The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Eugene Kelly, OF New York, adds $50, 900
to Miss CaldwelFs $500 600 gift Tor Catholic
University.
Professor Aea'siz's gifts to Harvard Col
leee during the last thirteen years amount
to more than S500000.
The Commissioner of Education places the
number OF medical students IN this country
in 1873 at s 6S1; in 1888 We had 10, Isl The
medical schools during that period increased
from 81 to ia.
George Bancroft. the historian, native of
Worcester Mass, has signifed his desire TO
present that city fund Of $40 600 70 form
''The Aaron and Lucretia Bancroft Scholar
ship Fund.- the income to be devoted to the
libe education of some one scholar from
Worce ster.
A work by DR.. Hestel of Copenhagen.
upon "Oyer.pressure in Danish Middle G So
schools" is counsidered to have so much
bearing upon the similar question in Eng
lard, that translation has been prepared
under the direction OF DR.. Crichton Browne,
Who will contribute q special introduction
to the English edition.
The School OF Philosophy will resume its
session at Concord next summer, opening on
July p for some twenty days. The general
topic is to be Goethe and Modern Science. y
under the two heads: "Goethe's Genus and
Work" and Is Pantheism the Legitimate
OttSC4Lc VI N1OttEu DCttnC6l hulOUS tue
leading lecturers are announced DIR. 7.
Sterry HuHt. OF Montresl Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe; Professor VIM. L. Harris and John
Fitke. The journals and correspondence of
Emerson will be published this summer.
If Ex-Governor Stanford's comprehensive
plans are consumated, Palo Alto, Californ q,
will become one of the greatest educational
centres in the country. AS tributary to the
projected university in memory OF his son,
collese for young men and young women
will be founded by Governor Stanford, and
high schools for girls and boys will also ne
created as tributaries 10 the colleges Il is
ta'd that arrangements nave already been
made, or are nearly completed. for placing
| the sum necessary for the execution of these
projects in the hands Of trustees. Mr.. STAN
| fCrd also proposes Ia found III San Francisco
a public museum, for which his lamsnted
son had already made large collections nd
to esta 5lish also aD usitution modelled on
the plan OF the Cooper Union OF New York.
Adolph Sutro. OF San Francisco has been
at work for several years collecting q library
which be intends 70 present TO San Francisco.
1t Is to be library after the fashion Of those
in the German university towns, such as
| GoetiDgen, Heidelberg a. Leipsic. which
are intended chiefly for students sad scholars.
In 1882 Mr.. Sutro started for Europe, by WAY
of Japan and China with the intention OF
making beginning. The sixty thou san q
volumes now arranged in BUILDING in San
Francisco is the result OF his work abroad.
While in Japan and China and lateT, while
in India, he bought oriental works of great
value. Wherever be found 8 manuscript or
an old work or q coin that threw light upon
the history or religion or Philosophy OF the
East be bought il and had it shipped home.
He ranssct ed Egypt, Jerusalem aud Greece
for old and rare works, and when he arrived
in Western Europe he employed agents to
buy books in Madrid, London. Berlin, Mu-
mich, Vienna, Leipsic and Goettingen.