Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01
EDUCATIONAL.

Vermont has twenty female school superin.
tendents.
The question Of introducing music az a reg
ular study in the public schools Of Dubuque,
Ia, Is being discussed.
The Germans resident in Russia have raised
q subscription Of $l50,000 toward establishing
German classes in the different universities
and semiuaries of Russia.
The Harvard College faculty has taken a
most u~ncxpected step by prohibiting the col
lege football eleven from playing any more
games this fall.
The school directors of Columbus, o., have
voted 60 abolish the study of Greek from the
high school of that city, at the end Of the year,
and substitute q course OF classic English in it's
place.
The largest observatory dome in the world
is now being made in Cleveland for the Uni
versity of Virginia. IL will weigh ten tons
and measure forty.tive feet four inches at the
base.
The Vassar College girls are getting up an
Illuminated motto to be placed over the door
OF that institution ON January l, 1884, leap
year. IL is, "He who Enters Here Leaves
Hope Behind"
Professor Youmans says that the study Of
dead languages has been the one pre-eminent
and historic failure Of the so-called liberal ed.
ucation. There is more hatred of it than Of
J 'a VI WV NV tASoDtSuA
Forty young physicians have been launched
| into professional life from Dartmouth college.
undertakors in various parts of the country
now look forwar to a marked increase In
business very sooo
The educational statistics Of the British
army show that out Of every 1000 soldiers 80
can neither read nor write, % can read but
not write, 1856 can read and write, while 756
arc of superior education. Twenty wears AGO
/ lyt CDull npithpr rpaI NOR ,y,ita 20 ,.,Il
read but not write, OIL could just read and
write, while 81 only were of superior educa-
ton.
Since September 27, six pupils out of one
New York school have died of diphtheria,
two have been sick and recovered, and two
Others are still sick. The trustees have closed
the school and the building will be thor
ing failed to disclose any occasion for the
! disease. Three of the deaths were in the ian
itor's family.
| g. 1t is encouraging to see that the matter Of
public-school education is receiving much
general attention in circles that have hereto-
fore taken no pains to discuss it. Conven-
tions of manufacturers, assemblies of trades
men, and societies of all kinds seem lately to
have come to deem the public instruction of
boys and girls important to the industries of
the country. This is u good omen, since agi-
tation is the sieve through which the good and
tho bad in most things are apt to be separ-
atcd. Chicago News.
There have been lively times this week
among the students of Jefferson Medical coll
lego in Philadelphia, over the question who
shall occupy front seats in the lecture rooms.
1t IL customary in the lecture rooms of the
college tn give the seniors, or second. year men,
| tho seats Immediately in front of the demon
| s~trator, while the newly matriculated stu.
dents must occupy the less desirable localities
in the rear. This rule, however, does not
| prevail in the hospital lectures, which are de-
livered immediately after those in the college.
The hrst-year men, accordingly, have been in
the habit of leaving their allotted seats before
| tho conclusion of the first lecture and running
over to the hospital in time to secure the
choice positions, thereby anticipating their
favored rivals. The seniors resented this, and
n lively fight occurred early in the week. The
matter has now luieted down, and the sem
Tors have secured their rights
The catalogue of Amherst college for 1888
1884 contains the names OF ~thirty-one menu
bers of the faculty, of whom seventeen are
professors, four associate professors, and ten
instructors. "A smaller number of students
appear in the catalogue this year; eiRhty-one
seniors, eighty.six Juniors, eighty-three soph-
ignores, and seventy-one freshmen-a total Of
32l. The course of instruction ia substantial
ly unchanged. The "administrative rules"
contain the kernal of the new system," and
state the conditions of trade which have been
adopted in the award of diplomas at gradua.
ton. The recent action of the faculty in re-
gard to the degree of doctor of philosophy,
specifies n two years course Of study in two
subjects of science or literature, or one subject
of each, under the direction and to the APP
proval of the professors in the appropriate dc.
partments; likewise n satisfactory exaininar
tion upon those subjects, and u thesis upor
one of them, together with the customary di
| tln,.,n aud t,,tttn,, (anu Tha A1,l s~Aar
mission is of two weeks duration, beginning
December 1S.