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The alumni advisory board OF Yale
university has recommended moderate
advance of the tuition charges in those
departments where expenses have been
considerably increased. At the same time
the board has urged the adoption Of q
uniform system of loans to students,
payable at reasonable periods after their
graduation.
The trustees Of Williams college have
announced that President Henry Hopkins
of the institution has rendered his resig-
nation, to take eject in June. 1908. Prof.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late Presi-
dent James A. Garfield, Williams alum
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 department of agricul-
tural education, its 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 view to intro
dueing agriculture into the elementary
schools, establishing agricultural high
schools, and eerrelating and unifying the
agricultural instruction given in the
State. The work will be in close coop
Grafton with existing educational agen-
cies, especially the State Industrial Com
mission.
The declaration of principles made by
the recent semi-eentenrial convention OF
the National Educational Association at
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 ana 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 summer; 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 righteously and happily, and that
to accomplish this object IL 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 that interschcol games should
be played for sportsmanskip and not
merely for victory. II 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 70 salaried experts. 1t also APP
proves in qualified way the efforts Of
the simplifed 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 filling vacancies: presses the need
of better facilities for the practical prep
a-ation Of teachers: indorses The Hague
conference and peace associations. and re-
aects somewhat vaguely upon the spirit
of trades unionism among teachers.
The School Board Of pittsburg, Pa,
has decided to install a system Of baths
In one of its public school buildings. This
will be for the use Of the Nhool chill
Sren during the day, while the mothers
will Ne permitted TO bring children after
school hours. This Is practically the
first bathing plant established In the
Pittsburg schools. for while one other was
instituted some years ago. II was for the
use Of kindergarten pupils only.
Sydney Talbot, American In London.