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which was a severe test for even such a man as Dr. Fess. In this he won a complete victory. From fifty to one hundred students was the estian extravagant one it seemed to the best friends of the Collegeof the President for the Summer School, but one hundred and twentyseven actual students were enrolled when the editor spent a week there in July.

The character of the students is even more impressive than the number. Many of them are among the prominent and successful teachers of Ohio and their work in the class room has been of a high order. All will return to their homes with the most pleasant recollections of their term at Antioch College with its beautiful campus and pleasant surroundings.

The outlook for the coming year is most encouraging. The dormitories and college buildings, all most substantially built, are being put in good condition for the occupancy of students, the laboratories are surprisingly well equipped, and best of all some of the members of the faculty, whose indifference to the success of the College has been their most marked characteristic, have been granted a permanent leave of absence. From now on Antioch College, which has for so many years been more of a sentiment than a reality, must be reckoned with as a vital force in the educational affairs of Ohio.

Supt. D. H. Clark, of Crestline, has been re-elected for three years although he had one year to serve on contract. The following teachers have been re-elected: Prin. G. A. Davis, Miss Dora Chambers, Allan Smith, Miss Ida Blum, Miss Sarah Dunn, Mrs. S. E. Peppard. Misses Anna M. Crowe, Lydia Guthlin.

Cora Chambers, Ethel Smith, Nellie Cully, Carrie Miller, Carrie Sutz, Alvena Kroegel, Minnie Webster, Rosa Ellis, Margaret Shepard and Nellie Hesser.

- Wm. C. Woodland, teacher of science in the Warren high school, will discontinue school work at the end of this year, having accepted a position as chemist in a local manufactory, at a salary much larger than the schools will pay.

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Supt. C. S. Wheaton, of Port Clinton, retires from school work at the end of this year after twenty-nine years of service that has made many people better and happier. served five years at Plain City, six at St. Mary's, nine at Athens, two at Beaver, Pa., and six at Port Clinton. He will retire to his peach farm east of Port Clinton and become the Luther Burbank of Ohio. His record has been most wholesome and inspiring and the MONTHLY extends to him best wishes and the hope that many years remain to him of supreme happiness and prosperity.

-Supt. L. K. Wornstaff, of Johnsville, has been elected to the superintendency at Ashley. As this is his home town, his election comes as a very distinct honor of which he is in every way worthy.

"What is the meaning of 'alter ego'?" asked the teacher of the beginners' class in Latin.

"The other I," said the boy with the curly hair.

$500 appropriated to each. These committees are to make reports on the following subjects:

1. To investigate and submit a tentative report on a system of teaching morals in the public schools.

2. For the further investigation of industrial education for rural schools.

3. For a preliminary inquiry into the contemporary judgment as to the culture element in education, and the time that should be devoted to the combined school and college course.

4. To consider and make a preliminary report on the shortage of teachers and colleges, causes and remedies.

5. To make a preliminary report on "provisions for exceptional children in the public schools."

"I have the most names," said little Fern. "Sister calls me 'Baby,' and papa calls me 'Jimmy.''

years. He is thirty-eight years old. and his family consists of a wife and three children. Ohio will be the gainer by his coming, for he is a ripe scholar and a distinguished teacher.

-Supt. F. B. Bryant, of Richwood, is a repeater. He is the most numerously elected. man in these parts. He was re-elected at Richwood for two years, then to a position in the high school at Dayton, then to a permanent position in the University of Wooster, and then to the superintendency at Eaton. There's really no telling what other places will invite him before the end of the campaign. The chances seem favorable for his accepting at Eaton.

-Wm. H. Stewart has been elected superintendent at Oxford. He filled this position for a time and then went into the banking business.

-Edward Trader returns from Loraine, Wyoming, to his old Ohio -stamping ground to become principal of the high school at Troy.

-Frank O. Baldwin, who graduated from Baldwin University in June, has been elected superintendent at Thompson. He graduated at the Tri-State College of Angola, Ind., in 1905, and has had seven years' experience.

