The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-15

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would have weighed five or six tons,
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move IL.
school and Church.
The Bishop OF London has $50, 900
year and the use Of two houses.
The eighteenth annual session Of
the National Educational Association
has just been held at Philadelphia. The
opening address was delivered BY Pres
ident John Hancock of Dayton, Ohio.
The exercises were Of great interest.
President McCosh has fears OF a
decline Of the ministerial supply Of the
Presbyterian Church. He says the three
younger classes in Princeton College
contain an unusually small number Of
students who intend to enter the minis
try. He thinks it time that the church
should be aroused
The United States statistics of in
ternal revenue show great increase in
the consumption Of lager beer, which is
becoming the beverage OF the masses.
The consumption is now nearly 200, 900
barrels month, or something over H.
OO0, 900 barrels annually, or about eight
gallons TO every individual in the Unit
ed States. The consumption Of whisky
does not appear to have diminished in
quantity.
Lucy Stone has been paying visit
to Wellesley College for women In Mas
sachusetts. She gives a little account
OF what she saw there in the WoDaan's
Journal. At this college "the cooks
are men, the professors are women
The visitors were invited to look At the
microscope work of the school. The
girls have more than 80 microscopes
constantly in use, and gave an exhibit
of animal, mineral and vegetable speci-
mems which was much 10 their credit
They also have row-boats, each with IL:
own colors, captain and crew. The
girls are accustomed to exercise them.
selves at their oars, on the lake, every
evening, and are said TO look very rosy
and healthy.
According to a recent and eminent
Roman Catholic authority. that church
is now the richest religious body in thi'
country. The ratio Of increase in IL
pecuniary resources from 1860 to 1875
was 1873 per cent. Official statistics
published in 1875, give the number O
its priests as 5, O74, the number Of stu
dents preparing for the priesthood /,
273, and the number Of churches ant
chapels, 6,528. There were nj that time
33 theological seminaries, So colleges
557 academies, Gas parochial schools
PA asylums, and 90 hospitals. Tn
Catholic Directory for 1879 shows |
Catholic population in this country o
6,375,630.
The Washington School Trustee
have received from their Special Com
mittee on the Course Of Study severa
excellent recommendations. Condensed
these are: No new text books, fewe
studies, more oral instruction BY teach
ers, less show work, more Of the practi
tical, less Of the theoretical. "The 90
ject," says the committee very wisely
= should ever be not to see how mucl
can be taught. but how well the instruc
ton can be given" Among the sug
gestions Is one that natural science ant
} physiology be taught orally in eac
school, and another, that lessons in goo
morals and polite manners be give
each week by each teacher, enforced b
anecdote and illustration.
President Eljot's views on educs
!, ton, as expressed in his recent addres
at the Smith Female College in Masss
chusetts, are the cause Of considerabl
comment. 81 may as well abrupt
, avow," he said. as the result Of N
reading and observation in the matte
OF education, that recognize but on
mental acquisition as an essential pal
OF the education Of . lady or gentleman
namely: an accurate and refined use
the mother tongue. Greek, Latir
? French. German, mathematics, naturs
! and physical science, metaphysics, hi
tory, and esthetics are all profitable 40
: delightful, both ~ training and acquis
tions to him who studies them with II
Q telligence and love; but not one Of theI
I; has the least claim to be called an %
QUESTION essential to q liberal educatio
: or an essential Of . sound training.
This, coming from the President OF Hal
: ward College, sounds rather radical.
Haps and nGishaps.