The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28

A Massachusetts, lady, whose name is moi
made public, has given $25, 600 for the en-
dowment of theological department OF
0berlin college as a part of the 500, 000
which it has been proposed should be raised
as fund for the college.
A new department has been established in
the university of California known as the
Hastings law college, of which Professor
John N. Pomeroy, of Rochester, has become
the head. The college opens with rs stu
dents, as follows: Senior class, 10; middle
class, IL; junior class. 45.
From the proceeds of the sale of the Moody
and Sankey hymn books, Mr.. Moody has
given 5000 to Wellesley college for women.
the money, but 1T is said that it will be per-
manently invested as an endowment fund
for Moody and Sankey scholarship.
The summer school OF languages at Am
herst has now been in session six weeks and
the catalogue contains the names of 2l4 pu-
pills and Is instructors. Twenty-three states
have been represented, besides Japan and
India. The languages that have been studied
are Latin. Greek, Hebrew, Sanscrit, German,
French, Spanish and Italian. i.itu-a
us proposed that new university be
founded in Siberia, and 430, 900 roubles have
been given for that purpose. The govern
ment has sanctioned the enterprise, and the
town of Tomsk has been selecied as the site.
The suggestion is made in a Russian journal
that the year 1882 the third centenary of the
Russian possession of Siberia, would be an
appropriate time for the opening Of this new
seat of learning.
At the annual meeting of the agricultural
convention of Georgia last week the presi-
dents address, in referring to the present
Arou haa ako M far in fhQt re- Cif fad ac
q means for counteracting them the exten-
sion OF popular education. Professor Grote,
OF Alabama member of the chronological
commission, spoke of the cotton caterpillar
and explained the work of the department
OF agriculture, and q resolution was passed
recommending that the commission be per
manentiy sustained sa tagr
At the meeting of the Minnesota state
educational association at Minneapolis last
week, President Johns in his annual address
gave some interesting statistics of the public
schools of that state. The average wages of
teachers in the common schools per month
are $37.6l for male teachers and $28 SO for
female. Allowing ten months as the term
of service, this gives an average salary TO
male teachers of only 1876 60, and to female
OF only $28S S0-sums, he said, (which do
not exceed, taking board and washing into
account, the wages of ordinary day laborers
the school year in 1877 was not ten months,
but 5 2. from which it is evident that their
caIling-I will not dignity it with the name
of professi0n-can not supply them with the
necessaries of life" No one with a family
to support can subsist by teaching, and
hence people can not make 1T life work.
The result is that the common schools are
taught by young and inexperienced persons,
who adopt the profession as temporary
expediency. Of teachers in the graded
schools similar remarks were made. the
average salary of principals being only s7S4-
55. and OF assistants only S359.4S. Among
the defects growing out of the school sys-
tenn, President Johns mentioned the follow
ing: The extreme youth of the teachers;
their insufficient knowledge, and their lack
of professional preparation.
Canon Farrar, IN Social Notes (London) J,
speaks of the need of arousing attention in
the student, and relates some amusing mis-
takes that pupils have made for want of It.
'When boy" he proceeds, said that alge
bra was a sort of wild donkey all over stripes