-SIX girls graduated from the Public High School of Oxford, Ohio, June 22d. At the close of the exercises they presented Supt. W. H. Stewart a beautiful Bible.

-THE average age of the last graduates of the Akron (Ohio) High School was 18 years and 8 months, the youngest being 15 years old, and the oldest 22 years and 8 months.

-Or the 14 honorary diplomas awarded, June 28, at the Normal College of the city of New York, to graduates of the preceding year, four were to colored graduates.

THE Schools of Massillon are said to be prospering finely under the superintendence of E. A. Jones, whom the Board after once losing recalled to his former post.

-THE degrees conferred, June 27th, by Lafayette College at Easton, Pa., were Bachelor of Arts 40, Bachelor of Philosophy 6, Civil Engineer 12, and Mechanical Engineer 5.

-THE Miami-University buildings at Oxford, Ohio, have been leased for a term of ten years for a Boys' Classical and Preparatory School. The school will be opened September 10.

—THE Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Cambridge, Mass., has cost nearly a million dollars ($985,000), of which the State has contributed $290,000, and private persons $695,000

-THE Spelling-Reform Association was to hold its summer meeting in the Johns-Hopkins University at Baltimore, July 13th, after the meeting of the Philological Association.

-AT the 109th Commencement of Brown University, June 20, 51 graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, three of Bachelor of Philosophy, and one had pursued a select course.

-THE Chair of Political Economy and Civil Polity in the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College has been abolished, and a Chair of Mines and Mine Engineering has been established.

-THE oldest of the 117 graduates from Yale College at the last Commencement was 28, and the youngest 19. Of these 43 expect to practice law, 9 to practice medicine, and 8 to preach.

-THE Georgia Teachers' Association will meet in Toccoa August 7th, 8th, and 9th. On the last day of the session an excursion to the famous Tallulah Falls, fifteen miles away, will be provided for.

-Or the 400 pupils attending the Public Schools in the Fieser building in Columbus, Ohio, last year, not one failed to pass the final examination. The Principal of the schools was Anna E. Riordan.

-OF the 2590 graduates of Brown University 30 have been College Presidents, 122 Professors, 18 United-States Senators, 38 United-States Representatives, 23 Governors, and 617 Doctors of Divinity.

-SIX pupils, two boys and four girls, graduated from the Public High School of Ashtabula, Ohio, June 14th. The class was addressed by I. M. Clemens, Superintendent of the Painesville Public Schools.

-THE salaries of the professors at the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College have been conditionally reduced ten per cent. If the average attendance next year shall be 200 the reduction will not be enforced.

-THE Wayne-County Democrat of June 27th speaks in glowing terms of the Commencement Exercises of the Wooster Public High School, devoting three columns to an account of the Schools and the Exercises.

-ONE hundred and seventy-two pupils have graduated from Chickering's Academy, in Cincinnati, since 1855. Of those that have graduated since 1864, seventy-five have entered eastern colleges, and twenty, western colleges.

-THE salary of the Principal of the Girls' High and Normal School in San Francisco has, on the petition of twenty citizens representing property to the extent of $60,000,000, been increased from $3300 to $4000 a year.

-THE Professors of the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., voted unanimously in June in favor of a ten-percent reduction of their salaries for the next Collegiate year. The offer was accepted by the

Trustees.

SINCE its opening, September 9, 1840, the Normal School at Bridgewater, Mass.. has graduated 1464 students, 515 gentlemen and 949 ladies. The whole number of students admitted has been 2422, 842 gentlemen and 1580 ladies.

-THE first of August is the date of the Commencement Exercises at Oberlin this year, one week earlier than announced in the catalogue. July 30th is the date of the address of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax to the Literary Societies.

-THE Commencement Exercises of the Indianapolis High School took place June 19, 20, and 21. On the first day 19 graduated in the short course, on the second 28 in the regular course, and on the third day 26 in the Normal Course.

