Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-03-30
EDUCATIONAL NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST


EDUCATIONAL NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST
No more school buildings of more
lhan three stories will be built in Mil
waukee, as the school board has de-
cided that such buildings are danger
Gus TO life.
Philadelphia is about TO build n new
manual training school. for which il is
expected 100000 will be spent Ii ia
to be the largest building in the world
devoted to manual training. There
will be free industrial library in
connection with the school.
The superintendent of the schools
of Peabody, Mass, in his annual report
declares that vertical writing has
proved IA failure. and most of his
teachers agree with him. The report
recommends that next September the
medal slant" be substituted for the
vertical system. The vertical penman-
ship fad was introduced into the Pea
body schools several years ago.
The educational test for voting was
passed in New Hampshire recently. a
number of amendments 10 the consti-
tuition having been voted upon. this re-
eeiving the highest vote. Massachu
Seits also makes it necessary that a
man can read and write before he is
granted the privilege of the ballot
The amendment applies only to voters
hereafter to be qualified and it ex-
empts those voters over GO years of
age.
The class of Harvard 1879. will
erect a stadium, an athletic field sur.
rounded by permanent banks of seats,
the like of which is not to be found in
this country and in the old world only
in few of the ancient cities of Greece
| and Italy. Its seating capacity will be
30 900, and the cost $4,000 An aux
| iliary will hold 10 900 more people 1t
will be erected as a memorial of the
| twenty-fifth anniversary of the class
of 1879, which is TO be celebrated at
JI't. IlltIll-
| bers of the class have subscribed 500.
| 900. 1t is to be completely fireproof
| constructed of brick. steel. stone and
concrete. Entrance will be from the
rear of the bank of seats, and under
| the seats will be the toilet rooms for
the spectators and dressing rooms for
contestants 1t will be horseshoe
shape. with the sides parallel. one end
forming an amphtheater and the 9th
er being open. On the enclosed field
will be a football sridiron, running
track, and a straightaway and there
will be room for every kind of field
sport but baseball.
One of the lady teachers in the
| Brooklyn schools married recently
and in consequence Superintendent
| vacant because of a bylaw of tn,
board Of education which makes mar
riage equivalent to resignation. TIL,
lady demnrred from the ruling of tn,
superintendent and in the suprem,
court of Brooklyn her demurrer wal
sustained Justice Maddox said tina
the ruling of the board was not goo,
in law. Superintendent Maxwell salt
that 1t was part of the teachers con
tract when she entered into the ser
vice OF the board TO accept the Law
which makes her ineligible If she maj
ries.
There is great demand throughou
the United States generally for eng
neers. and many requests have bee
made to the heads of engineering d,
partments in the principal colleges c
the United States. Harvard has will
In short time spent $500. 900 for eng
neering buildings. Wisconsin recen
ly received an appropriation OF 5000
900 for the same purpose; Iowa ha
built 5000 600 engineering buildin
at the agricultural college; the UnIve
sity of Pennsylvania Is about to col
struct 100000 building; the Unive
sity Of Illinois has asked for an appr,
priation of 100000 from the legisl
: ture for an engineering building. an
2 the University of Michigan is compile
l. ing a building at cost Of 31G0, 900.