Western School News There is a movement on foot to establish a high school at Corning. Supt. James A. Foshay attended the meeting of the superintendents in Chicago recently. Dr. O. B. Cheney, ex-president of Bates College, Me, is visiting Prof. S. P. Meads of Oakland, Cal. One hundred and twenty male and eighty female teachers, started from New York recently for Manila. Miss Mitchell, of Pomona, has been elected as teacher of drawing in Los Angeles to succeed the late Mrs. Bradley. Miss Edith Jordan, daughter of President Jordan, with several associates, will open a preparatory school at Palo Alto next fall. R. Y. Glidden has been appointed a member of the board of education of Fresno county, to succeed J. E. Wall, resigned. Walter J. Kenyon of the State Normal School, San Francisco, has an excellent article in the Manual Training Magazine for February. H. G. Crocker of Los Angeles High School, has resigned to accept a position in Washington, D. C., in the Secretary of State's office. The San Diego school board is having difficulty in finding a successor to A. C. Walker of the commercial department of the high school. J. S. Denton of Gilroy has been elected a member of the County Board of Education of Santa Clara County, vice J. H. Coleman, deceased. Supt. W. A. Thomas of Ellensberg, Wash., is doing a large amount of effective work for the schools by organizing and conducting local teachers' institutes. Miss Grace Henderson, the talented young lady who is a member of the state board of education of the state of Washington, has been engaged to teach in Colfax, Wash. The teachers in the vicinity of Ramona, San Diego county, held an interesting local institute recently. Sam. F. Smith of San Diego, Professor Shaffer and others took a prominent part. WANTED An outline for a Record Book suitable for school libraries. Submit ideas to us and if accepted will pay a royalty or stated sum. Address, THE WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY, Publishers, San Francisco. 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Barrows, formerly superinteddent of Manila schools, spent February in Washington, | D. C. He was especially honored by being frequently called into consultation with the officers of the government on matters pertaining to the Philippines. Supt. Susan Lord Currier of Skagit county, Washington, is making a brilliant record as superintendent of schools. The excellent teachers' meetings, the circulating library, the excellent supplementary books, the methods in practical English, all tend to show her progressive work and well directed enthusiasm. Mrs. A. C. S. Woods will hold the institute for San Luis Obispo county at San Luis Obispo, on the 2d, 3d, and 4th of April. Supt. Minnie Coulter will hold her institute at Petaluma the week of April 7th; Superintendent Rogers of Nevada county, will hold his institute at Grass Valley the week of April 7th; Supt. Edward Hyatt of Riverside, will hold his institute at Riverside, beginning March 31; Supt. Robert Furlong will hold his institute at Mill Valley, beginning March 31. The trustees of the polytechnic school to be located in or near San Luis Obispo, met at the Palace Hotel, Saturday, March 1st. There were present Thomas J. Kirk, Hihn, Graves, and Wickson. Discussion was had as to the scope and special purposes that might be undertaken by the establishment of the institution; some legal questions relative to the construction of the act were submitted to the AttorneyGeneral, and board adjourned to meet in San Luis Obispo on Saturday, March 8. Prof. A. B. Coffey, now absent on leave from the University of Washington, has spent the year at Stanford University. He has had more calls for institute work in this state than he could accept without interfering with his university work. During the spring and summer he will fill a number of engagements in Oregon and Washington. He has, during the year at Stanford University, made a study of psychology problems in connection with school work. He has also prepared a number of new institute addresses. At the request of a number of superintendents in Oregsn and Washington he has promised to visit the States of the Northwest and assist with his bright and effective and inspiring talks. A small mechan cal device just invented by a Professor in Heidelberg. Germany, makes the poorest penman a splendid writer in a few days. Endorsed by prominent College Presidents and Educators, generally in Europe and America. Sent postpaid on receipt of 25 cents in coin or stamps. State whether for man, woman or child. Agents wanted on salary and comission. Educational Mfg. Co. 119 S. 