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15 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1901. after considerable discussion the judges ARE BROOKLYN 5CH00 representatives on the Berkelydian staff as follows: Julia Walther, editor Emily Thallon and Margaret Gibers, business man I agers. I favorable comment is caused by the design of Wright. Artalc and Down for the orchestra, and Shepard.

Ives, Keeler. McNulty and Olena for the Camera and Sketch clubs. John Greene, the termer chairman of the Commercial High School, addressed the school In a helpful and masterly manner last Thursday morning. He was most cordially received by students and faculty. Mr.

Rest of the department of drawing; has been obliged to suspend his classes for tip nresent. on account of poor health. The Camera Club, under the leadership of Mr. Flint, went to Prospect Park last Frlaay afternoon and tool: many excellent views. The debate ou Thursday last was one of the best and most closely contested of the series during the past three years.

The subject, "Resolved, That labor organizations help to promote the interests of working men," wa3 upheld in the allirmatlve by Nelson (leader), Hudson and Onley of Room No. 16, and Feyer (leader). Foley and Carson of Room No. 17 spoke for the negative. The decision of the judges was 212 points for Room No.

16 and 21 points for Room No. 17. The winners promptly invited the losers to cream and cake, and the members of Room No. 16, in accepting, responded lhat they were glad to give their opponents refreshments, but not the championship. A goodly number of the last year's graduates held their adjourned meeting on Thursday.

October 10, with President. North in the chair. In the absence of E. Huelle, secretary, Seymour was named temporary secretary. The committee appointed to draw up a for the association made its report and the constitution was unanimously adopted.

Bi monthly meetings of the organization are to bp held. Among the recent visitors who have addressed the school during the past week, especial mention should be made of James Jenkins, principal of Public School No. 78 and business of It wo might evaporate this wet fog of cavil which clouds the school atmosphere. Perhaps the superintendents might be of some assistance if they might dispense for a time with examinations and criticisms. For there can.be no doubt that constant criticism by superiors tends to spread the fault finding habit through the whole organization.

It would bo a sad shock if we should find that our great system of highly paid experts should be tound to result chiefly in the development of a race of grumblers. I once read in these columns a speech of Miss Caroline B. LeRow declaring that the children coming from the grammar schools did not know how to laugh; the power had atropied from lack of use. What if our schools were training our children up to ill temper and our bridge terminal were performing the same service for adults? Unhappy Brooklyn! The tone of this essay may seem to exemplify the very thing deplored. This, however, is not a complaint.

It is a plea for more nature, more simplicity and more praise in school management. I would like to set Id the head man's chair for a while and send out associate superintendents to look for good, and good only, bringing to me their printed forms on which nothing but the excellences they had found could be recorded. Whatever spirit is in the upper strata of an educational system might seep down through the under layers. The most cheerful school I ever knew in Brooklyn was one whose principal was wont to say: "I never go the rounds of U. but that my admiration for the work these women are doing is aroused anew, and I tel! them so." I think those teachers were also in the habit of commending children.

I believe this is the natural atmosphere of school. I am afraid over organization is killing it in Brooklyn. The school world is gov: erned too much. The service that teachers would naturally enjoy rendering to children and to the community is crowded out by system and supplanted by a service to supervisors and committees, to annoying official critics and to winders of red tape. It may be worse before it is better.

Meantime those walled in by the maze of system like the early Christians in the labyrinthine catacombs may, in spite of untoward circumstances, keep the fire of faith alive. Brooklyn is not the only city going through this trying experience. Baltimore is getting out of it. They are trying to warm old Boston to a healthy glow. I heard George Martin, their Mahomet, speak to Boston teachers the other day.

I wish I might quote his words exactly; I can give their substance. Not by elaborate schemes, nor formal system, not by methods and devices, not by reports and statistics, but by the fineness of instinct, the breadth of sympathy, the weight of personality, shall the worker In the school be worthy of his great place. The vital thing in school work is not the search and discovery of error; It is Inspiration toward right. What is it to inspire? It is not to stimulate, to spur, to goad. It ie to awaken Interest, to arouse ambition, to kindle enthusiasm, to animate with purpose, to fill with hope and courage.

It is to do what God did when in the beginning He breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living soul. To have a company of children In subjection, to drive from school by complaints and reports the unruly, to force or coax from the rest the performance of daily tasks is one thing; to inspire is quite another. The influence of one is transient; of the other, permanent. One ia for school. The other for life.

The Great Tetcher, the Teacher sent from God, said of His own work: "I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly." I know I am long out of school and a country school at that. These experts of the great system will laugh at my simplicity, but I would deliberately and soberly propose for a time the abolition of inspectors and the appointment of inspirers. Let them teach the teachers how to cheer and animate. Let them take the text of Paul, "If there be any praise think on this thing." MILO. L5 OF COMPLAINT? Perhaps the Teachers Would Be Cheerful if They Were Not Supervised so Much.

WASTE FOR SYSTEM'S SAKE. Milo Suggests Sending Superintendents Searching' for Successes. "What is the big book you are so busily pasting paper in?" I asked the principal, after I had rested in the chair long enough to regain the breath lost in climbing to the top story, where they locate school offices nowadays, either to elevate the standard of supervision or to discourage fault finding parents from calling. "That is the complaint book," he said. "Would you like to see it?" I.

did like; I was so interested that I borrowed an old one. I have it before me at this moment. Here is a sample from that journal of woe. It is varied enough as to the teachers who contributed to it, but uniform in the dreary monotony of complaint: "101. I want this boy punished for giving impudence.

A. "102. This boy is amusing himself by throwing papers around the room. Please punish him. R.

"103. I have spoken to this boy about six times this morning. Please do something with him. Troublesome. S.

A. "104. These boys were yelling while I was out of the room. They were also impertinent. M.

"105. I told this boy to come and get a piece ot paper and he sung out He is very troublesome. S. "106. Please keep Samuel in your office until he knows how to behave.

I do not care to have him sulk in the room for no reason at all. T. "107. Will you kindly whip Charles for constantly singing and disturbing recitations? I have detected and seen him do this three times this A. M.

He is the boy I reported last week; he is constantly troublesome. J. "108. These seven boys were very noisy while I was talking to a lady in the hall. Will you kindly punish them? R.

