Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-29
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Kansas City will establish parental
school.
Chicago will in future put in only slate
blackboards.
Ten of England's premiers have been
educated at Elton and FIVE at Harrow.
There are 500 Indian teachers in the
Indian schools of the United States
men and 26O women.
Utica, n Y. DR.. NJ. G. Benedict,
superintendent, has bought the vacant
lots adjoining nine different school build
ings in the city.
In a cosmopolitan school in New Brit
ain, Conn, it is the practice to require
children to give talks in the class on the
land of their ancestry.
Cambridge, Mass, allows any teacher to
take a year off for study, and draw
third of the salary. 1t is a great advant-
age to teachers and to the city.
In Parkersburg, w. Va, sin grades one
to eight inclusive, minimum salary shall
be SO per month"; annual increase s.
per month; maximum salary, $50 per
month"
President Tucker of Dartmouth College
declares that he is not willing to accept
the Republican nomination for Governor
o. his State, but prefers to continue his
duties as college president.
The late Bishop Mandell once was
asked the difference between an Oxford
and, Cambridge man. and replied: AN
Oxford man looks as if the world belonged
to him a Cambridge man as if he didn't
care to whom the world belonged"
The department of superintendents of
the n. E. A. at its recent Louisville
(Ky.) meeting recommended the following
changes in spelling: ''Buziness'' for bust
ness, ''enuf" for enough, ''fether' for
feather, 'mesure" for measure, ''plesure"
for pleasure, '1trauf'' for trough, thru"
for through, ''tuf'' for tough, "tung'' for
tongue, ''yung' for young.
Fully two-thirds of the towns of the
State of Connecticut are now committed
to the principle of free text books in the
public schools, just as the State stands
committed to the public school system.
This was determined at the elections re-
Gently.
American women in London are trying
to raise a fund which shall do for women
what the Rhodes scholarships do for men.
The plan is TO send one or two students
from each State for a course in one of
the English universities 1t is hoped that
ten million dollars can be raised for the
purpose.
When Senator J. T. Morgan was asked
by a Britisher at what college he was
graduated he replied that the first time
1a an -, /,
life was in the Civil War. when, with his
command. he took refuge from the Yankee
bullets behind the brick walls of the Col
lege of William and Mary, in Virginia.
Prof. William OSWALD of the Univer-
sity of Leipsic, who has been lecturing in
this country, gives his impression of
American student life as follows: THE
personal interest of the students, next to
their studies, is concentrated alone on
sport, which draws their attention alto
gether from intellectual or esthetic pur-
suits"
Lead pencils are probably responsible
for the serious epidemic of diphtheria
which prevails at Yates Center, Woodson
County, Kansas. This is the diagnosis
of DR.. s. j. Crumbbine, secretary of the
State Board of Health, as result of his
discovery that the public schools of Yates
Center have used lead pencils from
common supply, purchased by the school
board, distributed Unfortunately to the
pupils each morning, and collected each
afternoon at the close of school. DR..
Crumbbine ordered that the entire stock
Of Cooperative lead pencils be imme-
diately burned. He also issued orders
forhi6diny the continuation of This uer-
nicious custom.