Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-08
ONE GENT
EDUcATIoSAL.

superlntendentS OF pubic Schools.
The contributions TO American colleges
during 1899 amounted to about 81 .O00. 600.
The German University at Prague has
an attendance of ,543. an increase of 10S
over the previous term.
The overseers for Harsard have con-
cluded to continue the use Of Latin in
stead of English in their diplomas
1t is generally acknowledged in Eng
land that the instruction in civil engi-
neering in the United States far SUR
passes that in the mother country.
| At the election of school boards in
Sweden at the close of 1899, the first oc-
casion ON which women We're eligible
Tor election, seven women were returned.
Berlin is full of students in music.
One meets many children bearing violins.
Every body can read music. There is
musical public as there is an intellectual
public, as keen for false note as for
false tense.
There were 22,760 white and 13O04
colored children enrolled in the public
schools in the city OF Washington for the
year 1889. There were 235 colored and
45S white teachers. and the total cost of
instruction was $487, ,455. So
Mrs. +. W. Lord, assistant principal
of the ladies' department at Oberlin, has
given $4,000 toward the erection of a
building to be known as Lord Hall. which
is intended to furnish board and rooms
for the children of missionaries.
There are now 10 Hindoo and Parsee
ladies taking courses of higher study in
England, and numbers of young girls
are at school in the mother island.
Doubtless many of these girls will live
to see the last "child widow In India.
The opinion of many eminent educators
concerning Chautanqua have been gath
cred by the New York Maitland Express.
They agree in saying that it is a most
valuable ally of the colleges, and stim-
ulus to the people to fiji them; that it
has promoted good habits of reading and
thinking in many thousand homes, and
that Bishop Vincent, by originating the
| plan, deserves to be regarded as one OF
the great benefactors of this gene ration.
In Paris there are five professional
schools for girls. These have a course of
instruction embracing modern languages,
domestic economy, industrial designing,
cutting and fitting garments, and ac-
counts. Each school is equipped with o
kitchen and workshops for making COR
sets, feathers, and other staple articles
of trade. Girls are admitted at IA years
of age, and remain three or four years.
DIR. Atticus G. Haygood, the agent of
the Peabody fund, in a recent article,
says the following sums from Northern
churches have been expended for the ed
ncation of the Southern negroes:
Freedmen's Aid Society (Methodist
North Sz.xs5,uO
Baptist Home Mission -. 100000
Presbyterian Home Mission 1,542.746
American missionary Association
| Congregational .. 100000
The different womans societies i. /. 100000
John f. Slater 100000
Daniel Hand 1,O0.OW
Other individual gifts 100000
Quakers and other smaller religious
bodies tO,UU
Total -. sl5.7S7.74s
A few days ago spent forenoon at
the University of Berlin. They are
rough barracks; at the portal is the por-
ter with supply of beer. The lecture
rooms are as uninviting and the benches
as rough as an old fashioned school room
in Maine. The professor enters on the
moment; the benches are partially filed.
The lecture opens from brief notes. The
students take notes of the lecture. more
or less ample, according to industry. II
the professor exceeds his time by a
minute the students shuttle and their
noise warns him. He picks up his hat
and leaves. There is free intercourse
between professor and students. In the
polytechnic, in the midst of lecture on
geometry, one student smoked, without
protest from anybody. There are no
recitations, no control of the student.
He is free to enter the university, pay
his fees and be member of it without
attending lectures at all. The students
who seek degrees must work, because
the examinations are rigid. Il Berlin Cor
respondence Boston Transcript.
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