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Show From Wisconsin has come a wail at the dense ignorance concerning geography with which high and preparatory pre-paratory school graduates come up to the university. Recent tests made by the department of geology in first year physiography classes have developed de-veloped difference of opinion among the freshmen as to whether' the Rhine is in Asia or South America, has developed an astounding lack of Information as to the location of such cities as Vienna, Venice, Lisbon and Hongkong, and in trying to tell the whereabouts of the Pyrenees, Caucasus, Cau-casus, Himalaya and Sierra Nevada , ' mountains and Mount McKinley, al most half missed two or three out of the five, says the Chicago Evening Post. In fact, in the examination, which included only such questions as any fairly informed person should know, only one-sixth of the 103 freshmen fresh-men tested were recorded as making a satisfactory showing. |