-THE pupils in the schools of Cairo, Egypt, use instead of an inkstand a box containing a sponge saturated with some brown fluid, and instead of a copy-book a piece of bright tin, on which they write with the kolam, a reed pen.

-AN assistant in the Primary Department of School No. 29, NewYork city, was fined by the Board of Education in June last ten days' pay from her salary in July, for a violation of the by-law relating to corporal punishment.

-AT the Put-in-Bay meeting of the State Board of Examiners the following persons were given life certificates:-Middleton S. Campbell, James C. Murray, Emily A. Hayward, G. N. Carruthers, William Richardson, and R. Heber Holbrook.

-AT the last Commencement Exercises of the Public High School at Steubenville, Ohio, there were 45 graduates. No city of the first or second class in the State can show, so far as we know, so large a percentage of graduates compared with its school census.

-THE New-England Normal Institute for Literary and Musical Culture, began its session in East Greenwich, R. I., July 25, and will continue until August 22. It advertises a Board of Education consisting of sixtysix distinguished persons, besides twenty-four artists.

--AT Wells, Minnesota, the monthly reports of attendance, deportment, and scholarship, filled out by teachers and sent to parents, are also published in a local newspaper for general inspection. The good effect is very apparent in an unusual interest in school affairs.

-THE June issue of the Maryland School Journal ended the third volume. The Hon. M. A. Newell, the editor, says that his multifarious duties will prevent his continuance of the Journal. Its career was short and brilliant. The three volumes published contain many valuable articles.

-THE Athenæum is a monthly magazine devoted to elocutionary literature, containing original and selected articles adapted to the purposes of literary societies, elocutionists, and public readers. The third number of Vol. I. is before us. It is published in Springfield, Ill., at $1.50 a year.

-ACCORDING to the Publishers' Weekly the Harpers have paid for copyrights to Marcius Willson about $200,000, to the late Chas. Anthon about $100,000, to the late J. Lothrop Motley about $60,000, to Jacob Abbott about $50,000, to the late Albert Barnes $75,000, and to English authors more than $300,600.

-ACCORDING to a writer in the Saturday Review, there are 140,977 pupils under instruction in the schools of Cairo, Egypt, of whom 111,803 are in the primary Arab schools, 15,335 in the Mosque schools, and 2,960 in the municipal schools; 1,385 are educated by the government, and 8,961 by missions and religious communities.

-EIGHT pupils, two boys and six girls, graduated June 15th, from the Public High School of Middletown, Ohio. In the class of 1876 there were seven girls. The schools of Middletown have been under the superintendence of A. C. Tyler for the last three years, and are said to have been in a very prosperous condition.

-THE total enrolment last year in the Public Schools of New Lisbon, Ohio, was 425, and the average daily attendance, 292. The number of cases of tardiness was 3170, of which 764 were in the High School which had an enrolment of 76. The cases of tardiness decreased from about 900 in the first month to 174 in the last month.

-AT the last Harvard Commencement the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon 168, Bachelor of Science upon 1, Master of Mechanical Art upon 10, Doctor of Dental Medicine upon 8, Doctor of Medicine upon 61, Bachelor of Laws upon 55, Bachelor of Theology upon 5, Master of Arts upon 9, and Doctor of Philosophy upon 4. These degrees were all in cursu.

-THE Report of the Superintendent of the Public Schools of Canton, Ohio, for the year 1876-7 shows an enrolment of 1963, an increase of 190 over the preceding year. The enrolment in the High School was 95, and

the average daily attendance 78. The average daily attendance in all the schools 1309, was 67 per cent of the total enrolment and 59 of the school enumeration.

-CANDIDATES for admission to the Freshman class of Marietta College must be fourteen years of age, and pass a satisfactory examination in English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Algebra through Equations of the Second Degree, three books of Geometry, Latin Grammar, Cæsar, six books of the Eneid, Cicero's Orations against Catiline, Greek Grammar, and four books of Xenophon's Anabasis. Additional mathematics is accepted in lieu of a portion of the Greek.

