PEABODY NORMAL COLLEGE NOTES. IMPROVEMENTts Going on in the Old UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AND BUILDINGS. The next session of the Peabody Normal College will open Wednesday, October 7th, with promise of at least 500 students during the year. Miss Sears and Miss Bloomstcin will resume their duties in the college at the opening of the coming session. Miss Sears has spent her year's leave of absence at her home in Massachusetts. For a part of the year Miss Bloomstein was at a health resort in Western New York, but for several months past has been at her home in this city. Profs. Lampson and Vance went to Europe early in June and are now studying in Germany-the first at Leipsig and the latter in Jena. During his absence abroad, Prof. Lampson's place will be supplied by Mr. Wayland F. Reynolds, A. B., of the University of West Virginia, and Mr. Charles J. Geer, A. B., of Hampton University, will supply the place of Prof. Vance. Early in the summer Prof. James resigned his place to accept a position in the Univetsity Extension Society of Philadelphia. He will be succeeded in psychology and pedagogics by Prof. Wyckliffe Rose, who has done such acceptable work in the college. The chair of modern languages will be filled by Miss Ellen Wheeler, of the Uuniversity of Michigan. This chair is endowed by the Alumni Society of the University of Nashville, and is to be known as the Winchester professorship of modern languages, in honor of the Alumnus by whose generosity this fund was chiefly created. The great increase in the use of the library has made the services of a third assistant necessary and Miss Bessie C. Jacobs has been appointed to this place- Miss Lassie Jones, the second asssstant, will give her entire time to the work of cataloguing. The library is now in process of renovation and improvement by cleaning, painting and kalsomining and two additional rooms will be fitted up for cataloguing and storing. The floors will be covered with matting and the whole library made neat and attractive. The work in the studio has increased to such an extent that the entire suite of rooms in the second story of the Winthrop Model School will be devoted to art purposes, and Miss Annie Karslake, of Ingham Univerity, has been employed as an assistent in drawing and painting. Instruction will be given in china decoration and an improved kiln for firing will be set up in the basement of the model school building. Under the skillful management of Mrs. Cheney, great progress has been made in the department of vocal music during the past year, and during the coming year the Glee Club will do work of even greater excellence, and several chorus classes will be formed. The small instrument now in use has proved to be inadequate for chapel purposes, and its place will be supplied by a grand piano of superior quality New instruments and supplies for the chemical, physical and biological laboratories are now on the way from Europe, and these departments will be kept up to a high state of efficiency. The classes in mathematics and in Latin have outgrown their normal size, and Mr. Charles E. Little, A. B., of the last senior class, has been employed as an assistant in these departments. Mr. David G. Ray has resigned his position as private secretary to the President. He will be succeeded by Mr. William R. Payne, the President's son. SOME EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. The following questions were used by Miss Bethenia H. Nance, principal of Tracy Academy, Chartlotte, Tenn., : LANGUAGE. Ist. What is language, and of what composed? 2nd. Name the classes into which words are divided? 3rd. Name the classes of nouns, and what properties have nouns? 4th. Name the numbers, persons, genders and cases of nouns? 5th. Name the classes of adjectives, and their degrees of comparison. 6th. What are pronouns, name the classes of prounouns, and examples of each class? 7th. What are verbs, name their classes and properties? 8th. What are participles? 9th. What are adverbs, name the classes and degrees of comparison. 10th. What are prepositions, name ten prepositions in com mon use? 11th. What are conjunctions, name the classes of conjunctions? 12th. What are interjections, name ten interjections in common use? 13th Construct a sentence either simple or compound, containing at least five parts of speech. 14th. Diagram this sentence: Ha! I see a staring owl sitting on the branch of an old tree, seemingly asleep, but winking. WORD ANALYSIS. Ist. What is an English Primitive word? 7th. Name ten prefixes, and form a word from each? 8th. Nanie ten suffixes and form a word from each ? 9th. Name ten Saxon and ten Latin, and ten Greek derivative words? roth. Give the derivation and meaning of the seven days? of the week. 11th. Give five words in common use, and their synonyms 12th. Give five words from the Latin word civis, and five from the Saxon word new? GEOGRAPHY. Ist. Name the divisions of land on the earth's surface, and bound each. 2nd. Name the principle bodies of water on the earth's surface, and state which ones lie nearest us? 6th. Name the organs of respiration, and the voic, and ex 3rd. Name the five largest rivers of the world? 