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NOTES AND NEWS

JOSIAH H. PENNIMAN, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, was elected President of the University at the August meeting of the Board of Trustees. A year ago Major General Leonard Wood, who had been offered the presidency, cabled the Board of Trustees for an extension of his leave of absence as he was needed in the Philippines. President Penniman will at once start a campaign to raise $10,000,000 for the University.

PHILANDER PRIESTLY CLAXTON, Provost of the State University of Alabama since his retirement as United States Commissioner of Education two years ago, has been elected superintendent of schools of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at a salary of $13,500. This salary is a new high water mark for a city superintendent of schools.

DR. HENRY W. A. HANSON, Pastor of the Messiah Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, is the new President of Gettysburg College. He is a graduate of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary of the Lutheran Church.

IRA N. MCCLOSKEY, superintendent of schools of Clinton County for the past twenty-one years, has resigned because of ill health. He is succeeded by Guy Brosius, a native of Clinton County, a graduate of Bucknell College, formerly instructor in English in the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Professor in Dickinson College.

G. C. L. RIEMER, for the past five years Director of Modern Languages, Department of Public Instruction, has succeeded Charles H. Fischer as Principal of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg. Doctor Fischer resigned at Bloomsburg to accept the presidency of the State Normal School at Bellingham, Washington.

FRANK E. BAKER, Principal of the State Normal School at East Stroudsburg the past two years and formerly Principal of the State Normal School at Edinboro, Pa., has accepted the presidency of the State Normal College at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He succeeds Carroll G. Pearse who resigned last spring to enter business.

JAMES M. GWINN, superintendent of schools at New Orleans and President of the National Council of Education of the N. E. A., has accepted the superintendency of the public schools of San Francisco, California, for four years at $10,000 a year.

FRED L. ENGLEHARDT has been given leave of absence for one year from his position as Assistant Dean of the College of the University of Pittsburgh. He will spend the year in Columbia University working for a doctor's degree. For three years previous to his call to the University of Pittsburgh Major Engelhardt served as Director of the Bureau of Administration of the Department of Public Instruction in Harrisburg.

N. L. ENGELHARDT of Teachers College, Columbia University, has been employed by the School Board of Easton as Educational Advisor in the erection of the new senior high school.

WILL GRANT CHAMBERS, formerly Dean of the School of Education of the University of Pittsburgh, now Dean of the Summer Session and of Teacher Training Extension of State College, has been appointed Dean of the newly created School of Education of Pennsylvania State College. The school will consist of the following departments: Education and Psychology from the School of Liberal Arts, Industrial Teacher Training from the School of Mines and Engineering, Division of Agricultural Education of the Rural Life Department in the Agricultural School and the Home Economics Department.

ROMEYN HENRY RIVENBURG, Assistant Headmaster of the Peddie Institute at Hightstown, New Jersey, is the new Dean at Bucknell University. Mr. Rivenburg is a member of the class of 1897 and has been at Peddie for twenty-five years. He will fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dean Llewelyn Phillips last January.

D. D. HAMMELBAUGH, Secretary of the School Board, Harrisburg, was elected President of the National Association of Public School Business Officials at their annual convention in St. Louis, May 18. Mr. Hammelbaugh was elected Secretary of the Harrisburg School Board July 5, 1895. He was President of the State School Board Secretaries 1917-1918 and has been Secretary of the Pennsylvania State School Directors Association since 1915.

J. LESTER APPENZELLER, Principal of Lebanon high school, is the new Principal of Wyomissing high school. He is succeeded by Mr. Espenshade, teacher of mathematics in Lebanon high school.

MURALS executed by Miss Violet Oakley for the State Capitol Building at Harrisburg were on exhibition in London the past summer. The press gave almost unstinted praise.

GEORGE DANIEL OLDS, Professor of Mathematics at Amherst, has been Acting President of the College since the resignation of Alexander Meikeljohn on June 19.

