Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
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The trustees of Williams college have
announced that President Henry Hopkins
of the institution has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect in June, 1908. Prof.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late Presi-
dent James A. Garfield Williams alum
nus and at present occupying the chair
Of politics at Princeton university, has
been chosen to succeed President Hop
kins.
The Experiment Station Record an
nounces that the Massachusetts College
has established department of agricul-
tural education, its work to include both
instruction and research. Normal courses
will be offered to prospective teachers,
and studies will be made of problems con-
fronting agricultural teaching in colleges
and schools of various grades, and of ag-
ricultural extension, with view to intro
ducing agriculture into the elementary
schools, establishing agricultural high
schools, and correlatins and unifying the
agricultural instruction given in the
State The work will be in close coop
Grafton with existing educational agen-
cies, especially the State Industrial Com
mission
The New York City Board of Educa-
ton has decided to establish free pub
lie school for the education of deaf chihs
dren. This action is in pursuance of the
report of its committee on elementary
schools, which stated that school for
deaf children was entirely practicable as
part of the system of public education,
and advised a preparatory course of two
to three years in voice training, to be
followed by the pupils as far as possible
by a regular course of study, including
manual training. William Ii. Maxwell,
city superintendent, in speaking on the
subject, said that there were probably
about 100 deaf children in Manhattan
who were not being cared for or educated
in any institution. The board will ar
range to give school accommodations to
at least 175 pupils at the start.
Supt. Rapp of Berks county, Pa, is
putting into execution a plan which has
been formulating for some time in the
effort to impress upon country boys and
girls that the city is not the only place
to work in nor the most desirable place
to live in. The plan by which he is
seeking to combat the city's call is to
establish clubs for boys and girls The
object of the clubs is to bring the boys
into competition with each other in the
matter of raising certain vegetables and
other farm employments, and create
friendly feeling among the. girls about
their cooking, needlework and other house
wifely employments. Prizes will be Of
fered and exchanges of ideas made posi-
i
in doing their line of work we'll will keep
many a boy and girl from going to the
city.
The declaration of principles made by
the recent semi-centennial convention of
the National Educational Association at
Los Angeles indorses the growing in
sistence upon the special preparation of
teachers: favors the advance in salaries
to "a living wage; approves the spread
of rural high schools: says that CONNER
cial and trade schools should be added
wherever possible: urges free evening
schools and the use of buildings and
grounds "for the relief of the poor of the
crowded districts in the summer; asks
the harmonizing of child labor and tru-
ancy laws; regrets ''the revival of the
for teaching nothing but reading, spell
ing. writing and ciphering," and declares
that the object is ito teach children how
to live righteously and happily, and that
20 accomplish this object it is essential
that every school inculcate the love of
truth, justice, purity and beauty through
the study also of biography, history,
ethics. natural history, music. drawing
and the manual arts. 1t also expresses
the belief that interschool games should
be played for spoStSmanship and not
merely for victory. 1t commends the ten
denotes Of cities and towns TO replace
large school committees or boards with
small boards. which determine general
policies, but intrust all executive func-
tions to salaried experts 1t also APP
proves in a qualified way the efforts of
the simplifed spelling board urges the
call for greater facilities for the higher
education Of women. especially in the
South and West advises the abolition of
secret societies and fraternities in all sec
ondary and elementary schools: approves
the merit system of promoting teachers
and filing vacancies; presses the need
of better facilities for the practical prep
aratlon of teachers. lndOrSeS The Hague
conference and peace associations. and re-
fleets somewhat vaguely upon the spirit
of trades unionism among teachers.
II is reported from New Haven that,
after three trials. with an annually d.
minishing attendance, Yale University
has decided TO abandon its summer school
after this year. The school has lost money
each v.zr although MANY of the rnpu,-
bers OF the faculty have given their ser
vices free Of charge.
The alumni advisory board OF Ya-e
university has recommended moderaEs
advance of the tEstioa charges IN those
departments where expenses have been
considerably increased. AT the same time
the board has urged the adoption OF a
uniform system of loans 10 students,
payable st re. sonabis periods after their
graduation