4th. Name the political divions of North America, with plain how we apeak. their forms of government. 5th. Name the races of men, and the homes of each race? 6th. Name some of the mountain chains of the world? 7th. Name the Zones, and the principle measures of distance on the earth's surface? 8th. Name principal occupation of men, and three products from each. 9th. Name the "five great powers of Europe." roth. Bound your state, and tell its capital and principle cities. 7th. Describe the circulation of the blood. 8th. How can food be turned into muscular motion and mental vigor? 9th. Name the organs of the nervous system, and describe them. 10th. Name the special senses an describe and locate each sense ARITHMETIC. UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1st. By what European Nations was America first settled? 2nd. Name the Colonies of North America? 3rd. What race of men is the Dominant or Ruling race in the United States? 4th. Name the date, cause and result of the Revolutionary war ? 5th. Name the Territorial acquisitions that make up the whole of the United States ? 6th. What part of the United States is meant by the "South ?" By the "East?" By the "North?" By the "West?" 9th. Nume five generals and five battles of the Revolutionary war? Ioth. Name five generals, and five battles of the Civil War? GEOLOGY OF TENNESSEE. MISS GEORGIA OLIVER. 1st. Bound Tennessee, and give the eight natural divisions of the state, and give the area of each division. 2nd. Give the elevation of the state at differept points. 3rd Name the minerals in the scale of hardness, which compose the rocks of Tennessee. 4th. Name the kinds of rocks in Tennessee, and the forms in which they occur. 5th. What are fossils, and name five? 6th. Name the divisions of past time as considered in geology. 7th. Upon what formation is your home situated. Describe it. 8th. Name the most important minerals in Tennessee, and locate them. 9th. Name other useful minerals. TEACHER:-Now that your vacation is over, are you ready and anxious to begin work again, because you have gained strength and wisdom during the summer? were Are you better prepared for teaching than you ever before? How did you spend your vacation? While you were resting did you recreate? What does "recreate" mean? What places of interest did you visit, and what did you hear or see that will assist you in your work this year? Did you try to find something that you night put to use in the school room? What books have you read that will help you? Have you talked about schools, or about your own particular school? Have you dreaded to think of the approaching session, or are you glad to resume work because you love it and feel better prepared for it? Do you really enjoy teaching, or do you only try to make yourself and your friends believe you do? Do you really think you are worth more to your pupils this year than you were last? Do you deserve a larger salary? If you were a school Board would you elect yourself a teacher ? What right have you to ask for a position to teach ? Have you any qualifications of a teacher ? Are you patient? Are you competent to sit in judgment upon the wrong-doings of your bad pupils? Do you know how to talk to a bad boy, or even to a bad girl? Do you know how to secure cheerful obedience from your pupils? Do you know how to win the respect of those over whom you preside? Do you know how to make a lesson so interesting that even your dullest pupils will wake up and want to know something about it? County; Miss Mattie J. Overton, Toone, Hardeman County; Can you make a spelling lesson a source of pleasure to your appointees $100 a year in cash. class and a gratification to yourself? The board ruled that in addition to the thirty-three scholar Can you make Arithmetic so charming that your pupils will ship students there will be admitted to free tuition in the colbe glad for that class to be called? Are you able to teach reading so that your pupils may read understandingly when at home or from under your helpful guidance ? Can you teach Geography so that pupils understand what you are talking about? Do you teach your boys and girls to hold their pens and pencils a certain way, or do you teach them to write? Can they write a letter in less time than an hour and a half? Have you showed your pupils how to be quiet and thoughtful? Do you think it necessary to be considerate of children's opinions or feelings? Do you have singing in your school? Do you have laughing and fun in your school room? Are you too "dignified" to wear flowers, and do you accept with a "thank you" the little picture cards which your pupils give you even if they have come off a tomato-can ? Do you ever read stories or lend books to your pupils ? Have you learned to do yourself justice as a teacher when visitors are in your room? Have you or your children "company" manners? And now! Have you mide any preparation whatever for the profession of teaching? If