Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-04-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist church will have q
new university in Washington, D. c., If
present plans are realized.
The Supreme Court Of California
has decided that colored children can
not be excluded from the public schools
OF that State on account of their color.
The Alumni Association Of Howard
University. Washington, has assumed
the support Of a new chair in mathemat-
les, to which one Of their number has
been elected, a young man OF high at
tainment
The building Of the new Protestant
church at Bethlehem, in Palestine,
which was interrupted in 1888, has now
been resumed by permission of the Sui
tan, at the special wish of the German
Empress.
Prof. Noah K. Davis, of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, says: ''Those who
speak of State universities as If they
were necessarily or even generally per-
vaded by skepticism and irreligion re-
mind me of sounding brass or a tink-
ling cymbal. Simply, is not true. The
opposite is more nearly true.
The attendance at Marietta Col
lege, Marietta, O., is increasing year
by year. There are ninety-five in
the college classes-more than ever
before in the fifty-tour years of its
history, Fifty-six are members of
churches, OF whom twenty-five are look
ing to the ministry. One is Persian,
fitting to teach in the mission college,
Two Indians, active, religious men, are
fitting for higher service among their
people.
"A church which desired to get rid of
an aged pastor who had long served it
held meeting to consider to matter.
After considerable discussion, one Of
the deacons who had hitherto said moth
ing, getting impatient, arose. and said:
'Mr. Cheerman, l move that Mr.. HIS
usefulness in this ERE field come to an
eend after tonight" The motion was
carried. Churches sometimes bring a
pastors usefulness to an end" without
a formal vote. 1t is easily done when a
few people set themselves to it.-Chris-
tan Inquirer.
Amherst College as making a move
which will be watched with great in
teFest by the other colleges. The Stu
dents have placed their athletics in the
hands Of an advisory board consisting
OF ten members, made up of the profess
sors of physical education; the presi-
dents of the base ball, foot ball and ath-
letic associations; three alumni not
members Of the faculty and Frederick
Is. Pratt, The two mem bers Of the fac
ulty and three alumni members will be
appointed by the college senate. The
athletic policy Of the college and tho
finances connected Herewith will be
completely controlled by the new board.
One feature which the city and the
school system should have and which
both need quite as much as they do new
schools, is a school building which shall
be the center and distributing point of
all information on school matters. AS
there is no city in the country which has
80 great number of pupils, teachers
and school buildings, there IS also no
large city which has more inadequate
means of reaching, directing or accom-
modatlng Its Jeacners; 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 the latest
educational movemens.-School.