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Valparaiso city schools are to have a new high school building, badly needed for a long time on account of over-crowded conditions.

The Richmond High School faculty for the coming year has been announced by City Superintendent of Schools J. H. Bentley, as follows: John Thompson, S. S. McVernon, Garnet Thompson, Floyd Granahan, Anna Finfrock, Inez Trueblood, Flora Broaddus, Mary Morrow, Alice V. Lanning, W. O. Wissler, Shannon Neff, Bertha E. Hawkins, Martha Whitacre, Anna Bradbury, Elizabeth Smelzer, Donna Parke, Elma Nolte, Florence Bond, L. B. Campbell, Ruth Crane, Margaret O'Neil, Tessa Sharp, Charles O. Mays, Elbert Emma Bond, Vickers, Harry F. Ross,

Dorothy Gebeauer, Stella Kellsey, Emile Maue, Ralph Sloane, August Eickel, Margaret Wickemeyer, Helen Fox and Florence Ratliff.

Lieut. Hugh Vandiver has been selected as principal of the Center Grove High School, Johnson county.

R. W. Johnson, formerly high school principal at Mishawaka, is now high school principal at Hastings, Neb.

Miss Katherine Howard, a member of the Frankfort High School faculty, has been elected as principal to succeed W. S. Hough, who was promoted to the superintendency.

Miss Phoebe Bentley, Greensburg, has been employed as physical director at Rushville.

Miss Anna Willson, Crawfordsville, will enter Columbia University this month for a year of work.

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The Greenfield teaching corps is as follows: Superintendent, M. S. Mahan. High School-Elmer Andrews, principal, head of history department; Mrs. Ed. L. Rickard, science; Margaret L. Hill, English and public speaking; Lena Hivnor, mathematics; Florence Moffett, Ruth King, Latin; French; Mrs. J. M. McHaffie, English, history and commercial geography; Minnie Carnahan, shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and commercial arithmetic. Washington Building-Principal, Helen Amick; Arthur Williamson, C. O. Griffith, Florence Amick, Daisy Harlan, Gladys Teel, Anna Reeves, Edna Butler, Lizzie Harris. Lincoln Building-Margaret Baldwin, principal; Lucile Ging, Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Alice Glascock. Longfellow Building— Mrs. Anna Jackson, principal; Ethel Harlan, Mrs. Kate Martin, Mrs. Iduna Barrett. East Greenfield-Nelle Kinsley. visors and Special Teachers-Edna Jackson, music supervisor, high school orchestra, chorus; Elizabeth Bidgood, art supervisor, high school art, mechanical drawing; Selma Stevens, cooking; Eliza B. Knight, cooking; J. M. McHaffie, manual training; Walter C. Kolb, vocational agriculture.

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TRI STATE COLLEGE

ANGOLA, IND.

Two College Courses, four years. Four Engineering Courses. STANDARD NORMAL SCHOOL, with full line of courses, and two contemplated courses, upon which Life Licenses are to be based. Expenses low. Mid-Spring term opens Apr. 29; Summer term opens June 3, and Fall term Sept. 30.

Address L. M. SNIFF, Pres.

The New National Anthem Should be sung every day. Greatest song of the age. Ten copies unison or four-part harmony, for $1.00 and slips with words and music to chorus, all needed for your school free. Address, "America, My Country," Ass'n, Red Wing, Minn.

New room has been provided for the Bluffton schools because of overcrowded conditions.

Supt. G. W. Youngblood, Auburn, was in school in Columbia this summer.

H. A. Henderson, formerly superintendent at Delphi and Greencastle, now located at Athens, Greece, is visiting in Indiana. He will return later to Athens, where he is employed by the Greek government.

Hale Pickett, of Holton, is the new principal of the Letts school.

Supt. H. B. Roberts, Henry county, has been granted a thousand-dollar increase in salary.

BLOOMINGTON.-Supt. E. E. Ramsey has announced the appointment of Prof. Horace C. Wysong, a graduate of Indiana University, to be principal of the Bloomington High School, to succeed Prof. C. R. Clayton, who has accepted a position in the Indianapolis Manual Training High School. Prof. Wysong's home is at Lebanon, but for two years he has been principal at Rawlins, Wyo.

The list of teachers for Westport has been selected, and is as follows: Superintendent, Dewey Manuel. High SchoolPrincipal, Edith Blaydes; assistant principal, Floyd Wheeler; Iris Munn. GradesFlorence Davis, Mabel Williams, Elsie Braden and Helen Hooten.

