Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03
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NcrD COLLEGES

The princeton sophomore class has de-
cded 80 abolish hazing of entering
Glasses.
Fairy stories are t. be introduced irto
curriculum of the Chicago schools as sup
Elementary reading.
| Experimental classes are to be estab-
lished in which $500 defective children
ia New York public schools will be
trained<
Ratings in the New York high schools
will be: based in future upon the class
records and not upon regulation exam
nations.
The Chicago school authorities have
decided that in the future female school
teachers shall be officially designated as
''womer" instead of ladies" as hereto
fore.
Columbia University is to teach the
art and science Of health in special
building costing $2J000O. and presided
over by staff of instructors under DIR.
T. ID. Wood.
The Supreme Court has ordered tie
| Vandaln Railroad to pay to the Indiana
school iund $013,000 and interest, said
sum being the earnings in excess of the
10 per cent dividends. which. under the
original charter granted the road in 1917,
Wac 10 be paid into the school fund.
In Knox County, Tennessee. several
small schools will be consolidated into
one centrally located school, at which
elementary farming viii be taught, be-
sides the usual school cource, and the
school itself will be made a center for
the educational life Of the community.
The Que de Loubet has established
two prizes, 1900 and 500, at Columbia
| University, to be awarded every FIVE
years FIR original work dealing with
| North kmerica at any period preceding
the Declaration of independence. Con-
test open to anyone in the United States.
The Chicago Evening Post finds that
the percentage Of bnd spoilers at Prince
ton is 10; University Of Minnesota, 30:
University Of Illinois. 20; at Yale and
Cornell. high" nj Wesleyan and the
University Of Michigan, fair" and at
Columbias School Of Applied Science,
"atrocioss."
The association of American Univer-
stiles hed its fourth annual convention
at New :York President Eliot Of Har-
ward caused sensation by declaring inst
the educated American does not repro
duce himself Out Of six classes at Har-
ward he: said, only - per cent had edu-
Gated fasnilics.
The Einth annual debate between
Princeto: and Harvard universities was
decided "a favor Of Princeton, which ar
gued the affirmative Of the question. Re
solved, Shat, whenever in the event Of
continued Violence. lives and property are
not protect,sd by the State, it is for the
public g;)oI that the President should
have the:Ds over 10 afford protection with
ont the application 0f a State for fed
eraI aid:
An in;.egigation 81 the effects Of CT
yarctte smoking in tue public schools Of
Kokomo, Iud.. revealed some startling
facts. the publishing Of which has result
ed IN the: abandoning Of the habit By over
100 boys: ard an Immediate improven mt
ia schools work. IL was found that smok-
ers aver5cisd one year older than non
smokers 5n .thc same grade, and inyeter
ate smoEerl two years older. This was
true Of 81 grades. Besides this. teach
ers report sad condpct and noticeable
decline i seaith among smokers.
President Sehurman Of Cornell Univer-
sity. lectering before The Twentieth Cen
fury CluE = Boston. said that our public
schools train only tie intellect Of the
pupil ane d nothing for the cultivation
OF religious faith or moral character. lie
said il wss folly TO blame the schools for
defectr Of blood. sins of will. lapses from
virtue ard blights Of character which
neither o5ir laws nor our policy required
the schools to combat. He thought the
people Themselves were 10 blame.
The Massachusetts, courts have deciar.
ed constitut,on the law requiring towns
Of 900 OH more families 10 provide high
seaooIs o. Il pay pupils tuition IN an
skhar higs school