Miss Estella Ashwell has recently been added to the high school corps of Middletown and has charge of English and History. Supt. Arthur Powell is very happy in his work, and is looking forward with eager pleasure to the day. when the new high school building will be completed.

-Hinckley, Medina county, is just completing a fine $7,000 school room. It has two fine school rooms above and a fine auditorium below The rooms will seat 100 pupils nicely. Supt. M. O. Morton is doing his third year's work there and is congratulating himself on the fine school spirit.

Some say it cannot be done, but Miss Ellen Hughes, of Oak Hill told her pupils about the Pupils' Reading Circle books and they told their parents and a committee raised the money and now they have the books and are doing the work. Of course it can be done, teachers, if you want to do it.

"Each day the world is born

anew

For him who takes it rightly. Rightly? that's simply; 'tis to see Some substance marks these shadows,

Which we call Life and History. Simply? that's nobly; 'tis to know

That God may still be met with,
Nor groweth old, nor doth be-

stow

These senses fine, this brain aglow,

To grovel and forget with."

-J. W. Davis has resigned his position with Silver Burdett & Co. in order to accept a position with the National Cash Register Co.

Supt. W. E. Lumley, of Tullahoma, Tenn., does his work with a master hand but, all the while, keeps his heart warm toward Ohio by reading the MONTHLY.

-The Cardington high school enrolls 106 of whom 70 are tuition pupils. Supt. F. H. Flickinger and Prin. W. J. Bankes have cause to rejoice in the results of their diligence and wisdom.

Prof. D. A. Ward, formerly of Rio Rrande College, but now of Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake writes with enthusiasm of his work and of the success of President Hull in doing away with hazing in the institution.

-J. H. Snyder, of state school commissioner's office, paid Mt. Gilead a very pleasant call recently. He carries the inspiration of the teacher's profession wherever he goes. He was a very successful superintendent at that place sixteen years ago.

-Supt. J. H. Barnett of Rockford keeps right up with the procession. The enrollment is 340 of whom 68 are in the high school. The new teachers are Miss Frankie Smith, Miss Ethel Layland, and W. A. Hart and they are all doing excellent work. Prin. S. Cotterman has held the fort for eighteen years and is still as good as new.

-The board of education at Stephens have invoked State aid to enable them to continue the school for eight months by way of testing the law.

-Daniel L. Kaiser of New Philadelphia has been a subscriber to the MONTHLY for twenty years and now begins on the second twenty. We wish him success in his laudable enterprise.

-Prof. R. T. Stevenson and Prof. J. H. Dickason each gave two excellent addresses at the Medina Co. meeting Nov. 10. Inspiring music was given by Miss Cora Warren, Miss Etta Musser and W. A. Franks.

-J. H. Rowland has resigned his position with the American Book Company to accept the position of sales manager with the Dieter Company of Chicago. His office will be in Columbus and his territory will include Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Walter E. Painter thought he had quit the school business but he was mistaken. The Painters must teach school. This particular one is supervising the schools of Bedford Tp., Cuyahoga Co. along with much other work and, of course, doing it all well.

-The Mercer Co. teachers held a good meeting at Celina Dec. 15. A very interesting feature of the meeting were the tributes of respect paid to the memory of the late Senator T. J. Godfrey. A

committee composed of R. of R. G. Clark, S. Cotterman, and M. D. Krugh formulated resolutions that breathed forth the spirit of tenderness and deep appreciation. Supt. S. Wilkin also spoke most feelingly in behalf of the services of Senator Godfrey in behalf of education in general and the schools of Mercer. Co. especially.

The article by Prin. L. M. Layton of Springfield which was published in our November number has attracted much attention in many states. Prof. S. H. Clark of Chicago University expresses his pleasure and a Chicago firm has asked permission to republish it in pamphlet form in an edition. of fifty thousand.

-The teachers of Columbiana Co. held a good meeting at Leetonia December 8. The speakers were Supt. C. E. Oliver, W. B. Lindesmith, Supt. W. H. Richardson, Supt. J. K. Baxter, Supt. J. S. Johnson, Miss May Templar, and Dr. C. C. Miller. Excellent music was furnished by Miss Theresa B. Smith and Mrs. J. W. Moore.

The Morrow County Teachers' Bi-Monthly Institute, held at Iberia, Saturday, December 8th, 1906, was an unusually interesting meeting. The interest taken and the discussions entered into by the rural teachers gave evidence that there is excellent work being done in their districts. Very practical and interesting papers were pre

sented by Misses Colmery, of Iberia, and Rinehart, of Mt. Gilead, Walter McFarland and S. A. Rinehart. Those present were very appreciative of a most excellent address by Supt. F. H. Flickinger, of Cardington. The Round Table. topics were the means of creating a lively discussion, which resulted in good. Those who participated were Messrs. Flickinger, Leiter, Wornstaff, Witcraft, Banks, Rinehart, Booth, Jacobs, Braden and McKeever.

Plans were made at the meeting of the executive committee, Ohio Teachers' Association, held at the Chittenden, Dec. 27, for what promises to be the most important annual convention in the Association's history. Besides a program of general interest there will be the report of the School Revenue Commission created at last summer's meeting, which commission has been at work and will present for distribution a month before the next meeting a printed report. Out of the interest in this and the avthoritative character of its findings it is expected that the next legislative session will deal with the question of adequate financial support of the schools with intelligence and liberality. The dates chosen for the meeting are June 25, 26 and 27, 1907, and an attendance that will surpass the record-breaking attendance of last year is confidently expected by the Executive Committee.

