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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
10
University of Cincinnati trustees debated financing a larger campus. A plan to use bond issues for buildings was discussed, with maintenance and tax levy concerns. Scholarships and staff appointments were also approved amid ongoing fund-raising challenges.
George H. Stapely, lease holder for Losey & Co. offices in the Chamber of Commerce, is asked to vacate while Losey & Co. is refused a lease transfer. The Board suspends Rule 18 from June 15 to September 15 permitting shirt sleeves in the exchange during a.m. and p.m. hours. The Illinois Grain Dealers Association notes its fifteenth annual convention in Springfield June 9 and 10 and seeks Cincinnati delegates. John C. Morrison is named Inspector of Provisions for the year.
The Greater Cincinnati League adopted Now or Never as its campaign slogan for summer annexation drives. A meeting in the Business Men's Club noted that unless neighboring towns and villages are annexed by fall Cincinnati will gain little from the census. Villages favored annexation and would join if approached properly. Officers elected: John L. Shuff president A W Macbrair vice president Millard Mack secretary and W G Caldwell treasurer. An organization meeting set for the first week in July with President Shaff to appoint standing committees.
Chief Archibald of the Fire Department opposes adding fire alarm auxiliaries in schools while accepting alarm boxes in each building. Electrical Engineer Pfiester proposed auxiliaries, but the Chief cites too much responsibility in the alarm telegraph system. The Board of Public Safety offered to install boxes at the Fire Department’s expense if the School Board covers original box costs.
Samuel M. McDonald, 60, a traveling salesman, wed Mary B. Jenkins, 40, at Ninth Street Baptist Church in Norwood. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John F. Hergett. Also, John L. Condit, 45, an art student of 1001 East Court Street, obtained a license to marry Emma Vail, 40, of Norwood.
Carpet and linoleum sale offers BRUSSELS and AXMINSTER options in many colors and borders. Velvets Wiltons and Royal Wilton carpets priced from 50c to 5.00 per yard. Rugs include AXMINSTER and Wilton styles from 10.00 to 57.50. Oriental carpets and inlaid linoleum also advertised with broad selections and low prices.
Dr. Dabney of the University of Cincinnati defended academic freedom at a Phi Beta Kappa dinner, opposing H Heath Bawden’s charges that Dabney fosters tyranny. He urged democracy in universities, stressed liberty must align with law, and warned against anarchic or sensa tional teaching.
Dr. Washington Gladden of Columbus's Broad Street Church addressed Phi Beta Kappa in McMicken Hall on Where Are We in Democracy He argued democracy exists in many nations yet requires representative government with accountable leaders He urged referendum extensions and local self rule to revive civic virtue and tied democracy's foundation to religion.
The passage frames education as justice and love among men, aiming to use truth for racial advancement. It argues scholarship serves humanity, not self-realization, and echoes a church motto linking freedom to service for all mankind.
University students stage Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest in the Quad between McMicken and Hanna Halls. Cast includes Rothschild Schaaf Lanz Pfaff Louis Gross Robert Taylor Herman Schick Albert Doeller and Ralph Cummins. Curtain at 8 o’clock.
About two hundred members from various parts of the country attended the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity election at the University last night. Officers elected were Arthur W. Kuhn president Dr Joseph H Shaw and Miss E A Ely vice presidents Clyde Dowdy treasurer and Leila Garvin secretary. Following the election T K Schnuck Ralph Cummings Louis Lurie Rose Merced Kate Perin Grace Spiegel and Emma Andriesson were initiated.
The new seven member Board of Education ordered plans for two replacement buildings to ease crowding. Garber & Woodward will design a $160000 Douglas School and Tieng & Lee a $200000 Fourteenth District School with classrooms, playrooms, arts facilities, and gym.
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