Idaho semi-weekly world., 1891-11-06
EDUCATIONAL
A, ,o., Public School Gives HohoaY
That the Children May Attend
the Races.

Wellesley College opens this year WIN
zoo students. ooo
Now York has turned away l0,ooo
school children that cannot be houseu'
President Angel threatens to close tiie
University OF Michigan If gambling 10
not stopped. ,.a
The gain in population in the un'tcn
states from 1850 to 1890 was i2S per
cent. and in the school enrolment loo
per cent. ~, r,
There are said to be over 23,oOo In,
d;ans In the United States who can reau
English and over 10000 who can reao
Indian languages.
Northwestern University at Evanston;
H.. has followed the example OF Corner
and abolished the barbarous cane rush
between the freshmen and sophomores.
The schoolmaster is going TO be abroad
in Enyland more than ever. The Lon
don School Board is educating 20,Soo
more scholars now than they were three
years ago.
The management OF the public schools
at Mason City, Ia, declared recent
Thursday afternoon holiday IN ormer
that pupils might attend the races. Inc
action has caused much comment.
The census statistics show the gain IN
incubation i'm the United States to De
"a s6 per cent, while the enrolment OF
children in the public schools Is 26.o4
per cent. This is healthful indication.
The Cornell school Of law has enrolled
Mrs, Mary Kennedy-Brown, a graduate
of Wellesley and young widow, as one
of it's students. She is the first lady
whose name appears on the schooi ISL
The endowment of the new Chicago
University is now over $2,000,000, aho
more than 800 students have already en-
: tered the first years course, which VII
begin, it is expected, in the autumn o
a 1892.
Prof. lotion in a military lecture a
+ Yale remarked that the average age o
the 10 men in the class was q years
and he added: Upon graduation yo'
s will have before you about forty-eigh
s years apiece
The largest Sunday-school in th
n world is in Stockport, England. 1t be
s gan in 1904. 1t now contains 5000 pupil
(. and 440 teachers. 1t has registered dun
L ing it's existence 10000 scholars an
$500 teachers.
a Government schools are to be estat
lisbed in San Salvador, where free edit
7. cation will be given to women to fit theI
g. for places in the government offices a
postoiiice clerks, printers, telegraph an
a telephone operators.
le Austria has not only high school {
le agriculture, but fifteen intermediate an
g eighty three primary agricultural schoo
besides nine chairs of agriculture in po
IN ytechnc establishments and agriculture
le experimental stations.
n Prof. Harris, United States Commi
ne sioner of Education at Washington, in
letter to Assistant Postmaster SturgeC
tn of st. Louis, who had requested h
to views as to corporal punishment
ty schools, has replied that the fewer Il
n cases of such punishment the better IL
rk schools are likely to be, and that e
lightened sentiment is against the use
on the rod.
ed Cornell University has opened with 1
on attendance in excess of that in any pr
H. ceding year. Up to date $40 studen
in in all departments have registered, al
number are in attendance, especial
nv post gradua es, who have not yet reg
ty tered, A noticeable feature is the
me crease of students in the courses in ar
m philosophy and electrical and mocha
pa ical engineering.
A remarkable career in the teachi
ing profession was brought to close sol
ne two weeks since by the resignation
Lrs, Miss Lucy d. Bliss from the princip
oils ship of the Plain Primary School, Stot
ish bridge, Mass. Miss Bliss began teat
ing ing in town when Is years old, a
taught continuously, with the except
M of one year, for about fifty-four yea
III Three generations in Stock bridge hi
,n,, begun their school life under the instr,
-. tions of Miss Bliss.