Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 11, 1906

A good increase in attendance is reported at the opening of the winter term at Union College, College View, Neb.

Elder W. A. Spicer spent a portion of the week of prayer with the students in Union College. The week of prayer is reported to have been a very profitable season, and the labors of Elder Spicer were very effective and much appreciated.

Is temperance taught as fully in our schools as it should be? The physicians of Great Britain have issued a course of study for the schools that come under their jurisdiction upon temperance. Our schools should be behind those of no nation or people in the teaching of this important subject.

The use of the rod sometimes seems necessary. For some time, naughty boys in New York City have not stood in particular fear of correction by this means. Recently though, a decision from a court in New York City has ruled that when an unruly boy has been placed by the courts in the hand of the teacher, corporal punishment may be employed. One thing is certain, and that is that whenever corporal punishment is used, it should be used as a last resort.

The text-book committee appointed by the Educational Department is calling through all our papers for text-books, either in manuscript or in printed form, which any of our teachers may wish its members to examine. We trust that all our teachers are interested in having before us the very best suggestions with reference to the text-books, and that they are sufficiently interested to forward any manuscripts or text-books upon which they may wish the committee to report.

From reports it would appear that Keene Academy, of Keene, Tex., has entered upon a period of material prosperity. They report increased facilities in their laboratory; the putting in of a heating plant; six new sinks for the kitchen; a wood-shed for the kitchen range; the broom shop to be ceiled and partitioned; a number of the classes have become so large that it has become necessary to divide them. “Every Wednesday night division prayer-meetings are held by the students in the Home. Friday night at the going down of the sun, the entire family assemble in the parlor. A prayer and social meeting is held, or some instruction is given; then the Sabbath-school lesson is studied. Then some time is spent in singing, and the meeting closes with a reading from some missionary biography.”