Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
AHOOHS
COLLEGES

Louisiana is discussing compulsory edu'
cation.
The Philadelphia board of education
is considering the promoting of pupils
three times year instead of twice.
The school children of Kansas have
been contributing their pennies to help
pay for stones to mark the old Santa Fe
trail.
The Panama canal commission has de-
cided to establish a chain of public
schools throughout the canal zone. A
number of teachers have already beer
sent to the isthmus, and others will fol.
low.
DR.. Stratton D. Brooks, who a short
time ago left a high educational post in
Boston to become the superintendent Of
the Cleveland, Ohio schools, is now to re,
turn to his former field of usefulness,
having been elected superintendent of the
Boston schools.
Nine-tenths of the young people in the
State of Rhode Island can attend Brown
university or the State normal school
while boarding at home, which is not true
of one-half the people of any other State
as to the leading college and State
normal school. There is scarcely a school
in the State that the superintendent can
not visit without being away from home
ovee night, and every teacher in the State
can attend the annual session of the State
association with a total mileage so small
as to seem ridiculous to the teachers of
other States. All of this makes for the
most effective supervision and school leg
islation.
Under the recent federal act of incor-
poration, the Carnegie foundation for the
advancement of teachers was reorganized
by its trustees at New York. Since last
fall the claims of various colleges have
been investigated. To be ranked as
college, an institution must have at least
six teachers and a full four years course
in arts and sciences. The exclusion of
sectarian institutions will bar many large
colleges Any professor 65 years old who
has had not less than fifteen years service
will receive an allowance of $1,000 if his
salary is $1,000 and $50 more for each
500 additional active pay. The award
ing of allowances will begin in June. Two
hundred applications have already bean
made. The annual income is 100000.
A committee of the alumni of Columbia
University, headed by William Barclay
Parsons, has perfected plans for a ST.
000.0 900 stadium or athletic arena for the
use of Columbia University and the New
York public schools athletic leagues on
ground which is to be reclaimed from the
Hudson River. When completed it will
extend from 10th street to 120Ch street
out to the pier line. On this ground three
distinct fields will be erected, one for the
university in the center and two on either
side for the schoolboys. Stands will be
erected on three sides to seat So, 900 peo-
ple. but on the water side an artistic
gate has been designed, with locker rooms
for athletic teams and crews. On top of
the roof covering the stands large recre-
alton pier is contemplated.
Supt. W. ]. Shearer of the Elizabeth
On. j. public schools is advocating a
more plant system of school grading. He
believes that American children have q
right to exercise individual taste and re-
spond to individual need in the work OF
the higher grades and that in all the
grades they should be left free to go az
fast as individual ability and opportu.
nifty will permit. To do this the princi
pal and teacher must have a plan for
Reconsideration of pupils at any time, in
stead of being obliged to everlastingly
force the pupil ITO fit an arbitrary and
senseless system" DR.. Shearer says that
there are three requisites for the attain.
meEt of the desired result: First, accu.
rate classification Of pupils at TIE outset I;
second. such provision for Redistribution
that pupils OF equal Advancement can be
kept together; third, a provision that will
enable each set of pupils to go just as fast
as they are able, but no faster, there be.
| ing no arbitrary standard to worry about
Who he asks, will give any good rea.
son for mailing the course of study to the
caiendar?" BY reason Of the prevailing
system of set courses by the year, he
SAYS, there is an enormous and criminal
loss Of time.
yilhjalnuer Steffansson, now a student
at Harvard has been appointed a mem.
Der of the newest expedition in search OF
/ the north pole, which viii leave early in
| MAY from Vancouver, under command of
Capt. Elmer Mikkelson. The Harvard
student will be the youngest member Of
the expedition.
Hereafter in the public schools o.
LynchbGrg, Va, the increase of teachers
salaries is to depend upon efficiency. This
IS to be ascertained by having the super.
intendent and supervising principals re.
port on the work OF the teachers as TO six
points; discipline, knowledge of subject,
method and manner, moral influence, pro
| fessional interest and health.