TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.

According to the law requiring teachers' institutes to be held in each county of the State at least once a year and in townships at least one Saturday of each month, 67 county institutes are reported to have been held in 1883-84.

EDUCATIONAL JOURNALS.

The very useful Indiana School Journal, Indianapolis, the organ of the State superintendent, began its twenty-ninth volume January, 1884, and continued through the year, devoting much space to educational methods and principles.

The Educational Weekly, Indianapolis, began its first volume July, 1883, and was in its third in September, 1884.

The Central Normal News, Danville, began its issues May, 1882, and was in its fourth volume in 1884, with quarterly issues, being mainly an advertising sheet for the Central Normal College, Danville.

The Normal Teacher, formerly of Danville, now of Indianapolis, entered on its seventh volume March, 1884.

SECONDARY INSTRUCTION.

PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.

High schools, not being expressly provided for in the State law, are not reported. They are, however, recognized by the State university and the State board of education, under an arrangement which admits certified graduates of approved high schools without examination into the freshmau classes of the State and Purdue Universities. Such students are also admitted to advanced standing in the State Normal School, by which they are enabled to complete the course in 2 years.

OTHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

For detailed statistics of business colleges, private academic schools, preparatory schools, and preparatory departments of universities and colleges, see Tables IV, VI, VII, IX, and X of the appendix; for a summary of their statistics, corresponding tables in the report of the Commissioner preceding.

SUPERIOR INSTRUCTION.

COLLEGES FOR YOUNG MEN OR FOR BOTH SEXES.

Before the opening of the session of 1883-'84 the Indiana State University lost by fire its main college building, with all its valuable contents, July 12, 1883. A desirable campus of 40 acres had, however, been soon secured, on which 2 well planned buildings were in process of erection during 1883-84. Since 1875 graduates of approved high schools applying for admission to the freshman class have been admitted without examination. In 1884 there were 34 such schools. Other candidates may be examined by any county superintendent holding a commission from the university for that purpose. All other applicants for admission must be examined by the instructors of the high school at Bloomington. Applicants for freshman standing must be not less than 15 years old. Women are admitted on equal terms with men. The student, on admission, has a choice between 3 collegiate courses, one in ancient classics, leading to the degree of A. B.; one in modern classics, leading to the degree of B. LIT.; and one in science, leading to the degree of B. S. These courses are the same in length, each 4 years, and will be as nearly as possible equivalents in culture and mental discipline, all requiring the same preparation for admission. There were 143 collegiate and 157 preparatory students, 300 in all, under 11 professors and 5 assistants.

For 1882-83 Wabash College, Crawfordsville; Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle; the University of Notre Dame; Earlham College, Richmond; and Ridgeville College, Ridgeville, show full classical and scientific or philosophical courses of 4 years each, as well as preparatory courses of 2 and 3 years. All have modern languages, with normal and music courses; Asbury has military, business, and theological courses; Notre Dame, commercial and Hebrew, and, with Asbury, law courses of 2 years, while the former shows a preparatory medical course.

Catalogues of other universities and colleges for 1883-84 show no material change in the amount and character of their work. For their statistics, see Table IX of the appendix. All show classical, scientific, or philosophical courses of 4 years each, with preparatory courses of 2 and 3 years. Wabash, Franklin, and Ridgeville have English courses; Wabash, Franklin, Union Christian, Moore's Hill, and Notre Dame, conimercial; Wabash, DePauw, Hanover, Hartsville, Union Christian, Moore's Hill, Earlham, and Ridgeville, some normal training. All but Wabash, Franklin, Hanover, and Earlham gave instruction in music, and these gave training in elocution. Hartsville, Union Christian, Notre Dame, and Ridgeville have lessons in drawing, and all

but Concordia and Hartsville, modern languages. For such as give instruction in theology, law, and medicine, see Scientific and Professional Instruction, below.

Mr. W. C. DePauw having given to the Indiana Asbury University, at Greencastle, about $1,500,000, bringing the value of the university property up to about $2,000,000, the title has been changed to DePauw University, in honor of the liberal donor. Considerable additions to the working force and apparatus have been made, as well as arrangements to establish law, medical, and other departments. Fort Wayne College does not yet attempt to give collegiate instruction.

INSTITUTIONS FOR THE SUPERIOR INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG WOMEN.

Of the 14 institutions for young men, 11 admit women on the same terms. Of those for young women, St. Mary's Academic Institute had in 1882-83 primary, intermediate, and senior departments, with 78 students and 7 graduates. The senior department embraces the higher and ornamental studies of a good course.

In 1883-84 the DePauw College for Young Women, New Albany, showed a preparatory course of 1 year, a scientific of 2, and a classical of 4 years, with a normal department and schools of music and art, elocution, and domestic science, with needlework, wood carving, and designing in clay.