HARLAN H. HORNER, Dean of the New York State College for Teachers, has accepted the position of Field Secretary for the New York Teachers Association.

R. E. WILLIAMS of Louisville is the new full time Secretary of the Kentucky State Education Association, salary $3,500.

THE Florida Education Association has decided to employ an Executive Secretary who will also edit the Journal of the Florida Education Association.

VAUGHAN MACCAUGHEY, formerly State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Ha

waiian Islands, has become Assistant Editor of the Sierra Educational News at a salary of $5,700. He is succeeded by Willard E. Givens, formerly Principal of the Kamahameha School for Boys at Honolulu.

CARROLL R. REED, Akron, Ohio, has been reelected superintendent of schools for a five year term at a salary of $9,000 a year.

CLELAND ASBURY BOWMAN, Dean of the faculty of Albright College and Professor of Philosophy and Sociology, has accepted the presidency of Albright College. He succeeds L. C. Hunt, recently resigned. Doctor Bowman was educated at the Millersville State Normal School, Berrysburg Seminary and the University of Berlin.

A. H. ESPENSHADE, after fourteen years of service as Registrar of the Pennsylvania State College, has resigned. He has been connected with the college for twenty-five years, having been Professor of Rhetoric before the Registrar's duties demanded all his time. He is succeeded by W. S. Hoffman, formerly Assistant Registrar.

PEARL MCDONALD, head of the home economics extension work at the Pennsylvania State College, retired from active work at the college, August 1. M. Jane Newcomb, assistant professor of home economics extension, has also resigned. She expects to join Miss McDonald in a business venture at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

HAROLD A. THOMAS, for the past thirteen years a member of the staff at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana, is the new professor of theoretical hydraulics and of hydraulic and sanitary engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.

HENRY K. MCGOODWIN succeeds Harry Sternfeld, acting head of the Architectural Department and E. Raymond Bossange, Director of the College of Fine Arts, both of whom have resigned from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Mr. McGoodwin joined the faculty of Carnegie in 1906 but left after twelve years to regain his health. Professor Sternfeld becomes Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Director Bossange goes to Princeton University as head of the Department of Architecture.

JOHN H. FRIZZELL, Principal of the Reading high school the past three years, has joined the executive staff at National Headquarters in Philadelphia of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of the Episcopal Church. For eighteen years Mr. Frizzell was a member of the English Department of State College.

On June 6, Jonas Ellwood Wagner, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Administration, Department of Public Instruction, was married to Mrs. Mary Shelley Stewart at Port Royal, Pa. They are at home to their friends in Camp Hill.

THE Williamstown Institute of Politics, third annual session, was addressed in August by Sir Edward Grigg, M.P., former secretary to the Prince of Wales on his American tour; Philip Kerr, a former secretary to Lloyd George, ex-premier; and Count Harry Kessler, ex-German Minister to Poland. Sir Edward Grigg spoke on "Typical Problems of the British Empire in Domestic and International Affairs," Mr. Kerr had charge of the Round Table discussions on the British Empire, Count Kessler lectured on "Germany and the European Tangle."

At the consecration of the first wing of the restored library of the Louvain University late in July by Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, presented a book containing the names of the U. S. teachers and school children who contributed nearly $40,000 for the restoration of the library, which was destroyed by the Germans during the war. It is hoped that by 1925 the 500th anniversary of the founding of the library, the total amount needed ($1,000,000) will have been received.

MRS. A. H. REEVE, President of the National Parent-Teachers Association, Philadelphia, in her address at the National Education Association in Oakland said, "Parent power, as a school auxiliary, is one of the most important factors in modern education."

GLADYS WASHBURN of the Indiana State Normal School was the youngest delegate to the N. E. A. convention in Oakland.

SCHOOLS of Pennsylvania planted 35,276 trees during the spring of 1923. The high school pupils of Palmyra lead with 20,000.

THE class of 1918 at the Pennsylvania State College pledged a fund of $1,918 toward the college emergency building fund campaign. They expect to raise this amount through membership assessment.

