VALE ALUMNI WREKLY
will be under the care of the Connec-
ticut State Board of Education, which
consists of Hon. Lorin A. Cooke, of
West Winsted; Hon James D. Dewell,
793 L. S., New Haven; George M. Car-
rington, of West Winsted; Prof.
William G. Sumner, 63 of
New Haven; Edward D. Rob-
bins, 74, of Westfield; An-
thony Ames, of Danielson, and Charles
D. Hine, ’71, of Hartford. The exer-
cises will commence in the forenoon
and occupy the entire day. In the
evening a banquet will be held at
which the literary exercises. will be
continued in the form of responses
to tuasts by the distinguished guests.
The speakers who will take part and
their subjects are as follows: James
L. Hugh2s, Inspector of Schools,
Toronto, Canada, ‘‘Canada and the
United States; Their Educatienal In-
terdependance;’* Dr. William T. Har-
ris, Commissioner of Education,
Washington, D. C., ‘Past Achieve-
ments, and Future Hopes in Educa-
tion;’’ Col. Francis W. Parker, Chi-
cago Normal School, ‘““What Next?’’
President Charles K. Adams, Wiscon-
sin University, Madison, Wis., “The
Middle West in -Education;’ Hon,
Charles P. Skinner, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Albany, N. Y.,
“Signs of the Times;”’ rev.: yr.
Thomas J. Shanan, Catholic Univer-
sity, Washingion, D. C.; Prof. Wil-
liam G. Sumner ’63, Yale University,
“The 'Teacher’s Unconscious Success,”’
Will S. Monroe, Westfield, Mass.,
“Educational Literature,’’ Dr. Rich-
ard Burton, Hartford, ode; Hon.
David N. Camp, “fo, Bon, : Deg. “Old
Times, Good, Bad and Indifferent;’’
Prof. T. R. Pynchow, Trinity College,
Bartford, wid Reve yD: Bertrantt,
Presilent Theologica’ Seminary, Hart-
ford.
The guests will Fre weleomed by
Mayor Preston for the City of Hart-
ford and Governor Cooke in behalf
of the State of Connecticut, and the
music will be rendered by the Hart-
ford High School choir under the
leadership of Prof. Irving Emerson,
and a double quartete from the Yale
Glee club.
Mr. Barnard was born in Hartford,
Conn., on January 24, 1811, and be-
longed to a very old Connecticut
family. He attended the public schools
of Hartford until he was twelve years
of age, when he was_ sent to an
academy at Monson, Mass. He com-
pleted his preparatory education
under a private tutor and at the
Hopkins Grammar School in Hartford,
and entered Yale college in 1826.
Early in his college course Mr. Bar-
nard had planned a public career for
hinyself, with the intention of im-
proving the existing conditions and
institutions of his country. In order
to acyuaint himself with the develop-
ment of Greek and Roman civilization
he pursued his study of Greek and
Latin far beyond the _ prescribed
course. He turned his efforts toward
the development of his  oratorical
powers, and was at Yale one of the
ablest speakers among the Linonians,
and in after life one of the leading
orators in the United States.
He studied law after graduation
and was admitted to the bar in 1835.
In order to complete his training for
his life work, Dr. Barnard decided to
visit Europe before beginning the
practice of his profession. In the
course of his travels on foot through
England, Scotland and Switzerland,
while studying the social, municipal
and political conditions of the people,
he visited a number of great men,
among them Carlyle, Wardsworth,
De Quincy, Pestalozzi and Lord
Brougham.
In 1837, a year after his return to
this country, he was elected to repre-
sent Hartford in the Connecticut
legislature. In 1838 he introduced an
ecucational bill into the legislature
and his speech in its behalf was so
masterly that the bill was adopted,
although a similar one had been de-
feated a year before. Mr. Barnard
was forced to accept the position of
Secretary of the State Board of School
Commissioners, which had been
created by his bill.