not, do you think you ought to be drawing your salary as a teacher ? Nashville, Sept. 15. PEABODY SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TENNESSEE. Scholarships have been awarded to 33 Tennessee students as follows: lege 217 Tennessee students. This leaves free tuition for 250 students outside of Tennessee, and the indications are that all these places will be taken. THREE SEVENS. The number seven has for a long time held a very reverential place in the religious literature of certain nations, and what that fact has had to do with the facts mentioned below I leave the speculative reader to judge. To the "seven wonders of the world" the "seven wise say. ings of Greece" have been added, and to these we may add the seven last sayings of Jesus." SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. The Pyramids, the Mausoleum, the Temple of Diana, the Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus, the Statue of Jupiter, and the Pharos of Alexandria. SEVEN WISE SAYINGS OF GREECE. By Solon: "Know thyself." By Chilo: "To see the end of [through] a long life." By Bias: "The majority are bad [wicked]. By Chleobulus: "Moderation is best." By Thales: "Go security, and ruin is near." SEVEN LAST SAYINGS OF JESUS. Luke xxiii. 34: "Father forgive them; for they know not what they do." Luke xxiii. 43: This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." John xix. 28: "I thirst." Lnke xxiii. 45: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." John xiz 30: It is finishedr" Miss Nannie L Emert, Bluff City, Sullivan County; Miss Luke xxiii. 46: "And having said thus, he gave up the The wisdom and goodness of these seven sayings of Jesus are in beautiful contrast with the combined beauty and wisdom of the seven sages of Greece. They tell the triumphs of his cross, The sufferings which he bore- -Beddome. MEAT FOR BABES. Stuff the school children; fill up the heads of them; Bother their young brains and spoil their digestion ; Fill them with 'ometeries, all they can batter at; Crowd them with 'onomies, all they can chatter at ; When they are through with the labor and show of it, What do they care for it, what can they know of it? Feed them and cram them with all sorts of knowledges; Rush them and push them through high schools and colleges; Keep the hot kettle on, broiling and frothing; Marks count for everything, death counts for nothing; Rush them and push them while they've the will of it; Knowledge is great, though many you kill for it; Pile on the taxes to pay you the bill of it; Urge them and press them to higher ambitions; Feed them and fill them, no end to the worrying; Push them and press them, no stop to the hurrying; Parents at home will attend to the burying; Strong meat for babes! is the motto of progress; Knowledge a fiend is, ambition an ogress. Evelyn P. Ballantine passed the best examination at the State Civil Service examination lately at Albany, N. Y., and was appointed resident physician of the Monroe County Asylum for the Insane, according to the new State law which provides that a resident woman physician shall be placed in those institutions where women patients are treated. Dr. Ballantine graduated ten years ago from the medical department of the Ann Arbor University. Since then she has practiced at LeRoy, N. Y. Says the Stanton (Va.) Vindicator: "The story going the rounds that Stonewall Jackson once dismounted and loaned his horse to a tired-out infantryman to ride awhile on the Valley Pike, near Winchester, is a true one. The infantry man was James Swink, of Greenville, this county, and he will never forget it." Says the Stanton (Va.) Vindacator: "The story going the rounds that Stonewall Jackson once dismouuted and loaned his horse to a tired-out infantryman to ride awhile on the Valley Pike near Winchester, is a true one. The infantry man was Sames Swink, of Greenville, this county, and he will never forget it." One of the earliest women explorers in South America was Mrs. A. Dana Piper, who accompanied her husband on his explorations of the Amazon River for tne government. For five years she saw no white person except her husband, living with savages much of the time, and even spending several weeks with a tribe of cannibals. Most of the journeying was done in canoes, and Mrs. Piper thoroughly enjoyed the wild, adventurous life. Her home is Ecuador, but she has recently been in San Francisco, superintending the unloading of a cargo of rare woods, to be exhibited at Chicago, from the timber woods of Ecuador. The Knoxville Journal, says: "Mr. Henry L McCorkle, graduate of the University of Tennessee, class of '89, is now a full fledged United States Army officer." Professor A. Livingston, formerly Superintendent of schools at Tullahoma, is principal of Cornersville Institute. Cornersville, Tennessee. Mr. G. N. Bennett, Peabody Normal College, '91, is principal of Dickson Academy, Shelbyville, Tenn., having for his first assistant Miss Sallie Walton, also. of the Peabody Normal College. Ward's Seminary, under the new management of Dr. Charles, of Missouri, has