Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-28
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Ip two colleges serious riots have oc-
Cured. At Ann Arbor the Michigan nj
versity students subdued the local police
and wrecked a theater which had eject
ed one of their number. More than
score of them later were arrested and
thrown into Jail. AT Georgetown College.
Washington, ID. c.. 100 students turned
the fire hose on one OF The priests smash
ed the crockery in the dining room and
marched in body from The grounds be-
cause tho request for vacation on st.
Patrick's day had been refused.
President Jordan and the trustees of
Stanford university have held their
ground against the recent student revolt
and the undergraduates as a body are
again at work. The effort to get an
agreement TO withdraw. signed by 80
Students failed, although much bitter
feeling remains, due TO the action of the
faculty in suspending several students
concerned in the revolt. President Jor-
dan says that the present trouble arose
from the determination Of the authorities
to get rid of student drunkenness.
Beginning Oct. / this year, by an ar
rangement between the government of
Prussia and the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching from TWEEN
ty-fye 20 fifty American teachers who
have graduated at some college and taught
at least one year in college or high
school may visit the schools Of Prussia
with all expenses paid by the Prussaa
government. Similarly, Prussian teachers
will visit American schools.
The trustees Of the University Of Wv
oming have removed President 4. ". lis
del on charges of msadministration. in
subordination and untruthfulness. TisdeI
had charged the trustees With hurting
the university by political Vaccinations
He is nephew Of United States Senator
Clark
The board of managers Of Swarthmore
college has declined TO accept land and
coal property bequeathed to the instiiu-
ton BY the late Anna II. Jeanes of Phil
adeIphia, on condition that all particips-
ton in intercollegiate athletic sports and
games cease.
The trustees of Carleton college have
decided 10 take year for the selection
of a new president In ths meantime the
college affairs will be administered by
faculty committee with the dean as
chairman.
Because prohibition has stopped the
revenue formerly received By Mobile. Ala.
schools from the sale OF liquor. the school
board has made sweeping reductions in
the salaries Of the teachers OF the schools
The kindergartens. music and manual
training departments are eliminated from
the school work. The assistant superin-
tendent is abolished A tuition Zee Of
SIG annually is made TO the high school.
In his latest lecture on the training Of
girls for family life. Prof. Earl Barnes
the university extension lecturer. look
strong ground against the prevailing TIN
dency Of limiting our public school teach
ing force to celi5ates. He insisted thar
this must be changed and that married
men and women should be placed In
charge IL humaniStic principles Of family
life are to be ipztiIleo. He particularly
scored the u>dern exelussyely feminine
colleges, which, be said. we're preparing
women TO iise apart from men
The nation4l association Of school SUI
perinfendeAts N-iIl hoE its next meeting
In Oklahoma CITY pI->ided that city can
provide accommodations.