River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-12-13
Educational.

CCouNTY suPERINrENDENr.)

WINTHROP POWELL teaches in the Fem
ton district, Ellsworth.
PIERCE COUNTY maps can now lie OBJ
tanned of Levings Sisters, River Falls,
ST.. LOUIS is discussing the question
of excluding married women from the
public schools.
The Fort Edward Institute, N. Y,
was recently destroyed by fire. Loss,
1925, 900. Many pupils lost books and
clothing.
Those wishing to purchase some inn
proved secondhand school furniture,
can be accommodated by addressing
John Copley, Prescott, Wis.
THE most annoying parsonage the
young teacher is liable to encounter, is
the non-progressive, moderately sue
cessful teacher of thirty or forty years
ago.--Ed. Weekly.
The real use of teachers, properly
so-called, after the very first youth
has been passed, is chiefly to keep us
within the limits of the really valuable
and excellent.-E
THE teacher who told us that it
seemed as if he could not teach school
without the New England Journal of
Education, evidently reads its valuable
pages and profits by them.
The Wisconsin Teachers Associa-
ton will convene at Madison, Dee.
Goth, at 1880 P. NJ. The exercises will
be opened by paper upon Our Coun-
ty Schools, by Supt. elect, w. Q. Whit
ford. The meetings will continue
until Friday evening inclusive, al
though there will be no sessions upon
Thursday and Friday afternoons, thus
giving members an opportunity to at
tend the meeting of superintendent,
and the Principals Association. Re-
turn tickets one-fifth fare. Hotel
rates. $3.50 to $3.50 per day.
A GENERAL education should develop
the power of accurate and rapid use
of numbers; it should give power to
read expressively and readily; power
to reason correctly from aXiOms and
properly selected data; power to meas
ure rightly the value of evidence; con-
troll of the hand so far as to enable it
to draw lines dictated by the reason or
will power of close and discriminate
ing observation some knowledge of
the earth and its wonders, of the star
ry heavens and their amplitude, of the
human body and it's capabilities, and
of the aspiring soul.-N. W. C.. AdUO-
cate.
THE income, last year. from the
school fund was $3.50, 553.I3. The Nor
NAL School Fund income was, includ-
ing nearly ST., 200 tuition fees, $685.
076. Is. The expenses of the Normal
School at Oshkosh were $2l ,433.5 SO; at
Whitewater, $2l ,I33. 48; at Platteville,
ST., ia %; at River Falls, $40, 00l.83.
The income of the State University
Fund was $40, 64l, 90. There are TWEEN
ty-one Free High Schools in the state,
which received aid to the amount of
81, S65.25 The expense of the short
term Institutes were, $4, 3I5.4l. of the
Normal Institutes. $l,999.7S; Total
Institute expenses, SO, 315.14. Ex-
penses of Regents, $547.9l unclassi-
| lied Normal School expenses, 50, 845. 10.
Or those who have applied for GER
tificates at regular examinations dur
ing 1877, l21 have had no school adj
vantages besides those offered by COM
mon or graded schools, GA have been
pupils at the River Falls Institute, 10
have attended the Normal School.
Several have attended the State Uniyer-
isty of Minnesota. have attended the
University of Wisconsin. Four have
received instruction at Galesville Uni
versity; one graduated from Dartmouth
College and one from Brown Univer-
sity. One had received a medical ed
ucation and one a theological. One
was a graduate from an Illinois college.
During the year which closed Au-
gust 3lst, 1877, II first grade and q
second grade certificates We're issued.
The applicants this fall were ia last
spring ia. One year ago, l35.