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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12508, 8 April 1909, Page 4

.v ■ —■■ •■' : ■ . . .i : Parliament might do worse than ; resolve upon a little critical; examin- ] ation of the Tourist Department as a 1 whole, and .of the claims for expend- i itufe? made ; "\ipon" the public", purse in i consequence- of its existance. : — Napier i "Telegraph." % '. Mene Wallace, the. Eskimo boy who- .! was taken to the TJnited States twelve .- years: ago by. Commander Perry from .j the fai north of Greenland,- h»s- enter- J ed the preparatory class of Manhattan ' College? His ambition is to return to his native land and help his people, i and to. that' end he will take up a course of studies along practical rather ■ than -academic lines. He is aiming at ' the degree of civil engineer. ..'■■- ■ Seven "of the United States. Tlni- ■ vorsities have installed departments .; for tho teaching pf journalism. They : are— WisTOnsin, .Virginia,; Illinois, Kansas. Nebraska, and Washington. ; All of these now provide courses of > greater or less length for. the preparation.^of the . newspaper writer,- and ' the State TJniveirsities : of Indiana and j Missouri will also add such : depart- j ments this year. '.->"• :