Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-08
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st. Thomas again defeated South
Dakota University baseball, 6 to 5,
winning the game in the ninth inning.
Berea college industrial school for
negroes will be established at Shelby
Vile, KY. Andrew Carnegie gave the
school 100000; Mrs. Russell Sage,
New York, $4,000; Mrs. Henry Pick
ering, Boston, $4,000.
1t was announced at Princeton We'd
nesday that w. c. Proctor of the class
of 1888, now of the firm of Proctor &
Gamble, soapmakers, has offered the
university 100000 if a like sum is
raised for the erection of the new
graduate school building on certain
conditions
At Charlottesville, Va, President
Remsen spoke to the Virginia alumni
of Johns Hopkins of the deplorable
tendency to exalt the material equip
ment of our colleges. The rivalry be-
tween colleges for such elaborate equip
ment had evolved the begging college
president, who was to be pitied
Charles w Eliot left the presidency
of Harvard University finally and was
succeeded next day by President Alb
bolt L. Lowell. That evening the stu
dents assembled in front of DR.. Eliot's
house and presented him with a clock
in a mahogany case. After a short
address the former head of the univer-
sity for forty years led the students
in a cheer for his successor. A retire
ment fund of s150,000 is being raised
for Dr. Eliot by the Harvard alumni.
The latest attack upon alleged rad
ical and revolutionary teaching in
American colleges and universities is
a series of reports now appearing in
the Cosmopolitan Magazine by Harold
Bolce, who made a secret itinerary of
the principal institutions of learning,
sometimes entering as special stu
dent and at other places attending lee
lures. He asserts that in many class
rooms it is being taught that the
Decalogue is no more sacred than the
syllabus; that the home as an insti-
tuition is doomed; that there are no
absolute evils; that democracy is a
pendence only spectacular rhetoric;
that the change from one religion to
another is like getting new hat;
that to social climbers children are
membranes. Such is. in substance,
the analysis of the writer's conclu-
sions. given by the editor of the mag
/ azine
With the coming college year a for
NAL course in wireless engineering
will be added to the engineering de-
partment of the Ohio State University.
A full equipment will be installed,
capable of communicating with points
on the lakes.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York again
has vetoed the equal salary bin pass
/ ed BY the Legislature and signed by
/ the Governor in the interests of the
! women employed in the public schools
of the city. but the Mayor has ap
pointed a commission to inquire into
the Justice OF the claims made
The first material fruit of the peace
congress in Chicago is fund Of
/ s25. 600 donated to Northwestern Uni
versity BY John R. Lindgren. Swedish
consul TO Chicago. and cashier of the
State Bank OF Chicago.
President Schurman Of Cornell told
the secret fraternity students Of tat
university that they must be less ~
elusive and find some way TO quicken
their intellectual life If they hoped to
i prosper in future. They should be
more democratic and beware Of max
ing distinctions on account Of wealth
and station.