THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC BY ABRAHAM

Source: The Journal of Education , JULY 17, 1902, Vol. 56, No. 4 (1388) (JULY 17, 1902),
p. 80
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teachers in the public schools, will be in
attendance during the session. The insti-
tution is supported by private contribu-
tions of money and materials, and by the
co-operation of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, Simmons College,
A Cooling
Twentieth Century Club, and other insti-
tutions, and its facilities are freely ten-
CURSE OF SARGO N MAY REST UPON
QUAKERS .
At the entrance of the Babylonian sec-
tion of the museum of the University of
Pennsylvania, leading into the study of
Professor H. V. Hilprecht, the Babylonian
explorer, is a huge stone door socket of
SHOULD A COLLEGE DEGREE BE
REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION 10
LA W SCHOOLS?
During the last three or four years at
meetings of bar associations and legal
educators throughout the country, the

TONIC
dered under certain conditions to any Sargon which is almost 600 years old. question, what amount of preliminary
properly qualified men and women. The The object is a heavy piece of plutonie training should a student have before. en-
advisory board consists at present of rock of grayish white or green color,
Presidents Pritchett and Lefavour, Profes-
tering upon the study of the law? has
Horsforďs Acid Phosphate .mown as diorite. The stone has a small
given rise to much discussion. Probably
quenches abnormal thirst, re- sors Minot, Sedgwick, and Hough, Messrs. bowl-like indenture in the centre, into
pairs weak nerves, improves John R. Freeman, William Lyman Under- which fitted the hinge post of an ancient more than seventy-five per cent, of those
appetite, promotes digestion, wood and George H. Ellis. The director Oriental gate. The inscription on this admitted to the bar at present are gradu-
clears the brain, overcomes is Dr. George W. Field, recently of Provi- unique relic reads: "Sargon, son of Itte- ates of law schools or men who have
exhaustion, and increases the dence, where he was associate professor Beel, the mighty king of Accad and the studied for some time at a law school.
capacity for hard mental and of cellular biology at Brown, and later people of Baal, the builder of Ekur, the The standard of preliminary examination
physical labor. Insist on biologist of the Rhode Island Agricultural temple of Baal in Nippur. Whoever before county and state boards through-
having experiment station, and now instructor in this inscribed stone, may Baal and out the country is in most cases consider-
moves
economic biology at the Massachusetts Shamash tear out his foundation and ex- ably lower than that required for gradua-

Hor4rforď*s
Acid
Phosphate
Horsforďs name on every Genuine package.
tCD Ü CATION AL INTELLIGENCE.
[TEMS this
this heading of educational
heading areare solicited
solicitednews to from
ities in every state in the Union. Tobe available,
these contributions should be short and compre-
hensive. Copy should be received by the editor not
ater than Friday precedine date of issue.
MEETINGS TO BE HELD
October 17: Essex County (Mass.) Teach-
ers' Convention, Peabody; A. E. Tuttle,
Haverhill, Mass., secretary.
Week of December 29: California Teach-
ers' Association, Los Angeles, Cal.; A.
E. Shumate, president.
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
VERMONT.
WEST RUTLAND. Principal Nathan
Beckville has resigned his position as
principal of the high school at West Rut-
land, and returned to his home in New
York.
LUDLOW. Arthur G. Bugber, for the
past two years principal of Black River
Academy, has resigned his position. His
successor is L. Whitney Elkins of Jack-
son, N. H.
BURLINGTON. Miss Ella K. Herrick,
teacher of drawing in the public schools
of Burlington has presented the Edmonds
high school with three new pictures:
Two, "Venus de Milo" and "Joan of Arc,"
both photographs of sculpture, will be
hung in the drawing room; and the third,
"Christ and the Fishermen," will be hung
in the teachers' room.
POULTNEY. Mr. Tubbs of the Albany
normal school has been elected principal
of the Poultney graded schools in place
of Principal Van Arneen, who goes to
Massachusetts to accept a superintend-
ency.
RUTLAND. Tihe annual staite summer
school for the teachers in Rutland and
adjoining counties is to be held inT Rut-
land for the two weeks beginning July 21.
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON. The Sharon summer school
for nature studies, on Moose hill, Sharon,
began Wednesday. July 9, with a con-
ference at the biological laboratories of Eliot; August 27, "The Mexican War and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for such persons as have not yet ar-
ranged their courses of study, and for
those who have not been enrolled. The
nished to all young people under twenty,
work will be mostly out of doors, and the
applying in (their own handwritinig and
aim is to ascertain the part which any
enclosing stamp. A limited number of
individual plant or animal plays in nature,
ťckets will be sold to adults for $1.50.
how it contributes to man's good or ill,
anid how it may be utilized to better ad- Freie1 tickets to teachers.
vantage. Instruction is offered in general
biology, an introduction to the "Study of
Living Things," by C. E. A. Winslow, M.
