THE EXAMINER'S FIFTEEN BOYS. The Examiner will send fifteen boys to the great National Conventions. They will have a fine time, and learn much about our country. It is hoped they will see the great good, and, as President Wheeler says, "the great bad," in our national politics. The editor of the JOURNAL is sorry for the several thousand boys who tried and failed. Examination as a test of fitness to go on a jolly journey is "not fair, anyway." SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 1900. To the Editor of the Examiner-SIR: We, the undersigned, have examined the papers submitted to us by all the county boards of examiners in the National Conventions competition; and in our judgment the following are the best fifteen of the competitors, the names being arranged in order of merit: 1. RALPH E. WALSH, Salinas, Monterey County. 2. MAURICE VAN WORMER, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County. 3. EDMOND D. COBLENTZ, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County. 4. RICHMOND TURNER, Stockton, San Joaquin County. 6. 5. HART GREENSFELDER, 2123 Pine Street, San Francisco. 9. E. P. ALDERMAN, Santa Clara. Santa Clara County. 11. WILLIAM MCPHERSON, McPherson, Orange County. 13. JESS E. STEPHENS, 1134 East Twelfth Street, Los Angeles. 15. JESSE EUGENE CAMPBELL, Center District, Lassen County. DAVID STARR JORDAN, State Board. Owing to the rapidly increasing demand for their Standard Water Color Paints for school use, the Milton Bradley Company has lately rebuilt and greatly enlarged its facilities for the manufacture of these paints. The Bradley system of color is based on spectrum standard, and seems to be the only logical system of color instruction yet devised for the schoolroom. This well-known firm has recently established a large branch house in San Francisco for supplying its extensive line of school aids to the schools and teachers of this Coast. They will shortly have ready a handsome new catalog for distribution to teachers. There will be a summer session in the San Francisco Normal School. The lecturers are C. C. Hughes, city superintendent of Alameda; Dr. T. B. Dresslar of the department of education in the State University; Dr. O. P. Jenkins, professor of physiology in Stanford University; Dr. Vernon Kellogg, professor of entomology in Stanford University; and Frederic Burk, president of the San Francisco Normal School. The burning of Lafayette School, San Francisco, June 5th, demonstrated the effectiveness of the fire drill, also the excellent control of Miss Casey, the principal, and her corps of trustees. Superintendent Howard L. Lunt. of San Bernardino, has been elected superintendent of the Riverside schools. J. A. Churchill has been elected principal of the Oregon State Normal School at Weston, vice D. V. Reid. THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION succeeds to the subscription lists, advertising patronage, and good will of the Golden Era, established in San Francisco in 1852. Subscription, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 15 cents. Remit by check, postoffice order, Wells, Fargo & Co., or by stamps. ADVERTISEMENTS-Advertisements of an unobjectionable 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. Vacation means to some teachers a period of enforced idleness, without pay; to others, it means opportunity for self-improvement, mentally and physically; to others, rest; to others, rust. Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown is the author of many effective educational epigrams. In a recent address to the San Francisco teachers he gave the following, which has enough vitality in it for a half-dozen: "The worst teacher is the one who is bad and continues to grow worse. worst teacher is the good teacher who does not grow any better." Next to the President Benjamin Ide Wheeler has issued a circular on the financial needs of the University of California. The problem of creating public sentiment in favor of more liberal support has been reduced to a simple proposition by the administrative qualities of the new president, and by the conservative management of the board of regents. We believe that all that will be necessary in order to establish the permanent fund that is required to maintain the university and meet the demands of continuous growth, is the proper kind of publicity as to the requirements. The University of California must ever be typical of the state's most generous and liberal policy. Our asylums, our homes for the feeble-minded, and our penitentaries are better representations of modern architecture than the university buildings. Mrs. Hearst has provided a remedy for this. The state must in its support for the internal affairs of the institution be as liberal as its private citizenship. The Western Journal of Education has the largest school on the Coast. The five thousand readers represent the pupils, the contributors represent the teachers, and the editor gives advice and the diplomas. Arrangements are now being completed to make the JOURNAL, with the beginning of the school year, more helpful and of higher standard than before. During the past six months subscriptions have been received from Eastern states and even from European countries. The present form commends itself to those who desire to have it bound, or to preserve it for future reference. It is one of the few educational journals that recognize that our lives should be regulated so that each day should have its helpful recreation, hence it will be issued in July and August. The present number celebrates its fifth year of existence. The first issue was in June, 1895. At that time it had two subscribers, Earl Barnes and Frederic Burk. It now goes to every school district in California and to over thirty states in the Union. Educational Associations and Teachers' Institutes. EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS. The National Educational Association, Charleston, S. C., July 7-13, 1900. John Swett, State Director, Martinez, Cal.; Irwin Shepherd, Secretary, Winona, Wis. The California Teachers' Association, San Francisco, December 26, 27, 28, 1900. J. W. McClymonds, President; Mrs. M. M. Fitzgerald, Secretary. Northern California Teachers' Association, Marysville, November 1, 2, 3. F. S. Reager, President. