The State Board of Education met in San Francisco on September 14, 1901. All members of the Board, except the Governor, were present.

The following were adopted as the rules of the State Board governing the accrediting of Normal Schools of other states, and the granting of certificates on diplomas thereof by County and City and County Boards of Education in pursuance of (1) (b) Section 1775 of the Political Code.

1. In determining the rank and accrediting of Normal Schools of other States, as provided by (1) (b) of Section 1775 of the Political Code, the State Board of Education will hereafter require that applications for accrediting shall be made in writing by the executive head of the Normal School making such application, and that it shall definitely set forth:

(a) The actual requirements for admission to the school;

(b) The period of instruction as may be shown in part by a certified copy of the course of study;

(c) The character of the work required and the length of time devoted to practice teaching.

2. A graduate of an accredited Normal School shall, in making application to a County or City and County Board of Education for a certificate, be required to present with his Normal School diploma a recommendation from the faculty of such Normal School, specifically stating the qualifications submitted by the student for admission to the Normal School, the number of months of actual attendance at the Normal School, the number of weeks and the number of hours per week spent in actual teaching (not observation).

3. The Secretary of the State Board of Education is hereby directed to send a copy of these rules to the State Superintendents of the different States, that thru them presidents or principals of Normal Schools of other States may have notice of the manner and method adopted in California for the accrediting of Normal Schools.

The Normal Schools mentioned below, being designated as of equal rank with the State Normal Schools of California, and having substantially complied with the foregoing rules, County or City and County Boards of Education of California may grant to graduates holding the highest diplomas from these schools the grammar school certificate of California, without examination.

Nevada State Normal School (Normal Department Nevada University), Reno.
Rhode Island State Normal School, Providence.
Wisconsin State Normal Schools:

1. West Superior.

2. Oshkosh.

Action respecting the accrediting of other Normal Schools, and life diplomas and life certificates of other States, was deferred for further consideration and to a future meeting of the State Board.

The following named Kindergarten Training Schools were accredited by the State Board of Education and County, and City and County Boards of Education of California are authorized to grant to graduates of such institutions the kindergarten-primary certificate, as provided in (c) (3) Section 1775 of the Political Code:

Golden Gate Kindergarten Association of San Francisco, Cal.
Wylie Training School, Madison, Wisconsin.

Chicago Kindergarten Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

The following resolutions were adopted in reference to the granting of State diplomas and documents:

WHEREAS, At almost every meeting of this Board there are several applications for diplomas and normal documents that do not comply with the requirements of the Political Code relative to the granting of the same, or with the rules adopted by the Board; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the following information be sent to the various City and County Superintendents and Boards of Education, thruout the State, for their guidance in recommending teachers for State credentials.

Resolved, That the Secretary is hereby directed to return all applications that

do not fully comply with the requirements of the law and rules of the State Board of Education.

(1) Section 1521 of the Political Code requires that applicants for life diplomas must have taught successfully for forty-eight months in public schools or in regularly organized private schools of recognized standing.

(2) The certificate accompanying the application must be a valid one, granted under one or more of the provisions of Sections 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, and 1791 of the Political Code, in full force and effect, and the applicant must have held the same for at least one year.

(3) If the certificate has been renewed, it must show the date of renewal (not the date at which such renewal will expire-the law fixes that). A renewal, being the act of the Board of Education and not of the Superintendent, must be attested by the seal of the Board, just as the original certificate to be valid must be attested by the seal.

(4) All applicants for high school life diplomas must show a successful experience of twenty months in the California State University, a California State Normal School, or a high school established under the laws of this State.

In all cases of application for life diplomas, according to Section 1521 of the Political Code, there must be shown a successful experience of at least twenty one months in the public schools of California.

(5) The two years' successful experience mentioned in subdivision third of Section 1503 of the Political Code, is construed by this Board to mean twenty months.

(6) All rules or regulations heretofore adopted in conflict with the foregoing resolutions are hereby repealed.

In pursuance of the provisions of subdivision 12th of Sec. 1670 of the Political Code, relative to text-books to be used in the high schools of California, the Board adopted a list of books, from which high school boards must select books for use in their respective high schools, in the following subjects: Latin, Greek, History, Economics, Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Physical Geography, Zoology, Geology, Botany, Geometry, Trigonometry, Arithmetic, Algebra, Commercial. A list of books on additional subjects will probably be adopted at the next meeting of the Board. (The list above given is too long to be published herewith, but has been printed in pamphlet form and sent to County and City Superintendents and to the High School Boards of the State.)

Action on applications for the special high school credential, as provided for in 2 (b) section 1521 of the Political Code was deferred until the next meeting of the Board.

The Committee on Grievances reported in the matter of the charges preferred against Mr. Leslie Jones, a teacher of Humboldt County, of unprofessional conduct respecting the use of intoxicating liquors that they did not deem said charges of such gravity or character as to warrant the State Board in taking action thereon, and recommended that such charges be dismissed; and the report was adopted.

The following-named persons were granted diplomas and documents in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Credentials:

Life Diplomas of the Grammar School.

