After having spent years of persistent study of languages, literature and 

 history, acquiring a knowledge of the inflections of verbs, memorizing the 

 definition of words and becoming familiar with the outline of all forms of 

 speech, with the political divisions of countries of the remote past — in 

 short, with the life of a world in its childhood and now to be introduced 

 into the world of the present, constitutes the most interesting period in 

 the life of the pupil. The teacher guides with watchful care the mental 

 processes awakened by the study of nature. He witnesses a wonderful 

 mental development, wonderful because it springs from a rich store-house 

 of knowledge and because the mental processes are new. 



After all, the ultimate object of education is utilitarian in character. 

 The educated man or woman, who is a useful member of society, who is of 

 value to the state, must be of the world. He must be brought in intimate 

 relationship with the affairs of the present, and, for this purpose, the study 

 of science and mathematics is well adapted. A full degree of utilitarianism 

 is not wholly technical in kind. To become useful in any of the learned 

 professions all of the discipline afforded by classical and scientific training, 

 in addition to the training in the professional studies proper, is required. 



If education is to be the i^afeguard of the nation, if it is to prevent the 

 enactment of extreme measures, if it is to act as the balance wheel in the 

 machinery of the social state, it must result in the development of all the 

 resources of the intellect as well as the sense of justice and love of hu- 

 manity. 



The siGAR HEKT IN Indiana. Bv H. A. Huston. 



Forms of nitrogen for wheat. By H. A. Huston. 



A copi'Ei; a:mmonium oxide. By P. S. Baker. 



