for administration and for instruction in the hygiene of maternity and of infancy through public health nurses, consultation centers and other suitable methods.

Section 9 provides for popular nontechnical lectures to be given as a university extension course by the various educational institutions. Section 14 forbids the use of any money appropriated under the Act for the purchase or erection of buildings or the purchase or rental of any lands.

LABOR'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR

ILLINOIS

THE Illinois State Federation of Labor, which held its annual meeting at Galesburg in October, planned an extensive educational program and adopted a number of resolutions. According to the Illinois Teacher the State Federation of Labor favors:

1. Such an equalization of educational opportunity as will enable all children to obtain a good high school education.

2. Increased facilities for cultural studies and for education for leisure time.

3. Extending educational facilities to adults who lacked such facilities in their youth or who need education in the English language, American citizenship, or the labor union movement.

4. The organization of continuation schools under the new law so as to help our youth make real educational and industrial progress, and not merely to make them proficient in "blind alley jobs."

5. Doubling the state school fund.

6. Enlarging the unit of school taxation.

7. Removing the Juul law limitation as it applies to school tax rates.

8. A separate and additional high school tax for those districts wishing to maintain both elementary and high schools under one school board.

9. A full endorsement of the educational and revenue program recommended to the Constitutional Convention by the Illinois State Teachers' Association.

10. The enactment into law of the Smith-Towner bill by Congress.

11. Increased salaries for teachers, with a minimum wage of $2,000 for the school year.

12. Preventing the present scarcity of teachers from lowering the standards for teachers.

13. Extending the facilities for training teachers by adding a year of post-graduate work in educational principles and practise teaching to the course of at least one high school in each county, the expense to be shared by the state and the county.

14. The recognition of different mental and physical characteristics in children and of the injustice of a rigid classification.

15. Modern physical education under trained instructors.

16. Ample playground facilities open to the public at all times when it will not interfere with school work.

17. The better use of school buildings for the adult population for public forums, for the discussion of civic questions and for preparation for citizenship, and for all other social and educational community services.

18. Uniform length of school terms in all districts.

19. The consolidation of small districts where it will help school conditions.

20. A reasonable uniformity of text books throughout the state, and the use of union-made books.

21. The more general use of the referendum provided for by the McCabe free text-book law.

22. More cooperation by the labor unions with the school authorities in the management and control of trade schools, their courses, and their attendance.

23. A closer relation between the labor movement and the teachers.

24. The appointment of a Standing Committee on Schools by the State Federation of Labor. 25. The printing of 35,000 copies of this report and their distribution to the teachers of Illinois.

EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS DR. JOHN M. THOMAS, since 1908 president of Middlebury College, has resigned to accept the presidency of Pennsylvania State College. Dr. Thomas was ordained to the ministry in the Presbyterian Church in 1893. He was at one time chairman of the Vermont State Board of Education.

MEMBERS of the faculties of the associated schools at Tufts College will give a reception and banquet to President Cousens on February 8, at the Hotel Vendome. The event is

planned to take the place of a formal inauguration which has been postponed indefinitely.

CHARLES E. THORNE, who has been director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station since 1887, has been released from the directorship at his own request, but remains in charge of the station's investigations in soil fertility. Mr. C. G. Williams, agronomist of the station since 1902 and associate director since 1917, has been appointed acting director.

DEAN C. H. HASKINS, of Harvard University, has been elected president of the American Council of Learned Societies, a national organization embracing virtually all associations representing the humanities and serving as a means of affiliating the scholars of the United States with the International Society of Academies which was recently organized in Paris.

DR. ELMER E. JONES, director of the school of education of Northwestern University, has been appointed by the Albanian government to make a survey of their schools and report to them as soon as possible a system of public education for their country. Dr. Jones will leave America about May 1 and remain in Albania four months, returning to Northwestern University about the middle of September.

DR. OSCAR KLOTZ, professor of pathology in the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, has been appointed a representative of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation for work in medical research and education in São Paulo, Brazil. It is expected that Dr. Klotz will spend a number of years in Brazil, during which time he will serve as director of a pathologic institute.

