OHIO JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.

The following persons became members, or renewed their membership, by the payment of a fee of $1.00:

LIST OF DELEGATES.

Athens Co.-Prof. N. M. McLaughlin, J. K. Mower, Miss E. M. Rice, Miss A. E. Sanderson, Miss S. E. Webster, Prof. W. H. Young.

Belmont-Miss Dowdie, N. M. Elliott, A. Kirk, J. B. Owen, Dr. Sedwick, H. W. Smith, Rev. D. S. Welling, John White, J. Wood, Miss E. Wood.

Brown-James Brown.

Carroll-T. V. Milligan, S. McShearer.

Columbiana-D. Anderson, J. L. Clark, Mrs. E. Heaton, S. S. McMillen, R. McMillen, Mis■ Martha Stratton, Miss C. Stanton.

Coshocton-Mrs. Burns, John Burns, Thomas Campbell, P. S. Campbell, Miss Ellen Farmer, R. K. McCartney, W. A. McKee, Miss Margery Medberry, Miss M. B. Price.

Crawford-John Hopley.

Cuyahoga-Prof. J. Brainerd.

Erie-O. P. Cowdery, Chas. S. Rice.

Franklin-W. T. Coggeshall, J. J. Janney, J. Q. Howard.

Green-J. K. Parker, Mrs. S. Parker, P. B. Parker.

Hamilton-Saml. A. Butts Jr., John D. Caldwell, Wm. G. Crippen, W. T. Forbes, John Hancock, F. W. Hurtt, Asahel Page, James M. Ross, John B. Trevor、

Harrison-J. H. F. Baldwin, Prof. J. Brinkerhoff, B. B. DeLany, T. E. Fidler, J. L. Hunt, GL. Jacobs, Cyrus McNeely, Mrs. E. M. MeConnell, B. F. Morris, John Ogden, M. J. M. Ogden, S. M. Alexander.

Jefferson-LADIES-Miss M. J. Agnew, S. M. Alexander, S. Aten, G. Ayres, R. L. Beall, C. Blair, M. Bowsman, M. L. Bracken, C. Braddock, Mrs. Braddock, Clara Buchanan, Jane Brown, S. F. Brown, Lizzie M. Burns, N. Caton, Jane Cornell, H. Caldwell, E. Churchill, H. Churchill, E. Cooley, S. Childs, L. Cresap, H. Daugherty, S. Daugherty, M. Daviess, S. Everhart, Josephine Ferrell, Mrs. Fulton, Ada Gilmore, Jane Gilmore, M. Gardner, C. Hamilton, M. Hamilton, N. Hurst, A. Hall, S. Hoonce, M. Hart, L. D. Knox, M. Knight, Martha Leslie, S. Long, S. Lockwood, E. Lockwood, M. Little, B. C. Marshall, Minerva C. Manly, Catharine McCarel, Harriet Miller, Eliza McDonald, Eliza McCracken, Mary McDonald, M. Monteith, V. Minus, S. McFadden, E. J. C. Mitchell, E. B. Mitchell, E. Messitt, A. Milligan, Lucretia Orth, H. Ogden, M. Ogden, Margaret Patterson, E. M. Price, S. Patten, S. Porter, Emma Rell, Mrs. S. Reid, M. Russell, Julia C. Sims, Nancy Sherrard, Susan Sherrard, E. Sutherland, A. L. Stevens. E. S. Stevens, A. Satton, J. Satton, M. Smith, J. Smithers, S. Smithers, E. Statter, R. Sarver, Martha A. Walker, E. S. Walker. GENTLEMEN-Rev. J. K. Andrew, James Arthurs, Rev. J. J. Agnew, Caleb Brocken, Rev. Joseph Buchanan, Rev. John Burns, G. W. Burns, J. L. Clark, William Cable, James Crawford, Jacob N. Desellem, Fletcher Dayton, David Donovan, Geo. Elliott, James Elliott, W. Cul. Gaston, Thos. S. Kenning, D. O. N. Johnston, Curtis Johnson, Dr. Thos. Johnston, Geo. R. Jarkins, Saml. Kerr, Hon. T. L. Means, Hon. Roswell Marsh, Rev. B. Mitchell, Andrew Mitchell, Rev. Intrepid Morse, Cyrus Mendenhall, Geo. W. McCook, D. Myres, H. W. Miser L. McBane, John T. Oliver, Prof. A. M. Read, J. C. Rogers, W. J. Sage, Robt. Sherrard Jr., Wm. Sittenger, Oliver C. Smith, Jos. K. Sherrard, Gen. Saml. Stokely, S. Tomlinson, A. W. Thompson, Eli T. Tappan, William A. Urquhart, M. H. Urquhart, Wm. Vermillion, W. H. Williams, Capt. Geo. Webster.

Knox-Pres. Lorin Andrews, Prof. H. D. Lathrop.

Lawrence-P. C. Wilson, S. S. Williams.

Licking-Arthur Canedy, Rev. A. Duncan, Mrs. Gilman, W. P. Kerr, Geo. S. Mills, W. H. Smith.

Miami-Wm. N. Edwards, Mary K. Edwards, Louisa Thorne.

Mahoning-Wm. Moore, John Vanfleet.

