Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1904 — Examination For Teachers For The Philipines. [ARTICLE]

Examination For Teachers For The Philipines.

The United States civil service commission announces that examination of persons who desire positions as teacher? in the Philippine islands will be held in Fort Wayne. Evansville, Indianapolis and Lafayette on April 19. The applicants must be between twenty and forty years of age. The commission says: ''Women will not be admitted to this examination ex oept the wives of male applicants, who, if they pass, will be preferred in appointments, provided their husbands are also selected for appointments.” Each applicant will be required to write a thesis of 300 words and to be examined on penmanship, arithmetic English, geography, history, and civil government of the United States, physiology and hygiene, nature study and drawing and the science of teaching, says the Fort Wayne Gazette.