C. E. MARQUARDT, associate professor of French and examining officer of the Pennsylvania State College, has been awarded an Austin Scholarship for Teachers in the Graduate School at Harvard University. He has been given a year's leave of absence from his work to pursue graduate study in administrative work.

AMONG America's 12 greatest living women who were named at the request of a Chilean woman writer by a special committee of the National League of Women Voters were 3 from Pennsylvania. Cecilia Beaux, painter, Philadelphia; Louise Homer, opera singer, Pittsburgh and M. Carey Thomas, President for 37 years of Bryn Mawr College.

In the April number of the PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL Verona Schools published their banking record for January. In four banking days 777 pupils banked a total of $1,142.74 or an average of $1.50 per pupil.

They asked if any other school had beat this record. The Grammar School of Clearfield with an enrollment of 307 pupils in four consecutive bank days-Dec. 13, Jan. 3, 10 and 17 banked a total of $1,005.52 or an average of $3.25 per pupil.

PENNSYLVANIA's enforcement code repealing former provisions of the Woner Act follows very closely the provision of the National Prohibition Act in its definition of intoxicating liquors and in the provisions with reference to the abatement of nuisances but it is stronger in its search and seizure provisions and clearly provides that vehicles transporting liquor may be seized without a warrant. After the Senate had defeated Governor Pinchot's request for a quarter million dollars for prohibition enforcement, the women's organizations of Pennsylvania pledged themselves to raise it.

An honorary degree from a college or university is a worthy distinction as it represents the approval of learned and reflective men. The University of Iowa, April 28, in connection with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the first permanent department of education in an American university, conferred the degree of LL.D. upon Edward Lee Thorndike, Columbia University; Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, Stanford University; Charles Hubbard Judd, University of Chicago and James Earl Russel, Columbia University. Princeton gave an honorary doctor's degree to Lord Robert Cecil, who lectured in this country last spring in the cause of the League of Nations. The following notable honorary degrees were granted during the last commencement season: Gifford Pinchot, doctor of laws, Pennsylvania Military College; William Jennings Bryan, doctor of laws, University of Forida; Frank P. Graves, doctor of letters in absentia, University of Rochester; Kenneth G. Matheson, doctor of science, University of Pennsylvania; Edward W. Bok, doctor of letters, Rutgers College; Mary Roberts Rinehart, doctor of letters, Georgetown University; George Leslie Omwake, doctor of laws, Franklin and Marshall College; Edith Wharton, doctor of letters, Yale University; Fred Louis Pattee, doctor of letters, Dartmouth; Ben G. Graham, doctor of science, Westminster College; HuBert C. Eicher, doctor of science, Ohio Wesleyan University.

RADCLIFFE College awarded the degree of doctor of philosophy in international law and diplomacy to Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, June 20. Her thesis was entitled "The Mandatory System After the World War."

THE rarest phenomena of our age, according to Time, are men who have taken time to be wise. Presidents emeriti constitute such a class: Dr. Hadley of Yale, Dr. Eliot of Harvard, Dr. Wheeler of California, Dr. Judson of Chicago and Dr. Jordan of Stanford. These men have nothing to fear and nothing to seek for themselves. They are the elder guardians

of Plato's Republic deprived of nothing but the authority which they deserve.

PRESIDENT ERNEST DEWITT BURTON, the new Head of the University of Chicago, in addressing 650 graduates at a recent convocation, emphasized the need of a greater horizon for students: "Learn to think in terms of the larger units, not of your own school only, but of education; not of your own church only, but of religion; not of your own country only, but of the human race. Draw a wide circle about yourself, see all that is in it, and all that lies in its outermost circumference. Make room within that circle for work, for friendship, for religion, for patriotism, for interest in and sympathy with other nations than your own. Be a citizen of the world."

WM. MATHER LEWIS, for the past two years Chief of the Educational Service of the United States Chamber of Commerce and a most acceptable speaker for the Association at the Bethlehem Convention, has been elected President of George Washington University, Washington, D. С.