"109. Henry constantly disobeys me; he Is very troublesome. J. "110. The whole class needs punishment.

It is the most troublesome I ever saw. R. If one would begin at the first charge and would read again through the list and then again and again and so on to the number of many hundreds a year, we would have a fair idea of the contents of this book. These are the prayers that ascend upward from the classrooms to the top floor. They abound with the words: "Impertinence," "disobedience," "insolence," "impudence" and "troublesome." Vain repetitious which the heathen use thinking to be heard for their much speaking.

Some clever students of language that read the character of a people in Its glossary have pointed but interesting facte. They find the Tartars having ten common words meaning a shrew and not one word for a home. The gul iea tribes have a score of words for thief but none for honesty. I wonder what these philologists would make out of the vocabulary that "makes up these notes of teachers? Might one derive from such documentary sources the idea that a teacher was a fault finder, a grumbler, a diligent seeker after trouble? I used to be told when I was a boy that I would never be bad unless I said bad words. There may be something in that.

Perhaps half the com plaints written by teachers generate the other half, turning the mind to that minor key. If the mental force used in detecting evil in school children and in describing and recording it were, consciously directed toward discovering excellencies in the same children, it is possble that a great deal of the impudence, impertinence and other school boy Bins might die of neglect. Dear madam, perhaps you generate a good part of the trouble you describe. Suggestion seems to me sfl powerful an agent that you might turn it to producing goodness. Some teachers will not let their scholars hear the reproof administered to one of their number, will not permit public punishments, public apologies and all that, but do these things privately.

Their classrooms are like the palace of Cyrus, "where the sons of the Persians might learn many lcs.9ons of virtuous conduct, but could neither hear nor see anything unseemly." In their communications to parents, teachers must, let me say. for I have boys of my own, the ladies of the schools make a mistake in emphasizing so much the delinquencies of children. Every time my sons come under the charge of a new teacher they bring me home a written declaration that they are not scholarly nor are they perfect in their conduct. At the first of every term their class ratings drop in a most surprising manner. The average standing of Tom or Tim for the past six terms, when plotted by a line, looks like this: It would seem that each boy began, each term, at the foot of the hill of success, climbed steadily for five months and then dropped to the depths of failure.

The six respected laides who have had charge of my boys in the past three years are too intelligent to expect me to believe that either scholar's mental ability has moved along any f.ich erratic course. I fancy the truth is that the first things they look for are defects and k.olcing, they are sure, in my boys, to find plenty. As the term advances the teacher compliments herself by recording In her handiwork, or brainy work, I suppose I should call It, a gain In the child's proficiency. When the next teacher gets him down he comes. I suppose this must be so in a system that givee a teacher so short a time with a child.

He develops a little personality that she has time to know. He can be little more to her than a pile of bricks to lay another brick upon. No one can hold her responsible for any success or failure. She counts her piles of bricks; she does her programme duty. No wonder that discipline in her eyes means, not so much the assistance of some child to right living as it does her own relief from a troublesome." The system makes her a complainant.

I can see no reason for maintaining this unprofitable usage of jerking children twlco or oftener every year from teacher to teacher, so discovering new faults and wasting time recording them, except that the workers of the system have become used to it. As a machine it no doubt has its beauties but as a parent and citizen wanting service for my money I can not get enthusiastic over it. I would like less machinery and more good humor. Though children in the home are the delight of the household; though children have always been the type of things lively, merry, interesting and lovable; though the cultivation of their minds would seem to be a fascinating pursuit; it is unusual to find a school whore the majority of the women really like their work. The young lawyer; the young doctor, take no pains to conceal the pride they feel when they tell you their profession; but the tone of the teacher, in announcing herself such, is apologetic.

It is not uncommon to hear them say of their occupation: "I hate it." What ought to be a place of gladness has the smear of complaint all over It. The chief room In the building, the principal's office, is a place of punishment. As I go my roundB from school to school I see the culprits standing in corners or seated on the penitential bench. Why doesn't some one think of sending also to the principal the boys and girls who have done well? What an unusual but yet natural thing it would be If some school would adopt the plan of picking out helpful, faithful, and commendable boys and girls to go to the office to bo patted on the head and praised by the principal. Ab a parent, I realize that, some such thing as this must be done by us for the workers In the schools.

Wo run easily enough with our complaints, but are too busj to seek out for compliment and thanks the service of some teacher. If we made a awarded their decision to the affirmative. On Thursday afternoon the Senior Debating Society held a debate upon the subject. "Resolved. That a censorship of the press be established." Messrs.

Spitz. '04; Stewart, '03, and Goldbaum. '02, upheld the allirma tive and Messrs. Travis. '02; Marks, '03, and P.urger.

supported the negative. The Messrs. Overend, Laidler and Brume Is. decided in favor of the negative. The Debuting Society is considerably wi jught up over the action taken by the Long I I.

Interscholastic Debating League in suspending last year's schedule, for by it i High School was" entitled to tho champion ship, so a commltttee consisting of Dr. i Mickleborough. Professors Hartwell. Proper and Palmer, and Nathan. Travis and Gibson, has been appointed, who will Investl gate the matter and consider the advisability I of High School dropping out of the league, i The society has also sustained a severe loss by the resignation of Professors Palmer and Hartwell.

who drilled the teams. A change has been made in the athletic council, whore by Professor Andrews will take charge of the foot ball team, instead of Professor Jack son. The Seventh Academic Division held its election oh Monday and the following officers were elected: President, James Davis; vlco president, H. Lucker; secretary, A. Clurman; treasurer.

Muller; sergoant at arms. Mudge, and executive committee, O'Connell, Taylor. Surpless and Nathan. A constitution was adopted. The following students have recently been Initiated Into fraternities: Herrlman and Porter into Sigma Phi Upsilon; Hammer Into Alpha Zeta; Farnheim Into Alpha Delta Sigma and Page into Sigma Lambda Nu.

The following instructors have taken up night school work. Professors Butterick, Grube, Martin. Lambert and Bates. Professor Palmer has been made assistant principal In the Night High The Sixth Academic Division held elections on Wednesday afternoon and the elections resulted as follows: President, Otis vnn Dannenberg; vice Chester B. Van Tassel; secretary, Reginald Stow; treasurer, Joseph Clarke.