-Supt. W. H. Altamer, of College Hill, has been re-elected,has had $250 added to his salary, has been granted a high school life certificate, and is continuing his graduate work in Columbia University. 'That's a good record for one summer.

-Supt. H. R. McVay, Supt. E. A. Hotchkiss, Supt. J. E. Collins, and Supt. H. L. Turnipseed are all teaching in the summer school of Miami University.

-Supt. W. N. Beetham, of Carrollton, has been elected to the

superintendency at Bucyrus, for a term of three years at a salary of $1,700. This is a recognition of which his many friends may be proud. As for himself, while he recognizes and appreciates the honor, he is far too sane not to look upon it as a responsibility and an opportunity rather than an achievement. Bucyrus is a good town, and has good schools. Supt. Bliss has done good work and Supt. Beetham's aim and ambition will be to make the superstructure worthy of the excellent foundation. The MONTHLY wishes him abounding success in this new field.

-The Commencement member of The Spy, which is published by the pupils of the Galion high school, is the most ambitious school paper we have seen. This number contains 140 pages of reading matter, including an article by each of the high school teachers and Supt. Guinther, with a cut of each. The school is to be heartily congratulated upon the enterprise and literary ability of its pupils.

-In his annual report, Dr. J. J. Burns shows that the following counties made distinct gains last year in O. T. R. C. readers: Brown, Clark Crawford, Cuyahoga, Darke. Defiance, Fairfield, Marion, Seneca, Stark, Tuscarawas, Washington, Wood. The gain in these counties was 1,250. There are six counties in each of which the number of members is less than ten, but we shall not give their names.

-In O. T. R. C. memberships, Clinton Co. increased from zero to 108; Columbiana from 2 to 125; Highland, zero to 28, and Hocking from 2 to 50. These four counties made a gain of 311 and they have only just begun. tiful?

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So long as the virgin soil, under traditional methods of tillage and cultivation, responded generously to the hand of the farmer, little did he feel the necessity for that kind of education which would make him the master over the materials with which he was obliged to work.

The productive power of the soil and the crude materials which he was obliged to use and the lack of necessity for greater production of farm products to feed the city did not make him feel obliged to conserve the productivity of the soil nor to improve upon the implements nor to give little care or concern to the improvement of the variety of product.

So far back as 1824, Daniel Adams wrote an "Agricultural Reader Designed for the Use of Schools," and up to 1861 there were no less than nine elementary books on the subject of agriculture; yet no attention was given to them except by a few scientists and a few publishers who were exerting every effort to give variety to state school libraries that were being put on the market in the decade from 1850 to 1860. A few of these books can be found to-day as remnants of old State School Libraries.

The expensive and reckless farming carried on during the past forty years has reduced the productive power of the soil. The population of cities has increased so rapidly, and with their growth an increasing demand for the product of the farm to that degree that it has become quite as necessary to produce in large quantities as to produce an article.

of high quality. The people of the cities have been and are now looking upon the farmer as an individual who must not only be able to respond with his physical ability but with his mental abiltiy to furnish products from his field that will satisfy the demands of the most fastidious.

Under the Morrell Act, the landgrant colleges were established to meet a necessity for scientific training in agricultural work, but since these colleges are at such a distance from the mass of the people needing. agricultural education, and the expense of attending such schools being, many times, considerably beyond the ability of many parents to meet, the attendance at such colleges is much less than the most sanguine have hoped for. These colleges, however, are performing a most important work in preparing young men for instructional, delicate experimental work and for leadership in the practice of modern farm methods. Since at least one-half of those attending school are in the elementary grades of the rural schools, the necessity for agricultural education has thrust itself more or less into the elementary grades where the natural environment of the child is being utilized, in a small degree, to prepare a foundation for a more extensive education in the high school, which will the better prepare young men and young women to carry on their life work more economically and with a degree of joy and pleasure that should be the reward of every citizen.

The function of an agricultural