The board of education of the city of Atlantic have decided to erect an addition to one of their school buildings. The rapid growth of the city has made this step a necessity. After the completion of the building the schools of Atlantic will give employment to thirteen teachers exclusive of the superintendent. The first number of the Des Moines Campus, the organ of the faculty and students of the University of Des Moines, is received. It presents a creditable appearance and gives many evidences of the "young blood" in the new management of which we have heard so much. It will be issued quarterly at 25 cents a year. Principal Grundy of Dyersville has taken to himself a wife. The NORMAL MONTHLY wishes him joy. Mr. J. G. Haupt is the new principal at Durant. There are three members of the Call family in the faculty of the University of Des Moines as reorganized. When the Board of Trustees, in September last, called Professor Call to the presidency, it was with the understanding that he should be at liberty to call around himself such a faculty as he wanted. Mr. William L. Miller is appointed principal at Lisbon. The New Sharon News says: "It now appears to us that a desperate effort will be made to retain the college at Oskaloosa, which we hope can be done without losing the good character, the respect and sympathy formerly bestowed upon it. It is just as apparent that a like desperate effort is making to establish Drake University at Des Moines, by the same brotherhood. This, too, when all the means that will be used in both institutions are necessary for the support of one, hence it is easy to predict failure for both." Mr. A. B. Warner takes charge of the Allerton schools the coming year. At the closing exercises of the Storm Lake schools Principal Moore took the platform for a short time and talked right out from the shoulder, to use a striking figure, to the good people of that place. He insisted that if the school is to be a success it must be run in the "interest of education and not in the interest of institutions or personal friends." He also suggested that if they expected to secure and hold good teachers it might be as well to pay living wages. Prof. Leigh Hunt and the entire corps of teachers of the Mount Pleasant schools have been retained for the coming year. A good class graduated this year. The prospects for the next year are very flattering. Supt. Rands of Mitchell County makes the following announcement on his institute circular: "Teachers present at the beginning of the session will receive a credit of 50% towards a certificate. A record will be kept of their attendance, punctuality, deportment and scholarship, and any irregularities in these will deduct from the above credit, and the remainder of the 50% will be credited on the certificate. The other 50% will be determined by an examination, held the Saturday closing the institute. A Webster City correspondent of the Dubuque Telegraph accuses Bro. Eldridge of talking war and politics, if not infant bap. tism, in his lecture before the teachers' institute in that city. Our opinion is that he didn't, but that he had better not do so any more. All who were present at the late meeting of the Southwestern Iowa Teachers' Association speak of the exercises as having been of unusual interest. Professor Purinton, M. A., chair of science, University of Des Moines, is a graduate of the State University of West Virginia, leaving the institution with "far higher attainments in scientific studies than any other graduate who has gone out of its doors." Prior to his graduation he had served as principal of George's Creek Academy, Pa., and of the Talequah Male Seminary, Indian Territory. He has, since leaving college, served as city superintendent of the schools of Piedmont, West Virginia, and as professor of the natural sciences in Broaddus Female College in the same state. He will spend August and September in various parts of the state looking up the interests of his department. The fact that he has been offered a similar position in two other colleges within six months, is a strong testimonial to his fitness for the scientific chair. He will prove a valuable accession to our educational ranks. The unanimous re-election of Superintendent Farnham of Council Bluffs for a period of three years, at a salary of $2200, is a most emphatic indorsement of his administration. Ĥon. C. W. von Coelln, with the assistance of his efficient deputy, is now preparing his final report to the general assembly. We have reason to believe that it will even surpass in interest his former uniformly able reports. The Rev. A. B. Cornell is elected principal at Leon. The people there have voted the languages out and have done away with assistant in the high school. Mr. W. H. Albaugh who was assistant in the high school at Leon is the Republican nominee for superintendent of Decatur County. Mr. W. E. Andrews, County Superintendent of Ringgold County, takes charge of a commercial department in the Garden Grove Seminary in September. Yale College sends a new representative to Iowa in the person of Thos. M. Blakeslee, Ph. D., professor-elect of mathematics in the Des Moines University. Prof. Des Islets writes, July 22d, as follows: "I am elected principal in Albia, and also in Bedford, Iowa; and I am also elected City Superintendent at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. I have just returned from Plattsmouth and am much pleased with the prospects there. I am thinking strongly of accepting. Of course those folks elected me without my 'applying.' It is already the third city in the state. Indeed, I think the prospects and condition of things there very promising." O. H. Manning, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, is an ex-school teacher from Greene County. The University of Des Moines is making an effort to pay off its debt. President David F. Call and Rev. O. T. Conger are in the field in its behalf. Principal C. D. Clark of Manchester has resigned, to engage in the practice of law at Evanston, Wyoming Territory. He had held the position of principal at Manchester for three years, with real credit, and his resignation will be deeply regretted by the whole community. Without Mr. Clark and Supt. Ewart the Delaware County teachers will feel like strangers in a strange land. A teacher in Fremont township, Fayette County, was recently dismissed by the board for complaining of a scholar who rebelled against scripture reading in the school. The Oskaloosa school board have purchased sufficient single desks to supply all the pupils in the city when school re-opens. At the March meeting the people voted a 10 mill tax to build a 3d Ward school house; now, some of them are disposed to prevent the building, by changing the action at the next meeting. Supt. Seerley informs us that there is not much urgency for a new school house. Miss Belle Rouse has been secured to give one of her delightful elocutionary entertainments before the Dubuque County Institute. The musical part will be conducted by Miss Plaister. Miss Rouse is a genuine artist and gives a most enjoyable entertainment, while Miss Plaister has unusual musical talent. We would say right here by way of parenthesis and on our own responsibility, that other superintendents wishing to secure for their institutes an evening's entertainment of unusual merit at most reasonable figures, will do well to correspond with these young ladies. Their address is Dubuque. The Dubuque Herald, the leading Democratic paper of northern Iowa, has the following in its issue of July 23d in regard to Prof. Butler: * * The Des Moines Independent is pursuing what seems to us an injudicious and unreasonable course in making war upon the Democratic candidate for superintendent of public instruction, because, as it alleges, he is a prohibitionist. * * Now we must say, if Mr. Butler is a temperance man, it is to his credit. It is the duty of all men to practice temperance not only in drink, but in all things; and when we know that a man is temperate we believe he is deserving of credit for it. * We believe in temperance. We believe it to be the duty of all men to be temperate. We believe temperance should at all times be encouraged, and an excess of drinking be reprobated. This, we always understood, was the position of the Democratic party of Iowa, and that it favored a license system over a prohibitory system for the reason, among others, that the former was more conducive to temperance. It was reported when the nomination for superintendent was pending in the convention and Mr. Butler's name had been mentioned, he got up and told the convention he was a temperance man through and through; after this manly declaration the convention put him in nomination, thus endorsing what he had said. * Mr. Butler is a candidate for an office where his views upon this matter can never make one iota of difference, an office which no man should occupy unless he be what Mr. Butler claims to be, a temperate man. * * REQUISITES FOR TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. 48 Lessons in the Study and Use of the Dictionary -FOR Teachers' Institutes, Normal and High Schools, Price by mail post paid, 10c. per copy. 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