Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-07-21
Educational.

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In Berlin a school has been startes
for the instruction of girls for children
nurses.
Hon. JAMES E. ENGLISH, of New
naVen' Conn, has presented to the
Yale College Library 81 900 for the pur-
chase OF complete collection of the
ffarl1amentary papers of Great Britain
from 1866 to 1873.
A PHILLIPS Academy student. who
endeavored without success. to bribe a
| Lawrence printer with an offer of 800
for an advance copy of the Academy
examination papers was discovered and
expelled before examination day came.
| PROF. HENRY r. SANFORD, President
OF the New York State Teachers AS
ISOLATION, announces the thirteenth an
University will be held at Fredonia. Jnlv.
II, 20, and %. He says accommoda-
lions are provided for a thousand
teachers, at not more than 81 per diem.
IowA's State University has gradua-
ted seventy-one adolescent lawyers this
season. And those sterling young men
are determined to go out in the world
and carve fortunes from their profess
ION, II they have to themselves commit
all manner Of offenses to make court
business lively.
BY the will Of Hon. Tappan Went !.
worth, OF Lowell, who died on the 18th
uit., the greater part of his large prop
erty has been given to the Dartmouth
College. The value of the property is
varlously estimated from $4,000 up
ward. Mr.. Wentworth received the
honorary degree of Master of Arts from
the college in 1850.
ACCORDING to recent report of the
French Minister of Public instruction,
thirty per cent. of the population of
France can not read or write. There
are thirteen scholars for every 100 in
habitants, and one school for every five
hundred of the population. There are
10000 schools in ALL The cost of
primary education is 10000 francs,
or about So per pupil.
The Boston Globe says: Sc The
friends of the late lamented Prof. Win
lock, who, like Agassiz, had no time to
make money, will be glad to learn that
a handsome sum has been raised among
his professional associates in Cambridge
for the benefit of his family. Already
some $4,000 have been subscribed,
one-half of which comes from the
thoughtful generosity of Mr.. Alexander
Agassiz.
: By the will of the late Esther Dickin-
son, of Deerield, Mass, the town is
made the residuary legatee, and is like
ly to receive about 100000 It is to be
applied principally in founding and
maintaining high school, free to the
Inhabitants of Deerfeld, and also afree
public library, to be erected, on her
homestead In Deerfeld street.
One Of the points Of interest ii the
Minnesota University Commencement
was the fact that one of the graduates
was a female, Miss Ellen Mary :, Ely.
Miss Ely takes the, anomalous degree of
$ Bachelor OF Literature" By unani-
nous vote of the class she was chosen
to deliver the yaledictory address, as a
distinction worthy to be bestowed upon
the first female. graduate Of the Uni
.versity of Minnesota. asf as ,25-A.2 -
( THE teachers Of the state of Texas
are reminded that their profession is
deeply interested in the change likely
to be made in the laws by the Constitu-
tional Convention. It is a matter of.
the greatest Importance says the cir
,
pressing necessities for a system Of
public free schools should be brought
more immediately before that body,
and also before the next Legislature.
THE manuscript Of M. Prouy's large
tables of. logarithms which survived z
the Communistic rIin,g are withheld
from publication for want of funds.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh recon-
mends that the expense of publishing
them be borne jointly by all nations in 10
terested IN science, and the scholars of y
Italy heartily concur In the PROPOSE
ton. $40 = sf8.iIa -.iFa'A' u To- q pl.a
: CONCERNING education IN Virginia,
the Richmond Enc lhrer says: 1t may
be and doubtless is the fact, that in
many Of the ornamental and some of
the practical accessions Of the modern
college curriculum, and in pretentious
ness of school buildings we are behind
many Of our Northern sisters, but in
the element of solidity and letters. and
in laying the foundation Of future use
fulness and mental development-in
of views, we think it can be
claimed that our system has advanced
with the most progressive, and that
our schools and colleges, in all their
grades, can be pointed to with a, Just
pride.
By the report of Superintendent
Pickett, of Memphis, it appears that
at the beginning of June the white
schools had 1862 pupils and the color
ed 778. The average cost of each pupil
in the colored schools varies, from year
to year to, from $l5.11 to $21.2S per
head.
Relic Of the Siege of Paris.
A relic Of the siege OF Paris was lately
dragged up by one Vanot, fisherman
of the village of Vimpelles, in his net.