Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
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Supt. Maxwell of the New York City
Board of Education, i'll his annual report
urges the formation of a department of
school hygiene. Such a department, he
thinks. should be under the direction of
a medical man, who would rank as an
associate superintendent, and who should
have a sufficient number of physicians TO
examine all the children in the public
schools at least once a year, and sufi-
cient number of NURSES TO visit the
homes of sick children and to care for
slight ailments in school. He says that
New York is the noisiest city in the
world and that children lack a proper
amount of sleep. Owing to crowded
quarters in the tenements and in some
of the public schools as well many chill
dren are crippled by lowered vitality, de
fectiye sight, defective teeth and other
evils, many of which could be overcome.
The report says that there are 1913 46i;
pupils in the schools over normal age; in
other words, they are backward in their
lessons because of physical defects.
The National Civic Federation has
made arrangements to send 500 or more
public school teachers next fall to Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland and the CONT
nent to inspect the system of teaching and
school methods generally in foreign coun-
tries. This idea was suggested by the
success OF a similar expedition of Eng
lish teachers to the United States in
1906. The teachers who make this
trip will have an opportunity to exam
inc at first hand what is being done for
children abroad, both in the common
schools and in the special schools. Presi-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Column
bia university has been appointed chair
man of an advisory committee to carry
the plan through. In this connection it
may be noted that Mr.. Butler has ac-
cepted the invitation of the University
of Copenhagen to deliver three lectures
there next September, the subject matter
Of the lectures to be Some Aspects of
American Civilization" lie will leave
for Denmark in August, returning in
time for the opening of college next fall
Chancellor Dewitt G. Huntington of
the Nebraska Wesleyan university at
Lincoln has rendered his resignation, and
ii was accepted by the board of trustees
with the understanding that Chancellor
Huntington shall remain until the end of
the school year.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, Supt Swartz
ordered the members of the Greek letter
fraternity Alpha Delta Omega to disband
the organization or suffer expulsion from
school. He declared that no secret or
ganzation of pupils would be tolerated
The members promised to heed the warn
ing.
Because Michigan university students
wrecked theater where one of their num-
Der had been dubbed by an employee fif-
teen of the boys were arrested and held
under bonds of 1000 each to answer the
charge of rioting.
In the current Harvard Gazette it is
announced that the Andoycr Theological
Seminary will be moved from And1vcr to
Cambridge. where new buildings viii be
erected near the Harvard Divinity School.
But the seminary and the divinity school,
are to remain separate as to faculties.
courses. etc. but in many ways they will
affiliate, tuition, standards and charges
being about parallel.
Twenty native japanese students, pro-
fessors and instructors leaped from win
doWS Oh the new SJDrooO WISCONSIN, uiiI-
versity club house at Madison, when the
building caught fire at midnight from an
overheated furnace. The fire was extin-
guished with small loss and personal in
juries were slight.
The Northwestern University las es-
tablishfd chair in the cultivation of
TASTE lin dress, and Miss Skinner. the
occupant, advocates the utmost simple
ity as the keynote. At the same time the
has employed Mrs. Alice Nor
ton tt conduct a course in shopping for
the benefit of the girl students. covering
the ec6t and selection of materials.