The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-27
Religious and Educational.

AT a late teachers institute in Ten
ncssee one speaker made an earnest plea
for larger salaries for instructors. He
held that poor pay is driving competent
men from the profession.
-Co-cducation is likely to have one
good advantage ii it consi GINS the class
pipe to the limbo of forgotten barbar-
isms. AT Ann Arbor the lady graduates
refused to smoke on class day.--N. Y.
Inde ,endeat.
The american Educational Monthly
notes that young lady teachers have very
extravagant ideas regarding salaries,
while young men beginning the teachers
mands.
The General Congregational Asso
citation of Michigan has just reported 195
churches. OF these only eight are sup
piled with pastors; AL arc served by
acting pastors and thirteen by ministers
of other denominations. Forty-six pull
pits are vacant. The number of minis.
tiers in the association is 49, of whom
fifty three are without charges.
A correspondent who lately attended
an afternoon service in the great Mormon
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City says they
began with singing, followed by a vigor
Gus prayer and singing again, then COM
munion and IL sermon. During the second
hymn seven elders stood up and broke
the bread into convenient pieces, and,
after Il short blessing, gave the plates to
seven other elders to pass among the
congregation. After the plates were re-
turned, another blessing was asked over
the cups of water used in the place of
wine. All partake of the communion,
even the small children.
The venerable DIR. Tying rebukes a
habit in which he says some clergymen
indulge, viz: He has seen one take his
quid of tobacco from his mouth before
prayer in a highly finished pulpit and lay
it on the marble Slab and after praying
put it in his mouth again. The Herald
md P,esbyter says: IF the doctor is
simply for preserving the slab from de-
Element, we can suggest remedy in the
habit of a minister we once knew. Be-
fore going into church he put his quid
into a crevice in the brick wall, and after
service took to chewing it again"
The Board of State Visitors of Mich
igan University-Rev.J J. H. McCarty, D.
d., Chairman-in their annual report to
the Superintendent of Public Instrut-
ton, say: "Since the day when our uni
versity was thrown open to women the
number has steadily increased. In
1901 it was 81; in 1912, ga; in 1872 g.
SO; at present there are 81, distributed
as follows: Academical, SO; medicine,
35; law, 5. From all the testimony we
can gather, the presence of lady students
is most wholesome, while their proticien-
cy is remarkable. They are, by the con-
current testimony of the faculty, the
equals of the male students in all re-
spects. We are of the opinion that the
feasibility of the coeducation of the
sexes is placed beyond even question.
1t is no longer an experiment"
Speaking of the need of thorough
scientific education as an aid in the de-
velOpment of the vast resources of the
country, the San Francisco Bulletin says:
while the professions are crowded, as
they always are, there is great dearth
of educated men who are ready to enter
the new fields of scientific investigation
already open. Mining engineers, metal
lurgists, dyers, designers, industrial
artists, fully up to the requirements of
the times, are not abundant. In fact,
some scores of these men have been
drawn from Europe during the last few
years. The colleges did not furnish
them. Now in just these fields of intel
ligent experiment, where the most thor
ough- going science makes an alliance
with industrial art and with invention.
our greatest discoveries are likely to be
made"