Carolyn E. Atherton, Marin; Stella M. Atwood, Riverside; M. Emilie Bergen, Alameda; Edward Blackman, Tulare; Alice H. Blanchard, Contra Costa; Mitto Blevins, Mendocino; Frank August Bouelle, Los Angeles; Mrs. Frances E. Briones,

Mendocino; Ermina Brown, Riverside; Marguerite Brown, Contra Costa; Sarah E Campbell, San Joaquin; Nellie Carr, Sonoma; Ida E. Carrick, Los Angeles; Samuel Marshal Chaney, G ean; Mrs. M. L. Chewning, San Diego; Alice E. Cooper, Nevada; Lewis D. Copeland, Riverside; Louise K. Curtin, Los Angeles; Stella Endicott, Los Angeles; Alice A. Elvin, San Mateo: Ellen J. Foley, Solano: Mary Wildes Ford, Humboldt; Charles J. Fox Jr., Los Angeles; Elizabeth Hetherington Fox, Trinity; Elizabeth Freese. San Diego; Aberta Gamber, San Diego; Carrie J. Garsey, Mendocino; Charlotte H. Getchell, San Diego; Annie J. Graham, Stanislaus; Mary Blair Grant, Humboldt; Eva Griswold, Los Angeles; E. Blanche Hall, Madera; Irene G. Hall, Tuolumne; Amy Hargrave, Walter Hargrave, Mendocino; Mrs. M. J. Harriman, Madera; M. P. Hubler, San Benito; J. Belle Jacoby, San Diego; Miltona M. Keith, San Diego; Zinie H. Kidder, Santa Cruz; Anita W. Leadbetter, Fora W. Lead better, San Joaquin; Aggie E. Lewis, Stanislaus; Emma L. Prather Long, Mendocino: Mrs. S. M. Long, Tuolumne; Mrs. Delta Clotfelter Luce, Tulare; Samuel N. McBride, Tulare; Kate McCarthy, Alice McCollum, Los Angeles; Adele Meyer, San Diego; Elizabeth M. Millard, Los Angeles; Bertha E. Morgan, Helen A. Morrill, Santa Cruz; Mary Margaret Murdock, Los Angeles; Louisa J. Need, Sacramento; Ella M. Nevell, Esther F. Norton, Los Angeles; A. M. Nuckolls, E. M. Nuckolls, Mendocino; May L. Paine, Los Angeles; Joseph Warren D. Patton, Mendocino; O. P. Payne, Tulare; Caroline V. Pease. Los Angeles: Lucy F. Phillips, Trinity; Elizabeth M. Richards, Nevada; Sarah A. Kelsey Reppy, Ventura; Clara E. Rodgers, Marin; Henrietta Rose. San Diego; Frederick W. Stein, Jr., Los Angeles; Alice Stewart, Hannah C. Stewart, Alameda; Julia D. Stoddard, Nevada; Ethel Stone, Lina P. Stone. San Diego; Mrs. M. E. Sturgeon, Tulare; Mabel Collier Sharpstein, San Diego; Nettie S. Siebert, Tuolumne; Kate R. Smith, Nevada; Winnifred A. Liner Smith, Humboldt; Albert F. Snow, San Diego; I. Wayne Snowden, Humboldt; Laura I. Thompson, Los Angeles; Emma M. Tillotson, San Diego; Kate Ennor Tremaine, Nevada; Honoria R. P. Tuomey, Sonoma; J. W. Utter, Mendocino; Maude Watkins, San Diego; Anna A. Webb, Contra Costa; Cecelia Marie Weinheimer, Trinity; Arminta Allison White, Santa Cruz; Mollie Wichmann, Nevada; Zona Williams, Louise Scott Worth, Tulare; John Ellsworth Wylie, Glenn; Effie E. Young, Alameda.

Life Diplomas of the High School.

Gulielma Ruth Crocker, Alameda; T. H. Kirk, Monrovia; Harriet A. Nichols, Los Angeles; Edward B. Oakley, Riverside; Pleasant B. Westerman, Mendocino; G. H. Wilkinson, Sonoma.

New Issue Life Diplomas, Grammar School.

Laura McGlashan, Butte. Original granted September 18. 1892.

Duplicate Life Diploma, Grammar School.

Lily E. Rasmusson. Original granted October 21, 1899.

Documents to Accompany Normal School Diplomas.

Julia Berg, San Jose; M. Ellen Case, L. Grace Clarke, Alice C. Cooper, Los Angeles; Lucy Harris, Chico; Grace S. Hewitt, San Jose; Margaret Holleran, Los Angeles: Bessie Hooke, Elma Hopkins, Lela A. Lenfest, San Jose; Anna Levin, Los Angeles; Eva J. Russell, San Jose; Emily E. Truesdell, San Jose; Mrs. Lily E. Rasmusson (duplicate). Original granted December 24, 1894.

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"A noble manhood, nobly consecrated

to man, never dies."

-McKinley on Lincoln.

THE strong words of McKinley on Lincoln is a fitting tribute of his own life of public service. McKinley fell like one of our giant redwoods. Our recognition of his greatness was not adequate until he was felled by the hand of the destroyer. Joaquin Miller said, when Tennyson died, "Our redwoods drip and drip with rain." But when the man, the President, the husband, the giant tree of our national life was prostrate, his largeness ma e all things less save his virtues.

Josiah Royce in the International Monthly for September writes characteristically of the life of Joseph Le Conte: "Professors Joseph and John Le Conte stood, from the first, in the public mind of that community for high scientific and educational ideals. In the end the younger brother, Joseph, proved to be the more productive of the two, both in a literary and a scientific sense, as he always was the more directly impressive personality, and the more many-sided mind. But both of them were extremely winning natures. The native grace of bearing that suggested their French Huguenot ancestry, the Southern courtesy of manner in which their temperaments found expression, the fairly saintly unworldliness and gentleness of soul that, in very different fashion but with almost equal heartiness, showed itself under all sorts of trials, in both of them, these traits made them, from the first, not only honored, but also warmly beloved in their community. Other professors of the University might have their less respectful nicknames, more ingeniously invented, but the brothers Le Conte were, from the first, to the student community, "John" and "Joe," and the familiar abbreviations were expressions of affection rather than of any lack of reverence.

Amongst his beloved mountains it was his lot to die. He has left in his ideals and in his life-work a model for an age of specialism and of divided sympathies to reverence and to follow.