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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 7, 1908

ELDER S. M. BUTLER, formerly principal of Cedar Lake (Mich.) Academy, has accepted a call to the presidency of Mount Vernon (Ohio) College. Elder Butler is this year teaching Bible in Union College, College View, Neb.

Arrangements are being perfected by which the Pacific Union College, of Healdsburg, Cal., is to be located in the country. The Pacific Union Conference is also contemplating the establishment of a normal school. These changes should greatly increase the efficiency of the educational work in this union conference.

The Southern Training-School, of Graysville, Tenn., has issued an announcement of the courses of study to be conducted during the coming summer school, to be held from May 5 to June 15. Valuable lines of work are offered. The announcement may be obtained by addressing the principal, M. B. VanKirk, Graysville, Tenn.

At the meeting of the Central Union Conference held at Boulder, Colo., last January, a study on the support of church-schools was given by Elder A. T. Robinson. This study has been published in pamphlet form, and can be obtained from the Nebraska Conference, 905 N. California Avenue, Hastings, Neb. It contains most valuable food for thought.

The meeting of the National Education Association is to be held at Cleveland, June 29 to July 3. The announcement is issued, and is obtainable from Wm. G. Rose, Executive Secretary of the National Education Association Convention, Chamber of Commerce Building, Cleveland, Ohio. It will undoubtedly be profitable for those of our teachers who can do so to attend.

“A new type of schoolma'am has come to rescue the Chicago school system from the toils of the ‘teachers' famine’ which has been crippling its work. The age of the new pedagogue averages somewhere around fourteen years. In scores of schoolrooms throughout the city, where it has been impossible to provide substitutes for teachers who were absent, privileged pupils have been put in charge of the rest of the class, rather than have the children dismissed to spend the day in the streets, and the usual program of study and recitation periods has been carried out.”—Dallas Express.