Idaho semi-weekly world., 1891-12-08
EDUCATIONAL.



The public schools in the United States
have IL, 300, 900 pupils.
Dublin University has bestowed the
degree Of Doctor of Laws upon woman.
Indiana University has opened with
much larger attendance than ever be-
fore.
Wellesley and Smith Colleges opened
the scholastic year with 700 students
each.
New York school children OF foreign
birth are being taught to salute the
American flag.
Seven school buildings in the most
crowded districts OF Chicago will shortly
be thrown open Saturday for instruction
in sewing.
Rigid examination OF the applicants
for certificate to teach in Willis, Tex,
has resulted in the idleness Of half the
schools Of the county.
President Andrews Of Brown Univer-
sity advocates turning schoolhouses into
luxurious palaces and furnishing a free
lunch daily to the scholars.
Precociousness begins TO make itself
felt. The undergraduate students in the
Michigan University are younger by a
full year or more on the average than
they were twenty years ago.
The self-education OF the masses goes
steadily forward. Besides the army OF
university extension the entering classes
for this fall Of the Chautauqua circles
numbers 1900 students. The course Of
instruction lasts for three years.
There is at Baltimore, Ireland, fish
| t,xn aahnrI M hnua N rtta
| tion In all branches OF sea fisherman's s
work and In such allied industries as
net-making, bodybuilding, cooperage
and sail-making. The school has pro-
duced excellent results.
The University OF the Great Mosque
OF I'll Azar In Cairo Is resorted to by
more than 10000 Moslem students, not
only from Egypt and Turkey, but from
Algeria and Morocco, the Soudan, Dar-
foor and Zanzibar, Arabia, Persia, Turk
estan, India and Malaga. Nothing il
taught except the Koran and the litera-
ture relating to 1t.
There were 5000 boys and girls in
New York city ut the beginning OF the
school year who could not find desk room
in the public schools. By distributing
them far and near in the less crowded
districts places have now been found fol
all but about 5000 OF them.
A decided change has been made in
the methods Of physical culture adopted
at Wellesley. Systematic gymnastic ex
ercise is now required of freshmen only
but for them it occupies place secont
in Importance to no college requirement
Besides the hours spent in the gymna
stun the students are to receive instruc
tions in running, boating and cycling.
The Women's College established a
| Baltimore four years ago by the Method
, lat Episcopal Conference is rapidly grow
ing in teaching force and number OF stu
+. dents, and applications tor the ney
: class have come from nearly every Stat
In the Union and from Germany, Cuba
Canada, Mexico, India, China and Japan
: The Directors have not decided to admi
; Japanese and Chinese women.
General Lew Wallace, whose new move
Is expected to be finished before Ney
D Year, usually rises as early as 6 o'clocl
in the morning. He takes some yer
, slight refreshment, gets into the saddle
, rides couple OF hours and then takes
regular breakfast. He now devotes him
4 self assiduously to work until noon
/ when he has luncheon and another ride
n His second sitting at his desk lasts unit
/ 4 o'clock. The remainder OF the evenin
e and night is spent with his family an
friends.
: The total number of scholars in school
9 and colleges OF all sorts in India is onl
It $3.50 GOO, or / y per cent. Of the entir
n population. These are mainly conflne
q to the cities and towns; but out of $50
10000 in all India less than II ,000,0e
can read and write. A census OF illite
L ates in the various countries of th
Q world places the three Sclavic States
Q Roumania, Servia and Russia at ii
+ head OF the list, with about 80 per cen
Q of the population unable to read an
a write. OF the Latin-speaking race
Spain heads the list with 65 per cent
II followed by Italy with AZ per cent
/ France and Belgium having about 10 p,
II cent. The jlliterates in Hungary nun
, Der 43 per cent, in Austria 80 per cen
y and in Ireland q per cent.