Journal of Education

The other at his spinal base;
Thus he could reason a priori
As well as a posteriori;

No problem bothered him a bit,
He made both head and tail of it.
So wise he was, so wise and solemn,
Each thought just filled a spinal column,
If one brain found the pressure strong
It passed a few ideas along.

If something slipped in forward mind
'Twas rescued by the one behind;
And if in error he was caught
He had a saving afterthought;
As he thought twice before he spoke
He had no judgment to revoke,

For he could think, without congestion,
Upon both sides of every question.
O! gaze upon this model beast,

Defunct ten million years at least.

(Dr. W. D. Mathew is a son of Dr. Geo. F. Mathew, St. John, N. B.).

"Science is beginning to have its poets as well as its martyrs. says an eminent educationist who sent the gem. "I am sure you will value this effort."

Old Home Summer for 1924.

Mr. Horatio C. Crowell has been endeavoring to awaken Nova Scotia to the great advantage likely to flow from the efforts to prepare every locality to look its best when our people residing abroad are invited specially to visit their fatherland.

Every school should be a club to organise local improvements to beautify the school, its surroundings, and the conditions of the School Section; and pupils should aid and stimulate teachers to obtain the addresses of all persons originally from the locality, and to send them to any headquarters of the general organisation, so that they can be invited appropriately to visit the homeland in 1924.

All such work is a very proper part of our educational system, the object of which is to prepare ourselves for the betterment of our homes and country.

DIGEST OF SOME OTHER LEGISLATION OF 1920.

In spite of our most strenuous efforts we have not been able to get the Journal out at the proper time; nor even to include in it the rather voluminous Amendments of the Education Act. The following summary of the more important points is therefore made for the information of school officials:

1. The Provincial Aid next school year will be increased by one-sixth.

2. The Municipal School Fund next school year will be $120 for each teacher employed by the school trustees-a little more where there are good rural school libraries and school gardens.

3. While the second schedule is abolished, all the school section taxation next school year will be levied as if the sections were on the second schedule of this year. In some places this may require prompt alteration of the boundaries of school sections to secure equitable conditions.

4. There have been changes affecting taxation procedure, etc., in the Education Act, the Assessment Act and the Towns Incorporation Act, to make them more consistent and simple, which cannot be summarized.

5. Hereafter no pupil can be legally admitted to the public schools without either (1) a certifidate of vaccination within five years, or (2) a certificate of having had small pox, or (3) a medical certificate of temporary unfitness, or (4) the prescribed Conscientious Objectors' Declaration.

6. Where the Compulsory Attendance Law has been adopted, absence from school on account of non-compliance with the vaccination law is no justification of the absence. The double default is an aggravation of the single default.

7. There was no time to submit the proof of the Minimum Salary list to Inspectors for correction. Any errors can be promptly corrected by the C. P. I. on advice of the Inspector.

If "separates" of the Education Act Amendments can be obtained from the printer before the Annual School meeting, 28th June, a copy will be mailed to each school section. writing for information.

No use

Teachers desirous of taking a Cadet Instructors' Course next July, should intimate the fact to the Superintendent of Education before the 20th of June. A good list is expected to help the Department of Militia to decide in favor oa a course.