The Jowa Normal Monthly. (Entered in the postoffice at Dubuque, Iowa, as second class mail måtter.) Published by The lowa Normal Monthly Publishing Company. Institute and Clup Rates $1.00 Yearly Subscription Rates $1.50. Single Copies 15 Cts. All communications, articles for publication, items of scligol news, subscriquonį and advertising matter should be addressed to JAMES A. EDWARDS, Publisher, Herald Build ing Cor Sixth and Locust Streets, Dubuque, lewa. Vol. XXVI. DUBUQUE, IOWA, AUGUST, 1902. No. I. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Hyde Park, Chicago, High school, Charles W. French, principal, has increased its enrollment from 300 to 1,800 in less than ten years. One University has on its rolls 118 graduates of this school. *** A political boss in control can convert the best of schools into an arid waste in a very brief period. An organization that makes this control easy is fatally bad. An organization that gives greatest assurance that a competent superintendent will be placed in charge, and that gives him the freedom and power that his responsibilities require, is the best system of schools yet attainable.-School and Home Education. *** The school board at Newport, R. I., has elected a young colored lady as a teacher in the public schools. She is Louise Van Horne, daughter of Rev. Mahlon Van Horne, consul at St. Thomas. She is said to be highly accomplished, and a successful instructor. *** Miss Mayme Z. Boyer, teacher of a school at Pleasant Grove, near Birdsboro, Pa., walked 700 miles to and from school during the last term. The distance from her home to the school building is two and a half miles, and this she walked daily to and from her home during the school term of seven months. *** Miss Zelia Nuttall, an honorary assistant of the Peabody Museum American Archeology at Harvard, has had a book named in her honor. It is a facsimile of the long lost codex owned by Lore Zouche, of Harynworth, and Miss Nutta!! discovered the existence of the original after it had been lost to view for centuries. ** * Cornell University has sold the last of its lands in Wisconsin56,000 acres, for $250,000. In 1868 Ezra Cornell gave $250,000 to the University as an endowment fund and this was invested in 500,000 acres |