Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-20
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Remarks made by President George It.
Baer of the Reading railroad at the dedi-
cation of the high school building at
Reading, Pa, were to the effect that be,
cause the education of all the peopls
must necessarily be limited, it is danger
Gus and creates rash and superficial
thinking and unrest. He likened the msn
who protested against industrial condi-
tons to Jack Cade, the leader of the
peasant uprising in England during the
middle ages.
A decision of the Supreme Court of
Washington upholds the policy of the
Seattle school authorities in denying all
privileges except class attendance to pu-
pills who are members of secret or Greek
letter fraternities. The members had
been prohibited from belonging to debat-
ing clubs, athletic teams, glee clubs and
the like. The court says the evidence
shows that such fraternities tend to de-
stroy good order, discipline and scholar
ship in the schools.
In anticipation of overcrowded schools
after Jan. !, when the new Georgia child
labor law goes into effect, a number of
business men in Columbus, Ga, nave
founded the secondary industrial school,
which will give a thorough training in
the trades to the children of factory OPP
e~ratives. Especial attention will be given
TO the cotton Industries, in the hope of
supplying skilled labor, for which there
is a great demand. The length of the
course is four years, and it will include
courses in shorthand, domestic science
and the common branches.
Prof. Folwell of the political science
department Of the university of Mime
sofa thinks that there is not as much
culture in the schools as there ought to
be. In regard to coeducation, he says:
The irruption Of women into mems col
leges does not seem to have improved the
manners of the men nor injured those OF
the women to any material degree, but a
g. longer experience is needed to justify a
final resolution of the problem OF coedu-
cation He thinks the small college and
the female seminary did more for culture
than the big universities of the present.
A complete registration of this years
students at the university of Pennsylva-
mia shows that the number now exceeds
1000. a gain of is per cent.
Work is now in progress at Yale uni
yersity on a new book stack, to accom-
modate 100000 books. Z The bookcase
will be made of steel and so adjusted that
every volume may be seen by natural
light. The floors of the six decks will be
of heavy glass and the windows of trans
lucent glass, so as to avoid the use of
shades. An automatic endless chain car
rier will enable the official at the desk
to procure a book from any one of the
cases at a moments notice.
Andrew Carnegie was the guest of
Princeton university for the purpose Of
making the formal presentation of the
lake which he had caused to be construct
ed near the university campus. Over the
entrance to the college grounds the stu
dents had hung a big sign lettered as
follows: "Welkum to the laird of Skibo."
Many prominent educators from differ
ent parts of the country attended the so
cial education congress at Boston and
listened TO papers bearing on the sub
iect of how to better our citizenship.
Prof. James I. Young of the university
of Pennsylvania spoke of commercial ed
ucation in the university and urged a Sc
r1es of social congresses.