Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-05
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The explosion of powder magazine at
the Minnesota university shattered glass
to the value of $3.50 in the university
buildings and gave the neghbors great
fright.
The faculty of Clemson college, Glenn
son, s. c., has expelled 305 students be-
cause of an all-fools' day prank they
remained away from drill and classes on
April /.
BY the will OF DR.. John Ordronaux
the sum of $4,000 is left to aid retired
members of the Dartmouth college faculty.
The rest of his estate is distributed
among various charities.
The regents Of the Minnesota univer-
sity have given the professors authority
to use their discretion in regard to the
importation Of rare books, charts and
other aids to school work.
Prof. O'Shea of the Wisconsin State
university, in an address to the teachers
of Lawrence county. S. d.. told them that
no education at all is far better than the
mechanical training so frequently found
to-day in the schools of the country. The
latter. he claims, units a child for the
problems of life and robs it of any indi-
vidual:ty it may otherwise possess.
The Virginia high school debating team
has challenged the North Side high school
team of Minneapolis to another joint de-
bate, the teams to change sides. to EN-
ploy the same judges and Minneapolis to
select the time and place. In the recent
debate the judges voted two to one in
favor of Virginia. but the directors Of
the State Debating League set aside the
verdict.
The Carnegie Foundation has respond
ed to the appeal Of the State universities
for admission of their professors TO the
pension fund with the announcement that
Mr.. Carnegie has increased the fund by
5O0e 900. making the total for this pur-
pose Sl5,000,000. In his letter making
known this gift Carnegie says Most
grateful am ! TO be privileged, as trustee
of this wealth, to devote it TO snch use"
There are 100 colleges now on the pension
list.
Norman W. Harris, Chicago banker.
who was born in the village OF Beckett.
Mass, has offered to pay the expenses to
the amount Of s. a week TO every native
born boy of the place who will attend the
local high school or 20 to college.
One of the members of Columbia's team
in the debating contest with Cornell nt
Ithaca was a fill-blooded Chinaman. v.
K w. Koo, junior in the college. Koo
has won fame as public speaker, and In
also prominent IN literary life among the
undergraduates. lie is managing editor
Of the Columbia Spectator and an editor
Of the Columbia Literary Monthly.
The will of Loyal l.. Smith Of Piatts-
burg. y. Y. just made public. after de-
sislng several hundred thousand dollars
TO various religious and benevolent or
CARNATIONS. directs that the residue, II IL
amounts to more than $1.O0O,O00 land Ii
10 estimated al about S2.O00O00), shall
be used in the education OF Clinton CoGn-
ty (N. y, boys. under conditions which
are specifically defined.
The faculty Of Harvard university has
voted in favor OF an intercollegiate agree
ment reducing the number Of aIhlstie con-
tests II is understood that the other
eastern colleges viii enter such an agree
ment
Wisconsin won the western intercoIie-
gate gymnastic honors in the contest at
Madison with total Of 32tz points: Sec
ond place was won by Chicago with &c
points: Minnesota was third with Z, and
Nebraska last with 51z.