Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superintendent of Washington and President of the National Education Association, was a welcome visitor recently to our office. Mrs. Preston came to San Francisco as a member of the Republican National Womens' Executive Comittee. She also conferred with those in authority relative to the development of the Thrift education movement, and took part in the regional Federal Vocational conference recently held in Berkeley. Mrs. Preston reports progress on the N. E. A. program. the meeting to be held next July in Salt Lake City. The Education Department of the American Туре Founders Company has enlarged its scope of work to include the sale of motion picture projection machines and supplies. Information will also be furnished regarding educational films. The Department will continue its work of installing printing outfits in the public schools. A letter addressed to the Education Department of the Company, Jersey City, New Jersey, will bring full information. What has been familiarly known as Throop College (Pasadena) is hereafter to be called officially The California Institute of Technology. The change is incident to the rapid growth of the school along technical and scientific lines, and the expansion made possible by considerable increase in endowments. Said the bank teller to a teacher who had presented her salary check to be cashed, "I am really sorry to hand you these old, soiled bills. They are unhygienic and possibly dangerous." "Oh, never mind," replied the cheerful teacher. "Really and truly there is no danger. A microbe couldn't live on my salary."-Exchange. S. C. Smith of Ginn & Company is in Boston to attend the annual firm meeting of the Company. He will swing around the circle and mingle with the educational notables at the Cleveland meeting. Miss Essae M. Culver has issued an excellent compilation of "Music Records in the Butte County Free Library." It is an invaluable list for the use of teachers interested in educational records. Plumas County Free Library is making a specialty of books on various phases of mining. The library has also bought a grafonola for use at headquarters when teachers come to select records. Sutter and Glenn Counties are now units in country free library service to schools-that is all the elementary school districts have joined the county free libraries. Twenty-three high schools have joined county free libraries according to the provisions of the plan adopted by the high school principals at their convention in 1918. Miss Estella De Ford, Librarian of the Tehama County Free Library, has been appointed county librarian of Napa County. Another Triumph FOR Isaac Pitman Shorthand Mr. Nathan Behrin creates new World's Record on court testimony, writing 324 words gross, and 322 words net, a minute, and made but three errors. At the Forty-fourth Annual Convention of the New York State Shorthand Reporters' Association, December 30, 1919, Mr. Nathan Behrin created a new World's Record in Shorthand, by writing 324 words The gross and 322 words net, a minute. contest which was held under the auspices of the Certified Shorthand Reporters' Society, had been given wide publicity and was open to all, and writers of all the leading systems competed. It is worthy of note that the record for solid non-court matter tests in this country is held by Mr. Behrin at 220 words per minute. The result of this contest furnishes further proof that the highest speed and accuracy is inalienable from the Isaac Pitman Shorthand. Isaac Pitman & Sons 2 WEST 45th ST., NEW YORK Publishers of "Course in Isaac Pitman Shorthand," $1.60; "Practical Course in Touch Typewriting," 70c. Adopted by the New York Board of Education. Physical Training-3 courses These courses are offered for supervisors and teachers of Industrial Arts and of Household Arts; for directors and teachers of Vocational schools; for dietitians; for managers of lunch rooms, and institutional house-keeping; for students, or teachers wishing to take advanced work for the B. S. degree in Industrial Arts or Household Arts; for athletic coaches and others interested in athletic games and swimming. Credit on two-year diploma courses or four year degree courses given for summer session work. For summer session announcement or catalog for regular session, address: L. D. HARVEY, President The Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wis. Free Registration Teachers, Principals, Superintendents---We are at your Service WRITE US for enrollment card and information. The Rocky Mountain Teachers' Agency and its five branches offer you the opportunity to secure the KIND of position you want, in the LOCALITY you want it and at the MAXIMUM salary. ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEACHERS' AGENCY JOHN C. EPPERSON, Manager, 636 Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Calif. Other Offices: PORTLAND, OREGON, Frank K. Welles, Mgr. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., F. B. Reed, Mgr. THE LARGEST TEACHERS' AGENCY IN THE WEST OUR SERVICE IS UNEXCELLED SPECIALISTS IN PLACING TEACHERS Send now for Bird Pictures in Natural Colors for Fall Bird Study The Perry Pictures We want every reader of this magazine to have our New 1920 Catalogue. 15 cents Reproductions of the World's . Greatest cents each for 15 or more. Send 50 cents New 1920 Catalogue of 1600 miniature illus- New York City has now 29 intermediate schools and announcement is made that the number will be increased this year. Among the advantages of this type of organization the superintendent mentions: "a better articulation between the high schools and the elementary schools, a more economical use of the seating accommodations in the 7th and 8th year classes, the opportunities afforded for differentiation of the courses of study and for a better form of discipline and school life for adolescent pupils, the relief of congestion in high schools, and the saving in time and money by having the 9th year pupils instructed in a 'neighborhood high school.' "As a result of these and other advantages, the intermediate schools are no longer in an experimental stage. They are an integral part of our school system." "New Occasions and New Duties," Hon. Will C. Wood's Yosemite address appears complete in School and Society for November 29. This is an honor to both School and Society and to California. American wood working machines are in use in the leading furniture factories and cabinet shops of the country-where machines are bought on quality-where price is of minor or secondary importance. If there is any place where the very best tools should be had, it is in the school room. It is false economy to buy "cheap" machines poorly constructed and inefficiently guarded. Kewaunee Domestic Science Students' Table This table is fitted with disappearing door in the lower sections, which is a feature desired by many instructors. The cupboards are very large and will readily accommodate the equipment of two students. Doors slide in horizontal grooves, back into the lower section, entirely out of the way of the students. Four students may be accommodated at the table at one time. Four of the drawers have number plates, figures running from "1" up on each order unless otherwise specified. The center drawers and cupboards are to be used in common. Kewaunee Domestic Science Equipment is of the same high standard that has made Kewaunee Science Furniture so well and favorably known. Send for the Kewaunee Book. John W. Graham & Washington, Oregon, Kewaunee Mfg. Co. LABORATORY KEWAUNEE, WIS. Chicago Office, 20 E. Jackson Boulevard Heywood Brothers & California and Nevada |