the ends of Culture to be provided for the American people beyond the ordinary school period.

The place Manual Training should occupy in a system of public schools will be treated by General Francis A. Walker, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Superintendent M. A. Newell, LL.D., of Baltimore, Maryland, Professor C. W. Woodward, of St. Louis, Missouri, Miss L. A. Fay, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and others.

Superintendent Henry Sabin, of Clinton, Iowa, will speak of the work to be done by educators to enlighten and arouse public sentiment in favor of education.

Mrs. Ella F. Young, of Chicago, will tell how to help the people to discriminate between good and bad teaching.

Professor W. W. Parsons, of Terre Haute, Indiana, will discuss the means of awakening an interest, and to create a demand for professionally trained teachers, and for such only.

Professor T. McCleary, of Mankato Normal School, Minnesota, Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell, of Boston, and others, will participate in the discussion of the above topics.

The meeting of the National Council (D. B. Hagar, Ph.D., of Massachusetts, president), will open its sessions July 7, and continue until the meeting of the National Educational Association opens.

The meetings of the nine departments will be held on the afternoons of July 13, 14 and 15. The programs of the several departments will cover the ground indicated by their respective spheres of educational work. They relate to Supervision, Normal Work, Higher and Secondary Education, Kindergarten and Elementary Methods, Art, Music, and Industrial Education.

The railroads will sell teachers and all school officers "round-trip tickets" from all principal stations, to Chicago and return, for one fare, plus two dollars ($2.00) to pay for a membership coupon. Tickets good going from July 5 to 15, and returning to September 10, inclusive.

Excursions are arranged to Alaska, Pacific Coast, Yosemite Valley, Yellow Stone Park, Lake Superior region, Omaha, Denver, and all Rocky Mountain points, Mexico and all Southwest sections, at very low rates. It is also expected that excursions eastward from Chicago to Niagara Falls, Chautauqua, Saratoga, White Mountain region, and all points on the St. Lawrence River and in Canada, will be arranged. An exposition of all school products, school books, apparatus, and all appliances, will be held for ten days at Chicago, under the super

vision of Hon. A. G. Lane, Superintendent of Public Schools of Cook County; address at Chicago.

A bulletin, giving full details of the arrangements, including reduced board, railroad rates, excursions, etc., will be issued in April. For further particulars address, on local matters and exposition, Hon. A. G. LANE, Chairman of Local Committee and Director of Exposition, Chicago, Illinois.

W. E. SHELDON, President,
3 Somerset street, Boston.

JAMES H. CANFIELD, Secretary,

Lawrence, Kansas.

Editors and others are respectfully requested to give the above announcement a wide circulation in the interests of education.

It is proposed, as indicated in the above paper, to hold an Educational Exposition in connection with the meeting of the National Educational Association. For this purpose large halls have already been engaged. It is designed to be a very comprehensive display, and will comprise a main exhibition and an annex, as follows:

Main Exhibition.-1, General school work in all grades, including State exhibits; 2, Kindergarten Exhibits, with processes; 3, Industrial Exhibit, including work by the defective classes, with processes; 4, Art Exhibit; 5. Miscellaneous.

Annex.-1, Exhibit of school furniture, apparatus, and supplies; 2, Exhibit of school books; 3, School Architecture, including models, plans and elevations, and schemes for heating and ventilating; 4. Miscellaneous.

Peabody Scholarships.

There will be eight vacancies this year in the Peabody Scholarships allotted to Virginia. All applicants must file with this Department applications dictated and written by themselves, giving their names in full, ages, the schools attended, and addresses, and must declare their intention to make teaching a profession, and obligate themselves to teach at least two years in the public schools of the State. Each application must be endorsed by the school superintendent of the county or city in which the applicant resides, as to "moral character and probable fitness for the teacher's profession." No application will be considered unless it complies strictly with these requirements.

The examination, which will be both oral and written, will be held during the summer-the time and place will be designated hereafterand will be confined to the following-named subjects: Spelling, Reading, Penmanship, Grammar and Analysis, Rhetoric, Geography (civil and physical), Arithmetic, Algebra, Book-keeping, Physiology, United States History, Elements of Geology. The examinations will be rigid, and the scholarships awarded strictly on the merits of the applicants. These scholarships are free; they are not, however, designed to secure a free education to any special or favored class, but to aid in supplying our public school system with thoroughly trained, professional teachers.

Applicants must not be under seventeen nor over thirty years of

age.

Superintendents, if not already familiar with this subject, will please note the facts here presented, that they may be able to furnish such information as may be desired. Circulars giving somewhat fuller information will be furnished from this office.

National Department of Superintendence.

In a former issue of the JOURNAL was published a letter from President Young, outlining the work proposed for the next meeting of the National Department of Superintendence, Washington, D. C.

A very handsome "Program" has been issued, a copy of which is here inserted, as it furnishes a more comprehensive view of the line of discussion to be followed than that given in the previous publication:

PROGRAM.

First Day-March 15, 10 A. M.-Address of Welcome, Hon. W. B. Webb, Commissioner of Schools, Washington, D. C. "Public Education on the Pacific Coast"-Fred. M. Campbell, City Superintendent Schools, Oakland, Cal. Discussion by S, D. Waterman, City Superintendent Schools, Stockton, Cal.; Prof. J. P. Fay, Principal Schools, Eureka, Nevada.

