Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
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COLLEGES
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In his annual report, President l..
Clark Seelye of Smith College makes q
plea for less strenuous entrance require
meRts, on the ground that they deter, or
at least cause, postponement of marriages
on the part of college women. He says
''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 public and private calamity if it
should become harder for poor boys and
girls of ability to gain the mental cul-
ture they desire. 1t would be a still
greater loss if, 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
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT was LHduc VI Tie
plans formulated by the General E:luca-
ton Board, with the approval or both
Rockefeller and Carnegie, to so rearrar ge
and consolidate the smaller colleges as to
have in operation only one within a ra-
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 Unive .sity
will survive in Wisconsin.
Figures just compiled by j. W. O1.en
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 a 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 q
proposition that several of 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
| thar cen be given young women students
at the University of Minnesota was con.
| ferred upon a number CT them when hey
we're notified that they had been elected
10 the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
| In Evansac-, H., plans have beer
made to introduce into Northwestern uni.
sersity a department of cart apprecia-
tionr-a chair of cultivation of good
taste.-. This viii 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
versity, at Appleton. Wis, has given this
ultimatum to the students. Those who
cannot forego indulgence in the flowing
bowl viii be expelled; those who persist
in playing POOL and billiards in down
town halls or 20 10 Sunday night thea
tiers viii be suspended for two weeks.