Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21
EDUCATIONAL
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Australia has four universities which, il
curriculum, rank with Harvard, Oxford an
Cambridge.
The superintendent of schools at Haley, I
T., has been removed because he insists OF
spelling "~Injun" Indian.
In Morocco schools the Koran only i
taught, and the pedagogue receives tifteeI
cents a month for teaching it,
The price of board for students at the Har
ward memorial hall was 1914 per week during
January, the lowest point ever reached.
Ohio has So colleges and Massachusetts, only
Z, and Ohio has 1Gl, 3O2 volomes in her col
lege libraries, while Massachusetts has 30S,
126.
1t is said hat college graduates are very
numerous in Minnesota and that "they make
very good farmers after they learn the bust
ness
The hell of the public school at Monticello,
n. Y, was heard ringing the other day at an
unusual time, and, on investigation, it was
found the new teacher" was using the end Of
the bell rope to correct a refractory pupil.
A New York judge recently gave q lesson
in independence to a school teacher. 81 had
the pleasure of your acquaintance when we
were equals" said the teacher. at is the
same STILL" replied the judge; "a school
teacher holds as high a position as any man In
the conntry."
Ohio, with thirty.fve colleges, has more
han any other state in the union. New York
and Indiana have twenty eight each, Penn
Massachusetts, seven. The bay states seven
colleges have IA combined income of Sl25, 45S
per annum more than have Ohio's twenty-six.
The burning question whether it is lawful
for American children to eat peanuts AMI
| laugh at school is now under discussion by
the Schuylklll county courts. Six children
of o Pottsville school were expelled because
they ate peanuts and laughed, and their par
ents have combined to resist the expulsion by
legal process.
A school girl, aged ~, at MaryvIlle, o.,
always reads her book upside down, and while
writing invariably places the copy in the same
position and whites backward. The president
of the Board of Edu,ation, who is also a
physician, has tested her eyes with figures,
pictures, reading and writing, and finds that
she is equally skilled with her books In any
position: although the child herself had never
noticed her popularity, but expressed her de-
sire to use her books as others do. 1t is pro
nounced a most remarkable case.
President White, of Cornell, is quoted as
saying, with reference to college morning
prayers: 'The most devoted Christian men
in many of our institutions of learning saw
reason to believe that the usual forced attend
auce upon morning college prayers were of
very doubtful utility. To huddle into q
cherries room a great mass of students just
hurried from their breakfasts, With minds in
tent upon the recitation of tho next hour, is
certainly a very doubtful way of inducing
young men into the beauty of holiness"
According to the city enumeration there are
now in Cleveland 5S,ll2 children of legal
school age. 46,E65 of WHOM are between the
| ages of 6 and 16. In the schools there were
registered 80, 7OS children, with a total aver
age daily attendance of 81 ,9S9 or 7O.l pei
cent. of the number registered, The number
Of pupils registered has increased annually a.
the average rate of f.10O. For 1884 the ap
parent increase was 2,1S9, but the real in
crease was only 1929. The increased at
tendance in the high schools has been from
252, with nine teachers, in 1870, o1,122, will
twenty.nin teachers, in 1885,