The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

About 10000 gallons of wine are;
consumed at the sacrament tables in the
United States every years-Chicago
Journal. Il
President Seelye, of Amherst, is
quoted as saying that every man who
writes for his college paper lowers his
scholarship.
Rev. T.. D., Witherspoon, of Louis.
vile, KY, has been elected President of
Davidson College, North Carolina. This
is Presbyterian institution.
The total white public school chill.
dren of Tennessee is APO, 997; colored,
k5O, span aggregate. of 5Fl 1923; white
teachers employed, $40; colored, 1,51S;
total, 6,928-l95 more than during the
preceding year. White schools opened,
1924; colored, 1,47l; total. $685.. a
"A New York Judge recently gave
lesson in independence to a school
teacher. 81 had the pleasure of your
acquaintance when we were equals.
said the teacher. ut is the same still, T"
replied the Judge; "a school-teacheI
holds as high a position as any man ir
the country."-N. Y. Sun. ssn,
The Harvard University authorities
have concluded to continue for the
present the practice of Latinizing the
names of students in the annual cata-
logues, despite the effort made to sub
stitue plain English. Banks, however,
still persist in requiring checks to be
signed in English. Chicago Current.
Six members of the Baptist Church
at Ashdon, Eng. adopted a novel plan
for raising funds to renovate their
church ediice. They each sowed half
pint of beans, sowed the entire product
the second year and again the third
year. The third crop was sold and
yielded about $500. The most success
full of the six secured the first year nine
teen pints, the second year nineteen
bushels, the third year thirty-one
quarters. which sold for f70, or $780,
N. Y. Examiner. lsiu - iiirN3
Superintendent Bennett, of Piqua,
o., has been investigating the extent to
which tobacco is used by boys in the city
schools. He finds that in two grades OF
seventy-three boys from twelve to fifteen
years, thirty-one habitually smoke ciga-
rettes, and only seven could say that
they had never smoked. Of ninety-six
boys from ten to twelve there were
sixty-eight smokers. and in the primary
schools, boys from six to ten, forty per
cent. smoked, and in the A b & class
many had begun the practice Clece-
land Leader.
The young ladies of La Grange
(Ga) Female College are one step in
advance of their sisters in similar insti-
tutions. They have little paper called
the Irenian Cdsket, which has heretofore
been prepared in manuscript form and
read at weekly meetings. They have
now decided. however, to introduce
printing into the college curriculum
and learn how to set type, so that they
may prepare their own paper and print
it with their own hands. They will
begin with . monthly issue, with the
intention of soon making it semi
monthly.
IS General Morgan, OF the Rhode
Island Normal School, submits, as the
five fundamental requisites for success
full teaching, the following: ~ higher
order of personal character and apti-
tude for the work; (2) accurate knowl-
edge of the nature of the, children to be
trained; (3) thorough acquaintance
with the subjects to be taught; az a
knowledge of method, based upon
psychology on the one hand, and the
logic of sciences on the other; (5) skill
in actually organizing, governing and
teaching children.
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