Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16
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announced that President Henry Hopkins
of the institution has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect in June, 1908. Prof.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late Presi-
dent James A. Garfield. a Williams alxm-
nus and at present occupying the chair
of politics at Princeton university, has
been chosen to succeed President Hop
kins.
The Experiment Station Record an
nounces that the Massachusetts, College
has established a department of agricul-
tural education, it's work to include both
instruction and research. Normal courses
will be offered to prospective teachers,
and studies will be made of problems con-
fronting agricultural teaching in colleges
and schools of various grades, and of ag-
ricultural extension, with a view to intro
ducing agriculture into the elementary
schools, establishing agricultural high
schools, and correlating and unifying the
agricultural instruction given in the
State. The work viii be in close coop
GRAFTON with existing educational agen-
cies, especially the State Industrial Com
mission.
The New York City Beard of Educa-
ton has decided to establish a free pub
lie school for the education of deaf chill
dren. This action is in pursuance of the
report of its committee on elementary
schools, which stated that a school for
deaf children was entirely practicable as
a part Of the system of public education,
and advised a preparatory course of two
to three years in voice training, to be
followed by the pupils as far as possible
by a regular course of study, including
manual training. William II. Maxwell,
city superintendent, in speaking on the
subject, said that there were probably
about 100 deaf children in Manhattan
who were not being cared for or educated
in any institution. The board will ar
range to give school accommodations to
at least It's pupils at the start.
Supt. Rapp of Berks ccanty, Pa, is
putting into execution a plan which has
been formulating for some time in the
effort to impress upon country boys and
girls that the city is not the only place
to work in nor the most desirable place
to live in. The plan by which he is
seeking to combat the city's call is to
establish clubs for boys and girls. The
object of the clubs is to bring the boys
into competition with each other in the
matter of raising certain vegetables and
other farm employments, and create a
friendly feeling among the girls about
| their cooking, needlework and other house
wifely employments. Prizes will be Of
fered and exchanges of ideas made posi-
BILE. 1t is Mr.. Rapp's hope that pride
in doing their line of work we'll will keep
many a boy and girl from going to the
city.
The declaration of principles made by
the recent s~emi-centennial convention Of
/ %Lo Nof;nro1 E%lycot;opo1 A,-oo;or -
Los Angeles indorses the growing in
sistence upon the special preparation of
teachers favors the advance in salaries
to "a living wage; approves the spread
of rural high schools says that CONNER
cial and trade schools should be added
wherever possible; urges free evening
schools and the use of buildings and
grounds "for the relief of the poor of the
crowded districts in the SUMNER; asks
the ~harmonizing of child labor and tru-
ancy laws; regrets "the revival of the
| idea that the common school is a place
for teaching nothing but reading, SPELL
ing, writing and ciphering," and declares
that the object is ito teach children how
to live rigl:teously and happily, and thai
to accomplish this object it is essential
that every school inculcate the love of
truth, justice, purity and beauty through
the study also of biography, history,
ethics, natural history, music, drawing
and the manual arts. 1t also expresses
the belief hat interschool games should
be played for craftsmanship and not
merely for victory. 1t commends the ten
denotes Of cities and towns to replace
large school committees or boards with
small boards, which determine general
policies, but intrust all executive func-
tions to salaried experts. 1t also ap-
proves in a qualified way the efforts of
the simpliied spelling board; urges the
| call for greater facilities for the higher
education Of women, especially in the
South and West advises the abolition Of
secret societies and fraternities in all sec
ondary and elementary schools; approves
the merit system of promoting teachers
and filing vacancies; presses the need
Of better facilities for the practical prep
arrtion of teacherS: indorses .fhs Hsrrs
Conference and peace assoc'atieaA xni se
meets somewhat vaguely upon the spirsz
OF trades unionism among teachers.