, 1889-11-21
EDUCATIONAL.

A manual training school is to be
started at Boston.
Twenty women have applied for adj
mission to the annex of Columbia col
lege.
Japan has thirty-one schools of medi-
cine, one of dentistry and two of veter-
mary surgery.
A full high school will be developed in
the Indian schools at Carlisle, Haskell
and the Cheyenne Indian institutes.
Dartmouth college is to receive $40, 600
through the will of the late Rev. Cyrus
w. Wallace, ID. d., of Manchester, n. IL.
The school boy strike has at last
reached London, but the demonstration
has as yet attained no special strength
or importance there.
In New Hampshire working children
between the ages of IA and is years are
compelled to go to school three months
Of the year.
A York county, Penn, schoolmistress
has got into trouble through fastening
sticking plasters over the mouths of her
pupils to keep them from talking.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins
university goes to Europe this month;
and the university goes on, despite the
efforts of the railway stock jobbers to
smash it.
In the Philadelphia schools 10000
girls are being taught how to sew and
about the same number how to cook.
The young man of the near future W i'll
know where TO look for wife.
The Boston school committee has or
dered that "the training of pupils in
good manners be provided for in tho
course of study" 1t will be interesting
to see how this order is carried out.
Harvard college sold between S4Oo, ,OOu
and $500, 600 of Atchison bonds, having
need of the income from the invest
ment, and the purchasers will probably
deposit them under the reorganization
plan.
Abiding to the fact that eight colleges
have been built in Kansas during the
past year, the Kansas City, No., Star
observes; This sort of thing will go
on until the SunAower state will have
to import all of its farm hands and
kitchen girls from Missouri.
The average expenses at Yale per year
has been for each freshman, $783 06;
sophomore, 1881 "a; junior, 1854 II; and
senior, 1919 20. The largest expense re-
ported for any one man was $500 for
the year, although 1t is believed that
there were some who got away with q
little more than that amount.
1t is proposed by several wealthy
graduates of Yale, of whom Robbins
Battell, the donor OF the Battell chapel,
is one, to found school of music in con-
nection with the university. The plan
includes full corps of instructors and
building equal TO those of the great
conservatories of music. President
Dwight approves the plan.
While the population of the German
empire siNce 1859 increased from ~, 492,-
600 to 4S, 056, 900 in 1888, the number OF
university students In the same period
has grown from II ,632 to "a, ,l1s, or from
one In 1897 to one in 1909 persons. Ne
wonder that the professions are over
crowded and the United States are annu-
ally attracting large portion of tho best
educated classes OF her citizens.
The question of co-education in Penn
sylvania is Just now a burning one. Mr..
Childs Of the Philadeiphia Ledger is
championing the young women who ara
anxious to get into the university, and,
with his customary gallsntry, he speaks
warmly for their cause. The young men
protest in rather ungallant fashion, and
say that IL the university be opened to
women, then the Women's college ut
Bryn Mawr should be thrown open to
men.