

To all this we simply say that we fear the Board of Managers and the Superinit is too good to be true.

tendent of the School. These constituted Christmas Presents on the day the Room We have received from Dr. J. W. HOYT, was opened, and we most respectfully but now in Europe, a copy of a neat little earnestly invite all friends of education pamphlet entitled "Celebration of the to aid in this enterprise. If you wish to Ninety-seventh Anniversary American do a lasting good at small expense, please Independence at the 'Blumen-Saele,' in furnish this Reading Room with some Vienna, Austria, July 4th, 1873." The good book, magazine or paper, or give celebration was originated and planned us the means to purchase one. All the by a number of American Commissioners reading should be carefully selected. A

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cabinet of natural curiosities would add materially to the attractive, refining and elevating influence of the Reading Room, and constitute a rare source of enjoyment and permanent good to these wayward sons of Wisconsin." Contributions may be addressed to A. D. HENDRICKSON, Superintendent, Waukesha, Wis.

WAUSHARA COUNTY.-A correspondent says: The schools in Waushara county are at work with energy. Teachers seem to be inquiring for better methods of teaching and governing, and making their schools what they ought to be. An association has of late been formed for the western part of the county, which meets once in two weeks and gives promise of being of great benefit. The meetings are well attended and interesting. H. W. ROOD is its President, and OWEN MUNZER, Secretary. We are also sustaining an Educational column in our county paper. Our excellent superintendent, THEO. S. CHIPMAN, now serving his fourth term, is doing much to raise the standard of teachers, by holding County Normal Institutes twice in each year, and by attending to the interests of our schools generally.

MANITOWOC. (The Joint District.)—Our schools are in a flourishing condition under the able supervision of Hosea Barns, Esq., and his assistants Miss M. Frances Barr, Miss Anna Cuddy, Mrs. Carrie Green, Miss Ella Sackett, Miss Annie Burnet, Miss Jennie Hodges, Miss Fannie O'Connor, and the kind motherly Mrs. E. M. Barns. JOHN LANTRY, Clerk.

ROCHESTER SEMINARY.-The Principal

of this flourishing school, J. H. GOULD,

* BOSTON TEA PARTY.

BY MRS. H. F. G. AREY.
Tune Auld Lang Syne."

One hundred years to-day, dear friends,
One hundred years to-day,

The tea that made a nation strong
Was steeped in Boston Bay.

When Britain, with harsh laws, pursued
Our course o'er sea and land,

And on her stalwart cxiles laid
Oppression's iron hand,

We spurned indignant from our shore
Her taxes and her teas,

And back to haughty England bore,
Deflance on the breeze.

(Chorus).

A century since to-day, dear friends,
A century since to-day,
The tea that made a nation's strength
Was steeped in Boston Bay.

We taught our English lips to sing
Proud anthems of the free;
And, deep in Boston's harbor, steeped
That glorious cup of tea.

It swelled our hearts, it fired our veins
With ecstasies divine,

And served through weary years of war,
In place of bread and wine.
[Chorus.]

Where'er the path of honor leads

We follow with a will;

It stirs our sturdy exile race

To deeds of valor still.

We snuff it in the morning breeze,
We taste it when we sup,
And Boston harbor still holds out
Her stimulating cup.

[Chorus.]

In thinking of those rare old days
We'll cast all chains aside,

And crush from out the land's highways
Corruption, power, and pride.

We'll sing with unpolluted lip

The anthems of the free,

And many an hundred years we'll sip
Old Boston's cup of tea.

[Chorus.]

*This song was sung with no little zest by the

informs us that the winter term opened pupils of the Whitewater (Wis.) Normal School on

Dec. 16, under very favorable auspices.

ANY man who attempts to live a Christian life, no matter what his creed, is my brother, and one house is large enough for both of us.

Tuesday, the 16th Dec.

LIFE is a book of which we can have but one edition. Let each day's actions as they add their pages to the indestructible volume, be such as we shall be willing to have an assembled world read.

OTHER STATES.

took strong ground for compulsory school MAINE. The State Educational Asso- attendance. Hazing and secret societies are the subject of fierce controversy at Yale.

ciation met at Waterville, the last week
in November. The energetic and admir-
able State Superintendent, Mr. JOHNSON,
propounded the educational policy of the
State for the last six years, as: 1st, better
instruction; 2d, efficient supervision; 3d,
sufficient and permanent revenue; 4th,
the obligatory education of every child.
There is a whole volume of wisdom and
logic in this order. Prof. F. A. ALLEN,
(of Pennsylvania,) has finished a third in
stitute campaign in the State. His exper-
ience in this work has been larger proba-
bly than that of any other man, and where
he goes once he is called again.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
been vigorously pushed here also.
late State Superintendent, Hon. J. W.
SIMONDS, has been working in that field
personally, with great success, but un-
fortunately goes out of office now! The
"town system" is earnestly advocated,
and will soon be adopted we think.

