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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Courses of lectures on the tariff aud
modern socialism are to be given IN
Amherst College.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes pre-
sided at the annual reunion OF Harvard's
class of 1929 in Boston recently. Nine
other members were present.
The will of the late Annie NJ. Wood
man, of Cambridge, Mass, gives $780,
900 to Dartmouth College for the bene-
fit Of the Chandler scientific depart
ment.
There is blind. Baptist preacher in
Rabun County, Georgia, who recently
finished his 101 st year. He is unable to
ton gather ar0nd his bed every Sum
day, and he breaches to there.-St
Louis Gtobe-Denaocrat.
The Lutheran ministers of Norway
were recently assembled in annual con-
vention at Christiania. three hundred
pastors being present. They passed
resolutions in favor of the Introduction
| of a synodical organization in the place
of the hierarchial system.
Bishop A. C. Coke. of the Episcopal
Diocese of Western New York, declined
the proposed gift of pastoral staff on
! the twentieth anniversary of his conse-
Grafton, and suggests that the money be
used in paying the salaries of the mis-
| sionaries of the diocese.-BMfato En-
press.
The first English Bible printed in
the United States was undertaken by
Robert Aitken at his own private ex-
pense. The proof sheet of it was read
by Bishop White, and it received the
special appreciation of Congress, which
| passed a formal resolution that is of
much interest in its bearing on the
question of th, recognition of religion
by Congress.--M. Y. Times.
| The number of students in the
school of industrial science of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology for
| the year 18S4-5 were $40, against AS for
the preceding year. The number h:s.
| steadily grown from ~ in 1866. This
year the students are from 33 States, !
Territory, the District of Columbia. Of
the British provinces, Scotland, Cuba,
Japan. South America, and India
Boston Post.
Teaching school for Indian boy5
in New Mexico is attended with some
Inconvenience. The other day several
Apache braves visited school in Albu-
querque where their sons were pupils.
full of wrath and whisky. They wanted
to clean out the whole establishment
because they had heard that the Indian
lads were occasionally punished. And
the only way to pacify them was to get
them SO drunk that they were helpless.
The University of Pennsylvania has
started a department of physical cul-
ture." DR.. j. w. White, who will pre-
side over.it, states that his duties will
be to examine each student, note where
in he needs physical development, and
recommend the proper mode of exer-
else to induce it. If his back is weak,
the rowing machine or boat is advised;
if the chest is fiat, parallel bars are in
order. The ordinary trainer generally
picks out for the boat man who does
not need it. Philadelphia Press.
THE rnotive,'' says the School
Journal "that leads teachers and pu-
pills to work for the rewards of an ex-
animation is about as low an ideal oi
civilized education as can be found. y
And its effect upon the young mind is
bad. Many man has recalled with
profound regret the ruses he adopted,
while at school, to increase his percent
ages. 1t is very often the case that the
student fears to risk original investiga-
ton lest he place his chance of securing
prize in jeopardy. Current.