Supt. L. E. York, Barnesville, L. L. Pegg, Clintonville, and Supt. A. I. McVey, Blanchester, are the officers of the association of School Examiners for the coming year.

Supt. N. D. O. Wilson, of Bowling Green, was elected to membership in the executive committee of the School Improvement Federation. Otherwise all the former officers were re-elected.

- Dr. Joseph A. Culler, Miami University; Prof. M. E. Graber, Heidelberg University, and Ralph W. Buck, of the Xenia high school, are the new officers of the Association of Mathematics and Science Teachers.

-Township superintendents

elected officers as follows: President, J.. J. Houser, Castalia; vicepresident, D. H. Barnes. Osborn; secretary-treasurer, L. S. Ivins, Lebanon; ex-Com. R. G. Parsons, Alpha, and J. N. Collins, Springfield.

lumbus, Miss Carrie Lowden, Akron, and Miss Anna Logan, Oxford.

-M. L. Alstetter, the new high school principal at Columbus Grove, has made a noble beginning and has already won the hearts of pupils and people.

-Union City will dedicate the new up-to-date $25,000 school building in two or three months, and then the cup of Supt. W. H. Sidebottom will run over.

Twenty-nine of the teachers of Alliance are enrolled as members of the O. T. R. C. and are doing the work. That they are happy goes without saying.

The Alliance Board of Education has authorized its President and Clerk to issue orders for the payment of teachers for attendance at Institute for the past three sessions.

Supt. L. B. Demorest, of Marysville addressed the Champaign Co. teachers at Urbana, Dec. 22 on "Inspirational Forces" and was accorded strong words of praise for his masterful presentation of the subject.

It will give relief and joy to all our readers to know that Supt. J. E. Kinnison has so far recovered from the injuries he received recently as to resume his work. It might have been much worse, and would have been, but for the cool head and manly courage for which he is noted. We congratulate him,

the schools of Jackson, and of Ohio on his recovery.

Supt. Geo. H. Lapp, of Nashport, is working for a school library by means of a course of lectures, and the people are responding nobly. The speakers are H. E. Hall, J. M. Richardson, C. L. Martzolff, J. D. Simkins, A. B. Graham,

S. M. Sark.

-Supt. C. L. Boyer, of Circleville, and Prin. W. H. Rice, of Chillicothe, are hunting for names for people who have not yet been named. Suggestions will be gratefully received. — In this matter Circleville is masculine and Chillicothe feminine.

- Supt. Will C. Merritt, of Dublin, publishes a set of Review Lists to aid teachers and pupils in the preparation for Patterson examinations. These lists have been prepared by Supt. S. T. Price, President of the State Association of Township Superintendents, last year. They sell at five cents for each branch, 25 cents a set, or six sets for one dollar.

-Prin. R. W. Mitchell, of the Asheville, N. C., high school, was called to mourn the death of Mrs. Mitchell, Nov. 28. Our readers know of her illness and of the heroism of Mr. Mitchell through all these years of great trial and now that the pall of sorrow has enveloped the home we know that the hearts of his many friends in Ohio will go out to him and to the three children who are thus bereft.

Supt. H. E. Hall, of Rudolph, has great occasion to rejoice over the many improvements in his bailiwick. A township high school, centralization, a good supply of apparatus for physics, botany, agriculture and physical geography, a board of education whose motto is "Nothing but the best," twentyfour in the high school-these are a few of the things that make him believe in Santa Claus more than ever.

The second bi-monthly meeting of the Summit County Teachers' Association was held at Akron, December 8, 1906. The following program was rendered: Inaugural address, Miss Agnes Watkins; vocal solo, Miss Bernice Pugsley; adddress, "Material and Product," Supt. R. W. Solomon, Cuyahoga Falls; vocal solo, Miss Lena Peebles, Cuyhoga Falls; address, "Shall We Write Ichabod," Supt. C. L. VanCleve, Mansfield. Music was under the direction of Prof. N. L. Glover.

- Great interest is manifested in the Pupils' Reading Course at Alliance. Supt. Morris had several hundred of each of the three courses printed and placed in the public library. He then had notices read in all the schools that the slips could be obtained by calling at the library. On the right side of each slip is a column headed "Date when finished," and in this column the librarian will write the date opposite the name of

the book when the same has been read by the pupil holding the slip. The amount of good this is doing is remarkable.

Supt. H. S. Piatt, of Coshocton, does not imitate. He doesn't need to. He is always original and unique. His Christmas greeting this year is a dainty brochure entitled, "Intermittent Cerebrations," and further explained as "being seven literary indiscretions committed at various times and under divers provocations and sent forth just now to a few friends chiefly that they may have at this glad yule time whereupon to exercise the Christian grace of charity." With this inscription over the portal one is eager to enter into the palace and what one finds there is a delight that needs to be experienced to be understood.

UNIFORM EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1. What nations in turn developed and transmitted civilization down to 800 A. D.? 2. Briefly sketch the career of Alexander the Great. 3. Name the leading characters and events of the Second Punic War. 4. Under what ruler did Rome reach the zenith of her power? Give extent of territory and population at this time. 5. Who was Charlemagne? 6. What were the results of the Crusades? 7. Give the terms of the treaty of Westphalia. What were the causes of the French Revolution? 9. Name England's Queens. 10. What was the last decisive battle of the world? Reason for answer.

ORTHOGRAPHY.

8.

1. Define voice and speech. 2. Name the vocal organs. 3. Give the substitutes for L and J. 4. Name the requisites of good articulation. 5. When is