Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-14
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At the annual banquet of the Mime
sofa football team John McGovern, the
popular little quarterback, was elected
captain of next years team.
There is a strong sentiment among the
students of the University of Minnesota
in favor of a football game for next year
with some eastern college
Gov. Warren Garst laid the corner
stone of the new law building at the
Iowa university, assisted by Dean Charles
Noble Gregory of the College of Law.
Prof. Lowell. Harvard astronomer, and
his assistants, have discovered the pres
ence of water vapor on Mars in suffi-
cient quantities to indicate that the planet
is inhabited.
Six high schools of the Seventh Mime
sofa Congressional Decentralization
Ortonville. Granite Falls, Clarkfield. APP
pletoh and Montevideo have organized
a debating league.
The board of regents of the Minnesota
university has passed resolutions urging
upon the Legislature the opportunity for
forest labor by students of the forestry
course in the university.
Negotiations have been opened between
the University of Michigan athletic au-
thorities and the directors of athletics at
the University of Wisconsin for foot
ball game between the two universities
next fall.
Little Boy, who was recently elected
captain of the Carlisle Indian football
team for next year. has been declared
ineligible to play another year, and an.
other election will have to be held. Lit.
tie Boy has already played four years.
Athletic authorities in Iowa are in a
auandary as to the best methods of solv-
ing the tangle on dates for the field and
track meets next spring. May % has
been selected by both the Iowa State and
Missouri Valley associations for their
meets Drake. Ames and Iowa cannot
compete on this date, as they will stick
to the profitable State association. Ii
the Missouri Valley meet is held on the
same day as the Chicago conference there
will be strenuous objections. The earlier
dates in this State are taken by the invi-
tation interscholastic meets and the high
school State meet.
students were doing stunts in a room in
the boarding house known as the Cracker
box Harry Rannestad, 10 years old. was
shot in the leg by the. accidental dis
charge of a revolver, which the boys were
using in their fun, and which none knew
Wa loaded.
A movement has just been started in
Bozeman, Mont, by some of the business
men to raise sufficient money to build an
athletic field at the State Agricultural
college and make a present of 1t from the
city of Bozeman to the institution. Al
present there is very little at the school
in the way of athletic facilities.
Swarthmore College. the famous PhiIa
delphia institution of higher learning
founded by the Friends, ceased to be
sectarian the other day. when the stock
holders abolished the provision which had
kept it in that class. namely, the require
ment that every member of the board of
managers be a Friend. One of the objects
of this change is TO make members OF
the faculty eligible to the Carnegie retir-
ing allowance fund for the benefit OF
superannuated teachers.
Prof Edwin W. Clark. known in Eu
rope and America as an archaeoiogist, has
resigned from the faculty of Ripon, Wis
college. after fourteen years of service
with that institution.