Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-25
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1t was announced that Princeton uni
versity had received gifts of S1,2000O0
from persons not named, and that the
money would be used to build two labora-
tories.
President William Jewett Tucker of
Dartmouth college has rendered his res
ignation to the trustees, giving as his
reason, heart trouble, which made it i'm
perative for him to retire.
Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania has signed
the bill authorizing school boards of cities
to set aside money e.ch year to create a
retirement fund for public school teach
ers, the method being left entirely to the
discretion of the different boards.
Speaking at the graduation exercises of
the Friends select school at Washington,
where his son, Archie, was pupil, Presi-
dent Roosevelt pictured his ideal Ameri-
can boy as one who plays hard and works
hard, who is brave and strong, but gentle
and kind. The bully, he said, was the
meanest boy in the world.
The report of a committee at Bowdoin
on the means employed by students who
are working their way through college,
shows sixty-seven different occupations
in use. The highest amount earned was
that 500 in a year by one student as
the pastor of church. Another made
$500 by managing a summer camp. A
canvasser for stereoscopic views profted
$780, and a book agent made 5000. One
enterprising student got up local di-
rectory, and was paid $500 for it. An
other organized a touring party and
earned $3.50. Other profitable jobs Sc
cured were tutoring. snow shoveling. car
conductor, hotel steward, clerk, draughts-
man. summer school teacher, chauffeur,
butcher, farmer. purser, reporter and ca
terer. The committee reaches the con-
clusion that any person blessed with good
health and the will can earn half his
college expenses if he is not too proud
to work.
United States Consul E. T. Liefeld re-
ports that on April % a municipal school
dental clinic was opened in the German
city of Frieburg. the operations of which
he thus describes The dentist at the
head of this school clinic examines all
the children in the city, both in their
homes and in the public schools. A re-
port on such examinations is sent to the
parents, who are asked to send their chill
dren to the school dental clinic for free
treatment Those children having ten or
more poor teeth are first treated, an ex-
ception being made in the higher classes
where those with only slight defects are
to be r~eated. so that they will leave the
public schools with sound teeth After
these worst cases have been attended to.
all other children with defective teeth are
to be treated. the younger ones given pref
erence. The treatment of the teeth in
cludes extraction, filing browning. etc
There is no actual instruction in dental
hygiene. but at the opening of the dental
clinic the teachers explain its objects and
workings to the children. The tooth re
port card contains on the reverse side in
structions as TO the care of the teeth
Mayor Mcclellan Of New York has
vetoed the bill recently passed BY the
State Legislature equalizing the salaries
of men and women teachers in the higher
grades of the schools of the metropolis.
He justified his veto on four grounds:
Oh Violation of the home rule Principle:
(o) local authorities already have the
power 10 do the same: (3) discrimination
in favor of certain class of teachers
(4) that it would destroy the elasticity
OF the present school system. Both
houses of the Legislature passed the
measure over the Mayors veto.