It was decided that the different, divisions should elect their own executive officers. The relay team won Its first victory on Saturday afternoon at Travers Island. Messrs. McMeekan, Wilson, Kittle, Brinkerhoff and Von Dannenberg were the team and each member won a gold medal. Polytechnic Preparatory.

The first number of this year's Poly Prep appeared last Friday, October 11, and was warmly welcomed by the hoys. The paper is a bi weekly and conducted by the students, the editors being chosen from the Benior class. As the board now stands George Scott Whiting is editor in chief, Lawrence Cameron Hull, jr. Is assistant, Arthur Russell Richards reports the doings of the school societies, Philip Francis Walkley attends to the athletic notes, James Franklin Bcndernagel, will look after the ox changes, Louis Otto Berg is responsible for the stories, essays and poems, and Irving Lewis Webster and Franklin Goldthwaito Sherrill are the business managers. The first number contains among other things a list of the new students, another of the new teachers, memorials upon the death of Daniel Taylor Wilson.

Jr a poem by Albert Rowden King upon the death of President. McKlnley. a story entitled "His LaBt Chance," by Louis Otto Berg, and sketches by Joseph William Murphy and Donald Argyle Campbell. The second cross country run of the year occurred on Saturday, morning, tho course being over a part of Long Island beginning at Grand street park, Maspeth. The first meeting of the Electrical Society was held on Friday afternoon ia the physical laboratory of the school.

The work was organized for the year and a friendly talk was given to the boys by Mr. Perkins, head of the school department of physics and chemistry. Tho following officers have been elected In tho various organizations of the school: Foot ball team Sutherland Miller, manager; Ephralm Stone Hamblen, assistant manager; Augustus Charles Froeb, captain. Base ball team George Henry McGuire, captain: Franklin Goldthwaito Sherrill, manager. Basket ball team Augustus Charles Froeb.

captain; Philip Francis Walkley. manager. Track team George Scott Whiting, captain; Robert Wilkinson Skinner, manager. Class of 1903 Stuart Durland Warner, president; Edward Washburn Walker, vice president; Walter Austin MulvlhlU. secretary and treasurer.

Class of 1900 Earl Curtis Gillespie, president; Henry Knox Sherrill, vice president; Wellington Jarvls Schaefer, secretary; Franklin Ketcham, treasurer. Erasmus Hall. All of Professor Boynton's classes In history are holding town meetings. These are conducted In every respect cle the New England town meetings are to day. The officers of tho general organization have been chosen as follows: President, Mc N'ulty; honorary president.

Professor Dog gett; vine president. Miss Amy Riley; secretary, Lang, and treasurer, Professor Starkey. The reports will close this week, thus making the reviews to be given before the 18th. On Monday, the 21st, the long slips will be due, and on the 23d the blue reports will be handed In to the office. Professor Hancock has some new lantern slides for his lectures in chemistry; there are 250 made to order.

These Illustrate the process of the manufacture of various chemical compounds. The teachers are planning an excursion to West Point on Saturday. Professor F. W. Huntington will give a course of lectures at Public School No.

133 In Butler street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. The subject will be "Heat and Light" and tho evenings on which he will lecture are October 14, 21 and 28. Arrangements are made to contlnuo the fencing club through the coming year. A meeting was held for that purpose In Professor Doggetl's studio on Thursday, October 3. A committee of three has been appointed from the Brooklyn Teachers' Association to take measures in regard to a fitting memorial for the late Superintendent Ward of Brooklyn.

Professor Boughton. Mr. Wartn slv and Miss Jones have been named. The Latin teachers met on Thursday evening for their regular semi monthly reading of advanced Latin. At this meeting the annals of Tacitus were taken up.

Principal Gunnison has arranged a code of signals for Instant dismissal. It is expected that the experiment of seeing how quickly the students can be got. out. of the building will be tried most any duy. In case of fire this practice will be found most valuable.

Mr. McCabe, principal of Public School No. 23 and of Evening High School No. 1. call.

at Erasmus Hall on Tuesday. A committee of three, composed of Messrs. Hubbell, Boughton and Ferry, are making arrangements for the Institute or the Hanson Place M. E. Church.

Mr. Boughton is delivering a course of lectures on English literature. Mr. .1. Herbert Low will lecture on civil government and Mr.

Hubbell on principles of teaching applied to the Sunday sehool. The Junior Debating Society will meet next Wedeesilav. the ir.th. The subject Is: "Resolved Hint 11 Is for the interest of th" United States to maintain a large navy." I The affirmative will taken by W. Burns, F.

Lang and A. Mlflo 11: tbe negative uy j. Hen net I. A. Iti rnsu ln E.

O'Connell. The membership commit tee, appointed by the I Oglnz and Rlvkln. the enlertain I men: committee is Stevenson and oppcrihelni. Iir. Ountilson spoke on vveore saay aner noon before the llayocno Teachers' Association of N.

.1.. on tin subject of departmental' work hi the grammar schools. Principal Gunnison Is called upon very often to lecture before educational bodies. A portion of the regents' money hap boon I turned over to the art. department for the I purpose or buying casts.

Williams and Hooper are doing special work after iit hord in the physics department. They are Investigating the workings of wireless telegraphy. Commercial Hi eh School. The regular rail meeting of th. Spanish Alutnnl Graduates' Association will be liebl I at the school building Saturday evei October 19, at o'clock.

A large atteiel ance is expected, as several Important lions are to be thoroughly disoilHse'. A niu slcal and literary protrranirnt: has been pro vl'led: M' ssrs. Ja kson and Doyle will rive violin solos. Mason Doyle will nder a piano solo and two Interesting nwllugs are j.rom Ised. Dr.

Felter has on file ten applications from ptomlnent business houses who desire th I services of graduates of th" High School In tl business as qualified nsslst ants, and which he Ik unable to fill, as all tbe recent p.radunten ar': already placed In i excellent pesltl The ollont tra.ning elven students I In the drawing department has be. utilised by the illnerent srliool societies ior secoruiK I Illuminated posters of their meetings. Much The art department, was openeu wmi a large attendance in the studio, and the work from the living model was begun with enthu slasm. There will be a model present one day in every week. The ECeffiey School.

