Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-18
Educational.

Sixty of Pennington uhiversity's 222
students are studying for the ministry.
An order of d~eaconesses, similar TO
that now in operation in Europe. is
projected by the Lutheran church. The
vow is tcrminable at will.
Rev. James A. Grier has been eject
ed to the chair of didactic and polemic
theology in Allegheny Omitted Presby
t%erian) theological seminary.
A movement is on foot looking to the
enlargement of Princeton college to
university proportions. The sugges-
ton came from its honored president,
McCosh.
The degree of M. ID. has ocen con-
ferred upon Mile. Heykel on examina-
ton by the university OF H~elsingford.
Finland. She is the first Finnish wo-
man thus honored.
The secretary of Yale college has
been ordered t hereafter use the name
university upon the catalogue and all
official documents.
Worcester academy, Vinita, Indian
territory, is more prosperous this year
than ever before. One hundred and
fourteen are enrolled, and considerable
increase is expected about this time
mex year.
Cooper institute, New York, has re-
Gently been undergoing extensive re-
pairs, at an expense of $4,000 the
entire structure having been lifted by
scU WIS and IA new foundation laid I'M
der it.
Ex-Presidcnt Noah Porter, of Yale,
has just returned from a three months
s%ojourn in Germany and England, and
enters upon his college work. He re-
tains his chair of Clark professor of
moral philosophy and metaphysics,
and brings with him an LII. ID. from
Edinburgh university,
Chicago has been designated as the
place for the next meeting of the Ma
tional Educational association.
Dennison university, the Baptist col
lege of Ohio, has elected as It's presi-
dent DR.. Galusha Anderson, of Salem,
Mass.
The two colleges of the Baptist de-
nomination in Iowa, ore at Pelln and
one in Des Moines, have just been o
solidated.
The German government prohibits
women from entering any Prussian uni
versity as student, or attending the lee
lures of the professors.
France has agricultural schools fer
girls. One of the chief is near Rouen,
and has 800 girls from six-to eighteen
years of age. The FARMS over 400
acres.
Pres. Scovel has raised the $4,000
needed for Wooster university in order
to secure the Columbus pledge of 81 600
and the subscription now stands al
$4,000. Five thousand more must be
raised.
The trustees of the university Of
Pennsylvania have elected Daniel e.
Brinton, MD, professor Of American
archaeology and linguistics; Morri,
Jastrow, Jr., Ph.D., lecturer ON the
Assyrian language and literature; Her,
mann V. Hilprecht, Ph.D., lecturer on
Egyptology, and James NJ. Cattoll,
Ph.D.. lecturer on psycho-physics.
Rev. George S. Burroughs, who is
to take DR.. Fields place as professor
Of biblical history ana Interpretation at
Amherst college. and assistant pastor
of the college church, is a gradute OF
Princeton and comes very highly re
commended by DR.. McCosh and DR.
Aiken. He is but thirty-one, and has
been settled in Fairfield and New Brit
ain, Conn
Women are eligible as school officer,
in California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa.
Kanas, Louisiana, Maine, MassachJs-
etts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New
York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
Vermont, Dakota. Idaho, Wyoming
Utah and Washington territory; We
think also in Oregon and Montana. In
Michigan, women are eligible as schoo
inspectors; in Connecticut as schoo
visitors; ia New Jersey, as school trus-
tees. In Wisconsin women are eligible
. To all school offices except that Of
state superintendent. In Iowa women
are eligible TO all school offices, and
one member Of the state board of ex-
aminers must be II woman.-Woman's
journal