Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-09
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In his annual report, President L.
Clark Seelye of Smith College makes a
| plea for less strenuous entrance require
ments. on the ground that they deter or
at least cause, postpoDement of marriages
on the part of college women. He says
1.-THE present requirements induce hurried
| and superficial work in preparation, they
protract unduly the period of pupilage,
and they have made a higher education
| more expensive, and thereby less accessi-
BILE, except to the Weather classes, who
do not always POSSES the greatest intel
lectual ability. As most of the able men
come from the poorer classes, it would be
both a public and a private calamity if it
should become harder for poor boys and
girls of ability to gain the mental Gull
ture they desire. 1t would be a still
greater loss it, by postponing the time of
graduation, family life should be impair
ed. The longer marriage is delayed the
less likely men are to marry. A college
education should not contribute the mod
ern tendency to celibacy.
At the recent meeting of the college
presidents of the State of Wisconsin
formal announcement was made of the
plans formulated by the General Eluca-
ton Board, with the approval of both
Rockefeller and Carnegie TO SO fearrange
and consolidate the smaller colleges as to
have in operation only one within aNra-
dius of 100 miles. All other institutions
will have to restrict their work to that
covered by the freshman and sophomore
years in the college on penalty of receiv-
ing no aid from the board. By this ar
rangement the University of Wisconsin,
Beloit College and Lawrence University
will survive in Wisconsin.
Figures just compiled by J. ". Olsen,
Minnesota State superintendent of public
instruction. show that the number of men
employed in the State as teachers is de-
creasing while the number of women is
increasing. As compared with the pre-
ceding year. the salaries paid last year
show an increase.
The Minnesota State board of control
has awarded the contract for the con-
struction of model school at the Moor
head normal school. The model schools
are provided to give the students at the
normals practical experience in school
teaching.
The general education board. which
distributes the money gifts of John D.
Rockefeller and others, has in view a
proposition that several IF the smaller
colleges and academies of Minnesota afil-
late with the University Of Minnesota,
the smaller colleges to take the prepare
tory and first two years of academic
work, and the university to cover the
last two years.
One of the greatest scholastic honors
that can be given young women students
at the University of Minnesota was con-
ferred upon a number of them when they
were notified that they had been elected
to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
In Evanston, ILL.,, plans have been
made to introduce into Northwestern uni |
versity department Of 'art apprecia-
tion"-a chair of cultivation of good |
taste" This will aim especially to in |
still into the feminine student notions |
Of appropriate dressing. The movement |
has back of it the leading women of the
suburb.
DR.. Plantz, president of Lawrence uni
7ersity, at Appleton, Wis, has given this
lltimatum to the students: Those who
,annot forego indulgence in the flowing
'ow1 will be expelled; those who persist
n playing pool and billiards in down.
own halls or go to Sunday night thea
ers will be suspended for two weeks.