Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-11
EDUCATIONAL T

Opium is used to an alarming ex-
tent among the school children at
Gutenberg.
Detroit has 1900 more school
children than she had in 1873.
The Louisiana State Agricultural
and Mechanical College is going
into operation in New Orleans.
Vermont has Il, ZOO personsabove
the age of Ten years that can neither
read OF write, of whom 1884 are
foreign born.
The university of the south, at
Sewanee, Tennessee, is in good con-
dition, having nearly two hundred
students. Coal was recently dis
covered on the university property.
The Roman Catholics of New
Brunswick are moving strongly for
separate schools, and have pre-
pared an address to the Queen on
the subject.
The Russian Government offers
prizes to the amount of $500 for
the best three essays on the duties
OF cavalry in modern warfare.
Competitors may write in any Ian
guage,
The Nevada State superintendent
OF public instruction is taking steps
for the better enforcement of the
compulsory education.
Commencement at Harvard
comes on the oath of June, this
summer. The alumni will dine to-
gether i'm one hall-the new Memo
rial hall-which they haven't done
for many years, because there has
been nc room large enough to ac-
commodate them.
The bill exempting colleges from
taxation has finally. passed the
Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives. The Philadelphia Age OPP
poses this bill on the grounds that
it completely ignores the constitu-
ton, and also enacts a statute that
must be pronounced null by the
courts.
The West Virginia Superintend-
ent of Free Schools proposes to es-
tablish six normal institutions in
the State for the improvement, of
its teachers, such improvement, he
intimates, being much needed. The
meetings will all be held in July
with the exception Of the first APP
pointed for June.
The students of the University of
Virginia have inaugurated a move
ment looking to the construction of
a gymnasium and bathing estab-
lishment on the University grounds.
They estimate the cost at $50, 900,
which they will endeavor to secure
by voluntary contributions from the
friends of the institution.
The superintendent of the Wis
consin Blind Asylum, who has been
on a visit to Europe, says that care.
full inquiry in British institutions
proves that the number of the blind
who become self-supporting is very
small. A gentleman, himself blind,
is Of the opinion that not more than
five per cent. of the graduates OF
English institutions can live by the
practice of anything learned there
in. Scotch institutions give the
same percentage. The fifty-six pu.
pills of the Wisconsin asylum, some
of whom have been there for several
years, earned only S833.4l last year.
About six months ago, an old
negro woman of this town was
seized with a great longing to be
able to read the Scriptures, and
communicated to her friends her in.
tentiOn Ofattending the night-school
for colOred people, with a view OF
attaining this end. AS she was 65
years old, and did not know a letter
Of the alphabet, the idea was re-
garded as an evidence of approach
ing imbecility, and she was laughed
to scOrn by all those who knew her.
But this did not deter her from her
purpose. She went to school, and
now, strange but true, is able to
read the Bible with the utmost ease
and accuracy.-Shelby (Kentucky)
COurant.
The Faculty of the University OF
Michigan, at Ann Arbor, have sus-
pended and sent home eighty-One
members of the Sophomore and
Freshmen classes, on account of i'm.
subOrdination. Thus terminates
another of the annual conflicts over
the time-honored custom of "Haz-
ing" We are not sure the faculty
haved erred i'm dealing thus vigor-
Ously with these eighty-one re-
belliOus young ideas, but from the
initiation Of these yearly quar-
rels between faculty and stu
dents the conviction has been
strong with us that a considera-
BILE number of the faculty could be
given a furlough with the recall
citrant students with decided adj
vantage to the institution. To make
it more binding and enhance the
advantage, 1t would only be neces-
sary to make the leave of absence
Of the impracticals of the faculty
perpetual. Good strong sense in
fused into the management of the
University would then keep it NOV
ing upon a peaceful and satisfactory
basis.