Institutes

have

The

MASSACHUSETTS received, at the Vienna Exposition, a "Diploma of Honor," the highest prize for education. The old Bay State is always in the van. RHODE ISLAND, the last New England State to have a public common school system, is one of the first in the energy and wisdom of her development of the system. Evening schools are a marked feature. O. FARNUM, then teaching for $24 a month, and boarding himself, opened one in North Providence in 1832-3. Now they are quite common. -The 29th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Instruction (State Teachers' Association.) will be held in Providence, Jan. 22-4. Commissioner EATON will deliver an address. The State Normal School re-opened two years ago under Prof. J. C. GREEOUGH, is very successful.

CONNECTICUT.--The State Teachers' Association held at Hartford in November, was well attended and was favored with an address from HENRY WARD BEECHER, on universal education, who

NEW YORK.-The Dean of Canterbury (Eng.) in visiting the public schools of Albany was astonished to find so many lady teachers, and that they succeeded so well.-The city superintendent of Rochester reports against corporal punishment, but 1200 out of 1250, principals of grammar schools in the city of New York, recommend its restoration there.— The editor of the State Educational Journal goes against Business Colleges, not in the abstract, but as they are at present. Speaking of our educational work generally, he says, "We crowd through our education, and rush into active life, just at the time Europeans think they are ready to begin the study of a profession." We propose to reprint the article for its good points.-The investigation growing out of the death of Leggett, at Cornell, has brought to light a state of absolute barbarism around that Institution, that must expose it to general indignation, if not removed. The faculty have already taken decisive action, to this end.

OHIO.--The editor of the National Teacher notices a judicious plan of oral instruction in simpler elements of natural science in the public schools of Toledo, and excellent results in teaching reading by taking special pains to bring out the feeling as well as the thought.— Supt. HANCOCK, of Cincinnati, at a meeting of the "Friends of Inquiry," in that city, advocated the right and duty of the State to provide the highest educational advantages, but another speaker opposed all education by the State.-Mrs. JOHN OGDEN, whose husband is connected with the Ohio Central Normal School, has opened a training class for "Kindergarteners," in connection with her Kindergarten at Columbus. Applications received until Feb. 1. We hope Wisconsin will send an applicant for the training. Openings would be found for Kindergar tens, we think, in several of our cities.

BOOK NOTICES, ETC.

THE TEACHER'S COMPANION to the American Drawing-Slates and Cards. By WALTER SMITH, Director of Art Education in Massachusetts. Boston: Noyes, Holmes & Co.

It is known to our readers that Massachusetts, generally first in good works, has taken a step forward in elementary education, by providing for instruction

THE REPUBLIC, a monthly magazine published at Washington, and "devoted to the dissemination of political information, contains in the January number an article by Senator Howe, entitled "Some remarks on the Report of President ELIOT upon a National University." In this article our Senator, with his character-in free-hand drawing in the common istic force and directness, endeavors to show the falsity of President ELIOT's premises and arguments, and to give rea

sons for the establishment and mainte

nance by the general government of a National University.

We

We will simply say that whatever difference of opinion there may be respecting the force of the Senator's reasoning, no one can deny that the paper is very sprightly and interesting reading. hope to give our readers ere long some extracts from it, and expect also to take an early opportunity to give a little editorial talk on this now much abused and much defended question of a great Government University.

COMMON SCHOOL MANUAL, for Rhode Island. Providence Press Co., Printers to the State.

This book, by resolution of the Legislature, was prepared by a committee, consisting of Hon. Elisha R. Potter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the Commissioner of Public Schools, and the Secretary of State. It contains the Constitution of the State, so far as relates to education, and the school laws, with decisions, remarks and forms. It is altogether an admirable volume, for the use of school officers for whose benefit it is designed.

schools. Mr. Smith, whose skill had
been tested in England, is employed by
the State as General Director, and has
special supervision in Boston. In the
absence of personal instruction, from
competent teachers, his little manual will
enable any teacher, and especially any
one who has a little taste and skill in this
direction, to give instruction in drawing,
especially if the drawing cards and slates
are obtained. This is an eminently prac-
tical matter, worthy of immediate and
general attention.

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION for Curtis'
Number Lattice and Numeral Frame.
By E. T. CURTIS.

This pamphlet explains the use of the Lattice or frame which Mr. Curtis ex

hibited at the time of the Educational gathering in this city last month, and a specimen of which he left in the office of the State Superintendent. The apparatus is very ingenious and if sufficiently durable must be desirable. Address E. T. Curtis, Calumet, L. S., Michigan.

SCHOOL SUPPLY AGENCY.-We take

pleasure in calling attention to the advertisement of Mr. John H. Rolfe. The Gazetteer and Biographical Dictionary which he supplies, among other things, are especially valuable.

THE NURSERY Continues to delight the children as usual. It enters upon its fif teenth volume with the January number. HOBART'S HELPS TO SCHOOL MANAGENot only in the house but in the school- MENT.-This system has been tried with room it must prove a welcome visitor, good success, and is now published by and would make a capital new “reader” | Hadley Bros. & Kane, 136 State St., Chievery month, for the younglings. $1.50 cago. The chromos and other embela year. Address John L. Shorey, 36 lishments are got up in good taste, and Bromfield St., Boston. must be very attractive.

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