MUNCIE, Ind.-Russell H. Fitzgibbon, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Fitzgibbon, has won the second award in a nation-wide contest held by the Ohio state library for the best essay written by high school pupils. He wrote on the subject, "Why We Should Have an American Language." His father is superintendent of Muncie schools and recently moved to Muncie from Columbus, Ind.

Window trimming will be taught in the Gary schools.

Karl C. James, superintendent of schools in Montgomery county, has announced the names of the principals of senior high schools under his jurisdiction for the coming year. They are as follows: Ladoga, E. N. Stoner; Waveland, W. H. Whitcomb; Wingate, J. G. Hirshbrunner; New Richmond, J. D. Amick; Darlington, M. F. Coons; Linden, Floyd Welch; Alamo, H. Allen Wood; Bowers, Hubert Smith; New Market, H. A. Kesler; Mace, E. L. Kirkpatrick; Waynetown, R. D. Squires.

Every schoolroom should have an American flag as a part of its decorations, to help keep alive the spirit of patriotism. If there is none in your room, write to_the Betsy Ross Flag Society, care of The Educator-Journal, and ask how your pupils can easily earn a beautiful 5x8 moth-proof bunting flag.

If you have trouble with any problem in the new arithmetics now in use, The Educator-Journal will be glad to undertake to solve it for you, the answer to be published in the issue following receipt of your letter.

The suit of Miss Beatrix Graves against the Jefferson school township of Miami county, for damages in the sum of $3,500, which was filed in the Miami circuit court some time ago, has been brought to Howard county on a change of venue, says a Kokomo paper. According to her complaint, Miss Graves was a duly licensed teacher, holding a state teacher's certificate signed by Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction, when she signed. a contract to teach the Miami school for the term of 1917-18. Soon after she began teaching the township trustee canceled the contract and refused to pay her for the services she had performed, the trustee contending that she did not possess a license to teach in the schools of the state. This act on the part of the township trustee, says the complaint, constituted breach of contract by which the plaintiff was deprived of the salary for the term of school to the amount of $500, and has suffered damages as a result of humiliation in the sum of $3,000.

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Central Normal College Danville, Indiana

Established 1876

A Standard Normal School, and a College.

THE COURSES MAINTAINED:College, Standard Normal, New Life License Courses, Class B, Class A, High School, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Common Branches, Music Supervisor's, Domestic Science, Piano, Voice, Violin, etc.

Fall Term opens September 16, 1919. Winter Term opens December 9, 1919. Students enter at any time. Class A Training Course, 52 weeks each year. Review work a specialty. Great choice of subjects in college work. Expenses reasonable. Board, $3.00 per week. Catalogue free. JONATHAN RIGDON, Pres.

Thirty-five normal schools and colleges were represented at a conference on teacher training courses at the State House August 2. The conference, which was held with Oscar H. Williams, state inspector of teacher training, was for the purpose of interpreting the Vesey law and for discussing the issuance of provisional certificates for teaching, says a report of the meeting. Plans for putting approved teacher training courses in the colleges and normals were also taken up. L. N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction, defined the law in an address as one to fix standards for training teachers.

Robert K. Devericks, head of the manuscript division, talked on the old certification and the new and informal talks were made by Prof. F. M. Stalker, of the State Normal School; Prof. Willis Fox, of TriState College; President Eliza A. Blaker, of the Teachers' College of Indianapolis, and Prof. Noble Sherwood, of Franklin College.

Mr. Williams discussed plans and suggestions for establishing the approved courses and the issuance of provisional certificates.

President W. A. Millis, of Hanover College; Prof. G. W. Neat, of Valparaiso University; Prof. F. M. Stalker, of the State Normal, and Mr. Williams were appointed on a committee to determine the amount of practice teaching that will be required under the new law.

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QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK

Answers Indiana State Board Examination Questions for 1917-1918. Price $1.00. With one year's subscription to Educator, $1.50. Order now; it will help you in your Review for examination. EDUCATOR-JOURNAL CO., 404 Newton Claypool Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.

State Board Questions for August with Answers.

1. Define: graph.

ARITHMETIC.

Trade discount; cash discount;

2. Reduce 2 pecks, 3 quarts, 1.2 pints to the decimal of a bushel.

3. A firm fails and has debts of $62,500. Its assets amount to $37,500. How much will a creditor having a claim of $8,000 obtain?