DR. LESTER M. WILSON, professor of psychology in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Charleston, sailed on January 26 for Lima, Peru, where he has accepted the position of director of studies and examinations for the Republic of Peru, at an annual salary of $7,200. Dr. Wilson will have charge of the certification of teachers, making of curricula for elementary and secondary schools and of the standardizing of schools in the new five-year program that the state is now

putting into operation for the improvement of its school system.

JONATHAN H. WAGNER, formerly superintendent of public instruction of the state of New Mexico, has been appointed superintendent of schools of School District Number One, Pueblo, Colorado.

MR. R. M. MARLOWE, formerly superintendent of schools at Newcomerstown (Ohio), has been elected superintendent of schools at Batavia.

A. C. BERG, past president of North Dakota Education Association, superintendent of schools for McHenry county, assumed the work of school inspector for northwestern North Dakota on January 1.

MR. NORMAN J. BOND, of Northampton, Mass., has been elected to succeed Carl Cotton as superintendent of schools at West Springfield.

MR. FRED H. NICKERSON, of Medford, Mass., has been elected superintendent of schools at Quincy, at a salary of $5,500.

PERCY MCCHESNEY, instructor in public speaking and music in the city schools of Worthington, has been elected superintendent of the public schools of Milaca, Minn.

L. E. LOGAN, training assistant under the Federal Board of Vocational Education, has joined the science department of the High School at Knoxville, Tenn.

DR. F. M. GARVER has notified the board of trustees that he will not return next year as director of the Oak Lane Country Day School in Philadelphia, as he expects to go into university work.

ELIOT GRINNELL MEARS, who returned last spring from a sixteen months' residence in Greece and Turkey as trade commissioner of the United States Department of Commerce, is now on leave of absence from the government. He has accepted an appointment as acting professor of economics at Leland Stanford University where he has charge of the courses on economic resources, marketing and foreign trade. Prior to entering government service in 1916, he was for four years a mem

ber of the teaching staff of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

M. HENRI GUY, dean of the faculty of letters at the University of Toulouse, has arrived in Cambridge to take up his duties as exchange professor of French literature at Harvard. During the second half year Professor Guy will give at Harvard a half-course in the department of Romance languages, "The sonnet in French literature." The course will be conducted in French. He will also deliver a series, of lectures in French on the work of Corneille.

ACCORDING to a cablegram from Athens Professor Phoutrides, formerly of Harvard University, and Professor Papanicolaou, formerly of New York University, are among those who have been discharged from Athens University. They had gone there by request of the former premier, Eleutherios Venizelos.

THE Arizona State Teachers' Association met in Phoenix, December 27, 28 and 29. Miss Elizabeth McCrickett, of the Ypsilanti Normal School; Dr. E. P. Cubberley, of Leland Stanford University, and President Henry D. Suzzalo, of the University of Washington, were among the invited speakers. The officers for the new year are H. E. Hendrix, superintendent of schools, Mesa, president; Miss Dorothy Gregg, supervisor of the grade schools, Bisbee, secretary; Superintendent D. W. Hibner, Safford, treasurer.

OFFICERS of the Illinois State Teachers' Association for the year 1921 have been elected, as follows: President-K. D. Waldo, Aurora. First Vice-president-W. T. Jobe, Vienna. Second Vice-president-Hattie M. Blair, Salem. Third Vice-president-Alice M. Green, Joliet. Secretary-Robert C. Moore, Carlinville. Treasurer-Charles McIntosh, Monticello. Executive CommitteeExecutive CommitteeJ. O. Engleman, Chm., Decatur; Wm. B. Owen, 370 Normal Parkway, Chicago; O. L. Manchester, Normal. Editor of Illinois Teacher Robert C. Moore, Carlinville. Advertising Manager-George A. Brown, Bloomington.

SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES, the British ambassador to the United States, has accepted an invitation to deliver the second course of public lectures at the Rice Institute on its Godwin Foundation in Public Affairs. These lectures will be given in the City Auditorium of Houston, May 11-13, and announcements of the subjects will be forthcoming on the ambassador's return from his present visit to England. The inaugural lectures of the Godwin Foundation were given at the Institute last spring by the Hon. William H. Taft, twenty-seventh President of the United States.

