Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

The Presbyterian church, organ
lied in 178S has 3s9 presbyteries. 1928
ministers. 11,212 churches or parishes
and 75O. 600 members.
American churches are springing
up all over the Argentine Republic.
nearly every important town having
one with Sunday-school attachment.
The number of women attending
co-educational colleges has doubled
since 1874 About the same number
of women are attending co-educational
colleges that are attending separate
colleges.
Nearly all the German universities
have large endOwments, and yet the
state budget every year gives them
large sums of money. The University
of Leipzig, for instance. is more than
four hundred years old and has large
possessions of real estate in the city.
The Saxon Government, however,
gives it every year about 100000.
The Baptist Theological Seminary
at Morgan Park. near Chicago, lately
dedicated new building for chapel.
library and recitation purposes. 1t is
n two-story structure of brick, with
stone basement and granite trimmings.
Building and grounds cost S3S. 900,
and were the gift of Mr.. Z. Nelson
Blake, president of the seminary's
board of trustees.
The Danish Minister for Iceland
has recently announced that at the
University of Reikjavik, the only in
stitution of the kind in Iceland, lady
students can be permitted to attend
all the classes of the late logical de-
partment, except those of practical
theology, and can be admitted to ex-
animation in exegesis, dogmatics,
ethics and church history.
According to the annual report of
the treasurer of Yale College the total
amount of the university funds is
$500 1856 and of the academical
funds, 81. 030 420. -. The income of
the academical department is about
S16l,O 900 and its expenses about Sl70.-
OOl. The largest item under this head
is for salaries of instructors. 1913, S92.
The Sheffield Scientific School, one of
the most prosperous arms of the uni
versity. has investments amounting
to $3.50. 9S9 "a. Its receipts are stated
to be $70,947.63, and its expenses SOL
533. 65.
A novel and excellent feature has
been introduced in the high school at
Caldwell, Kan. which keeps a file Of
all the leading county papers, with
magazines and papers for young peo-
pie, all of which are accessible to the
, students at unemployed moments.
Every afternoon portion of the time
is devoted to live topics of the day.
On recent Friday one of the students
gave an extended account of the rail-
road strike. another the death of En-
peror William. and his successor;
others of the life of Miss Alcott, of the
Eastern blizzard. Oklahoma. etc
The question of clergymen's sala-
ries is an interesting one. Mr.. Beech
er's salary was for long time, the
largest paid any minister in this coun-
try. He received $4,000. A few
years ago the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain Church, of New York. in
creased DR. John Halls pay to this
comfortable figure. At the close of
the war Mr.. Beecher's salary was $12,-
600. and it was in 1870 that it was
raised to $4,000 But Mr.. Beecher
was 4 very generous man rs well as
man of extravagant tastes, and $780,
600 was to him what s.. 900 would be
TO most clergymen. DIR. Hall. of
Brooklyn. receives $4,000; DR.. Tai
mage. $4,000, and rs much more
from his lecturing tours. and Drs.
Storrs and Cuyler of Brooklyn. each
$40. 600.
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