The Louisiana School Review Volume 14 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...out inducements strong enougTi to Influence many of our best young men and women to choose the noble profession of teaching, and make the inducements such that they will stick to it. It's a purely business problem, and easily solved if you will. o It would seem that while Brother Bailey, of the Mississippi School Journal, was responding to one of the higher calls of his professional duty by attending the big Department of Superintendence meeting in Chicago last month, his printer and proof-reader "took Christmas" (which, thus we see, can come oftener than once a year); for we observe an editorial on page 13 which begins with the following remarkable sentence: "We are glad that Mississippi has so many able, unintelligent sic and active county superintendents." The article then continues with only words of praise and approval--leaving the bull to rage and rant and bellow in the index. Being not unaccustomed to grief ourselves, we know the unassuageable anguish of our esteemed contemporary's soul when he discovered the cruel thing glaring at him. His eyes must have dropt tears as fast as the Arabian trees their medicinal gum. But that's all right, Brother. A typographical error is not unendurable so long as it contains internal evidence of being merely typographical. The kind that harrows up the soul and withers the spirit's blossom was luminously illustrated in the January number of the School Review--the kind that is not obviously a printer's or proofreader's blunder, but suggests rather than the editor has cheiroptera in the basilica, or has suffered cortical lesion near the fissure of Rolando, resulting from a collision between the pneumogastric nerve and the pons varolii at their intersection near 23d st. Such an inference in the case...