The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-07-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist church will have @
new university in Washingtons D. CT t
present plans are realized
The Supreme Court Of Cslifornik
has decided that coIorcd children can
not be excluded from tho public schools
OF that State on account OF their color:
The Alumni Association OF Howard
University. Washington, has assomcd
the support of now chair in mathorfat<
les, to which one OF their number has
been elected. young man OF high st-
tatnmont.
The building of the now Protestant
church at Bethlehem. in Pale ne,
which was interrupted in 1888. has now
boon resumed by permission Of the Sui
ten, at tho special wish Of the German
EmpresA
Prof. Noah K. Davis, Of tho Unfvers
sity. OF Virginia, says. 'Those WIG
speak of State universities ~ IL they
were necessarily or even generally per.
vaded by skepticism and irteligion 70.
mind me of sounding brass or . tink.
ling cymbal. Simply, is not true, The
opposite is more nearly true.
Tho attendance at Marietta COL
lego, Marietta, O., is increasing year
by year. There are ninety-flve in
the college classes-more than ever
before in tho fifty.four years Of IL.
history, Eifty-six are membors Of
churches, of whom twenty-five are look-
ing to tho ministry. Ono is Persian.
fitting to touch in tho mission college.
Two Indians, active, religious men, ARG
fitting for higher service among their
people.
-A,church which desired to get rid al
an aged pastor who had long sorvcdf
held a meeting to consider the mattclS
After considerable discussion. ono Of
tho dcacons w.o had hitherto said notli-
ing, getting impatient, arose and Fa!af
"Mr. Cheerman move that Mr.. lis
usefulness in this zero field come to All
ecnd artcr tonight" Tho motion was
carried. Churches sometimes bring n
pastors "usefulness to an end" without
formal vote. lis easily done when 4
few people set themselves to it.-Chris-
tian Inquirer.
Amherst College is making move
which will DO watched with greet tn-
terest by tho other colleges. The stu.
dents have placed their athletics in tho
hands of an advisory board consisting
Of ton members, madc up of tho profess
sors of physical education; tho presi-
dents of tho base ball, foot ball and ath-
lctic associations; three alumni not
members o. tho faculty and Frederick
Is. Pratt. Tho two members of tho f,c-
u!ty ard three alumni members will ba
appointed by the college senate. Tho
athletic policy of the college and tho
finances connected tl,erawith will be-
completely controlled by the now board.
Ono feature which tho city and the
school system should havc and which
both need quite as much as they do new
schools, is n school building which shalt
he the center and distributing point OF
all information on school matters. a.
t!crc is no city in the country which haas
so great number of pupils, teachers
and school buildings, there is also no
large city which has more inadequate
means of reaching, directing or accon,-
modat,ng l,s tcacncrs; OF furnishing
them with desired information on school
subjects, of instructing them in the his
tory of education itself, an instruction.
which has become part OF the necessary
studies Of the teacher to-day who desires
to become fully abreast with tho latest
educational movemen8.-School.