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Ardmore Chronicie.
Pub ished Every Saturday at Acinwore, Montgomery County, Pa.
Merion TitLe Burtpixc.
M. J. ENSIGN, Eprror anp MANAGER.
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR A YES
TWO CENTS A COPY
Advertising Rates Quoted on Application,
Entered in the Post Office at Ardmore an Second Ciass Mutter.
HIGHER EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA
Nathan C. Schaeffer, Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion aud ex-officio secretary of the College and University
Councils, recently transmitted to Goveruor Peanypacker his
biewnial report ou higher education in Pennsylvania. It con-
tains many interesting references.
Dr.
existence of the council it has sought to prevent the cheapen-
ing of academic degrees and the issue of permanent certifi-
cates to teachers on the basis of graduation from schools with
inferior standards of admission and graduation.
y preventing, he says, the useless multiplication of
weak co'leges it has helped to strengthen the colleges that
Tie few new colleges that came into
existence have have had au amouut of financial support which
would not have come to them without the eonditious created
by the council.
Daring tea years the namber of students livinity ,
medicine and dentistry has been slightly diminished, while
the number in pharmacy aud law has been slightly increased.
The number of uudergridaates in colleges has increased
from 6500 to 16,421. The number of women at college has
increased frum 1202 to 3147.
Dr. Schaeffer notes the reasons governing this coudi«
tion. He declares that the decrease in the number of pro-
fessional students is due partly to the advance in standards
of admission to the professions and partly to our industrial
prosperity. ‘ative positions allure students away from
the older professions, The increasing rigor of the State
examinations for admission to the bar will in no long time|'
f
in
cause a similar decrease in the number of candidates for the]
profession of law.
The relation of the colleges to the vocation of teaching
is very interesting. The large universities furnish very few
teachers for the public schools in Pennsylvania. Of the 1356
certificates now on record but 46 are held by graduates of
the recognized leading colleges.
The growing cost of a college education is making this|!
kind of education inaccessible to many students. Fortun-
ately, plans have been devised for the purpose of making it
possible for young men to secure employment while working |{n
their way through college. In so far as these plans do not
interfere with thorough work they deserve to be extended.
TRAINING BOYS AND GIRLS
“The public school teacher,” says the Conshohocken
Recorder, “has a difficult enough task to teach girls and beys|!
of every degree of mentality without being compelled to
expend time and evergy in correcting faults that should be
cured at home and in undoing the evil wrought by ignorant
or foolish parents. No child should be sent to school witb-
out being impressed with the idea that the teacher is a person|?
whose authority, for the time being, equals that of the mother
herself. Men and women who are proue to glory in the petty
misdeeds and “smartuess” of their offspring cause an immense|*,
amount of trouble, But worst of all is the parent who, when
sou or daughter has been punished, comes to school to scold
the teacher. Such visitations of maternal’ or paternal wrath
are excessively harmful in their effects. The wrathful parent
has committed not only an offense against the community,
but has also inflicted a severe injury upon his or her off-
spring by showing that authority ueed not necessarily be
respected and that wrong-doing may bring reward instead of | ¢
punishment,
“Some means should be devised to prevent as far as pos-
sible this vicious interference with the teacher. Instead of
making her work more difficult, parents should earnestly
endeavor to do all in their power to aid her, to uphold her
authority and to uphold any corrective measures that she
may have deemed it necessary toapply. This attitude is main-
tained by the majority of parents, Pat the fcw exceptions go far
to offset the st od done by ' ¢ other:
eT, a1 y parents, + short, are re disposed to throw upon
the schools the responsib “y of rearing as well as merely
educating their chilaren. They seem to forget or iguore the
obvious fact that in nine times out of ten it is the home, and
not the school, which molds the child. This paren taldedi-
cation in favor of the schools is not the least potent factor iv
fostering that spirit of levity and lawlessness in young people
of which complaint is not unjustly made.
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WOMEN CLERKS IN LONG SERVICE
u the executive departments in Washington, where the
busivess of the Government is carried on, there is na belief
in the Osler theory as fur as the women clerks are concerned,
—
DAVID
«
Schaeffer says that during the ten years of the].
