River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-10-05
Educational.
~. n. RAK EK. a. r., Editor.
County sUPERErExDEET)

| -. y. BAk Elk. a. kB.s Editor.
lCouxrY SUPERINTENDENT
EXAMINATION at the Academy, to-mor-
row.
BRIEs legal cap paper to examina-
ton.
ALEX MORAN teaches i'm La Crosse
county.
A. RosESBERGER will teach again in
No. 5, Union.
Cora KINGSLEY teaches in the Baird
district, River Falls.
Miss NELLIE COOPER began the Ell Paso
village school last Monday.
LACK of ventilation is the worst evil,
and the greatest intolerance to learn
ing. in our winter schools.
ID. +. HOLMAN, graduate of the last
class in Brown University, will teach
the Maiden Rock village school. 1t he
gan last Monday.
In Hartland teachers are engaged as
follows: IL. Lowater at Esdaile; Sarah
E. Bartholomew in the Spaulding dis
trict; j. w. Maxwell in the Drake
district; ID. w. Morgan in joint dis
trict No. 3.
WY not organize debating socie-
ty in connection with every school :
Have other literary exercises, if pos
sible. Adhere strictly to parliament
tary rules in all respects, and get a
Cushing Manual, if necessary, in order
to learn.
c. II. CHAPMAN of Viroqua, Vernon
county, will teach in No. Ellsworth.
The school has a well-conducted de-
batting society. The members are
working busily to make it a firm organ
iZation, and growing power in she
community. They also extend an in
vitatiOn to all lovers of literature to
be present and take part in the exer-
ciSes.
| The NATIONAL TEACHERS MONTHLY for
September, has articles entitled, The
Country School Problem, Details, a
set of examination questions used IN
city high schools, and many other ex-
cellent articles. The editor attacks
oral instruction in high schools, crit
icises our method of teaching spelling,
and the idea that Normal Schools
should have a preparatory department.
J. Mahoney, editor, Chicago.
THE second nights reading of Prof.
Burbank at the Normal Chapel, was
well attended, and the exercises were
entertaining. His selections were
chiefly humorous. His coming was
due to the energy of the Normal Liter
airy Society. Further efforts in the
same line would be acceptable.
The rendering of Col. Sellers, char
acter from the ''Gilded Age" and
Boucicault's ''Shaugraun, was very
laughable. Dickens "Death of Joe"
was too painfully sad to be entertain
ing, which is no discredit to the read
er. Less appreciation of the spirit
of the piece would have been less af-
fecting There were no dull selec-
| tions.
If anything was lacking, it was a
little music.
WE regret to see a tendency in
many quarters, to reduce the salaries
of teachers. This is done professedly
| i'm the interest of economy, but really
for the sake of gaining little cheap
notoriety for its advocates as reform
ers and economists, and thereby serv-
| ing some personal or partisan purpose.
No tax is paid more freely than the
school tax. Not one citizen in twenty
| will claim that teachers are paid too
much, or that they do not earn the full
amount of their salaries; yet it is pos
sible for a school board to exist, whose
members know not what to do to eX-
ercise their authority in legitimate
manner, may not have the sense to do
nothing, but must needs hack at the
salaries of teachers. We do not be-
grudge such all the fame and fortune
they will eventually gain by their per-
| functory labors. Professional teach
ing should give its professors vested
rights in its emOluments-rights not
to be outraged at the within of reac-
Zionist, or through the wiles of DEM
agogue.- National Teachers Monthly.