Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-26
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| Prof. Archibald Coolidge of the history
| department of Harvard has been selected
! TO represent the university as the SOr-
bonnie lecturer in Paris for next year.
William II. s. Demarest was inaugu-
rated as president of Ru,gers college
| hundreds of alumni and representatives
of other colleges, all robed, taking part
in the ceremonies.
| During the past seven years Missouri
has increased the amount paid in teach
| ers salaries by Al per cent During the
| same time the increase in the number OF
teachers has been only II per cent.
In his Phi Beta Kappa Grafton at Co
lumbia, Charles Francis Adams, the dis
tinguished Harvard alumnus and over
seer, advocated a division of his alma
mater and other big universities and col
leges into a number of small colleges or
groups, each under a master who could
be in personal contact with every student,
find out his aptitudes and deficiencies and
suggest or prescribe his course of study.
He says that he has come to regard the
elective system in its present form of de-
velopment as mischievous fad and de-
MES that the average youth of Is has well
defined or clearly developed aptitudes. In
his judgment. a college education should
seek to cultivate all the sides of the mind,
so that the intellectual, like the physical,
athlete should be evenly developed
A new law in Ohio requires the names
of all candidates for member of board of
education. however nominated, to be plac-
ed on ballot without any designation
whatever. except For Board of Educa-
ton The whole number of ballots to
be printed for each school district is to
be divided by the number of candidates.
and the quotient so obtained is the num-
Der of ballots to be printed in series of
ballots. The names are then alphabet
ically arranged, and the first series print
ed. Then the first name is placed last
and the same number printed. and so on
until each name has stood first on the
list. These ballots are then arranged in
tablets with no two ballots with same
order of names consecutive. The vote is
indicated by placing a cross al the left of
the name of the person for whom the
vote is cast The one having the highest
number of votes is elected, and the second
highest and so on. until the required num-
Der has been elected
Seven hundred small country schools
in Indiana have been abandoned since the
movement toward the consolidation of
country schools began. These schools
have given way TO $50 larger consolidated
schools. Report shows that of ninety
one counties reporting the people forty
three endorse consolidation, in nine they
are against consolidation, in thirty-nine
the experiment has moi been sufficient to
enable the people to decide. An average
of S,312 children were transported to
consolidated schools every day during
1905, at an average daily cost of
SS24 So
A Massachusetts decision is that what
selectmen have no power TO refuse APP
proval of bills contracted by the school
committee iii the performance of their
duties under the law, which gives them
the general charge and superintendent
of all the public schools, NOR has the
treasurer any authority to refuse to honor
the orders of the school committee.
The teachers Of Albany, \. Y, are in
favor of the proposed pension law, which
will provide that each teacher of the city
be taxed one per cent of his annual sal
airy and all the money that is deducted
from salaries for being absent to be de-
voted to this fund.
Much interest in college circles has
been taken in the attack on sports by
President Chamberlain of Mckendree col
lege. Lebanon, H., in his annual report.
Besides recommending the unconditional
abolition of football. DIR. McKendree vir- |
tualIy laid much of our current grating
and anarchistic tendencies to the prevail |
ing spirit and practice of intercollegiate
games.
There are in Missouri 465 school dis |
tricts having less than twenty children of |
school age. The districts having twenty |
and less than thirty pupils number 1,132. |
Total number of districts in the State |
having fewer than thirty pupils each |
], 597.