Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-03
SCHOOLS AND OOLLEG s,

A Yale Alumni Association is talked Of
at Hartford.
Two or three more Kindergartens are to
be established in Cincinnati.
President Eliot OF Harvard College, and
Mrs. Eliot, are going to Europe this sum
mer.
A reduction of twenty-five per cent. in
the room rents will be made at Princeton
next year.
South Middle College, the oldest dormi-
tory at Yale, and the favorite resort of
sophomores, is to be remodeled throughout.
DIR. A. NJ. Brockway, of New York, a
graduate of 1857, is compiling a catalogue
of the Hamilton alumni now living IN New
York.
The New York State Teachers Associa-
ton will meet at Canandaigua this year, on
Tuesday, July Goth, the session continuing
until Thursday evening.
1t has become Harvard custom to con-
fer upon the Governor of Massachusetts
the degree of LID. the first Commence
ment day after his Inauguration.
The Yale alumni at the coming Com
mencement will elect a new member of the
corporation to succeed the Hon. William
Walter Phelps, whose term expires.
Principals of first grade grammar schools
in Chicago are to receive 81, 500, 81, 600
and 81, 200 respectively for the first, Sec
ond and third years of their service.
Professor Chester OF Hamilton College,
contemplates an expedition to Northern
Minnesota during the summer months. He
will probably be accompanied by several of
the students
The graduates of Brown University have
nominated Joseph III. Walker of Worces
ter, the Rev. Edward Judson of Orange,
n. j., and Professor George /. Chace for
the vacant trusteeships of the University.
Earnest efforts still 90 on for the en-
dowment fund of $500 600, which the Pres.
byterian Church of New York proposes to
give to the trustees on the condition that
Hamilton College shall become denomi
national institution.
The faculty of Princeton College are
using every means to secure complete fair
ness in the examinations. Hereafter any
one caught using helps or skinning pa
pers," as they are commonly called, will
be expelled.
A fund of nearly $40, 600 has been raised
for the purpose of assisting necessitous
young women to an education at Oberlin.
Commencement takes place next week,
there being l24 persons to be graduated.
There are 5l4 young men in the college and
435 young women.
A Dartmouth sophomore called on a
"medic" the other day to ask his advice
about bad eye from which he was suffer-
ing. The "medic" examined it and pre-
dicted that he would lose it, but wrote
prescription for it. At this point sophie
more rolled out his glass eye and the scene
closed.
1t appears that Harvard, like Yale. has
in one respect famous class" of 1858.
This class has furnished to the college
more officers than any other class-Presi-
dent Eliot, John Quincy Adams of the cor
poration, Adam S. Hill, Professor of Rhet-.
oric; James NJ Pierce, Professor of Math-
ematics James c. White, Professor of
Dermatology, and Justin Winsor, Libra.
rian Two other members have been Off
cers-Ellis Peterson, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy, now Supervisor of the Pub
lie Schools of Boston, and Eldridge j. Cut
Ter, who died in 1870, while in office as
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages.