Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-04
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Encampment at West Point has
begun.
Forty-fve young ladies were grad
uated last week at the Cincinnati
NormalS School for teachers.
The Rolla School Of Mines has
just graduated three young engi-
neers at its first annual commence
ment.
Gov. Beverage officially pre-
claims that the Southern Illinois
Normal University will be formally
opened on the LIST Of July.
Children who attend Boston
schools average half a pint more
brains per head than children who
attend school in other parts of the
world.
The Convention of Indiana Coun-
ty School superintendent laid on
the table resolutions protesting
against the educational provisions
Of the civil rights bill.
The Philadelphia school authors
ties have under serious cousidera.
ton the praoticahility Of establish
ing an art and industrial school in
that city.
The superintendent of the Con-
necticut State reform School makes
q statement to the effect that out Of
1872 boys under his charge $50 are
liars,
He parted his name in the mid
die, and graduated at the tail-end of
his Glass;. Hansell French, West
Pointer, class of "a. - Chicago
Times.
Mr.. Edwards Pierrepoint said at
the Yale law-schoOl semi-centennial:
"NO government can prosperously
endure which in the main is not
administered by the higher intellect
and the higher moral sentiments OF
the people,"
The dedication of Harvard College
Memorial Hall, erected to COM
memorate the names Of the gradu-
ates who persisted in the war, and
also the services of those who have
otherwise won distinction in the
service Of the country, took place
yesterday. Charles Francis Adams
delivered the Grafton, and Oliver
Wendell Homes read . poem. The
cost of the building in about $780,
600.
The directors of a school district
in Preble county, Ohio, recently dis
charged their teacher, In the midst
Of his term, for repeating to M Of
the pupils the following verse:
Over the hills q great way 81,
cough;
The prettiest girl l ever saw
Was sucking cider through astraw.
At the meeting of the Tennessee
Teachers Association the other day
q delegate said that while he be-
lieved in the co-education of boys
and girls before the war, his opinion
was now somewhat changed. He
thought that boys now as q rule,
were less fit to associate with girls
than they were then.
A Connecrlcur paper says that the
Compulsory Attendance law has
been attended by an increase of the
number of pupils in the schools by
about $500, of whom One-fifth
represent the natural increase from
population. The law has therefore
brought in about $500 from haunts
Of ignorance to instruction, and
still leaves out about 1900 BY reason
d paternal neglect and 5,608 in
employment.
a committee of the Board of Re-
gents of the Nebraska State Uni
versity has made an exchange Of
lands by which they get possession
of the Culver farm for the use of
the Agricultural College. This is
one of the best farms in Lancaster
county, and admirably adapted to
the use intended to be made Of it.
The college expects to be able to
board students on the farm at about
three dollars per week, and to fur
nish work to all students who desire
it. There Is no reason why indus
tries, careful students should not
earn a considerable part Of their ne
cessary expenses. We believe that
the arrangement is for all students
of agriculture to board on the farm,
and reclte at the university In the
city