Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

David P. Kenney of Plainfield. N. J. lias given forty acres on the slope of the Watchung mountains, commonly called "The Picture Lands,” to the Sisters of Mercy of the Trenton diocese. A convent school will be erected. It seems likely that the school board of Lexington, Ky., will include in its January budget an appropriation for manual training in the public schools. bupt. Cassidy is heartily in favor of It and again urges it in his excellent annual report. The fact that the overseers of Harvard university had voted against the continuance of intercollegiate football contest* by students of that university was made known at Cambridge, the prohibition to remain in f<frce until the committee on the regulation of athletic sports reports on changes In the game and thnt report is approved by the overseers. All depends on the degree of reformation which the athletic committee effects. Tbs overseers regard the present game as bad in every respect and say that the method of formation absolutely encourages trick, ery and foul play. They think the result is bad for the morals as well as for the body, and that the present intercollegiate rules committee arc not capable of properly reforming the gmne because they are so far committed to the present system. ‘ The Board of Education of Orange, N. J„ is considering a proposition to install a printing office h> the local high school, at n cost of nbout $2,000, under the supervision of a practical printer. It has been stated that several citizens are willfog to establish the plant. Superintendent Cooley of the Chicago schools has issued n circular to his teachers directing a rigid enforcement of th* rule against corporal punishment of pupils. Even parent* are not to lie al* IfiSftd 18 pnofth their refractory rhUdreq within the school ground*, m they have sometimes bwu cm.o ;raged to do» <