The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-11-14
EDUCATIONAL.
Twenty-Five Thousand Children With
out School Room in the City
of New York.
savannah las a coIored college.

Savannah has colored college.
Harvard has 425 academic freshmen
this year and Yale but 264.
The University of Michigan is encour-
aging women professors and lecturers.
1t is an interesting fact that of the 365
colleges in the United States 204 are CO.
educational.
Cornell also has this year the largest
freshman class in her history. 1t mum
bers more than 600.
Twenty-Five thousand children without
school room. And we think ours civ
ilized city !-Ne,o York World.
Sixty-three students are now said to
be working their way through Yale Col
lege and paying all their expenses.
-Four hundred young ladies were un-
able to gain admission to Vassar College
this year, the institution being filled to
its utmost capacity.
Out of population of 250,000, 900 in
India less than IL 100000 can read and
write. The total number of scholars of
all sorts is but IL per cent. of all the
inhabitants.
A. A. Parker of Fitzwilliam, N. H.,
claims to be the oldest living college
graduate in America. He graduated
from the University of Vermont in 1913
and is 100 years old.
The statistics of university attendance
in Germany show a gradual decrease.
During the recent summer term the to-
tai was 2S,625, while last winter it was
28, and one year ago it was 29,3 ,317.
Miss Cora Mcdonald occupies the
chair Of history in the Wyoming State
University, having been elected to that
place by the Regents of the university
at salary of 81 800, equal to that re-
ceived by men for similar service.
The Trustees Of the New Hampshire
College of Agriculture and the Mechanic
Arts have accepted plans furnished by
Dow & Randlett for the erection of the
main building at Durham. The edifice
will be in Romanesque style, with tower
and clock.
The London School Board has taken a
step In advance of the educational sys-
tenn 10 this country. Ii has decided to
establish IN threa convenient districts
classes of special instruction for the
mentally dull and physically weak on
system similar to that of DIR. Klemm in
Prussia.
The London School Board during the
last year have erected five permanent
schools, ten have been enlarged and
twelve temporary schools were opened,
giving places for II, 1865 children; but, as
two temporary schools with places for
3,l84 children were closed, the net addi-
ton is more than 5000 places to meet
the growing wants of London.
Of the 1876 students who were grad
mated from the four colleges in Maine
this year only one has chosen farming
for an upation-about the usual pro-
portion in such cases-while thirty-three
are to take up teaching. Other occupa-
tions find an order of preference between
these two-fve choosing journalism,
seven commercial pursuits, twelve engi-
neering, thirteen the ministry, eighteen
medicine and nineteen the law, while
the remainder are undecided.
Philadelphia is perplexed with a GU
riOus problem with reference to accom-
modatiOns for her public-school children.
Some school rooms are greatly over
crowded, several thousand children are
obliged to be satisfied with half time.
and thousands more are on the streets
for lack of any accommodations at all.
yet the Superintendent of Schools re-
ports that l25 school rooms are empty.
The difficulty is due in part to the shift
ing Of population common in any large
city, but it is aggravated by the absurd
insistence upon ward lines as the limita-
tions of attendance, which may bar a
child out from school even if he lives
across the street from it and the schools
in his own ward are crowded to over
flowing.