River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-03
LIS, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER B. 1873.
Educational.
II. s.. BAKER, A. H., Editor.
COUNTY suPERISTESDESr.,

County SUPERINTENDENT
BRING legal cap paper to examination
tomorrow.
NANCY CoRNELIsoN will teach in dis
trict No. S. Trimbelle.
III. w. CoRNELIsoN will teach in the
Morgan district, Diamond Bluff.
WHAT men want is not talent but
purpose; not the power to achieve. but
the will to labor. LORD Lytt0n.
SUSIE GILMORE has engaged the Bay
City school and will teach 4 term of
four months. beginning December
lst.
You can hardly beautify your school
room with plants during the winter
term, but you can adorn it with pic
lures: Do so.
THE object of every one should be
to find out that for which he is best
adapted and to bring all his powers. to
bear in that direction.
TEACHERS will have an opportunity
| to Join the p. G. T. l.. A. during exam
ination week and thus have the fact
entered upon their certificates.
G. G. WILLIAMS has concluded to de-
fer going the Medical College for the
present and will teach the school in
the Fisher, or Fasbender district, Oak
Grove.
The effect of coffee drinking is head
ache, renewed and aggravated after
eating; it disappears in the open air
but returns in short time in the
house .-HahneDla7la.
WHEN person has investigated any
one topic thoroughly by patient inves-
LEGATION and independent thought, he
is far along in education. Until that
time he has not taken the first step.
The Milwaukee school exhibit at
Paris attracts much attention. Salary
of principals i'll that city, 81 800; of
assistants, six to eight hundred. 1t
was also noted at Philadelphia. Music
and industrial drawing are taught.
WE are wondering what will be the
standard excuse this fall for asking a
private examination. 1t is our pur-
pose to raise the "eXcuse" standard
SO high that plain headache on that
day only, or the fact that father was
using the team" will not be sufficient.
WHAT genius does is to inspire the
soul with power to persevere in the
labor that is needed; but the greatest
geniuses in every art Invariably labor
at their art far more than all others,
because their genius shows them the
value of such patient labor and aids
them to persist in it.-Dr. Temple.
The acquaintances of Y. E. Howard,
formerly a teacher insefSs River Falls
Institute, will read with interest the
following from the New England Jour-
nal of Education:
Walter Il. Howard, late president of
the Vermont State Normal School at
Castleton, has been elected to the pres
idency of Normal School in Tennes-
see.
WE are pleased to see that some
teachers have judgment enough to re-
fuse certain schools in which they see
that for them success is impossible,
although the pay is good. Others
grapple impossibilities with entire
recklessness, and get their pay with
out rendering any adequate return. If
experience is worth anything there
are certain schools in which beginners
cannot succeed brilliantly. Know thy
self was command to teachers.
ATTEND Prof. Woodbury's reading to-
morrow evening and get something
that will help you in your school. We
shall look after the upper reading
classes especially during the winter.
He will instruct both by precept and
example. There is nothing more use
ful than an ability to read well, ar t
is much neglected. Except perhaps,
music, there is nothing that enables
one to give others more pleasure.
How many persons do you know who
give you pleasure by their reading?
Can you give others pleasure by read.
ing to them! If you are not able to
do it you ought to be.
To save myself from danger of rust
ing, rather than wearing out, | have
engaged the school for
the coming winter. A list of text.
books having been adopted, the work
is rendered comparatively easy and
profitable. / enter the school with
a determination to enforce good order
and have been gratuitously advised to
"whip 'em good" but fear thatif sue
cess lies in welding the rod 1 shall
| miserably fail. Is there not some
| thing ludicrous in the idea of a human
being having attained mans statute
physically, if not mentally standing
still to be chastised by woman. The
board promise to sustain me and will
it not be well to appeal to the ambi-
ton and manliness of these big "boys,"
and on failing to arouse these quail
Ties, look to the board for assistance!
Please advise and oblige.
Mss NARY TABOR Is teaching fall
term on Trenton Prairie and will also
teach the winter term in the same
place.
| Now is the time for teachers to gath.
er ferns and leaves TO decorate their
school rooms for winter.
Miss Susie Gilmore is to teach the
school at Bay City. Mr.. Fred Parker
is to teach in the Porter district town
of Trenton. Mr.. II. E. Kennlcott has
secured the school in the Nero district
town of Diamond Bluff and Trenton
Miss Anna Spalding and Julia Akers,
of the town of Hartiand, contemplate
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