The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-05-18
PERTAINING TO EDUCATION.

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PERTAINING TO EDUCATION,
A Few Matters of Interest to the Pro-
gressiye Educational Worker.
'Ihe county superintendent of Good
hue county sent circular letters to his
teachers last February, asking them
what they considered the chief him
drance to good work in the schools
and out of one hundred nineteen re-
esaseventy said that it was irregular
attendance. Many people will haggle
at store counter over the amount of
sugar they receive for a dollar, but
they sill help pay a school teacher
fromthree to five hundred dollars
yearand then deprive their children
of thB benefits Of the expenditure by
keeping them at home half the time.
Thy latest universal" language to
be Invented is the ''Tutonish" of Prof.
Molee. Since 164l some twenty-seven
Of these languages have been promul-
gated. Great philologists rarely if
ever3 lend their influence to these crea-
tlonss as one who thoroughly UNDER
STANDS linguistic laws knows that Ian
guagfs, like poets, are born, not
made y:
Cohmbia university has adopted a
plan8Whereby high school students
may center the freshman class at the
mid id wear examination, the object be-
ing5to induce a larger number of pub
lie school graduates to continue their
education from the high school into
the College without break. Under
the rev program the length of stu
dents course depends on his own in
dustrg and may be made three, three
and 1one-half, or four years.
Asa result Of charges made by SEN
ator Bard of California, that the gov
efnment was still furnishing funds for
the support of sectarian Indian
schools, in violation Of the law, an
seffor. was made ns-congress-to- add to
the Indian appropriation bill clause
expressly: forbidding any further
grants to such schools. The two
houses got into a wrangle over the
matter however and the subject was
finally dropped.
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The State board of education in
Maryland has put itself on record in
a set of resolutions declaring for COM
pulsory education in the State, of all
children between the ages of eight and
twelve years.
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The Nashville American says: ':In
the matter of general information,
politicl matters, and public affairs,
there is, in proportion, more ignor-
ance in the city than in the country.
Rural free delivery, better roads, tel
ephones, public schools, easier means
of communication, etc., all have had
an influence in the diffusion of infor-
nation among the rural population. :"
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In reply to the recent attack of GER
tain practical legislators on the So
called ''fads and frills'' in the New
York city public schools, the Princi-
pals club of that city has issued a
statement. It is admitted that, educa-
ton must be practical and prepare
the child for life, but denied that ex-
elusive devotion to the three RS is
sufficient. It is held that students of
today spell, cipher and write as we'll
as those of twenty years ago. Com
positions are now written by the whole
class, based on the pupils own
thought, says the reply.
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Members of the University of Chi
cago faculty and friends of the insti-
tuition are awaiting the announcement
of another large gift to the school by
John D. Rockefeller. They think it
will come this time in the form of an
amount sufficient to complete some of
the buildings President Harper has
planned.
So.
David F. Swenson, instructor in
philosophy and psychology, has been
granted a years leave of absence
from the university and will spend
his vacation partly in Europe and
partly in advance work at Columbia
university. His place. at Minnesota
will be taken next year by DR.. Percy
Hughes, for the past two years in
structor of philosophy at Columbia.
Knew the Capacity.
Mrs. Homer-Do have some more
OF the pudding, Miss Guestly.
Miss Guestly-Well, lust little,