River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-02-03
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
III, :. BAKER, A. H., Editor.
County Supt.

CORPORAL. Observation-Disclosures Is a
report current that the supreme court
decided that a teacher has no right to
punish puEl for disobedience. The
last Journal of Education contains an
official decision, which we condense,
as follows:
The court Of our state never decid-
ed that corporal punishment is illegal.
No other supreme court ever decid-
ed in that way.
No legislature has ever forbidden it..
At common law, a teacher is justili.
ed in resorting to suchpunishment, if
found necessary.
We may add that the teacher has
very nearly the same control over the
pupil in school, that the parent has at
home. If either injure the child per-
manently, an action for damages, or
assault and battery can be sustained.
Mr.. ALEX MORAN, of La Crosse coun-
ty, leaves the Normal to finish d..
Proctor's school, at Glas Valley. He
will teach either six or eight weeks.
We believe the board has made good
selection. Mr.. Proctor is doing we'll.
o. P. WHIP is teaching an excellent
school, just north of Rock Elm Centre.
His evening schools are very interest
ing, and profitable.
Tue furnace in the Ellsworth school
house is failure. Stoves have been
procured, by the board, and will soon
be put in operation.
THE National Teachers Monthly for
February, is as sharp and practical as
ever. 1t contains no dull articles.
One dollar per year.
Several young ladies have asked US
to find them schools for the summer.
STUDY carefully the history of the
War Of the Revolution, if you expect
to attend the spring examination.
The Wis. Journal of Education for
January, contains the reports of the
State Teachers Association, and Of the
convention of County Superintendent,
both of which lately met at Madison.
1t is much improved in appearance.
We will send it one year on receipt
of ninety cents. The price for single
copies is $l.l0. We have formed a
club.
c. c. McIntyre's school in Martel, is
the second school that we have seen
which is supplied with good air. 1t
is consequently very still, and the pu.
pills studious. Who will get the next
credit mark!
Mas. NJ L. MAxGooD is doing finely at
Spring Valley. She knows how to
teach reading.
THE teacher of the Big River school,
D. II. Corcoran, has some of the finest
specimens of map drawings, that we
have seen. They we're drawn by pu-
pills thirteen years of age or less.
They will be on exhibition at the
Teachers Association.
Miss IDA POWELL, of the River Falls
public school, is teaching her classes
to draw a map of Pierce county. She
has our thanks.
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry
one dollar per year, is the best paper
for a teacher who desires general
scientific information. 1t is not over
technical in language but any one can
read it with interest, and understand
it. We have copies that can be seen
at any time.
THERE have been 81 nominations for
the Normal School, from Pierce county
about one third are from River Falls.
II any teacher whose school has
never been supplied with a dictionary
will write and send us the name and
address Of the clerk, we will forward
a blank to him that he can fll out. Ger.
tify to, and forward to the State Supt.,
ana receive the dictionary.
10 SUMNER Teachers. That your ex-
animation In Home Geography will be
severe, you are already aware. Pre-
pare yourself thoroughly upon the
History Of the Revolutionary War.
Study to ascertain clearly, the resour,
ces Of the country at that time, the
causes Of the war, and its principal
points. Also follow the political his
tory Of the country up to at least 1870
In grammar, prepare yourselves to
discover IL a sentence Is ungrammatic
al, and II 50 st0 give reasons for thI
same. FA GA tA III ~. tef f
TnE above topics are not as well I'm.
dprgt0Dd NJ they shOuld lie We wish