From 1838 to 1842, while he was
secretary, Dr. Barnard made educa-
tion the most important question of
the day, and since that time his re-
ports have stood as the standards. In
1842 the abolition of the State Board of
Education was brought about by po-
litical changes, and Dr. EBarnard, at
the earnest solicitation of Governor
Sewari of New York, begar a course
of lectures throughout the country to
awaken interest in the new educa-
tional system.
In 1843, by Dr. Barnard’s aid, a bill
was passed in the Rhode Island Legis-
lature, similar to the Connecticut bill,
and the position of State Superinten-
dent of Schools was given Dr. Bar-
nard. He held this position until
1849, when nervous prostration forced
hin. to resign. Horace Mann, his
greatest co-worker, said of Dr. Bar-
nard: ‘His Rhode Island work is the
greatest legacy yet left to American
educators.’’
From 1850 to 1854 he held the posi-
tion of Superintendent of the Connec-
ticut Schools and Principal of ‘the
Normal School, and in that time es-
tablished the school system practi-
‘ eally on its present basis.
In 1858 Dr. Barnard gave up his po-
sition with the “American Journal of
Education’ which had occupied all
his time for two years, and became
Chancellor of the University of Wis-
consin, which position he was forced
to abandon on account of nervous
prostration,
Dr. Barnard was chosen president of
St. John’s College, Maryland, in 1866,
but he resigned in 1867 to become the
Frst Commissioner of Education for
the United States. In the four years
he spent in Washington, he organized
and perfected the Bureau of Educa-
tion. He is the most comprehensive
publisher cf educatioal literature. in
the English language, his ‘‘American
Journal of Hiducation’’ and
of Education’ forming the most com-
plete cyclopedia of education ever is-
sued. He also edited the ‘‘Connecti-
cut School Journal’ for eight years,
three volumes of the ‘Journal of
Rhode Island Institute of Instruc-
tion,’’ seven large volumes of ‘Papers
for Teachers,’ and over eight hun-
dred educational tracts. :
President Porter said more than
forty years ago, on behalf of the
State Teachers’ Association of Con-
necticut:
“We will not forget the generous and
indomitable spirit which prompted him
in the outset of his public life to p'ead
the cause of education, without fee or
hope of reward, before a cold and unwil-
ling adience in the highest council of the
State; which induced him to abandon &
professional areer for which he had
made a most costly and diligent prepara-
tion, and in which, steadily pursued, he
was sure to win distinction and wealth; ©
which has enabled him to turn a dead
ear to the voice of political ambition, and
to close his heart to the seductions of
popular applause, so eaSily gained by one
possessed of his powers of oratory in the
discussions of questions of the highest
literary dignity in college and university,
that he might give himself up unreserv-
edly to the improvement of common
schools—the long-forgotten heritage of
the many.’’
In speaking of Dr. Barnard at the
dedication of a school in New Britain
Dr. Bushnell said:
“After encountering: years of untoward
hindrance here, winning golden opinions
meantime from every other State in the
Republic, and from ministers of educa-
tion from almost every nation of the old
world, by his thoroughly practical under-
standing of all that pertains to the sub-
ject; after raising also into vigorous ac-
tion the school system of another State,
and setting it forward in a tide of pro-
gress, he returns to the scenes of his be-
ginnings, and permits us to congratulate
both him and ourselves in the prospect
that his original choice and purpose are
finally to be fulfilled.’’
Comparison of Prom. Box Sales.
A comparison of the prices paid for
choice of ‘Prom’? boxes of this year
and last year shows that the Ninety-
eight Promenade committee has im-
proved on the former methods of dis-
posing of the boxes. The system
adopted this year was to set aside
thirty-five boxes at fixed prices for
the Ninety-eight and Ninety-seven
“Shef.””’ men, which were distributed
by lot, leaving the remainder for the
auction sale open to the University.
The following is a comparison be-
tween the bonuses’ given for the
“Prom.” of 1896 and that of 1897:
Special sale open only to Juniors
and Sheff. Seniors.
1897—Highest price paid for box, $75.
18$86—Highest price paid for box,
$110.
1897—Average price paid for box,
$56,238.
1896—-Average price paid for box,
$76.40.
1897—Lowest price paid for box, $30.
