Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
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| Pharmacists of Minnesota will ask the
| Legislature to appropriate 100000 for
new pharmacy building at the State Uni
versity.
The Prussian government has now de-
creed that the higher schools for girls
shall be placed upon an equal footing
with the corresponding class in the boys
schools and that women may matriculate
in the Prussian universities.
In taking charge of the new Y. NJ. c.
A. building in Philadelphia Walter M.
Wood, formerly of Chicago, is to develop
the new policy of what is known as sup
Elemental education, which means giving
the man or the boy another chance to
make up for the deficiencies of bad or in
complete early training. This will be car
ried out by the establishment of night
classes and by the admission of students
who are unable to pay a lump sum in
advance.
Supt. Maxwell of the New York public
schools, in addressing the recent conven-
ton of the Playground Association of
America, asserted that from a moral and
hygienic point of view the usefulness of
the Carnegie libraries sis small compar-
ed with the advantages that would flow
from the benevolence of him who shall
increase the number of public school
baths" His opinion was that New York
is in greater need of Fairgrounds than
any other city in the country, owing to
the density of the population, but his ex-
perience had shown that simple play and
amusement soon pail upon the children
and that directed games and athletic
events 'are most enjoyed and produce the
best results when mixed with recreative
work.
The authorities of Charles Mix county,
South Dakota, have inaugurated a cam
paign for the enforcement of the COM
pulsory education law. The first victim
of the crusade now being waged to COM
pei parents to send their children of
school age to school was Steve Blaine. a
Yankton Sioux Indian living near the
town of Wagner. Blaine was sentenced
to Jail and remained there day or two
before he relented and agreed to send his
children to school in future. Several
white parents are booked for the same
fate unless they send their children to
school.
Si1ty-two years ago Miss Myra Howe
was a teacher in the Seventh District
School at Burlington, Conn. OF her eight
pupils. seven are living, and Wednesday
they held a reunion with their former
teacher, now Mrs. R. H. Alderman, of
Burlington The eighth member of the
class died only two weeks ago.
A club consisting of two branches, one
Norwegian and one Swedish is being
formed in the Scandinavian department
at the Minnesota university for the pur-
pose of studying Scandinavian art and
literature Books will be collected for
the library. and a play will probably be |
staged in Scandinavian during the year.
Both Cornell and Yale have announced |
new courses designed to bring students |
closer to the vital social questions of the |
day. One is planned for students in med |
icine and sanitary engineering and the |
other for the divinity students. Hygiene |
and public health is the title of the course |
to be given at Cornell in cooperation with |
the State Department of Health, while /
the Yale Divinity School has a course to
be known as pastoral functions" The
purpose of the lectures will be to empha-
size the idea that the minister and the
church shall serve society together.