Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The Kcv. David Hillhouse Buel-, the new president of Georgetown university, is one of the pronounced opponents of the present methods in football. At the" recent annual dinner of the Union college alumni Andrew Carnegie offered to give SIOO,OOO to equip an engineering department at Schenectady on condition that n like amount be subscribed by the alumni. 'J’hat Bible stories should be told to school children as part of their language lessons Is a recommendation made in the report of the committee 6f the Wisconsin Teachers* Association appointed to investigate language study. Dr. William Osier, regius professor of medicine at Oxford, will return to America about Chrlstmns and in January will take part in the work pf the Johns Hopkins Medical school at Baltimore, much as lie did when at the head of that institution. The teachers of the Haxleton (Pa.) high school decided unanimously that they would refuse to accept Christmas presents from their pupils, the reason being that many of the pupils who felt it their duty to give were not able and that others who could not give were envious of those who could. „ The Pennsylvania railroad has applied to the school officials Of Altoona for permission to equip the high school in that city with complete appliances for teaching young men the railroad business from top to bottom. Ths equipment will cost SIB,OOO and special instructors will also be furnished by the company. The Board of Education at Boone, lowa, has passed the following resolution unanimously : ‘‘Resolved, That every .teacher signing a contract to teach In the schools iu this district be aotifisd that the Board will from this day decline to accept his or her resignation and will Insist that the contract be carried out as signed, and that all superintendents of schools or any member of the board as to standing or qualification of any teacher under contract be notified of such contract, and that this board will refuse to release such teacher.”