1896—Lowest price paid for box, $28.
General sale open to the University.
DA cial price paid for box
1896—Highest price paid for box,
$131.
1897—Average price paid for box,
$55.60.
we price paid for box,
1897—Lowest price paid for box, $1.
1896—Lowest price paid for box, $86.
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NEWS OF OTHER COLLEGES,
HARVARD.
The Harvard Athletic Committee
recently met a number of students to
consult with them in regard to the
petition for ‘temporary stands on
Holmes’ Field. Professor Beale ex-
pressed the views of the Corporation
in the matter and proposed that the
baseball and track athletics be re-
moved to Soldiers’ Field. He also
stated that the Corporation wou'd be
Willing to give $15,000 towards the im-
provement of the Field if the athletic
managements would subscribe the bal-
ance, They desire to have all the
athletics take place on the same fieli
and have the same _ seats for .all,
This plan was not approved by the
Students and it was decided thait the
nine and track team could not go to
Soldiers’ Field this Spring, as the
field arrangements would not be com-
pleted in time. The advisability of
having temporary grand stands’ on
Holmes’ Field was then discussed and
many good reasons in favor of the
Plan were brought out by the stu-
dents present.
There will be no Hasty Pudding
theatricals in New York this Baster.
This ig the decision of the Harvard
Faculty, just rendered, in regard to
the petition for this privilege, pre-
sented last Fall by the undergraduate
members of the Club and some three
hundred graduate members now resi-
dent in New York City. These the-
atricals have been given in New York
gince 1889 until last year’ when the
Faculty took its present stand.
This decision of the Faculty will
also prevent the Pierian Sodality from
taking the proposed trip to Smith Col-
lege next Spring. The Faculty by its
vote has practically decided to adhere
to the rule that none of the College
musical or dramatic organizations
may give performances except at
places from which they can get back
to Cambridge by 12 o’clock of the same
night. .
PRINCETON.
Walter Winfield Wilson, ’97, of Cla-
rion, Pa., was elected captain of ‘the
Princeton University nine at a special
meeting of the members of last year’s
chamipionship team, when Jerome
Bradley, ’97, tendered his resignation,
which was reluctantly accepted. Mr.
Wilson is 21 years of age, and pre-
pared for college at the Kiskimnetas
School, near Pittsburg, which has sent
many athletes to Princeton. He made
the University team in his Sophomore
year, and thas’ since then been the
mainstay of the team in the box.
Thomas Garrett, the Princeton track
team captain, broke the college record
for putting the sixteen pound shot,
at the indoor games, by a put of 40
feet, 4 inches.
ei pe
The University of Wisconsin has ac-
cepted a challenge of the University
of Pennsylvania to row a race on the
Schuylkill River this Spring.
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The New System of Cuts.
[C. Deming 2, in New York Post.]
Inquiry among the Freshman in-
structors shows that there is not so
much satisfaction as was at first re-
ported with the plan of penalizing
rigidly short absences from recita-
tion by the subtraction of one one-
hundredth from the mark in scholar-
ship of the absentee, and not allow-
ing recitations missed during such
short absences to be made up. The
novel scheme was adopted on the
theory of making stand a sort of test
and reward .of work actually done
rather than a test of the intellectual
capactiy of any particular student.
It is found that while in general, it
has reduced absenteeism, it works
hardship to the good students who
ought to be the last penalized, and
that its liberties and immunities for
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The following have been elected to
membership of the Graduates’ Club:
presidents, Henry Farnam, ’95, John
L. Hall, ’94, and Professor Percy FE.
Smith, ’88 §.; non-residents, Alexan-
der S. Cochran, ’96, Grosvenor Atter-
bury, ’91, Payson Merrill, °65, and
Frederick C. Taylor, 996 L. S.
A game has been arranged between
the Yale basket-ball team and the
siastern District Y. M. C. A. of Brook-
lyn in Brooklyn on February 20th.
The Yale hockey team will play
Princeton at the St, Nicholas Rink,
New York, on February 22d.
The annual concert of the Univer-
sity Glee club of New York City will
be given on January 26th.
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