The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-14
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By the will of the late Robert v. Car
son of Philadelphia, his fortune, amount
ing to $5,500,OOO, will, after the death of
his widow, be devoted to the establish
ment of 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 on his estate in
Montgomery county, near Philadelphia.
1t will be lon-sectarian in character, al
though cleriymen will be allowed to talk
within the limits of fundamental Chris
tan principe.
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 T. 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 admit I'd 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-
emit of education and the Attorney Gen.
eral were appealed to and they decided
that the constitution provided for whites
and negroes and did not catalogue Ital-
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
Italian sentiment is strong in Missis-
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 a 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 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 3d.
600 of its children, or over one-third u
its school population, are attending pri-
vate schools. A 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
emit il is common in the larger cities to
see from 1900 to 1900 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 revolt against
this kind of public school. He thinks
the remedy will. be the development of
neighborhood schools under central su-
pervision.
The limit Of pay for grade teachers in
Minneapolis has been raised from $500
to $1,000 after a lively campaign in which
a committee of citizens took part, the
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
that firtations 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 he number of students in the
medical schools of the country to be 25,-
835, a decrease of Lila from the preced-
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
and theological training school for ii
Jesuit schoIastics, which has been locat-
ed at Woodstock. near Baltimore, since
1889, is soon to 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
the sophomore class for the
manner in which the latter body has turn
d its face resolutely against the tradition
If hazing. Since the students of this
Institution have taken the matter in hand,
lazing has become thing of the past.
At Cuthbert, Ga, all the public schools
n Randolph county were represented in
! contest for the best corn, cotton and
poultry produced by the pupils in connec-
ion With their Agricultural courseS