Latin Phrases, 78, 122, 311 Spare Moments, Letters-Extracts from, 22, 48, 72, Sowing and Reaping, 121, 197, 199 Southern Illinois, 242 88 56 161 149 45 Study, 117, 131, 216, 230 210 -By Hearing, 273, 303, -How Some, 262 275 Summer Teachers, 9 Slade-Biographical Sketch, 113 114, 277 Smoking Tested, Neither Schools nor Newspapers, Offer, Old School House, 41 Temperance and Drunkenness, 272 134 35 Teachers-Authority of, -How to interest Scholars in, 62, 107 31 289 5 310 305 23 -What is, 183, 211, 265 72 Our Contributors, vol 1-2 APRIL, 1859. VERMONT SCHOOL JOURNAL, AND FAMILY VISITOR: Devoted to the Educational Interests of Vermont. MONTPELIER: PUBLISHED BY A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE VER MONT STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE. Address all business letters and remittances, to J. S. SPAULDING, Barre, Vt.; and all articles intended for publication, and Exchanges, to A. E. LEAVENWORTH, Hinesburgh, Vt. VERMONT SCHOOL JOURNAL AND FAMILY VISITOR. Volume L APRIL, 1859. Number I. Teachers, and Friends of the Educational Interests of Vermont : The first number of the Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor is now before you. The object for which it has been started, and the plan it proposes to pursue, have been set forth, sufficiently plain, in the Circulars of August and February last, in the Prospectus on the last page of the cover, and in an article entitled "An Encouraging Letter." It may be well, however, to insert here, the doings of the State Association in relation to the matter, that all may be posted in regard to the origin, rise, and progress of the movement, which has resulted in the establishment of this Journal. VERMONT STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. NORTHFIELD, Aug. 18th, 1857.-The Business Committee presented a letter from D. B. Hagar, President of the Mass. Teachers' Association, in relation to an Educational Journal for Vermont. The subject was referred to a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Colby of St. Johnsbury, Spaulding of Barre, and Parker of Waterbury. AUGUST 19th.—The Committee on an Educational Journal, made the following report : Your Committee would recommend that this Association tender to the Directors of the Mass. Teachers' Association, an acknowledgment of our grateful appreciation of their generous proposal of co-operation in providing for Vermont an Educational Journal, with the assurance that considerations of expediency only, induce us to decline, for the present, an acceptance of their propositions. (The "propositions" were, that the Vermont Asssociation should take a part interest in the Mass. Teacher, and that a certain number of pa ges be devoted to the Educational interests of Vermont, and be under the direction of an Editor appointed by the Vermont Association.) The report was fully discussed by Messrs. Camp, Cummings, Bourne, Conant, Roe, Buckham, Parker, Button, Graham, Jenne, Carpenter, Hon. Wm. SLADE, and Sec. Adams, and adopted. On motion of Mr. Graham, the Committee wore instructed to consider and report upon the practicability of establishing a Vermont Educational Journal. Mr. Colby, from the Committee on an Educational Journal, reported recommending that a Committee be appointed to provide suitable Educational matter, and procure its publication in the Vermont papers; and, that, in the mean time, said Committee secure careful estimates, to be presented at the next annual meeting, of the cost involved in undertaking and sustaining such an Educational Journal as shall be adapted to the wants of the State. The recommendation was adopted, and the following Committee chosen-Prof. N. G. Clark of Burlington, J. K. Colby of St. Johnsbury, and E. C. Johnson of Rutland. BELLOWS FALLS, Aug. 17th, 1858.-Rev. Mr. Richards appeared as the Representative of the N. H. Teachers' Association. He made a proposition that Vermont should unite with New Hampshire in sustaining their Educational Journal. The proposition was referred to a Committee consisting of Messrs. Conant of Royalton, Parker of Waterbury, and Winslow of Pittsford, who reported that such a measure, under present circumstances, is not advisable, although we would reciprocate the kind feeling that prompted the offer. The report was adopted. AUGUST 18th.-Prof. N. G. Clark, from a Committee, of last year, submitted the following report : We have prepared, and obtained from other contributors, a series of artieles on a variety of practical topics, and secured their publication in some twenty-five different newspapers of this State, with the cheerful consent of their respective publishers. We have made inquiries relative to the cost of establishing a School Journal, and find the estimates for the net expenses of printing a journal of the same size, paper, and type, as the Teachers' Voice, lately published at St. Albans, to be from forty to fifty cents per copy, for an edition of one thousand copies; and, that the price of subscription for single copies should not be less than one dollar, in order to cover incidental expenses and losses. We would further beg leave to report in favor of continuing the method resorted to last year. (We would remark here, that one of the Committee, E. C. Johnson, |