INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTENNIAL. The program celebrating the first hundred years of Indiana University was begun on Foundation Day, January 20. Features of this early part of the program were the exercises in Bloomington, the Foundation Day dinner in Indianapolis, and the local celebration in all the counties of the state and all over the world wherever groups of alumni and former students could get together. Other events will take place later in the spring, and even the 1920 football team will be known as the Centennial Team with the idea of putting on a great schedule in honor of the hundred years just passed. Special educational programs will be giv en at the university during the next few months. A letter from President W. L. Bryan, of Indiana University, concerning the university's needs: "In reply to your letter asking me to make a statement concerning the financial situation of the University, I beg to say: 1. The enrollment at Indiana University will be more than 50 per cent greater in 1919-20 than in 1912-13, when the present tax for higher education was fixed. "2. The cost of what the schools must buy and of what teachers must buy is more than 100 per cent greater than it was in 1913. "3. These two facts which hold in general for all schools in the entire country mean that the very time the young people are as never before seeking an education it is less than ever possible to provide adequate means of education for them. "4. The worst of the situation is that teachers in all grades of schools are being compelled to leave the profession in order to make a living. As Abe Martin says: On account of the high cost of living Professor Alex Tansey has resigned to accept a position as janitor. The fact now is that the elementary and high schools are filling important positions with persons who have never taught at all and enough such persons can not be found to fill the vacancies. In like manner the brilliant younger men in the university faculties are being forced to leave the university career and go into business. I heard a great manufacturer say that he could take the entire technical faculty of one university, pay them twice their present salaries and make money by it. But if the manufacturers do that who will train the next generation of technical men for the manufacturers? The fight for national business and for world business must be won first in the universities and it can not be won at all if the universities are allowed to degenerate. "5. The conditions stated above hold generally for the whole country. But the State of Indiana is not doing what it should in comparison with other states. From Bulletin No. 26, 1916, of the Bureau of Education, page 42, I see that Indiana was 43rd among the 48 states in the amount expended for higher education for each $1,000 of wealth. The result is that Indiana institutions can not hold their men as against the states on every side of it. Our men have been taken not only by Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, et cetera, but also by Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri; et cetera. This is worse than wrong. It is shameful. Why should Purdue lose a dean to Illinois? Why should Indiana lose a professor to Missouri? When will our people say: There is no man too good for Indiana? "6. Finally I appeal for support for the non-State colleges. I appeal for support for the Harvard, Cornell and Princeton drives. These great national institutions belong in part to us and should have our support. I appeal for support for the colleges of Indiana. They have rendered priceless service. They are now caught in the fearful trap of after-war cost of living. They should be supported not simply by their alumni but by the people throughout the State. I will gladly join a movement for a vigorous general campaign in their behalf. "It is a year since the great war closed a year in many ways as terrible as the war itself—a year filled with terror of great uncertainties. But one thing is certain: Our children must be educated. The truth must be discovered and taught and applied to the manifold uses of humanity. We must therefore save our schools. No country is better than its schools." MR. MYER'S STATEMENT. To School Officials and Teachers: I take this means to announce that I have assumed the ownership and management of the Educator-Journal Teachers' Agency. I shall conduct the agency under the name of The Educators' Bureau. It will be my policy to direct the bureau on the highest professional plane. High-grade, helpful, effective service to teachers, superintendents and school officials is my aim. I plan to make The Educators' Bureau more than a mere agency for enrolling teachers and finding places. where they are needed. The Bureau will undertake to render professional services along many lines for which no charge will be made. Such questions as concern matters of school administration, methods of teaching, parents' meetings, teachers' certificates, school laws, entertainments, discipline, and many others of a professional nature may be brought to us by any teacher, and they will receive prompt and courteous attention. This bureau will seek to enroll only those teachers who are worthy, progressive, ambitious and well qualified, and will ably assist them to desired positions. It will deal fairly, frankly and confidentially with school officials who come to it for help in filling vacancies. Besides the above I shall later announce an additional service along the line of safe investments for teachers. I ask, and I am sure I will have, the co-operation of the school people of Indiana in making this bureau successful in fulfilling its mission. W. A. MYERS, A. M., Mngr. W. A. MYERS PURCHASES TEACHERS' AGENCY. W. A. Myers, formerly superintendent of the Bloomington schools, has The purchased Educator Journal Teachers' Agency and succeeds M. P. Helm as manager. Mr. Myers will devote his entire time to