Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-03-13
All High Schools Accredited BY Uni
versity.

| language, will be accredited by the
university hereafter as a result of the
action just taken by the faculty of the
University Of Wisconsin. The only
requirement is that the course of
study of the high school be equal to
that recommended for a four years
high school curriculum by the state
superintendent of public instruction,
and that this course of study be given
in satisfactory manner. The grad
yates of such an approved school will
be received by the university without
examination on the presentation OF
certificate showing the satisfactory
completion of fourteen required unit
courses and containing the recon-
mendatiOn of the principal. Manual
training will hereafter be credited as
one unit toward entrance, and the
students will be permitted to present
one unit of optional study. Com
mercial subjects to the extent of one
unit will also be permitted as a part
of the required work for entrance.
History and science have been remov-
ed from the list of subjects required
of all, and henceforth will be optional.
Spanish will be credited for entrance
and two years of latin will likewise
be accepted These changes meet
with the approval of the com mittee of
the Wisconsin Principals andl Super
intendents' association appointed at
the last meeting of that body to con-
fer with the university authorities In
regard to the entrance requirements.
REQUIREMENTS MORE LIBERAL.
The changes make the present scho-
lastic system of requirements still
more liberal. The groupings of &C
credited high schools into four classes
based upon the amount of foreign
language offered is abolished, and all
schools hereafter will be in the same
class: The conditions for admission
without foreign language have been
so changed as to permit the student
to offer as part of the required units
two optional units without manual
training, or one optional unit with
manual training. The additions that
have been made to the elective sub
jects that may be offered for entrance
consist of Spanish, two units; COM
mercial law, one-half unit; commerce.
al geography, one-half unit; manual
training or optional subject, one unit;
mathematics increased from three to
four units. The only subjects requir-
ed of all are English and mathematics.
NO ONE BARRED.
Every high school in the state that
maintains a satisfactory standard Of
work and a regular course of study
may now have its graduates enter the
university without examination. APP
plIcation for an examination Of schools
not now on the accredited list may be
made by an officer of the school to the
president of the university. On a
basis of this application a committee
ofithe faculty will examine the course
of study and the method of instruc-
ton in the school and on their favor
able recommendation as TO the salts
factory character of these and the
concurrence Of the faculty in this re-
commentator, the school will be
placed on the accredited list.
NEW WOMAN BUILDING AT STATE UNI
vERSITY.
Because it is impossible to give it's
500 young women students adequate
physical training in the present
gymnasium, which can accommodate
conveniently but $50, it is proposed to
erect a woman's building at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. At present about
$50 Of the university girls are crowded
into large classes IN the little gymnas-
ium in Chadbourne hall with it's "a
dressing rooms and 10 shower baths.
All of these $50 freshmen and sopho-
mores are required to take physical
training, and their classes occupy the
gymnasium for SO much Of the avail
able time that only % of the 400 Junior
and seniors girls are doing any gym
nastic work at present, In view of
these conditions a wOman'S building
with adequate gymnasium facilities is
regarded as one of the imperative
needs Of the state university. The
proposed wOman's building will be
built on University avenue Immediate
~ west of Chadbourne hall, and with
OhC A1OOOI OOlAuAhS Will 1OIn d pdEb OIL
the proposed woman's quadrangle
The new structure is to afford
modern and completely equipped
gymnasium for women together with
rooms and halls for social functions
of every character. The great gym
nasium will occupy the main floor
with sufficient dressing rooms, lockers,
aid shower baths for ALL A running
track and swimming tank will afford
additional opportunity for physical
training.
Among the other features of the
building will De an auditorium for
lectures, musical entertainments, and
other larger functions; rest rooms,
lunch room society hall for the literary
and musical organizations, reading
and writing rooms, and a kitchen
with necessary accessories. The lunch