The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-02-06
TEACHERS READING CIRCLE.
Invitation Extended to Teachers to Be-
come Members.

BY an unanimous vote at the last
meeting of the department of the su-
perintendent's at the state teachers
association, the management OF the
teachers reading circle for the state
of Oregon was placed in the care OF
the president of the state university.
The university undertakes this great
responsibility with the feeling that
the reading circle can be made sue
cess and credit to the profession in
Oregon if every teacher will cooper
ate in the effort. This cooperation
involves two things: each teacher
should join the circle and should also
| read the books selected diligently.
Merely joining the circle aud paying
the yearly fee, which is fifty cents,
will not do the teacher or the circle
any good. Every member must work.
| 1t is not desired that any one should
| Join who does not feel the need Tor
earnest professional Improvement and
hard work. If you feel the need for
steady advancement in your work and
wish to progress you are invited to
join the state reading circle. The fee
of fifty cents will be used to pay the
expenses of the circle. Money must
be used to pay for correcting the paper,
for making out questions and for sta
tionery. 1t is proposed to conduct the
! reading circle on strictly business
principles: to do all the work promptly
and if possible to keep the interest
alive at all times.
Two lines of work will be taken up
simultaneously this year. The circle
will read Whites Element of Pedag Ogy
price $1.0O by mail, for the purely pro-
fessional work. Ten sets of questions
will be mailed to all members of the
circle who read this book, at the rate
of one set month. The questions
should be answered without reference
to the book and the answers mailed
to the university of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon. The words ''for reading
CIRCLE" should be written plainly on
the envelope. With every set of an
swers stamps should be enclosed for
return postage, the exact amount re-
quired for this purpose should be en-
closed.
The reading circle will also study
this year Brander Matthews's Intro
duction to American Literature. The
course will be conducted in the same
way as that in Whites Pedagogy.
Teachers may join the reading circle
in either of two ways.
First-Give your name and the fee
which is 80 cents, TO your county su-
perintendent. He will forward them
to the university. Then send to Port
land American Book Co., 2l9 Yamhill
ST., for either or both the books which
the circle is to read. The sets ofques-
tions will be forwarded to you monthly.
Second-Send your name and the
fee, fifty cents, directly to the univer-
sity of Oregon, marking the letter
Reading Circle" this will also make
you a member of the circle and entitle
you to the set of questions. Regular
exercises and examinations in the work
of the reading circle will be held at
the annual county institutes where ar
can be made for them.
County superlntendents are ex-officio |
officers and agents of the reading cir
Gle. They are urgently requested to
push the work in their respective /
counties; to keep it before their teach
ers in all legitimate ways and to give
them due notice to the university of all
ocal institutes and teachers meetings
80 that literature referring to the
reading circle can be supplied to all
teachers.
The State Superintendent Hon. g..
NJ. Irwin, has promised to award
special certificate of merit to all
completing the full work of
,he reading circle satisfactorily.
Very respectfully,
G. H. CHAPMAN,