The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
Cornell college has so young lady stude

COrneu cOlIege mas on young lady SIudenlS.
Several of the buildings belonging to
Hobart college, Geneva, have been remodel
ed and the work has cost about S., 300
Prof. Newton, of Yale college, wants every
body that saw it to send him an account of
the great meteor seen in the west recently.
Judge Wickham. of st. Louis. and VIII.
F. Hall, formerly in the Georgia legisla-
ture, and now of Colorado, are the only
members of the class of 1916, University of
Virginia, now living.
The whole number attending the free
evening schools in Lowell during the term
Just closed was .27S, of which 797 were
males and 401 females. Two of the schools
were kept IS evenings and two of them 50
evenings. The number of teachers was 81.
The summer school of biology in connec-
nection with the Peabody academy of SCI
ence, at Salem, will be resumed during the
present year The sessi IN last season was so
successful as to warrant the permanent
establishment of the institution. A summer
school in geology will be conducted during
six weeks in July and August, by Prof. N.
S. Shaler and Mr. William N. Davis, Jr., at
the mueseum of comparative anatomy in
Cambridge. A fortnight will be spent in
preparatory work, after which the time will
be occupied in field-study in Massachusetts,
ana new OK.
Boston university had during last year 627
students in attendance; la of these are
young women. The graduates of the year
numbered 1872 The whole number thus far
graduated is by departments as follows:
College of liberal arts, none; college of mu-
sic, s.; college of agriculture, 81; school of
theology, so (of whom 48, or an average of II
year, were bachelors of divinity; school of
law, 146; school of medicine, 66; school of
oratory, 81; total of graduates, $780, OF the
above number the young women graduates
are as follows: In music, L; in theology, l;
in medicine, Is; in oratory, IS; total, "a.
The president reports that in no department
of the university has the presence of young
women depressed the standard..of scholar
ship In several it has aided in elevating it.
In quite their fair share of classes and sec
tions have their representatives led, both in
daily work and in the stated examinations,
oral and written. In the selection of cleo
tives they have never shown a disposition to
pass by the hardest of mathematical branch
es the most difficult of the languages. At
all times their influence has been promotive
of order, studiousness, and true social cul-
ture
The committee on education of the Mich
igan legislature is about to report bill
touching the educational interests of the
state. The first section provides that every
tedcner VINO receives a certlncate snail pay
so cents to the examiner, who in turn pays
the money so collected over to the county
treasurer, with report of the persons from
whom received, every three months This
fund can be expended only in the county
where it is raised. Section two makes it
mandatory upon the state superintendent of
schools 10 hold teachers institute each
year in every county where the school pop
ulation exceeds 1000. In counties where
the school population is less than 1000 he is
authorized to draw from the state treasury
from the fund already provided by law for
that purpose, a sum, not to exceed 500 for
each institute, it being left to his discretion
whether he shall hold an institute in such
county, and in no case is he to hold except
25 or more teachers petition therefor Sec
ton provides that the state superinten-
| dent shall hold each year a state normal in
stitute, at an expense not to exceed $40O,
and at which he is expected to employ the
best educators in the country, one object of
this state institute being TO train teachers to
take charge of the county institutes The
county institutes are to be so conducted
| that in no instance shall an institute cost
the state more than $50, the superintendent
in each case being charged with the payment
| of the bills. The sum already provided by
law for county institutes is $500 year,
and it is estimated that the total additions,
| expense involved in the enforcement of the
] new law will be $500.