Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-12-10
School. AND oAoAcH.

2 Mr. David Pell Secor, of Bridge
port Conn, has purchased for the Lee
land Stanford, Jr,, university, Cal,
the large and celebrated herbarium OF
the late distinguished botpnist, Prof
William Henry Harvey, of Trinity col
lege, Dublin. y l.f
1.-THE perambulating- chapel-which-
the Baptists have had hpilt is,a great
success. 1t is attended not only by the
dwellers of the prairie towns in, the
northwest, but by the train hands and
passengers upon trains to which IL is
attached. Ai.
Charles j, Capen, now master of the
Boston Latin school, and for forty years
teacher there, says that in the d'sss
when Phillips Brooks and Edward
Everett Hale were pupils there boys
bad to commit to memory the entire
Creek and Latin grammars
Twenty-Five years ago the study of
perspective was thought by the large
majority to be entirely beyond the
strength of the feminine mind. To-
day perspective is taught to children in
the public schools, without stopping to
discuss the difference in mind.
y The receipts of the American
board for September were S33, ,2S502,
against S22, $50. 40 for September, 1920
Ia gain OF SiO,755,4S. This was due,
however, to the legacies which were
$50, 4t1. .O3, instead of S5, 4S2.09 for last
year. The donations showed a falling
off of $4, 4,163.5S.
Tt9-The population of the Fiji islands
is estimated at 1928, 900. OF these 103, RS
attend the services of the Wesleyan
churches, and about 10000 are Catho-
. lies. There are 10000 children in the
schools, under the care of 1,095 teach
{ ers; and there are 10 European mission
aries, 72 native ministers, 40 catechists,
1888 local preachers.
In 1912 Harvard graduated class
of nine members. A hundred years later
the graduating class numbered twenty
four. A century later yet the number
had doubled again, and in 1860 Harvard
graduated her first-class OF 100 MEM
bers. Twenty years later the classes
had more than doubled again, and now
the entering class of this year more
than ouadruples that number
itr Mrs. Leila Robinson-Sawtelle, au-
thor of "Law Made Easy" and Law
of Husband and Wife," provided by her
will that in case her husband should
cln 1aft No Ii
within the statutes of distribution Of
Massachusetts,, her entire property
should go to establish free scholarships
for women at the Boston University
law school.
The German emperor in his capac-
ity as Summus Episcopus of the
4 Evangelical church of Prussia has
sent each of the provincial superin-
tendents of the Protestant church of
the state, of which there are twelve, a
golden cross, with the orders that these
Shall be worn attached to a black rib
bon, as an insignia of their Office, on all
official occasions especially when they
4 appear at court or conduct services in
the presence of the emperor or mem
bers of the royal house.
The 1st of October brought with
1t most radical innovation in the edu-
cational policy of France, namely, the
complete secularization of the boys
schools. The law of 1885 decrees that
within five years from October, $50,
this must be accomplished. Steady ef-
forts have been made in this direction
all along, and in 1890 of 1000 teachers
lin these schools only 1918 were of the
Clerical orders The law of 1886 de-
crees that similar change must be
made in the girls schools as sufficient
number of secular lady teachers can be
secured to take the place of the sisters.
! AS yet of the $4,000 lady teachers in
France II, 900 are sisters.