I. T.; physiography, Professor G. H. Har-
tón, M. I. T.; "Some of our Common In-
sects," by A. H. Kirkland, the well-known
entomologist to the Bowker chemical
company; "Plant Life," by S. C. Prescott,
mierville collection! at the University of
M. I. T.; "Birds," by G. W. Field, M. I.
T., and H. W. Marshall; "Common Ani-
mals, Wild and Domesticated," by E, W.
Morse, Bussey Institute, Harvard; "Trees
and Shrubs of Northeastern United
States," by J. G. Jack, Arnold Arboretum
and lecturer at M. I. T.; "The Camera and
Stereopticon as Aids to the Teaching of
Nature Studies," by William Lyman
Underwood, M. I. T. It is expected that
about thirty students, many of them
Institute of Technology.
MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. School No. 1. borough
of Queens, is juistly proud of the large
classes sent from there yearly to the va-
rious high schools. This year, under the
direction of Superintendent Maxwell,
nupils are permitted to attend only those
Am I "Priscilla" of the bard:
high schools nearest their homes. For ''Miles" pursued?
Henceforth, therefore, school No. 1 will
Or apple-paring "Huldah," who
send pupils to the Lom>g Island City, and
By "Zeke" was wooed?
none other.
from be inserted
schoolschool authm-
authm- under The class of 1902 numbered sixty-
three, being one short of the largest class
More thoroughly acquainted, than
ever sent out, sixty-four 'having, been sent
With hymns and psalms?-
in 1900. These pupils have secured re-Am I the poor and petty thing
gents' preliminary certificates. Unfortu-
That Howells makes me,
nately, in order to secure uniformity
The stone that sharpens up the wit
throughout the greater cilty, the regents' Of
examinations will of necessity be dropped
ffoim the boroughs of Queens and Rich-
mond. Undoubtedly the new regime will
be more excellent when it is in thorough
working order. Gala dreisses, bouquets,
smiling parents, speeches, and all the va-
ried accompaniments of graduation day
were in evidence. Our people) have not
yet been educated to tihe podmt of seeing
Tell me I'm each or all of these;
that graduation from a grammar school My faults ,unfurl
is but a small item in a child's education.
But we are making progress in the right
direction.
CENTRAL STATES.
WISCONSIN.
Next year the State Normal school at
Superior will install a kindergarten de-
partment and a domestic science depart-
ment in connection with the work of the
institution.
OLD SOUTH LECTURES FOR YOUNG
PEOPLE.
The twentieth season of the Old Sooith
lectures began Wednesday afternoon,, July
16. The course is upon "How the United
States Grew," the several lectures being
as follows: -
July 16, "The Old Thirteen Colonies, "
Hon. John D. Lontg; July 23, "George
Rogers Clark and tihe Northwest Terri-
tory," Professor Albert B. Hart: July 30,
"How Jefferson Bought Louisiana from
Napoleon." Rev. George Hodges; August
6, "The Story of Florida," Rev. William
Elliot Griffis; August 13, "The Lone Star
State," Hon. John L. Bates; August 20,
"The Oregon Country," Rev. Samuel A.
What Came of It," Professor F. Spencer
Baldwin; September 3, "Alaska in 1867
and 1902," George G. Wolkins.
Free tickets for the course are fur-
THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC BY
ABRAHAM.
Among the most interesting of ancient
cameos in this country is one in the Som-
Pennsylvania. It is a small yellow mar-
ble one of the fourth century before
Christ, mounted with Merovinigian gold.
On the cameo are roughly engraved four
figures, Abraham, Isaac, and another rep-
resenting victory, and the propitiatory
ram. The gem is exceedingly interesting
and unique, being in the style of work
found on sarcophagi of the timei of Con-
stantine.
terminate his posterity." The stone has
been removed and brought to Philadel-
phia, notwithstanding the protest and
curse of King Sargon, and no one as yet
has been exterminated.
VARIETIES.
THE AMERICAN GIRL'S APPEAL.
Or the intrepid warrior maid,
With firearms
him that takes me?
Or am I Mary Wilkins' kind,
Bilious, inane,
All conscience and self-consciousness,
Never quite sane?
Am I the Anglo-Yankee prig
Of Mrs. Ward?
Does she or does she not portray
Quite by the card?
To every breeze; but am I, pray.
The Gibson giri?
Am I the worldling he depicts,
The "up-to-date,"
Self-seeking, mercenary, shrewd,
A thing to hate?
