Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-11
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The Rev. s.. BueI, the
new president OF Georgetown university,
is one of the pronounced opponents of
the present methods in football
At the recent annual dinner of the
Union college alumni Andrew Carnegie
offered to give $1,000 TO equip an en-
gineering department at Schenectady on
condition that 4 like amount be sub
scribed by the alumni.
That Bible stories should be told to
school children as part of their language
lessons is Il recommendation made in the
report of the committee of the Wiscon-
sin Teachers Association appointed to
investigate language stddy.
Dr. William Osler, regius professor of
medicine at Oxford. will return to Amer
lea about Christmas and in January will
take part in the work of the Johns Hop
kins Medical school at Baltimore, much
as he did when at the head of that in
stitution.
The teachers Of the Hazleton Pa)
high school decided unanimously that
they would refuse to accept Christmas
presents from their pupils, the reason
being that many of the pupils who felt
it their duty to give were not able and
that others who could not give were en-
vious of those who could.
The Pennsylvania railroad has applied
to the school officials of Altoona for
permission to equip the high school in
that city with complete appliances for
teaching young men the railroad bust
ness from top to bottom. The equip
ment will cost $4,000 and special in
structors will also be furnished by the
company.
The Board of Education at Boone,
Iowa, has passed the following resolution
unanimously: Resolved That every
teacher signing contract to teach in
the schools in this district be notified
that the Board will from this day decline
to accept his or her resignation and will
insist that the contract be carried out
as signed, and that all superintendent
of schools or any member of the board
as to standing or qualification of any
teacher under contract be notified of
such contract. and that this board will
refuse to release such teacher"
Wisconsin is doing more than any 9TH
cr State in the Union to promote the
grading of schools. She has two men,
cX-county supc~intendents. who devote
al Of their time to the graded schools
of the State. Every school with two
teachers receives 500 from the State;
if there are more than two teachers it
receives $500. For this 100000 has been
required heretofore, but so popular is
the movement that this year this appro-
priatiOn had to be raised to $50, 900, and
this law requires that q school with
sixty-fve pupils enrolled must employ
two teachers. These inspectors of rural
schools visit graded schools all the time.
The county superintendent must accom-
pany them.
In the last year the cost of education
to pupils in Chicago has fallen about
two dollars a head below the cost in
1900. Fifty thousand more pupils are
now enrolled than were with us then,
and the cost for the average child is
S15.44 against S1SS1 in 1900. This is
figured on the average number enrolled;
if we compute it upon the average num-
Der of actual attendance the figures rise
to S20.S9 now and S240S in 1900. These
figures are for tuition alone. Putting in
the whole cost of education, or the en-
tire maintenance expenditure of the ele-
mentary schools, the present cost is
S23.6I on the number enrolled and S30.0S
on the average MISUNDERSTANDING.