Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The New York City board of education has decided to prohibit the use of all text books prepared by teachers in the city’s employ. This will bar out Conrades’ grammar and Borachio’s song collection. Only one member of the board voted against the action. Dr. W. E. Chftnchellor, the new superintendent of schools at Washington, D. G., decided to ask Congress for the retirement of aged teachers upon half pay. This, in conjunction with a voluntary retirement fund, would provide tin full salary for the retiring teacher. The first annual report of the operation of the Rhodes scholarships sbOwa that there are at present 161 scholars at Oxford, of whom 71 are from the British colonies, 79 from the United States and 11 from Germany. Their general standing is excellent, the highest record of scholarship having been won by Rose of Quebec and Bohan of Melbourne. The latter won nearly $5,000 worth of scholarships last year. The colonial students hare outstripped the Americans in scholarship, while the American* stand higher in athletics.