Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-18
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Gov Proctor of Vermont has signed
the bill providing for the consolidation
of the school systems of neighborng
towns under one superintendent.
Registration statistics of leading east
ern universities are as rolows: Harvard,
5,272 Columbia, 1865; Pennsylvania,
1860; Cornell, 3,461 Yale, 3,210;
Princeton, 1854.
The annual report of the London coun-
ty council shows that the city schools
have been maintained at an outlay of
So, 100000, md that there are 10000
teachers for an average school attend
arce of 669, 167. The salaries for head
teachers range from 500 to $1,000, and
for assistants from 1926 to 1915. Each
teacher has charge OF forty-three children
on an average
BY decision Of the Supreme Court of
the State of Washington legal authority
upholds the efforts of school officials to
check the abuse of secret fraternities and
societies in public high schools A local
board had forbidden pupils to join a Sc
cret fraternity, and as a penalty for dis
obedience denied to offenders certain priv
ileges in the social life Of the school, but
did not limit in any way the essential
educational rights. Action was brought
in behalf of the fraternity to restrain
the school board from depriying the pupils
Of these privileges. The trial court denied
the application for an injunction, and
the Supreme Court sustained the denial
The court says that the evidence over
whelmingly establishes the fact that such
fraternities do have a marked influence
on the school, tending to destroy good or
der, discipline and scholarship. This be-
ing true. the board is authorized, and it
is its duty, to take such reasonable and
appropriate action by the adoption OF
rules as will result in preventing these
influences"
The st. Paul board of education has
approved the suggestion of Supt. Heeter
in favor Of corporal punishment, 10 lie
administered only by the principal of the
school after permission in writing has
been obtained from parents or guardian.
The first ten years since Princeton
college became Princeton university have
lust ended and the report shows that the
endowment has increased from S1,67f,S71
TO S3.2S4.O00. The campus area has in
creased from 22J to 33S acres, and the
student body has grown from 1045 to
.3s4. while the faculty has increased
from 50 to 1866.
A group OF Yale men his just sue
ceeded in buying a home for the estab-
lishment Of a college at Changsha, China,
TO be named for their alma mater. Ii
will open with a staff of four Yale pro.
fessors and three Chinese professors.
They think the time is opportune for es-
tablishing an American university in the
heart of China, because the civil service
examinations of the old regime have been
abolished, the setting free the Chinese
youth to study modern science, history
and politics. Across the river from the
new Yale is college older inan Oxford
university, which has recently been turn
ed into a modern high school for the
benefit Of the ambitious Chinese pupils.
Prof. Butler of Columbia university.
in his report. advocates an Increased
wage scale for the memDcrs Of the faculty.
He asserts that the professors salary
Is half OF the sum regarded as Necessary
thirty years ago. and that tie cost OF
living has increased from 10 to 20 per
cent. He says il would reqaire an en-
dowment Of 100000 to increase the
salary Of the 15S professors $1,000 a year
each. Referring to football. he defends
the prohibition of the game on Column
bias campus He says that the most
serious effects of football contests work
upon the spectators and the public. the
students often being swept into a vortex
Of hysteria and emotioralism.