The Green Forest tribune., 1904-03-26
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
Some Terse Comment on It by
 County Examiner Cooper.

County Examiner Cooper. County Examiner E. c. Cooper has been very busy this week grading the papers of the appli- cants for teachers license at the quarterly examination held at Berryville last week.
 The following is a list of the parties examined:
 Virgie Blasingame, Cora Coop CT, Myrtle Callen, Cora Planning, Clara Tanning, Anna Graham, Della Nance, of Green Forest.
 Lillis Ferree, Flora Henry, Willie Harvey, Minnie Harvey, Bliss Hill, Serilda Jones, Maud Jones, Carrie Moore, Willie New ton, Bertha Oliver, Alta Price, Fife Price, Macie Price, SalIie Stewart, Escal Thompson, Lona Webb, Ennis Price of Berryville.
 Charlie Watkins, Dock Doug- lass of Carrollton.
 Etta Duncan, Yocum.
 Susie Mccullough, Blue Eye, Mo.
 Grace Kirkpatrick, Bertha Shipman, Alpena.
 M. T. Reynolds, J. R. Rey- holds, J. G. Philpot, Polo.
 Mr. Cooper says that the quail fications of our teachers are get ting a little better all the while, but that the improvement is not what it ought to be or what might reasonably be expected.
 "Do you know" said he to THE TRIBUNE the other day, eff I were to grade the papers of every ap- plicant to technical requirement. of the regulations, there would not be nearly enough teachers licensed to teach the public schools of the county?
 "Some applicants show splen- did ability on some lines, while they seem to be blank on others. Here, for instance, is the paper of one of the most successful young lady teachers on the roll. In answer to the question What governors of Arkansas after wards became United States senators?' She answers: Berry, Dinsmore and Hanna Another applicant answers the same ques- tion Yell, Berry and Fuller In physiology an applicant de- scribes the process of repair of 8 broken bone like this: Have 8 physician set the bone and tie it up and in a short time it will be sound again Another appli- cant describes the heart as being heart shaped.
 "These, of course, are a little the worst breaks l find, but there are many other questions an swered in such way as to be ex- tremely amusing when you con- sider the one answering is an ap- plicant for license as a teacher.
 'NThe branches added by the last legislature is stumbling stone in the way of many teach CTS who have not been attending school lately and some of them are going to have to acquire the habit of studying or else step out of the profession. /"
 'I am adopting system of re- quiring an improvement on the per cent made by those granted third grade certificates. If such persons do not show improvement over what was made at the previ- ous examination, 1 am going to refuse to grant them license.
 "A irst-grade certificate in this state means vastly more now than it used to. The require ments are now much greater sand the grading has been more ridgid under each succeeding examiner. It is my purpose to make first grade certificate exactly true to name. Some years ago there were more first grades issued than any other; now they are few and far between. Many persons who have in the past held first grades could not now pass for third. This is one of the strong