Montgomery-H. Anderson, E. C. Ellis, A. C. Fenner, J. B. Irwin.
Morgan-T. M. Stevenson.

Muskingum-R. Q. Beer, J. Brown, M. Brown, W. B. Brown, Wilson Conner, A. B. Cornell, Miss M. J. Eckleson, H A. Hunter, B. F. Peairs, Miss E. Speer, S. M. Stevenson, R. W. Stevenson, Mrs. R. A. Stevenson, Rev. B. Waddle, Miss Bella Waddle, Theoph. Wark,

R. F. Wark.

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Portage-J. A. Garfield, J. H. Rhodes.

Preble-I. S. Morris, Jas. Wilson.

Richland-Dr. W. C. Catlin, Miss Addie Catlin.

Ross-E. H. Allen.

Seneca-J. T. Schuyler.

Tuscarawas-Miss C. Bear, J. F. Blickensderfer, G. N. Carothers, C. T. Emerson, F. B. Fox, Miss F. Frazier, Miss M. Frazier, Miss M. Hance, Mrs. S. Laird, T. R. Laird, S. M. Ramsopher, R. N. Smith, J. Welty.

Washington-Pres. I. W. Andrews.

OTHER STATES.

New York-Francis W. Tappan, N. Y. City.

Kentucky-A. G. Murphy, Millersburgh.

Pennsylvania-Miss M. J. McCausland, Pittsburgh; Henry S. Bennett, Brownsville. Virginia-J. R. Donahoo, Jas. F. Snowden, Wheeling.

Communications.

SCHOOL STATISTICS.

MR. EDITOR:- Allow me, through the pages of the Journal, to call the attention of the Teachers of our State to an important item of school statistics, which they should procure and preserve, not only for the information of others, but also for their own. I allude to the statistics of the age at which scholars in our Union Schools are pursuing certain studies.

It is to be presumed that, in every Union School, the Teachers have a list of the pupils enrolled, and also another list of the scholars' names, in the various classes which are in their charge. If now, immediately after these lists, a column were ruled and the ages of the pupils entered therein-while it would be but a small trouble to add the ages of each sex and strike the average-the Teachers themselves would be in possession of valuable data for their own especial enlightenment.

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Superintendents can thus, from year to year, ascertain the exact state of their schools, by comparing the number of pupils in each branch of study, and their average age, with the same items, at the same period, during previous years.

Allow me to illustrate my meaning by a reference to my own schools. The close of the first three months of my supervision here was the close of the school year; and the registers of the various schools, together with my own general register, exhibited the following:

This list, already too long, might be further and more minutely extended. The idea is, I trust, sufficiently evident by what has been given. As it represents the educational condition of my schools after the first three months of my supervision, few will suppose I have any vanity in presenting it. Truly, there is but little in the exhibit to be vain of. Were all superintendents thus to collect and arrange statistics, much valuable information might be gained.

1st. They themselves would be able to see what was the present condition of their schools, and whether the classes had advanced or retrograded.

2d. Upon the adoption of a few general rules, a system of classification would prevail, sufficiently uniform to enable these averages to present truthful estimates of the comparative positions of various classes in various schools.

3d. The union of all these averages into one, would give the average educational condition of scholars in our Union Schools throughout the State.

In the valuable report of Mr. Freese, Superintendent of the Cleveland schools for the year 1855-6, we have (on page 72, table IV) a general summary, showing the number of pupils in Primer, First

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Reader, Second Reader, Third, Fourth and Fifth Readers, in Geography, Grammar, etc., etc.

So also in Mr. Rickoff's report of the Cincinnati schools for 1855-6, we have, at page 35, a somewhat similar table, rather less extended. If now these gentlemen, and those in charge of the public schools of other cities and large towns in Ohio, were in the preparation of their reports, to bear this item of average ages in their mind, a very valuable table might be drawn up, exhibiting a standard sufficiently accurate to be a safe guide in the gradation of schools, and the arrangement of studies.

Personally I regard such statistics as valuable-it may be my own opinion, or they may be really and intrinsically so. As this letter is intended to be suggestive only, I will not undertake to advocate, defend or explain.

Mr. Rickoff, in his report, well and truly writes, (p. 41,) "School statistics are far inferior in completeness and accuracy, to the commercial, manufacturing and agricultural statistics of the day. It ought not to be so, for certainly the products of the school room can vie in value with the products of the farm or factory."

You, sir, also at the Christmas session of our Association, submitted the following resolutions which were passed:

Resolved, That as an expression of the sense of this Association, the interests of education require that correct and comprehensive statistics of educational effort and progress in each county of the State of Ohio, should be systematically kept and made available.

"Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested to prepare suitable blanks for this purpose, and have the same ready for distribution at the next meeting of the Association.

It is much to be regretted that our present Executive Committee have not presented these blanks; something should be done, and I would suggest that the Superintendents at their adjourned meeting at Columbus, take the matter under their serious consideration, and a committee be appointed to draw up and present those blanks which our Executive Committee have ignored.

The Superintendent of the Cincinnati schools has already introduced this subject; but the item of the average age of the pupils seems either to have escaped his attention, or is not regarded as of much importance by him.

As an Association of Teachers, united for the purpose of advancing the interests of education, it certainly becomes imperative upon us to take active measures for the immediate collection and permanent pre