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THE SPIRIT WITHIN.

THE painter who has not complete mastery over brush and color may not hope to produce a work of art. The sculptor can not carve a statue until the use of the chisel has come to be as it were a second nature. What I wish to say is that no workman can throw his soul into his work, and thereby give to the world a work that will live, until his instruments have become a part of himself.

The teacher is a workman; his work is the unfolding of the possibilities of human nature; the instruments of his art are the various branches of knowledge which compose his curricu lum. When these instruments have become a part of himself, when he has made his arithmetic, geography and history a part of his own mental structure, then, and not till then, does he find himself able to animate his work with this higher spirit.

If this be true what shall we say of that teacher who, after two or three years experience, still complains that his examinations are hard. The teacher who does not manifest a conshould be dropped from the list as lacking the essential spirit stant growth into mastery over the subjects which he teaches, of all true teaching.

SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

A French writer has justly said that the purpose of education is not so much to bring the growth of the child up to a certain point as it is to give him such an impetus that his growth will never cease. The greatest endowment the teacher can give his pupils is the intellectual appetite. The teacher that does not look to this can not hope for even a small degree of success. The common school course at best can teach but little geography, but this little may be taught in such a way as to create an appetite for geographical knowledge that will never be satiated. What boy or girl ever read the story of the Esquimaux as told by Jane Andrews without being impelled by the motive of intrinsic charm to read the following stories about the child of the desert, the child of the hot lands, etc. Having read these, the appetite is only keener than before. A taste has been created for a literature that is wholesome, and for the indulgence of this appetite there is an almost unending library of delightful books. The common school course is thus the beginning of a growth that will continue through life. What has been said of geography may be said with even greater emphasis of history and general literature. The boy who reads "Stories of Our Country" wishes to read "Stories of Other Lands." This soon grows into a serious study of the history of the race, and life-time work.

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But to create this intellectual appetite, the school must resort to something more than the ordinary text-book. create a love for books the child must be brought into conduct with them, and this new fire must be kindled within him by a skillful manipulation of what Mr. Bain calls the motive of intrinsic charm. The school must have a library of books adapted to its pupils. The proper use of such a library creates a wholesome atmosphere in the school, and often lends a more genuine inspiration and has a greater educative value than any other part of the school work.

A SHORT-SIGHTED POLICY.

THE Detroit School Board a few weeks ago passed a resolution which throws into bold relief the actual policy of our cities and larger towns. Here is the resolution :

WHEREAS, It has been thoroughly and satisfactorily demonstrated that teachers in our schools who have not received their education in our public schools do not show as good results in their work as those who have secured their education in our public schools; now be it

Resolved, That henceforth no person shall be eligible to teach in our publiic schools who has not received his or her entire education in our public schools, and shall be a graduate of one of our high schools.

part of those who

China shut itself China shut itself resources, has for

While few Boards have been so bold as to formulate such a policy, it is no uncommon thing to find them acting upon it. Superintendents recommend it and public opinion not unfrequently supports it. To say that such a policy means death to the school system in which it is employed and either lack of insight or a niggardly disposition on the adopt it, is to put it in very mild form. within a wall, and after exhausting its own three thousand years remained immovable. While France was moving rapidly on toward revolution and popular government, her American colonists, who, by reason of their issolation, had not so much as heard the names or Roussean, Voltaire and Diderot, were still living under the spirit of feudalism, absolutism, and the domination of the church. The spirit of Ichabod Crane still presides over the schools and homes of Sleepy Hollow simply because it is shut off from exchange with the outside world. That life is the mutual exchange of relations, is a universal law. The first condition of such an exchange is diversity, variety, heterogeneity.

