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NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY

1129 STATE LIFE BUILDING, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MARY FRANCES WILSON, MANAGER

will give you eficient service. We have calls for the beginning and the experienced teacher. A number of superintendents are now going over our enrollment making_up their teaching force for next year. We want to put you in touch with them. The sooner you enroll the larger your opportunity. Write us at once for information concerning our plans for you.

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Superintendent John H. Jollief, Parke County, has begun issuing a publication concerning the Parke County schools. The first issue came from the press last month. The magazine is devoted to the purpose that should stimulate every school man in Indiana in a supervisory position with an ambition to acquaint the public with what it is the schools are trying to do.

Roscoe Gilmore Stott, who is one of the few educators who do popular lecturing, has begun his season on the lyceum platform, which will last until the first of April at least. During that time he will work in five of the Redpath territories, appearing in fifteen different states and traveling in all about fifteen thousand miles. He will speak in some of the largest city lyceum courses. During his tour in north Iowa he will deliver four educational addresses at Waukon. Dr. Stott had fifty-five commencement invitations last season, thirty-three of which he accepted. He has already made a number of appointments for next May and June. He appears annually before the Louisville Boys' High School,

Pennsylvania State College, Juanita College, Pennsylvania; Franklin College, Woodward High School, Cincinnati, and many other schools of prominence.

Miss Amelia Adams of North Vernon has taken a year's leave of absence from school work to care for her aged mother, who is in ill health and in the ninety-fifth year of her age. Miss Adams has been in the teaching service for thirty-eight years in the rural schools of Jennings County and in the grades in North Vernon. During these years she missed only two days on account of illness, and two days on account of a death in the family. For many years she served as secretary of the Jennings County Teachers' Association. A township trustee, in speaking of her work, said: "The influence of the good she exerted in the character of her pupils will last for a thousand years." She is held in the highest esteem by patrons and her former pupils, who are now among the best citizens of Jennings County. Miss Adams. always taught patriotism, and loyalty to country and home. During the great world war seventeen of "her boys" were in the service, Capt. Myron Bertman and Lieut. Everette White having been her pupils in the seventh and eighth grades. eighth grades. Miss Adams has been

a subscriber and reader of the Educator-Journal since 1881, when it was known as the Indiana School Journal.

The district conferences on the rural schools, that are being held throughout the state during November and December are apparently of great value to the schools. A state conference on rural education was held at the State House on October 29th. This conference has been followed by a series of district conferences. The last one of these conferences will be held on December 22. The county superintendents in every district are attending, as well as the township trustees. Three or four persons from the State Department are attending each conference for the purpose of bringing up the needs. of rural schools from the state viewpoint. In each district there is being formed an organization entitled The District Rural School Association. The association of every district will have charge of further meetings and will conduct a campaign for getting ambitions for better rural schools into the minds of the patrons. These conferences are the beginnings of a rural school campaign that will last for several years, it is to be hoped. The campaign will not be called a success until it finally gets "better school" meetings for patrons held in every country school in Indiana. The program is as follows:

Twelfth District, Fort Wayne, November 10th.

Thirteenth District, Plymouth, November 11th.

Tenth District, Rensselaer, November 13th.

First District, Princeton, November 17th.

Third District, New Albany, November 18th.

Fourth District, North Vernon, November 20th.

Second District, Bloomfield, December 1st.

Fifth District, Greencastle, December 2nd.

Sixth District, Rushville, December 4th.

Ninth District, Frankfort, December 8th.

Eleventh District, Wabash, December 9th.

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Eighth District, Muncie (Royerton), December 11th.

Seventh District, Indianapolis, December 22nd.

E. B. Wetherow, state high school inspector; Z. M. Smith, state supervisor of agriculture; B. J. Burris, assistant state superintendent, and State Superintendent L. N. Hines from the state office, are having parts in the programs. The State Board of Accounts has had a representative at nearly all the meetings to discuss the question of finance in each district. Further announcements will be made in regard to the Rural School Campaign in this

state.

The following persons also are helping in producing the programs at the various meetings: Superintendent Lee Driver, Randolph County, in four of the meetings; President Brown, of the Indiana Farmers' Federation; Superintendent F. F. Heighway, Lake County; Superintendent Frank Wallace, Putnam County; Superintendent Samuel Sharp, Bartholomew County; Superintendent Albert Free, Owen County; Superintendent C. O. Williams, Martin County; Superintendent J. P. Snodgrass, Hendricks County; Superintendent J. H. Jollief, Parke County; Dean McCutcheon, DePauw University; Superintendent C. C. Abernathy, Union County; Professor W. W. Black, Indiana University; Lawrence Orr, member of the State Board of Accounts, and others. All the county superintendents present at the conferences had a part in the discussion.

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The list of Schoolboy Howlers, collected by Raymond G. Fuller, in "The American Child," the National Child Labor Committee's publication, would seem a work of fiction perhaps, to those who have never taught school. But (with apologies to Browning) "the rest may reason and welcome, 'Tis we teachers know" them to be drawn from life.

Here are a few not included in those chosen by the Literary Digest from the above named:

"Louis XVI was gelatined during the French revolution."

"The reason Taft was not elected in 1912 was that the Republican party separated him."

"Algebra was the wife of Euclid." "Geometry teaches us how to bisex angels."

"A vacuum is a large, empty place where the Pope lives.'

"There were no Christians among the early Gauls, they were mostly lawyers."

"Achilles was dipped in the river Sticks to make him normal."

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in synonyms." "A blizzard is the inside of a hen." "The Boxers were Corbett, Fitzsimmons, and Bill Johnson." "A saga was a pitiless warrior but a kind and loving husband." "A saga was made of wood and brass, held on the left knee and played with the right hand." "A brute is an imperfect beast; man is a perfect beast." "Bimonthly means the instalment plan." "An ibex is where you look in the back part of the book when you want to find anything that is printed in the front part of the book." "The Sublime Porte is a good wine." "Adam's ale is a drink. that was made early in human history, in the Garden of Eden." "Adam's ale is the lump in a man's neck." "A man who looks on the bright side of things is called an optimist, but a - pianist looks on the dark side." "Conscription is what is written on a tombstone." "A hyphenated American is one that talks in short sentences." "The salaries of teachers are paid from the dog tax." "One great modern work of irrigation is the Panama Canal." "In India a man out of a cask may not marry a woman out of

"The President takes the yoke of another cask." "The cavalry swept office."

"Horse power is the distance one horse can carry a pound of water in an hour."

Some of our readers may have missed seeing both the original and the Digest's extracts, we therefore include:

"A lie is an aversion to the truth." (Note the epigrammatic quality here.) "A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian." "The Salic law is that you must take everything with a grain of salt." "The Pharisees were people who liked to show off their goodness by praying

over the eyebrow of the hill." "May day commemorates the landing of the Mayflower." "Modern conveniences: Incubators and fireless telegraphy." "B. Sc. stands for Boy Scout." "The moon rose over the treetops and transfixt the night into day." "The whole of North America speaks English except Chicago and New York." "A Mr. Newton invented gravity with the aid of an apple." "The speaker did not expect iron-clad cheers." "The laws are made by Lloyd George or else by a policeman." "Things which are impossible are equal to one another."

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FIRST CAPITOL AT INDIANAPOLIS. In 1835 this building of pure Grecian Doric architecture was erected at a cost of $60,000.

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PRESENT CAPITOL AT INDIANAPOLIS was completed after ten years' work in October, 1888, at a cost of $1,980,969.18.

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