Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-21
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fOREEGES

Mrs. Louisa n Billiard has given the
Harvard Medical school $4,000 to estab-
lish chair of neuropatholog,.
Judge Harvey r. Keeler of Cleveland
has been offered the position O. dean of
the law department of the West Vir-
ginia university.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid sent a
check from London recently for the Miami
university library fund, in honor of the
fftieth anniversary of his graduation in
June.
DR.. Esther b. Van Bemen, instructor
in Latin and archaeology at the Woman's
college, has recently been appointed hold
er of the Carnegie fellowship for classical
research work for one year in TIE Ameri-
can School for Classical Studies in Rome.
Dean Kirchwey of the Columbia law
school was recently annoyed by the shut
fling of feet just previous to the dis
missal of one of his classes. Looking
over his glasses he rema cked: Just a
moment, gentlemen. l have still a few
more pearls to cast
The Columbus (Ohio) board of educa-
ton recently advanced the salaries -
teachers to a maximum of $3.50 in the ele-
mentary grades and of 500 in other
grades. The minimum salary is increased
to $40 a month. Principals are to re-
ceive $3.50. At Hoboken, n. J., the
minimum salary after Sept. will be 5000
and this will be increased at the rate of
S4S a year until a maximum of $1,000 is
reached. Principals will start at 81 800
and increase 500 year up to $4,000.
There is a straight 14-years age limit
FOR the employment of children as wage
careers in Connecticut, Illinois, Mary
land Indiana. Massachusetts,, Michigan,
Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee,
Wisconsin.
The Hebrew technical school for girls
at Second avenue and Fifteenth street.
New York City, was formally dedicated
Monday. The object of this school is to
teach girls how to do worthy work. The
classrooms are complete in equipments for
the teaching of cooking, dressmaking,
typewriting, bookkeeping and other profit
able arts.
Prof. Milne, the eminent seismologist
of Shide, Isle of Wight, says that there
were bigger earthquakes last year than
the recent one at San Francisco, but not
III lllthIl pOpuIdNtu uISIilCAS- anu Cd44Illy
adds: Fishes, you know, do not write
to the papers where there are serious seis-
mic disturbances"
The New York Court of Appeals, the
highest court in the State, has affirmed the
judgment of the courts below and sus-
tanned the position of the State Depart
ment of Education in the famous Lima
school case, affecting the power of the
State Department of Education to forbid
the wearing of nuns or other religious
garb by a teacher in any public school.
DR.. Lester f. Ward, who has long
been connected with the United States
geological survey and National museum,
and who is eminent for his contributors
both in sociology and paleo-botany, has
been elected professor of sociology at
Brown university. He will assume his
position in September.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has held
that rule made by a school board for
bidding boys playing football is reason
able, and closes its decision with, I'VE
have no doubt as to the power of the
board to determine that it was detri-
mental to the interests of the schot. for
the pupils to indulge in games of foot
ball."