Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-11-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

barnard College, the female adjunct
to Columbia, started the year with
freshman class of sixteen.
-Vincennes district lind Methodist
conference reports this year l., 500 addi-
tiOns to the membership within its
Bounds.
The Presbyterian church has more
than 81, 600, 600 invested in the work OF
training young men for the Christian
ministry.
of the $4,000 needed to establish
a woman's medical collegein connection
with John Hopkins University, more
than $50, 900 has been raised.
The Chinese Government has re-
Gently Unidentified the Presbyterian
Board to the extent of over 81, 900 for
property destroyed by mob in 1885,
in the Province of Kwong Sal, China
New York's famous institution,
Cooper Union for the advancement Of
science and art, has this year an enroll
ment of $500 young men and women.
On the waiting lists are more than 1000
names.
AT Boston's evening high school
last year there were 1000 pupils, and
this year there will probably be in the
neighborhood of $500. AS many 60 a
great distance, half-fare movement in
their behalf has been started.
The school authorities in Hungary
recently procured legislative enact
ment making the study of the ancient
( Greek language optional in grammar
schools. The result has been great
surprise, for only two lads have re-
quested to be exempted from the study
of Greek.
Medical students in London are
I compelled to go through course of four
years study, hospital attendance and
lectures before being qualified to APP
pear Tor the final examination. BY an
order of the General Medical Council of
Englf nd the term of preparation has
been extended to five years Western
Medical Reporter.
There is force in organiza ton.
Unity, directness and energy are Sc
cured by organization. The waste and
weakness in individual effort are pre-
vented. But organization beyond GER
tain limits, in religious efforts, is weak
ness and not strength. There must be
full play for individual effort, in
dividual sympathies and freedom. To
reduce the church life to the control of
machinery is to make it automatic
Nashville Christian Advocate
Good churchmen in England can no
longer ignore the Salvation Army, since
an English Bishop has spoken we'll of
it. mo Christian church." says the
Bishop of Chichester, ''can afford to dis
regard or deprecate such an agency in
our midst Can we refuse to aclInowl-
edge these Salvationists as fellowwork-
ers in the cause of Christ, although not
in our own way. Let us beware of look.
ing at them with Indifference, or con
tempt, or dislike, lest haply we be found
to be fighting against God"
The study OF medicine is becoming
very popular with the native women O
India. At the close of the academic
session in 1889 there were "a female stu
dents at the Calcutta Medical College
IA at the Campbell Medical School anC
5 at the Cuttack Medical School. A
Agra, during the year, young womeI
received licenses to practice. At Lahore
there were 10 and at Madras 80 female
medical students, one of the latter being
the first to take the degree of NJ. b. a
the Madras University. There were als
8 female students at the Grant Medica
College of Bombay, and at the Govern
g ment Medical schools at Poonah, Anime
/. dabad and Hyderabad. The movement
! was initiated few years ago by Lad.
e Dufferin, the wife of the Viceroy o
t India. Medical Record