A. W. Stamper of Chico Normal School, and M. W. Haskell of Berkeley were elected as such committee. At this point the Committee on Credentials, to whom had been referred the rescinded resolution, which provided that graduates of colleges like Oberlin might be given credentials for high school certificates, reported back practically the same old resolution, with the single exception that specified colleges were cut out and the words, "good colleges," inserted. The resolution thus amended was adopted. High School Books. Under the new law it is made incumbent on the State Board to select text books for use in high schools, and Superintendent Kirk called the matter up and moved the appointment of three to take up the matter and report at the next meeting. The motion was carried and Pres. Black appointed Messrs. Dresslar, Van Liew and Burk. DOUB VS. STATE TEXT-BOOKS. The most discussed topic in reference to public schools the past month has been Doub vs. State Text-Books. The Allied Trades of Sacramento, the RecordUnion" and the "Bee" have been very active in the matter. Superintendent Kirk called a meeting of the Kern County Board of Education to show cause why the state apportionment should not be withheld. A meeting was held at Bakersfield, July 6th. Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirk's statement of the meeting will be found in the Official Department of this issue. Superintendent Doub has sent out the following signed statement to the press: STATEMENT BY SUPERINTENDENT DOUB. BAKERSFIELD, CAL., July 8, 1901. The school work in this county will not be changed in the least as the result of the investigation held by Superintendent Kirk last Saturday. In order that some people outside of the county may better understand its provisions, the board consented to send the following notice to teachers and indicate the same in the Manual: "The state series text-books must be used in all the subjects in all the grades for which they are intended. The other books referred to in this manual are to be used supplementary to the state series. The state series text-books are to be in the hands of pupils The necessity of re-inacting a state law in a county school manual is, of course, an absurdity, but to tickle the fancy and subserve the policy of some the above statement will be sent to teachers, telling them something which they already know. The manual will not be re-written or changed in any way except in expression as indicated above. It specifically provides now that all supplementary books are to be purchased with library and county funds, and all statements to the contrary are absolutely false. Supplementary books will be used in the future just the same as they have been used in the past, all of which is in strict compliance with both the letter and the spirit of the law. W. C. DOUB. Superintendent Thomas J. Kirk delivered the graduating address to the alumni of the San Jose Normal School. James H. Pond, principal of the Sacramento High School, has been elected principal of the Oakland High School to succeed J. B. McChesney. WESTVIARD THE STAR OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION succeeds to the subscription lists, advertising partonage, and good will of the Golden Era, established in San Francisco in 1852. Subscription, 81.50 a year. Single copies, 15 cents. Remit by check, Postoffice order, Wells, Fargo & Co., or by stamps. ADVERTISEMENTS-Advertisements of an unobjectiona. ble nature will be inserted at the rate of $3.00 a month per inch. MSS.-Articles on methods, trials of new theories, actual experiences, and school news, reports of teachers' meetings, etc., urgently solicited. Address all communications to THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, 723 Market Street, San Francisco. HARR WAGNER, Editor. THE WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. Entered at the San Francisco Post-office as second-class matter. The Official Organ of the Department of Public Instruction of the State of California. THE N. E. A. is in session at Detroit. The August number of THE JOURNAL will contain a full account of the meeting. * * * ANDREW CARNEGIE'S gift of three-fourths of a million to the City of San Francisco for library purposes will furnish a university of books to the THE Cogswell Polytechnic School, with its fine endowment of upwards of a million, promises to be a prominent feature among our educational institutions under the new management. * * THE summer school at the University of California is a success. There are over eight hundred students registered and the work is being carried forward with great earnestness. ** THESE are the days when the teacher who is without a position finds it hard to refrain from using a pull to get located. The betterness of the schools is not inhibited either by political, personal, kin, or institutional influence from the point of view of the unemployed with creditable degrees and references. THERE are 3270 districts in the state. In accordance with the law the 3270 boards of school trustees met Saturday, July 6th, to elect a clerk for the ensuing year. The clerk serves without pay or hope of reward except in the large cities. The fact that more than ninety per cent of the clerks conduct the affairs of the school districts in an honest and fairly capable manner speaks well for the rural citizenship. The only blot on the escutcheon of school trustees is the unlimited and unstinted condemnation of all trustees because one board in one district may be interested personally in selling three dollars' worth of wood to the district. There are evils connected with school administration, but the total amount illegally expended would not pay the cost of a load of mules to the Philippines. EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS. The National Educational Association will hold its annual meeting at Detroit, July 8-12, 1901; J. M. Green, President. The California Teachers' Association, Pacific Grove, December 30, 31, and January 1, 2, 3. R. D. Faulkner, President; Mrs. M. M. FitzGerald, Secretary. Northern California Teachers' Association, October 31-November 1 and 2, at Chico. G. H. Stokes, President. Merced will hold an election for voting $30,000 bonds for new school houses. E. T. Nesbet of Salinas has been elected teacher of music in the Fresno city schools. J. O. Osborn of Visalia has been elected principal of one of the