The Boston School Board was criticised a few months ago for spending large sums of money each year on teachers gathered from the various colleges of this country, England and Germany, while their own young men and women had to seek positions away from home. A higher compliment could not have been paid the good sense of that board. But the superintendent says, our schools are more easily man、 aged, and our system more easily maintained, by employing teachers from our own high school or teacher's seminary." This is not to be denied. A dead machine may be run by turning a crank, but to maintain and promote the growth of a living organism requires brains. A man from one of our southern cities, which has adopted this policy of employing home talent, boasted that their pupils after completing the high school course, never cared to go to college. What was intended as a compliment to the high school was the confession of a most serious defect. Since the school is not taught

by college men, it is not animated with the scholarly spirit, and can not inspire its pupils with even a desire for the higher intellectual life. Whenever a city, through sheer ignorance, shortsighted sentimentality, or a pitiable egotism, thus with draws into its shell, to live on its own blood, it condemns itself to a state of torpor, it becomes a mere eddy, while the great current of civilization moves on toward the realization of infinite possibilities.

PEABODY NORMAL COLLEGE.

The new officers of the Girls' Chapter, elected February 9th are :

President, Stella Shepard, Texas; Vice President, Hattie Bradshaw, Alabama; Secretary, Lola Bell House, Texas; Treasurer, Josephene Farmer, Tennessee; Critic, Francis Franklin, Texas; Censor, Helen Robinson, Texas; Librarian, Katy Monohan, Tennessee; Editor, Mary Mathes, Tennessee. Misses Mildred Bennett, Clara Payne and Susie O'Brien, of Nashville, are new members elected during the past month. The young ladies have chosen for their work this semester, a study of Famous Musical Composers and American authors. The first program of the new work was very interesting, and the study promises to be a delightful

one.

The papers read were: Abstract of "Woman in Music," by Miss Pittman; Sketch of Irving's Life, by Miss Robinson. Essay, "The Conquest of Granada," Miss Bradshaw. Selection from the "Sketch Book," "The Wife," Miss Mathes.

The members of the Girls' Chapter are: Misses Bradshaw, Pittman, Skaggs and Williams, Alabama; Misses Larramore and Orr, Georgia; Misses Bell and Stevens, Louisiana; Misses Farmer and Link; Tennessee; Misses Blackshear, Delery, Elam, Eldridge, Franklin, Lola B. House, Willo M. House, Robinson, Rowe, Shepard, Thompson and E. Hagaman, Texas; Misses Linck, Monohan, Mathes, Pugh, Talley, Wade and Bayless, Tennessee.

The Erosophian Society members are: W. T. McGhee, P. M. McNeil, Edgar M. Wright, Alabama; M. L. Croom, W. C. Crosby, J. F. Ellis, O. W. Gardner, C. F. Garrett, Finis Potter, A. F. Riley, W. M. Wear, Whitlow, J. L. Woodall, R. H. Kolb, Arkansas; R. R. Maxwell, California; Treadwell, J. J. White, Georgia; B. B. Brown, E. W. Gudger, R. A. Hall, Johnson, R. P. Kirk, J. A. Spence, A. C. Reynolds, Roark, North Carolina; Converse, New York; J. B. Humphreys, Mississippi; W. D. Brown, S. H. Clark, Doak, Driver, W. H. Ernest, Philip Jones, H. E. W. Jones, Lefkowitz, J. V. Rymer, R. L. Smithson, Terne, J. T. Turner, West, A. B. Anderson, John Donaldson, A. R. Barnes, D. A. Edwards, J. W. Marshall, Tennessee; W. F. Kirk, Texas, J. M. Skinner, Fulk, West Virginia.

A bill is now pending in the North Carolina legislature to allow holders of the diploma of the college to teach in the schools of the State without examination.

Personal. Miss Lula Slaughterbeck '87, is teaching in the city schools of Dayton, Ohio; L. B. Self '86, is at Warnor, Alabama; W. C. Jones, B. S. '91, is teaching in Gyral, Texas; Lee S. London, '91 is principal of the Rose Avenue School, Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Rose E. Franklin died Nov. 9, 1892, at her home in Charlotte, N. C.; Miss Mamie Lucas