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. Trinity County, June 20, 21, 22. Lizzie Fox, Superintendent. MEETINGS. Biennial convention of County and City Superintendents, San José, August 28, at 10 o'clock A.M. SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR TEACHERS. University of California, June 25th to August 3d. State Normal School, San Diego, July 2d to August 10th. State Normal School, San Francisco, JuneJuly. Pacific Grove Summer School, Pacific Grove, June 18th. Eight weeks. The Summer School for Teachers, Tacoma, Wash., June 26th to August 14th. Summer School of Science for Teachers, Pullman, Wash., June 25th. Six weeks. Puget Sound Summer School, Seattle, Wash., July 2d to August 10th. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, June 20th to August 1st. Western School News. President David Starr Jordan will spend the summer vacation in the Orient. Professor D. B. Sturges, principal of the high school of San Bernardino, has resigned. Miss Bridgeman, teacher of physics and chemistry in the Berkeley High School, has resigned. Joaquin Miller, the poet, will deliver the address to the graduates of the Long Beach High School. The Normal Record of Chico published a very interesting memorial number of the late Hon. John Bidwell. Miss A. F. Aldrich, principal of the Lafayette School, Oakland, who has taught for twenty-nine years, has resigned. The Idaho State University at Moscow will hold a summer session this year from June 20th to August 1st. Professor A. O. Leuschner, of the University of California, will deliver the address to the graduates of the Eureka High School. Miss K. McGowan, teacher in the Alameda schools, left for Mexico recently to receive $40,000 that her brother had accumulated and set aside for her. Miss Agnes Stowell has resigned her position in the San Francisco Normal School to study in the University of California. W. E. Creed, principal of the Columbus school, Berkeley, has resigned to become the secretary of D. O. Mills. R. C. Root has been selected to take his place. Frank Bunker, railroad secretary of the California State Teachers' Association, will resign his position in Santa Rosa and take up a course at the University of California. J. C. Gilson, of Oakland, has been elected to the principalship of the Tompkins School, made vacant by the resignation of Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe." C. K. Binkley, of Stanford University, has been elected to the chair of English at Cogswell's Polytechnic School. Mr. Binkley is a practical English scholar, and is a good writer, as well as teacher of English. President Frederic Burk and the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco State Normal School have selected the following faculty for next year: Walter J. Kenyon, Miss E. B. McFadden, Miss Alma Patterson, and Percy Davidson. Miss Julia Kennedy, eldest daughter of the late James G. Kennedy, died May 25th. She was a graduate of the San Francisco Normal School, and taught successfully in Monterey County and in San Francisco. The Ebell Club of Los Angeles has taken up the subject of decorating the schoolrooms in the city of Los Angeles and has succeeded in making a number of the interiors of school buildings very attractive. Mara L. Pratt, M. D., author of a number of popular history stories and other books for children of our public schools, a noted institute lecturer, and a woman of delightful personality, was married in New York, to Charles Bennett Chadwick, on May 9thSamuel Donati, clerk of the Cayucos District. San Luis Obispo County, has a record as school trustee that is hard to beat. He visited his school, during the present year, sixty-four times. He always attends the County institute, and is interested in all matters pertaining to the schools. Dr. W. B. Howard, formerly superintendent of Stanislaus County, has been appointed, by Superintendent Webster, deputy superintendent of schools of San Francisco. Ex-Superintendent Howard has had eight years' successful experience in supervising the work of teachers. He is a man of good judgment and pleasant personality. Washington at Tuskegee, Alabama; will visit Chicago University; Blaine School of Pedagogy, Chicago; Columbia University; and confer with various state superintendents on modern educational problems in reference to state administration. He will travel by the Sunset route to New Orleans; then by the Piedmont Air Line to Washington; then by the Baltimore and Ohio to Chicago; then west by the Burlington and Denver and Rio Grande back to San Francisco. