Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-16
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The will of Henry Blount, an eccentric
miser of Herfordshire, England, leaving
S465, 900 to Yale university, was admit
ted to probate at London, although rela-
tiyes 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 squad of police
and a number of men armed with buckets
of water to Subdue them. The sopalo-
mores attempted to cut the hair of the
freshmen boys who attended 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,
have begun their examination Of the TWEEN
ty plans submitted by architects.
Negotiations are under way in ST. Paul
60 secure the Minnesota college, Scandi-
nayian Luther institution, now located in
Minneapolis. The college was established
few years ago. Since that time the coli
lege has prospered and grown so That
it needs more room. 1t has been unable
TO secure property in the neighborhood of
it's present location, and the authorities
Of the institution are now considering the
advisability Of removing II to st. Paul
A committee of st. Paul business men
have the matter Of aiding the college in
hand.
President Swain Of Swarthmore Col
lege has announced that the board of
managers viii be asked by the faculty to
authorize the abandonment of intercolIegi-
at. athletic contests for at least one year,
ami that the football and basketball games
scheduled for next year be cancelled. But
coniees in the milder form, such as ten
mis- and lacrosse, may be continued. The
decision is iased on complaints Of mem
bers o. the faculty and of the alumni
that che desire to win has come TO over
shadow the legitimate purpose of athletics
10 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 belisyes that it will not be found to
be In the best interests Of Swarthmore.
President Dabney Of the University of
Cincinnati ilas asked for the resignation
of Prof. II. II. Bawden Of the department
OF philosophy because Of the private views
held by the latter on the question Of mar
riage. 1t vas said that the request was
inspired by the disclosures made by Mrs.
Bawden concerning the effect Of her hus-
bands pecu liar 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 sparatioa should be made ~
simple as ossible.
Macalestr. the Presbyterian college,
at St. Paul has been made the Hinnesots
beneficiary Of the Rockefeller educational
fund. and ID to receive a gift OF $4,000
The college is to raise an endowment q
$4,000 additional. most Of which Is al.
ready pledged.
iowa VIC . sixth place in the field meet
for the blind. The National Athletic As
ISOLATION Comprises colleges for the bliud
located in California. IA. yern and West
eFn Penn ylvania, Mary, nd. Missouri.
New Yorb. Sorth Dakota. Wisconsin,,
Illinois. IGwa, Kansas. Kentucky. Mon
tana, Ohio. Washington and Massachu-
sets.
The lat 81 published report Of United
States Cor missioner OF Education Brown
covering ta year 1906 names seventeen
universitis and colleges having above
1000 mass undergraduates They are
Harvard. 2.442 Cornell $40 PhiIadeI-
phia Central High School. 2,3J0: wiscon-
sin. IBIS; Yale. 2.207 Michigan, 1906.
Illinois. 1.751; Minnesota, ia4; Ohio.
l-zg; California. I.s04 Chicago, 1.4T4:
Princeton. .532 Boston Tech, I.4I4:
Purdue. 1.35s: Pennsylvania. 1872; Coz
Iunlbia. 1.2S9: Missouri. I.025 The four
next In order are Stanford, Dartmouts.
Syracuse and Iowa. There are ia coli
leges having over 200 male students and
eos having less than zoo