The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

state to help it with money.
Rochester university has 16S students; 10
of these are special course students.
1t is proposed to begin the publication in
this country of mathematical journal.
The free institute of industrial science at
Worcester, Massachusetts,, has about 100 stu
dents.
President Eliot says that the question of
admitting women to Harvard has never even
been discussed by the faculty.
The university of Berne has 80 female stu
dents of which number % are studying med
icine, four belles-letters and one law.
A formal medical report delares that very
large majority of the pupils in the Cincin-
natl public schools are breathing an atmos-
phere containing more than one-tenth per
cent. of carbonic acid.
The legislature af New York is consider
ing whether or not the state shall be further
taxed for the support of the school ma'am
factories known as normal schools. The
statistics of these institutions show that the
proportion of graduates to the total attend
ance was very small, and the cost of each
graduated pupil to the state was very large,
ranging as high as 81 500 in the Buffalo
school, and nearly as large an amount in
other schools.
At recent meeting of the Yale University
boat club, it was voted to reject Cornells
challenge to row four mile straight-away
race in an eight-oared boat with coxswain,
or in a four-oared boat without coxswain,
should Yale be the victor in the race with
Harvard. The ground for declination is that
Cornell refused to pull a race with Yale at
Philadelphia, after the objection of lack of
funds had been overcome by the offer of New
York graduates to pay all expenses, and that,
consequently, Cornell acted in bad faith.
The University of Vermont and State Ag-
ricultural College has 16S students; none of
the students take the whole agricultural
course. AT Dartmouth it is taken by one
only. There is hardly farmer or a farmers
son in Vermont who thinks it necessary to
spend three or four years at an agricultural
college to qualify him TO conduct farm.
They do not believe it will pay If they are
going to spend that time in study, they pre-
fer to take broader, more general course,
that will give them foundation for any de-
partment of labor-professional, literary or
scientific, as their tastes may at the end of
their course incline them.
The chemical laboratory of Johns Hopkins
university will be completed about Februa-
ry 1. Professor Remsen says that the plan
of the university will be to prompt and
stimulate original Investigation in the hope
and developing of the science in a proper
spirit In the method of instruction, stu
| dents will be classified as beginners in other
sciences, learning chemistry as an aid, prac-
teal chemists and investigators making
| chemistry their study for some specific pur-
pose. He thinks that chemistry is not suffi-
| GENTLY appreciated as an essential part OF a
medical education. and in the plan of the
university special attention will be given to
instructing medical students in a science
that so largely belongs to their profession.
During the past year the school attendance
of Georgia has been: Whites, III, AIS; col
ored, 81 ,967. The entire school population
of the state is 1874, OBJ. The cost per pupil
on the number in actual attendance was
! S253. Local taxation raised for school pur
poses, Sl42, 72T .63; this added TO the state
fund of 500, 3l9 gives total of s434, 046;6S
/ expended for public schools in 1876 This
would be 1917 for each pupil in actual at
tendance The Peabody fund distributed in
tins state in 1877 amounts to S, 500. Since
| the nearly every female college is in
languiShing condition, and does not APP
proach to its former prosperity. Many -four
| fshing male schools also have been closed.
The members of the legislature have tie
right of appointing 2l9 free students to the
state university, yet not more than one
/ fourth of that number can be induced to at
tend. The cause of this is the poverty Of
the people.
Professor Spence, of Fisk university, in a
recently published statement, said that the
faculty contemplated the erection, at the
earliest day practicable, of the David Liy-
ingstone missionary hall, on the lot just OPP
posite Jubilee hall. Indeed, they had al
ready taken steps in that direction, and in
| all probability the foundation may be COM
menced sometime during the present sum-
mer The institution had made such rapid
| strides as to render this a neces-
sity. Few would believe that $50 stu
dents were now in regular attendance at
Jubilee hail. but such is the case.
OF this number 125 were boarders. The in
/ stitution had taken front rank In the coll
ored educational institutions of the south,
and the faculty would be forced to keep
pace with ITS advancement in providing all
necessary room The new building was to
cost $50, 600; of this amount SIC, 600 had al
ready been subscribed in England, with the
promise of increased subscriptions If the
jubilee singers continued to do as well in
the future as in the past, the erection of the
new edifice might already be considered as
an accomplished fact. The troupe would
soon pass over into Holland, where they
would give concerts for a month. ~
The question is frequently asked, how is
it possible for lUniversalist clergymen and
their brethren of the se-called Evangelical
churches to unite for a common work when
such differencesof creed exist between theml
! To some it seems unanswerable, but TO 9TH
ers recognizing the fact that the two parties
agree in many respects as to doctrine and
method, it is felt that their union might be
effected, when their aim chances 10 be one,
without any sacrifice of self-respect or 1prin-
cipie. We believe we express the
feeling of 90 out of every 100 Universalist
clergymen when we say that we should be
willing 10 cooperate with our brethren of
the other churches on the basis
of faith in common God
and common Savior, and of common aim
| the salvation of the race. But suppose