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Regular and Thin Pa per Editions. 1116 Pages and 1400 Illustrations. Write for "Dictionary Wrinkles," and Specimen Pages, Free. Mention in your request this paper and receive a useful set of Colored Maps, pocket size. G. & C. MERRIAM CO., Springfield, Mass. The South Atlantic Quarterly. Editorial Announcement With the present issue, THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY completes its eighth volume. The first three volumes, and the opening number of the fourth volume, appeared under the editorship of Dr. John Spencer Bassett. Beginning with the April, 1905, issue, and concluding with the July number of the present year, four and one-half volumes have been published under the joint editorship of Dr. Edwin Mims and the writer. With the current number, the QUARTERLY loses the valuable editorial services of Dr. Mims, who is just beginning an extended period of residence and travel abroad, prior to assuming the duties of a chair at the University of North Carolina. Though no longer actively identified with the editorial conduct of the QUARTERLY, Dr. Mims will continue in the future to be a contributor to its pages and to have a lively interest in its success. The writer of this note is perhaps in a better position than any other to appreciate the importance of the services Dr. Mims has rendered to the QUARTERLY during the past many years. Beginning with the first number of the first volume, he has been a constant contributor of articles and book reviews. Since the period of his editorial services began in 1905, he has been unsparing in his devotion of time and energy to the work. Though constantly engaged by his duties as a teacher and by personal literary undertakings, no detail of the management of the QUARTERLY-editorial or business-has been too small to command his attention and interest. His wide acquaintance with scholars and publicists has enabled him to secure many notable contributions for this journal. His resourcefulness and enthusiasm have aided in surmounting many difficulties. The good wishes of friends and associates, as well as those of readers of the QUARTERLY, will go with him in his months of well-earned recreation and travel in foreign lands. It is, however, the great good fortune of the QUARTERLY to be able to announce that Dr. William P. Few, Dean and Professor of English in Trinity College, has consented to become one of its editors, beginning with the current number. Dr. Few has been closely identified with the QUARTERLY from its inception, being a contributor from the first number, and constantly participating in its management. In the many articles which he has published from time to time, he has approached the educational and other social problems of his native South in a constructive spirit and in the light of the best modern thought. What he has had to say has brought about wide discussion and has exercised an effective influence for conservative progress. In the re-organization of the QUARTERLY'S management, Professor Robert L. Flowers, of Trinity College, who has been for some years President of the South Atlantic Publishing Company, combines the offices of President and Treasurer. Professor Flowers has been an esteemed contributor to the QUARTERLY'S pages, but the periodical has been more especially indebted to him for supervision and direction of its business management. The business problems connected with the publication of a journal of this character are at times difficult, and the services of Professor Flowers in dealing with them have been most valuable. The spirit and aims of the QUARTERLY will continue as during the past eight years. It seeks to avoid any note of provincialism. It desires to keep its pages open to the candid discussion of historical, literary, economic, political, and other social questions. It trusts that all of these matters will be approached in a spirit of urbanity and helpfulness. The QUARTERLY bespeaks the continued interest of both Southerners and Northerners who have something to contribute to the social discussions of the day, and it hopes for a generous measure of support from the community of cultivated readers. W. H. G. Constructive Educational Leadership* BY WILLIAM P. FEW Dean and Professor of English in Trinity College A gifted young friend of mine, who was graduated from Trinity College some time ago, like so many others began his career as a school teacher. He taught successfully for two years when suddenly he quit, saying that he was tired of teaching other people's children, of pouring his life into other lives and preparing them for successful achievement, while he himself had no part in the great tasks of human society. This conception of the profession makes of the teacher a mere school keeper, a member of society not much higher in his function than the maid in the nursery and little different from the pedagogue among the Greeks and Romans, whose business it was to attend the children of his master and combine in mild proportions some sort of instruction with the purely physical oversight of the children. It is this idea of the weak passivity of the profession which gives occasion for the oft repeated sneer that "he who can does, he who cannot teaches." The idea is rather widespread, I fear, and is doing the cause of education as much harm as any other single thing today. Over against this conception I wish to set the doctrine of the teacher as a worker at the hard tasks of society, as a builder of civilization who, if he be efficient enough, may become a constructive, transforming influence and power like Livingstone or Socrates or Moses. Ideas and ideals are after all the greatest forces in civilization, and from educators and those they educate must come this high leadership of ideas and ideals in the service of the republic. The measure of the teacher's influence is not the amount or quality of intellectual pabulum that he may dole out to docile children, but the sort of guidance he gives to individual minds and to communities, and the moral energy that he succeeds in producing. The low estimate in which the teaching profession is held will pass, when there is in the profession a *In substance, an address delivered before the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, Morehead City, June, 1909. considerable proportion of men of this shaping and transforming influence and power, and likewise women who have the constructive helpfulness and intuitive wisdom that will enable them to deal successfully with children as well as with whole communities. This type of teacher is our chief need, rather than technical training, professional standards, and higher salaries, important as are all these. The presence in the profession of a considerable number of such teachers will, in due time and without forcing, bring, if not the wage, at least the dignity that ought to belong to one of the most useful of all occupations. Men and women of originating and shaping power are needed in all times, but they would seem to be especially needed in times of rapid growth; and there do occasionally come times in the history of nations when the ordinary processes of national development are superseded by more rapid methods and when civilization goes forward at a bound. Such an epoch was the Elizabethan age in England; such an epoch came to New England in the middle decades of the last century; and in such an epoch, I believe, we are living here today. In spite of all misgivings, most competent men, actually at the work of rebuilding Southern civilization, believe that we are standing upon the very threshold of a new era. The belief itself, even if it were not so amply justified by the facts, would tend to produce the expected result. An age of hopefulness is apt to be an age of achievement. We are living, then, in a time that is rich in promise and full of hope; and we are engaged in a profession that should not only hand on the torch from the past to the oncoming generations, but should also furnish guidance in that process of readjustment and rebuilding which every progressive age must carry on. In what ways may we, at this particular time and in this particular place, best give this service of constructive leadership? Our civilization must rest upon the secure foundation of widespread material prosperity and well-being. And this widespread prosperity and well-being in our Southern States depends now, and I hope always will depend, peculiarly upon agriculture. Agriculturally, as in so many other ways, we have scarcely begun to be what we are destined to become. The task of improving the agricultural conditions of this region ought to lie heavily upon teachers, urban and rural, elementary and advanced, and |