My sweet girls cousins 'cross the sea
Du Maurier drew,
And every one adores, while I -
What can I do?
'Tis "Punch's" dowager gets off
The naughtiness.
But I am made to voice it. Oh,
Have I redress?
What knight will to the rescue, who
Will speak me fair,
And on his heart and pencil my
True colors wear?
- C. Leech, in the Critic.
JOHN'S NOTION OF "FERMENT."
"Can you spell ferment, Alice?" said
the teacher.
"Yes, Mr. Varney," answered Alice.
"F-e-r-m-e-n-t."
"Can you define the word, my dear?"
''No, sir."
"Then, John, can you define it?"
"Certainly!" said John.' "Ferment
means to work. It says so in the dic-
tionary."
"Dear me!" sighed small Alice to her-
self. "How clever John is!"
"Now can you use the word for me in
a sentence, John?"
''Yes, sir. I had rather play out of
doors than ferment in the schoolhouse." -
Selected.
"This woolen underwear you sold me
last week is adulterated," declared the
angry customer.
"My dear sir," protested the obliging
merchant, "I assure you that every thread
is pure wool."
''Then," thundered the irate patron,
"then why in the dickens doesn't it itch?"
- April Woman's Home Companion.
Works without faith - the drudge; faith
without working - the crank.
HOMESEEKERS ' EXCURSIONS
To points all through the West via Nickel
Plate road. Low rates, best accommoda-
tions, through tourists car service, finest
coaches, club meals 35 cents to $1.00, also
meals a la carte. See nearest agent or
write L. P. Burgess, N. E. P. A., 258
Washington street, Boston, Mass.
tion from the average high school, and in
many localities amounts to little more
than a grammar school examination. In
the law schools in the United States, of
which there are now over one hundred,
the requirements for admission vary from
a common school education to a college
degree.
Each year this subject gives rise to
numerous articles, papers, and d:scus-
sions as to what standard would be the
most fair to all desiring to enter one of
the large law schools. No satisfactory
solution of the problem has yet been
reached, and the differences of opinion
are perhaps asv great now as ever. Some
advocate the requiring of college degrees,
many think the training necessary to pass
the average college entrance examina-
tions sufficient, while others would have
each applicant take a special course of a
feiw years in college, and still othe-rs think
a common school education sufficient.
Some interesting statistics have just
been prepared by the registrar of the
law department of the University of
Pennsylvania whiich would seem to throw
considerable light on the subject of what
standard of admission would be the fair-
est to all applicants and which would do
the leiast injustice toi persons desirous of
pursuing their legal studies at one of the
large university law schools. Among
those studying law at Pennsylvania every
kind of preliminary training of the higļher
standard is well represented; no one,
however, being admitted unless he shows
evidence of having done a sufficient
amount of preliminary study to enable
him at least to graduate from a high
school of good standing.
For the purpose of ascertaining the
capacity of various classes of men, the
registrar takes the total number of stu-
dents and separates them into six scholas-
tic divisions, as follows: 1, those who
entered the school oai collegei diplomas
from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Penn-
sylvania; 2, those who graduated from
the Central high school of Philadelphia;
3, all college graduates; 4, all men who
had spent some time at college, but failed
to graduate; 5, all graduates of public
high school; 6, "all others." In the latter
he includes all those who were obliged to
take the college entrance examinations,
most of them coming from private pre-
paratory schools, no certificates whatever
of such schools being accepted. Accord-
ing to his records, forty-three per cent, of
the 365 students in the department last
year were college graduates, eighteen per
cent, partial college men, twenty-eight
per cent, high school graduates, and ten
per cent, of "all others." In these 115 in-
stitutions were represented, of which
fifty-eight were colleges or universities.
With these scholastic divisions in mind,
he works out the following statistics,
which furnish muoh food for thought: -
The marking of examination papers at
Pennsylvania is on the scale of 100, from
90 to 100 being considered as Distin-
guished or "D"; 65 to 89 Passed or "P";
64 and below, Conditioned or "C." On this
scale the general average made by the
students in the entire department was
75.05, of which 18 per cent, represent "D,"
66 per cent. "P," and 14 per cent. "C."
Only the college graduates and the partial
college men, as classes, attained the gen-
eral average of the department.
The college graduates, who are gener-
ally considered the most desirable classes
at professional schools, are almost two
points ahead of the "partial college
men," more than five points above the
"public high school graduates, " and
almost seven ahead of those who entered
by examinations and who are designated
"all others."
The sixty-nine college graduates com-
ing from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and
Penn made the remarkable general aver-
age of 80.30, or almost three above the
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