The Heffiey School Literary Society will hold Its first meeting for the year 1901 1902, on Friday afternoon of this week. There will be an election of officers, and the ar I rangement of the programme for the coming year. This society will meet, as heretofore, on each Friday afternoon from 2 to 3 clock, On Tuesday evening there will be a meet tng of the hockey team to reorganize for the i coming year. Important business will be transacted, including the election of officers, so each member is requested to be present, This team enjoys wide popularity. It has been beaten but one game In two years, and has become, the champion amateur team of the United States.

There is a movement on foot to organize an Intermediate Hockey League, to occupy a place between the Inter scholastic and the Professional Leagues. Many new students have entered during th week, and the present enrollment shows a large number from not only New York, but from nearly every other state In the Union, as well as many from South America and from Cuba. The demand for stenographers during the week has been greater than the supply, calls having been received in person, by mail, and by telephone. During the past few days, the following students have been placed In positions: Miss Adelaide Levinson. Richard Bauer.

Miss Amelia Fass. Miss Edna C. Souweine. Miss Almn C. Walton.

Frederick W. Gnad. The new addition to the building, just In process of erection, on account of the large Increase in the number of entering students over that of the previous year, Is rapidly approaching completion, and will undoubtedly be available for use by the date mentioned November 1. Pratt Institute. A meeting of all students who may be interested in the organization of an Institute Glee Club, to sing under the direction of Charles Stuart Phillips, is called In the Assembly Hall, on Wednesday afternoon, October 16, immediately after Mr.

Perry's lecture. The first of the noon musicals, at which Miss Hobson played and Mr. Phillips sang, was held on October 11. There will be a musical in the Assembly Hall, on Friday, October 18, from 12:30 to 1:15 o'clock. Practice on the choruses from "The Messiah" is well under way.

Good work has been done during the last twy weeks on the first chorus "For Unto Us a Child Is Born." J. LeGrange Abbott, a former student of the High School, is now assistant secretary in the department of science and technology. He will sing in the High School chorus. The death of Martha Niles Betts, a member of the class of 1902. occurred at Memphis.

on September 28. She was a young woman of singular sweetness of character, and her sunny nature endeared her to all who knew her. R. I. Underhill.

'02, was elected president of the Long Island Interscholastlc Debating League for 1901 1902. W. A. McLaren. '02.

has been mado secretary of the Interscholastic Athletic League for 1901 1002. Twenty three of tho members of the Junior class have chosen architectural drawing under the instruction of Charles M. Conn. The third lecture on the "History of Art," to be held In the Assembly Hall, on Wednesday afternoon, October 16, will have for its subject. "The Architecture of tho Great Temple Builders." Guy John, a Normal graduate of 1900.

sailed for Manila early In September to take a position for teaching manual raining. The classes In cookery and sewing at the Astral will begin their work for the winter on October 15. There are now on file 100 applications for the two lines of work. These classes and others of a similar character will be taught, throughout the year by the advanced Normal students of tho department of domestic science. W.

E. StilRon, for three years professor of mathematics at McKendrco College, and for two and one half years a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard, has been appointed assistant Instructor In mathematics in tho department. The regular meeting of the Brooklyn Kindergarten Union was held at Pratt Institute, Tuesday evening, October 8, at 8 o'clock. Reports of "Summer Work" and "Summer Experiences" were given by some of the members. On Tuesday afternoon, October 8, Miss Emma O.

Salisbury, instructor in the department, talked to the Mothers' Club of the Kindergarten connected with the Atlantic Avenue Congregational Chapel. Every other Thursday. Dr. R. Ellsworth Call will conduct excursions for nature study.

On Friday afternoon. Octoher 11. Miss Alice E. Fltts. the director, will open her Alumnae class in "The Theory and Practice of the Kindergarten." On Friday afternoon.

October 11, the Senior class will entertain Informally the entering class. Mis Frances Worthington, a graduate of the Llhrary School In 1901. has returned to take charge of the information desk in the delivery room. Miss Worthington will carry on the work begun by Miss Taylor, last year. On Saturday morning, October 5, Miss Rathbone gave tho Library School an Informal talk on the places of Interest In and about New York.

She announced the hours of opening and the free days of the different museums, and suggested a number of short excursions which might be made on Saturday afternoons. The present class of the Library School and seven of the Library staff attended the meeting of the Long Island Llhrary Club, at the AdelphI College on October 3. Miss Kingsbury, class of '99, and Miss Cowing, of 1902. read papers. The general subject, of the programme was "School Libraries." Boys' High School Notes.

On Wednesday morning the following programme was rendered: Declamation entitled "Paul Revcre's Ride," by Fred Mason of the Eighth Scientific; declamation entitled "The American Government." by William E. Fladd of the Eighth Liberal, and declamation by William G. Murphy of the Seventh Classical, of which the subject was "Tho Last Square." The Camera Club held a meeting on Monday afternoon and elected the following officers: President, Edward Mills, '02; vice president, F. Mills. '02; secretary, Albert Thunig, '03: treasurer, Connnt Taylor, '02.

The use of a dark room has been granted to the Camera Club and one will be fitted up In the basement of the Biological Laboratory, on Madison street. A tournament has been started In the Cbess Club and at present P. Murehle leads H. W. Gerhard by one game.

Among those who are In the tournament arc Murehle, Ocr hard, Drlscoll and Clurman. Inasmuch as I there 1.9 no Interscholastlc Chess League, it has been decided to form a minor league in connection with Kings and Queens. The officers chosen at the last meeting are: President, H. W. Gerhard, '03; vice presl 1 dent, W.

Brumley, '03; recording secretary, Robert T. Stokos, '03; corresponding see. tary, Harold Wheat, '04, and team captain, i Leo Schlff, '02. Tho Dramatic Society held a meeting on Tuesday afternoon and the following stu dents were admitted to membership: i Schwerln. MUhaw, Hammer.

Simmons and Van Tassel. As yet. no play has been si I looted, but It is thought that the "Private Secretary" may be chosen. i Professor Edwards has selected the Glee Club for the coming season. Over huu drcd students applied for plneeH.