-AT the meeting of the Trumbull-County Teachers' Association in Warren, June 16th, T. H. Bulla of Niles read a paper on "Teaching by Outline," which was discussed by C. E. Hitchcock of Niles, E. F. Móulton of Warren, and Supt. Wight of Kinsman. The Rev. W. T. Whitmarsh of Warren read an able paper on "The Dignity and Importance of the Teacher's Office " (published in the Western-Reserve Chronicle of June 27th). The Rev. Mr. Martindale made some remarks on "Morals ́in Education."

In the latter part of June 2 M. A's, 1 B. A., 2 B. S's, 3 C. E's, 15 LL. B's, and 13 M. D's were conferred by the University of Virginia. There were 18 graduates in Latin, 7 in Greek, 17 in French, 11 in German, 6 in French and German, 19 in History and Literature, 6 in Moral Philosophy, 8 in Mathematics, 9 in Natural Philosophy, 19 in General Chemistry, 4 in Industrial Chemistry, 3 in Analytical Chemistry, 1 in Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, and 3 in Applied Mathematics.

-THE annual report of Alston Ellis, Superintendent of the Hamilton public schools, will show, with other interesting school statistics, the principal items of school attendance for the school years ending June 30, 1876 and June 30, 1877, as follows:

1876.

1877.

$15.10

Cost of tuition, per pupil, on daily attendance...... $16.60
Per cent of daily attendance on the number enrolled.....72.6

76.3

-THIRTY-FIVE pupils, five boys and thirty girls, graduated from the Columbus High School, on the afternoon of June 21st. The Principal, E. H. Cook, presented the class, after a few appropriate words, to Supt. R. W. Stevenson, who made a fitting five-minutes' address in which he stated that the number of the class on entering the High School four years previously was 98, that 51 continued in school until the end of the second year, 39 to the end of the third year, and 35 to the end of the fourth year. The class was the largest that has as yet graduated from the school. Mr. Stevenson at the close of his remarks presented the class to the President of the Board of Education, Dr. Starling Loving, who after a sensible address of about fifteen minutes' length awarded the diplomas. The time occupied in the exercises extended from a few minutes after two o'clock until about six.

-THE Wittenberger, of Springfield, Ohio, for July contains four extra pages of matter. Next year it will be changed to an octavo (covered) form. The Mathematical Department will be continued. Price $1.10 a year.

PERSONAL.

-H. G. WELTY's salary at Marion, Ohio, will be $1200.

-A. C. HINKSON is Superintendent of the Public Schools of Sacramento City.

--F. SCHNEE is Principal of the School at Mogadore, Summit County, Ohio.

-Miss ELLA GRIFFITH has been re-elected Principal of the Alliance High School.

-B. B. HALL has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Tiffin, Ohio.

-C. O. SCRAFFORD has been elected Principal of the Normal School at Edinboro, Pa.

-J. N. WILKINSON has been re-elected at Buda, Ill., with an increase of $100 in salary.

—J. B. CASH of Glencoe, Ohio, has been elected as teacher in the Bellaire High School.

-D. R. STOCKLEY has been re-elected Principal of the Public Schools of Wells, Minnesota.

-J. P. TODD has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Columbiana, Ohio.

-WM. HESTER has been elected to fill the vacancy in the Preparatory School in Norwalk, Ohio.

-THE Hon. John Swett is Principal of the Girls' High School in San Francisco. Salary $4000..

-THE Hon. J. L. Pickard has resigned the Superintendency of the Chicago Public Schools.

—JOHN C. KINNEY has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Loveland, Ohio.

-Mr. KINNISON, of Monroeville, has been elected Principal of the Norwalk (0.) High School.

-J. B. ESSIG will serve his fifth year as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Carrollton, Ohio.

-S. B. HAMLIN has been reappointed teacher of music in the Public Schools of Painesville, Ohio.

-F. M. ATTERHOLT has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of West Salem, Ohio.

—P. W. SEARCH has been elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of West Liberty, Ohio.