"Blackleg!"

At a school in Croydon (London), where teachers are striking against a 5% reduction in salary, the pupils declined to be taught by substitutes. The boys met one of these temporary masters in class with cries of" Blackleg!" When the master threatened to cane one boy, the whole class rushed him and he was forced to beat a hasty retreat. Jubilant over their victory, the boys then indulged in an orgy of "crashing" windows and desks, carrying their celebrations out into the yard. They were finally quelled by the police. The strike is said to be the first of its kind in many years.

Bishop Nibley, of the Mormon Church, advised the 93d semi-annual general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to send their children through high school and stop. The average college graduate, said the learned Bishop," knows a lot about books but don't know scarcely anything about how to do a thing in a practical way." Bishop Nibley would amend Mr. Vanderlip's statement to read "western high school graduate."

The San Francisco Chronicle takes exception to the statement of Professor Jessica B. Peixotto, of the University of California, that college graduates (female)--western college graduates presumably--make the best wives. It particularly objects to Dr. Peixotto's statement that such wives are made desirable by their greater urge to regulate "community life." That, says The Chronicle, means the life of other families. And one family at a time is enough. The Superintendent of Schools at Newark, N. J., banned the Red Cross text-book on hygiene and home care of the sick because it advises that alcohol and whiskey be kept in the home medicine chest for emergency purposes. A movement is understood to be on foot to inform the Superintendent that other similar publications mention narcotics by name and prescribe doses.

The Workers' Education Bureau classed as "potential enemies of labor" all university extension courses and vocational courses conducted by numerous schools, colleges and universities, and refused endorsement to the Bryn Mawr summer school. The danger of exposing the young to pernicious propaganda cannot be too much emphasized.

Definite steps are being taken by the National Education Association in conjunction with the Motion Picture Producers' Association to work out an "educational film service." Will H. Hays donated $5,000 in behalf of the Producers for use in additional research before filming is commenced. The first subject chosen will be in the field of geography, biology, history or natural science. A system of distribution to reach the 260,000 schools of the nation is yet to be worked out.

The Institute of International Education will conduct student tours abroad this summer. Last year the tours had a student membership of 244. Tours to France and Italy are planned.

The University of Texas, facing a matriculation of 15,000, and inadequate facilities for its present membership, plans 29 new buildings at a cost of $6,000,000.

The University of Idaho has increased its enrollment from 592 in 1917-1918 to 1,568 in 1922. The school laws of Idaho provide for free high school education and wide use is made of the privilege.

In Massachusetts was decided the great question of the right of a professor to control the notes of his lectures. All the defendants in an action brought by professors in the Harvard Law School to enjoin the sale of their notes consented to the entry of a decree against them and were ordered to pay damages.

At the University of Nebraska, the latest quiz is on the Bible. Less than 50 per cent could name 10 books in the Old Testament, and some included Salms, Joab, Phillestines and Xerxes.