Jii.it only twenty were sr leeted. They are follows: Basses. Froelick. Flsohler, Thurlow, Stewart and Surploss; IWk, I'rltcbard. Lane, Stow, Simmons and Van Tttc.fl: bsirl Bossel(y, Fltzpatrlclt.

Spooner. Smith. Mu. ry and Gale; altos. Hoizman.

Wolfcrry, Block. Skutoh and Harlow, at this number four are substitutes. The Recorder will make Its appearance i next Wednesday, under the new management. Among the many Ileum of Interest, will he an article by Gilbert Evans, upon "Newspaper Work as a Career for Young Men." The advertising In the number will amount to about eight, pages and will net over $80. On Friday afternoon the Junior Debating Society held Its regular meeting and the suh tect for debate was: "Resolved.

That the Chl nfso were Justified In being hoiitlle to the I missionaries." Messrn. Itosenbloom, Iiavid son and Hamtnltt upheld the affirmative and SkMeh, Block and Morchcad, the negative; for the year. Harry SoinrTS, 1902, will bo I literary editor ana manage the department of book reviews. College of the City of New York. The chapel exercises were begun Monday, seniors and juniors speaking in the college building, sophomores in the Hall of Natural History.

Edward C. Brenner, u4, opened the sophomore declamations with "The Capture of Look Out Mountain. A part of the mechanical work shop is being equipped as a laboratory of physics, while rooms 3 and 5 will shortly be converted Into a physical lecture hall. Assistant Professor Parmly and Instructor Bruckner will have charge of the laboratory, while Professor Compton will lecture in the new hall. The French department is now the largest in the college.

Beside Professor Casimor Fabregoo, there are eight assistants In this department. Heretofore, the department of mathematics has been foremost In the matter of instructors. A class for Bible study will meet every Tuesday afternoon of the year, at 1:45 o'clock. All students are invited to attend these meetings and Mr. McKee of Yale will lead the next meeting.

The officers of Clionla Literary Society for this term are: President. 13. Robinson; librarian, Mr. Slegle, '02; corresponding secretary, Mr. Rosenhols, '03; recording secretary, A.

Freund, '04. At the last regular meeting of the society Harry Crone, '02, was elected to the Important position of representative on the Mlcrosm board. The fiftieth anniversary the Phreno cosmlan Literary Society will be celebrated by a dinner shortly to be held. Among the alumni members are Edward M. Shepard, now candidate for mayor; Professor John Bash McMaster, author of the "History of the United States," and Professor Charles A.

Doremus. The first meeting of the Mandolin Club was held Friday. This was a reorganization meeting and several new candidates wero proposed. The same afternoon a meeting of the Mechanical Society was held. The board of editors of the College Mercury for this year consists of: Editor, E.

J. Bernhelmer; assistant editors, A. Bloomberg and L. Wilson; business manager, A. Boylan; assistant business manager, P.

Korn. At a meeting of tho freshmen class on Tuesday a constitution was adopted and the following officers were elected: President. McCarthy; first vice president, Charles Drake; second vice president, Greacen; recording secretary, R. McCreedy; treasurer, W. Goldbacker; historian, O.

Haley; poet, Eisner; captain relay team, George Cos sonas: The annual business meeting of the associate alumni of tho College of the City of New York will be held at the college building Saturday evening, October 19, at 8 o'clock. Barnard College. Barnard College began the regular academic work of its thirteenth year this Monday with promise of great activity and strength, being augmented by twelve new Instructors and 102 freshmen. At the chapel services on Tuesday Dean Gill addressed the college for the first time since her Installation last May. She welcomed the return of the old students, spoke a few words to the seniors concerning the tests of their powers which would soon be made in the outside world and welcomed the new students to tho untried phase of educational life which lay before them.

Education, she said, meant freedom; freedom from false logic, from narrowness and selfish lines of reasoning. Education brought with it a sense of power. This power, she warned them, should bo put to good uses, not lie latent. And as nri example of the good uses of education she mentioned President Low, whoso resignation was so keenly regretted by all colleges of Columbia University, but who gave up his pleasant life there to attend his more strenuous civic duties. For him, as for others like 'hlm, education meant not freedom from, but fitness for, the highest duties of life.

The Barnard Bulletin, the college weekly, begun last year, has issued its first number for this term. The Bulletin, far from incurring debts during the first year of its existence, cleared over $100 and was able to pay all preliminary expenses this year. Its present editors are Elsa Alsberg, '02; Frances Belcher, '02; Carlta Spencor, '02; Romola Lyons, '04, and Amy Loveman, '01, graduate correspondent. Owing to the resignation of Charles Lee Raper, lecturer in history, Leroy Smith, who received his degree of bachelor af arts at the University of Texas and his degree of master of arts from Columbia University, has been appointed to take his place. Mr.

Smith will lecture on English history to the reform bill and on American history. Among the first of the clubs to begin activities is the Christian Association. Bo side the chapel service and the mission work, a new feature of Its energy will be Bible classes at different tiroes during the week. The Columbia gymnasium will probably be oponed to Barnard students for certain hours this year, as It was last spring. So far, this privilege has been successful.

Twenty seven students were taught to swim. SCHOOLS. Packer Collegiate Institute. Miss Anne T. Lane of the senior clasB baa been elected president of the Glee Club; Bertha Wurster of the sub senior class, secretary; the librarian will be chosen later from the Juniors.

Mr. A. H. Backus addressed the seniors on Monday morning on "Social Conditions in Rome." At a class meeting of the Juniors the following officers were elected: President, May Jones; vice president, Anna Van Wlckle; secretary, Blanche Wandel; treasurer, Edna Phillips. The college English class is unusually large this year.

The first meeting of the senior dramatics was held on Tuesday May Marckwald was chosen vice president and Ella Louise Adams secretary. The dramatics will meet every other Thursday afternoon. On tho Intervening Thursdays social meetings of the class will be held at the homes of the different members. Miss Elsie Blake of the sub senior class gave the flag salute on Friday morning. The first primary class has chosen the officers for its class club.

They are: President. Clare Wittemann; vice president, Elsa Pardee; secretary, Appoleno Wright; treasurer, Laura Clark. The name and purpose of the club will be decided upon later. The second primary class has formed the McKlnley Club. The officers are: President, Helen Meyer; vice president, Marguerite Borgmeyer; secretary, Barbara Alderton; treasurer, Jcannette Torry.

