Abstract

Educational

When earlier people were in college, the public table at which all the students were required to take their meals was prolific in trouble. "Bread and Butter Rebellions" succeeded one another with almost as much regularity as the fruits in their season. Poor food, bad cooking, there was no choices for students. This led to constant quarrels between the students and the faculty, in which, according to the judgment of the latter, the complainants were always wrong and the steward was always right. In time commons disappeared in almost every college, and for a quarter of a century private boarding houses and dinner clubs have provided rations according to the taste or purse of each student. New Jersey has just established a State Board of Education similar to that, which was organized last year in Connecticut, and to that which for a long while has worked admirably in Massachusetts. The governor and five other state officers, together with the trustees and principal of the State Normal School, constitute a board on who devolves the superintendence of public instruction. Their agent is a secretary, elected by the board for three years.