last year in school for these boys and girls are they gaining power enough to help them in their future struggles.

Guard against copying. Some children display wonderful ingenuity in trying to present results that they do not want to work for. By individual blackboard work and by forming two classes this evil can in a measure be overcome. The difficulty of doing individual work when the class is large can be remedide by having two classes. The classes can work different lessons. Put stress on the work of one class one day, and on that of the other at another time. Concert work should be avoided, for this brings out the two I's Leaders and Laggards.

3)4, 7) 151. For work in factoring the sight cards can also be used. Write on the cards such numbers as 20, 32, 40, 56, 80, 72, 46, 39, etc. Give factors in same rapid manner. Interest can be aroused along these lines by having races. The children enjoy matching cards. Write on cards,

,,,etc; . f, fo, 44, 37. Arrange in a miscellaneous manner along the ledge of the blackboard and have children match them. The least common denominator in addition and subtraction should be given mostly by inspection.

The subject of fractions is most fascinating, for old truths can be presented in many new ways. "The essence of genius is to present old ideas in new ways." The teacher must ever keep in mind that "some

only suggestive. Do not use the cards so often that the children will become familiar with the answers. Many examples in division can be worked without changing the form of the dividend, as 5) 50, 3) 30%,

have thence enjoyed in manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering, though, in usefulness, unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that, under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouragingin situations in which not infrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea I shall carry it with me to the grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing Vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual-that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue that, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT IN A SMALL CITY.

By Q. E. D.

Chancellor's "Our Schools," at page 134, gives an account of a typical day in the life of a school superintendent in a small city. Wondering if this were a fair statement, I kept a record of what I did on Nov. 1, and here it is: 8:30 a. m., arrived at office. Arranged for substitute for absent teacher. Conversed with pupil transferred from one building to another to find out why he was absent for three days. Received report of refractory furnace at one of the buildings and directed what to do. Call from representative of Ohio Children's Home Association; made subscription. Discussed change of program with teacher and approved proposed change. Type-wrote an important letter. Directed janitor about repairs to certain school property. Call from mother and 14-year-old boy applying for certificate of age and schooling; after investigation issued certificate. Received, tele-. phone report from principal. Read mail and left office for outside work at 10 a. m. Arranged in person for opening a store room for a new school. Visited one recitation in

cipal. Directed janitor about arrangement of new school room. Conference with architect at new high school building. Returned to office. 12:15, Dinner. After dinner 10 minutes given to private business.

Half hour consultation with Board member on school business. Finished making stencil (for duplicator) of assignment of supplementary reading for all the schools for the year. (Made at odd times during the morning.) Investigated complaint of ill treatment of pupil by principal. Visited ten schools and inspected furnaces with two

ard members. Returned to ofilce. Telephoned a neighboring town about children entering our schools from there and making inquiries about a teacher about to be employed. Read mail and inspected work of candidate for drawing supervisorship. Telephoned order for supplies. Ordered supplies needed for commercial department. Two calls from teachers with reference to pupils. An hour's conference with the teacher of English in the high school. 6:00 p. m., supper. After supper an hour with the family. A half hour looking over the daily papers. A half hour's preparation of lesson to be given next day. One hour's study. 10:00 p. m., retired. Not every day has the same duties, but any superintendent will agree that most days are much like the one detailed above.

REST.

Let us rest ourselves a bit.
Worry?-Wave your hand to it-
Kiss your finger tips and smile
It farewell a little while.
Weary of the weary way
We have come from yesterday.
Let us fret us not, instead,
Of the weary way ahead.
Let us pause and catch our breath
On the hither side of death,
While we see the tender shoots
Of the grasses-not the roots.
While we yet look down-not up—
To seek out the buttercup
And the daisies, where they wave
O'er the green home of the grave.
Let us launch us smoothly on
Listless billows of the lawn,
And drift out across the main
Of our childish dreams again.
Voyage off, beneath the trees,
O'er the field's enchanted seas,
Where the lilies are our sails
And our seagulls, nightingales.
Where no wilder storms shall beat
Than the wind that waves the
wheat,

And no tempest burst above
The old laughs we used to love.
Lost all troubles-gain release,
Languor and exceeding peace,
Cruising idly o'er the past.
Let us rest ourselves a bit,
Worry?-Wave your hand to it-
Kiss your finger tips and smile
It farewell a little while.

-James Whitcomb Riley.

THE HALL OF FAME.

Fifteen years ago, a gift of $250,000 was accepted from an unnamed donor by the council of New York University for the erection on University Heights of a building to be called the "Hall of Fame for Great Americans." The structure was built in the form of a semicircle connecting two other buildings. Within are 150 panels on which are to be inscribed the names of Americans deemed the greatest in their respective fields.

Fifteen classes of citizens were recommended for consideration, as follows: Authors and editors, business men, educators, inventors, missionaries and explorers, philanthropists and reformers, preachers and theologians, scientists, engineers and architects, lawyers and judges, musicians, painters and sculptors, physicians and surgeons, rulers and statesmen, soldiers and sailors, distinguished men and women outside the above classes. The judges are one hundred in number and are selected by the council of the university. Candidates may be nominated by anybody, but each nomination to be submitted to the judges must be seconded by a member of the university senate, and in all cases 51 votes are required to elect. In 1900, twenty-nine candidates were elected, instead of the fifty with

which it was expected to start. Under the original rules only five names would have been selected this year, but owing to the shortage in 1900 the number possible of election this year was twenty-six. Only eleven, however, were elected as follows: John G. Whittier, James Russell Lowell, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Quincy Adams, James Madison, John Paul Jones, Alexander Hamilton, Louis Agassiz, Mary Lyon, Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell.

In 1910 it will be possible, on account of the shortage in 1900 and 1905 to elect twenty immortals. After that the plan is to elect five every five years until the year 2000, when the panels have been filled.

The twenty-nine first chosen were: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfellow, Robert Fulton, Washington Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel F. B. Morse, David G. Farragut, Henry Clay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Peabody, Robert E. Lee, Peter Cooper, Eli Whitney, John J. Audubon, Horace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher, James Kent, Joseph Story, John Adams, William E. Channing, Gilbert Stuart, Asa Gray.

Columbus Dispatch.

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SOME one has said that literature represents men in contemplation, while history represents men in action.

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A MODERN Writer makes、 one of his characters speak as follows: "I never worry. When a man worries he goes out considerably more than half the road to meet the devil and insists on dragging him home with him. If I were going to worry I'd first buy me a coffin."

task of teaching.

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TOWNSHIP supervision is having a steady, natural, and healthy growth and public sentiment is looking upon it with favor.