DR. PAUL SHOREY, professor of classical philology in the University of Chicago, has been selected as the University Day orator at the University of Pennsylvania on Washington's Birthday, February 22. The subject of his address will be "Our National Unity."

DR. JAMES A. MONTGOMERY, chairman of the managing committee of the American School in Jerusalem, gave an illustrated lecture on "Archeological work in Palestine and the American School in Jerusalem" at the one hundred and first meeting of the Archeological Society of Washington, on January 17.

PROFESSOR EDGAR JAMES SWIFT, head of the department of psychology and education in Washington University, has been invited by the administrative officers of the post graduate school of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis to repeat the lectures which he gave before the officers and students last spring. Professor Swift will lecture "Thinking and acting," on February 19, and on "The psychology of managing men," on April 9.

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A CEREMONY was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the first anniversary of the death of Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, formerly president. Reginald H. Smithwick, of Boston, president of the senior class and chairman of the Institute Committee, placed a wreath on the memorial which has been erected in memory of Dr. Maclaurin in the lobby of the Walker Memorial building.

THE statue of Ira Allen, founder of the University of Vermont, which has been presented to the university by James B. Wilbur, will be unveiled at commencement in June. The statue is the work of Sherry Fry, the sculptor.

DR. E. B. CRAIGHEAD, for a time commissioner of higher education in North Dakota, and in recent years editor of the New Northwest at Missoula, Mont., has died there of apoplexy. Dr. Craighead had been president of Tulane University for some years, and later of the University of Montana.

GEORGE COMBE MANN, for thirty-six years headmaster of the West Roxbury (Mass.) High School, and the son of Horace Mann, died on January 28, at the home of his son, Horace Mann, at Richmond, Mass., aged seventy-six years.

PROFESSOR THEODOR SCHEIMANN, of the chair of history in the University of Berlin, died in Berlin on January 26. He was the author of authoritative books on the history of eastern Europe and Russia.

THE eighteenth general convention of The Religious Education Association will be held at Rochester, New York, the main sessions on March 10 to 13, but with other bodies and sessions the days preceding and following. The theme for the convention is "Education for world fellowship." There will be meetings of the departments for universities and colleges, theological seminaries, pastors, Sunday-schools, week-day church schools, public schools, the family, community agencies, etc., all developing themes relating to religious training in their respective fields. The convention met in Rochester some fourteen years ago, and it is said that its influence continues to this day in the development of religious education in Rochester churches; meanwhile, since that convention the R. E. A. has more than tripled its membership. The full programs for the next convention may be obtained on application to the office of The Religious Education Association, 1440 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois.

A MEASURE has been introduced in the Maine Legislature which would advance the

salary of the state superintendent of schools from $4,000 a year to $7,500.

THE New York State Board of Regents passed a resolution on January 28 asking the Legislature to act to enable the City of New York to issue short term bonds to meet the deficit of about $28,000,000 in the city's educational budget.

GIFTS of $270,369 are reported by Fordham University, including $10,000 pledged by the Knights of Columbus. Among the gifts announced are two of $10,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan and Colonel E. R. Green; $5,000 each from Morgan J. O'Brien and Robert E. McConnell. The students have raised nearly $65,000.

INCREASE of the stipend granted all Rhodes scholars from £300 to £350 a year is announced by Frank Aydelotte, of the Institute of Technology, American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships. The statement says that the trustees regard the additional £50 as a bonus and not as a permanent addition to the scholarship because they can not be certain either of the value of money in future years, or of their own capacity to continue the payment indefinitely. At the same time they wish it clearly understood that the bonus will not be withdrawn without adequate notice and certainly not in any case where a candidate has been elected in expectation of receiving it. It is proposed to pay the bonus in two half-yearly instalments of £25 beginning in midsummer 1921. It is pointed out that there is no suggestion that even this stipend of £350 is sufficient to meet the existing increase in living prices, and candidates are warned in the statement that they may well need some small addition to it from their own

resources.

ENTRANCE salary for high-school teachers in the Canal Zone is $152.72 a month, with increase of $10 per month for each year of satisfactory service until the maximum of $199.72 has been reached. Grade-school teachers receive $140.27 upon entrance, with increase of $66 per month for each year of satisfactory service until the maximum of $160.27 has been