PHILLIPS
GRATLAM
1
ud Tundane ta al -
hich has cone from the
\ elist, ane
= In it ry Roo
cout address ‘und his attempted
justification
pati
be reome the
pera {government in which the
ni ocratey would in time
not i
tre
ptitie cal, sc!
pers of more
vortance in th
rena.’ vue
chal mention
tional Changes ve ma
work Denw
by the on. Wa
Chi
points
changes w Ih he deems to be im-
ely ih yanded in order te
e government from
cssions of class and priv
rot
of Gerniang,
D.
way jen ty
rot: i Parsons, Uh,
paper that all persons inte:
ed in the rally auestion should
peruse, Dr. spent many
mouths t : hvougout the
iewing
of the t
hnt contributions to this question
that has app
“The
ll Dunbar, is an-
ture of this
sho
ce
etrospostir
rooman,
able
paper by Penal
ren to Attend ‘hoot!
by Professor Osear. Chrisman,
Ph.D, is another, cos nt
that shoud be rend by thoughtful
neople. The Kaito
svggestive and ‘nt om
ment
Depa
the initiative and referendum, and
the co-operative movement in the
New World,
ER LAND DAMAGE!
ware County Courts
a jusy | hae avwarded Albert
st 50 aun
the Tisnadelpiia & Western Rai
road Compan
of
RECOV
ng ot
through his prop-
erty’ in Hav ver ford township.
vt the first of the cases
against the Philadelphia West-
ern, and its progress
s been
eagerly watehed hy al int eveste
Albert U. Todd, who owns
something 0} Hay-
erford fonship. was the itt
of aa uid & We ot
crn were being looked. after b
George Tt. Butler and Charles i.
McKeehan, Esqs.
imony was shortened a great deal
from the ie that ‘before the case
was ithe jury was se
over to ar see just
what had been done by” the rail
road and the aionnt of land t
en. Mr, his counsel,
sought to recover for the ta ng
of Something over ve weres
land and for
the tematinder ol
damage includ
ion o'
section.
he
his by trying to show that inas-
muh as i
ba greatly enlianced the value
fad th ugh that
the Philadelphia & We
further inere:
s ase
ie a th
men's meeting scheduled for that time
pstitutional |
en
| ing the West Philadelp!
a
rich in
ing matter, exter @ being | an
ldlabor, | “ posing
views on municipal ‘ownership, |®
the uner d of Great Britain,
in the case, owas represented | ths
nT. Sehatfer and Rol
ied ‘aa us, Esq, while the inter.
of | wee
r the damage done to st
1
at °
this time is so valuable in ‘that |},
v
railroad company answered
oft
her-stone on aiternoon,
jot be held as formerly announced
well
Institute held
Ardmo
represented at the
Distrie t Ken mn
tast
At a banquet on Wednesday even:
in the Association rooms, plans
M. C. A. base ball team were
Committees were arpoint:
¢ if grounds are obtainable
ed te
mes ‘of available play
next meeting, at which the
ers. i
re report will be nell on
At
v
committees
Wednesday
this ng
ably be effec
an
ted,
A quartette
the Ardmore Associ
to West Philadelphil
to meet a
ening
Ardmore
awartente from
this
N.
Chaves
“on Monday last the local Associa
“a feated in thie b
rat West Phila-
J
nell,
McDonnell, Matthew Scullin, William
Wolf, H. M, Statker, Clif as Sati
Dr. H. E. Brown, and C
sel
ANY WOODREE!
Me Woodrat rho canes
Mayor
y that ran the x
season in N
tee dite
the si
every fon
the current enon,
and afte Weeks was. forced oUt
cuteuets arly
tw
‘and. bas been a hi
it every eity where iC has be
‘The particular features of the
at ie present time are
find a nllet, the, origina
English Ponies, are six little tots
from, London, aud excl devcribed an a
ocktail; and the wi thing
dha th < ens their danelng cl
as the
York
eat houses, «
before,
rowd,
business i
presenter
entertaii
Harry Kei
ding hiv musical comedies
that are comie,
« nsurance
it 1125 Betz Building, Phila.
