Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-25
EDUCATIONAL.

There are 5S5 Chinese children in the San
Francisco public schools.
The Wisconsin State University will
graduate class of seventy-seven this
year.
Prof. John lie Conte has resigned his
position as president of the University of
California. He will remain as professor
of physics.
There will be many changes made in the
different separtments of Cornell Universe
ty on President Whites return, and many
new features introduced
A full quota of children enrolled in the
Louisiana schools would exceed 125, 900,
but it is thought that there is scarcely half
that number in attendance.
The summer lecture courses of Union
College-to which citizens are invited
have been opened with discourses by Prof.
w. A. Potter, Mr.. w. f. Griffis and Prof.
Henry Coppee.
Wellesley College has n microscopical
society comprising about forty of heyoung
ladies' This society has been in existence
for three years and has accomplished some
admirable work.
San Francisco has now about half-a-dox.
en- kindergarten schools, several of them
being free schools supported by voluntary
contributions. All of these schools are
doing valuable work.
The Pennsylvania legislature has passed
a bill prohibiting determinations on ac-
count Of color III the public schools in the
state, and is to be heartily congratulated
upon its judicious action.
Mr., w. w. Corcoran, of Washington,
was elected president of the organization
for the better endowment of Washington
and Lee University at the recent meeting
OF that body in Philadelphia.
A department for teaching cutting fit
ting and sewing of women's garments is
about to be added to the girls normal school
at Philadelphia. When will they teach tail.
oring at the boys normal SCHOOL,
The southern states are now providing,
through taxation, over million dollars an
nually for the support of negro schools.
The position and influence of northern
teachers in the south are improving every
year. ..,4. .....
The university of Philadelphia is deeply
in debt, and has, the Philadelphia Tele.
graph says, but scant prospect of being
freed from its debt. That journal COM
plains that while outside institutions like
Washington and Lee University receive
liberal assistance from citizens of Phila-
delphia, their own university gets nothing.
A memorial which has received the sig.
natures of many of the chief educational
authorities in England is about to be pre-
sented to the government 1t urges the
| more systematic teaching of science in the
elementary schools, and complains that at
present the elementary stages of teaching
have to do too little with things and toe
much with words
The Manual Training School in st. Louis
has just closed its first year with class OF
| fifty-eight pupils. They have shown great
interest in their work, all being ambitious
to excel and get forward in the manual
rooms. The director has, therefore, made
il one of the conditions of promotion in
the manual department that the pupils
should do hard and successful work in the
literay departments.
The seminary tor the instruction OF girls,
which Mr.. Moody established at North.
field not long ago, has been very success.
full. 1t has los pupsls, Is of the number
being Indian girls who intend to become
teachers of their own race. There are 1OO
applications ON file from young women who
wish to attend the school, and the accom-
modations and the endowment fund need
to be increased. The cost for board and
tuition Is only 500 year.
The Woman's University an st. Peters
burg, which provides ascries Of courses for
higher training In the mathematical, phys