At. the meeting of the club on Friday Impromptu tableaux Illustrating the Columbus story were given. The characters were: Columbus, Frances Smith; Columbus' son, Diego, Dorothy Chapel; Ferdinand, Jeannette Torry; Isabella. Marguerite Borgmeyer; court philosopher, Helen Meyer; sailors, Marlon Warner, Selma Dressner, Eunice Beecher; Indians, Barbara Alderton. Hilda Howe, Dorothy Hand.

Miss Katharine Hurd, president of the class of '01, visited the Institute on Thursday. Berkeley Institute. The first students' function the year was given in the gymnasium on I'll lay afternoon. It took the of a reception siven to the new members of the collegiate department by the old members. There dancing fur an hour In tho gymnasium and then dainty refreshments were served in the lunch room.

Several of the teachers were present and entered henrtlly into the festivities. The first regular meeting of 'he Alumnae Association was held In the alu ninac room on Wednesday afternoon. Among there present were Mrs. Edward Cone, Mrs. Henry nay Evans, Miss Jean Walker.

Miss Alma Steir.e.r. Miss Florence Griggs anil Miss Caroline Dlt mars. A change in the music work was announced Tuesday, and a new director took charg The music will this year be In charge or Edward I. Horsman, the organist of St. Ann's Episcopal Church.

Professor T. Merrill Austin, three years the music teacher at the Berkeley, has accepted an appointment as director of a conservatory of music In Illinois. The academic department has elected its COLLEGES. Columbia University. The list of prizes awarded for the year 1901 in the college has been made public as follcws: Prize of the Association, George Laurence Donnellan; Chandler historical prize, Charles Savage Forbes; sophomore honors, Germanic languages and literatures, Walter Frank, Robert Schulmau; Junior honors, mathematics, Frank Houghton Sewall; comparative literature, Louis Vernon Ledoux; English, Armour Caldwell, Richard Kelly; Ann! honors, comparative literature, Harris Harold Gumm, HarolJ Kara.

The James Gordon Beni.ett prize in the school of political science was awarded to George Laurence Donnellcn a ad the Schlff fellowship in the same school to Ulrich Bormele Phillips. The winner of the Barnard fellowship for the encouragement of scientific research is John Alexander Matthews, Ph. of the John Tyndali fellowship, Bergen Davis, A. M. of the Proudfit fellowship in letters, John Er skine.

A. and of the Drisler fellowship, Lee Byrne, A. M. Professor Brander Matthews has just been accorded the novel honor for an American of election to the Athenoum of London. He was proposed eighteen years ago by Matthew Arnold.

And recently, when his turn came for election, Austin Dobson took Arnold's place as his sponsor. Very few Americans belong to the cjub and only those Englishmen who have won some distinction in art, letters, diplomacy or the church. The first issue of the Columbia Spectator appeared on Monday last with a new board of editors, Allan B. A. Bradley being editor in chief, George Chew Atkins business manager and J.

G. Hopkins, R. Gaige, C. G. Meeks duc1 C.

I HcndrirliErn mrnaging editors. The issue contains on able editorial on the rowing situation and an excellent cut of Sanford, the foot ball coach, in the Stadium at Buffalo. New York University. An Important meeting of the University Council was held In the Washington square building last Monday afternoon. As Dr.

Mac Cracken, chancellor of the university, did not return from abroad until after the opening of the college, he made his first official report at the meeting. The report showed the university to be in a better condition financially than for some years past, and the enrollment In each of the schools was marked by an increase over that of the preceding year. The total number of students enrolled in the university this year will reach 1,800. Special emphasis was laid upon the Increase in the enrollment In the School of Pedagogy, where "it showed," said Dr. MacCracken, "that while the schism last spring undoubtedly lost, us some students, they were more than made up for by the increase of the knowledge of the school brought about by the discussions." Up to the present time, the enrollment of students in the College and School of Applied Science, at University Heights, in the freshman classes, numbers nearly eighty, and It is expected that the total number will reach 100.

The appointment of Professor Joseph French Johnson to the chair of economics has met with the unanimous approval of the students, and his courses bid fair to become among the most popular in the university. This year, for the first time, the School of Commerce will enroll two classes, as last year was the first year of the school's existence. So far, there have been enrolled over 6eventy five students, which Is a marked Increase over that of last year. The freshman class in the Medical Collelge will reach 100 this year, while at the Law School the total registration is over 600. The announcement was made last week of the gift of $25,000 to the Medical College.

The money was the gift of a friend of the university, who desires his name to be withheld, from the public. The announcement was also made that the improvements made during the summer in tho Havemeyer laboratory, at University Heights, had been made possible through the generosity of William F. Havemeyer. The members of the junior class in the, University College held a meeting last week for the purpose of organizing for the year, and the following officers were elected: Austin K. Griffen of Mamaroneck, N.

president; David Ford Barnett of Topeka, vice president; Theodore Meige Bedwin of Brooklyn, secretary; Louis O. Condit of Boon ton. N. treasurer; Edwin M. Simpson of New York, chairman of the junior promenade committee.

Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken and Dean Clarence Ashley of the Law School have been appointed to represent the university at the Yale bi centennial. Last week It was announced that Professor Earl Barnes of New York had been appointed a special lecturer at the School of Pedagogy. This year Dr. Barnes Is also giving a series of lectures at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, where the University School of Pedagogy gives a course of instruction in conjunction with the institute. Following the example of the other classes, the members of the sophomore class held a meeting last week for the purpose of electing officers, and the following students were chosen: Edward J.

Raldirls of New York, president; Frederick A. Russell of Tarry town, N. vice president; Walter C. Leonard of Brooklyn, secretary; Frederick R. Heath of New York, treasurer; Walter M.

Silleck of New York, captain of the class track team; Adofph C. Carsten of Hacketts town, N. captain of the foot ball team; Ward C. Belcher of New York, captain of the gymnastic team, and John Paul Simmons of Yonkers, captain of the base ball team. The annual competition lor the entrance examination prizes will be held within two weeks.