WHO IS TO BLAME
when your gas range works badly.
or your gas lights burn poorly ?
This Company maintains a Corps
© of experts whose services are always
Not the Gas Company.
at the disposal of householders.
Most difficulties can be remedied promptly and without charge
When this is not possible our men will tell you what repairs are needed,
and estimate their cost.
THE MERION AND RADNOR
GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
ARDMORE, PA. WAYNE, PA.
alentines
Hundreds of Novelties
Comics and Postals
Ohfe Arcade
Book and Stationery Shop, Ardmore
_HERION TITLE AND TRUST C co.
cerporated March 25, 1889,
Capital Authorized Capital Paid. 8125,00
Receives Deposits and al.ows int erest therewa; Insures titles, acta
as executor, trustees, guardian, ete., loans money on ¢ol
in the purchase and sale of
ately keeps ves without cbarge.
to sarttement of fety Depost Boxes
fo Rent in Burglar-proof Vaul anni
60 YEARS’
EXPERIENCE
a 250,000.
real
sient ‘Fitsrcan, | ; OFFIORRS
Aneta tee ie nee | Hoke a eA. SECON President.
si MUAH & Co,200anmirn lew York | <bis tra tee
EVERY LITTLE WHILE!
You hear the statement
HE HAD NO INSURANCE
Better make provision
for a fire now. Call or
write for information
“|JAMES C. McCURDY
DIRECTORS
Josiah 8. Pearce cl
Jacob Myers
| Richard Hamiltor
|. tton
Henry Su
old, M. D
+ Aru Algernon B, Roberts
Horace W. Smedley
John 8. Arndt
ROCK HILL QUARRIES ©
LOCATED CORNER STATE AND ROCK HILL ROADS
ni
F Cynwyd, Pa.
Building Stone Crushed
or Box444, Ardmore ALL KINDS ALL od Stone
FOR SALE
THEOBALD HARSCH
PROPRIETOR
Open to visitors every day NARBERTH PA
from 9 . ni. until one ball
Lour before sunset,
Zoological
Phene 52 P.O. Box 603
HARRY B. BICKING
Painter and Hardwood Finisher
LANCASTER AVENUE
ARDMORE PA’
wa
that a trolley | ¢
Several of the most valued ones working for the Secretary of| ford and Arimore furni —— = :
State passed three score and ten long ago. Mrs. Eliza Grid- to Phil ok :
ley, mother of the man who commanded the Olympia at the the 2 Railroad, ;
battle of Manila, is alton Bo, yet che holds a most responsi-| amd that another ad is not need in 5
ble position in the eral Land Office andknows more about —_——_ .
records and Jan a law ‘than any six clerks in the department. vives 7 ke Court ny of ate 5 ! ,
ig the trial were many of the Cave setten ies
Miss Ma, who is nearing the same age. is a pillar of| leadi eal el | os
pi wading real estate brokers. of | Yq ase of Ifumphreys vs,
strength to seekers for information in the Library of War| Philadelphia, ail of whom were Tie Phi sd Western Rc!
Records, She is the daughter of a former Minister to France.| ¢#led before the case was closed. Ra which wo, marked fort al this! DRECTOR OF PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVATORY
In the Department ofJu stice are women nearing 70, some of | jue Nia pg ine called for Media, by -ageeement ot OF MUSIC WILL ACCEPT STUDENTS, ON.MONDAY 4
them wives and daughters of former Judges, who work faith-| from: $16,000 up as igh as $20, crue, a ert ta 212,000, we ACID THURSDAY AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS
fully and intelligently and who are prized more highly than bon, Thowe culled were Freder i property is located in ot wells ect ub iE, ARDMORE AVENUF, ARDMORE, PA '
the younger women who compose the greater working mass| Sylvester, George IL Bro erty fa T14 Chetan Platte ‘ ”
in the departments. Richards aud Isaae Miller, é
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