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa. E. I. Miller of the State Normal School of Chico, president of the Northern California Teachers' Association, has appointed the following committees: Executive committee-F. S. Reager, superintendent Glenn County, Willows; Margaret I. Poore. superintendent Shasta County, Redding; Lena K. Nangle, superintendent Tehama County, Red Bluff; F. A. Swanger, principal high school, Woodland; E. E. Müller, principal public schools, Redding; Lillie L. and her devotion to her life work, but in appre- "GRAY'S Laugenour, superintendent Colusa County, Sec- ORIGINAL retary, Colusa; E. I. Miller, Chico Normal, President, Chico. The committee appointed at the last meeting to arrange for an hour's discussion on some educational topic is: Mrs. S. E. Peart, superintendent Yolo County, Woodland; Dr. C. C. Van Liew, president State Normal, Chico; J. B. Hughes, principal Oroville High School, Oroville. It is rumored that San Francisco is liable to take a backward step by indifference to manual training and allied subjects. This is improbable. San Francisco has too much pride in being with the latest thought, and there is no progress in retreating. Fickleness is all the excuse any city can give now for going back on matters that are as firmly established in the best cities as in arithmetic or grammar. You could displace reading in a Massachusetts city as easily as you could any form of manual training that is established. San Francisco will have all these things five, fifteen, and fifty years from today, whatever may be done this year. I have no fear for the present even. I know San Francisco too well to fear. A. E. Winship in Journal of Education. A Tribute to Miss Mary Maroney. DEAR WAGNER: I have just read in your excellent JOURNAL that "Miss Mary E. Maroney of the Franklin Grammar School died December 26th." When I think of that woman's devotion to her life work for a quarter of a century, when I know that she taught school on Friday, December 20th, and got on a car and went to the hospital to submit to the surgeon's knife and died a few days later, I feel that it is due to the living to say of her what I know and hundreds of her pupils know. In the death of Mary E. Maroney the school department lost one of its modest, faithful, efficient, worthy workers, and San Francisco a heroic, womanly woman. This is said in appreciation not only of Miss Maroney 99 DIALOGUES' FOR SCHOOL AND PUBLIC Containing the Laughable Farce "The School- A High Testimonial for the State Normal School, Los Angeles. "The Schoolmaster" (London) prints the following: "The year book of the State Normal School, Los Angeles, California, is beautifully printed, almost profusely illustrated by photographs of the school and everything that therein is, with delightfully clear and full accounts of all the courses. It joins all the clearness of an admirable advertisement to the seductiveness of a well written descriptive article, and over and above all that much interest is stimulated by the thorogoing way in which everything is subordinated to pedagogic aims. One has a glimpse in such a book -a mere calendar of a training college of the American temperament, clear, methodical, daring, and delighting in innovations; a temperament whose effects are shaking already the more sluggish blood of the older nations." THE WALSH ...ARITHMETICS BY JOHN H. WALSH Superintendent of Schools, Brooklyn, N. Y. These books cut off all superfluous matter for the beginner in arithmetic and bring the teaclier, as well as the pupil, to the subject proper without unnecessary delay or labor. Arranged on the spiral advancement plan, they embody in practical form, the best modern ideas on the teaching of elementary mathematics. They have already been adopted by schools representing a population of more than. twelve millions, including the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Philadelphia, St. Paul, Denver, New Haven, Hartford, Dayton, Toledo, Utica, Duluth, Manchester, Detroit, etc., etc. E. J. WILCZYNSKI, Dep't. of Mathematics, University of California: Of all the books I have seen I consider Walsh's Primary and Grammar School Arithmetics the best. The method adopted, known as the "Spiral Plan," appears to be based on sound pedagogical principles, and I am glad to see a number of subjects included in the advanced portions of the book which are often considered too difficult, but which really make the subject easier and more interesting. I am especially pleased with the chapter on Geometry. A child, leaving the grammar school, should not be ignorant of the elementary notions of Geometry, with which he is confronted every day. Arranged by Grades. and Recitations POEMS FOR MEMORIZING Contains the complete list of Poems selected by PROF. ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY, of Stanford University. Compiled, graded, and arranged by It ALICE ROSE POWER These selections have actually been tried in the differ ent grades and approved by practical teachers contains the complete list of poems for grade work recommended by Prof. Cubberley for grade use with the exception of three or four. The literary and ethical value of these poems easily makes it the most valuable list of poems published for school use. The poems are selected from approved original sources. As a desk book for teachers, as a library book for pupils and par. ents, as a reader for all classes, it furnishes the best material that can be obtained anywhere. The book contains upwards of 200 pages set in clear, long primer type, printed on delicately shaded paper so that the children's eyes are not injured while memorizing. 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