Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The stand taken by the Chicago School Board fur Lidding the members of secret fraternities to take part in literary or athletic contests has now been upheld by the Appellate Court. Because the faculty of Washington University, St. Louis, had expelled J. A. Allen, editor of the college paper, on account of nn editorial scoring the professors, the student body voted to discontinue all college work in case their demand for the reinstatement of Allen was not acceded to. The third great athletic stadium to be built by American universities has just been completed at Syracuse. It is 070 feet long, cover? six and one-third acres and will seat 20,000 spectators comfortably. It is constructed of concrete and is modeled after the old Roman and Greek arenas. Cleveland has been selected as tht place of meeting for the forty-sixth annual convention, of the National Educational Association, June 20 to July 3, IJXiS. This convention will be the fiftieth anniversary of the first regular convention, which was held in Cincinnati In 1858. Mince then the association has met in Ohio only once, in 1870. At that time a reorganisation was effected, and the name changed from National Teachers’ Association to National Educational Association. A formal program for ths convention will be mads public soon