Successful Teaching in Rural Schools

not have an umbrella, a bald head, spectacles, or an effeminate manner. He is a real human being with a smile that wins, a hand shake that one remembers, and a businesslike manner that does not keep one guessing very long what his purpose is. He spent the entire morning with us testing the children in reading, arithmetic, spelling, composition, and penmanship. I thought the children would be dreadfully bored by the tests but they were not. Usually they dread examinations as if they were a great malady but to-day Mr. Moore made a sort of game out of them. He told the children, also, that next May he would give them another test to see how much they grow during the year. This delighted them very much. They are always measuring to see how much they have grown, and weighing to see how much they have gained. This idea of testing them to see how much their brains grow amused them greatly. Already they are beginning to speculate on how much they can grow in arithmetic in one year. I never before saw children wishing for an examination a year before it happens but that is exactly what they are doing to-night. You see, Hilda, how quickly one's outlook on life can change from pessimism and dread to optimism and joy. The grim ogre existed only in my overstimulated brain. The university which I thought could be only "dry" and "fossilized" has sent forth a very live human being who laughs, plays, and works just like other people who have never spent a day on a univer...