1:30 P. M.-"A Teacher's Certificate-County, City, State, and National"-Dr. Andrew J. Rickoff, Yonkers, N. Y. Discussion by Hon. J. P. Wickersham, Ex-State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Lancaster, Pa.; Dr. Wm. A. Mowry, Boston, Mass.; Dr. James A. B. Lovett, City Superintendent Schools, Huntsville, Ala.; Hon.

W. W. W. Jones, Ex-State Superintendent Public Instruction, Lincoln, Neb.; M. E. Hard, City Superintendent Schools, Gallipolis, Ohio.

7:30 P. M.—“Civil Service and Public Schools"-Hon. Leroy D. Brown, State Commissioner of Common Schools, Columbus, Ohio. Discussion by Marcellus Manly, City Superintendent Schools, Galion, Ohio; Hon. B. L. Butcher, Ex-State Superintendent Public Instruction, Beverly, W. Va.; Hon. B. S. Morgan, State Superintend ent Public Instruction, Charleston, W. Va.; W. N. Barringer, City Superintendent Schools, Newark, N. J.; George A. Littlefield, City Superintendent Schools, Newport, R. I.; Thomas P. Ballard, A. M., Columbus, Ohio.

Second Day-March 16, 10 A. M.-" Powers and Duties of Officers and Teachers, Absolute and Relative"-A. P. Marble, Ph.D., City Superintendent of Schools, Worcester, Mass. Discussion by W. E. Sheldon, LL.D., President National Educational Association, Boston, Mass.; Hon. L. S. Cornell, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Denver, Col.; B. A. Hinsdale, LL.D., Cleveland, Ohio; Henry A. Wise, City Superintendent Schools, Baltimore, Md.; O. E. Latham, City Superintendent Schools, Danville, Ill.; J. M. Green, City Superintendent Schools, Long Branch, N. J.

1:30 P. M.-"The Best System of County and City School Supervision"-Hon. E. E. Higbee, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa. Discussion by R. W. Stevenson, City Superintendent of Schools, Columbus, Ohio.; W. R. Comings, City Superintendent Schools, Norwalk, Ohio; H. S. Jones, City Superintendent Schools, Erie, Pa.; Prof. W. H. Bartholemew, A. M., Female High School, Louisville, Ky.; Hon. John W. Akers, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Des Moines, Iowa; Hon. D. L. Kiehle, State Superintendent Public Instruction, St. Paul, Minn.; Louis H. Marvel, A. M., Medford, Mass.

7:30 P. M.-" Industrial Education in our Public Schools"-James McAllister, City Superintendent Schools, Philadelphia, Pa. Discussion by Col. F. W. Parker, Principal Normal School, Normal Park, Ill.; Hon. J. W. Dickinson, Secretary State Board of Education, Boston, Mass.; Hon. W. B. Powell, City Superintendent Schools, Washington, D. C.; H. W. Compton, City Superintendent Schools, Toledo, Ohio; Major R. Bingham, Bingham School, N. C.

Third Day-March 17, 10 A. M.-"A System of Grading for Country Schools"-Hon. J. W. Holcombe, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Indianapolis, Ind. Discussion by J. M. Green

wood, City Superintendent Schools, Kansas City, Mo.; O. B. Johnson, City Superintendent Schools, Columbia, S. C.; Henry Sabin, City Superintendent Schools, Clinton, Iowa; Hon. Thos. H. Payne, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Nashville, Tenn.; Hon. H. C. Speer, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Topeka, Kan.; John Macdonald, County Superintendent Schools, Topeka, Kan.

1:30 P. M.—“The Best System of State School Supervision "— Hon. Warren Easton, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Baton Rouge, La. Discussion by Dr. Richard Edwards, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Springfield, Ill.; Hon. J. R. Preston, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Jackson, Miss.; Hon. J. D. Pickett, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Frankfort, Ky.; Hon. J. H. Lawhead, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Topeka, Kan.; Hon. Solomon Palmer, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Montgomery, Ala.; Dr. John L. Buchanan, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Richmond, Va.; J. L. Tomlinson, City Superintendent Schools, Winston, N. C.

7:30 P. M.-" The Relation of our Public Schools to the General Government "-Hon. Wm. McKinley, member of Congress from Ohio. Discussion by A. J. Michael, Esq., Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. M. A. Newell, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Baltimore, Md.; Hon. Oscar H. Cooper, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Austin, Texas.

Hon. Charles S. Young, ex-State Superintendent Public Instruction, Carson City, Nevada, President; N. C. Dougherty, City Superintendent Public Schools, Peoria, Ill., Vice President; Charles C. Davidson, City Superintendent Public Schools, Alliance, Ohio, Secretary; W. B. Powell, Washington, D. C., Chairman of Local Com mittee; Hon. LeRoy D. Brown, Columbus, Ohio, Chairman of Committee on Transportation.

R. D. GILLIAM has been appointed by the Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools for Surry county, vice William Dillard, resigned.

Monthly Reports to Parents.

Superintendent Hawkins, of Bedford county, has sent us a copy of a monthly report prepared for communicating to parents the progress of their children at school. The report is neatly printed on