Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Chicago’s average salary for elementary teachers Is $823 per annum. There is a great scarcity of country teachers iu western New York. Kansas City has lengthened her public school term from nine to ten months. Alexander Ribot is a candidate for the place of Audiffret-Pasquier in the French Academy. Nearly 5,000 new teachers are required in Michigan each year to,,keep the quota of 17,000 full. Uniform examinations in Ohio will hereafter be prepared by the State school commissioners. Alois Riehl, professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin, has for a motto, “Back to Kant.” There are sixty-one male principals in New York City who have averaged more than twenty-five years as professional teachers in that city. Chicago puts a larger per cent of the operating expenses of her schools into salaries than does Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis or Baltimore. Mary Wiles of Uniontown, Pa., has the distinction of having attended public school every day for thirteen consecutive years. She has never-been »J*uy a single time, and no ‘.tacher has ever found it necessary iu reprimand her for any cause what'ver.