The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-19
EDUCATIONAL.

President Eliot, of Harvard, ad-
vocates physical exercises as an in
dispensible part Of the programme
OF ever school for boys, to be insist
ed on as regular as grammar and
mathematics.
Prof. D. G. Gilman, of the Uni
versity of California, has accepted
the presidency of tho John Hop
kins University, Baltimore, for the
establishment of which the late
John Hopkins made q bequest of
S2,50O,OOO.
Harvard College library, already
containing some 100000 volumes,
has been Increased by the addition
of the private collection of the late
DIR. Walker, which was valued at
$4,000, and bequeathed to the IL
brary on his death.
It'ppears from the Yale Courant
that of the graduates of the acade-
mic department, 146 have been
members of Congress, fifty-six COL
lege presidents, forty-three United
States Senators, thirty-two Cover
nors of states, two Secretaries of
war, and two Secretaries of state.
Prof. L. W. Peck, who has Just
been placed in charge of the de-
partment of industrial drawing in
the College of Mechanic Arts in
the University of Minnesota, was
for six years a carrier of the Prov
idence Journal. He is a graduate
of the Boston Institute of Technol-
ogy.
The average salary of certified
masters of elementary schools in
England and Wales is $517 per an
mum. More than one-half also are
provided with a house, or live rent
free. In Ireland the average is 1892,
and only little over one-fifth have
their house rent free.
A young Japanese student, one of
several who have studied at the
Chsuncey Hall School, Boston, took
q prize at its last annual exhibition,
last week. He stands sixth in
mathematics, in the most brilliant
class the school has ever had,
and third in English poetry. His
teacher also commended in the
highest terms his excellence of de-
pertinent, and his moral character.
The Woman's Educational Asso-
citation of the Illinois Wesleyan
University is meeting with great
success in its efforts to endow q pro-
fessorship in the college and estsb-
lish home for girls who are strug-
Cling to educate themselves.
The report of the Boston Wo.
mans Edueationsl Association SAYS
the elementary education is entirely
in the hands of women. In Boston
there are 175 male teachers and ], O66
female, aud such q thing as 8 man
tcoching in a primary school is al
most unknown throughout New
England. The teacher in these ele-
mentary schools is the only school
teaching that the vast majority of
children receive, for less than one
fortieth of them go beyond the
grammar schools.
The New York Times says ''that
a gentleman Of New York has sig
nified his intention to establish and
endow an American College of
Music, to be dedicated to the
daughters Of America. 1t is pro-
posed to erect In New York an edi-
fec of great architectural beauty
and grand proportions, with all the
appliances necessary for the purpose
of both q school of music and the
rendering Of the works of the great
masters, for public entertainment
and instruction"
There are in Delaware twenty
eight schools wherein between 100
and 200 colored children are in
structed- These schools receive no
funds from the state, and yet are
said to be conducted with admirable
discipline and q uniform system
such as is not possessed by the public
schools wherein the white children
are educated. All OF them under
the management of colore2 teach
ers, some of whom sre even Ac-
complished. The colored schools
are maintained chiefly by o revenue
which is raised among the colored
people themselves.