THE National Farm School, Doylestown, Pa., received $45,000 by the will of Rosetta M. Ulman for a new dormitory to replace the one destroyed by fire.

THE State Legislature has abolished compulsory military training at the University of Wisconsin.

ELLA RUTH BOYCE, Director of Kindergartens, Pittsburgh, and President of the International Kindergarten Union, conducted a party of kindergartners through France, England and Belgium last summer.

STEPHEN SHELDON COLVIN, Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a most interesting lecturer at our Bethlehem Convention, died suddenly on July 15 in New York City where he was conducting courses in the summer school.

PRESIDENT JAMES M. Thoburn, Beaver College, will leave that institution on October 1 to return to the pastorate.

THE Chicago Board of Education has decreed that high school pupils who marry are excluded from school. A nineteen year old student who returned to school after his honeymoon was promptly dismissed.

THE Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have decided to establish a separate college for women.

VASSAR College in 1929 will be entirely on a basis of merit for admission. After that year all students will enter on a competitive basis..

FREDERICK J. HARTMAN, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Industrial Board under Governor Sproul, has returned to Carnegie Institute of Technology as Assistant to the President, Doctor Thomas Stockham Baker,

GEORGE Y. MCCLURE of the Shamokin highttis school is the state winner in the National essay contest conducted by the Highway Education Board. Members of the Department of English of the Pennsylvania State College served as judges for Pennsylvania. Esther Weeter, Sunbury, and Lillian Gruskin, Kittanning, were rated second and third, respectively.

UNITED States Commissioner of Education, John J. Tiggert, has appointed a committee of 7 with Dean William Scott Gray of the College of Education at the University of Chicago as chairman to canvass the field of reading instruction and to make definite recommendations concerning problems which confront teachers and supervisors.

THE new Chicago Temple built by the Methodist Episcopal Church at a cost of $3,100,000, located in Chicago's loop will be opened October 3. The total value of the building and the ground on which it stands is $6,500,000. The height of the structure is 556 feet with 21 stories devoted to church and office use. The doors of the Temple will be opened to worshipers day and night.

MISS ALICE LONGFELLOW (daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and sisters, Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. Dana, were invited by the Ogibway Indians at Sault Sainte Marie to attend their presentation of Hiawatha early in August.

FLORENCE ATKINSON, R. F. D. No. 1, Oil City, who graduated in June from the Rouseville high school, Venango County, attended school for 13 years without being absent or tardy. Her sister, Ruby, attended for 9 years without being absent or tardy.

THE Williamsport teachers gave a dinner early in June to their retired teachers. Those who were especially honored were Annie E. Pott, Alice Platt, Annie Donnel, Miss Woodward, Mary Seamon, Mrs. Lilly S. Seitz, Lida Thompson, Charlotte Rice, Miss Nicely, Miss Goehrig, J. W. Stout, J. E. Williams and Charles Lose.

THE Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation purchased Monticello, Jefferson's Virginia home, an estate of 648 acres.

WITH the admittance of 180 from a total of 660 applicants, Swarthmore College definitely closed, July 15, its quota of new students.

FEDERAL HILL, the estate of the late Judge Rowan, near Bardstown, Kentucky, on which is located "Old Kentucky Home" where Ste phen Collins Foster wrote the song of that name, was dedicated as a national museum on July 4, the ninety-seventh anniversary of Foster's birth. Pennsylvania was represented at the dedication by Foster's descendants, the Mayor of Pittsburgh and members of the Chamber of Commerce of that city. A por

Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 4th, 1826
Who on a visit to Kentucky in 1852
Wrote in this house the immortal song
"My Old Kentucky Home"

re were Pennsylvania's contributions. Addresses were made by A. L. Humphrey, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Hon. James Francis Burke and Mayor W. A. Magee of Pittsburgh.

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UNIONTOWN has set the example for the rest of the world in the use of the airplane. A cokewr-der has purchased machine to ride dain from his home to the coke-oven. He is da first man, so far as known, to utilize the flying machine for this purpose.

