Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-12-08
Varsity Head Condemns Women
Seeking Careers.
COLLEGE YELL SAFETY VALVE.
Buffalo Man Thinks It Is Providential
Escape For sedness"-Chicaao
Plans Penny Lunches to Feed Poor
PupiIs-lIIinois Working on Worlds
Largest School Of RaiIroading.

This 1s the denunciatOry and con
demnatory season for the educators
and the opening of the schools ano
colleges and resumption of teachers
institutes were inaugurated by yer
bal fusillade against conditions.
Perhaps the most important Of the
criticisms was that Of President II. B
Hutchins Of the University Of Michi'
gan, famous for his insistence upon
the preservation Of "deportment." DR..
Hutchins slammed q certain class OF
women students, and to their faces,
too, in his annual address to the CO.
eds at Ann Arbor.
"Deliver me from the woman who
comes to the university to prepare for
a career" said the president, and he
urged students to select studies that
would better fit them for being home
makers and mothers. IF you have
particular ability the career will seek
you out" he said in closing.
Another instructor spoke a good
word for the much ridiculed college
yell. DR.. Ina Bender, assistant super
intendent of schools at Buffalo, N. Y,
In addressing the Iowa teachers term
ed it safety valve for cussedness."
Highbalis In Curriculum.
Though not mentioning concerted
cheering specifically. N. G. Schaeffer,
superintendent Of public institutions
Of Pennsylvania, took an indirect
swing when he denounced the present
American system Of education as be-
Ing curriculum Of football, baseball,
evening balls and highballs.' He also
told the Worcester county (Mass.)
teachers that the children of immi-
grant parentage were rapidly distanc-
ing American progeny in school.
Following this assault was an at
tack on a cherished American 1nst1tu-
ton, "Home, Sweet Home" by VIII
Earhart, musician of Richmond,
Ind, before the Wisconsin teachers
Earhart declares the song
that has been translated into every
civilized tongue is wooden"
II don't mean the words,' said Ear
hart. "They bring associations that
are flne but unsteady 1t is awful.
The composer had just one thought,
and he tried to develop 1t with four
change, never a sur
prise to keep up the interest in the
Compare with this wooden
Memberships 'Consola-
ton What a difference! What a
pleasure it brings to the mind with its
pleasing changesv
Strike Causes School Feud.
The growth Of fractional feeling
among school children has been exem-
plifed at Lafayette, Colo, coal camp,
where a general strike was declared
some time ago and strike breakers
imported from West Virginia.
With the arrival Of the strike break
ers' families trouble began. At the
schools the strikers sons battled with
those Of the breakers, and finally more
than 100 of the former declined to at
tend school with the "scabs." At
conference between the truant officers,
the school authorities and mothers Of
both factions an agreement was
reached that the strikers children
should sit on one side of the class
rooms and those Of the strike breakers
on the other.
But criticism and strife are not the
only features Of the opening of the
school year, for progressive ideas are
also in evidence. For instance, Chi
cago has taken the first step toward
the solution of the problem Of feed
ing the thousands Of school children
from the poorer districts, the board
Of education deciding to establish
lunch rooms in six Of the largest
schools, particularly in the foreign
sections.
Meal For q Penny.
It Is the plan to limit the lunch to
soup and bread and butter. One penny
will be charged for the lunch or break
fast. II child is hungry, however,
and is without penny it will be fed.
The children will receive all the soup
and bread and butter they want The
girl pupils. will be taught to set the
tables and to serve the food. The
board committee was told that the
physical and mental progress Of thou
sands of children was being retarded
by lack Of nourishing food.
The University of Illinois has start
ed a campaign to develop the greatest
school Of railroading in the world and
has enlisted the cooperation Of sixty
presidents Of railroads doing business
in Illinois in securing large appro-
priation from the legislature so that
every phase Of the business could be
taught.
A novel idea has been started by the
school children Of Lincoln and Min
whereby the wheat growing
Of Nebraska and Minnesota
can be learned bv the EXCHANGING of