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION.

SCIENTIFIC.

In 1882-'83 and 1883-'84 the Indiana State University and 11 other collegiate insti tutions continued to offer scientific instruction, some fully, others to only a moderate extent.

Purdue University, La Fayette, the chief and oldest of the scientific schools of the State, changed in 1882-83 its courses of study, making its work more distinctively technical and scientific, remanding to the rear the scientific course, which had held the leading position, and bringing the course in agriculture and horticulture to the front, with less study of mathematics and more of natural sciences. The revised curricula, with some subsequent changes, include now a school of agriculture and horticulture, a school of mechanics and engineering, a school of science, and a school of industrial art, each of 4 years, with a preparatory class of 2 years. Students in 1882-'83, 219, of whom 90 were in collegiate studies (3 of them graduates), 33 in mechanics, industrial art, chemistry, botany, and engineering, and the others in academic studies. The graduates of the year numbered 16. Owing to a somewhat higher standard for admission the number of students was 19 less than in the previous year. Statistics for 1883-84 are wanting. A school of pharmacy was announced for 1884-'85. Women are admitted on like conditions as young men. At the close of 1882-83 President E. E. White, who had brought to it a large educational experience and had done much to bring it to its present high standard of efficiency, resigned his place because of adverse action in the State senate, and was succeeded by Hon. James H. Smart, formerly State superintendent of public instruction. He is aided by a staff of 18 professors and instructors.

The Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, commenced its sessions March 7, 1883, with a faculty of 8 instructors, Charles O. Thompson, president, and had at the end of the year 1883-84 45 students, 3 of them juniors, 26 sophomores, and 16 freshmen. The founder, Mr. Chauncey Rose, left to the institution property exceeding $500,000. The school is to be devoted to the higher education of young men in engineering, including in this term all those productive and constructive arts by which the forces of nature are made subservient to the needs of man and the principles which underlie these arts. Instruction is to be given in mechanical drawing and engineering, civil engineering, chemistry, and physics. A department of mining engineering is contemplated. German and French are to be studied. A course in geology will be given to the senior class. The cabinet has a collection of 5,000 minerals; the library, of 5,000 volumes. The institute occupies a well sodded campus of ten acres, on which are the academy building, the shops, and laboratory. The academic building is a handsome brick edifice, 4 stories high, 100 feet deep, and contains 46 rooms.

PROFESSIONAL.

Theology. There is no regular theological school in Indiana, theology being studied in 5 schools as a mere auxiliary to university and college courses, with no changes since 1881-82. In 1882-83 the Union Christian College, Merom (Christian), showed a 3-year course, and Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle (Methodist Episcopal), raised its theological department to a like standard for 1883-84.

Law. DePauw University will, under its new title and régime, reorganize its law department.

The University of Notre Dame in 1883 extended its legal course to 3 years; raised its standard of studies, it is claimed, to the most approved plane; and partially substituted the lecture system for the compulsory use of text books. No special prepa

ration is required for matriculation. Any student who is 17 years of age and has a fair English education is eligible.

Medicine.-"Regular" medical instruction was given in 1882-'83 by the Medical College of Evansville; the Hospital Medical College, of the same place, opened ir that year; the Medical College of Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne College of Medicine; and the Medical College of Indiana and the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, both at Indianapolis. All required some preliminary education, with the usual 3-year tutelage under a medical preceptor and an attendance on at least 2 full lecture courses of from 20 to 24 weeks each, this last at the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, which in two preceding reports has been unfortunately confounded with the Medical College of Fort Wayne, a less reputable school, that suspended in 1883. With this exception, the same colleges continued their instruction through the session of 1883-84, when the Medical College of Evansville also ceased to teach, leaving only 4 regular schools. The 6 colleges had 227 matriculates and graduated 101 in 1882-'83; the 5 of the next year, 145 matriculates and 72 graduates. The Medical College of Indiana, which had been from 1878 a department of Butler University, Irvington, severed its connection with that university in 1883.

Of the eclectic school, there were 2 colleges in 1882-'83, the Indiana Eclectic and the Beach Medical College, each requiring some preliminary education for admission and attendance on at least 2 annual lecture courses of 20 weeks. In the next year the Beach school was merged in the other. The matriculates of both were only 24 in the former year; the graduates, only 7; in the latter, the one remaining school reported 31 matriculates and 10 gradua'es.

An independent school, the Physio-Medical College of Indiana, organized in 1873, requiring fair preliminary training and attendance on 2 full lecture courses of 24 weeks each, reported 21 matriculates and 11 graduates in 1882-83 and 40 matriculates and 7 graduates in 1883-84.

