Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-30
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The explosion of a powder magazine at
the Minnesota university shattered glass
to the value of $3.50 in the university
buildings and gave the neighbors a great
fright
The faculty of Clemson college, Glenn
son, S. c., has expelled 305 students be-
cause of an all-fooIs' day prank they
remained away from drill and classes on
April 1.
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 child for the
yiduality 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
SJ,000,O00. making the total for this pur-
pose S15.000000. In his letter making
known this gift Carnegie says Most
grateful am to be privileged, as trustee
of this wealth, to devote it to such 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 81 week to every native
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local high school or go TO college.
One of the members of Columbia's team
in the debating contest with Cornell at
Ithaca was a full-blooded Chinaman. V.
X. w. Koo. junior in the college. Koo
has won fame as a public speaker. and is
also prominent in literary life among the
undergraduate res. He is a managing editor
of the Columbia Spectator and an editor
ot the Columbia Literary Monthly.
The will of Loyal l.. Smith of Platts-
burg \. Y, just made public, after de-
vising several hundred thousand dollars
to various religious and benevolent or
CARNATIONS, directs that the residue, if it
amounts to more than 100000 (and it
is estimated at about S2.000,0O0), shall
be used in the education of Clinton Coun-
ty On. " 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 athletic con-
tests. 1t is understood that the other
eastern colleges will enter such an agree
ment.
Wisconsin won the western intercolle-
giate gymnastic honors In the contest at
Madison with total of 321h points: sec
ond place was won by Chicago with 10
points: Minnesota was third wit Z, and
Nebraska last with 51a.