Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
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By the will of the late Robert y. Car
son of Philadelphia, his fortune, amount
ing to S5,500,OOO will, after the death of
his widow, be devoted to the establish
| ment of a college for orphan girls, SINH
lar to the Girard college for orphan boys.
| Girard's benevolence was Carson's inspir-
alton, and in thus disposing of his fortune
Mr.. Carson took satisfaction in the
thought that no man would live in idle
ness as a gentleman of leisure on the
Carson wealth. The college thus provided
for will be known as the Carson College,
and will be erected OH his estate in
Montgomery county, near Philadelphia.
1t will be non-sectarian in character, al
though clergymen will be allowed to talk
within the limits of fundamental Chris
tan principles.
Two more cities have joined in the
popular chorus against the secret fraterni-
ties in the public high schools namely
Washington ID. G. and Denver Colo. In
the former city Supt. Chancellor holds
that the presence of secret societies is
the sign of a decaying or very young
civilization" and that where the proper
spirit prevails there is loyalty to the
school as a whole" In Denver, Mrs.
Margaret I. True president of the Board
of Education, is leading the opposition as
chairman of the committee appointed to
investigate the matter. She says: The
board feels that the existence of these
societies is an injustice to all the pupils,
as it creates false ideas of social status
and wrongs those children who become
outcasts through not being admitted to the
societies."
Trouble is reported at Sumrall, Miss,
growing out of the opposition on the part
of the natives to Italian children attend
ing the white public schools. The en-
deavor to shut the Italians out began
some weeks ago. The State superintend-
ent of education and the Attorney Cen
eral were appealed to and they decided
that the constitution provided for whites
and negroes and did not catalogue ltal-
ians as a separate race. One of the lead
ers of the Italians who insisted on the
rights of his people was taken beyond the
town limits. soundly thrashed and ordered
to desist in his efforts to get Italian chill
dren into the white schools. The anti
ltai1an sentiment Is SIIObS III -tloHlo
sippi and one of the candidates for Gov
ernor made it the chief plank in his plat
form.
Discomfort with the public school sys- |
tenn has crystalliZed into war cry for |
neighborhood schools, says the Literary |
Digest, and this war cry is raised by the |
friends and not the enemies of the public
schools, who believe that concentration
has reached ii limit in schools as well as
in other departments of civic activity.
Boston has had the subject brought to
its attention by observing that over 30
600 of its children, or over one-third of
it's school population, are attending pri-
vate schools. 4 writer in the Boston
Transcript says there is among parents
a growing dread of the big public school,
where little children are herded together
by the hundreds They are afraid of it
physically. mentally and morally. Year
after year these public schools have been
growing bigger and bigger. until at pres
ent il is common in the larger cities 10
see from 1000 to 5000 little tots crowded
together into the same building, which
is in consequence just so much further
from the homes of many. Machine meth
DDS. under such circumstances, become
inevitable. and it is difficult to give any
kind of elasticity to such a system. and
the writer believes that the growth of
the private schools marks a revolt against
This kind of public school. lie thinks
the remedy will be the development of
neiehborho0d schools under central gu
pervision.
yt.t-z e Far Ia too pha in
MINNEAPOLIS has been raised from $500
to $1,000 after a lively campaign in whicS
committee of citizens took part. tfS
Board of Tax Levy appropriating the
necessary amount.
The National Academy of Design OF
New York has decided to separate the
men and women art classes. Heretofore,
with the exception of those devoted to
work from living models, the classes have
been mixed The management has the
impression that hirtations have distracted
the attention of the students from their
work
The report of the United States com
missioner OF education for 1905, just is
sued, shows the number of students in the
medical schools of the country to be 3D.
$50. a decrease OF Lila from the pfeced-
ing year DIR. j. II. Long, writing in
Science said that fully one-half of these
are fully prepared in schools that exist
merely as commercial ventures"
Woodstock College, the philosophical
ard theological training school for the
Jesuit scholastics. which has been locat-
ed at Woodstock, near Baltimore, since
1899 is soon 70 be moved TO New York
City and made part of the university at
Fordham.
The senior class Of the University OF
North Carolina has adopted resolution
commencing the sophomore class for the
manner in which the latter body has turn
ed its face resolutely against tire tradition
Of hazing. Since the students of this
institution have taken the matter in hand,
hazing has become a thing of the past.
At Cuthbert, Ca, all the public schools
in Randolph county were represented in
a contest for the best corn. cotton and
poultry produced by the pupils in connec-
ton with their agricultural courses.
Presbyterian synod at Milwaukee petit
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