Tombstone epitaph., 1890-07-26
srtiooL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist church will have a 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- ics, to which one of their number has been elected, young man of high att 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 Sul- 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 vadcd by skepticism and irreligion re- mind me of sounding brass or a tink- liIg cymbal. Simply, is not true. The opposite is more nearly true.
 The attendance at Marietta Col 1ege, Marietta, O., is increasing year by year. There are ninety-fve in the college classes-more than ever before in the fifty-four years of it's history, Fifty-six are members of churches, of whom twenty-two 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 a meeting to consider the matter. After considerable discussion, one of the deacons WHO had hitherto said noth ing, getting impatient, arose and said: "Mr. Cheerman, 1 move that Mir. H-'s usefulness in this 'ere field come to an eend arter tonight" The motion was carried. Churches sometimes bring a pastors usefulness to an end" without formal vote. It is easily done when few people set themselves to it.-Chris- tian Inquirer.
 Amherst College is making a move which will be watched with great in terest 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 B. Pratt. The two members of the fac ulty and three alumni members will be appointed by the college senate. The athletic policy of the college and the 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 so great number of pupils, teachers and school buildings, there is also no large city which has more inadequate means of reaching, directing or accom- modating it's teachers; 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 movements.-School.