the management of the agency in his efforts to serve the teachers, superintendents, and trustees. For this work he is especially well qualified to give expert service as his long professional experience has been such as to make him familiar with both the desires of the ambitious teachers and the needs of superintendents and trustees wanting good teachers. He has a wide acquaintance with the public school men of Indiana and with hundreds of superintendents in adjoining states and throughout the country. He is a graduate of Indiana University and has spent several summers in adin Columbia University. Mr. Myers vanced courses in educational subjects taught school for many years in Indiana, and later, served successfully as Fortville, Hartford City, and Bloomsuperintendent of schools at Shoals, ington. He resigned his position at Bloomington to take up work with the Bobbs-Merrill Company with which company he has been connected for two years. From this latter position he now resigns to give his personal attention to the newly acquired Teachers' Bureau. Mr. Myers will retain the Teachers' Agency offices with The EducatorJournal Co., 404 Newton Claypool Building, and he will be glad to have not only his old friends among the teachers and superintendents, but all others as well to call on him at any time. In another column he makes a statement as to his proposed policies. The Educator-Journal bespeaks for him a deserved success and can assure its friends that their needs will be well cared for in the personal attention of the new manager. King Richard, the Crusader Adapted From Scott's Talisman. By Lois G. Hufford, Teachers' College of Indianapolis. It had been agreed that, on account of the heat of the climate, the judicial combat should take place at one hour after sunrise. The lists enclosed a space of hard sand, one hundred yards long by forty in width. Saladin's royal seat was erected on the western side of the enclosure, just in the centre, where the combatants were expected to meet in mid-encounter. Opposite to this was a gallery with closed casements, so contrived that the ladies, for whose accommodation it was erected, might see the fight without being themselves exposed to view. At one extremity of the lists were placed the followers of Richard, and opposed to them were those who accompanied the defender, Conrade. Around the throne of the Soldan were ranged his splendid Georgian Guards, and the remainder of the enclosure was occupied by Christian and Mohammedan specta tors. Long before daybreak the lists were surrounded by a large number of Saracens. When the first ray of the sun arose above the desert, the sonorous call, "To prayer, to prayer!" was uttered by the Soldan himself, and answered by others, whose rank entitled them to act as muezzins. It was a striking spectacle to see them all sink. to earth, for the purpose of repeating their devotions, with their faces turned towards Mecca. Meantime the sponsors of both champions went, as was their duty, to see that they were duly armed and prepared for combat. The hour at length arrived, the trumpets sounded, the knights rode into the lists armed at all points, and mounted like men who were to do battle for a kingdom's honor. They wore their visors up, and riding around the lists three times, showed themselves to the spectators. There was an air of manly confidence on the brow of the Scot-a radiancy of hope, while, although pride had revived Conrade's courage, there lowered on his brow a cloud of despondence. Even his steed seemed to tread less lightly than the Noble Arab on which Sir Kenneth rode. The priests, after a solemn prayer that God would show the rightful quarrel, retired from the lists. The trumpets of the challenger rang a flourish; a herald-at-arms proclaimed: "Here stands a good knight, Sir Kenneth of Scotland, champion of the royal King Richard of England, who accuseth Conrade, Marquis of Montserrat, of foul treason and dishonor done to the said King." When the words, "Kenneth of Scotland," announced the name of the champion, a loud acclaim burst from the followers of King Richard, and hardly suffered the reply of the defendant to be heard. He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle. The esquires now approached, and delivered to each his shield and lance. The shield of the Scot displayed his old bearing, the leopard, but with the addition of a collar and a broken chain, in allusion to his late captivity. The shield of the Marquis bore, in refer ence to his title, a serrated and rocky mountain. Each shook his lance alöft, and then laid it in the rest. The silence of suspense was general-not a sound was to be heard save the snorting and pawing of the steeds, who seemed impatient to dash into career. Then, at a signal given by the Soldan, an hundred instruments rent the air with their brazen clamors, and each champion, spurring his horse and slacking the rein, the horses started into full gallop, and the knights met in mid space, with a shock like a thunderbolt. The victory was not in doubt-no, not one moment. Conrade showed himself a practiced warrior; he struck his antagonist in the midst of his shield, bearing his lance so straight and true that it shivered into splinters. Sir Kenneth's horse recoiled and fell on his haunches, but the rider easily raised him with hand and rein. But for Conrade there was no recovery. Sir Kenneth's lance had pierced through the shield, through a plated corselet of steel, through a coat of linked mail, had wounded him deep in the bosom, and borne him from his saddle, leaving the truncheon of the lance fixed in his wound. The sponsors, heralds, and Saladin himself, crowded around the wounded man; while Sir Kenneth, who had drawn his sword, now commanded his antagonist to avow his guilt. The helmet was hastily unclosed, and the dying man, gazing wildly on the skies, replied, "What would you more? God hath decided justly-I am guilty-but there are worse traitors in the camp