A prize of $100 will be given the freshman passing the best supplemental examinations In Section also, to the freshman passing the best supplemental examinations in Sections or C. Candidates for tho examination may hand their names to the secretary of the faculty during the next week. The hranches of study in which examinations will be held are: Mathematics, Latin, Greek and English, in Section and mathematics, English and French or German in Sections and these branches to have equal weight in detprminlng the result. The officers of the New York University American Veterinary College Alumni Association for the current year are as follows: President, J. W.

Fink; first vice president, J. J. Haynes; second vice president, W. A. Young; secretary, F.

R. Hansom; treasurer, R. F. Meiners; board of censors: Dr. H.

D. Hansom, Dr. A. W. Anderson.

Dr. R. W. Ellis, Dr. W.

J. Coates and Dr. W. C. Miller.

Polytechnic Institute. A complete set of the Greek tragedies has been secured for the Splcer Memorial Library. There are rumors that a Polytechnic golf and tennis club is shortly to be formed. Dr. Collins Is now conducting advanced Spanish courses.

The need has become apparent with our recent acquisitions of Spanish colonies. Robert Malcom Gray, 1900, Is now instructor in English at Princeton Prep. The new catalogue for 1901 02 has just appeared. It Is a neat volume In black and white. It embodies the different course pamphlets published during the year and is largely tho work of Dr.

Chandler. Among Its features are a complete list of the class organizations and an adequate alumni roster, containing the honors token and positions held since leaving college. On Monday the annual meeting of the Folytechnic Dramatic Association was held In the chapel. Though the meeting wa3 small, it was unusually enthusiastic and acted 'with unnnlmlty. The officers who wero elected for the season and will make up tho executive committee are: President, H.

Ginnel Lebei thon, P. G. vice president, Walter Melville Brislow, 1902; secretary. Gordon L. Plric, 1903; treasurer, William Otto Weldmann, 1902; press agent, Frederick W.

Wurster. 1903. Tho twelfth annual production of the association will be given early in March. 1902. probably, as usual, at the Academy of Music.

The play is yet a matter of speculation, although some thought has been given to the Shaksperoan comedies. The prospects of a strong cast are good, as O. H. Clarke, 1902; O. T.

Moon, 1903; F. H. Lane, 1904; H. C. Fuchs, 1904, and A.

W. Meisel, 1902, all of last year's show, are still in college and will try for parts. William Johnstone Berry, 1903, has been elected business manager of the Polytechnic principal of the Evening High School No. 4, and Dr. Gaudv of New York University.

Dr. W. M. Martin of Nashville University visited the sehool in the interests ot secondary ed iicat ion. He is desirous of elevating th" schools of Nashville to the Brooklyn standard.

He seemed well pleased with the work of the Commercial High School, and carried away with him specimens from the departments of drawing, correspondence, English composition and penmanship. Girls' High School. At the regular Monday morning gathering In the assembly room every seat was filled and the overflow, numbering thirteen classes, was cared for In the lecture room by Miso Pyles. Upon opening the exercises Dr. Patterson, made an encouraging address to the senior class, the largest in the history of the school.

Edna G. Squires recited "The Sleeping Sentinel," after which Colonel George P. Clark was Introduced by Mr. Gresser and gave an eloquent address upon the life and work of the late Superintendent Ward. On Friday evening.

October 4, a memorial service for Mr. Ward was held In Ihe assembly room. The platform was decorated with smllax and pink roaes and the large Hag suspended from the center of the gallery was appropriately draped with black. The present senior class numbers 231, divided into 96 sopranos, 90 second sopranos and 45 contraltos. As the seats In Section are not sufficient for the class, several have hnd seats assigned In Section C.

On Monday, October 14, will occur tbe competl Hon for the claBS day and commencement processionals. I The tree committee of the January class of '02 met for organization Wednesday, October I 2. Miss Florence T. Shepard was chosen I chairman. The other members of the com mittee are Mildred M.

Boyle, Mabelle H. Casey, Constance Drant, Edythe H. Forker. Oriel Gull 1. Caroline Haffner, Jennie Kos mlnsky, Lilly Lennborn, Mary A.

Loughran, Helen M. Pickering, Adelaide Ralsbeck, Elsie F. Rand. The teachers of physical culture have been much gratified to find thnt a largo proportion of the pupils In their care have followed the suggestion of daily practice In physical and breathing exercises during tho summer vacation. There Is great interest show In the class work and Improvement Is very noticeable.

Among the teachers who sought recreation and Improvement In foreign travel during vacation are the Misses Bliss, Byrnes, Gardner. Gates, Higgins. Junge, Pyles, Charlotte Smith. Wales, Way and Wlllard. Miss Merrlan and Miss Anna Smith spent the summer in California and MIbs Treadwell visited Nova Scotia.

Enstern District High School. A meeting to organize for the season the girls' basket ball team was held on Friday, October 11. The meeting was called by Miss Berry, who Is to manage the team. The girls are enthusiastic and the meeting was well attended. A place for practice has been secured, and it is the Intention of the team to work there twice a week.

In classical room No. 5, where dally morning exercises are held, recitations have been given this week by Miss Meyer, Miss Katharine Gallagher and Misses Hoerner and Peter kin. On Saturday. October 12. the Vlymen Outing Club took its second outing for the fall season.

This time. It took the form of a bicycle ride. Members met at the Bedford Rest at 8 A. M. and at Jamaica they wero joined by a number of other members.

The terminus of the ride was Amityvllle. where dinner was taken. The members returned by rail to Brooklyn In the evening. The Humboldt Club at Its opening fall meeting, on Octoher re elected Cornelius O'Leary of the Enstern District High School as president, of the association. On October 29 a meeting of the society will be held at tho Art Rooms, in Montague street, where Mr.

H. B. Chapln of the Eastern District Hih School will deliver the lecture of the evening. A preliminary meeting to form an athletic association of the Eastern District High School wab held on October 8. J.

R. Swift ot the school was made temporary chairman. Plans for different teams wero talked over. A foot ball team Is ardently advocated and subscriptions toward It have already been made. First practice was held by a foot ball 1 loam on October 10.

and under the clrcum stances the boys made a fair showing. It is i nut expected that any crack team can bo i formed the first year, hut the nucleus of a future goofl team will probably be made. The 'first year will be devoted to practice and to playing smaller home tims. A second mcot lug was called for October 10, but this wu post poned. I About, seventy five pupils attended the Zoological Soobtv outing on October They i tit Richmond Hill and proceeded, under charge of Mr.