4. Given principal $540, rate 5%, interest $84. Find the time.

5. How many acres in a tract of land % mile long and 8 rods wide?

6. Multiply fifteen millionths by fifteen thousand and explain as you would to a class studying decimals.

7. Define: Perimeter; diagonal; payee; bond; longitude.

8. Which is the better investment, 32% bonds at 87% or 4% bonds at 105?

9. Add 622,489, 926,569,

59,764, 329, 5,009.

785,765, 738,921,

10. % is 20% of what? % is what part of 5/6? 11. What determines the value of any subject in arithmetic?

Answers.

1. Trade discount: A discount allowed by dealers from catalogue price in order to regulate and change that price without printing new catalogues and to conceal the true selffrom and ing price competitors persons whom they do not desire to know the true

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The rule is to point off as many decimal places in the product as are found in both multiplier and multiplicand, for 15 millionth in this problem is multiplied by 15,000 is 225,000 millionths, but since zeroes at right of last integer are of no value, these digits may be discarded.

.000015 X15,000.000,225,000.

Properly read, after multiplication, 225,000 millionths, but 225,000 millionths is equivalent in value to 225 thousandths.

7. Perimeter: Distance around or sum of bounding lines; applied especially to polygons. Diagonal: Line joining two angles of a polygon of four or more sides that are not adjacent. Payee: Person directed to receive payment in a commercial paper. Bond: A promise to pay secured by the property of the firm issuing. Longitude: Astronomical distance east or west of some line taken as a prime meridian.

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LITERATURE.

1. Identify: Shylock, Rosalind, Banquo. 2. Define metrical romance Name one. 3. Name five English historians.

4. What were Tennyson's chief works? 5. Give a biography of James Whitcomb Riley.

6. How would you teach "The Lady of the Lake"?

7. Write a character sketch from Dickens. 8. Name five great epics.

9. Quote the Lord's Prayer.

10. Name five Indiana authors.

11. Define drama. Name two kinds.

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1. Shylock, the Jew money-lender, Merchant of Venice; Rosalind, daughter of the banished duke, in As You Like It; Banquo, a general in the king's army ambitious to become king, in Macbeth.

2. A rambling tale of adventure dealing with the three great interests of the Middle Ages-battle, love. religion. Layamon's "Brut".

3. Gibbon, Greene, Macaulay, Carlyle, Raleigh, Hume.

4. In Memoriam, Locksley Hall, Idylls of the King, Maud, the Princess.

5. Riley, born in Greenfield, Ind., October 7, 1853, died, July 22, 1916; began writing as reporter, later contributed verses to the Indianapolis Journal. Though he has written some poetry in pure English, his dialect poems of Hoosier life are his best known works. (See answers in April issue, 1919.) 6. The class should study the life of Scott and his relation to the romantic movement to understand why he would naturally write a story like the Lady of the Lake. A brief study of the history of Scotland should give the historical basis of the poem. Read the poem to get the story as a whole; then follow with a more detailed study of each canto, with a discussion of the characters and descriptions; have certain of the beautiful parts committed. It is full of splendid topics for oral composition. But do not kill a beautiful poem and thrilling story by too much analysis.

7. Sydney Carton, the hero and most tragic character in A Tale of Two Cities. Many claim that in Carton Dickens shows development in character better than in any other. Read the book and study this character.

8. The Iliad, The Aeneid, The Kalevala, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana.

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10.

See Bible.

Gen. Lew Wallace, Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, Geo. Ade, Gene

Stratton-Porter.

11. A story acted as well as spoken. Tragedy, comedy.

SCIENCE OF EDUCATION.

1. Explain the pedagogical value of repetition.

quired number 5×% quired number.

== or 3% re8

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5/6 base; 100% base.
5/6

100% of base; 1/6=1/5 of 100% of base 20% of base.

2/6; 2/6=2x20% of base = 40% of base.

11. The value of any subject taught in arithmetic must be determined by the double standard of utility; of the principles involved in everyday life, and the mental discipline derived from the study of the subject. The trend is toward the utilitarian side but this can not be the only guide as it will not develop thinking power in handling numbers sufficiently to be effective.

Why is example more influential on the part of teacher than precept?

3. What are the most favorable mental conditions for good memory?

4. Is the main purpose of teaching that of enabling the pupil to remember what was learned? Why or why not?

5. Of what value is it to children to reproduce a story that has been read to them?

6. How does the aim of education affect the course of study?

7. What has been the effect of "child study" upon the American elementary schools? 8. Briefly discuss the place of imitation in

education.

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