opened with flattering prospects. Dr. Charles has received a cordial welcome to Nashville. Mr. F. M. Malone, who is well known to graduates of the Peabody Normal College, of whom he is one, has recently taken to himself a wife in the person of Miss Laura Lane Saulsbury. The many friends of Professor A. D. Wharton, for seventeen years principal of the Nashville High School, will be interested in knowing that he has opened a select school for boys on McNairy Street, this city. Prof. George F. James, who for two years filled the chair of Modern languages, and at the same time was assistant Professor of Pedagogics in the University of Nashville, has resigned his chair to accept work with the American Society for the extension of University Teaching, of which his brother, Professor E. J. James, is President. The work of Professor James in the University was so exceeningly successful that his absence will be universally regretted. The students of the Peabody Normal College will be pleas ed to know that Professor Wycliffe Rose has accepted the position recently made vacant by the resignation of Professor James. It will be good news to hundreds of people throughout the south that Dr. W. H. Payne, chancellor of the University of Nashville, returns to his work in October in the enjoyment of better health than for several years. On August 17th last, three graduates of the Peabody Normal College, met by chance in the Union Depot at Petersburgh, Va. Greetings followed of course, and each wanted to know what brought the others to the station, and singularly enough, the individual businesses were very nearly akin. P. M. Tyler, class of '87, was on his way to Powhattan County where he was to be married to Miss McClaren the next day. J. W. Brister, of the same class, expected to meet Miss Johnson of Prince George County, to whom he was to be married the following Tuesday. The third party who L. I. in '88, was ΟΠ his way to Richwitness the marriage of Fermor Barrett, L. took his mond to I. of '89, to Miss Annie Blanton A. B. of '89, at which wedding Mrs. E. R. Jones of Holly Springs, Miss., known at the Peabody as Miss Bessie Blanton, L. I. of '88, was to be present This Third party, Hugh S. Bird, of William and Mary, only managed to keep himself in single blessedness by a hasty retreat from the infected neighborkood. One of the earliest women explorers in South America was Mrs. A. Dana Piper, who accompanied her husband on his explorations of the Amazon River for the government. For five years she saw no white person except her husband, living with savages much of the time, and even spending several weeks with a tribe of cannibals. Most of the journeying was done in canoes, and Mrs. Piper thoroughly enjoyed the wild, adventurous life. Her home is Ecuador, but she has recently been in San Francisco, superintending the unloading of a cargo of rare woods, to be exhibited at Chicago, from the timber woods of Ecuador. Evelyn P. Ballantine passed the best exinamination at the State Civil Service examination lately at Albany, N Y., and was appointed resident physician of the Monroe County Asylum for the insane, according to the new State law which provides that a resident woman physician shall be placed in those institutions where women paiients are treated. Dr. Ballantine graduated ten years ago from the medical depart. ment of the Ann Arbor University. Since then she has practiced at Le Roy, N. Y. SOME RARE OLD CHINA PITCHERS. The naval battles and heroes of the war of 1812 furnished many subjects for use in decorating pitchers, and some bear inscriptions far from flattering to English vanity. With the portraits of Perry are the words of his famous despatch, "We have met the enemy and they are ours." With Lawrence, his dying words, "Don't give up the ship." With the likeness of Decatur, who captured the Macedonian, "Free Trade, Sailors' Rights." "Then quickly met our nation's eyes The noblest sight in nature, With Commodore Bainbridge, of the Constitution (Old Ironsides), are his words. "Avast, boys, she's struck." The old ballad says: "On Brazil's coast, she ruled the roast Dead Britons to be wrapped in." -ALICE MORSE EARLE, in September Scribner. Not Powerful-Spacer: What is the noise about in the next room? Liner: I guess our friend, the poet, is struggling with an idea. Spacer-Is the idea his own? Liner-Yes Spacer-Then he will probably escape unharmed.— Town Topics. THE SCHOOL MARM. Oh, School Marm! Thou who teachest the young ideas How to shoot, and spankest the ertswhile Oh! Thou art a daisy; Thou makest him the National emblem- And he seeth the stars. Oh, School Marm! But all women are not school marms That's where thou hast the bulge on thy sisters. Oh, School Marm! Thou mayest not get much pay here below, The only drawback being that thou stayest there Who remain here below for our reward, School Marm, if there is anything we can do for you, Apply early and avoid the rush; -North Carolina Teacher FOREBODINGS. When Woman's Rights have come to stay When mamma to the court has hied, Oh, who will rock the cradle ? |