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All letters pertaining to the business management of the JOURNAL, should be addressed to the Publishers. WHEELER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 219 NORTH CHERRY ST. NASHVILLE, TENN THE Coming together of half a hundred country and city superintendents can but result in good to the individuals, even if no general result is seen. WE had intended, in this number of THE JOURNAL to present a sketch of Mary Sharp College, but failed to get the "copy." In its stead is given a sketch of the oldest chartered institution of learning in the South or West. THE Public School Officers' Association which recently held its session in this city may well be considered a power for good. By honest, earnest, unselfish work by the individual members the organization may effect needed improvements in the workings of the public school system, and in the system itself. No. 10. street, on the turf, in society, railroading, anything that leads to eminence or notoriety-preferably the latter." "THE Leading Facts in Americen History," by Montgomery, is in the Chatauqua course of study for the current year. It is a valuable collection of facts; but with "the" prefixed to "leading facts' it proves sometimes very unsatisfactory. A few days ago this writer desired to find something of the organization of the "State of Franklin." This epoch in the history of the State of Tennessee and is conceived by many people to be an important event in the history of the United States. Not finding a word about this matter he looked for the "Wautauga Association," and "John Sevier," and "Jame Robertson," and several other names connected with important events in our National history, but without finding any of them. Turning to the period of the beginning of the war of the Revolution a careful search was made, but without avail, for the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" This is popularly believed to have been the first declaration of independence made by any body of Americen citizens; but it is not mentioned in this book. This declaration of inde dependence having been made immediately after the news of the battle of Lexington, it certainly is an event worthy of mention in so pretentious a book, THE educational affairs of Nashville are in a condition that would be amusing were it not serious. The public schools are going on all right in the hands of a splendid corps of teachers. But the Board of Education is in a tangle. The Board adopted a "rule" requiring teachers to visit each of their pupils at home at least once in three months. The rule seemed to everybody but the Board to be absurd and mischievous and a general demand'for its repeal was made. The Board was deaf to all appeals, and atter two months of waiting the City Council, the creator of the Board of Education, permptorily ordered the rule to be recinded. The Board positively refused to do this, and appointed a THIS most sensible remark by the New England Journal of committee to wait on the Council, and so it stands. Education deserves the attention of teachers: Test the eyesight of your pupils at once. Any jeweller who sells eye-glasses will probably loan you the regulation card of different sized letters for the test, if not, write figures of different sizes on the board, and see at what distance the children can distinguish them. IT must be admitted that there is too much truth in what is said by that erratic writer-Walter Blackburn Harte—in the New England Magazine. The course of even the best of our magazines seems to say that the distinction between char acter and reputation: between fame and notoriety; has almost disappeared. But here is the expression: "The day of literary men in literature is over; to succeed in literature one must nowadays first succeed n something else—in Wall The situation is a little suggestive of this, from the Journal of Education: We do not remember to have read of quite so ridiculous a performance as that of the school board of Kalamazoo, Mich. The board voted that the janitor should have charge of the school grounds as well as of the building. This was sup. posed by the principal to mean that he had the same and no more care of the grounds than of the building. The principal gave the boys permission to play ball; the janitor forbade their playing; the principal informed the janitor that he had care of the grounds, but not of the boys; the latter resented this interpretation and drew his revolver upon the former in the presence of his scholars. Now the ludicrous and vicious phase of the matter is that the school board by a vote of three to two sustained the janitor. THE acting editor of THE JOURNAL is very grateful to members of the Public School Officers' Association for kind words and kinder deeds. WE are exceedingly sorry that so good a man as Mr. Claude J. Bell should be looking for a situation. For a number of years he has done satisfactory work for the American Book Company, but the concern has recently decided to dispose of all agents south of Kentucky, and hence his dismissal. LET every teacher and every student so use the Christmas holidays that he will be the better prepared for the work that follows. Get all the enjoyment possible out of them. Forget work and devote yourself to play. Only be sure that no moment of fun leaves a scar on the heart. That's our Christmas sermon. THE JOURNAL proposes to continue its protest against the conventional "Address of Welcome" and the "Response." While they may be enjoyed by a few people in every audience a very few-it is undoubtedly true that nine tenths of the people "welcomed" would greatly prefer to take some things for granted, and enter at once upon the enjoyment of the welcome. Leave these antiquated addresses out of the programme. It will be observed from announcements made in another column that the Tennessee State Teachers' Association is to meet in Tullahoma July 6, and remain in session three days. No better place than Tullahoma could have been selected by the Executive Committee. Many friends of the Association, however, will be pained to know that for the fourth time our State Association is to be used as a rope to lasso visitors to the National Association, and receiving no more respect. At least two meetings have already been spoiled by being placed in the position of traps or conveniences of the larger meeting. There was such general disatisfaction at this condition of affairs last July that three members of the Executive Committee said in the presence of this writer that such a thing should not occur again. On the strength of that promise we have not discussed the subject as should otherwise have been done. We propose to do all we can for the success of the next meeting, but the friends of the Association will find it up hill work with teachers who remember how it has been at recent previous meetings. ALMOST every thing in the Public School Journal is dignified and wise. Is not the following applicable to the schools of Nashville, and possibly other Southern City Schools: We have published elsewhere an intelligent protest from a grade teacher in Chicago against the conflict of orders received from the supervising force of that city. Before this was in type, we received a letter from one whom we know to be of the ablest and most devoted of principals in a large city, from which we extract the following: "Taking an inventory of my mental state, I think that I am tired. The principal of a school is made less and less of what a principal should be, every year. Beyond his being a maker out of reports and doing a little of police duty about the premises, his occupation is gone. Of salary I make no complaint. I receive $ a year, a sum probably beyond my deserts; but I do make complaint that while I am held responsible for my school, all influence is removed from any. thing I may do or say for the betterment of the teaching, by the weightier influence of the supervising force." This is a protest from one of the most capable principals in this country, who has no superior in the supervising force of any city in matters pertaining to the instruction and management of children and in power to inspire teachers with a This protest arises from an spirit of inquiry and devotion. evident want of discrimination on the part of the supervising force. They do not seem to work in accordance with the idea that only those schools are to be helped that need help and that they are employed to strengthen the weak and not to weaken the influence of the strong. It is probably true that nothing in our school organization is in more reed of a thorough overhauling than our ideas and methods of school supervision. CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE S. C. BATTAILE. The idea of the great Chautauqua Reading Circle entered the mind of Bishop Vincent its founder about 30 years ago while he was pastor of a small church in New Jersey. His plan met with the hearty co-operation of many prominent writers and educators, and in 1878 the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was instituted. The work consisted of a four years course of reading covering the principal subjects of a college curriculum, omitting mathematics and languages, but giving the student an outlook to learning and an acquaintance with the masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. The books are selected with great care, much pins being taken to glean just what is valuable, throwing away the chaff that would be useless to busy men and women. There have been some objections to the plan because the course is not thorough. It does not claim to be, and the diploma received at the end of the four years only certifies that the student has completed the prescribed reading of the C L. S. C. I do not think it proposes to benefit men and womeu who have had college advantage except by way of review, yet many graduates are reading the course with profit and pleasure. The real aim of the C. L. S. C is to put into the hands of those whose educational opportunities have been limited, well selected books on History, Literature, Science and Art at a cost so slight-$7.50 a year-that any one can obtain them. The circulars sent out from the central office at Buffalo say that the course is "For high school and college graduates, for people who never entered either high school or college, for merchants, mechanics, apprentices, mothers, busy housekeepers, farmer boys, shop girls, and for people of leisure and wealth. More than fifty thousaud people are taking the course, and nearly twenty thousand have received the diplo Many of these graduates are reading post graduate courses for which special seals are awarded on the diploma. Circles have been formed all over the world, in America, Europe, Japan, Africa, China, Australia, and the Islands of the Pacific. Though the circles create a greater interest in the work, the reading is often done alone, and the writer who graduated as a "dot" believes that those who finish the reading without outside encouragement deserve much more credit than one in a circle. Any reader of THE JOURNAL who does not know about the C. L. S. C. can secure information from the General Office, Drawer 194, Buffalo, N. Y. ma. |