Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-09-14
NEXT COLLEGE YEAR.

NEAT COLLEGE YEAH.
University VIII Supplement coun.
try School Deficiencies.
GREAT RUSH OF NEW STUDENTS.
Boys to study Post Graduate Agriculture
New Library building Fatalities-Pro-
fessor Henry Says War Changed Beet
Sugar Outiook-A Professor WHO Gives
onesTenth to Good Works How u
Banker Befrientled student.
Madison, Wis, Sept. 6.-The state uni
versity viii open Sept. 90. That IS
Thursday; 5 o'clock is the hour for reci-
tations. The preceding Tuesday and
Wednesday will be devoted 10 examina-
tion 81 those who would b. freshmen
or who seek advanced standing
Ma olson is dead now. The summer
visitors have mostly gone home and the
first shower of collegian interests has
vile has been in town looking up foot
ball prospects. and the candidates will
soon begin pract &c. The O'Dea broth
ers of Australia, fine. manly young fell
lows, have been here all summer. They
are Catholic gentlemen. The older one
coaches the crew and the younger one
will probably head the foot ball elev,
en-, as Cochems is going to the Harvard
law school. Cochems is the student
who has done good political work for
Mr.. La Toilette. The Harvard law
school is perhaps the best III the coun-
try. No one is admitted who has not
degree from some college. All of WILL
lam NJ. Evarts sons are educated there,
although they take a college course in
New Haven.
New Brains on the Faculty
The most important change in our
faculty this year is the coming of Pro
fessor r, A, Harper from Lake Forest
to succeed Professor Barnes in botany.
The latter has been called to Chicago
university. which with Rockefeller's
| millions, grabs up teachers as soon as
they get fame. Harper is recommended
by the scientists to whom Pres. dent Ad-
ans appealed for growing botanist
Professor Barnes will be loss to the
Presbyterian church here. He is a p, =
itan in cast gives a tenth of his in
/ come religiously to the church and
charities, and was noted in faculty de-
alterations for his good sense.
Mrs. Adams still an Invalid.
President Adams has been in Cali
fornia all summer with his sick wife
She has not been gaining as was hoped
and will spend the coming winter there.
President Adams will be in Madison
Sept. %, the regular regents meeting
being postponed from the goth. A young
married professor, Sober, in the Latin
department, with his family makes a
home for the president in Mrs. Adams
absence.
Lieutenant Brooks is expected back
at the head of the military instruction
He started early for Washington when
the Spaniards got foolish, but Brooks
has not been out of the country. He
is West Pointer and an enthusiastic
soldier. just the fellow to do what Hob
son did if he had half chance. His
wife is an army officers daughter and
was great belle at West Point whe n
her father was superintendent. He is
now in charge of the federal buildings
in Washington, which includes detec-
tive service TO safeguard President Nc
Kinley.
Professor Fortinbaugh of the electri-
cal engineering department has accept
ed big salary lii Cleveland, for there
is more money in making electrical ma
chinery than in teaching about them.
Professor Swenson takes his place. One
of the most interesting developments is
the attempt to supplement the deficien-
cies of Wisconsin boys and girls in
their use Of English. They come from
the country schools, especially very de-
fective in this particular 1t is a cry
ing shame the inadequacy of early in
struction. With all our boasting sta
tistirs show that we rank among the
lowest in the Union. Some of the high
er educators of the state are bending
their energies to the matter and we may
expect better things. In the state uni
versity two carefully trained men have
been secured-R. T. Neal Dodge from
Brown university, Providence, and Ed
ward A Thurber of Lincoln Neb. These
men will build up a new department
| under Professor Hubbard. Additional
| work is to be required, both for admis-
| sion and in course, and In time parents
of college boys and girls may reasona-
bly, expect to get letters from Madison,
both spelled and expressed with accu-
racy and elegance. Professor Freeman.
| who has more directly to do with litera-
ture excels in interesting and inspiring
his pupils with a love for the best
prn "a al w 0
charge of elocution, goes to Oberlin, and
is succeeded by DR.. Arthur r. Priest,
who comes from De Paw university.
The law faculty is recruited by A. A.
Bruce, who graduated in Madison in
| 1887 claw 1900. For some years he has
been practicing in Chicago. He sue
ceeds Professor Drew, who goes to the
| Illinois state university at Champaign.
! The school of music loses Professor FL.
d. Sleeper, who has a new position in
Smith College for Girls in Northampton,
Mass Among the academic fellows,
promising young men who get from
| $500 to 5000 from the university in re-
| turn for which they teach to some ex-
| tent and enjoy opportunity for study,
| there is constant change. Mr.. Terry
| has a leave of absence for year to
perfect himself in physics; Mr.. Reinsch.
| in political science, is back. DIR. Laird
| Greek returns from year abroad;
| and DIR. Fisher of the pharmacy school
| is off for d. years study abroad. The
| attendance this next year promises to
| be very large, and never have there
| been more applications from other
| states, even from both coasts. There
were three Japanese students last year
Killed on the New Library.
| The principal Improvement in the
| plant is the $50, 900 extension to the old
| (main) building on top of the hill, but
| although the contractors promised TO
| have it dore Nov. /. the university will
| not enjoy it this year. The plan is to
mouse the president, the dean and the
| registrar Oh the first floor and devote
| the second to a lecture room that will
| seat 4O0-the biggest on the campus
| Work on the $500 900 library building
| goes on. but that won't be finished be-
| fore Jan. /, 1900. One man working on
| the huge pile fell thirty feet the other
| day and lived. Another few days later
| fell forty feet and Jared worse. He
| broke his neck.
| Every year brings great number OF
| students who must work their way
| THROUGH college, AS rule, waiting on
| table 4 boarding house or taking
| care OF furnaces and horses for tinid