The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-19
IOWA
NICE ROW STARTED
Leading Educators Resentful Over
the Selection of Cecil Rhodes "
Scholarship Committee.
Heads of Normal School and the
State School of Agriculture a.
Overlooked. :
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines Iowa, Feb. ia fine row is
fairly set ir,. motion over the selection OF
candidates for the Cecil Rhodes scholar
ships. Prominent educators are resentful
at the manner in which the committee to
have charge of this selection was chosen
Last Saturday there was, a meeting IN
Chicago, called by President Harper OF
Chicago University, for the purpose OF en-
abling, educators TO meet DR.. George r.
Parkin of the Upper. Canada college at
Toronto the representative in this country
of the Rhodes will scholarships. This
meeting was, by no means representa-
tive one Of. Iowa educators. However, at
the meeting the committee to have charge
of the selection of candidates in Iowa was
named Those chosen were Presldents
MacLean Of the state university, Bradley
Of Grinnell. King Of Cornell, Mccormick
Of Coe, and Dean Bell Of Drake unlvers-
ity. -
In a day or two dispatches began to cir
culate through the Iowa papers That the
sele ction was generally satisfactory IN
fact the selection is not satisfactory ana
educa tors here are: asking why COM
mittee was made up composed chiefly OF
the representatives of denom1natlonal
colleges and why the heads Of the state
| normal school and the state college OF
agricultural were left off the board
! Governor Cummins will make recon-
|
! incorpora ton laws.
Major Turner quartermaster in charge
Of the construction Of the buildings at the
Des Moines army post, has received or
ders from Washington to advertise fol
bids for thirteen additional buildings.
Suffering OF the Poor.
The most intense suffering of the sea
son among the poor was caused by the
recent cold spell. The office OF the Poit
l county koverseer of the poor is throngee
with ragged men, women and children
demanding food and fuel to keep IRON
! starving and freezing. Overseer Morris
looked after fifty cases of serious desti
tuition yesterday and the associated chart
ties and humane society and other chart
table organizations arc kept busy.
chckenpox Pacards.
The state board of health has decides
to require placarding of house in whicl
there are cases of Fchickenpox. the sam
as in cases of measles or whooplng cough
The reason for the boards action is tina
4 in many part Of the state smallpox
mistaken for chicl1enpox, and unless thei'
is a quarantine against chickenpox ma n
are needlessly exposed to the more dan
gerous disease.
THE board of health received a com
plant against Dr. Z. B. Ful]iam of Mus
catine. who is alleged to have failed t
; report properly smallpox cases. The mat
!, ter was referred to the board Of med
| cal examiners and an Investigation wi
be made. 1t is expected DR.. Fulliam wi
be tried by the medical examiners.
Successor to Beardshear.
: It is understood that while in the ca:
Governor Cummirs will give considers
ton to the question of selecting a ne
president for the Iowa state college,
lsucceed President Beardshear. 1t is e,
< | pected he will cast about for suitab
D man among prominent eastern educator
4 The governor is a member Of the con
mttee named by the trustees to sele
f a president.