Sandusky. The following officers were elected: President, A. J. Garraty; Vice President, Mrs. Sarah R. Gill; Secretary, W. R. Richardson; Members of Executive Committee, Supts. Ockerman of Lakeside and Biery of Oak Harbor.

-O. G. Schoenlein has been called to Lima College to take charge of the Normal Department.

-The instructors in the Cuyahoga County Institute were Supt. W. W. Boyd, Painesville; Supt. Payne, Glen Cove, N. Y.; and Miss Abbie Roe, Ypsilanti, Mich. The officers for the coming year are H. H. Cully, President; Wells L. Griswold, Secretary; and F. P. Shumaker, Member of the Executive Committee.

-J. A. Cottrell of North Star has been appointed county examiner in Darke county.

- The attendance at the Van Wert county institute was large, and the interest in the work of Dr. J. C. Hartzler, Dr. Eli F. Brown, and Prof. Will S. Jones was marked. Dr. J. J. Burns was present one day and made an address which created great enthusiasm in the O. T. R. C. which was well organized early in the week with Principal C. M. Drury of Van Wert, recently appointed a member of the county board of examiners, as secretary. The following offcers were elected: President, C. M. Carpenter; Vice President, Celina Ferguson; Secretary, Myrtle Kimmel; Executive Committee, I. F.

Alexander, John I. Miller, and J. L. Fortney.

-Supt. C. L. Dickey of Clintonville has been reappointed county examiner in Franklin county. He made a short visit to each of the thirty-nine schools under his supervision, in three different townships, the first week of school.

The Massillon high school graduated forty-five last June, and admitted seventy-two at the opening of school in September.

-B. S. Davis, for several years past principal of the Campbellstown high school, is now superintendent of the New Paris schools. The schools opened up very promisingly in September, the only drawback being that caused by the serious illness of Miss Edwina Morrow who was chosen by the County Commissioners to take charge of the primary room, the board of education having failed to agree upon a teacher for that department.

We are glad to know that so many of our readers who have arithmetic to teach are helped by the excellent solutions which are being published each month from Prof. Ed. M. Mills of Defiance. He is a master of the subject and knows how to make the hardest problem plain. Institute Committees who are seeking a first-class instructor in Arithmetic and other branches should write Prof. Mills at once.

In the recent changes in the course of study for the high schools

of Columbus, we note that the Commercial Course is strengthened, Spanish added as an elective, Physical Geography changed to the second year, General History substituted for Greek, Roman, French, and English History, Solid Geometry required, and Mental Arithmetic and Commercial Geography added to the Commercial Course.

-The instructors in the Butler County Institute were Hon. Henry Houck of Penn., and Dr. Sanford of New York. The officers for the coming year are L. A. Miller, President; and S. L. Rose and S. P. Clawson, Members of the Executive Committee.

-The Executive Committee have decided to hold the next meeting of the Central Ohio Teachers' Association in Columbus on Friday and Saturday Nov. 2 and 3. Last year the meeting would have been held in Springfield but hotel accommodations were found to be inadequate and Dayton was selected instead. The Committee visited Springfield again some days since finding the new hotel completed but not open for business. Hence the decision to hold the meeting at Columbus. The Committee, or which Supt. H. A. Stokes of Delaware is chairman, are working upon the program and will doubt have a feast of good things for the teachers of Central Ohio. --The announcement of the Crawford County Fair contains fif

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teen pages of statements of premiums for different kinds of work from the pupils of the public schools of the county. It is encouraging that in many counties in the state recognition is thus being given to the educational interests.

-The enrollment at the Greene County Institute was large, and the interest good. The instructors were Dr. T. C. Mendenhall and Miss Lelia Patridge. The following officers were elected: President, Lutitia Dillencourt; Secretary, C. C. Huntington; Executive Committee, D. H. Barnes, E. B. Cox, and Miss Harper.

-The business of the Crowell Apparatus Co., Indianapolis, Ind., is increasing rapidly, and their Physical Laboratory Cabinet certainly deserves a place in every school where physics is taught. On July 24, 1900, Supt. E. B. Cox of Xenia wrote the firm that the three Cabinets bought in Sept. 1898, were so satisfactory that two more were bought the following year. Note their advertisement in this issue, and write them for terms.

-Supt. W. G. Wolfe of Quaker City who spent the summer abroad, has been appointed a member of the Board of School Examiners in Guernsey County.

-Supt. G. W. Witham who is serving his twelfth year at Milford, at a salary of $1200, has received his fourth appointment as school examiner in Clermont County.

-To those teachers who have a desire to attain a broader scholarship it will be interesting to know that the Teachers' Library Union of 324 Dearborn St., Chicago, have begun organizing their work in Ohio, offering courses in History, Literature, Science, Sociology and Pedagogy.

Their plan is somewhat unique, resembling the Chautauqua course in some respects, though offering a greater variety of books to choose from, thus enabling each member to have access to those suited to his individual capacity. Another important feature is that members are not required to purchase any of the books, they being furnished by this association and kept by some leading teacher or superintendent who gives them out to the members. By this method the cost of taking the course is only nominal.

No course can be organized at any place except there be at least ten members and no organization is attempted except through special representatives of the Union."

The earnest conviction of the promoters of this movement that teachers do not place high enough estimate on their ability to accomplish great results by home study. was the fundamental cause of the plan's being organized.

denced by the wide extent of their work and the high commendations from leading educators of the different states where their course has been organized. Any movement by which a teacher's usefulness is increased has our hearty approval. This we believe the Teachers' Library Union will accomplish for any one connected therewith through a membership. It therefore should be encouraged by every one interested in a higher degree of scholarship for teachers.

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

Minister Wu Ting Fang will present in the October "Century" "A Plea for Fair Treatment" in behalf of his fellow-countrymen. This is one of half a dozen articles in the same magazine, in which the Chinese question will be treated, directly or indirectly.

"The Story of a Young Man," by Clifford Howard, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's new novel, "The Successors of Mary the First," "A Story of Beautiful Women," "Blue River Bear Stories," by the author of "When Knighthood was in Flower," are all begun in the October Ladies' Home Journal.

Timely as usual, the October "Atlantic" treats many pressing public questions both foreign and domestic. Ex-United States Minister Angell deals with the present Crisis in China, and John Christie writes about recent progress in far-off New Zealand. Kate H. Claghorn discusses Our Immigrants and Ourselves, Edward Stanwood argues for Voting by Mail, and Dean Briggs has a trenchant paper on some OldFashioned Doubts about modern educational methods.