The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The Harvard Divinity School has seven
professors and elven students.
The University of Pennsylvania is trying
to raise money for agymnasium. OF $50, 900
desired, 200 has already been secured.
Countess Bose, of Cassel. has left as leg
acy to the University of Berlin the sum of
80, COO marks. nearly 5000 000 for the bene-
fit of poor students of medicine.
Professor Martin l.. DODGE, OF the chair
of greek Of the University of Michigan. has
received the appoin tment of director Of the
Ane ricsn School of Classic Studies at Ath-
ems, Greece, for 1880 and 1886. de will be
granted q leave of absence for the above
period.
School Trustee Joseph Strauss, of College
Point, L. l., ordered the discontinuance of
Granting the Lords Prayer in the public
schools. The mothers of children held an
Indignation meeting and threatened to boy
colt him. The Objectionable order was re-
sciIde6.
That education is making rapid strides in
the South is shown by the fact that In Flor
ida alone the number of public schools has
increased from 676 eight years ago to l, 479
at the present time, while during the same
period the number of pupils in attendance
has increased over so per cent.
The preliminary programme OF the pro-
ceedipgs of the International Congress OF
Educators, to be held at the New Orleans
Exposition, February 2Sd to 18th. has been
published. President Arthur is named as
the honorary president and Commissioner
John Eaton, OF the Bureau of Education, as
acting president. The list of vice presi-
dents includes the names of a number OF
gentlemen connscted with educational in
situations.
The Board of Regents of the Wisconsin
State University met few days ago and ap.
place science hail. lately burned. The coet
of buildings end equipment is 1928, 600,
which sum, together with $4,000, will be
asked of the present Legislature. new
agricultural course was mapped out, to con.
sist of two winter Courses of twelve weeks
each, and with moderate requirements for
admission. This is arranged as eompro.
mise with those farmers demanding sepa-
rate college.
important position in England and is much
better paid than here. A master, correspond.
ing with our grammar school principals re-
ceives from 81 800 to SIS, 900 year, and head
masters of such schools as Elton or Rugby
are credited with receiving from $1,000 to
SIS, 600 year. But. per contra, women are
rarely employed, and if they are, must be
content with what would seem q mare pit.
lance TO our primary school teachers. Taken
by and large, as the sailors say, the Amerl-
can sy stem Is the best
A model school building has been
erected at Hartford. Conn, and as model
school buildings are rare, this one deserves q
description. 1t is brick, with stone trim.
mings, is two stories high with an attic and
| basement, and is surmounted with two tow
els-the watch tower being 126 feet high,
and the astronomical tower ninety eight feet
high. The structure is intended to De ire
proof, and the walls, twenty inches in thick
| ness, have an air space four inches wide, ex-
| tending from the ground 70 the roof. The
| boilers are in a separate building too, to add
to the security. But most uneque OF sll are
| the play -rooms, where the children may
spend the recess in incement weather. A
hall with seating capacity for 200, 8 lecture
room, q chemical laboratory, and an ebssrv
atory equipped with large equatorial tele
score complete the conveniences for Instruc-
| ton beyond those generally given to chill
| dren in our public schools. The total c. st
of the building was s255, 600.