Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
EDUCATIONAL.

The class of '9a at Union college, Science
tady, N. Y, numbers thirty-tive, being 25
per cent more than that of last year.
Our youngest American university, and it
is now building, is the richly-endowed Clark
university, Of Worcester, Mass.
Colvin Huntington, of Fort Scott, Kan.
has given 81, 900 to Vassar college to found a
scholarship for the education of his descend
ants for all time to come, or of those bearing
the Huntington name.
To all the alumni and friends of Williams
it will be a matter Of much interest To know
that at last a suitable monument to the mem
DRY of the late DIR. Hopkins has been erected
in the college cemetery.
Prof. F.. Is. farrell, who has been a very
prominent instructor at Yale for ten years,
has permanently severed his connection with
the university, and will this year be the
assistant director of the American school at
Athens.
Prof. c. j. White has resigned the regis
trarship and chairman of the p~arietal COM
mittee, both of which positions he has filed
for thirteen years. Prot. Chapln has been
appointed chairman Of the parietal commit
tee, and the office of registrar has been abol-
ished.
The students of the Tuskegel (Ala.) nor
NAL school, for training colorcd teachers, of
which Booker n. Washington, q Hampton
graduate, is principal, have Just completed a
large bllTtt- duu-Ouc-n dkl StOTy DTlCh Dullu-
ing, on which the students have done all the
work, except putting on the roof. The
building has been named Armstrong hail."
in honor of General S. G. Armstrong, of the
Hampton institute.
The question of Swinton's textbooks in
the Boston public schools will delight woman
suffrage advocates in the number of women
it has aroused to vote. 1t shows that the
women of the Hub are prompt at the polls
when they have an issue-the maintenance
of the integrity of our school system, which
is the basis OF the state. The number that
registered was 4, l20, bringing the total over
IL, 900, and some predict that it will reach
10000 before the registrar closes his books.
President Barnard, of the Columbia col
lege, New York city, is by no means an ath-
letic enthusiast. or a college like Columbia,
which has no regular gymnasium, he thinks
1t particularly true that only a very small
proportion of the students persistently en-
gage in the exercises which ~contemplates
match games with members of other univer-
stiles. He submits to the trustees as a ques-
ton deserving careful consideration, whether
match games of any sort with persons not
students of Columbia should not be totally
prohibited. o.
The foundations of the new Vale rccita-
ton building, money for which has been
given by an unknown friend OF the univer-
sIty, have partly been laid. The plans show
that the structure will be a beautiful one
INTELLECTUALLY, betting the location, which
is the most conspicuous on the campus.
There is no special type of architecture. 1t
is a mixture of Arabesque and Romanesque,
happily blended, and producing a pleasing
effect, That part of the building on the
corner OF Chapel and College streets, where
the much-missed fence" formerly stood,
will be partly circular in form and will nave
twelve sides.
Partial registration at Cornell shows that
at least twelve hundred students are enrolled
aud the final totals promise an increase Of
more than two hundred over last year. The
freshman class of 400 is the largest that ever
entered an American college. The law class
is increased from sixty to 100. The new
school of pharmacy opens with a surprisingly
large enrolment, while about one hundred
advanced students enter postgraduate
courses of study. The co-educational system
is so much of a success that the Sage col
lege for women is overcrowded. The faculty
Is strengthened BY several distinguished
names and a number of young professors.
Three large buildings are in progress OF
erection, and the mechanical equipment of
tho college has been largely increased during
the summer. y.