Dr. Boone To Cincinnati

DR.BOONE

            TO CINCINNATI

Elected Superintendent of the Schools in that City.

WITH A SALARY OF $4500

A Sketch of His Qualifica-tions as a Modern Educator.

Last night Dr. R. G. Boone was elected superintendent of the Cincin-nati public schools to succeed Superin-tendent Morgan who had resigned. It is understood the salary is $4,500. This position is a political one in large degree but it is understood that Dr. Boone was the candidate of all fac-tions, so that he will commence his duties there with a practically unani-mous board back of him. this will enable him to give the schools an ad-ministration of merit which they have not always had because of divisions and factions. Because of politics in the schools there is the past real edu-cational work has suffered. But in Dr. Boone the city will have an admin-istrator and educator who will un-questionably be able to advance the educational interests of the city, espec-ially since he goes as a union candi-date. There is no need in Cincinnati of such an overhauling of things as Superintendent Andrews is giving Chicago and Dr. Boone is a man in all always equal to the emergency. He is in the very prime of physical and in-tellectual manhood, he is progressive and aggressive in all educational matters and a broad and liberal stud-ent of affairs in general. While he knows the literature of his profession thoroughly, he is no book worm, being as able as an administrator as he is liberal and broad and deep as a stud-ent. He knows what good teaching is and is as competent to do it himself as he is to direct it.

He is a self made man and a man of wide and varied experience. He has served in the district school, in village schools and was for 10 years superin-tendent of the Frankfort, Indiana, city schools, for seven years professor of ped-agogic in the University of Indiana, at Bloomington and for the pat six years principal of the Michigan State Normal College of this city. In all these posi-tions he was highly successful. Dur-ing his administration of the normal college, its numbers have largely in-creased, its graduates nearly or quite doubled and it has gained a reputation outside of Michigan that it never pos-sessed before. It is entirely safe to say that he is the ablest educator who has ever stood at its head. During his years at the head of the normal college he has been in constant demand, be-yond the limits of his time, in insti-tutes, summer schools, and for lectures throughout a large portion of the country, east as well as west.