Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-31

are co educational Women at present con.
stitue 81 per cent of the under-g graduates iu
this country.
The Students yearly expenses at Stanford
university, Cal, will be less than 500.
The oldest college in North America wa.
, founded in l53l-the college Of St lldefonso,
IN the city of Mexico The next oldest is
Laval college, Quebec
Among all the colleges for women in this
| country the aggregate sum expended a /.
| nually for needy women is but S53 600, while
Harvard alone expends S70,0JO per annum in
assisting its boys
The agricultural OK pertinent station of Della
ware college conducts a fruit farm adjoini 4
| the college at Newark. Australian pea III
| trees are being distributed throughout tho
| state for propagation.
The Harvard semitic museum is new do
| partment founded by j. II. Schiff of New
York, with a gift of $4,000 for the irchaso
OF casts, manuscripts and other obje t, illus
! tratlng semitic literature and history.
J The total number of pdpils enrolled in The
| public schools of Canada is iGS,O.5, average
! attendance 235, 100, percentage of average at
tendance 81 In 1879 the average atuer da c,
was 45 per cent of the registered ntteni @,
| In 1888 IL was 80 pcr cent, and in 1889 it VS.
| 81 per cent
Yale university selected Prof. Edward l..
| Curtis Of Mccormick Presbyterian theolog-
| lcal seminary, Chicago, as professor OF He
brew language and literature in the Yale
| divinity school, and Frank G. Porter as pro
| fossor of biblical theology Prof. Curtis is
| graduate of Yale i'll the class of 1874
Bowdon college is to send an expedition OF
| students and teachers to Labrador under the
direction of Prof. Leslie A. Lee, who "A few
years ago conducted similar expedition 10
the straits of Magellan. The object is tie
| collection of birds, fish, and lichens found
only in high attitudes, and the specimens are
to be added to the Cleveland cabinet in the
college.
The London board OF education has APP
point six women at Il salary of 800 each,
TO visit schools. Heretofore lady visitors
have been regularly employed but without
remuneration. the position being honorary.
The visitors will be expected to put in rs
many hours work as the teachers and TO fur.
nish weekly reports to the board accounting
for every hour OF service during the session.
Prof. Harper states that the building fund
of the Chicago university has been enlarged
recently by $jOO0OO, making total of 81.
25O,O0D. In addition to It's building fund Is
the endowment fund Of 10000 for the
support of professors, scholarships, etc
Tho trustees have decided to purchase add
tonal land Ito Morgan Park theological
school is TO be made "A part OF the university.
The erection OF buildings for the academica'
department will be begun at oEce, and the
classical theological departments will DO
open in 1892,
President Horace Bumstoad has issued an
appeal in behalf Of Atlanta university. Ho
states Jnht OJJ COlOfel puDnS are DelnB
trained this year in the university, not in tho
branches OF the higher education, but in
English studies, mechanical arts, in house
hold industries and in Christian living. They
are being trained, the majority of them, with
special reference to service rs teachers aud
missionaries among their own people, Tho
university needs at least $40 for each student
to cover the cost of educating them At tho
present time $50 students are unprOylded
with these scholarships
1t is intended TO mako the work of this
summer at ChautaUqua thorough aud
scientific throughout About half tho courses
are arranged for ten hours recitation each
week, aud the rest for five hours, some
classes meet twice day aud others once.
The purpose Is that as much shall be accom-
plished in the six weeks session at ChAu-
tauqua as is usual accomplished in one sub
iect during a college term. This Is TO DO done
by concentrated study, no student being OK
pectcd tO take more than one or two courses.
The work in the college includes tho English
language and literature, German, Fronch,
preparatory and college Latin, preparatory
and college Greek physics and chemistry
mathematics, history political economy,
geology Otc In tho schools OF sacred lltera-
ture instruction will be given Ia tho blb.e IN
English, Hebrew, Greek and the ancient YER
sioas; ana in the NJ H. Crock, HeDrew,N
Arabic, Syriac and Assyrian languages.
Mothers will find that Hallers Pain Par
alyzer IS a sure and pleasant cure for diar