River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-25

Communication from Teachers and thos
interested in Education solicited. Address all
communications to the Editor at Prescott. Wis.
The results of this falls examination
have been issued. There were just one
hundred applicants against ninety-eight
first grade certificates, eleven persons re-
ceived second grades, fifty-six received
third grades and eight received limited
certificates. The classes were almost en-
tirely composed of teachers Of more or
less experience.
We are pleased to find that the limited
certificate is growing more and more UNI
popular. A larger number of applicants
than ever before have said to Us this fall,
eff my papers do not call for anything
higher than a limited certificate send me
my standings. l don't want limited
We hope TO see that limited certificate
legislated out of existence. We have re-
stricted the number by not issuing more
than one to the same person.
Introduction TO Physical Science" is an
able and attractive little book for begin
ners in the study of physics. Those ac-
quainted with Grades Physics know
how well the author treats his subject
and need no rurther information for
their full indorsment of the present vol
ume than that it is from the same author.
Those teachers who have failed to re-
ceive report blanks please let us know
and we will forward them Immediately.
To an intelligent understanding of
the teachers work, a consideration of
mental phenomenon is Indispensable
JOhOnnot.
A set of the International Cyclopedia is
for sale at our Office, on easy terms.
Write us.
Do not make a hobby of diagrams.
The teacher who begins with the dia-
gram shows that he has failed to grasp a
fundamental principle in teaching
BdLdl0in.
Great care is necessary during these
deceptive autumn days to keep the tom
perature and atmosphere in proper con-
dition in your school room. Give your
close attention to these things as it may
save your school from an epidemic or
save the life of some frail pupil under
your charge.
The teacher, by educating conscience,
renders the pupil an upright, self-govern-
ing being. -BaldOin.
Our Public School is bright little pap
er published by the teachers and pupils
of the Hayward graded school. 1t is
published monthly commencing with
| September and contains articles by the
pupils, such as stories, etc. just as the
through which the school reaches its pat
rons and stimulates interest in the school
work. Prof. G. q. Williams, an old
Pierce county teacher is principal of this
school and we congratulate the Hayward
people on getting so able an educator.
We wish him and his enterprise a last
ing success.
We are sorry that the inspection of the
examination work compelled our absence
from the association at Maiden Rock last
| Saturday. We are quite certain, how
ever, that the meeting was just as valua-
| bic and enthusiastic as it would have
been had we been there. Some of the
most valuable meetings ever held in
Pierce county have been when the SUI
perintendent was not present.
H. G. Wilson of Prescott, one of the
leading teachers of the county, will enter
the law school at Madison this fall
| Henry has all The elements for making
an excellent lawyer and we wish him
| success.
Send 10 cents to Leach, Shewell q Sand
born, Boston, Mass, and get The Scholars
Gem Book. This little work contains 36l
short quotations from the best authors
Place one of these gems on the board and
ask your pupils to reproduce it from
memory next day. Do this four days in
| the week and review the whole on Friday
If you will do this during the winter
term, your pupils will have as a result
many of the most excellent thoughts OF
the best thinkers and you will have done
much to form the pupils taste in future
reading. Memorizing selections solely
on the account Of their evolutionary value
is often the greatest wrong which can be
perpetrated in the school-room upon the
trusting mind of youth. A selection con-
tanning questionable premises to prove a
doubtful point when put in pleasant
rhetorical form, may, under such stimu-
lus, send a young mind entirely astray.
Have a careful eye, then, on rlsdt your pupils