THE

Vermont School Journal

AND

FAMILY VISITOR

Will be published every month, each number containing at least 32 pages. It is intended to be what its name imports, a Journal of Educational News, and a welcome Visitor in every intelligent Family throughout the length and breadth of the Green Mountain State.

Its columns will be open to a candid discussion of every subject of PRACTICAL INTEREST TO SCHOOLS OF ALL GRADES, from the Family, which is the first and most important School, to the College.

It will aim to furnish short and practical articles, so as to give a

PLEASING VARIETY TO ITS CONTENTS.

Subjects that require lengthy discussion will be treated each in a scries of articles.

Notices and Reports of Teachers' Institutes and Associations, and of other Educational Meetings, will be welcomed to its pages.

TEACHERS, PARENTS, SCHOOL COMMITTEES, AND SUPERINTENDENTS, will find it a convenient medium of communication for such subjects and items of interest as they may wish to bring before the public.

The circulation of the Vermont School Journal is rapidly increasing. For publishers of new books and sheet music; for manufacturers of musical instruments, school apparatus, and furniture for school-rooms, it is the best medium in Vermont for advertising.

Address all business letters and remittances to J. S. SPAULDING, Barre, Vt and all articles intended for publication, to A. E. LEAV ENWORTH. Hinesburgh, Vt.

DEC 15 1924

LIBRARY

Special Purchase Fund
School of Education

With this oft repeated, never old, and ever welcome salutation, the Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor greets, for the first time, its numerous friends. And it not only wishes you a Happy New Year, but, with a view to contribute its mite towards the realization of that wish, it comes to you with its size increased one-fourth, as a thank-offering for your forbearance towards the errors and failings consequent upon the inexperience of its youth. While many have stood by, looking to see whether it would go, you have made it go, both by your cheerful contributions to its support, and by your encouraging words.

Not yet one year old, it, nevertheless, has a history that, were it written, would read many a lesson that some might profit by. Its conductors, certainly, will do so. The experience of the first nine months has taught the value of self-reliance and perseverance, when engaged in a good cause. And what cause more worthy of self-denying labor than that which bids one toil for the improvement and encouragement of the care-worn laborer who is so nobly striving, often single-handed too, "to teach the young ideas how to shoot," properly.

We use the last expression because we like it, though it may seem trite. There is many a teacher, with a heart as warm and as fully desirous to give the right direction to the shooting of ideas by him planted and nurtured in the minds of his scholars, as is that of his more highly favored co-laborer; yet, lacking his

experience and opportunities, he is often left in doubt, and is well nigh ready to despond.

To cheer and encourage such in their, too often, thankless and poorly-requited toil, is one mission of the Vermont School Journal. By its monthly visits, of a month each, it would bring encouragement and hope in the dark and troubled hour, by winning them to turn their minds away, each from its own narrow sphere, to bestow a thought upon others, their brothers and sisters, who, like them, each in his little circle, are contributing their part towards building up the noble and towering, intellectual and moral, edifice, which has already placed Vermont in the first rank among her sister States, and made her a power that is felt from "circumference to center" of the Union.

But we commenced with a Happy New Year to you. How may it be made a happy year? True happiness is found in doing right—in doing to others even as you would have them do to you. How to do right is a question of no little importance in its bearing upon the actions of men. But it is a question that each should answer for himself, as cach is responsible for his own If happiness is to be found in doing good to others, who, next to the parent, has the opportunity of the teacher to find it? Surely, none. This, is the teacher's great reward, the consciousness of stimulating and moulding the self development of the pupils committed to his care. Be encouraged, then, brother, sister, to be faithful to your calling. Verily, you shall not lose your reward.

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To the teachers, parents and school officers in Vermont, the School Journal offers itself as a medium of communication with each other, and hopes to prove itself a welcome Visitor in every family. It aims to furnish practical articles. To this end it invites the co-operation of the practical teachers of the State. Items of information concerning the practical working of the school law and the schools, are especially desired. Thus, through the pages of the School Journal, the teachers and friends of education in the State may form a mutual acquaintance, and have the opportunity to do each other good.