Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — SCHOOLS COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS COLLEGES

The conference for education in the South held its three days’ session at Pinehurst, N. C„ and re-elected Robert Ogden of New York as president. President Dabney of Cincinnati university is planning a commercial college in connection with the institution. He proposes to have the students work in banks and brokerage offices while pursuing ths courses of study. The Minnesota Legislature defeated the bill introduced by the committee on education, which aimed to take school affairs out of politics by having the county school board of five members selected by and having these boards select the county superintendents. At a recent meeting of the general education board at New York $625,000 was allotted out of the Rockefeller fund to five institutions. This included $300,000 for Yale, $200,000 for Princeton and $125,000 to Bowdoin college in Maine, Colorado college, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Millsaps college, Jackson, MiH. The presidents of the four classes of Harvard university appeared on the stage of the Majestic theater of Boston the other night and made formal apology on behalf of the undergraduates for the part taken by some of them in the egg-throw-ing and general disturbance at the first performance of “Brown of Harvard.” A paragraph In the School Journal says that the Indiana Legislature has passed a bill which gives the Sjtate board of education the right to recommend teachers’ training courses to the normal schools. When such courses are properly taught these schools will be entitled to use the word "approved” in their titles, and teachers will be given credit for work in these schools.

W. 11. Maxwell, New York City superintendent of public schools, in a recent address before the students of Columbia university, gave it as his opinion that no nervous or excitable* person should attempt to teach. The teacher, he said, “should be an athlete and a trained artisan. The strain on the nervous system is so greet, and the demand upon tba physical strength so severe that When it comes to managing a room fall of fifty or sixty boys, only a man who has a good physique and abundant physical powers can hope to succeed.”