Ohio History Journal

EDITORIAL NOTES.

DR. I. W. ANDREWS.-At the annual meeting of the

Ohio Teachers' Association, held at Sandusky, June 28,

1888, memorial exercises occurred in honor of the late

Israel W. Andrews. Professor M. R. Andrews read a

memorial sketch. In it he paid tribute in the highest

terms to the many virtues of the deceased scholar and

educator. His conservative but persistent and hopeful

nature; his accuracy and painstaking care as a student

and instructor; his unswerving fidelity to every trust; his

consistent and admirable Christian character; his loyal

devotion to duty, were all dwelt upon in fitting terms.

Especially, as was natural in an address before the State

Teachers' Association, the speaker dwelt at length upon

Dr. Andrews's services to the cause of education in Ohio.

and we reproduce from the Educational Monthly the fol-

lowing extract from the address:

"The younger teachers of Ohio do not know how

closely he is identified with the early history of our com-

mon schools. In February, 1851, this Association, in a

meeting at Columbus, appointed him, with six others,

Lorin Andrews, R. F. Humiston, D. F. DeWolf, James

Campbell, Darius Lyman, Jr., and Charles S. Royce, to

aid in the organization of county institutes, and through

the southern and eastern parts of the State he took an

active part in the educational campaign that ensued.

"He was President of this Association at Steubenville

in 1857, and long served on the Executive Committee; he

also delivered the annual address at Put-in-Bay in 1877.

He was a member of the State Board of Examiners from

1866 to 1871.

"As associate editor of the Ohio Journal of Education, in

the first six volumes (1852-7), and afterwards as contribu-

tor to its successor, the Educational Monthly, he showed

his lively interest in elementary education. In 1852, he

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wrote of "The Union School System " and warned officers

and teachers against too implicit reliance upon the excel-

lence of any system, thus by thirty years anticipating a

favorite dogma of the apostles of the New Education.

Among the subjects discussed by him in this and subse-

quent years are, "Images in Concave Mirrors," " Relation

of Schools and Colleges," " Schools of Lowell," "Marietta

Public Schools," "College Education in England and

America," "Popular Education in Great Britain," "The

Eye and the Ear in Elementary Education," "The Teach-

er's Duty to Himself," "Elementary Classical Study,"

"A Course of Study for High Schools," "Pronouncing

Dictionaries," "The Self-Reporting System,' "Greek

Preparation for College,"                   " Elementary Arithmetic,"

"Law," "The Muskingum                  Academy" (torn down in

I887), "When was Ohio Admitted into the Union?"

(1803), and one of his last contributions, suggested by a

visit to the primary schools of Steubenville, was "Ele-

mentary Instruction."

"He was an active member at the first meeting of the

National Teachers' Association, and afterwards became

one of the National Council of Education."

At the conclusion of the address, appropriate remarks,

showing the universal esteem and love with which Dr.

Andrews was regarded by the teachers of Ohio, were made

by Dr. E. E. White, Professor W. H. Mitchell, Col. D. F.

De Wolf, Dr. R. W. Stevenson and Dr. E. T. Tappan.

The following resolution was also adopted:

Resolved, That while we bow reverently to the Divine

Will, as expressed in the removal from our fellowship of

the late Dr. I. W. Andrews, we yet feel that our Associa-

tion has met with a loss which is irreparable, and that

only as we follow his example of unselfish and constant

work for the up-building of the race, are we living up to

our God-given opportunities and privileges.

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.-The an-

nual meeting of this Association, which was to have been

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held in Columbus during the first week of the present

month, it was found necessary to postpone, on account of

the impossibility of securing suitable accommodations at

a time when the city was crowded with members of the

Grand Army of the Republic and other strangers in attend-

ance upon the Centennial Exposition. The meeting will

be held in Washington, D. C., during the last week of

December, and one whole day during the meeting will be

devoted to papers and discussions of topics connected

with the history of the Northwest.

 

HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN OHIO.- During the past

year great interest has been shown in the study of Ohio

archaeology and history by those who are not ordinarily

historical students. Owing to the various celebrations of

Ohio's centennial year, old and young have shown a desire

to know more about her history. In many schools in the

State last winter and spring, special attention was given

to the subject, and doubtless much more would have been

devoted to it had there existed any complete, brief history

of the State. Since then one or two have appeared and

more are announced.   While these histories will add

much to the general knowledge of our growth as a State,

much that might have been written has been lost by the

careless destruction of material bearing upon various im-

portant events. We have before referred to this matter,

but cannot refrain from again urging the importance of

the preservation of all old manuscripts, documents, books,

and papers bearing in any way upon the growth of the

State. The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society

will be glad to receive, catalogue, and preserve anything

of this nature that may be sent to it, and thus assist future

students and historians in their search for facts.

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