Dentistry. The Indiana Dental College, Indianapolis, issued its usual annual announcement for 1882-'83, indicating but slight requirements for either admission or graduation. No subsequent information respecting it has been received.

For statistics of professional schools, see Tables XI to XIII of the appendix; for summaries, corresponding tables in the report of the Commissioner preceding.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTION.

EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.

The Indiana Institution for Educating the Deaf and Dumb had in 1882-'83 a total of 328 pupils (175 males, 153 females), under 18 instructors, of whom 7 were semimutes. Since its foundation, 1,495 have received instruction, remaining in the institution an average of 5 years. In school, the common school branches, with scripture, natural history and philosophy, rhetoric, algebra, and articulation, were taught. In the industrial department, 15 boys worked at shoemaking, 37 at cabinet work, 64 at chair caning, 2 at baking, 2 in the greenhouse, and 1 in the dairy. The girls do light chamber work, ironing in laundry; 75 were trained to sew, cut, and fit garments, to crochet, and to make fancy work. The library contained 3,195 volumes. Property of the institution was valued at $457,925; State appropriation for the year, $58,000.

No report for 1883-'84 has been received.

EDUCATION OF THE BLIND.

The superintendent of the Indiana Institute for the Education of the Blind, at the close of the session of 1883-84, said that the several departments are thoroughly organized and the work of instruction has been directed by the teachers with fidelity and discretion; the pupils have been obedient, tractable, and industrious.

There is but one session for the year, beginning in September and closing the following June, a period of 40 weeks. The total number in attendance for the session, was 120, 58 males and 62 females, 21 being newcomers.

Instruction is given in three distinct departments: literary, musical, and industrial. The literary department is divided into six grades, in charge of 5 experienced teachers. In the musical department there are three sections: vocal, instrumental, and tuning. In this last the training of teachers is an important part of instruction, as many of the pupils expect to teach music and tuning when they leave the school. The industrial department has a workroom for girls and one for boys.

The female pupils receive daily instruction in sewing, knitting, crocheting, and in making fancy and useful articles of thread, worsted, and beads. The older girls are tanght to run the sewing machine, to mend and darn, and keep in repair their own clothing. The number of articles finished during the session was 1,555, of a cash value of $369.37. In the boys' shop, in addition to the usual broom making, cano seating of chairs was successfully introduced, awakening a new interest in the industrial work for boys.

EDUCATION OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED.

No later report than that for 1882 has been received from the asylum for this class at Knightstown, where there were then 81 pupils, under 3 teachers.

EDUCATION Of orphans.

For statistics of a number of institutions in which instruction is given to orphan children, see Table XXII of the appendix.

INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC, ART, ETC.

The Island Park Assembly, Sylvan Lake, in its hand book for 1883, shows arrangements for a music college, with apparently large facilities for voice culture, chorus classes, class in harmony, and an old fashioned singing school. The sessions are held each summer. The session for 1883 was to begin July 2 and to continue at least until July 23. Besides music, instruction in microscopy, languages, elocution, art, and the theory, science, and art of teaching may be had at the assembly, which appears to be settled on a firm foundation and to be gradually broadening the scope of possible studies.

CHILDREN'S HOME.

The first annual report of the Children's Home, Madison, gives an account of its work in 1883-'84. It receives children who otherwise would be confined with the vicious, insane, and imbecile of the poorhouse, and those suffering from abuse and neglect in poverty stricken homes, and aims to prevent crime and pauperism by giving them some chance for their future. During the year 50 were admitted, 12 returned to parents or guardians, and good homes were found for 15, leaving at the close of the year 21 girls and 9 boys. The children admitted have been from 3 to 11 years of age.

TRAINING OF NURSES.

The Flower Mission Training School for Nurses, Indianapolis, in 1883-84 continued its work, and expected to build a home at a cost of $3,500.

REFORMATORY TRAINING.

The Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, Indianapolis, has penal and reformatory departments. Children from 6 to 15 are admitted. During 1882-83 of the 133 inmates 34 were committed on the reform side and 16 discharged and 17 committed on the prison side and 25 discharged. Since committal, about one-third have learned to read and one-half to write. Inmates are in school one-half the day and are taught the ordinary branches of the common school. In the industrial department, on the reform side, the training is in general housework and caning chairs; on the prison side, making overcoats and shirts. Of the 539 committed since foundation, 82 per cent. are known to have become orderly and useful members of society. When discharged, they are usually placed in christian families.

