Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
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The conference for education in the
South held it's three days session at Pine
hurst, n. c., and reelected Robert Og
den of New York as president.
President Dabney of Cincinnati univer-
sity is planning a commercial college in
connection with the institution. He pro-
poses to have the students work in banks
and brokerage Offices while pursuing the
courses of study.
The Minnesota Legislature defeated the
bill introduced by the committee on edu-
cation, which aimed to take school affairs
out of politics by having the county school
board of five members selected by ballot,
and having these boards select the county
superintendents.
At a recent meeting of the general edu-
cation board at New York $625,000 was
allotted out of the Rockefeller fund to
five institutions. This included 100000
for Yale, 100000 for Princeton and
$12j,0O0 to Bowdoin college in Maine,
Colorado college, Colorado Springs. Colo,
and Millsaps college, Jackson, Miss
The presidents of the four classes of
Harvard university appeared on the stage
of the Majestic theater of Boston the
other night and made formal apology on
behalf of the undergraduates for the part
taken by some of them in the egg-throw-
ing and general disturbance at the first
performance of Brown of Harvard"
4 paragraph in the School Journal says
that the Indiana Legislature has passed a
bill which gives the State board of edu-
cation the right to recommend teachers
20 h.
When such courses are properly taught
these schools will be entitled to use the
word approved in their titles, and
teachers will be given credit for work in
these schools.
w. II. Maxwell. New York City super
intendent of public schools, in a recent
address before the students of Columbia
university, gave it as his opinion that no
nervous or excitable person should at
tempt to teach. The teacher, he said,
Ashould be an athlete and a trained ar
tisan. The strain on the nervous system
is so great. and the demand upon the
physical strength so severe that when it
comes to managing a room full of fifty or
sixty boys, only a man who has a good
physique and abundant physical powers
can hope to succeed"
In view of the recent utterances of
President Roosevelt and President Eliot
of Harvard on the subject of football in
connection with college athletics, consid-
cradle interest was aroused by the re-
marks of President Hadley of Yale, who
in a recent speech at a meeting of Yale
alumni at Plainfeld, y. J., expressed the
belief that football might very properly
be permitted where the student body was
composed chiefly of undergraduates. but
in a university where the students were
largely of the graduate or professional
type football, by consuming time and sub
tracing from professional energy, became
a harmful diversion.
Dean Fine of Princeton reports that
ffty-eight students were dropped at the
end of the first term, as against seventy
one last year. and regards this, together
with the small number of failures among
the freshmen. as proof Of the success OF
the preceptorial system, by virtue of
which students receive individual atten
ton from instructors, somewhat on the
English university plan. The dean says
that the system was effective from the |
very start in it's main purpose, namely, |
'.the promotion of the course of learning |
among the undergraduates in general"
and. he adds that the most careless stu |
dents. are beginning to respond to its |
Influences.