Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
EDUCATIONAL.

S A yyoman's college, with teachers from
England, has been established at Tokio
in Japan.
The managers of the Iowa State university
modestly asked the legislature to appropri-
| ate $40, 900 for the purpose of purchasing a
base ball ground for the students.
The university of Bologna will celebrate in
June the S00th anniversary of its foundation
ALI the great educational institutions of the
world have been invited to send delegates.
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt has lately shown
good sense as well as liberality in the gift Of
500, 900 for the fitting up of n manual training
department in the Vanderbilt university at
Nashville.
A chair of ''Darwinism" Tor Spencerism)
| has been founded at the College de France
| by the municipal council of Paris. M. Ribot,
| the eminent psychologist, has been appointed
! the first professor
Lieutenant John w. Wilkinson, of the
| Seventh United States caualary, has been
selected to succeed Lieutenant A. G. Sharpe,
| u. S. A., as professor of military science at
| the university of Worcester
A notable event in the history Of the Uni
versity of Michigan is the election of DR..
| Hattie Allen, of Waterloo, Ia, to fill the
position of assistant professor Of a medicine
| ever chosen to position of that nature in a
western university.
New Orleans university, ole of the freed
mems schools of the Methodist Episcopal
| church, has a fine new building, the cost Of
which, with furnishings, will be about $50,
| 600, of which $4,000 remain to be raised
| The present attendance is over two hundred
young men and women.
At recent meeting of the committee o. in
struction of the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, resolution was adopted express
| ing ''gratification in the excellent character
of the school work shown in the present ex-
| hibtion, rehecting credit upon the instruct
ors and students of the academy
Lord Clifford has left legacy of 100000
| to the four Scotch universities for the pur-
pose of founding courses of investigation re.
| lated to natural theology, or rather the phi
losophy and history of religions The sub
| iects are to be approached in spirit ex-
clusively scientific The investigators are
not to be limited to any creed nor to any
promise; they may belong to any religion, or
to none at all. They are to be chosen among
capable and respectable thinkers, who sin
cerely love the truth, ana seek 1t seriously; ;
"for," says Lord Clifford, II am persuaded
that free discussion can result in nothing but
good"
The catalogue of Oberln college gives the
number of students enrolled during the year
at AIT, an aggregate of 80 more than any
previous year. The enrolment is as follows:
department of theology, S5; philosophy and
artt, 5s6; preparatory, 4sO; music, 4S3; art,
5S. The whele number of gentlemen attend
ing the institution is Cpl. and of ladies is 1906
The total endowment Of Oberlin is now
=
| the semicentennial celebration of 1888 But
| this amount is entirely too small to do the
extensive work required of this old ana ex-
cellent instisution, 1t needs at least quar-
ter of million more of endowment to place
it in anything like the financial condition
which its usefulness deserves.
William and Mary College at Williamsburg,
Va, whose germ dates from 1919, and which
is consequently the oldest institution of learn
ing in the country, is to be re,established as
a state normal school and will get yearly
income of $4,000. Washington, Jefferson,
Monroe, Randolph, of Roanoke, and Tyler
were educated at William and Mary, and its
old catalogues bear the names of scores of
notable Virginia families. The college reach.
ed the heighth of its fame IN the first half of
the eighteenth century, when it held the sur
veyor generalship of the colony, and enjoyed
| a large income from the export tax on to-
bacco. When the establishment of the fed
eral government deprived the college of these
emoluments, no recompense was given, and
there has been a continual struggle to keep
up its reputation on limited means ever since.
A state normal school on the old foundation
oughtto be a powerful force for education in
the new south, ~