The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-07-12
EDCcAr5ONAL.

AOllitnDia C0ueE0 - TO hnvC In tho
rear future 4 ~Gyn.nasinln that viii cost
ti00. 600.
Probably the youngest college profess
Q in the country invested with 8 full
p~rofessorship is Arthur Z. Abernethy.
professor Of modern Languages and adj.
junct professor in ancient languages in
Rutherford College, N. g. He d. not vet
18 years Of age, but has already secured
9 wide reputation % q ~classicist and as
an instructor. He Is 4 son OF DR.. r. +.
EAbernethy, president Of tho college.
The counsellors Of the Chautauo,la
Literary and Scientific Circle have de-
cided upon the course for next winter.
England, her history, language, and
literature, will be the chief subject or
study. Geology, French literature. and
church history in America will fill out
the years reading. There will, OF course,
be much supplemental reading in the
Cl,autauquan. Especial attention will
be given to the study Of the English
speech, and a united attempt will be
made to arouse interest in aour mother
tongue, to rally to its protection in the
home, the street, and the shop.
Formerly the schools Of medicine,
law, arts, and mines in Columbia College
have had separate exercises, but the
trustees of the college Q years ago de-
cided to consolidate all these commence
ments into one. This plan met with con-
siderable opposition among the students,
and was not carried into effect. But the
trustees have now determined that this
year shall mark the beginning of the new
syllem, and the announcement has been
made that the schools of medicine, arts,
mines, and political science will have
their commencement exercises together.
Next year the law school will be in
cluded.
The council of the University Of the
City of New York has adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that inasmuch as the
university has upon it's rolls the names Of
several women students pursuing adj
vanced studies and that more students
OF the same class are likely to be enrolled,
the council deem it expedient for the
corporation to have the cooperation OF
representative women who are interest.
ed in the promotion of university work
for women in the most advanced lines oil
study and investigation. To this end the
council has decided to form a "Woman's
Advisory Committee of the University,
to be composed of 10 members to be ap
pointed by the council.
The London School Board has ad
II 1y.nrcoI sko,1e - 1>>~f,ook b. AIo .a1-A.1.
of the difficult question of how best t.
deal with the semi-starvation of a por
ton Of tho children who attend tn,
schools, and whose capacity to receiv,
and profit by instruction is seriously cur
tailed by the pains of hunger, as we'll a
by the want of strength consequent upol
insufficient feeding. The committee ap
pointed by the school board has issued
report, from which it appears that n
less than 43, 900 children, or more than 1
per cent. of the number in average at
tendance, habitually come to school il
want Of food; and that only about hal
Of these are provided for by existin
agencies, most of which are more or les
local in their character, while all are dc
fcient in the strength which would b
afforded by a we'll devised central organ
ization. Eight thousand Of the littl
sufferers are said to lie in the infants d.
partment. The agencies now in activit
pursue different courses of action a.
cording to circumstances, giving fire
dinners to children who are really DEF
titute, and selling at cheap rates to thos
whose hunger depends upon their par
ents being away at work, and unable t
cook for them at suitable times..-[Lon
con Times. &