Chapln, to Forest. Park. one hundred Insects of different sorts i re collected to add to the collection for laboratory study. Instead of an outing trip this week, the Zoological science students took a trip to the Children's Museum, at Bedford Park, where they examined the various collections ind had then explained to them. Six of oie!) trips for study ant collection tire re ouircd during each sehool term.

In the music depart merit the different c'as'ies have started each on its particular clips song. The teacher. Bernard O'DonneH, has been very successful In developing in rest and enthusiasm among the students. fieoent visitors ti the hnvi been Jenkins, principal of Public School No. 7t'; E.

E. I 'arson, Thomas Kearney. J. Itafferty. principal of Publb School No.

19; Wilson II. Falling and Mi is K'liel Falling. Louis Mollenhaucr, A. Strung, Miss A M. Keys of the Brooklyn Training School, M1S8 Mary C.

Gill, Dr. Stanley Brooklyn; Hiram Gillespie, Manhattan. Mrs C. A. HAW I thorne, Flatbush, and John Thompson.

Manual Training High School. A meeting of the Camera Club was held la Room 18 op Thursday afternoon. In the ab Hence of the the treasurer, Miss Cutting, presided The club is considering tlv ndvia.iViiitt of ft, operating with tbe Athletic Association In giving tbe annual Christmas A whic io olcdcd the ollle rs of the so. i ty and I'rofes itjr was a a I to nfer with the Mhlotte Association in r.g. irl to the mat A meeting of the binary class of 1902 was hop! on Friday in Room It was de ideti to consolidate with the class.

An a Mi ol'i. ess in favor of oltdal Ion v. as made 'rttfessnr Powell. Tbe pin rei oried on the price of the class pin. A committee Including l'urdy.

Haene and Clark was appointed to make the necessary ai rangemeiits with the class The girls' ba.sket. ball team has been regularly pr.ictlcltig at tlie Second Signal Corps Aril, ory. The flrFt game will prdcihly be flayed imalnBt Ernmu Hall High heol within a week or so. Mnny new candidates have pre edited themselves and there will be threo or four teams made up for The Ilitlletiti gold medal has been presented to Edwin G. Hatch, of the fourth grade, for excellence In schoIst.

tYUp. JAMAICA KTOBMAL SCHOOL. As the time of the annual conventions of the different fraternities draws near, the problem of "Who shall be sent?" naturally presents itself. Three of the fraternities have already settled the question. Delegates to the Agonlan convention, to be held at Mansfield, on October 24, 25 and 26, will be Miss Vera Wilkes, president of the Jamaica chapter; Miss Mabel Jaques, president of the Agonian Fraternity, and Miss Florence Beakes, as a delegate from the fraternity.

The Alpha Deltas will send to their convention to be held at Brockport. N. on October 26, Miss Jennie Thatcher, president of the Jamaica Chapter, and Miss E. Fern Hague. The Delphic convention will be held at Cortland, N.

Y. Delegates will be James Griffin, secretary of the fraternity, and Arthur Mackey. Observation classes have been formed in the model school in drawing, music, geography and physical culture. These classes will continue for two weeks. The pupil teachers are showing their appreciation of the opportunities these classes afford them by a large attendance.

The reception given by the school on Friday afternoon proved to be a very successful affair. The alumni was well represented. The chapel was decorated with autumn foliage and flowers. A light luncheon was served to the guests. On last Thursday, the CUonians and Delphics held a joint meeting for the purpose of electing officers.

H. Hawkins was elected president; Miss Caroline Seely, vice president; James Griffin, secretary, and Miss Clare Cashen, treasurer. The eight new members taken into the Philalathean Fraternity on Friday night were: George Cohen, Richard Friesel, George Carlin, the Messrs. Marks, Gerken, Rosenblatt, Graham and Goldburg. In the grounds back of the school one may witness daily exciting games in either basket ball or tennis, for the students are making the most of the fine weather.

CATHOLIC WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION. Great interest is manifested in the opening of the course of thirty lectures on the subject of "The Principles and Methods of Education" to morrow afternoon at 4:15 o'clock, in the lecture room ot the association, 10 Prospect place. The well known reputation of the lecturer, Dr. W. T.

Vlymen, principal of the Eastern District High School, adds especial interest to this course, his ability to deal with the intricacies of the subject having been fully demonstrated, will insure a large attendance at every lecture of the course. Teachers will be espoclally inter ested on account of the recognition of tho certificates for this work being recognized by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, for the granting of teachers' license No. 2, grade or license for head of department. A parallel course will also be given in the Eastern District for the benefit of the residents of that section of the city.

The first year millinery class has not Its full quota of members, and all who wish to enter may do so this week, as It is necessary to start the work regularly at once. Vacancies also exist In the afternoon and evening classes in art embroidery, which should also be filled this week, although students in these classes may enter at any time during the term. The class in' elementary English can also accommodate more students. This course, as heretofore stated, is unique to this association, and does its work in a quiet, unostentatious way, in developing unawakoned minds of children of older growth, who have unfortunately been deprived of obtain Ins an education during their youth, and tho marvelous results obtained prove the efficacy of giving this particular branch especial care and attention in mapping out the schedule, PKOEBEL ACADEMY. Roy and Malcolm Taylor have returned from their European trip, having spent four months In England, Scotland and Ireland.

Foot ball Is the most popular game at present among the older pupils. They are allowed as a special privilege to remain In tho yard until 4 o'clock to play. Ethel Kirkus and Marjorie Halstead of the class of '97 called at the school recently. They are taking tho kindergarten course at Pratt Institute. Mary Palmer, a member of the last graduating class, has entered a half year ahead at the Manual Training High School.

The nature work has made a good beginning this fall; more attention Is being given to the lite side and less to pure description, thus leading to Independent thinking on the part of the pupilH. One class has been able to use the new sight reading books in German, and Is very enthusiastic over them. The children of the kindergarten made a cart recently to use for gathering fruits when they make their next excursion to t'lfcark..