Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-06-12
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Line Will OF Henry Blount, an eccentric
miser of Herfordshire, England, leaving
$465.OOO to Yale university, was admit
ted to probate at London, although rela-
tives expected to show that his mind was
unbalanced. Yale will get the money.
Freshmen and sophomores from the
University of Minnesota engaged in a
lively battle at a dancing academy in
Minneapolis and it took a squad of police,
and a number of men armed with buckets
Of water to subdue them. The sopho-
mores attempted to cut the hair of the
freshmen boys who attended a class party.
The Virginia high school debating team
claims the Minnesota State championship
for 1908, on the grounds of having met
and defeated the strongest teams in the
debating league, including the teams of
st. Paul and Minneapolis, and also on the
recent challenge issued to meet any team
in the league or out of the league. Gold
medals are being struck for the members
Of the team.
D. II. Burnham of Chicago and Wal
ter Cook of New York, the two distin-
guished architects, who with w. NJ. Ken
yon of Minneapolis, have been chosen as
judges to pass upon the merits of the
plans submitted in the open competition
for improving and identifying the greater
campus of the University of Minnesota.
nave begun their examination of the twr..-
ty plans submitted by architects.
Negotiations are under way in St. Paul
to secure the Minnesota college, a Scandi-
navian Luther institution, now located in
polls. The college was established
a few years ago. Since that time the col
lege has ~prospered and grown so that
it needs more room. 1t has been unable
to secure property in the neighborhood of
its present location. and the authorities
of the institution are now considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of removing it to st. Paul.
A committee of st. Paul business men
lave the matter of aiding the college in
hand
President Swain of Swarthmore Col
lege has announced that the board of
managers will be asked by the faculty to
authorize the abandonment of intercollpgi-
ate athletic contests for at least one year.
and that the football and basketball games
scheduled for next year be cancelled. But
contests in thu nilder form, such as ten
mis- and lacrosse, may be continued. The
decision is based on complaints of mem
bers of the faculty and of the alumni
that "the desire to win has come to over
shadow the legitimate purpose of athletics
to such an extent as to form a serious
menace to the primary purpose of college
life" The Athletic Advisory Committee
is willing that the experiment be tried,
but believes that it will not be found to-
be in the best interests of Swarthmore.
President Dabney of the University of
Cincinnati has asked for the resignation
of Prof. H. II. Bawden of the department
of philosophy because of the private views
held by the latter ON the question of mar
rage. 1t was said that the request was.
inspired by the disclosures made by Mrs.
Bawden concerning the effect of her hus-
bands peculiar views on their home life.
He holds that comradeship should be the
only tie between man and wife on the
spiritual plane. and that where this does
not exist separation should be made as
simple as possible.
Manchester, the Presbyterian college
at st. Paul, has been made the Minnesota
beneficiary of the Rockefeller educational
fund, and is to receive a gift of $4,000.
The college is to raise an endowment of
$4,000 additional, most of which is al
ready pledged.
Iowa won sixth place in the field Iaeet
for the blind. The National Athletic Asa.
sociation comprises colleges fo- the blind
located in California. Eastern and Vest
ern Pennsylvania, Maryland. Missouri,
New York, South Dakota. Wisconsin,
Illinois, Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky. Mon
tana, Ohio, Washington and Aassachu-
sets.