The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-15

II we conld run . telep 1OBS h1gd
enough, we might hear the angels
sing.
Girls who wish to enter Swarth-
more College, Pa must promise
not to wear false hsir.
Clergymen have commenced to
congratulate each other with great
enthusiasts on the probability that
there is no hell.
Mr.. Moody's reVlYal work is
wearing him out, covering his face
with wrinkles and filling bis hair
with gray threads.
According to q statement In the
Congregationalist the Bible has
been introduced into the common
schools of Bengal.
Prof. John T. Short has been
elected permanent Professor OF the
English language and literature in
the Ohio Wesleyan University.
There is talk ia Iowa of Abolishing
the Office of County Superintend-
emit of schools, leaving the super
vision of tie schools 70 the local
authorities.
Rev. c. D. Hartranft, D. D., OF
New BrunsWick, n. j., has accept
ed the call to the chair OF church
history ia the ConRregstit The
illogical Seminary 81 Hartford, Com
necticut.
Nebraska is said to have more
than 100000 acres Of land set
apart as 3 permanent endowment
of the public schools Those school
lands sold thus far have Welded an
average of $3.50 an acre.
Harvard has received q bequest OF
$4,000 from Mrs. j. w. Sever, OF
Boston, of which sum $1O0,000 is
for G building to be called Sever
Hall, $4,000 for librarys and 500
600 for purposes not specified.
There is prospect of thirty sons
of Slamese princes and mobiles com
ing to this country to be educated.
dents in the United States has been
asked for by the Siamese Govern.
ment.
Superintendent Shuttuck, of Den.
ven, says, what onght to be eppar
ent to every one, that whenever the
people want teachers with brains to
train their children, and are willing
to pay for such, the brains will be
found forthcoming.
DIR. Lyon Playfair says that il
Ireland, where huge sum of mon
ey has been spent in national edu
cation, only 43 per cent. of the pop
ulation can read and write. Ii
Scotland the National schools hav.
long been in advance of those o
England and Ireland.
Superintendent Stone, OF Spring
field, Mass, wisely holds that mucl
of the perplexities of arithmeti
value at all in practical life; ant
that there is too much parsing. an
alysis and humbng generally abou
the study Of grammar as it is nov
commonly taught.
The people of Cleveland are sal
to complain that reading aud spell
ing are too much neglected in tn
cchools of that city. One of tn
critics quotes q reported saying G
President Elliot's: elf q child Ca
read, write and spell correctly, ant
is Versed in the science of numbers
he has already good education"
The total value of school proper
ty in Nebraska, as estimated durin
the past year, is 81 ,862, 385.8S. Tn
total of school expenditures wa
81, OPT, 1927. There are 1892 teach
ers employed against 536 in 1870
the average salary of male teacher
is $35. 46 per month, and the aver
age salary of female teachers $3I 81
There are 56,774 pupils enrolled i
the schools.
The Illinois Supreme Court ha
just decided that parents shall de
terDine what their children cha
study of the branches taught in tn
public schools; and that Lin goin
from one grade to the other O
from a grammar TO q high schoo
if the pupil passes in any OF tn
studies in which hesis examined b
may enter the upper grade and con
tinue such study-but he canno
i continue studies in which he faile
: to pass.
J Each professional school of III
i Boston University Is to be repre-
sented on coInmencement-day b
twO-speakera, one OF whom is to b
chosen by the Faculty, the other b
the students.. The arrangement
OF the Trustees for The organizasio
J of the University conYocation i
1881 are received with great graf
ticatioh by the more than four hnnd
red aud fifty alumni, already sc
: mitted to degrees, who are then /
be eligible to membership Ia th
new body. 80
A correspondent writing of A
tlegheny College, at Meadville. Pa
says:
"This staunch old institute hs
been putting on new life. In
prOvements began in August, 1876
these have been extensive, and al
now all paid for. The courses {
study have been elevated, aud ~
now abreast of the best colleges i
the country. The attendance ha
trippled. The aggregate this yes
, will reach 81 least $40, the iarRel
number ever registered during i
, history Of over 60 years. The rev
en1e has been considerably i1creai
! ed. A new college hall is bein
projected for young women. Th
expenses have been reduced nearl
one-half."
The Metric or DecIInal 81.
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American Manufactures. 5e
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