Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-07
COLLEGE NOTES.

! that state. Ohio state university is
put, first, and Oberlin third.
Prof. ]. w. Manck of Chicago has
taken the presidency of Hillsdale
| (Mich) college. He was once presi-
dent of the university of South Da-
kota.
President Ayres of the university Of
Cincinnati faces charges of using pro
| fame language and misrepresenting Of
fetal records, preferred by a member
of the faculty
Yale gets another college presidency
in the recent election of Thadeus
Hugh Claypool, who graduated in 1898,
as head of New Mexico Baptist col
| lege at Alamogardo, n. M.
1t was announced at Wesleyan
Wednesday that Prof. Atwater's ex-
periments with the calorimeter, in
which a man was used to determine
food values, would be discontinued
the coming year and that the present
instrument would be torn down and
one substituted for it.
The corner stone for the new edu-
cational institution for which James
Milliken gave 100000 in cash and an
endowment of $4,000 a year was laid
at Decatur Ill, Thursday. Citizens
| OF Decatur and the Cumberland Pres
byterian church added 100000 to the
endowment. 1t is to be known as
Milliken university
DR.. w, L. Bryan, vice president of
Indiana university, will be elected to
succeed DR.. Joseph Swain, who has
been elected to the presidency of
Swarthmore college DR.. Bryan is
about A years old, graduate of In
diana university, class of "a, and has
been at the head of the department of
philosophy and pedagogy since 1883.
Michigan has graduated the largest
class of law students in her history.
OF the $50 graduates only about so
say they will practice in Michigan,
many more will go to the eastern
states, while over 100 will go farther
west this summer or in the fall Fifty
have signifed their intention of
swinging their shingles in Chicago,
and about that many say they intend
going into business.
The race war against the colored
normal and industrial institute
at Eldorado, Ill., continues JEFF
ferson, D. Aston, president of
the school, has been chosen
head of the school for life, and
against him an intense feeling exists
The board of trustees, of whom DR..
Mitchell white physician, of Harris
burg, is president, will consider both
the removal of the school and the
choosing of a new president at the
meeting Friday.
The college graduate is unfit for the
practical affairs of life, said Prof. Os-
car L. Triggs of the university of Chi
cago, in a recent address. The adj
dress was plea for more schools of
technology and fewer colleges where
the literary course is the principal
one. He declared that the college man
went out into the world unprepared
for the conditions that surrounded
him; that the ideal Of culture which
had been so strongly urged upon him
can be of service to him only in a
state of comparative idleness.
Elections to the Yale News board of
editors took place, and resulted as
follows: Chairman, Thomas Day
Thacher, 1904, New York; business
manager, George S. Munson, 1901,
Williamsport, Pa; assignment editor,
George V. Clucas of New York. The
following are the associate editors:
Arthur Havemeyer, 1905, New York;
Bradford Brinton, 1904 S., La Sale,
ILL.,; Murray Sargent, 1904 S., New
Haven; Henry Gardner, 1905 S., Hins-
dale, I'll. These men will assume Of
fee in February.
The peculiarly local character of
Columbia was illustrated by the pub
LEGATION of the statistics of this years
graduating class. Of the 107 gradu-
ates, II claim New York for their
birthplace. l. are natives of New Jer-
sey, while the next in order is Texas,
with a representation of three. Rus
STA, Canada, Iowa, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania claim two each, and
solitary representatives come from
Montana, Utah, Colorado, Indiana, Cal
ifornia, the District of Columbia,
New England and the south are prac-
tically unrepresented in this big grad
uating class.
The first act in one of the most i'm
portant educational movements in
eastern Canada was taken Thursday,
when the governors of Kings college
at Windsor, N. S., voted to federate
with Dalhousie college at Halifax.
This is the beginning of the union of
the nine colleges of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island,
and to which church men are offering
strong opposition.