The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-06
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.


IiIlsdale college. Michigan. has Iss stu
dents.
The permanent school fund OF Minnesota
| is So, l9l, 042. This year there will be an adj
ditional sum OF nearly 100000.
There is to be an effort made in the Kan
Sas legislature this winter to re-eStablsh the
| Leayenworth state normal school
1t is anticipated that large nuzaoec of
candidates will present themselves for the
| Harvard examination for women T'eNt year.
The trustees of Maine state college are
! thinking of erecting machine shops for in
| struction on the Russian plan. which has
been adopted by the Massachusetts, Institute
| of technology.
| The diploma to be presented 10 the gradu-
| ates of the Ann Arbor homeopathic college
at its commencement will be the first ever
issued from state university to homeO-
| pathic physician as such
Mr.. Peter o Leary. author OF Travels in
i Canada. the Red River Territory. ard the
| United States, has just returned to Eng
land from a tour through the northern and
western states of America, ard IS now en-
gagged in preparing a work on The Irish in
England which is TO be published in
| America
The latest bulletin OF the Boston public
library contains notes on the editions of
| 1.-TWO Noble Kinsmen' and THE Yorkshire
Tragedy among the doubtful Shakespeare
| plays. In the next issue, the transcript
| from the shakespeare part of the British
museum catalogue, accessible only in MS,
| VIII be begun.
| G.. z. Putnam Sons have in preparation a
| translation by Dr Albert Tuckerman Of the
History of Prussia" by the veteran Rhnke;
| 1.-The New Testament in Literature" by o.
| T. rockingham: Diseases and Injuries of
the Nerves. by DR.. r. c. Seguia. and "a
| Treatise on Diseases of the NOSE bE DR..
| Clinton Wagner
| DIR. r. s. Storrs. in his lecture the other
evening spoke in the most geneross and
| kindly manner of Mr.. rockingham as the
historian OF the TranSoenden talistSs The
| Dr. StOrrsOf $50 years ago would have calmly
arrayed himself in his best clerical gown,
and as calmly escorted the Frothingham of
| that era TO the stake.
| In Professor James Russell Lowe.Ts re-
| Gently published ede the lines praising Vir-
ginia so affected Virginian that ne wrote to
| the poet asking Tor copy OF them, where
| upon Mr.. Lowell, with all Parson Wilber's
kindness and Hosea's promptitude. wrote
out the passage and had it handsomely
/ framed for presentation to the state of Nir-
| ginia. 1t will be hung in the state library.
Roberts Brothers have in press, by special
and authors, the following books: Z" The
| Story of Sigurd;" The Nolsung and the
! Fall of NibSangs," by William Morris; Lord
| Houghtoa1s edition OF Keats Poetical
| Works. Hours of Thought on Sacred
| Things By Rev. James Martineau. and
What she Came Through" b. Sarah
Tyler.
Harvard has s2I students The candidates
| for higher degrees have increaSedby TO-
aafrf
matriculated students. Upon payment OF a
moderate fee persons q years of age can pur-
sue such studies as they are qualified for
/ without passing the usual entrance exami-
nation. ~ certificate of proficiency" is
| given tasueh of them IS obtain . per cent
of the maximum mark in their courses
BoseSn ranks among the Highest in ths'
amount OF material furnished free TO pupils
| Last wear Boston furn ;shed, books to the cost
| of $5t- $40, while the bill for books, statioS-
erv. etc. was Sl0I,252 for $4,000 pupils.
| Philadelphia spent S1D9!99S in. the same way
for $4,000 children; ST. Louis spent 81 $50
| for 81 900 pupils; Chicago, $50 only for
| SO zee scholars. andI LoEell. $795 for 900
| pupils
| The filing shop. the first OF the series, of
| mechanical workshops In the Massachusetts,
| institute of technology, Vas opened last
/ week. The shop has aboHt 80 places for
4 n,
dents having separate. drawers con aiming.
| tools necessary for the work OF the coarse, so'
that different men can use the same wise al
different times. The design is to teach prae-
teal mechanism By the class systeIs. under
the supervision of thorough nschinist.
where the use oi the various tools is learned
by working out a set OF models Instead of
the students working with different tools and
upon different work, thus requiring indl-
| vidual Instruction. the whole class work
alike, and can thus be taught together
almost as easily as one member alone. The
present plan is to spend ten weeks at filing,
when the student will be transferred to the
forgingfhop for the same length of time,
and thence to the turning shop, models
being worked out in these as in the fling de-
partment. The two latter are not yet htted
up A new two yearss course in practical
mechanism he's been started for the educa-
ton of practical engineers and mschinists'
with yearly tuition Of sl25-the regular In
! stitute being $500