THREE Philadelphians, Bessie Grossman, West Philadelphia High School for Girls; Harry Sobelensky, West Philadelphia High School for Boys; and Gladys E. Machman, Philadelphia High School for Girls, have been awarded the Simon Muhr scholarships. Each scholarship has an annual value of $400 for four years.

Or the ten wealthiest men in the world, Henry Ford ranks first; John D. Rockefeller, second; Andrew D. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, third.

AMERICANS are said to be the most liberal spenders in the world. That they are thrifty, too, is evidenced by the 1922 report of the Savings Division of the American Bankers Association which shows savings of over 174 billions, an increase of 680 millions over the previous year.

THE Smithsonian Institution announces a = traveling scholarship of $2,500 for the study of the fauna of foreign countries. The scholarsnip will change hands every two years.

ART Director C. V. Kirby planned and Edna M. Kugler and Mildred Fischer directed the exhibit of the Department of Public Instruction at the Palace of Progress Exposition in Philadelphia, May 14-26.

F. S. HEINAMAN, for six years supervising principal of the Sheffield Township School and before that time supervising principal in Youngstown, Ohio, for eleven years, has accepted the position of Dean of Instruction in the Edinboro Normal School. He began his work in the summer session, June 18. C. W. Mitchell, principal of the high school at Sheffield the last three years, has succeeded Mr. Heinaman as supervising principal.

THE Board of Education of Harrisburg will build two new senior high schools-one for west side residents-the William Penn High School, Hoffman's Woods and one for east siders the John Harris High School, on a location to be selected in the Allison Hill district. Superintendent Clyde H. Garwood is determined to put all of the 15,000 pupils in a full-day session.

JAMES C. TUCKER, formerly Director of Vocational Education, Bethlehem, has been appointed General Superintendent of Prison Industries for Pennsylvania with headquarters at the State Department of Welfare, Claster Building, Harrisburg. M. M. Walter, for some years Director of Vocational Education at Coatesville, succeeds Mr. Tucker.

E. L. BOWMAN, formerly connected with the Department of Public Instruction and later Director of Vocational Education at Erie, has accepted a position with the National Trade Extension Bureau of the Plumbing and Heating Industries, Mercantile Bank Building, Evansville, Indiana.

GEORGE W. PARKES, formerly teacher of drafting and related subjects in the Williamsport High School, has been elected Director of Vocational Education for Williamsport. He succeeds W. K. Yocum, who resigned to take a commercial position in the automobile industry

J. D. BLACKWELL, for three years Assistant Director of Vocational Education in charge of Agricultural Education in the State Department of Public Instruction resigned August August 1 to become Director of Vocational Education for Maryland. Mr. Blackwell's new address is Lexington Building, Baltimore, Maryland.

WILLIAM S. TAYLOR, formerly Assistant Director of the Teacher Bureau of the Department of Public Instruction, is now Dean of the College of Education of the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Ky. Mr. Taylor spent the past year in graduate study at Teachers College, Columbia University, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree last June. His dissertation, a study of the history of teachertraining institutions in Pennsylvania, will soon be published.

J. M. VEAZEY, for several years supervisor of vocational agriculture in Washington County, resigned August 1 to become manager of the Herbert H. Dow orchards at Midland, Michigan.

THE Jeannette School Board plans to establish this fall industrial arts courses on a general shop basis, and part-time co-operative industrial courses on a Smith-Hughes basis.

MONESSEN is organizing part-time co-operative industrial courses under Superintendent H. E. Gress.

H. C. FETTEROLF, Supervisor of Agricultural Education in the State Department, is a member of a committee of State Supervisors of Agriculture from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, which is planning for a "dairy school" at the National Dairy Show at Syracuse, October 11-13. The "school" will be an assemblage of vocational boys from northeastern states, where agricultural college specialists and successful herdsmen will provide organized instruction for the boys.