The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

way. and both he and Mitchell. the re-
firing miners leader. told the National
I Civic Federation in December that the
panic was not the fault OF labor and that
4 labor was not the submissive thing II
was formerly.
/ Strikes were numerous from May Day
on. and touched nearly al, industries. IN
/ April a general Western railroad strike
vas averted by government mediation
/ through COMMISSIONS Nell and the con-
cesSion Of part of the demand Of the
unions. san Francisco was paraIyzed by
/ the strike OF iron workers and street
car men. and New York's export trade
( hindered for six weeks by the strike of
IlOngshoremen.
None Of these were wholly successful.
nor did they wholly fail The big strike
/ of the year which did fail VAS that Of
| the commercial teIegraphers, which be-
gan at Los Angeles from a single dis
missaL and spread over the country and
I lasted from August . well into NoveIa-
I Der. Miners in Minnesota had q great
struggle. and compromised the issues. In
December the Western Federation called
/ OF the long Colorado strike and had on
/ its hands a new one at GCIdfeId over the
use Of labor checks. Federal troops being
sent 70 preserve order, on request Of
/ Gov. Sparks.
Record Gifts 10 Education.
/ After having started the year with an
/ additional gift Of 100000 20 the Univer-
| sitV Of Chicago John D. Rockefeller.
! through The General Education Board.
/ broke all records OF educational cndoW-
ments by giving S32.C000o0 70 be used
chiefly for the benefit Of the smaller col
leges, and first of all for the women's
colleges.
The result Of another great educational
! foundation was seen in the dedication of
the Carnegie Technical Schools at Pitts
burg, April u. upon which Messrs. Car
negie and Rockefeller patted each other
on the back
! Democracy was the dominant note in
/ the higher education, as a. Princeton.
where the clubs were knocked out in
favor Of the English squad system. and
at Cornell, where Schurman announced
/ the division of students into small dor
mitOry groups He also went on record
/ for the fve-year course for the profes-
| sional degree. and raised the medical col
lese to the standard of postgraduate
institution. In the secondary schools op-
position 10 the secret fraternities in
creased, membership in such being for
| hidden 10 high school pupils in many
American cities.
Manual trade schools We're steadily on
the increase in all the progressive na-
tons. and in America a new departure
was made with the opening Of a high
school Of domestic and practical courses
at Boston. Educators resisted the talk
about a return to corporal punishment,
and the n. z. A. opposed a return to the
/ three RS" The campaign Of the New
York women teachers for equal pay for
equal work was checked by Gov
| Hughes veto Of the bill which had been
passed over Mayor McClellan's veto. A
reaction began against the mammoth
modern city school bnilding in favor Of
the smaller neighbOrhoOd school Baths
were installed in some of the new school
| houses. and the tendency was to usa them
as neighborhOod clubs at al times.
! Chicago decided 70 admit adults 20 the
high schools. New York ruled sectarian
| lexercises from the schools.