The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-15
Educational Realm.

ELECTIVE SYSTEM FOR CHILDREN.
President Eliot before the Harvard
Teachers Association advocated the ex-
tension Of the elective system In the sec
ondary school down to children. ten yea rs
old He criticised the existing school
system for its arbitrary courses or stuoy
which compel students to walt TIL the
language study that they could master
at 9 or 10. He suggested increasing the
high school course TO six years, the adj
ditional two years being added at the low
cr end Of the course. He thought there
was no objection TO the number Of sub
jccts taught in the, schools but only IN n ttle
number required and advocated the elec-
tive system to remedy this defect jf}
coRNELL's PENSION PLAN.
The execution OF Cornell University $
long CHERISHED plan to retire aged protes-
sors on liberal pay has been detlnltely
announced. From donated nucleus OF
$3.50, 600 each professor on re tlrement IS 10
receive three-fourths of a $l.bO0 annuity,
the other fourth being contributed by
active members of the faculty.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL REFORM
The bad effects of football, as, now
nlayed by American college students, has
been brought to the front by the PROPOSE
ton Of Professor Hollis, chairman of the
Harvard Athletic Committee, to discon-
tinue the Harvard-Yale contest on the
ground that it is demoralizing to the stu
dent body. He claims that the develop
ment OF the mass plays has made the
game dull one to spectators. and that
with the prevailing tendencies me plAy .
ers themselves noflonger get any fun out
of the game. The so-called strategy by
which team concentrates on the weakest
man in the opposing line Is not a les
son In chivalry. In! q later sta tement
Professor Hollis said he objected to brtl-
tai contests. but was not opposed to the
right kind Of football.
WHY BAR PROFESSIONALS? 8
Dr.. E. S., Smith, chairman of the Uni
yersity Of Pennsylvania Athletic Commit
tee, addressing New York Aalumi, said ne
believed that students who have earned
their living by their skill in athletics
should not on that account DO excluded
from college contests.
COST OF COLLEGE COURSE,
A comparative statement of student
expenses at Columbia University, COM
piled by the Committee on Student En-
ployment, shows that the cast during one
year of the course averages from 5000 In
the law. department up to S612 in medl-
cine This Is about 500 higher than the
average at Harvard. Yale and other east
ern colleges. n
TUBERCULOSIS IN TIE SCHOOLS,
A number of prominent doctors, preach
ers and reformers. at Washington, -. y,
have organized a propaganda to fight tu-
berculosis, which they regard as prevent
able and durable. Tho work is to be made
the subject of special study in the public
schools, G5
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP CONDITIONS.
Tho Journal of Education reports that
all OF tho States are following the Massa-
chussets plan OF selecting Rhodes schol-
arshlp, candidates not to be less than u
or more than % years old with at least
two years regular attendance of an
American college. q 5 SsE.
REASON FOR SEGREGATION, u
The difference IN degrees In maturity
between boys and girls was given by
President Harper of Chicago University,
Wednesday, as n fundamental reason for
segregation. He said that when thrown
together In tho new environment OF the
University boys and girls became con-
sciolEs of differences before unnoticed
and the personal element crept In toe
strongly for the best work.