The resignation of D. K. Goss as superintendent of the Indianapolis schools is announced, to take place at the end of this school year. One member of the Indianapolis school board is reported as saying that no Indiana man will be considered for the place. Regarding such a report President Swain of Indiana University surely expresses current sentiment when he says: "I refuse to believe that this member of the board speaks for the entire board. There is one rule that should be applied to the selection of persons for all educational positions by school boards-the best man or woman that a given place demands should be employed. The typical superintendent of schools in Indiana is a man that will, first of all, do everything in his power to use the material obtainable to make the system of schools under his supervision the best possible. He does not permit his friendship for any institution to lead him to employ inferior teachers. He does his duty as he should, first of all, to the schools he is employed to serve. better man can be found outside of the state than inside, that will accept the position in Indianapolis, well and good; but, if all the able educators of Indiana are to be rejected on the theory that they can not be trusted to do their duty, a great injustice will be done the teaching profession in this state. I cannot believe that the school board of Indianapolis will make this mistake."

ANNOUNCEMENT

If a

SPRING

REGARDING TERM OF THE STATE NORMAL.

The following circular letter has been sent by the State Normal School to all the county superintendents in the state:

INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

MY DEAR SIR: For the past several years the State Normal School has found it necessary, owing to the very large number of students, to limit the attendance in the spring term to certain classes of students only. We have admitted without examination only college and university graduates, graduates of commissioned high schools, and persons holding the three years' or two years' county license. Many county superintendents and others have regretted strongly the necessity for a rule that excluded from the school in the spring term persons holding the one year county license. It has been pointed out that probably nearly forty per cent. of the fifteen thousand teachers of the state are teaching on the one year license. Statistics recently collected by me show that this is a fact. It

therefore seems a matter of great injustice that the only professional school in the state, supported by the state for the training of public school teachers, should close its doors against this large class of teachers at the only term in the year when they can attend.

Two years ago the school decided to establish a summer term which should follow the regular school year. The very large attendance upon the summer term (618 in the summer of '98 and 663 in the summer of '99) has somewhat relieved the pressure in the regular spring term. For this reason it has been decided that hereafter the school will admit without examination in the spring term the following classes of students: College and university graduates, graduates of commissioned high schools, persons holding the life state or professional license, and persons holding ɔne or more three years', two years' or one year county licenses.

A circular setting forth the conditions of admission for each of the terms of the current year will shortly be mailed to your address. Very truly yours,

WM. W. PARSONS, President.

THE ARYANS.

Editor of The Inland Educator.

DEAR SIR-In reply to your correspondent, Mr. George Branson, in the January number of THE EDUCATOR who says under the heading "Whence came the Aryans," that the State Board of Education, the Outline of Method in History and the Ten Boys are promulgating the false notion of the Asiatic origin of the Aryan race, I wish to say that very eminent authorities yet maintain the Asiatic origin of the Aryan, though other eminent authorities do locate it in other places; as, South Eastern Europe, North Western Europe, Northern Africa and so forth. But whatever may be the truth about the origin of the race as to place and time all are agreed that the earliest historical development of the race, of any great proportion, of which we have any account, was in the Indus valley, and that afterwards another division of the Aryan people developed a civilization in Persia. After this another branch developed in Greece, another afterwards in Rome, and another afterwards in western Europe. Now, while it is not certain just what direction these several divisions traveled, in each case, there can be no doubt if eminent authorities are to be relied upon, that the general direction was westward. These two points, first, to track out the Aryan race in its several historic homes in the order in

which they arose, and second, to show that the general movement was a westerly one are the essential ideas advocated by the course of study now being developed throughout our state. Yours truly,

ELLWOOD W. KEMP.

PRIZE ESSAYS.

The Indiana Society of the Sons of the Revolution offers two medals of the value of twentyfive, and ten dollars respectively, to the two students in the commissioned high schools of the state who shall write the best essays on subjects connected with the War of Independence. The essays must contain from 1,500 to 2,000 words, and must be finished not later than May 1, 1900. For further particulars address William Allen Wood, Indianapolis, who is secretary of the society.

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