The Indiana Reform School for Boys, Plainfield, under State control, employs 17 male and 13 female officers and teachers; admits boys from 8 to 16 years of age for crime, and from 10 to 17 for incorrigibility. Of the 385 inmates, 149 were committed and 166 put out on trial in 1882-83. Of the 1,930 committed since its establishment, 93 per cent. are known to have become orderly and useful members of society. None are discharged, but such as promise well are put out on trial. In school, the ordinary common school branches are taught; in the industries, farming, brickmaking, carpentry, baking, cobbling, tailoring, plumbing, and plastering. Earnings for 1882-83, $5,000; total expenditure, $45,000.

EDUCATIONAL CONVENTIONS.

CONVENTION OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.

The county superintendents held their annual meeting at Indianapolis, commencing June 26, 1883, and continuing in session two days, with Mr. B. F. Johnson in the chair. About 70 superintendents were present, making the largest and it is said the most profitable meeting of its kind ever held in the State. The specially important feature of the occasion was the "Gradation of licenses under the new law," presented by Hon. H. S. Tarbell. Mr. Tarbell stated in his paper that the changes are important ones and may result in great harm to the school interests or be the means of important benefits, as they may be judiciously or otherwise applied.

The evident purpose of the law was to allow special fitness for teaching to weigh largely in determining the granting of certificates; to make a broader distinction than heretofore between the several grades of teaching; to cut off many of the poorest teachers; to relieve progressive, capable teachers from the drudgery of frequent examinations; to make for the more competent teachers a standard uniform throughout the State, thereby securing a greater uniformity in all the work of examinations; and, finally, to emphasize the value of professional attainments in teachers.

The annual meeting of this body in 1884 was held at Indianapolis June 10-13, State Superintendent Holcombe in the chair. He gave in a few opening remarks a review of its work. The first convention was held in 1862, the second in 1866, the third in 1873, soon after the county superintendency law went into effect, since which time the meetings have been held annually. A number of interesting papers were read and discussed. Resolutions disapproving of the publication of answers to State board questions were unanimously adopted. A committee on course of study made a report recommending that the course be divided into 3 standards, primary, intermediate, and advanced, which, after a spirited discussion, was adopted, and another committee was appointed to draft a model course; it subsequently reported a course embracing 5 grades and covering 8 years.

Among the resolutions adopted were the following: (1) That the scale of gradation of teachers' licenses adopted in 1883 should be adhered to; (2) that special fitness should be considered in the examination of teachers for graded schools in towns and cities; (3) that arbor day exercises be approved and an autumn arbor day be recommended; (4) that the graduation of pupils from the district schools tends to increase interest and faithfulness in school work.

STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

This association held its thirtieth annual session at Indianapolis December 26-28, 1883, the retiring president, Hon. H. S. Tarbell, introducing his successor, Dr. John S. Irwin. There were present 284 teachers, from 66 counties.

After the inaugural address of the president, papers were presented by C. W. Hodgin, principal of the Richmond Normal School, on the question of "Separate schools for colored youth, for truants, and for both sexes in common schools;" by James Baldwin, on "The common schools of a quarter of a century hence;" by W. N. Hailmann, on "The moral results public school training should give and the results it does give;" by Prof. W. H. Payne, of Michigan University, on "The science of education: its nature, methods, and some of its problems;" all of which were ordered to be printed and may be found in successive numbers of the Indiana School Journal. Miss Mary H. Krout read a paper on "The model teacher," which is said to have been bright and interesting. A paper on "The school-house and its surroundings" urged the planting of trees and flowers on school grounds and contained many excellent suggestions. Other papers read were on "The study of English in schools" and on "School incentives." A committee appointed to confer with the State Horticultural Association concerning the decoration of school grounds reported in favor of coöperation in so desirable a work. Customary resolutions were then adopted, after which the convention adjourned.

INDIANA COLLEGE ASSOCIATION.

The members of this body met in conjunction with the members of the State Teachers' Association, above noted, Prof. L. S. Thompson, of Purdue University, opening the session with a paper on "Art in American colleges," which subject was further treated in a paper by Miss R. J. Thompson, of Franklin College. President Stott then presented papers on "The college and the Commonwealth" and "College degrees," which were discussed by President Everest and by Dr. Ridpath, of DePauw University. In the afternoon a paper was read by Dr. George B. Brown, of the State Normal School, on "The classification of knowledge," Dr. Ridpath presenting in connection with the topic an elaborate chart of the classification of knowledge proposed by Bishop Wilkins. The association then appointed Prof. Robert P. Warden, of Purdue University, to present at its next annual meeting a plan for graduate courses of study, and, after electing officers for the ensuing year, adjourned.

CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICER.

Hon. JOHN W. HOLCOMBE, State superintendent of public instruction, Indianapolis.

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[Term, March 15, 1883, to March 15, 1885.]

It is understood that Mr. Holcombe has been elected for a second term.