Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGE [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGE

The Princeton sophomore class has decided to abolish hazing of entering classes. Fairy stories are to be introduced leto curriculum of the Chicago schools as supplementary reading. Ratings in the New York high schools will be based in future upon the class records and not upon regulation examinations. The Chicago school authorities have decided that in the future female school teachers shall be officially designated ns “women” instead of “ladies,” ns heretofore. Tlie Massachusetts courts have declared constitutional the law requiring towns of 600 or more families to provide high schools or to pay pupils’ tuition in another high school. The Supreme Court has ordered the Vandalia Railroad to pay to the Indiana school fund $913,000 and interest, said sum being the earnings in excess of Hie 15 per cent dividends, which, under the original charter granted the road in 1847, was to be pnid into the school fund. In Knox County, Tennessee, several small schools will be consolidated into one eentrally located school, at which elementary farming will be taught, besides the usual school course, nnd tlie school itself will be made n center for the educational life of the community. The Chicago Krening Post finds that the percentage of bsd s]>cller« at Princeton is 10: University of Minnesota, SO; University of Illinois, 20; at Yale and Cornell, "high;" at Wesleyan nnd the University of Michigan, “fair,” and at Columbia’s School of Applied Science, "atrocious.” An investigation of tho effects of cl garotte smoking in the public schools of Kokomo, Ind., revealed some startling facts, the publishing of which has result-, ed in the abandoning of the habit by over 400 boys nnd an immediate Improrenietft In school work. It wm found that sniffleera averaged one year older than itunsmokera in the "Maine grade, and Inveterate smokers two years older. This was true of al) grades. Besides this, teachers report bad conduct and n notiesnble decline in health among smokera. The Due de Louliet hns established two prises, sl,<hm) and SKM), at Columbia University, t«> be awarded every five years for original work dealing with North America nt nny period precoiling the Declnrntlon of independence. Content open to anyone in the United States. The Assoclntion of American Unlvcr ■ltles had its fourth nnniinl convention at New York. President Eliot of Harvard entued a nenantion by d<<claring flint tho educated American does not reproduce hltnaelf. Out of six classes at Hnr yard, be said, only 28 per cent bad educated families.