Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-15
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BY the will Of the late Robert N. Car.
son of Philadelphia, his fortune, amount-
ing to S 100000, will, after the deatheof
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 benevoience rCarson'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.
It will be non-sectarian in character, al
though s%clergymen will be allowed, to talk
tian principles.
Two more cities have joined in the
popular chorus against the secret fTaterni-
ties in the public high schools namely
Washington D.. G.. n Denver Colo. In
the former city Supt. Chancellor holds
that the presence Of secret societies is
the sign of q dscaying or very young
| civilization" and that where the proper
spirit prevails there is a 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 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-
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 ltal-
hns 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 hissis-
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 a 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.
0 of it's children, or over one-thlrd OF
it's school population, are attending prl-
yate 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 1T
! physically, mentally and morally Year
after year these public schools nave been
growing bigger and bigger. until at pres
emf it is common in the larger cities 10
see from 1000 to 1900 little tots crowded
| together into the same building, which
is in consequence just 50 much further
from the homes of many. Machine meth
| DDS. under such circumstance, become
inevitable, and it is dilfcalt to give any
kind of elasticity to such a system, and
the writer believes that the growth of
| the private schools marks q revolt AGAINST
| this kind of public school. lie thinks
the remedy will be the development OF
neighborhood schools under central SUI
pervision.
The limit of pay for grade teachers m
Minneapolis has been raised IRON $500
to $1,000 after a lively campaign in which
"a committee Of citizens took paEt, the
BOARD of Tax Levy aITroFaas the
necessary amount.
The N~atiGnal Academy Of Design Of
IiNew York has decided TO separate the
men and women art c~lasses. IereSofore,
| with the exception of these deyesed to
work from living mode!s, The classes have
been mixed. The management has the
impression that firtatians have distracted
the attention % she students from their
work.
The report of the United States COM
missioner of cducation for 1905. just is
sued. shows The number OF students in the
medical schools of the country to be %
S35, a decrease Of ia from the preeed-
ing year. De. J. II. Long, writing in
Science, said that fGlly one-half of these
are "fully prepared IN schools that exist
merely as commercial Ventures"
Woodstock College. the philosophical
and theological eating school FOR the
Jesuit ]sc9ieE -, Ass eu locat-
| ed ct Wcedsteel, @5tejmoze, nre
1882, is soon 10 Be rapeel tc Sew York
Cts and p2t@s > pas o Epe ~Eaiyegsitg ~
EoTIham.