The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-25
EDUCATIONAL.

the university VI FuBiulh.
A KINDERGARTEN is to be established
Immediately in SIN Francisco.
The Union law college at Chicago has
Just graduated class of 32 students.
OF the 164 members of the Havard
graduating class 70 are going to study
law.
PRESIDENT CHADBoURNE, of Williams
college, has resolved to deny college aid
to any student who is caught smoking.
BOSTON has about 5000 students of
elocution and oratory. Many of them
study only for the purpose of private
life.
Ar recent school teachers examine
ton in Vermont the word "impostor"
was defined us Zone who drives in
posts.
CHANCELLOR HAVEN is said to have
added $3.50, 900 to the endowment fund
of Syracuse university by his personal
efforts.
Mr.. +. GRAY, of Chicago, has promised
to give $4,000 to Oberlin on condition
that $1,000 can be raised from other
sources.
The Boston school committee has
erected the Office of instructor of hygiene
with n salary of 5000, and its authority
to do is questioned.
THE Agricultural college at Guelph,
Ont, is said TO be entirely successful
so successful that 200 applications for
admission have been refused.
BENJAMIN p. CHENEY, of Boston, has
paid yarmouth college $50, 900. OF this,
it is understood that $40, 200 will be de-
voted to founding a Cheney professor
ship of mathematics.
WHITNEY Bros, of Philadelphia, the
great car-wheel manufacturers, have
promised gift to Union college as
memorial of their father, who was resi-
dent of Schenectady.
Ex-PREsIDENT WOoLsEY, will entertain
ut the coming Yale commencement the
class of 1920, of which he was q member.
Only eight or nine of the SO members of
that class are now living.
The salary schedule of the Albany
schools names the principal of the high
school as receiving 5000, the professor
of Latin and Greek, ~, 100, and the pro-
fessor of mathematics, 50, 100.
PROFESSOR WALDO, of Yale college,
has made q mathematical table, to be
used in multiplication and division, by
which from forty to fifty per cent. Of the
calculator's time can be saved.
The Act0 COtunlbidna, for April has
very sensible editorial in which it
speaks severely of the practice of hazing.
Only brutes, the writer thinks, could
find amusement in torturing freshman.
The proposition to the Rev. DIR.
Charles w. Bennett rs chancellor of
Syracuse unworthy is received with much
favor and affirmative action upon it is
being strongly urged. Hehas become
leading candidate for this high and re-
sponsible Office.
A WESTERN paper says that ut the Ro-
man Catholic university of Notre Dame,
Indiana, one-half the students are Prot
estants, and in the seminary of st.
Mary's, girls school connected with
that university, only one-third of the
pupils are Catholics.
DURING the recent semi-annual exam
ination in Baltimore of applicants for
teachers positions, 179 candidates APP
peared, ~ of whom were colored. The
total number of successful ones was 62.
Eighteen of them were colored teachers
or 25 per cent. of the number exam
med.
A LONDON dispatch says Prof. Robert
son Smith has been restored to his chair.
Prof. Smith gave Offense by q famous
article on the bible in the EncyctOpe-
din Britannica, and for nearly four years
the question of his orthodoxy has stirred
the Free church of Scotland to its
depths.
WELLESLEY college has lately received
ST., 900 from NJ. H. Simson, of Boston,
for another dormitory, and $1,000 for a
scholarship, for which preference is to
be given the daughters of foreign mis-
sionarles. The gift of the new hall by
Mrs. Stone, of which the cornerstone
was laid recently, makes the total of
recent donations $4,000.
For using indecent and insulting Ian
guage. a pupil of the Homer, N. Y,
academy was whipped by lady teach
er. The boys guardian sued for dam
ages, recovering verdict OF 5000. The
case was appealed by the principal of
the academy, and the next jury disa-
greed, and the third, just ended, has re-
suited in verdict of no cause for action.
A SPEAKER ut q recent meeting OF
Massachusetts teachers association, said
very aptly That too many teachers and
pupils seem to entirely lose sight of the
true end and aim of all study, and in
stead of teaching and studying to know,
devote their time and energies to prepar
ing for recitations and examinations,
with little thought of anything beyond.
A YOUNG lady who is studying French
late wrote to her parents that she was
invited ont to dc .jpaer the day before,
and was going to n .fete champetre the
next day. The professor of the college
was surprised to receive dispatch from
the cold man," n day or two after, say
ing "if you can't keep my daughter
away from these blasted menageries and
side shows / will come down and see
what ails her."
Mrs. VALERA G. STONE, in present
ing gift of 500, 900 to Wellesley col
lege, says that she has "often and sadly
observed the pitiable worthlessness both
to themselves and others of the lives of
women when given up to selfish fri
volity or wasted in the pursuit of mere
personal enjoyment" She desires, she
adds, to aid in training women of learn
ing too generous for skeptical conceit,
and refinement too thorough for fastidi-
GUS selfishness.
The catalogueof the Fall River public
library intended to circulate among the
pupils of the public schools has these
judicious directions ut the end: "Begin
by basing your reading on your text
books. Learn the proper use of refer
ence books. Use books that you may
obtain and express ideas of your own.
Acquire wholesome habits of reading.
Use imaginative literature, but not inn
moderately. Do not try to cover too
much ground. Do not hesitate to ask
tor assistance and suggestion at the IL
brary. See that you make your reading
a definite gain to you in some direction"