Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
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Prof. Kennedy of Harvard says that
the Importance attached to winning a
race and beating a concrete competitor is
old-fashoned and savors of the 'ante-
chronometer" days and that the imper-
sonal scientific age demands a different
attitude in athletics. He says that the
only attempt worth while nowadays is
to have try against the record.
The Cornell educational special is the
first farm train to be sent out by the
New York State College of Agriculture.
Forty-five minute stops were made at
the smaller stations, and the subjects
chosen for the lectures were those adapt
ed to the products raised in the territory
covered. In the larger towns and cities
the boards of trade hired halls for the
speakers, and many people attended the
lectures. Schools were given a holiday to
enable students to attend.
In discussing the subject of refractory
children at the Congress of Neurologists
in session recently at Client. Belgium, it
was generally admitted by physicians pres
cnt that the refractory can not be cured
by repressive measures. 1T is quite
possible" said one. ito punish a child
into jail" 1t was agreed that most un-
manageable children suffer from some
nervous disease and should be treated as
sick rather than as merely refractory.
Great stress was laid on the necessity of
developing the psychic faculties.
The Harvard library has just received
the largest single gift of books. 1t was
presented by Edward D. Brandegee of
Brookline. on behalf of his wife. and is
TO be known as the Weld Memorial in
memory of Mrs. Brandegee's grandmother
William Fletcher Weld. q benefactor of
the college. The gift consists of 1887
volumes, hundreds of which are not now
in the library. Many are specimens of
printing and engraving that appeared be-
fore or soon after 1900 and were the
earliest works of the book-printing art
Trustees of Wesleyan university have
elected Arnald Shanklin. ID. D.. Ii. D..
now vice president of Upper Iowa univer-
sity, to be president of Wesleyan, be-
ginning with next June.
A State branch of the National So
ciety for Promoting Industrial Education
was formed at New York City. with
prominent men as officers and directors.
1t will work TO bring together all the
forces interested in industrial education
for the purpose of making most effective
a law recently passed by the Legislature
making it permissive to establish trade
schools throughout the State.
In an address before the students Of
Northwestern university z. c. Mercer. a
reformed drunkard now engaged in evan
gelistic work in Chicago. gave higher edu-
cation as a cause. for filling prisons
While working in New York he said that
fully one-third of the ragged and dirty
men that he met were college-bred men
Four hundred college men stood in the
bread lire, he asserted. Mercer also made
the statement that IS per cent of the
prisoners at Sing Sing were college grad
yates. He attributed the downward
course these men take to wine. women
and song" INDUCED in during college
days
The Toledo (Ohio) Board of Educa-
ton has decided to furnish free break
fasts to all of its school children who
may be deprived of nourishment at home.
as soon as the service can be extended to
all of the school buildings. The plan was
tried in one building last year with good
results. The meal consisted of hot cereal
or milk toast, breakfast meat and glass
OF milk.
Supt. Cooley of the Chicago schools has
submitted a plan for the establishment OF
technical high schools for girls in each
section of the city, in which the students
will be taught cooking, sewing and other
strictly 'womanly' occupations without
the interference of boys"