Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — SCHOOL AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL AND COLLEGES

Prof. George V. Rodgers of Cleveland, Ohio, has been unanimously elected president of Baldwin College, Berea, Ohio. He is a graduate of Drew' Theological Seminary of Madison, N. J. The Rev. William Lawton Brown, the oldest living graduate of Brown University, has turned his ninetieth year. He is a resident of Wrentham. Mass., where he lives with a daughter in a cozy home. Mrs. Mary W. Newberry, widow of the late Rev. T. P. Newberry of Philadelphia, has been elected preceptress of Ohio Wesleyan University. The Rev. and Mrs. .Newberry were both graduates of that institution. As a result of several students at Missouri University. Columbia, having tried with good results going on only two meals a day 250 of the students have now dec'nled to leave out their midday dinner for the next four months aud note the effect. Mrs. narah L. Hall of Jamestown, N. Y., has been a teacher in the public schools for 50 years and is still active in the work. She celebrated the semi-cen-tennial of her work by giving n reception at her school room, which was largely attended by citizens generally. 'Hie sehoolma'iinis of Cincinnati are agitating for ns good pay ns the men who tench in the schools get. “I know hnd-carriers in this city who are getting more pay than some of us," says one justly indignant young woman. "We know just li* much as the mon do," sny« another. "and here they expect us to work for several hundred dollars less a year, the mean old things!” The surprising contrast i>; drawn between the secondary consideration given to sports in American schools mid their superior importance In the English system, even teachers being there chosen for athletic attainments rather than academic. Many have doubtless been ignorant of thia fact when deploring the tendency here to twine with the lanrel the captain of, the ’varsity eight nod ignore the valedictorian. The pervading creed in America that education has a money value is strongly exhibited in the reports. Patronise times who advertise.