The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-24
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| The Nebraska state university has be
gun its autumn term with 200 students
Ex-Gov. Clallin, of Massachusetts. has
given $4,000 10 Claflin university, Or
augsburg, S. e.
The Italian government has decided
to send twoprofcssors of Greek TO Greece
every year to study the modern language
Williams college has received from
the late Judge Rice, of iowa, a beoucst
OF $50, 900, of which some S. 900 is to be
applied 10 the establishment of Latin
and Greek prizes.
The cost of the English elementary
schools last year was 9,577, 800. They
instructed 3.l54,973 children. The
french elementary schools during the
same time, instructed 1898 600, and cost
$13, 100000.
A college restaurant, under the super
vision of number of the faculty, is now
conducted at McKendree college Fur
nished rooms can be had so that the en-
tire expense of room and board is from
SO to 1926 per week.
Circulars giving teachers practical in
structions in regard to the ventilating and
lighting of their school rooms have been
issued in st. Louis. Superintendent Har-
ris has found such instruction necessary +:
for, as he declares, cases have come under
his observation where the teacher dark
ened the room, alleging that she had weak
eyes, thinking that sufficient excuse
for causing fifty or more children to strain
their eyes over their work.
The report of the United States COM
mission of education for 1877 gives the
expenditure per capita of population on
schools and police in a number of cities.
San Francisco and st. Louis make the best
showing, the first having police eXpen-
diture per capita of So cents and educa-
tional of $3.1S, and st. Louis returning
90 cents for police and $201 for schools
Boston spends $2.43 on police and 1881
for educational purposes; New Haven.
police $1.33, schools 1891 In New
York the per capita expenditure for both
purposes is nearly the same-$274 for
police, $2.76 for schools.
In response to DIR. Sears suggestion
that the general government aid in edu-
eating the ignorant classes in the south,
the New Orleans Picayune alludes to the
public lands already given for that pur-
pose, and adds: "Such school lands have
not always been wisely handled. Yet we
southern people do not desire school help
from the federal government in any
form. We undertake to say that nine
teen white citizens out of every twenty
IN the south know that the federal con
gress has no right to take money paid
into the treasury by northern states and
use 1t TOR educating southern children"
The second session since the admission
of women to full rights of students in
the classes of arts and science at Uni
versity college, London, has just begun.
The experience of the first session com
pletely justified that admission. Except
that the women students have separate
common room with female attendants,
and that there are for different reasons a
few classes open only to women and a
few open only to men, the departments
of arts, laws and science admit women
and men as fellow students upon terms
IN every respect equal: During the last
session there were gil female students,
while instead of the decrease in the num-
Der of male students which some wise
acres feared, there was an increase of
fifty,