Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-23
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Robert H. Baker, formerly of the Am
herst faculty, is assistant astronomer of
the Allegheny observatory at the age of
%.
Francois Coppee has given the Acad
emie Francois a sum yielding 5000 bien-
nially for use as a prize for young
poets.
Gov. Hughes of New York is claimed
by the alumni of Cornell, Brown, Co
lumbia and Colgate universities, he hav-
ing been at times in those institutions.
William II. Fisher of Baltimore has
presented the University of Pennsylvania
with an unusual collection of photographs
of various species of snakes taken in
their own habitat.
The Springfield, Mass, board of educa-
ton has not only passed resolutions for
bidding the official recognition of secret
fraternities among students by teachers
or school officers, but has defined this rec
ignition to mean active or post graduate
membership in such fraternity or society,
or the patronage of it in any other way.
This will necessitate the resignation of
nearly all the high school teachers or
severance of their connection with the so
cieties.
The Playground Association of America
will open on July 1 a model playground
at the jamestown exposition, containing
only homemade apparatus, that is, not
patented, or such as can be duplicated
by an ordinary carpenter at small ex-
pense. The playground will occupy 200
feet square, and will accommodate 600
children. The object is to show munich
palities, particularly in the South, the
advantage and economy of giving city
children such opportunities for health and
development. The apparatus will include
such familiar devices as swings, see
saws, slides, ladders, sand piles. basket
ball, volley ball, flying ring, bars, etc.
Supplementing the outdoor exhibit there
will be an indoor one, consisting of pho
tographs of Fairgrounds in all cities
which carry on such activities, and data
as to the cost of erection, maintenance,
etc. There will also be moving pictures
of Fairgrounds in operation, and a series
of lectures by play experts.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse university,
addressing the New York Methodist con-
ference urged that the college presidents
of the country get together on some plan
of excluding all students who are known
to use intoxicating liquors or tobacco.
or to indulge in vices. He said he would
not mention names, but that they all
knew of the depraved conditions and the
scenes of debauchery in many of our uni
verSitieS He. for one, believed that the
first responsibility was not to fulfill the
scholastic requirements, but was to at
tend to the morals of the students. He
would have it so that no immoral student
could matriculate, and that if he became
immoral after entering college he should
be dismissed. He told how in his own
university students were made to feel
that they signed their own dismissals
when they entered a place of evil resort.
He believes that one of the best ways of
elevating the moral tone of college men
is by introducing co-education, and says
that in practice the influence of women
students, who refuse to associate with
men known to be Incorporate or immoral
is found to have the very best results.
1t was recently announced that John
D. Rockefeller had made an additional
gift of S2.00O.O0O to the university of
Chicago, this gift taking the form of real
estate. upon which it is designed to ex-
tend the institution. This makes the
total of Mr.. Rockefellers contributions
to the university over $23.00O,0OO, of
which S6.000,000 has been given within
the past sixteen months.
Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, in
a recent lecture in Connecticut, declared
that Mark Twain is easily the greatest
American novelist in the history of this
country's literature"
Prof. Walter f. Wilcox, dean of the
college of arts and sciences at Cornell,
has resigned that place, to take effect
at the end of the school year. He will
remain at the head of the department of
Sociology and statistics.