Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-11
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President Eliot of Harvard University,
is to be decorated by the mikado of japan
with the Order of the Rising Sun, first
class.
The Minnesota College of Agriculture
granted diplomas to 108 students. James
j. Hill delivered the commencement ad-
dress.
Minneapolis is 10 have a university
club, to be open to regular graduates
of all recognized universities The mem
bership will be about 400.
The new board of trustees of the
North Dakota Agricultural College held
its first meeting at Fargo and reelected
George II. HOLSTER president.
Lieut. Burnett, of Fort Smelling, has
proposed that military drill be estab-
lished in the ST. Paul public schools.
The school board is considering the mat
ter
Miss Frances ReDnins, a junior at the
Minnesota State University, has mysteri-
ousy disappeared and the Minneapolis
police are cooperating with the young
women's parents in sn effort to locate
her.
University of Michigan students are
circulating among themselves a subscrip-
ton list for the purpose Of raising ST.
600 with which to purchase a loving
cup for retiring President James b. An
CELL.
In a notable address Robert G. Og-
den of New York opened the twelfth an
nual conference for education in the
South at Atlanta, Gov. Smith welcoming
the visitors. President Ogden said that
ding the life of the conference, ednca-
ton in America had begun to be critical
of itself as well as appreciative He
advocated the creation Of federal de-
partment OF education, or at least of a
bureau Of investigation, and criticised
Congress for its failure to spend money
more literally in this cause.
Rev. DIR. Marion lie Rot Burton Of
the Church of the Pilgrias, Brooklyn.
has been chosen president Of Smith Col
lege for women at Northampton, Mass,
to take effect the coming school year.
There are now about 1900 women stu
dents at Smith.
The relay team Of the Wisconsin Uni
versity will surely participate in the atb-
letic games in Pennsylvania, and Osthof,
Wisconsin's famous weight man, also may
make the trip to win hcnors for the car
dinsl To the surprise Of the student
body the athletic council voted 500 to-
ward the expense.
The anti-Japanese element in the Cali
fornia Legislature made another attempt
to exclude Orientals from the public
schools. but was voted down.
Prof. George w. TannehilD 20 years
old, the "blind mathematical is dead
For forty-four years he was teacher Of
mathematics in Iowa College for the blind
al Tinton, Iowa. Prof. Tannehill became
blind when a young man.
Because his son. David f. Berg, slipped
and fell to the floor, breaking his jaw.
while exercising on the flying rings in
the State University armory. l.. r. Berg.
Minneapolis, applied to President Cyrus
Northrop for compensation.
Students at the Minnesota State UNI
rersity are greatly perturbed over the an
nouncement that the faculty Is engaged
in making up a blacklist of those behind
in their work The plan Is hat every
instructor shall make out list Of those
members Of his classes who are lot max
ing good and submit 1t 10 every Other 10.
structor. In this way it Is intended 70
distinguish the all-around "funk" from
the student who is merely backward In
one subject.
Prof.. Zeleny, of the Minnesota Uni-
verslty, has completed an invention for
testing moisture in grain, doing at the
car door In a few minutes work that 20
CURES hours In = laboratory.