Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
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Hamline University, of st. Paul, has
raised $4,000 for a gymnasium and ex-
poets to double this sum.
Superintendent Heeter of the st. Paul
schools and the school board will shortly
take up the question of selecting four or
five teachers to be sent to England on
half or third pay to study the methods of
the schools there.
The Sons of Veterans at their annual
convention in Niagara Falls have inau-
gurated a movement to enlarge and in
crease the scope of the college established
at Mason City, Iowa, to educate the sons
and daughters of veterans.
At Reading, Pa, it is announced that
the famous collection of butterflies and
moths belonging to the late Herman
Stecker has been sold to the Field AIu-
scum of Natural History, Chicago, by
Mrs. Stecker for $4,000.
Members of the Minneapolis labor
union of electrical workers have sent in
a petition to the board of regents of the
University of Minnesota to establish for
them a night school for instruction in
practical electrical subjects.
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secret societies made up of high school
pupils in Minneapolis according to the
annual report of DR.. C. NJ. Jordan, super
intendent of city schools, made to the
Minneapolis board of education.
Sixty white pupils went on strike at
the Lincoln school in Topeka. Kan. They
walked out and paraded up and down the
street, declaring they would never enter
the doors of the school again until the
negro pupils are excluded. 1t is feared
that the strike will spread to other ward
schools.
James J. Hill has made a gift of $4,000
to Minnesota College, Minneapolis, for
the erection of new building at Har-
ward and Delaware streets.
To ascertain how many students of for
eign birth and the races they belong to
attending the University of Minnesota,
the immigration committee, authorized by
Congress to conduct an investigation of
the immigration problem in Europe, Asia
and the United States, has sent to Presi-
dent Cyrus Northrop of the university,
blanks for the use of every student in
the institution. The same action is taken
in other schools throughout the country.
With the opening of public school No.
q at New York City a course in sales
womanship was inaugurated and it prov
ed to be the most attractive on the list.
Under the direction of Miss Diana
Rirschler the young women are to be
instructed in the ethics and subtleties of
selling goods.
At the meeting of the Association of
American Law Schools, which was held
in connection with the American Bar As
ISOLATION. meeting at Seattle. resolutions
were adopted limiting the membership in
the association to such schools as grant
diplomas only on the completion of a
full three years course of study
At a recent conference at Andrew Car
negies home in Scotland plans were made
for the completion of the Carnegie Tech
meal School at Pittsburg on a colossal
scale. Carnegie authorized the expendi-
ture of S10,00O,000 more, and plans to
make it the greatest school IN the world.
Fire broke out on the top floor of Nc
Coy hall, in which is the library of the
Johns Hopkins university, and while con-
fined to a small area, did what the au-
thorities of the university describe as in
estimable damage. The flames were con-
fined to a room in which were stored rec
ords and files relating to scientific work
and research at the Johns Hopkins and
elsewhere