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition. of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. The school board of a New England city Pacific Coast Bureau of Education recently passed a resolution that the male teachers holding principalships should get married. The Eureka board of education did not need to make any such formal suggestion to Superintendent Barker. He took the steamer at Eureka at the close of a very successful year of work as city superintendent, for San Francisco, and on June 4th, married Miss Nettie E. Hindry, a successful teacher, and a graduate of Stanford '98. Superintendent Barker and his accomplished bride will spend their honeymoon and vacation at Lake Tahoe. Superintendent of Public Instruction Thomas J. Kirk and Mrs. Kirk will start the latter part of June for the meeting of the N. E. A., Charleston, South Carolina. Superintendent Kirk has promised to write a full account of his trip for the JOURNAL. In addition to attending the N. E. A. he will examine the wonderful work of Booker T. Room 31, Flood Building, S. F. During eleven years this Agency has grown steadily in favor. Its services are free to school officers, who in applying to it for a teacher can rely implicitly on a satisfactory one being recommended. Teachers desiring positions or promotion should communicate at once with the Bureau. Terms very reasonable. Fisk Teachers' Agencies OFFICES have filled over 13,000 positions. PACIFIC COAST (525 Stimson Block, Los Angeles 420 Parrott Building, San Francisco BOYNTON & ESTERLY, Managers. Agency Manual sent free to any address. Correspondence with employers invited. Registration forms sent to teachers on application. THE A. VANDER NAILLEN School of Practical, Mining, Civil, Mechanical Electrical Engineering, Metallurgy, Cyanide Process, etc. Surveying, Architecture, Drawing and Assaving. (Incorporated) 933 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal, Assaying of Ores, $25; Bullion and Chlorination Assay, $25; Blowpipe Assay, 810; Full Course of Assaying, 850; Prospector's Course, $15. Established 1864. Open all year. Send for Catalog. SUMMER SCHOOL. University of California Announces the Branches of Which Study Will be Made. The University of California will hold a summer session from June 25th to August 3d. This session is planned especially for teachers and others who are free to study only during their vacation. The summer students will have the full privileges of the libraries and museums, and of the physical, chemical, and botanical laboratories. The faculty will be strengthened by the addition of several special lecturers. The tuition fee will be $10, regardless of the number of courses taken, with laboratory fees in scientific courses. The courses will be as follows: PHILOSOPHY-Introduction and Study of Metaphysics: a series of ten lectures. PEDAGOGY Principles of Psychology, with Special Reference to the Mind of the Child; School Hygiene; The Development of the Nervous System in Relation to the Problems of Education; The Pedagogy of Child Study. HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Government of the United States; The Renaissance; History of England Since 1843; History of the United States Since 1850; Mediæval Life and Institutions; The American Revolution. SEMITIC-Elementary Hebrew; Advanced Hebrew Introductory Course in Aramaic and Syriac; Arabic, and Advanced Arabic. GREEK-Elementary Greek. LATIN-Virgil's Eneid; Cicero's Orations; and Roman Satire. ENGLISH-Elementary Old English; An Outline of English Literature from the Boewulf to Milton; Outline of English Literature From Milton to Wordsworth; and History of American Literature. MATHEMATICS - Introduction to Plane Analytic Geometry; Modern Synthetic Geometry; and Elements of Differential and Integral Calculus. PHYSICS-A series of lectures on electricity and magnetism, with experimental illustrations and three laboratory courses duplicating, respectively, matriculation, freshman, and sophomore laboratory physics. CHEMISTRY- Elementry Chemistry: Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative AnalysisGravimetric and Volumetric and Organic Chemistry. BOTANY-Introduction to Plant Physiology and Morphology and the Living Plant and Its Environment. San Diego Normal School. President Samuel T. Black, of the San Diego State Normal School, announces a summer school at Coronado to open July 2d and close August 10th. Courses will be given in the history and philosophy of education and in elementary psychology. The courses will consist of lectures and of class discussions based on assigned readings and on such problems as may be suggested from time to time by students and teacher. The excellent collection of pedagogical, psychological, and historical literature in the library of the State Normal School at San Diego will be available for the use of students in the summer school. The two courses will be conducted by J. D. Burks, of the department of the theory and practice of teaching of the State Normal School at San Diego. In addition to these courses there will be offered a course in biology by Arthur W. Greeley, and perhaps other courses to be announced later. The Pacific Grove Summer School. The Pacific Grove Summer School, which for the past few years has enjoyed the distinction of being the best of its sort on the Coast, offers a wider and more attractive field of work this year than ever before. Several new names appear in the faculty for 1900; among these are Professor Rufus Lot Green, Dr. Herbert Z. Kip, and Mr. Harold S. Muckleston, all of Stanford; Dr. William P. Boynton, of the University of California: and Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, of the University of the Pacific. Professor Green offers, among others, a lecture course upon the theories of Arithmetic, with special reference to the origin and development of the number systems and its laws, a new course which will appeal widely to teachers. There is a course in Physics offered this year for the first time by Dr. Boynton, which will be of great value to teachers in grammar and high schools of limited equipment. It is a laboratory course in the construction and use of the simpler and more important pieces of physical apparatus. Dr. Starbuck offers, in addition to those given last year, a lecture course on the theory and practice of teaching. Professor Sanford offers two courses not given in 1899; one in Shakespeare and one in English Grammar. The history department is also wider than last year and covers a very attractive field. Professor Goebel, who for the past two years has had charge of the |