than I." When his sponsors had removed Conrade from the lists, Richard cried, "Sound trumpets-shout in honor of England's champion!" Drum, trumpet and cymbal rang out at once, and the deep and regular shout, which for ages has been the English acclamation, sounded amidst the shrill yells of the Arabs. At length there was silence. "Brave Knight of the Leopard," resumed Coeur de Lion, "thou hast shown that the Ethiopian may change his skin and the leopard his spots. Yet I have more to say to you when I have conducted you into the presence of the ladies, the best judges and best rewarders of deeds of chivalry." The Knight of the Leopard bowed assent. "Hark!" said Richard, "the timbrels announce that our Queen and her attendants are leaving their gallery. Come, we will to the pavilion, and lead our conqueror thither in triumph." Blondel, the minstrel, tuned his harp to the boldest measure, to welcome the victor into the pavilion of Queen Berengaria. He entered, supported by his sponsors, Richard and William Longsword, and knelt gracefully before the Queen, though more than half the homage was silently rendered to the Lady Edith, who sat on her right hand. "Unarm him, my mistresses," said the King. "Let Beauty honor Chivalry! Undo his spurs, Berengaria; Queen though thou be, thou owest him what marks of favor thou canst give. Unlace his helmet, Edith-by this hand, thou shalt, wert thou the proudest Plantagenet of the line, and he the poorest knight on earth!" Both ladies obeyed the royal commands-Berengaria with bustling assiduity, and Edith blushing, as slowly and awkwardly she undid, with the assistance of Longsword, the fastenings which secured the helmet to the gorget. "And what expect you from beneath this iron shell?" said Richard, as the removal of the casque revealed the noble countenance of Sir Kenneth. "What think ye of him, gallants and beauties? Doth he resemble an Ethiopian slave, or doth he present the face of an obscure and nameless adventurer? No, by my good sword! Here terminate his various disguises. He hath knelt before you, unknown save by his worth-he arises, distinguished by birth and fortune. The adventurous knight, Kenneth, arises David, Earl of Huntingdon, Prince Royal of Scotland!" There was a general exclamation of surprise, and Edith dropped the helmet which she had just received. "Yes, my masters," said the King, "it is even so. When the Scottish King failed to carry out his promise to aid our arms in the conquest of Palestine, this noble youth, with a small train of devoted attendants, joined us at Sicily. The confidants of the Royal Prince had all, saving one old follower, fallen by death, when his secret had nearly occasioned my cutting off one of the noblest hopes of Europe. Why did you not mention. your rank, noble Huntingdon, when endangered by my hasty and passionate sentence?" "My pride," answered the Earl of Huntingdon, "brooked not that I should avow myself Prince of Scotland in order to save my life, endangered for default of loyalty. And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the Crusade should be accomplished." "May we know of your grace by what strange and happy chance this riddle was at length read?" said the Queen. "Letters were brought to us from England," said the King, "in which we learned that the King of Scotland had seized three of our nobles, and alleged as a reason that his heir was in our camp and in our power; therefore he proposed to hold these nobles as hostages for the safety of his son. This gave me the first light on the real rank of the Knight of the Leopard, and my suspicions were confirmed by DeVaux, who, on his return from Ascalon, brought with him the Earl of Huntingdon's sole attendant, who had gone thirty miles to unfold to De Vaux a secret he should have told to me." "Old Strauchan must be excused," said De Vaux. "He knew that my heart is somewhat softer than if I wrote myself Plantagenet." "Thy heart soft!" exclaimed the King. "It is we Plantagenets who boast soft and feeling hearts, Edith. Give me thy hand, my fair cousin, and, Prince of Scotland, thine." It is needless to inquire whether David, Earl of Huntingdon, was as mute in the presence of Edith Plantagenet, as when he had appeared to be a nameless adventurer. Before the Crusaders returned to their camp, Richard, longing to distinguish himself in the sight of the assembled princes, asked Saladin, "How say you, princely Soldan-what if we two should now, and before this fair company, decide the long-contended question for this land of Palestine, and end at once these tedious wars? Yonder are the lists ready, nor can Paynimrie ever hope for a better champion than thou. I, unless worthier offers, will lay down my gauntlet in behalf of Christendom, and in all love and honor, we will do mortal battle for the possession of Jerusalem." There was a long pause for the Soldan's answer. At length he said: "Fighting for the Holy City against those whom we regard as idolaters, I might trust that Allah would strengthen my arm; or if I fell by the sword of the Melech Ric, I could not pass to Paradise by a more glorious death. But Allah has already given Jerusalem to the true believers, and it were tempting the God of the Prophet to peril, upon my own personal strength and skill, that which I hold securely by the superiority of my forces.' "If not for Jerusalem, then," said Richard, "yet for the love of honor, let us run at least three courses with grinded lances." "Even this," said Saladin, may I not lawfully do. The master places the shepherd over the flock, not for the shepherd's own sake, but for the sake of the sheep. Your own Scripture sayeth, that when the herdsman is smitten, the sheep are scattered." The chivalrous extravagance of Richard awakened the spirits of the assembly. When they rose to depart, Saladin advanced and took Richard by the hand. "Noble King of England," said he, "we now part, never to meet again, That your league is dissolved, and that |