Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-01-02


,endance is large. Nothing has yet
hoen formally said or done in refer
snce TO Mr.. Pederson's charges against
cherries Kendall Adams, president of
~ university. Mr.. Adams delivered
me following address at the afternoon
session:
Tho tonic on which have been in
,.,ted 10 present paper this afternoon
sneeests delightful possibilities of en-
tortaining discussions in various di-
rections 1t opens vistas into the uni
rarsty and into the preparatory
schools For example, / might take
Won 10 the university and regale you
Win the contemplation of its magni-
ude and its extravagances. 1t would
he easy TO show you how wicked and
tboughtless legislature last winter
egged on by the still more wicked and
avrayagant regents and president Of
the urayersity, came to the conclusion
hat the three hundred and more
yong women who still persist in com
ing 10 drink at that fount of knowl
edge should be accommodated with
something better than that kind of
Siberian prison euphemistically termed
ladies' hall. Ii once started in this
direction | should also have to point
out how this same unworthy body of
men came to the conclusion that the
University hail. which has worthily
performed its duties for forty years,
was moi thought to be up to the ex-
trayagant standards of modern aca-
demic requirements. In short, they be-
lieyed that floors worn through ought
to be replaced with new ones; that
blackboards ought not TO be SO varie-
gated in color by the taking off of
the original material as to leave any
reasonable doubt whether they were
intended for chalk or for charcoal;
that ceilings with the weekly habit of
falling, ought TO be put into at least
provisional state of permanence; that
corridors CONSTRUCTED by doorways less
| than four feet wide were not quite ade-
Quate for crowds of nine hundred men
and women changing classes every
hour and that the liability of this re-
spectable crowd of men and women,
in case Of panic, being plunged down
three or four stories in one indiscrim
mate mass, ought not to be any longer
encouraged, 1t would be interesting
20 trace these and other idiosyncracies
Of extravaganza in case there was the
proper time or occasion.
Or we might take voyage of dis
coyery into the preparatory schools.
We might examine the courses, and
al once get into a lively jangle as to
whether this or that study ought to be
encouraged or excluded; ard as to
whether the boy in Germany at four
teen is ais well prepared for college as
ihe boy IN America at seventeen. Such
an excursion would certainly have its
picturesque incidents. We should find,
ior Instance that this association is
not monopolizing spelling reform. In
deed we should learn that efforts in
llal direction are by no means con-.
med 70 these photographic economies
q which our worthy president has set
US 50 good an example. We should
Propably discover an ingenuity as well
d z consequences in this expert
mental photography which might be
worthy Of our attention. This versa
ai1y ~ The art of spelling seems to
'lelade what Lowell as we'll as Vol
lalIe regarded as "a certain wholesome
respect for superfluities;" for / have
,Ae evidence of set of papers recently
isut & my office that a very respectable
minority Of the students still thin'-
'lal Pr word Professor should carry
'he burden Of superhous 81
We should also find interesting at
%Hpss NY reform in grammar. Not
gus Ahee young lady came to my
pa'e 10y admission to the university,
4a''as graduated, as she declared, at
SHnoi which shall be nameless. It
'1' g once evident that she had been
s'.pa " Engaged in the movement
nmatical reform; for in her
Hs'as endeayors to avoid the vio-
1iten done 10 the innocent
se'.s.i'.e OF the verb to do, she de-
.a.. have did algebra ana ge-
at we'll as great many other
g vas the prevalence of in
-R'ta .sioims of this kind that led
.stlf efsity TO decide that while
N' al J. approved of the diploma
., hereafter no diploma would
F. ident from examination in
nag 1880 aaa that no student conspic-
a4t saelent in English should be
mi. any department of the
@,. q We should carry our ex-
'ar We might perhaps rec
extension of that rule.
t.. u considerations OF the in
IN notions Of the university and
Il. 'ofy schools are here out of
iar.. 'ae end Of the Astounding in
I'M, saaqnet Of which we have
sr,.l. 8sen what is needed is not
sr#, .Ahofate course, but simply
Am as e perform. the function Of a
sr. ee OF smoke, or perhaps
ai-. ilas really have to say per-
ariFsss, r 20 the relations of the
Il 1 Y me preparatory schools.
asif. 5ess prove sufficiently go
y