Fresno grammar schools. Professor Pettit has been re-elected as principal of the Wheatland Schools. Mrs. Ada Coldwell, a sister of Superintendent Hughes, has been elected as teacher of drawing for the Alameda City Schools. F. J. Barnard, ex-City Superintendent of Seattle, has accepted a position with the American Book Company at $200 per month. S. D. Waterman has been re-elected for four years as City Superintendent of Berkeley Schools. Robert Crosset has been appointed to succeed John Hancock on the County Board of Education of Calaveras County. Professor Roby, formerly of Portland, but more recently a teacher in the Burnett School, San Francisco, is dangerously ill in a hospital in San Francisco. Superintendent R. C. Kerr, who has served the Walla Walla Schools faithfully for many years has resigned. He was given an elaborate farewell banquet by his many friends. Richard D. Faulkner, the President of the California Teachers' Association, is spending his vacation attempting to catch trout in the Truckee River. P. S. Notice that the word "attempting" is used with malice aforethought. The State Board of Education of Washington has placed the following books on the Teachers' Reading Circle: Davidson's Psychology, Tenney's Zoology, Tarr's Geology, Swinton's Literature and Mrs. Wilson's Nature Study. The Southern California Teachers' Association will hold its session in Los Angeles, December 19 and 20. Lewis B. Avery, President. The University of California will hold its Summer Session June 27 to August 7, 1901. The San Joaquin Valley Teachers' Association will hold its annual session at Fresno, December 19, 20. President, Supt. S. A. Crookshanks, Visalia. W. S. Thomas of the Merced High School has resigned to go to Columbia University. W. J. Milne, the author of Milne's Arithmetics, visited Oregon recently in the interests of his books. Lulu Claire Bahr, County Superintendent of Schools of San Bernardino, has been elected City Superintendent, to succeed F. E. Perham. E. D. Ressler has resigned as City Superintendent of Eugene. It is reported that he will be elected to a chair in the State University of Oregon. Miss McKenzie, principal of the Hancock School, San Francisco, has been charged with incompetency, and is now on trial before the San Francisco Board of Education. The friends of Mr. McChesney of the Oakland High School presented him with a purse of $1,000. Mr. and Mrs. McChesney will use the money for a trip to Europe. Christian Runckel, who was the Democratic nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1898, has been elected principal of the Dakota Schools, Alameda County. Miss Jordan, a daughter of President Jordan of Stanford University, has accepted a position as teacher in the Salinas High School. She is a post graduate of Cornell University. Barton Cruikshank, who has been elected President of Cogswell Polytechnic Institute, with full power of the initiative, is a son of the noted New York educator, James Cruikshank. He is a graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic School. He has filled many important positions. For the past four years he was president of the Clark Polytechnic School, Pottsdam, New York. Western School News. The attendance from California to the N. E. A. was not large. G. W. Hinkle has been elected principal of the Lemore Union High School. C. C. Childress of Bakersfield has been elected principal of the Hanford schools. Dr. F. B. Dresslar has taken the place of Dr. Elmer E. Brown on the State Board of Education. Prof. Burt E. Howard of Stanford University delivered the address on "Education and Democracy" to the graduating class of the Fresno high school. A party of pleasure seekers, including many noted men, left Berkeley July 1st for a trip to the Yosemite aud Tuolumne meadows. The campers will include John Muir, Mr. and Mrs. William Keith, Professor and Mrs Joseph LeConte, Professor and Mrs. Frank Soule, Professor Andrew C. Lawson of the University of California, President Burk of the San Francisco State Normal School, Professor W. A. Dudley of Stanford, and others. Those who will leave July 1st will be only the vanguard of the main party, which will number all told about seventy-five persons. The first division will go directly to Yosemite, to be followed a week later by the remainder. From the valley the party will pack to the Meadows, where camp is to be pitched beside Lake Tenaya. An unusual feature of the camp life is to be a series of informal lectures with a daily musical program. The trip is largely a reunion of the members of a similar excursion party undertaken in 1870, when Professors Le Conte and Soule went into the valley with ten students of the State University. [Since writing the above the death of Professor LeConte occurred in the Yosemite Valley.] THERE is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great mauy years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatmeut, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from ten drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. .Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Joseph Meadows and Mrs. Jeanette Bryan are elected members of the Board of Education of King County. F. S. Rosseter and Mr. Debeneddit have been appointed members of the County Board of Education, San Mateo County. Mrs. Ray Abrahams Morris and Miss Lena Polbemus have been appointed members of San Diego County Board of Education. Carrie Shaw Rice, a member of the State Board of Education of Washington, and Mr. Stanley of the Tacoma schools, are in attendance at the summer session, University of California. The Department of Education at Stanford will be as follows next year: Ellwood P. Cubberley. A. B., Associate Professor of Education; Edwin Diller Starbuck, Ph. D., Assistent Professor of Education; David Samuel Snedden, A. B., Instructor in Education; John T. McManis, A. B., Assistant in Education: Frank Ernest Thompson, Assistant in Education. Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch Wholesale Dealers in chool Books chool Library Books : School Stationer and Supplies Pacific Coast Depository for the Educa- STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA. To School Trustees and Teachers: It will pay you to write me regarding School Furniture, Apparatus, Supplies and Books. A two-cent stamp may save you Dollars. Yours truly, 131 Bridge Street, C. C. ADAMS, Stockton, Cal. |